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[NikonJeff]

Hello,

I'm new to PicturestoExe and upon completing my first project I am plagued by an audio glitch during MP3 playback. I have 104 images with (4) MP3 files playing in the background. everyso often the MP3 seems to stop and back up a bar of music and start from that bar again....

The original MP3 files don't have any problems... The slide show is set to synchronize with the music in case that info will help.

Hardware configuration: Dell Latitude C840, P3-1.13ghz, 512MB Ram, 40GB 5400 rpm IBM hard drive, 16mb GForce2 go video card at 1024x768 24bit color.

I currently use use Flip Album Pro 4.0 and 3D-Album. Picturestoexe seemed like a nice program due to it's hardware requirements for playback.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, and you may reply directly yo my personal email. I did try the archives, but I may not have hit the correct set of keywords to find my answer.

I'm a weekend professional photographer primarily doing weddings and bar mitzvahs in the Albany, NY area. Shoot all digital with a Nikon D1x, SB-80, 20-35/2.8,28-70/2.8,80-200/2.8, elinchrom 500c monolights.

Thanks!

Jeff

[JRR]

Jeff:

Welcome to PTE and the forum, I think you will find lots of good hints in here on all kinds of issues.

As to this specific problem, I have not hit it (thank goodness - but I have had others ...) and there lots of others on the forum with more info on this particular issue than I.

But what specs were using with the MP3 file ?

Is it a problem on one computer only ? Or with others ?

I doubt it very much, but if you are starting the show from a button made via the object editor and you click on it twice, by force of habit, the show plays twice at the sametime and the music can be "jumpy". If you don't know what I am talking about, then that is not the problem <grin>

Object editors will come with course PTE 201.

Jim

[LumenLux]

Jeff, I will reply here instead of to your private email. One of the great things about this forum is that we all learn so much that we would not if the conversations go "off forum."

Two thoughts:

1. Many of us have found that some of this type of problem can be avoided by editing your multiple mp3's into one single mp3 file to use in your PTE show. That is NOT always necessary, but it has been known to solve some problems.

2. Is it possible that you have any slides where the display time is shorter than the specified transition time. Or if the transition time is ALMOST as long as the display time, it can cause some weird problems.

And if this doesn't help, someone else will hit the mark as to what is wrong.

Sounds like you have a nice occupation. How long have you been "digital only" in your professional work?

[Ken Cox]

Jeff,

does the problem occur when running on the hardrive

or

on a burned copy

did you try make/playing your show un synced

ken

[JRR]

Jeff:

(I told you there would be more knowledgeable people than I who would help !!)

It didn't click that you had 4 separate MP3 files. Putting them together is easy, you'll see elsewhere on the forum that Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer (inexpensive) or COOL EDIT with the STUDIO PLUG-IN (more expensive)are amongst the best softwares to do that.

If you have used the timeline synchronization for the show, PTE v4.0 beta has grey markings on the timeline to show the transitions times (except a cut shows up with 1500ms). That may help to adjust the timings, or you could use alrobin's nifty excel routine. You can find a discussion on it at Page two of the forum (as of today) look for the heart)

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...ct=ST&f=2&t=201

Jim

[nobeefstu]

Jeff

When you say it just seems to occurr "everyso often" ... are you saying its not a consistant playback glich ?

If it just happens every so often ... start closely montioring when the glich exactly seems to take effect and let us know. Could it be only happening during a Transistion cycle and a new MP3 starting to play ?

[NikonJeff]

Hello and thank you all for the prompt reply and ideas. The glitch seems to happen randomly and in during an MP3, not when it is just transitioning to a new MP3. I tried running the slide show without the music synch and the MP3 files played flawlessly.

One of my big gripes with a program that I'm attempting to replace (3D-Album) is that it was difficult to get the music to match the slideshow time-wise. It also required a lot of video horsepower as well.

I'll try one of those editors and see if I can meld those MP3s together...

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For those of you who are interested... About me...

My day job during the week is a Field Service Engineer (PC Technician) at the State University of New York in Albany. I'm an A+ Certified Technician (8 years now) and a Dell DCSE Technician versed in most of their products. I started photography when I was in high school (graduated in 1983) and was accepted to the New England School of Photography in Boston, Mass.

At the time I was unable to cough up the roughly 20k a year for schooling/room/board so of to college I went... That didn't fair well, so off to Retail I went and spent 10 years there until I met my wife of almost 10 years now. During a nice walk on Myrtle Beach she asked me if I regretted not doing anything before we got married? All bad cracks aside... I said yes - I wanted to be aphotographer, but couldn't do it at the time... So I bought my first 645 camera and started doing weddings in 1994. Got a DBA and tax ID so its actually a legit business.

Moved to digital a year before the Nikon D1 came out and startes with a Kodak DCS-420. Bought a D1 the month after they came out, used it 14 months then bought a D1x and thats where I'm at - Love the camera, wished it had ***REAL TTL Flash*** But it's getting better. Sold all my work film cameras except my beloved F5 last year - Bronica - GONE! F3-GONE! Enlarger-GONE!

Over the past 2 years I've developed a working relationship with a local full time professional photographer - Joe Elario. I started helping him out with his computer network in trade for some "over the shoulder" time at weddings. Spent a great deal of time with him last year shooting many, many weekends alongside him. I have nothing but admiration for his style and candor. Very personable to his clients and a wealth of knowledge (even if he does shoot Canon) He's a convert from Nikon :-) He took the plunge from Hassy to Canon 1D last year and never looked back. i think he appreciated my day job expertise when the bumps in the road arrived...

Anyway for those who asked - there I am on my sleeve. I survived 10 years in Retail Management with Montgomery Ward, so I can take just about anything...

[Stef]

Any information about grey markings on the timeline:

JRR says: If you have used the timeline synchronization for the show, PTE v4.0 beta has grey markings on the timeline to show the transitions times (except a cut shows up with 1500ms).

JRR: You can place a time (exp 20ms) when You make a cut, this will give You a short gray marking for this cut.

Stef

[JRR]

Thanks Stef:

That does work well - so long as I remember to set the deafults to the 20ms when I set up a show with "cut" being the default (Not that I do that much as I usually use the FADE as default.) I can usually remember when doing individual slide customization

I mentioned the "bug" to Igor when we spotted it just after the beta 4 came out, so maybe when the final version comes I won't need to worry about my "senior moments" when forgetting to set the cut to 20ms.

Jim

[wellybob]

Jeff

I have had a similar problem where the music would jump back and then repeat itself.

In my case it turned out that in some images the resolution was too high.

I copied all the images in photoshop at a lower resolution (150 pixels/inch) and the

problem was solved.

Wellybob

[JRR]

Wellybob:

Changing the resolution really has no effect, but I suspect you really did was change the pixel dimensions of the image.

See my post (and others) at Mega Project 380mb (1) at

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...f=2&t=289&st=20

Jim