Barry Beckham

Edwin I hope I have your question right here, but there is a blue icon down at the extreme bottom right of the main PTE window. That will take you into a lightbox where you can drag and drop images and change the order at any time.

Jerry and Lois Your not going to be able to do what your want here. You cannot have a logo appear in the same place on every image, if some of those images do not fill the frame. Unless you accept the text partly on the image and partly on the border that you mentioned. You would have to do what Peter suggests and apply the logo to every image, but if the images and text are different sizes, that would look pretty awful I would think. It would almost defeat the very reason for using PTE in the first place. I assume you want to use this method of presentation because of the visual benefits, but the logo will destroy that, to a large degree. Do you mind me asking why the logo is so important and then someone may come up with an alternative idea that might suite your needs

Ray I see you posted this query on the Beckham forum too, but don't seem to be getting many answers. Its unusual for the key not to work, once you have one. That isn't a typical problem for PTE. However. your posts here and on the beckhamforum have tailed off. Sometimes that means a solution has been found. Have you stumbled on an error you were making putting in the key? I have fallen into lots of those traps before, and I was going to ask that you check that you are in fact copying the entire key. Go back to the original email and follow the instructions once again. If your using windows 7 try installing the software again as an administrator. If you have a solution, please let us know you are now up and running

Snapcam Can I ask what you are concerned about, with regard the public saving the show?

I have no idea what an iPod touch is, but you have answered my question. I have never looked at the iPad in any detail, just assumed is was a small mac.

No-one seems to be mentioning the Mac version of a PTE slide show. Am I right in thinking that a slide show made for a Mac, cannot be played on an iPad. It must be converted to video first???

Round the world trip is it

Jeff I am not sure I can find two Av's under 7 minutes combined, if I read it right, so the two entries being from different people will attract the full £20 I expect. What does the entrance fee fund, do you know?

Great photography here. Good seeing eye and lots of variety. It does make you want to visit China, when you see a sequence like this. The music was good, but I agree with someone else who said it could have done with a bit more variety there, but it is a small point. I liked the simplify affects too. I am not so keen on such big text, I think it will be just as easy to read if it were smaller. Smaller seems to be more stylish to me, but again its a small point and more of a personal one.

Well, they certainly bury the entry form well, so you have to seach for ages to find it and then they want £10 per entry. I was thinking of sending one from me and the other half, but that seems rather a lot of money to enter an AV competition.

Now, how would you define ‘Dramatic images’ in your terms? Anything that stands out from the run of the mill photography. and do you have any? Obviously not.

Davy Define good weather in the terms you mean here?

But good weather is no guarrantee of good images, in fact the most dramatic images are often shot in not so good weather.

I think emoticons can have a use in forums because its important sometimes to let people know, what your saying is being said with a smile. Or an attempt at humour can be misread and dummies start flying out of prams.

Greg Why did you have to ask that question. The truth is I havn't seen it.

Davy The humour on this occasion went over my head, sorry. Forums can be a great source of information, but they are also notorious for making life far more complex than it needs to be on accoasions. I was more concerned about others who pick up on the post and think they must create a show above 20MB.

Davy Not sure why, but I'm going along with Barry B's advice, that all AV's should now be above 20mb in size I managed to pad this one out, to tip the scales at just over. Firstly, you seem to have the wrong end of the stick. I have never given advice that a slide show should be over 20 MB. I am in favour of keeping them as small as possible, while retaining quality. The size is determined by the content of the images anyway. Secondly, if you don't know why your doing something, then don't do it. What possible advantage is there to padding out a show to be larger than 20MB. Not sure where you got that from. The 20MB is a limit one member places on slide shows and he will not download any over that limit. That is a personal choice, but he will change his mind or sooner or later he will have precious little to download. The size of our slide shows are generally increasing naturally as we move more towards larger wide screen format images, but it will be greatly affected by the Jpg compression the author chooses and the content of the images. I suspect there is a large size increase on the way when Version 7 is released and video is included. At the moment a slide show ends up the size it ends up, there is no benefit I can see for deliberately making your show larger.

Well, I wouldn't exactly call them rejects, I must have seen some merit in them to produce them, they are just images that havn't yet found their way into an AV

I have no expereience of HDMI and TV, but is this method similer to creating a dvd. For an exe file we normally tick the fixed size of slide option, but for a DVD you need to untick it. Try that, but you will have a black area left and right of course. You will have to live with that while your still with 4:3 or 5:4 format.

This is a simple image presentation, what I call a slide show, that term that seems to upset so many of you It contains images I have created in 2010, but those that never made it into any slide shows I created during the year. Well, as far as memory allows, one or two may have. Download from the top of the page HERE for PC and Mac Best viewed at 1920*1200, but should run reasonably OK on all monitors.

Dadou I think the use of the picture in picture in this show worked very well and I can say that the animation was flawless on my computer. Smooth as silk. Your images made at 16:10 format 1728*1080 would not be quite a crisp on my PC because my monitor runs at 1920 * 1200. I saw your show full screen, which was nice, but to see the images the size you created them, I should have had a border all the way around the images. The fact that I didn't, meant your images must have been enlarged slightly and quality may be lost, although I have to say there was not too much evidence of that. Looks like a great festival, but all in a tight area, must have been difficult to photograph. For those involved with the fiesta, I think and 7:47 minute show is fine, but for me, perhaps 2 -3 minutes less would be better. After 5 minutes I have the flavour of the festival, which the music helped, and I have seen a wide variety of images. So an ending around 5 minutes would have improved it for me. You were blessed with fine weather too at a time when the worlds weather seems to be going mad !!

Eric No, the images are not HDR, you will not be very sucessful with HDR with any moving subjects and the sea tends to move a bit The secret is making sure you capture the best exposure possible, at the right time and the rest is Photoshop work. I never did say anything about Pacific Islands, you did in the Amazon search engines. I have a good Enya collection, but usually steer well clear of that music, simply because that is where all AV'ers seem to head for. Sometimes its OK to follow the crowd, sometimes not. The sequence does have some sea sounds effects that come in a short time after the start, but I kept them low, or they can often just make the music sound as though there is a fault with it.

Eric Thank you for the pointers, but I confess I found it a little ledious and soon started to loose the will to live, searching on Amazon. I don't usually have this trouble finding music, but it has to happen sometimes I suppose. I have settled and changed the music to a simple pianno piece from our own copyright free music called appropriatley "The Sea at Sunset" Good news too, the slide show is under 20Mb How about that?

Thank you for the suggestions, but Debussey didn't do much for me, not for these images, and amazon doesn't seem to have samples of all the albums, only those which sell as mp3 downloads.

Eric In fact I have been through all those albums and hundreds more of my own, including classical, but I cannot find anything that shouts "Perfect" to me. It happenes sometimes. Having 37 albums to call from is no guarrantee of finding the perfect choice. I tried again today and listened to loads of other music tracks and I still can't find something that I think is perfect for the images. Suggestions gratefully accepted. Those pictures demand the right music, I just need to find it.