AV News 192 - May 2013
It never used to be a problem with PTE
4.49, as you could tick the 'Fit to Screen'
box and images would always be scaled
to fit the maximum dimensions of the
projector (Figure 3 right). For some
reason this disappeared with PTE 5 and
after, so the relevant Project Option
dialogues are as shown in Figures 4 and
5, below, but note that even if you leave
the 'Fixed size of slide' box unchecked
your AVs may not fill the screen.
I wanted to get to the bottom of this so
there followed a long period of research
where I enlisted the help of Ian Bateman
and Robert Albright, who were both keen
to solve the problem too. They even
agreed to look 'inside' my PTE projects to
check all the settings were OK. As a
result I think we have cracked it!
Of course if you make your AVs at 1920 x 1080 it's not going to be a problem.
I usually make mine 1400 x 933, but
have routinely put a Black Slide of 1400
x 1050 at the start and end. The reason
for this is because I don't want 'off-black'
bars at the top and bottom (on an
SXGA+ projector), or at the sides (on a
Full-HD projector), I want a completely
black screen. It would seem that the
latest editions of PTE just see this first
slide and assume that everything else is
the same size.
So, the answer is: make sure all the
pictures in your AV, including the Blank
slides, are exactly the same size. Then,
whether you select 3:2 or 16:9 aspect
ratio in Project Options, your AV should
fit the screen on any projector.
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