Newbie question, fade to and from black

[johnnydrz]

Hi everyone, I'm wondering what the simplest way to do a fade to black between pictures, is. Do I need a "black" picture? Is is simply in the application of the fade in/fade out? ...can't put my finger on it...sorry...

Also, I created aninitial 10 picture-project but when I try to "visualize" it, I get a message saying: "picture missing" with the name I gave it, but that picture is in there. I checked in my directory, and it's the exact same name. Can't figure that one out either right now...

I'm sure I'm just missing something real simple but....help.

Thanks a million,

Johnnydrz

[johnnydrz]

I'm back in front of my screen now...

When I try to do a "create" or a "preview", I get a message box with "Errors found, Pictures not found" with the name of the first picture which IS the first one in my series...

Dunno what to do right now...

Thank you

Johnnydrz

[thedom]

Hi Johnny,

Welcome on the forum and in the wonderful world of PTE.

About your problem, didn't you rename the image, move it in an other folder or didn't you rename the folder in which your picture is ?

What you can do is to try to find your image manually.

do the following :

- in main window of PTE, select the slide with the problem (I guess it's slide #1)

- click on "objects and animation" button.

- in the "objects" window, select the image which has the problem (if PTE can't find it, it replace it with a blue rectangle "Image not found")

- in "properties" tab (upper right of the screen), click on the folder icon (= ) and browse your HD to find the image you want to display.

It should work.

Good luck.

[johnnydrz]

It worked !!!! Thanks !!!

....now about the fade to black between pictures, (transitions) do I need to insert a black frame between all of my pictures? And set different times for the actual pic for let's say 5 sec. transition of 1500msec. black for 500msec, and so on???

Thanks again,

Johnnydrz