Help help please

[Vesta]

I finally got my slideshow( for our churches 50th anniversary tomorow) which I created in PSE5 done, I put some pan and zooms on them and they looked good in PSE5. I sent the completed slideshow to PRE3 to put it to a dvd. Did some work on the front with a black insert then title page, then added a another with the words 50 Years on a picture and they zoom in larger.

My problem is the pan and zooms don't last long enough to see the whole picture before the fade starts for the next slide. The fade was also made as a default for all the pictures when I did them in PSE5.
Is there a way to lengthen the pan and zoom or delete them in PRE3 even though I did them in PSE5? I really want to keep them if possible.

One other thing when i sent the slide show to PRE3 there was no sceneline just a timeline. To be more exact the only thing on the sceneline is the added frames I did for the beginning of the slideshow(created in the timeline) and the thumbnail of the slideshow that is not opened, so i can't work on the sceneline. How did I do that?

Thanks
Vesta

[Barb O]

One other thing when i sent the slide show to PRE3 there was no sceneline just a timeline. To be more exact the only thing on the sceneline is the added frames I did for the beginning of the slideshow(created in the timeline) and the thumbnail of the slideshow that is not opened, so i can't work on the sceneline. How did I do that?

Thanks
Vesta

After you send a slideshow from PSE 5 to PRE 3, you do need to break it apart in order to be able to work on it.

Look at the Sceneline and right click on the thumbnail of the slideshow that you can see. You will see a menu choice to Break Apart the slideshow: the words might be slightly different than what I have typed on this post but I think you will be able to identify which entry in the menu.

[Barb O]

My problem is the pan and zooms don't last long enough to see the whole picture before the fade starts for the next slide. The fade was also made as a default for all the pictures when I did them in PSE5.
Is there a way to lengthen the pan and zoom or delete them in PRE3 even though I did them in PSE5? I really want to keep them if possible.
Vesta

Yes, you can either change the duration of a zoom or you can delete the zoom: I have done these. I anticipate that you can do the same for a pan.
However, I have one simpler thing for you to try before you start changing the zooms or pans.

For one of the photos where it does not last long enough for the zoom, in the Sceneline (after the slideshow is broken apart) click on the transition that is after one slide that does not last long enough. Look at the Properties panel for that transition and it will proabably show Alignment "End at Cut" with a downward triangle afterwards: click on that downward triangle and it will give a menu where I suggest you choose "Center at Cut".

What this change does is to make the timing for that transiton more like how the PS Elements slideshow does the transiton. If this works, it is the simplest change - but there are several reasons why it might not work. Either it might not give a sufficient amount of additional time to the photo before the transition starts - or - the original PSE 5 slideshow never took the photo out to the very edge (my experience). However this simple transition change does seem worth attempting.

If that does not work, then it would be helpful to know if you have any of the books on Premiere Elements? Pans and Zooms are done in Premiere Elements with Keyframing. I don't think that I can describe Keyframing in a forum post.

[Vesta]

Barb, I am sure that this would work but everytime I try to break apart the slideshow it causes a low memory error and closes the program. this is on a new laptopwith 2GB of memory and an Intel core 2 Duo processor.
Thanks
Vesta

[Barb O]

Barb, I am sure that this would work but everytime I try to break apart the slideshow it causes a low memory error and closes the program. this is on a new laptopwith 2GB of memory and an Intel core 2 Duo processor.
Thanks
Vesta

Hundreds of slides at high resolution being processed by Premiere Elements can stress even a system that runs fine for other applications. However, I doubt that I can solve the low memory problem on your system with PRE3. It might help to decrease the resolution of the photo files that are input to the slideshow: but that is not a certainty. So for the low memory problem, I would suggest calling Adobe tech support on the next business day if no one else posts solutions on this forum.

So I will take a different approach in my suggestions. I will suggest that you go back to PSE 5 and in the PSE 5 slideshow

- make the elapsed time of slides where you have this zoom or pan problem longer

- perhaps make the transition time shorter (say down to 1 second if it is now 2 seconds)

- be sure that in the PSE5 slideshow you have dragged all edges of the zoom box out to the very edge of your photo on all the slides where you want to see the edges of the photo

- be aware the most TVs have an overscan area at the edges (that is 10 percent or more of the picture edges) - so you will not see the edges of the photo as it exists on your photo file when the image is displayed on the TV. If you are using a computer to projector connection, then this should not apply.

- after you have modified the PSE 5 slideshow, SAVE it again under a different name, then send it to Premiere Elements again. You might want to send it to a new PRE 3 project as a trial: just don't have any PRE3 project open when you do the Send of the slideshow from PSE5 and PRE3 will start a new project.

- IF none of the above gives you the timing you want AND the PSE5 slideshow preview does give you the timing that you want for pan and zoom, you can try the PSE5 slideshow editor OUTPUT command with the DVD,NTSC option and a new PRE3 project. This will probably give you slightly lower image quality in the finished product - but it may avoid the low memory problems you saw in PRE3.