Paul N.

NCH has been able to replicate the problem but doesn't know what the problem is. They feel that since I'm the only one reporting it, it's a corrupt project file. Their workaround is to recreate the project but with 70+ files, I'm not willing to do that.

So, this is a bit of a rant against NCH. It's been a week since I opened my ticket with no response. I have also submitted this thread as a bug through Photostage. I am dead in the water working on my 74 file slideshow. If I recreate it, I'm afraid I'll just hit the same problem. I have not bought support for the following reasons: I believe this is a bug. As a user, I don't believe there is anything I could do to cause the audio tracks to disappear. There is no separate support path for bugs. I don't like the constraints on the purchased support "Up to 9 email consultations (10 minutes each consultation) Plus up to 2 telephone consultations (15 minutes each consultation)". I've been on a number of tech support calls with software vendors that took an hour or more especially when it's a bug. There is no mention of a credit if the problem is identified as a bug so in essence, I'm paying to be a QA engineer. I'll wait a bit longer but if I have to recreate my 74 file slideshow, I'll wouldn't be using Photostage.

Click to select the Transitions tab Use CTRL-mouse click to select the slides to want to adjust. You can also use standard selection patterns to select a range of slides. Select one of the transition effects. I found I had to do the same thing. I selected a block of slides then chose Randomize (bottom choice)

Ticket open but I haven't bought any support.

Thanks Elk. I also got this with the previous version which caused me to upgrade. I've tried it with a backup and other projects; same results.

I followed the following instructions I've seen posted several times but it did not change anything. The bars for the two audio are there but don't' show anything to select.

I haven't worked on my slideshow for a couple of weeks. When I opened it today, it was not displaying my narration or music channels. The audio is there when I play the slideshow. If I click on the Media, the cursor is positioned to where it would be. I've cleared cached. I've tried running under Admin priv. I just updated today and installed 8.22.

One of the behaviors of PS I find frustrating is that if I remove an audio clip (music or narration) all other media seem to shift. This is even if there is dead space between recordings. There is no concept of anchoring the start of a piece of audio to a specific slide so it does not move. It is tedious having to manually reset all the audio especially if a change I made is at the beginning of the slide show.

I find it distracting to hear the playback while I'm recording a narration especially if I go into another narration. Is there anyway to mute playback while recording? Thanks

Sorry Yamasita, I have to rely on Google Translate to understand your problem. I hope the translator had a hiccup. In order to create a MP4, you need to use Export->Video to create a MP4. I'm not sure what you mean by "... it will not be played as a still image."

This may be expected behavior. I don't know since it is combining two different effects together.

The closest I got was the following: Insert a Photo that shows with black borders Make sure the photo is selected From the top tool bar select Slide->Change Aspect Ratio->Stretch to the size needed. Choose Effects->Image Overlay. Select the same Image, position it in the middle, and size it up. I lost the Stretched Aspect Ratio so went back to Slide->Change Aspect Ratio It stretched both the original as well as the Image Overlay. Would likely not have been a solution since there seems to be a bug and the Image Overlay is not saved.

Problem still exists with PS 8.13

Thanks Elk. I tried several different JPG's, same behavior. I also notice that when I add the effect, I have the green bar at the top of the slide. Once I save and reopen it, that green bar indicating there is an effect on it is gone as well. I'm going to skip the deinstall/reinstall until I see if anyone else duplicates this and/or says I need to submit a bug.

I have a small image with music credits for my slideshow which does not get saved. Create a blank slide Choose Effect->Image Overlay Choose the image file from disk Align the embedded image in the middle Change size to 42 Select Fade In/Out=.5 secs Play from the previous slide, and the embedded image in the blank slide is presented properly ^S to save the project Reopen the project Go to the slide with the embedded image. Blank slide is there but not the embedded image. Play from the previous slide and it only shows the blank slide with no Effects loaded against it. I tried clearing cache and I on version 8.10. Any ideas of what's wrong?

