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Granot That was a very useful contribution. Thank you. Ron [uK]

Although your birthday was reported by Pasha Koskin to be on 12 November, some of the greetings will have missed your day because of time difference. Nevertheless the greetings are none the less sincere and I too would like to add my best wishes and thanks to you for your part in adding to the pleasures which we have at being able to produce our AV sequences with PTE. May this thread continue so that your birth can be celebrated throughout the year. Ron [uK]

Using Roxio Easy CD Creator to burn an SVCD In PTE click the VIDEO button bottom left of middle to open “Making of AVI video file”. Select SVCD, PAL/SECAM (for Europe) and Interlaced Video (recommended). Do not select Sharpness Filter. Click the Create AVI button to open ‘Save As’ box. Save the file remembering where you saved it. On completion of the save, a box will instruct you to go to your software for creating the SVCD. Do not repeat not click the Finish button. Open Easy CD Creator and select DVD Builder>DVD Builder Wizard. Select Create a DVD Builder and click on Next to open ‘DVD Builder Wizard’. Select SVCD and Import Files then Finish. This opens up the DVD Builder and the selected Import Files appears in the bottom left window. Drag this file into the top right hand box of the DVD Builder. Drag the Roxio Intro into the Waste basket bottom right. Double right click on left hand side of the top right hand box for a preview in the Screening Room left. If satisfied click on the BURN button bottom right. On completion of the burn and all is satisfactory you can now return to PTE and click that Finish button. But I cannot guarantee that it will playback on every DVD player. Ron [uK]

No problem with my download Fred and I enjoyed the show. If my memory serves me correctly it was from Mildenhall that the England to Australia Air Race started in the 30's, I was a youngster at the time. The race was won by the De Havilland Comet "Grosvenor House". (Not the later DH Comet, jet passenger aircraft by the way). I think the pilot's name was Black. The second placed was another Comet and the third a KLM Douglas DC2 (forerunner of the Dakota) flown by Parmentier and Moll. Sorry, boyhood memories. Ron [uK]

Den I have the plugin which enables me to save as a Windows Icon (*.ico) file in Photoshop 7, but I find that this is not always accepted in PTE, hence my method suggested earlier, using Irfanview which always works. Ron [uK]

There have been earlier threads on this subject which you may be able to locate using search. However, I make my original creation in Photoshop usually from an image within the sequence, cropping it to 4x4 ratio. I then add lettering usually three characters otherwise they will not show. I then reduce the image to 32 x 32 pixels and save as a *.jpg file. Next I use the IrfanView programme a freebie downloaded on the Internet. There are various sites if you search, but try www.IrfanView.com. Once you have the programme, open it and select File>Open and your saved file above. Check from Image>Resize Resample that the image is still 32x 32 pixels and from Image>Decrease color depth that it is set at 256 colors (here I have found it necessary for use in PTE to select 16 colors then back to 256 colors, don’t ask me why) Then, still in IrfanView, File>Save as>File Type>ICO-Windows Icon, give it a file name and select where you want it saved. I have a separate folder for my icons. Ron [uK]

I always use "File>Create slideshow as", you are then master of your actions. Ron [uK]

Robert I have just checked the intro on my equipment and it ended with a dark screen then followed into the music with the first image of the main sequence. No flash of the desktop which I sometimes get with my projects. Ron [uK]

Robert The download on my equipment took just 5 minutes which I think is good for such a large file (72 Mb). I liked the photography and it must be an excellent record for you and your friends of a trek over what appears to be difficult terrain. I enjoyed your previous presentation of a similar excursion, but I thought this one a little too long for an outsider's viewing. Ron [uK]

It looks as though you are after a multitrack version as we have for sound in Audition. I am sure that must be a dream just at the moment, but who knows what the future may bring. Ron [uK]

I create my own plain rectangular shapes of various sizes in Photoshop, one for instance is a square 100x100 pixels. In PTE Objects editor select it as a Picture and drag it to the position where you wish it to operate. Right click on this "button", select Transparent background and proceed as you have been doing. Whilst this "button" will still be showing it will disappear when you start the process again on a new location or complete the operation by selecting OK at the top of the window. Ron [uK]

Eddie and Al I use Audition and in the past have selected and copied a portion in the track, then pasted that portion into the track to lengthen it. I have saved it without any problems and it has upgraded its length in PTE. I only use Mixdown when I use Multitrack. To make sure that I am right I have just copied and saved a piece of music. Created a simple sequence in PTE. Added the music. Used Custom Synchronisation so that I use the full length of the music. Went back into Audition and opened the music track. Selected a section of about 20 seconds, copied it and pasted it at a suitable point in the track. This lengthened the track by 20 seconds. I saved it and went back into PTE where under Project Options>Music>Show Music Duration the increased length of music was shown. I unchecked "Synchronize slideshow to music duration" and rechecked it. Opened "Customize synchronization" and selected Timed points>Add arranged points. You are then told that "all existing transition points will be deleted before adding new arranged points". Clicked OK and you see all the spacings between the transition points change accordingly. Whilst this exercise has proved that a track in Audition can be changed in the method I described and recognised in PTE it will apply equally if Custom Synchronisation is not used. I will now wipe off what I have done from my harddrive. I also use Audition to upgrade my music files when I am in PTE if I want to add some silence at the beginning or end, or if I want to adjust the amplitude. Good luck Ron [uK]

