First attempt at adding video to PTE

[shirleyhogan]

I'm working on a slide show of our Venice pictures from a recent cruise.  I have a video clip of a gondola passing by our hotel room that I am trying to add.  It is a MP4, is 19 seconds, and doesn't require trimming.

1.  I attempted to add it to the slide line in my project the same as a photo.    I got  a popup box with a message saying "PTE recommends converting.  My options were  "optimize" or "use original file".   I chose "optimize" and that option gave me nothing but errors. When I chose "use original file"  the preview showed three photos instead of a video.

After a long day of trial and error, this is what seems to have worked: 

1.  I converted my MP4 file to AVI using VLC media player.

2.  When I attempted to add it to my slide line, I got  a popup box with the message "PTE recommends converting".  My options were  "optimize" or "use original file".   I chose optimize and that produced a second AVI file which I used.

So these are my questions:

Am I correct in my assumption that PTE requires your video to be Type AVI?   And  that it has to be optimized by PTE when you add it to your project?     Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

 

 

[davegee]

Using a video straight out of your camera, right click on it in the File List.

Choose to Convert it.

In the pop up box you can trim etc and convert.

WHEN FINISHED it will appear in the file list as a copy with the suffix "converted".

Drag this into the slide list.

If you are still getting errors we need to know what the errors are. Describe them and/or post screen shots of error messages.

It might also help to know something about your PC system.

All of this is in the Online Help File.

http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/8.0/video/addvid?s[]=video

http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/8.0/techniques/addvid2

http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/8.0/main

DG