Slide Interval

[TonyFalla]

I still consider myself to be a novice as far as PTE is concerned but came across a problem in the last few days I wonder if other members have hit it.

I wanted to start my sequence with four slides, they are all the same image but second has title on it and the third has a title and sub-title.

I started with a fade in of just over 7 seconds on the first slide, a page effect left to right of about 5 seconds on the the next 2 and then a page effect right to left of about 8 secs for the fourth. Between each slide I only left about one tenth of a second. I then had about one tenth of second before the next slide and all others had an interval of about 2 seconds between finish of one effect and the start of the next.

In the Customize Synchronisation box when I played this sequence, using the "Play" button, it worked perfectly it worked perfectly. However when I used the "Preview" button, the second slide came in on a left to right effect 3 times, the third and fourth never appeared and then all the other slides played as required.

I found out that the only way to get the effect I wanted was to allow at least half a second between the end of one effect and the start of the next. Is this a restriction in PTE or am I missing something?

[jevans]

This is a well known issue with PTE. The size of the gap you have to leave between sucessive slides is governed by the perfomance of your computer. If you search the forum you will find other threads which cover this. On my computer which has a 2.8GHz processor and 1G RAM, I have to leave a gap of about 0.5s between slides. Also I have noticed that sometimes slides which are too close together will play correctly when viewed with the timeline window open but repeat when viewed in the normal preview mode. Just widen the slide gaps and you will obtain a satisfactory result.

Jeff

[TonyFalla]

Hi Jeff

Thanks for the reply it is always nice to find out that you are not the only one who has experienced a problem.

It is a pity that you have to have half a second between slides, which is what I also have found is necessary. I had some thoughts on a sequence where there was no interval between slides. I wanted the next effect to start as soon as the first had finished, even better would be to have a second effect to start before the first has finished.

I am obviously going to have to think of an alternative way to achieve what I want.

Thanks again for the help

Tony

[denwell]

Tony

I don't see this as a limitation in P2E's ability to present a series of images very close together, maybe just that your images are a little too large.

Can I ask what file sizes you are using - also, the page effects may require lots of CPU work which could slow things down. Try using a more simple transition, which can be more effective, especially with titles.

On the timeline, try reducing the slide spacing from say 0.5sec gradually to find the limit of your processing capabilities.

I regularly use very fast 'changes' with no more than a couple of tenths of a second between images, especially when using the 'push' transition to create a pan effect ( roll on v.5.00 !!!)

Take heart - it can be done !

DEN (NE UK)

[Ian]

I suspect that this issue is actually becoming more of a problem with the current crop of laptops. I changed my laptop last year to a much higher-spec Toshiba Tecra, with fast Centrino processor, high-end ATI graphics card and plenty of RAM. However, I ran into looping problems with some sequences that had played perfectly on my older "lower-spec" laptop. I later discovered that the disk-access time on my old laptop was faster than on my new machine, and hence the increase in performance was completely off-set by the slower access speed.

It only happened on a few sequences and I was able to re-make them quite easily, but if you do change your laptop its worth trying all your old stuff out before doing a show!

Ian

[TonyFalla]

Thanks for all the help, file size was the problem, I have now cut them down to 100k - 200k and am able to achieve the effect I want with very small effect times and show times. I now have a sequence of about 30 - 40 slides I can show in about 10 secs, achieving the effect I required.

[JPD]

I now have a sequence of about 30 - 40 slides I can show in about 10 secs, achieving the effect I required.

I think it's too quick if you use synchronise mode. It will not run on many PC.

[TonyFalla]

Thanks for comments on running speed, as yet I have not tried to synchronise sequence, as it is only a very small part, but it runs on both my desktop and my laptop. It works, admittedly at a slower speed, on an old desktop I have that runs Windows 98.

It is all part of the fun of experimenting to see what you can and cannot achieve. You get an idea and have a go. At the end of the day you may have to write the whole thing off to experience but you will have learnt a lot and kept the old brain cells active.

Tony

[JPD]

I have not tried to synchronise sequence

So it's normal there are no problems