Can't get slide show to work. Desperate

[Ren]

Hi I am not very computer literate and hoping there is someone in the United Kingdom that could help me. I have the latest version of PictoExe and I am due to give a test presentation about my nature photography work to a group of people. 

When I load the 155 images in Pic to Exe, I select 0 seconds and next slide on keyboard click (really nothing fancy), I save the project for PC but when I double click on the project to run it nothing happens. If I want to delete the created project, the laptop tells me that the project is running and can't be deleted!

I created another  small presentation of 8 slides and that runs just fine. I am getting a bit desperate as I need to get this going . Anyone there that can help me?

Thanks very much

Rene 

[jkb]

If you have set the show to wait for key press to show next slide, then you need to press the right arrow key on the keyboard to get It to move on.

You also need to publish your show as an exe file.

Hope this helps. If not come back and post a screenshot of your settings.

Jill

[Ren]

Jill thanks ever so much for the quick reply. I did publish as exe file. If I double click on the exe file it simply doesn't open. One thing that comes to mind is that there are a few small video clips in the presentation taken with an iPhone, so they are .mov files.....could it that they don't run on a windows machine? Do they need converting? 

Thanks very much 

Rene 

[davegee]

Does "Preview" work OK before publishing the EXE? Can you publish as an mp4?

DG

[Ren]

Yes it runs fine in preview as well as the clips.

i have saved it now as an exe file on a USB stick  and see if i can run it off another windows laptop from a neighbour.

thanks for your reply …if it doesn’t work I will see if i can get in touch with someone in U.K. (perhaps through this forum) who can perhaps convert it for me to pix to exe 

rene 

[jkb]

 

 

39 minutes ago, Ren said:

Yes it runs fine in preview as well as the clips.

i have saved it now as an exe file on a USB stick  and see if i can run it off another windows laptop from a neighbour.

thanks for your reply …if it doesn’t work I will see if i can get in touch with someone in U.K. (perhaps through this forum) who can perhaps convert it for me to pix to exe 

rene 

.mov files should run fine.

The problem may be if the files are large, then it can take time for the exe to start, especially if you have a virus checker running.

Either leave it for a while to see if it does run (could be up to 1 min depending on size & how powerful your computer is)

Or Try to publish as a Safe Exe, this should then start straight away as it produces a very small .exe file & then a much larger .pteav file which contains all the video clips etc.

This will be produced as a .zip file & you will have to extract both files from it to run.

If you transfer to another computer then make sure you copy both files & keep them together in the same folder.

Jill

[Ren]

Thanjs for the reply. The preso is 312mb. Waited for a few minutes : didn’t run, again made a very short preso with a few images: runs fine. I’m done with this as I simply don’t have the knowledge and been spending most of the day on this…very frustrating.I’m hoping  to find someone who can convert it for me. 

[jkb]

43 minutes ago, Ren said:

The preso is 312mb

312mb is not large so I don't understand why it won't run. .mov files don't cause a problem & if the Preview works then there is no reason the exe won't.

Unless you have some anti virus software that is stopping it?

Have you tried making a Safe exe??

What are your Project Option / Control settings, can you post a screen grab?

Don't give up as PTE is a great piece of software

You can convert the .mov files to .mp4 in PTE, just right click the file in the Filelist & click Convert/Trim Video if you feel this would help.

Jill

[Ren]

So firstly thanks for all your help. I got it to work but still do not understand the issue.

 

i saved the presentation with following 2 settings;

0 seconds to next slide 

next slide by pressing key on keyboard

saved preso; doesn’t show but runs somewhere in background. 
 

than I decided to 

10 minutes to next slide

ndxt slide by pressing key on keyboard

Guess what? It works! 

Thanks again but still don’t understand what I do wrong with option 1! Any ideas?

Rene 

 

 

 

[jkb]

44 minutes ago, Ren said:

0 seconds to next slide 

This is the problem, you need to give each slide a duration that is longer than the Transition time.

If you have wait for Keypress to show next Slide then it doesn't matter what the duration is ( but not 0), it will stay on screen until you press the right arrow key.

No need to set it for 10 mins, just leave as the default of 5 secs unless you have any animation that needs a longer time.

 

Glad you now have it working

Jill