Thanks Guru. I know I could add up all the individual durations of slides in sequence. What I actually do is take the start time of the first slide and the start time of the slide following the sequence, subtract them, to give me the duration. For this I need to use an on-line time calculator. For example, one sequence of 18 photos starts at 3:12.0 and ends at 4:22.0 which is 1:10.0. I was hoping there was something to tell me what the duration was without having to calculate it.

I have a number of sets of sequential slides that I want to assign music to. The complication I find is that I don't know what the run time of the slides are unless I measure the start and stop time of the sequence. What I'm looking for is something like selecting the sequence of slides the being told what the run-time is. Does this exist? Thanks

Referring to: https://nch.invisionzone.com/topic/35497-exportation-du-montage/ Patrick, sorry but I don't speak French but will try to help. When I read the English translation of "becomes totally blurry in image when it is transformed into the final version and therefore exported" it sounds like the resolution you are selecting is low. Have you tried different EXPORT resolution options. Hope this works with Google Translate.

If this is for PhotoStage, then you may need look at creating a video with lower resolution. If you want to use your 310MB file, then you need to look at a compression utility like 7ZIP. (Sorry, I don't speak Spanish. This is done using Google Translate)

Are you saying the video you have does not have an audio track? If so, you should be able to add one If you want to manage the audio for video separating, you can right-click on the video and select 'Unlink audio' and it will appear separately in the audio track.

Just an observation, but you would need to check if playing continuously is a feature of the format of the video you export to. For example, a quick search suggests MP4 does not have that feature and you need to look at putting the MP4 in something to perform the looping. So, what you are asking for is not likely something PS could do outside of the spec.

FWIW, I was playing around Exporting a DVD yesterday. When I pointed to a hard drive, it created an ISO file. I then had to download another utility to burn the ISO to a DVD. Mine was a 4 minute Project that created a 170MB ISO. When I Exported to a DVD directly on my DVD burner, it created the directory structure and files but was not recognized by a DVD player. The other consideration is the resolution you want. Myself and at least one other person did not find exporting to DVD doing a very good job. See https://nch.invisionzone.com/topic/31267-dvd-movie-disc-pictures-are-very-grainy/?tab=comments#comment-93644

Jrs, which other programs burn acceptable DVD's?

I got concerned because I was planning to burn some DVD's for family members. I reached out to members of my photography club and they provided the same information that 'elk' replied with. What I don't still understand is why the quality of the DVD's from PhotoStage seem so much different than DVD movies I own. I'd need to burn them to 4:3 instead of 16:9 to see if that makes a difference. I found that the Zoom automation on a photo on DVD was very grainy. I also found that I could not burn directly to my DVD from Export in PS. The resulting files could not be found when I went to play them. I have to save the DVD files then use a utlity to burn the ISO file to the DVD. So 'Steve P', we are experiencing the result of the DVD standard. More details can be found on the web at places like this. I know have to figure out how to create portable media to share with my family. I may have to break down and but a blue-ray burner and player 🙂 Some points I was forwarded:

Cabinet "J’aimerais connaître le fonctionnement détaillé de base, en français." Je ne parle pas français. J'ai répondu en anglais. Désolé ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a translation of Cabinet's question through Google since I don't speak French. Cabinet, it doesn't matter where you place your photos or audio clips. However, there are a couple of things I've discovered: If you are going to have new versions of any media, your should have a version suffix on the file. The reason is that while PhotoStage is open, it locks the file. You can't update in place. You change change the location of where the file is in the Media pane so I use that to point to the new file. If you use the Backup feature the all the files and Project file (.SPJ) are copied to a single directory. THE BIG PROBLEM IS THAT YOUR PROJECT FILE IS MODIFIED TO POINT TO THE BACKUP LOCATION. All the file references are changed to local directory lookup. So, if you backup, the you could copy the backup as your current Project. For that reason, it may be better to keep all media files in the same directory. Sorry, no easy answer especially if you use their Backup.