Converting from Presentation Experiment to E-Prime format

[David McFarlane]

DIlip,

1) I have never tried this, but I did dabble a bit with Presentation 
some time ago and did not see any automated way to make a conversion 
to E-Prime.  Also, we had a researcher who started here several years 
ago come with Presentation, he switched to E-Prime and his lab just 
wrote whatever they needed from scratch in E-Prime, so that might 
give you a clue.

2) Definitely, beyond a doubt, spend the extra money for the 
Professional edition!  PST has misnamed these:  "Standard" is really 
the "Base" model, like the base model of a car that almost no 
customers actually buy -- get "Standard" only if you intend to never 
do any extensive work with E-Prime, and will never, ever, collaborate 
with any other lab, ever! -- E.g., possibly suitable for some 
teaching labs that cannot afford the extra $200/license.  By 
contrast, "Professional" is the true Standard -- ALL research labs 
should spend the extra money for the Professional edition, and 
furthermore should make all their programs using the Professional 
file format in order to take advantage of a wealth of features & 
programming niceties that then become available (e.g., Experiment 
Advisor, speed testing mode with Auto Response, multiple correct 
responses, Task Events).  Note that your Professional .es2 files may 
create problems for colloborators who did not spend the extra money 
for Professional (see warning above about using the "base" model), 
but we must not lower our standards just to suit a few potential cheapskates.

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At 3/23/2014 09:04 PM Sunday, Dilip Kumar wrote:
>1) Can someone tell met if it is possible to convert Presentation 
>experiment into E-prime format? If yes then it would be highly 
>appreciable if you can tell me the procedure. I have googled it and 
>realized it is not possible, the only thing I can do here is to 
>re-design the experiments in E-prime. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
>
>2) I am using E-prime trial version to explore the tool. I have to 
>purchase a licensed version but I am confused whether to but E-prime 
>Standard or Professional version. The hospital where experiments 
>would be conducted already have E-prime setup for fMRI. I only have 
>to use it for designing experiments and practice for subjects before 
>conducting experiments.
>Any suggestions...???
>
>Thanks.
>
>Best Regards,
>DIlip

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