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We plan a significant change on slide duration in the following Beta 11. What is wrong with current state of things? As you know a real duration of a slide in PicturesToExe = pure time of slide + duration of a transition effect of next slide. The Objects & Animation editor always displayed a full slide duration on the status bar. But PicturesToExe displays only pure slide duration in the Slide list (and in the Customize slide window) instead of full slide duration. It causes four serious problems in all current versions: 1. Version 7.0. When you add a video clip to the end of the Slide list it sets slide duration according video clip duration. Everything is OK at this point? So far as no other slides after this slide, there is no transition effect after. And in this case pure duration of a slide is equal to total slide duration. But when you add one more slide, it adds a transition effect between them and the full duration of a slide (last but one) with the video clip becomes longer. This causes wrong playback of this video clip - video clip freezes during transition effect because now the slide longer than this video clip. 2. All versions since 5.0. A similar problem with a slide which has a rich animation with many keypoints. If we set a complex animation to a 10 second's slide. This animation may look wrong when this slide becomes 11.5 after adding of a transition effect due to new following slide. 3. Another case for a slide with rich animation or video clip. We need to change places of two slides or move one slide to another position in the slide list. It will cause changing of full slide duration, because moved slide will have another neighbor on the right (possibly with different transition effect duration). 4. One more case with video clips. If you need to crop video clips using start time and duration parameters. You need also set a new appropriate slide duration. Say if your video clip is 10 seconds, you can not simply set 10 seconds for slide duration, because the following slide has 1.5 seconds of transition effect. And you have to calculate necessary time value in the mind (subtract duration of transition effect). In this example it should be 8.5 seconds (8.5 s of pure slide duration + 1.5 s of next transition effect = 10 seconds of full slide duration). So we're suggesting two changes in Beta 11: 1) Slide list displays full slide duration on a pictures of slides. Customize slide window also shows full slide duration and accepts these values. There is a global option of the program to revert old style of duration. 2) The second change is intended to keep a full slide duration after sorting of slides in the Slide list or after adding of a new slide to the end of the Slide list . The program can reduce/enlarge pure slide duration to keep total slide duration unchanged. This allows move complex slides with animation or slides with video clips keeping their correct playback. It is also an optional behaviour of the program which you can turn off. This second change mainly intended for the slide list mode. In the timline it will affect only when you add a new slide to end (double-click on a picture/video in the file list above). Of course, it can be difficult rightly understand these changes. You will see it in Beta 11 which will be published in 3-4 days.

I understand Barry. Some news on the following Beta 11. It will include a significant improvement in the time system of slides.

Thanks, Mike! We'll test this file tomorrow.

Mike, Please could you send me sample video file? We'll check up and add support for these video clips. You can use www.mediafire.com or Dropbox to upload files.

Gary, Thanks. I confirm the problem with stopping of waveform loading if a project has a missed audio file. This happens in v7.0 Beta as well as in previous versions. I was not able reproduce the first problem you've described ("adding a 3rd music selection"). If it possible re-create this situation again, please send me source files and step-by-step instruction. Thanks in advance!

Hello Paul, If the problem will back again, please compare with another Invision Power Board forum (for example the link above) at same time.

If I remember rightly we have fixed recently a similar problem in v6.5.x

Hello Roel, What exact version currently installed? Please check up in "About PicturesToExe" window (the main menu | File). Please install the latest version 6.5.8 from our website - www.wnsoft.com Also if it doesn't help, try newest version 7.0 Beta 10: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip

Xaver, The bug is fixed in Beta 11.

Xaver, Thanks for good news! We've reproduced this problem on our PCs. The bug will be eliminated soon.

Paul, 1. Do you observe similar problem with browsing of other forums based on Invision Power engine? For example, this one: http://community.invisionpower.com/ 2. Please check up this page: http://www.picturestoexe.com/support/ and then click "Sumbit a ticket" button. How long it took to load these two pages?

Any issues with video clips? I'm starting to worry that I don't receive bug-reports on this feature.

I'm trying reproduce this issue now. Still can't catch it.

Thomas, This problem will be solved in Beta 11. We found solution for this issue. Also overall reliability of VideoBuilder will be greatly improved.

Jean, You're right. I had same thought and now I see confirmation for that from you. We'll fix this issue. This will work only if before a replacement object name and file name were same. To avoid confusion with a case when an user manually changed object name.

We just fixed this bug in Beta 11.

I confirm this bug. We'll fix it in Beta 11 of version 7.0

Hello Cedric, Thanks! We'll check up today later. And I'll write you.

Hello David, I've sent you a copy of your license key in a personal message through the forum.

PicturesToExe Deluxe 7.0 Beta 10 is available now. Download link in the first post above. List of changes: + Improved preview window for a video clip when adjusting "Start time" and "Duration" in the Objects and animation editor. Click a small button located on the right side from time value. In this preview window you can enter End time or Duration for video clips. + Added support of M2V and M2T video formats. + Various small improvements. * Fixed issue (Beta 1-9) with quick flash of green rectangle instead of video clip in the editor and in the main window. * Fixed bug (v6.0-7.0 Beta 9) when a slideshow with startup window and password protection asks for the password twice. * Fixed issue (v5.0-7.0 Beta 9) with color dialog window with manual typing of new values. * Fixed issues (v7.0 Beta 7-9) with playback of some MPEG2 HD video files. * Small bug-fixes. * Improved reliability.

Thanks, Tom! We'll fix both issues.

Mike, I didn't test 720p with Canon 550D yet, but I think it will have a similar problem. Real resolution will be lower than 720p. Very sharp video picture with more details might cause a moire problem (and aliasing), and for this reason Canon reduces resolution. We need cameras which can record at 3K (3000 x 1687 pixels). Same thing with still images from digital cameras. A picture natively captured at 2048x1365 will not be equal to a picture captured at 5184x3456 and then reduced to 2048x1365 in a graphical editor.

Thanks for all responses! Dan, I think version 7.0 Beta 9 is enough reliable to use it as main version.

Thomas, Thanks for details! Beta 10 will be published soon (probably on Friday). We'll try fix this bug. Thank you!

Thank you, Mike! I discovered same thing with this video, too. In all cameras, Canon 5D, 7D and 550D real sharpness are equal 1280x720 or so.