dagrace Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Me again. This is a separate topic, so I thought I'd start a new thread.I've watched PTE101, read many of the threads in this forum, and I'm VERY excited about learning how to use PTE. Does anyone have a summary of their workflow for creating a project? I don't want any of you to spend a lot of time writing yet another training tool. I was thinking of something like:1) Do all the PS'ing of images (crop, sharpen, etc.)2) Size them to 1024 x 768 and compress to "5"3) Figure out an initial order4) Name the images so that they sort in that order5) Do a rough storyboard6) Establish the basic project, set global fonts, identify the music file, etc.7) Add text and other objectsetc. etc. Maybe 5 should come before 1. Maybe I forgot a very important step. Don't forget to... it will save you a lot of time later. I found this great trick...Thanks.If this is a lot of work, please DO NOT do it. I learn by doing, so I'll be OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 dagracewelcome to the forumI start out with a fresh folder properly named - then copy and paste all picts into that folder,and when the time comes then i put copy's of all music, icons, urls text motes etc in that folder. then bascially follow your steps other than story board -- i have it in my mind what i wantas you get used to the program you will develop a patterndo not be afraid to save as and create as under different names to reflect your changes -- you may want to experiment with fades text etc and is so easy to do a save as create as then compare your different versionsi would label the picts first then resize with same editor -saves time- a lot of members use Irfanview which is very user friendlypict size 0f 80 - 150kb jpgs seems to be the optimum sizeand mp3's seem to work bestgood luckken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Lyons Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Hi Dagrace, & Ken, havn't emailed you in awhile Ken been busy on a project for a festival in Dublin. Will write soon. Any way to answer the main topic. I would agree with Ken. I make a folder for each show, with folders within ie D:Myshow/Pictures/Sound/Project. The project folder contains the .pte and.exe folders which can be updated as progress is made. When a show is finished I dump the contents to a CD leaving an empty folder on the drive. This allows me to reinstate all the files if I need to change anything. As for the show creation I tend to write the script, photograph, find music, and adjust till happy (ish).Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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