Frustration

[Laszlo K]

Well I got stuck in a situation that I don't know what to do about.

Version 7

I put 14 slides on the slide-line, retained the default settings of 7 seconds and 2 for transitions.

About the 8th slide I replaced the fade in/out with a 3D flip from right to left with 4 second. Well hell broke loose.

The 7th slide jumped up to 20.002 second, the 10th was 9.0sec and the 14th was 5.14sec.

Eventually managed to set two of the slides back to 7 sec but the 20.002 have stayed. Removed the slide to see what happens but the time jumped over to the next slide. I have tried all that I could think of.Project option, Customize slide etc. Nothing changed the time stayed. Knocked off the project and started in V 6.5 and had no problem.

I wonder what is the problem.

Laszlo

[nobeefstu]

Laszlo,

Appears to me you have v7 new feature Keep Full Slide Duration enabled.

If you disable the checkbox ... PTE v7 will act to the way you worked originally in v6.5

See image attachment.

Read about Keep Full Slide Duration in v7 User Guide on page 17.

"Options Show and Keep full slide duration are set by default, but you can uncheck them. Option Show full slide duration shows the slide duration itself and the duration of transition effect for the next slide. Option Keep slide duration is helpful if the slides in your slideshow have different duration and while changing their places, their duration is not changeable."

[Laszlo K]

Hi Stu.

Thanks for your respond.

I always have different times on the slides and never come across when the program insets the figure and will not let you change it. I even removed the slide but the time was transferred to another one. So with two weirdly timed slides I had no choice but to cut it and restart.

Here is a screen-shot of the bottom of my timeline and there is no box there like on your image. And yes both options were ticked in at the view tab. I have been doing odd stuff so I want to maintain my settings the best way i can. Here is an example :

http://vimeo.com/37270066 Half the video and the stills are mine and I drove the camera car, my son was sticking out on the sunroof.

It is only 2 min 15 sec.

Maybe an update will straighten out this problem.

Thanks again.

Laszlo

PS the part you quoted is on P16 (I'm just translating the manual to Hungarian)

[Guest Yachtsman1]

Hi Laszlo I assume you have tried the "Customise Slide" option?

Regards Eric

Yachtsman1.

[nobeefstu]

Laszlo,

Maybe an update will straighten out this problem.

Try v7.04 release ... as it contains fixes and also visually displays the Keep Full Slide Duration option in the program main window. v7.0 release had the option access only from the menu bar.

[Laszlo K]

The word Frustration I used since I been working with PTE for years, teaching it, translated the V 6.5 and presently translating V 7.0. It might have been a glitch of some kind. I can not think anything else. I will try the update and see.

When I say Eric that I have tried all I know that included; Project option, customize slide, on the slide itself, right click option,remove and replace the slide (in this case the wrong timing jumped over to another slide).

I don't know Stu if you had a chance to see the clip but if you have seen it it will show clip length variation from 1 min 49 sec to 0.5 sec and some in between. And it works. Done in V7.

Anyway I will consider this as a "gremlin sabotage on my patience"

Thanks for your input.

Laszlo