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Thanks for raising the topic Tim. I have been using the one folder method for my projects for some time now but had not had recourse to transfer to another harddrive. I had an impression that Igor had done something on these lines but couldn't be sure so left it for friends on the forum to step in with the answer. Together with members of the Sutton Camera Club AV Group we have just finished our project for this year and which is on my computer at a staggering size of 862 Mb. I will need to transfer that to my "storage" drive soon so it will be nice to know that it will be immediately operable without any alterations. Ron [uK]

.................or single click if you have your mouse set up that way. That is the way that I have my mouse set. If I double click the sequence runs but I have two sets of background running like an echo. Ron [uK]

I am sure there is a short way of doing this Tim, but in the past I have renamed each file in the Show Image box, below the Slide List, to match its new location. Tedious but hopefully someone will come up with the easy way. Good luck for us both. Ron [uK]

Techman What do you find wrong in your quoted sentence? I am sure you must have read something there which is not apparent to me. You cannot say that Brian (Conflow) is not forever helpful in the extensive input that he makes to this forum. Long may he continue in the same vein. Ron [uK]

Hello Ian Thanks for that explanation and also your contribution in the other ongoing thread on resolution. As regards the latter I have always gone along with what I learnt both from you and Gerard Desroches, and appreciate your input. Ron [uK]

Files in this format have not crossed my path before so I looked up*.png on the internet. I have experimented with an image by saving it in *.png both normal and interlaced not knowing what they meant but found that the file size of the latter was the same as if I had saved it in *.jpg namely 2.25 Mb for a 1024x768 image. Saving it to the Web one can reduce the size to just under 400K. So will we be using *.png as a preferred choice in future? I see no problem in that. I assume from what I have read that the image quality will be better but what will be the other advantages please? I look to my friends to come to my assistance. Ron [uK]

Roger How do you use the timeline (not sync.)? I thought this was one of our unfulfilled wishes, namely that when you construct a presentation, before going to the timeline, that your own selected duration and effects timing can be transferred on to the timeline and not automated by "custom synchronisation". I know that this doesn't answer your question but perhaps the two are related. Ron [uK]

Roger As regards the smoothing line take one image and use say the gate effect, first with a low value for the smoothing line and then a high value and you will see that the former has a hard edge and the latter soft. Ron [uK]

Sorry Mark, you didn't upset me. Maybe I didn't express myself very well. If you knew me you would know that the majority of my responses on this forum and my uploads to Beechbrook have been to help others. In this respect you may care to look at a thread within the last 48 hours where I gave an outline on how to add pictures on pictures. By all means keep your wish in. Ron [uK]

John You do this in Photoshop as follows: Assuming you are using a 4:3 format 1. Create your background image in 1024 pixels width x 768 fixed ratio 4:3 2. Open the image you want to overlay and assuming it is vertical resize it to 487 x 650 pixels (3:4) 3. Select the move tool in the toolbar and holding down the left mouse key over the image drag it on to the background image and release. 4. You now have a layer which when selected you can position the image to wherever you want and for this I suggest you call up View>Show grid 5. You can create further layers using other images and you can create borders etc for them using blending options. This is just a brief outline but by experimentation the results are infinitesimal. Ron [uK]

As an AV worker of the old school, whose presentations are for pleasure not profit, I cannot see any need for this to be incorporated in PTE and certainly very very low on the wishlist. Surely one can be satisfied with the excellent utilities which Granot and others produce without cluttering PTE with such things. I hope others will rally to my support on this. I have been using PTE for a few years now and I would be interested to know whether Igor's origination of PTE was from an AV base or from a display of images for sale. Surely it must be the former otherwise why the need for transition effects etc. Ron [uK]

Richaus I am sorry but your response is not understood, particularly (3) as I have not suggested any work around. What is needed is detail of your modus operandi so that others who use the Comments system can step in with their advice. I have tried everything to simulate the efect you get without success. Ron [uK]

Richaas Whilst I do not use the Comments facility in the programme, preferring to do all my titling in Photoshop, I have just experimented with Comments and changed fonts both by name and size with no problems. Are you sure that you have picked an acceptable font or have you tried other fonts or even switching back to your original choice? Hopefully your answers may provide the information for others, who use the Comments facility, to step in with their advice. Good Luck Ron [uK]

Fried Surprisingly I had no problem with the *.exe download as my server usually blocks these. It didn't take all that long and it was worth the final result. I liked the way in which you broke up the sequence into, for want of a better term, chapters. However on this point I would have liked you to have used Project Options>Main>Show settings>Close show after last slide as I was left waiting and expecting more at the end and then the show started over again. Maybe you had set it this way for repeat showing in the clubroom. The photography was absolutely stunning throughout and your synchronising of effects to the music excellent. Thanks for the experience. Ron [uK]

2 Mb for an image in PTE is massive and I suggest you edit it down in Photoshop or Irfanview or whatever programme you are using. I have never used the Object Editor for this purpose. As regards presentation in PTE you go to "File>Create Slideshow as" and follow on from there. This will give you a *.exe file. Go to the folder where you have saved it, click or double click (whatever your settings) on the icon and it should play. Good Luck Ron [uK]

When I reach the point where Alan says "...enter your show name" I always click on the icon at the end of the space and browse for my application, click and it is entered correctly. Ron [uK]

Well done Bill. Glad to have your wonderful service back again. Just about to download "Crazy River" which I missed before the shut off. Best wishes and sincere thanks. Ron [uK]

Thanks Jim. That was very useful advice. I have just experimented with the rigging of HMS Victory ending up with a 367Kb image in PTE with excellent results. Ron [uK]

Do a search for Manual Show and in particular look at what Brian (Conflow) had to say. I have been using a Template based on his original settings for pre-viewing my images. My settings are similar in most respects to that being suggested by Jim Ron [uK]

Steve I create a separate presentation for the second half, as I switch off my Royale Digital Projection System. One's equipment always comes under scrutiny, with inquisitive fingers and feet knocking the stand not unknown. Ron [uK]

Referring back to Al's thread of yesterdayand his last sentence - "But I agree with you that it would be useful for non-synch users to have the ability to automatically see the current time for the show, even in non-synch mode." - I too go along with that statement, which is very high on my list of needs if not top. Ron [uK]

Phill As Jim has said look back through the original postings in "How to Create a Video" and hopefully you should find your answers there. Particularly to create an SVCD which will play back on a DVD player. I have done this successfully from the information contained under that Heading, but using Roxio Easy CD Creator. I don't know anything about BHA B's Recorder Gold, but possibly some member on the Forum will be able to answer that one. However it would have been better if this topic had been opened in "How to Create a Video" and not in "Pictures to EXE" Welcome and good luck. Ron [uK]

Pinguin You can also satisfy request #2 by creating your own blank slide either in an image editing programme or duplicating the preceding file and unchecking the "Show Image" box immediately following the Slide List Box. Ron [uK]

Open the "Text for current slide" box by clicking the icon at the end of the Comment line, then with the cursor before the text click Enter on your keyboard to move the line down one. Ron [uK]

I think the error is in the three dots after Re. If you amend "Re...es" to read "Resources" it opened for me the way Tim described. Ron [uK]