goddi Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 Greetings,I just created a show in 7.5.10. I noticed that when I went into the Project Options/Aspect Ratio, I see that the Aspect Ratio is greyed-out. I have never seen this happen in the past and I am wondering how this could happen. Any ideas? See attached.Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 20, 2013 Report Share Posted December 20, 2013 I think a clue might be that the aspect ratio reveals "Custom" which is not a choice. What did you put in the show in the way of files? Was the first slide a custom video by any chance?Best regards,Lin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddi Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 I think a clue might be that the aspect ratio reveals "Custom" which is not a choice. What did you put in the show in the way of files? Was the first slide a custom video by any chance?Best regards,Lin==========================Lin,The show is an introductory blank slide and the next slide has an inserted video about a minute long, and ends with a blank slide. I have made this similar show many times but never had this grey-out 'custom' thing show up. I just resized the inserted video within the blank slide. Here is the video info attached.Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Hi Gary,Try removing the video and replacing it with a still image, change the aspect ratio then without removing the new image, insert the video and save the file. Re-open the file and delete the jpg and see what happens.Best regards,Lin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Gary,Go to the screen page and enter a resolution which fit one of the presets e.g. 1920x1080.However that doesn't answer the "greyed out" problem.Show us the SCREEN option?DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Gary,Check the settings in Screen tab. I think that you choosed "Windowed mode" instead of "Fullscreen". In the windowed mode the aspect ratio can be choosed, because you set exact size of a window.By default, PicturesToExe creates new a project with "Fullscreen" mode. Probably you modified the default template for new project and saved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddi Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Gary,Check the settings in Screen tab. I think that you choosed "Windowed mode" instead of "Fullscreen". In the windowed mode the aspect ratio can be choosed, because you set exact size of a window.By default, PicturesToExe creates new a project with "Fullscreen" mode. Probably you modified the default template for new project and saved it.=====================Igor and all,Yes, that was it. I had inadvertently had the 'Windowed Mode' selected, since I had used a previous show that apparently had the 'Windowed Mode' selected, I just inserted a different video. I switched back to 'Full Screen' and it un-greyed-out the '(Custom'. But, the '(Custom' choice was stll there in the drop-down menu. And it is missing the last closed parenthesis. So there must be something else going on. I tried to make the same mistake/correction a previous show that I had selected 'Windowed Mode' but I can not get the '(Custom' selection to show. Thanks for the help.GaryADDED LATER: Ok, I see why I still get the 'Custom' setting. I had an non-standard aspect ratio set. But the fact of seeing the '(Custom' made me think there was a problem. Perhaps Igor should remove the first '(' (parentheses), so it does not look like an error.Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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