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  1. QUALITY OF CONVERTED.AVI FILES

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    6 hours ago, orizaba said:

    Hi Denis,

    In fact, an excellent workaround, I think. I can see no reasons why it will not work and I will try it in my next project. Thanks very much.

    By the way, are you using this method, meaning that you also care about maximum possible quality?

    Regards,

    Jose 

    I used this method for my first slideshow with video. For the maximum possible quality, I also try to use 60 FPS but my TV don't support this framerate(I have only image, not sound)

     

    Denis

  2. QUALITY OF CONVERTED.AVI FILES

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi Jose,

    a workaround :

    suppose your MOV are MVI_0001.MOV, the name of avi are MVI_0001_converted.avi.

    When your slideshow is constructed with the avi video, open a copy of the .pte file with notepad for example and search "_converted.avi" and replace by ".MOV" ; open with PTE and make your MP4.

     

    Denis

  3. QUALITY OF CONVERTED.AVI FILES

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi Orizaba,

    If your final product is an mp4 file and not an exe, you can keep your MOV file in PTE. Of course, the preview is very bad but the final MP4 is very good.

    I use sometimes MOV file from my Canon 70D and its fine.

     

    MOV_canon.jpg.e6a7d35773e44d35bb8ed70c25

     

     

    When I want ti create an exe, i create avi files with avidemux : video codec MPEG4-ASP(xvid4) and mp3 codec for audio

    Denis

  4. Control by keyboard - use of buttons

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi,

    with the keyboard, you can control mouse move:  http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows7/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer

    My Windows is in French and this link is in French, but I suppose it will be in English for you.

    I test this method and it works for PTE buttons. The change for the button which has "focus" (in France we said the same thing) is not sufficient in PTE, I think, but you can see with the mouse pointer.

     

    Denis

     

  7. ICON Missing

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    It's not a PTE troubleshooting, it's a windows problem (the cache for exe icons)
    In some hours, the icon of the first exe will appear.

    If you want to clear the icon cache, in a command prompt type

    ie4uinit.exe   -ClearIconCache

     

    Denis

     

  9. VU meter to adjust sound levels

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For audacity, I select Windows Wasapi (not MME or windows direct sound)

    Then click on the vu-meter with the microphone image to monitor the entry.

    For The old style vumeter, it's a portable application( no installation). I use it on a pc with Windows 10: after open it, right click and select "always on top"

    Denis

  11. Sort Slides by Date Taken

    in Suggestions for Next Versions

    Posted

    Hi Mick,

    There is a way, (not in the Windows list - but in the Slide List) although it's a manual sorting. If you select all slides in the slide view then click on "Comments" and choose "Insert Text Template" (upper left in blue) then choose "Exif Info" then "JPG Exif Date" or "JPG Exif Time" all slides will be labeled with the date or time respectively taken.

    Sort them by dragging as desired then simply select all, repeat the process to delete the visual tag.

    Best regards,

    Lin

    Unfortunately Lin, the JPG exif date is not the date taken but the date modified.

    Denis

  15. Question?

    in Tutorials & Video Lessons

    Posted

    Hi Lin,

    Thanks for your tutorials.

    some time ago, I used Avidemux (2.5.4) to extract the first frame from a video. I want to put it before the video itself in a PTE project.

    But I observed a difference between the picture extracted and the video.

    When I used FFmpeg to extract the first frame it was correct.

    Do you observe the same difference ?

    I made a small example to show you the difference: four slides in PTE

    2s picture from avidemux

    2s video

    2s picture from FFmpeg

    2s video

    Best regards,

    Denis

    TestAvidemux.zip

  18. New to PtoE from Proshow

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You already covered the other part:

    "you need to use square images to begin with."

    If you want to fit an AR other than square then you need to add masks within the style (not difficult) and in the resulting cube you would probably want/need to adjust each image for "best fit". I don't see any advantage in that when there are plenty of ways of creating square images. Pixbuilder will do that if PS is a problem?

    DG

    May be I'm wrong, but you don't need to use square images.

    With the slide style cube, images are automatically cropped to get the aspect ratio 1:1 needed for a cube.

    If you don't agree with the cropped area, you can use offsetX or offsetY to change it.

    Best regards

    Denis

  19. Windows 8 doesn't like PTE ?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Igor,

    I agree that the value itself 0.2 or 0.3 s is good enough and the example is just to évaluate the time needed.

    The real slideshow was with larger image (zoom effect) each second.

    The surprise was that the time under windows 8.1 is larger than the time needed under windows 7.

    I don't know why, but i suppose you know.

    Denis

  20. Windows 8 doesn't like PTE ?

    in Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Hello,
    on a specific slideshow, with a kind of time-lapse and zoom, there was a lack of fluidity (jump).

    I made a small example (100 jpeg pictures) to estimate roughly the minimum slide duration needed.

    With my PC (2009):
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @ 2.50GHz
    1024MB GeForce GT 220 (MSI)
    Windows 7 64 bits

    The minimum slide duration is 0.19 s for jpeg pictures 1920x1080 (374 ko)

    For an up to date PC(2015):

    INTEL Core i7 4790K Unlocked 4.0Ghz LGA 1150
    RAM DDR3 - 32 Go
    GeForce GTX980 G1.Gaming SOC 4G
    2 x SSD PLEXTOR M6Pro Xtrem Series 256GB PlexTurbo
    Windows 8.1 64 Bits

    The minimum duration is 0.25 s

    You can see (in French) examples : http://www.diapositif.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=39300&start=0
    It show that the problem is PTE slideshow on Windows 8.1 OS.

    The slideshow is attached. Select the time duration and look at the progress bar.

    Regards

    Denis

    Speed_test_PTE.zip

  21. Search Slideshowclub for shows by 'author'-HOW?

    in Forum & Website

    Posted

    Hi,

    select "members" then find the member you want to see the shows.

    At the right of the line, select "find content" you can see "find content" when the mouse is on the button.

    Then, at the left, select what you want (download)

    Or select a slideshow of the author: at the right, just below the name of the author select " View other files from this member"

    Denis

  23. Links - Snow Styles and Snow Demo Video

    in Styles & Templates

    Posted

    Something which may play a role here. I've discovered that when I start a "new project" PTE brings up a popup which says Project 1 with an aspect ratio which depends on how you have your defaults set.

    If you change the aspect ratio on this screen and click O.K., the new value is NOT applied.... I think that's a bug...

    For example, my default is set to 4:3 and if I change it to 16:9 at this juncture then subsequently load a 16:9 aspect ratio image then open Project Options, the original 4:3 is still showing.....

    Best regards,

    Lin

    I see the same thing and now I know why.

    http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18267-new-project/

    Denis

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