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Did you see these samples of Canon 7D on Vimeo? I really impressed - quality of a picture as in a commercial movie. Ocean http://www.vimeo.com/6992078 (Stunning colors, no color correction during editing) Forest http://www.vimeo.com/7023115 Autumn http://www.vimeo.com/7011771 (Stunning colors, no color correction during editing) Apparently we must hurry with implementing of video clips into slideshows.

Daniel, Thank you! Can I get full source files of this project, please? If file with this filename visible in show, it is OK. Many members use non-latin symbols in filenames.

Thanks, Xaver! No doubts only Intel graphical cards could cause this problem. It seems that their drivers can't perform correctly management of video memory. In previous versions of PTE the program switched to slow software based graphical engine.

Daniel, I prepared special test version. Please ask them download and try it: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/HW_picturestoexe-setup.zip Will it cure the issue with O&A editor?

Daniel, Please ask them for several questions: 1) Do they always have this problem with Beta 22-24? 2) Installed video card. 3) If close PTE and start PTE, and select second slide (view) and try to open O&A editor. Will it work?

PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 Beta 24 is available It's Release Candidate. Download link: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip (7 MB) Changes in this beta release: + New icon of executable file with a slideshow. * Bug-fixes in the main program of PicturesToExe.

Barry, I reproduced same error message in Beta 23 when I tried to open a project with absent image file used in this project: Beta 21 shows warning that image file not found. Beta 23 crashes with "Floating point division by zero". We just fixed this problem for next Beta 24. However we need your project file to make sure that we completely fixed this issue.

Barry, Please could you send me some project (in ZIP archive) which opens with this error message on your PC?

I just received a reply from AVG company: Will send them again the file and link to this topic.

We'll write to AVG about this false positive. I just tested Beta 23 on VirusTotal.com with 40 antiviruses and no viruses are detected.

PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 Beta 23 is available It's Release Candidate. Download link: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip (7 MB) Changes in this beta release: + PicturesToExe will show a text warning if you re-save a project file created in elder version of PicturesToExe. + New icon of a project file. + "Angle X" and "Angle Y" parameters in Objects and animation editor were renamed to "Rotate X" and "Rotate Y". * Bug-fixes in the main program of PicturesToExe.

Peter, Probably I reproduced a variant of that issue you've discovered: 1) Clear value in "Rotation" text field. 2) Type minus ("-"). All is OK now. 3) Continue typing "5". 4) Now if I call for Undo. I see lowest negative value. Is it that problem?

Peter, Sorry, I can't reproduce this issue with Beta 22. I started a new project, added one image to the Slide list and open O&A editor. I clear value in "Rotate" text field and type "-" (without double quotes) and then continue typing any negative values. Dominique, We'll discuss it today. Thanks for the suggestion. Dominique, I confirm this bug. Thanks! Xaver, Peter, OK, I'll add this warning. Also since version 6.0 PicturesToExe will able load project files re-saved in future versions. With a warning message of course. To avoid need edit .pte file in Notepad.

Umberto, Regrettably there are pitfalls in this algorithm. I wouldn't add such serious change hastily, because for the next version probably we will find much better solution. We think it would be some kind of an option so it will not cause an issue with backward compatibility. We're trying add changes step-by-step, for example alpha version of 3D objects was implemented already in v5.6 in the hidden mode.

Peter, Thanks, I understand now. This behaviour of the program exists since version 5.0 And related with a fact that child object linked with its parent object via central point. So when you move center point (by Shift+mouse) of a parent we re-calculate Pan X,Y coordinate of the parent object (you can observe it in Animation tab). But we don't change coordinates of child objects. It's a difficult question - should we do this or not?

Peter, If it possible, please prepare simple project file. Also it would be helpful for me if you could test previous version 5.6 with this demo project. Thanks in advance!

DirectX and video card doesn't support Z sorting for images with alpha channel (Text, Buttons, Masks, Images with edge-antialiasing option). So we can't do anything in this version. In the next version(s) we have to choose: 1) Pseudo Z sorting of objects in 3D space. 3) Or try to write own implementation of Z Buffer for sorting. Probably it will work, probably not due to low performance of this algorithm.

Umberto, Thanks for the demo. This problem related with Z sorting which is not available regrettably.

Umberto, Please could you tell me more about this issue? If possible with a demo project. If it refers to non-linear speed of an object, this should be resolved in Beta 22.

PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 Beta 22 is available It's Release Candidate. Download link: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/picturestoexe-beta.zip (7 MB) Changes in this beta release: * Bug-fixes in the main program of PicturesToExe. + "Z Position" in 3D parameters window has been renamed to "Pan Z".

According suggestion of Jean-Pierre we've renamed "Z Position" to "Pan Z" in future Beta 22.

Mark, Also please try newest version 6.0 Beta and let me know about result.

Barry, Probably I don't understand that problem rightly. Please see an attached project file. I can display screenshots in PicturesToExe without resampling of an image file. See also the second attachement - illustration. ScreenCopy_Oct14-2009_17-56-25.zip

Tom, It's not a bug mainly. Because you set non-linear speed for rotation. It means that Object uses values from first and third keyframes and ignores rotation values from second keyframe. Rotations are three - Rotation, Angle X and Angle Y. So the object discards Angle X/Y values of the second keyframe. But there is a logical bug in the inteface - we disable Rotate edit box and forget disable Angle X/Y fields. It will be fixed in Beta 22.