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Slideshow & Playing Music (v2012r2 or earlier)

Using Slideshow View with & without music (for ProSelect v2012r2 and earlier)

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Slideshow will not Play

If you have a problem playing a slideshow, here's what to check: 1. Are you in Working with Slideshows? This is the place to set up an play your slideshows from. Unless you have selected for this slideshow to play when in other areas of ProSelect (see below), then the slideshow will only show what's in the current set (in Working with Images, Layout, Rooms and Books) and tab (in working with Images). This is called Quick Slideshow and will just s...

Controlling how your Slideshow ends

By default, when you start a slideshow in ProSelect, at the end of the slideshow ProSelect will return to the screen that you started the slideshow from. If you are in Working with Slideshows then this will likely be thumbnail view. However, you have a few options to control how the slideshow ends... Method 1: If you are always playing the slideshow that you setup in Working with Slideshows, then you can make this the default slideshow that will...

Exported Movie to a CD or DVD

With ProSelect you can create beautiful .mp4 movies stamped/watermarked, if you wish) for sale or distribution on CD or flash drives that people can watch on their computers or TV's. On Macs, ProSelect 2015r3 and newer uses OSX AVFoundation to create these movies at around 20x faster speeds than earlier versions of ProSelect. On Windows, ProSelect 2017r1 and newer, uses a new movie export utility which also provide much faster movie export spee...

Can't load Music from iTunes

ProSelect finds out about your iTunes music by reading the file iTunes Music Library.xml or iTunes Library.xml (used in the latest versions of iTunes) which iTunes updates whenever you make changes to any music. In the latest versions of iTunes, you need to enable the saving of this file by turning on Share iTunes Library XML with other applications in iTunes Preferences (under the Advanced Tab). ProSelect assumes that this file is located ...

SlideShow Button beeps and does nothing

ProSelect has a feature that allows you to disable the slideshow button. This was added because some people found that they were accidentally clicking on the button while changing views. By default this option is off, however you can turn it on/off in the Preferences -> General Settings -> General -> Mouse Options = Disable Slideshow View Button. When this option is on, Your computer will "beep" when you click the Slideshow button rath...

Maximum Display Area message in Select Size View

If you are seeing a light blue frame around your image or layout and a message underneath which says "Maximum Display Area....", this means that the item that you are trying to display at actual size is too large to fit on the screen at the current display calibration. So you need to firstly check that your screen calibration setting in ProSelect preferences is correct. If this message is still showing after checking your calibration (make sure t...

Correct set up for Slideshow movies and iDVD

This article has been replaced by Creating a Slideshow DVD on Mac which should be used with ProSelect 2013r1 and newer. In ProSelect v2012r2 and earlier, when you are making a QuickTime Slideshow movie with the intention of burning it to DVD, make sure that you set the Movie Size corresponding to the TV standard in your country. If you intend for the movie to be only played on a computer, (using QuickTime Movie Player) then selecting any si...

Adding Layouts to the middle of the Slideshow

With ProSelect 2013r1 and newer, you can create slideshows with any mix of images, layouts, room view images, video (Pro only), title slides and books in the Working with Slideshows module. Simply drag items from the image list on the left into a slideshow (in Thumbnail view) or add resources from the bottom of the screen. For more about using Slideshows in ProSelect, please see the Slideshow sections of the ProSelect Reference Manual (quick acce...

Slideshow sound does not fade at end

ProSelect controls the standard sound output device volume level to provide smooth music fades at the end of the slideshow. However, it cannot control the sound volume if you use other audio output methods such as Optical out or USB-audio convertors. Therefore you should always use the standard audio jack for connecting your external speakers to your computer. Update August 2012 In July/August 2012, we had a few reports about the slidesh...

MP4 music files not available on Windows version

When in ProSelect on Windows, you are unable to see the .mp4 music files listed under the "Music Folder" option (Edit -->Preferences --> Slideshow & Music --> Music) , it's probably because you cannot play them outside the iTunes player. In ProSelect, If selecting an iTunes playlist as your music option, check you have the correct Playlist selected. If selecting a Music Folder, then ProSelect uses Windows Med...

Slideshow crashing then ProSelect on exit

Update 12th February 2009 Apple have now released Quicktime v7.6. We have not tested this version on all OS types as yet, but hopefully this has resolved the issue. Original Article There seems to be an issue with Quicktime v7.5.5 on Vista32 (unknown if issue is also on XP32 or the 64 bit versions of each at this stage). It causes the slideshow to crash and also crashes ProSelect on exit. The issue was rectified by uninstalling this v...

Slideshow image numbers - a better solution

Some ProSelect users have asked us to add the ability to display image numbers during the slideshow so people can write down the numbers of their favourites. We thought about this and came up with a better solution... You can press the down arrow key on selected images during the slideshow and the computer will remember which images that you selected. At the end of the slideshow, those images will be moved to the tab (Yes, Maybe or No) that yo...

Slideshow images appear small on a large screen monitor

When you add images to ProSelect, by default it creates screen-sized copies of those images and loads them into the Album file. If you are preparing your images on a computer with a smaller screen size (in pixels) than the computer that you will be displaying the images on, then you should go to ProSelect's Preferences (under the Edit menu) -> Importing Images -> Settings -> Adding Images --> Resize to: Then select the size ...

This computer is not authorized to play...

If you have purchase music from an on-line music store such as iTunes, then there is a good chance that this music is protected and can only be played once it has been registered on a particular computer. Normally this is automatically done for the computer which you used to download the music. However, if you then copy the music to another computer (or try to play it across a network from another computer) then make sure that you regis...

Equilizing music volume

If you need to make the volume for all tracks equal (for mp3 files), we have received a suggestion to download this program (mp3 gain). We have not tested this ourselves. http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mp3gain/mp3gain-win-1_2_5.exe

Music does not stop at end of slideshow

If the music does not stop at the end of the slideshow, and you have selected a music file or folder for your slideshow music, then you may need to uninstall and reinstall Window Media Player 10 (or later). This was been reported after upgrading ProSelect on a Windows XP which had Window Media Player 10 installed and was rectified by this action. A computer with Window Media Player 9 apparently did not have this issue. Here is the c...

Canceling Slideshow causes error on restart

If you are using an iTunes Playlist for your slideshow in ProSelect and you get an error after canceling and restarting the slideshow, it's most likely an issue with Quicktime v7.4.0. This has been reported on Windows but may also occur on Mac. On testing the later version v7.4.1 for Windows, we found that this issue has been fixed. Solution: So we suggest you update to version Quicktime v7.4.1 or later where available. Here is th...

SlideShow music does not start sometimes

If you are using Windows and find that sometimes the music does not start with the slideshow then this is likely to be problem with a lack of system resources. Here are some possible solutions: Close other programs that use a lot of memory (eg Photoshop) Use a different song type. eg .mp3 instead .wma (or the other way around) Try using an iTunes playlist to select and play your music - the music will be played using QuickT...

Missing songs in iTunes Playlist

ProSelect version 3.3.4 now removes any songs from the selected playlist which are not found in the location specified on your hard disk. This is usually because the songs have been moved or deleted after adding them to iTunes. You can check any missing songs by double-clicking on them in iTunes which will report an error if they are missing.

Converting iTunes Tracks To MP3 Format

You can use iTunes on both Mac and Windows computers to convert your music to .mp3 format using the instructions below: Open iTunes Select the Playlist that you wish to convert Select all the tracks in the Playlist (control or cmd-A) Select "Create MP3 Version" ("Convert Selection to MP3" in older iTunes version) from the Adanced menu. This will start the conversion process in the background. When complet...