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Thanks for sharing, very nice.

Hey Jill I sort of disagree with your "seasick" analogy. I tend to use the pan/zoom pretty much on all of my "travelogue" shows that are anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes in length with hundreds of slides (mostly jpg's with some video clips mixed in). I have also tended to be very subtle in the degree of the effect (e.g., sometimes zoom out very slightly, sometimes zoom in somewhat faster, same for the pans). I often have video clips mixed in which changes the pace of things and also occasionally mix in some other styles and transitions. Doug

This was popular in the 1960s and 70s. Possibly due to limitations of manual zoom lenses and focusing. It was in a popular American TV show intro Hawaii Five-O. I think you need a high beats per minute music. You can adjust transition duration to match the beat. Four steps 125, 150,175,200%. Media from : https://www.pexels.com/search/kittens/ https://pixabay.com/music/search/180 bpm/ Thanks, Tom Step Zoom.pteeff

Too many Pans & Zooms can leave your audience feeling seasick! The effects can take over & you end up watching them & not the actual content of the Slides. If you must do it then do it yourself in O&A, it is very simple using Keyframes. Click on the Slide in the Slide List, open Objects & Animation. Click the image so that it is highlighted & drag with the mouse on any of the grab handles around the edge. You can easily Zoom it in by dragging, or click anywhere on the image & drag left/right/up/down as required. Right Click the blue KeyFrame & select Clone. This creates a 2nd KeyFrame, drag that along the Timeline to where you want it & adjust the image size/position to where you want it to end. Press play & see how it looks. All very easy & simple to achieve exactly the effect you want. Jill

I had a similar frustration when I first moved from using MemoriesOnTV (a slideshow software that is no longer available) to PTEAV. MOTV had an option to apply random pan/zoom to all of the slides (or whatever slides you wanted) but you would still need to go back afterwards to fine-tune them. The closest thing that PTEAV has is the Ken Burns Effect Theme (a Theme is just a collection of Styles). The KBE Theme has 8 styles that are variations of Pan/Zoom/Rotate effects and you can apply the Theme to as many slides as you select. Again you need to go back afterwards and fine tune the result since it may be zooming out on a slide you wanted to zoom in to or might be panning right to a slide that you wanted to pan left, etc. It also helps to watch the tutorial videos that can be found via the Forum.

Hello Thanks for sharing. Well done

I am a bit exasperated - years ago I used to make slideshows with Windows 7 and their MediaPalyer. It had a simple slideshow creator and it had a Pan & Zoom transition. I even think it randomly changed the zooming & panning from slide to slide. I just bought the latest PTE AV studio Pro and it has lots of transitions but NO pan & zoom. Is there an easy way to apply a simple pan & zoom to a small slide show?

Hi, Could you explain in more details? What kind of transition are you looking for?

I NEED TRANSITION FOR PTE AV STUDIO ,can you help me ? send me

Thanks. They also have an interesting YT channel that covers ArtCraft software. https://www.youtube.com/@OpenDesignerCloud

I guess that is it. I have the project settiings as Show Full Slide Duration. So what I need to do is manually reduce that number in the Slide List view or the video comes to an abrupt end in a still image rather than fading out in the transition.

Is it showing Full Slide Duration i.e. Video Duration plus Transition Duration? DG

Here is a weird thing I just noticed. I take a mp4 file from the File List area that is 21 seconds in duration. I move it to the Slide List and the duration now shows as 23.624 seconds. What happened?

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Hi Tom Open Designer seems to offer us a wide range of tools. Very interesting for us. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you, appreciate you sharing these.

Save as transparent PNG and import into PTE. PTE drop shadow can be added. https://opendesignercloud.com/studio/text-effects/ Other studio tools. https://opendesignercloud.com/studio/ Tom

Ghulya, A frame in PTE is essentially a PSD in its primitive form. PSD is a PhotoShop Document containing multiple layers, including text layers. When you open a PSD in the program, you can edit each layer. In PTE, you can actually only open a PSD with the layers merged into one. You won’t be able to edit the layers. That’s all I wanted to say. And where is the mention of video files here?

I think it’s just as you say; it’s not about using PSD files for everything from now on, but if someone wants to share a project—for instance, one with a complex title—and allow others to edit it, I think this is a good solution. I honestly don’t understand why anyone would object to having more options. As for the drawback that PSD files are larger, I don’t think an extra few megabytes is going to cause any real trouble for anyone these days.

JPEG and PNG are definitely the best formats for images, and we recommend to use them in PTE AV Studio projects. IMHO, I've found an interesting use for the PSD format - creating text titles with complex visual decoration. Photoshop offers many great tools for styling an decorating text. If you add a PSD file with a transparent background to a slide, you can easily edit the text at any time. The changes will be updated automatically in PTE. The PSD file will also be automatically included in the project backup ZIP archive. The only downside is that PSD files are much larger than PNG files. P.S. It's always better to have more options than limited choice.

PSD in a software built for slideshows? That is completely beside the point. Jpg and Png formats are more than enough to create a video from still images that move—an apparent oxymoron. It is obvious that whoever wrote that confuses the medium with programs dedicated purely to traditional video editing. PTE is not that; I repeat, it is software that produces exceptional results from still images, transforming them in expert hands into something entirely distinct from video editing. Anyone who, like the writer, comes from the analog world—slide projectors, Kodak or other brands combined with Carousel units and controllers for slide changes and audio synchronization—knows it is an entirely unique experience.Especially when projections took place outdoors, multimedia (as it was called back then) became something entirely separate and different from the cinema of that era. Therefore, PTE, a program rooted fundamentally in the image,represents another emotional reality that shares nothing with video-cinema and similar nonsense. Keep this in mind, otherwise, it is just noise and chaos, which serves no purpose whatsoever. Indeed, if someone has nothing in their head, what comes out is a slurry of Nothingness. Behind a true slide show lies meticulous planning and purpose; otherwise, you get nothing more than the rubbish served up by the convent of the Web: NOTHING. Ghulya, photographer, cine-maker, and director of photography since 1969

Hi, thank you very much for your help. I don't know what the problem was, but it's working now. All the best, Josef

If anyone is interested, there’s a free program called Patchy Image Editor for editing photos and PSD files — it’s similar to Photoshop, but it has nothing to do with Adobe. Link: https://github.com/SethRobinson/Patchy A PSD file makes sense precisely because of its separate layers, and in PTE it can only be used by importing it layer by layer into a PNG with alpha.

styria I’ve checked. The link is working. Look for problems on your end.

Hi Bad Dancer, I'm new to the forum and am currently exploring the features of PTE. I'd love to try out your template, but unfortunately the link no longer works. Could you possibly make the template available again? Thank you very much, Josef