Slides showing just black

by **LEE7** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:58 am

Hi
Sorry My first post is a question.
I`ll start from scratch.
Using Proshow Gold 2.5, with a mixture of digital pics & old scans of pictures, digital pics & some of the old scans were fine, but some of the old scans were just appearing as black slides.
It was pointed out to Me that perhaps the old scans were too low resolution & small.
In Photoshop i did the needed tweaks, everything then appeared in the timeline, great so far.
Made My show, rendered to end "Proshow has encountered a problem & needs to close"
Did DVD burner update, no joy, tried without audio, no joy.
Put Proshow Gold 3.0 on My video editing comp, transferred the folder containing all files for show, opened, some of the pictures that were black originally, not all of them, now show black again.
Apart from slides showing black, the only difference between 2.5 & 3.00, is that 3 said it can`t continue because of no disc in burner, disc inserted, everything fine.
So in a nutshell why do some show black? , any ideas please.
The show is for workmates, no one has pictures but Me, going back 30 years to recently, needs to be done , because of retirements etc.

Regards.

Peter

PS a great program, but I`ve a lot to learn to make quality shows IMO

by **gpsmikey** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:40 am

Hmmm -- this is a new one -- what format are the pictures in ?? Can you view them
in other viewers without any problem ??? If you don't have Irfanview, that is a handy
utility to have for working with pix (free).

As far as the burning to DVD, there have been a number of issues (although they
are getting better) with DVD burning in Proshow -- many of us simply select the
ISO image from the burner menu, create an ISO instead of burning direct to DVD,
then use the free Imgburn utility to actually burn to the DVD. This has the advantage
of not wasting blanks -- once you have the ISO, you can then burn as many copies
as you want with Imgburn. Give this method a shot for burning the DVD.

As far as the "black images" goes, they must? be in a format Proshow doesn't understand
like maybe pcx or something ?? If all your images are jpg, then I don't know what
you are seeing.

mikey

by **LEE7** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:52 am

Hi
Thanks for the swift reply.

All pictures are Bitmap 72dpi.
In Proshow they appear fine in the thumbnails in the pane on the left & fine in the Preview panel, dragged to time line they are black.

Checked against the ones that are scans of the same age that are ok, properties appear the same. its a dilly of a pickle.

Regards.

Peter

by **gpsmikey** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:24 am

"dilly of a pickle" ? Now there's one I haven't heard for a while

Try converting them to jpg and see if that works OK (if you don't
have a utility, try the free Irfanview). The "dpi" setting actually has
no meaning except when printing - the more important number is
how many pixels by how many pixels the picture is. Give the
jpg conversion a shot and see if that works.

mikey

by **Jerry Cole** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:51 am

Peter,
I haven't heard of this one either, but I agree with Mikey about making sure the pics are jpg. That way you can eliminate one possible "dilly" or maybe even the "pickle"
Jer

by **Jerry Cole** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:56 am

Peter,
BTW ... Welcome.
I just noticed that you just joined the forum! As you are already learning, this is the real place to learn the program, or to solve problems ... The book sucks!
Jer

by **LEE7** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:54 pm

Hi
Gonna just convert the offending pictures to jpeg & try again tomorrow( its 11pm here)

96 pics altogether so haven`t got time to convert them all, but will if needed.

Regards.

Peter

by **gpsmikey** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:36 pm

If you use the free Irfanview (or other utilities out there), you can do a batch
conversion -- select the files, tell it what you want for the output and the output
folder and "presto chango" all done (without doing anything to the originals).

mikey

by **DickK** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:52 pm

I rarely use bit map format files but I did encounter a couple oddities in PSG one time when using some small clip art files that were bit maps. I think it might have something to do with the color map inside the file being nonstandard but that's just a semi-educated guess.

If that or a whole host of other issues is the problem, the fix would be to do just what Mikey et al are recommending--run the files through a converter to some other format--which is what I did and all was well afterward. What format you convert to is probably not important, but JPG or TIF would be my choice.

Dick

by **LEE7** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:08 am

BIG Thanks for the suggestions!!!

Installed IRFANVIEW & converted the offending slides to JPEG.
Loaded up My show dragged new versions into place & cut the black versions, did some transition tweaking, added My 3 pieces of music.
Heres the scary bit, the music fitted exactly!!
I am an happy camper, see me doing the Happy dance.

Regards.

Peter.

PS question from a friend
When He tries to install Proshow Gold 2.5, a message comes up.

"Audiograbber.ax is not installed"?

Any suggestions please.

by **gpsmikey** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:43 am

A bit of "Googling" finds a number of comments on "Audiograbber.ax" - often with the
word "Vista" in the same sentence. If your friend is running Vista, you
may want to check it out.

mikey

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