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Yes, I'd like to get a copy of the transitions folder to check what is broken there.

Yes, I understand this issue.

A friend did a workshop with Anne Zahalka a few years ago. Anne current has an exhibition at a local regional gallery. She is a highly successful Australian photographer and this month will have one of her images released as a postage stamp. If you are interested Google search her name. He asked if she wanted to come on one of our regular photographic wanders, and here is a short AV about the day last Wednesday.

A farm owned by the wife of a former deputy Prime Minister of Australia that I had the pleasure of photographing in infrared. AI used for the voice over. Cut and edited in PTE along with the images.

This is a 7-image stitched panorama at the Amsterdam Canal Cruise Terminal, waiting for the next Hop On Hop Off Cruise boat to arrive. Mark

You know to me all the understanding coming with practice, in general. The more you practice, the more you understand how it is. Dive into that and you'll be surprised! I know this from my expirience. Good luck!

Hi Igor, I just restored them to fix the problem, and they're back to normal now. The problem started when I switched from beta 4 to beta 6; I hadn't installed beta 5. They couldn't find the videos they had, and restoring the Transitions folder (which I have a backup of) solved the problem. However, I noticed that some transition videos had disappeared. If you'd like me to send you some transitions anyway, just let me know. Thanks and best regards, Javier

Hi, I just checked - created a new custom transition with a video mask in V11 and then opened it in V12 Beta 6 - the transition worked fine. Please let me know, did you test this particular transition in the previous Beta 5? If the transition was created earlier (in V11), check its work in V11. Also you can send us the all storage of custom transitions for checking. Send me a personal message with a download link. Usually custom transitations are located in a folder: Documents > PicturesToExe > Styles and Transitions > Transitions

Thanks Igor! And just FYI, I am awaiting delivery of my new Samsung Galaxy S26 phone. It can record in 8K video! I'm guessing that might be a real problem without a proxy video. Not that I plan to record extensively in 8K, but I'm sure others might.

When switching to beta 6, all transitions that had video give an error, either missing files or they cannot be found.

Hi Alex--even with "plain vanilla" image software like On1 or Photoshop I have never completely dived into masks but have a basic understanding of what they are. Even more mysterious (to me) are the masking techniques in PTEAV in terms of the mask, then the mask stencil, then the mask contents. I sort of understand what these things are but knowing how and when to use them is the missing link for me. An analogy with regular photo enhancing programs like Photoshop is that some people can look at the starting image and know precisely what needs to be done to achieve a certain result. That escapes me.

chanfi22, petitsaxo, Appreciate your comments! Good luck. Alex

Most likely, playing 4K 60p video at double speed in the preview was already pushing the limits of the PTE and your computer. In V12, we completely rewrote the video playback code (the algorithm for loading and displaying frames) to improve smoothness and to support smoother playback of variable refresh rate videos (these video files are becoming more common now - from new iPhones). I think the right solution would be use of proxy video for real time previews. We're already considering it.

Hi, Yes, we plan to add this filter for the Quick search function in V12.

Top !! comme d'habitude Merci pour le partage "Great!! As usual. Thanks for sharing." (Google Translate)

Hi Alex, another very complex and highly successful style. Thank you for sharing it with us. All the resources will be invaluable to me for creating variations. Well done!

SeismicGuy, Thanks for the comments! Well, if you look closely there's nothing but sets of Masks.(I call them Compositions) Inside them we have Animation, either by Keyframing or using Video. I'm not the expert by any meaning, but these 2 are the major power of this app, to my mind. Hope some day we'll have tool like Pen. That moves Mask power much further. Anyway, thanks again. Best Alex

Thanks Igor! I think maybe some video editing programs refer to them as "proxy" files. That might work well. At this moment, the vast majority of videos that I use are from my Galaxy phone at 4K resolution (3840 x 2160), 60 fps (sometimes 30 fps). The project I previously sent you is typical except that I would use many additional clips. HOWEVER, what I don't understand is that this exact same video/project works and displays just fine in version 11! The speed up is not displayed in the Trim dialog, but it definitely shows the speed up in the O&A window, in the main program preview window and in the preview accessed by pressing the "Preview" button (none of which show the speed up in version 12). I even added a second similar video clip and speeded it up 2X and the same is true with both clips in the project. Try opening my project in version 11 and see if that is the case for you also. I understand that the "Trim and Adjust" window is probably all brand new code in version 12, but I assume the code for the other windows hasn't changed that much. Let me know if you need me to try something else.

I am always astounded by the clips you create. I wouldn't even know where to start. Thanks as always.

Hi everybody, Love this song. Had some Styles composition in mind and here's how it looks. There's link to the Styles. Like always replace Files "replace Me" with your images or videos. Best

I have attached the image, let's see if you can see it now.

Hello, is it possible to add an option to the slide styles window where you can choose to display styles that have or require a certain number of photos? For example: (the layout is a bit messy, but I hope you get the idea) Thank you

very easy, just copy & paste the slides to a new project. If you want the sound as well then you need to Link the Sound Clips to the Slides first. You can then unlink them afterwards if needed. Or another option, but may take longer is to save the Project under a new name & then delete the Slides & sounds that you don't want. Jill

I would like to lift a 3 minute section from a longer sequence to form the basis for a new, different , sequence. Is this possible please and if so how to do it ? This would be a good short cut and save the time of starting the new one from scratch. Thank you