Peter Coles, Editor of AV World, excels at creating images with the use of the clone tool in Photoshop. In an exchange of ideas I had with him three years ago when I first switched to digital AV we discussed cloning from image to image. I didn’t get an immediate grasp of the “image to image” method so I continued with what I was familiar namely using layers and cloning within an image. Just recently a sequence by Peter, in which he created over fifty images from just twelve, prompted me to try again at cloning from one image to another. Starting with a blank canvas and a selection of flower images I created an image made up of the flowers. Having done this, for what could I use it? So I made a short sequence of the flowers and used my “creation” as a background to the title “Say it with Flowers”. When I used one of my images, a rose, in a recent camera club print competition, the judge accused me of inserting the hoverfly and docked a mark. So using the clone tool within the image I have deleted the hoverfly and made it appear and leave again. The sequence is now on the Beechbrook site thanks to Bill. Ron [uK]

I agree with both Al and Lumenlux. Take a look at my Third Image Demo in Beechbrook.com Ron [uK]

May I also add my sincere congratulations on a delightful piece of work from Bill and Karen, our friends at Beechbrook. Ron [uK]

Welcome. From your question I am assuming you are not using "Synchronise slide show to music duration". One way would be to insert a blank slide at the end into which your current last image can fade and set the duration for as long as you want the music to continue. You can create a blank slide by repeating your current last image but unchecking the box alongside "Show image" just below the Slide List in the main window. Good luck Ron [uK]

I have been using Manual Slide Show since the beginning of the month and have it set up as a Template on PTE. When I first received it from Brian as one of the trialists I wrote this to him: "I have produced successfully a trial project of a dozen images using your Manual Show utility. I can envisage a number of uses for it. As an example, in Camera Club print competitions these days more and more use is made of digital printing. It might be possible for members to supply copies of their original files for projection later in perhaps a review of past years work. Another use is the output from a digital camera and being able to view results full screen with a simple loading. And as an extension to that simple full screen viewing prior to selection for an AV Show." Ron [uK]

And let us not forget that this is 1000+ under the current "invision" set up. Only Ken might be able to tell us how many threads to which he contributed under the previous provider. Well done Ken I am always amazed at the way in which you are able to quote chapter and verse for all the queries to which you have responded. Ron [uK]

Barbara My idea was not stones but textures in the stonework. There surely must be infinite variations. But good luck anyway. Ron [uK]

How about textures in the stonework of the ancient buildings using very slow fades? Ron [uK]

When it comes to transition points mentioned in a current thread, I would like to see a separate facility "Custom Synchronisation from current settings". I build up some of my sequences from a basic template as I go along. For instance in one that I am working on at this moment I start with a slow pan using two prepared images and the push effects facility. For this, one of the images, including the effect, is on the screen for 15 seconds. When I have completed the sequence and would like to do some final adjustments in keeping with the background music/voice over, I cannot use the existing facility for Custom Synchronisation because it immediately changes all the spacings between transition points to a regular spacing. Ron [uK]

Kenneth This morning I rescanned some slides on my Epson Perfection 3200 Photo, which previously I had scanned on my Nikon Coolscan LS1000. The quality of the scan was much better. I scanned at 2400 dpi but I could have gone up to 6400 dpi. You mention Jessops so obviously you must be in the UK. I have looked in their catalogue on page 79 and I see that my model has been superseded and the nearest equivalent is the Epson Stylus Perfection 4870 Photo @ £349.90. By the way that is less than one quarter of the original price which I paid for my Nikon Coolscan LS100 (£763.75) and Epson GTx-9000 Flat bed Scanner (£903.58) put together, which it replaces, such is progress. Take a look at www.photo-i.co.uk where you will find a brief review of the 4870 and a mention of my 3200. Ron [uK]

Roger I am glad that you asked the question "Who is Ken Burns". I have been wondering myself for ages and was reluctant to ask. Was it some relation of Robbie Burns or George Burns or was it some Cockney rhyming slang I asked myself? Now it turns out to be some American, unknown on this side of the water. Why couldn't our friends simply have said zoom and pan effect? Ron [uK]

I didn't progress with the use of "Run application after last slide" when it was first introduced because of the momentary flash of the desktop, which Larry mentions. But more recently I tried once more with three sequences giving excellent results and no flash of the desktop. Ron [uK]

Jacques I hope that others more expert than me, whose final learning of the French language ended with my Oxford School Certificate examinations in 1937. However, I can see for instance that a translation of "Tu pénétreras petit à petit dans un autre monde, un autre temps" would be "Little by little you will enter another world, another time" Bon chance Ron [uK]