RgaDawg

I think I just posted this topic without thinking it through. I originally thought it strange that the option existed to use an "external" audio editor, when the funtion wasn't present anywhere I'm going to have to agree with Igor. PTE is quite powerful, and as I stated it took Adobe at least 10 years to master a dynamic link between their various editors to the main video editing platform, and they have a bank of programmers

I guess I just thought it was strange to see the option for external audio editor in > preferences > System when it actually didn't pull up the external editor Yes, but again, as I have outlined, once the audio file is opened from PTE into my external editor. I would have to manually note the exact trim points in the overall audio file and edit only that point It's going to be simple to edit the entire audio file, then simply save it as your suggest, and all of PTE's modifications would still apply, just like editing images in an external editor.

I think this may be what the topic "Tool to find links" is suggesting. If I move my original images in a project around, then PTE is good about showing me the images are missing, but there is no quick and easy way to simply reset the DIR path to where the files have been moved. The work around is costly. Bring up the Object > Properties and edit the path manually or "browse" one at a time. This should be a very easy feature to impliment - As always, thanks for a great product - R

As a follow up thought, I would think this would be a programming nightmare .. It's easy to pull up an external image editor, even something as powerful as Photoshop, do as much as you want to the image and simply save it back as *.jpg, because the image is static. But, video and audio files are dynamic. They are moving, on a time line. And the duration and trim points can be altered. For example, if I trim the audio track in PTE, then right click to bring up my audio "edit" software, the entire audio file will load in my editor. If all I want to do is edit the portion of the trimmed audio, then I have to seek those exact points in my audio editing software, then save the file. I'm talking about doing more here than just adjusting overall tone, etc. I'm talking about adding some effects, etc. But, you would only want the effects to adjust for the specific trimmed portion in my PTE timeline. There is no way for PTE to tell my my audio editing software to show me only the trimmed parts and save that. And even if there was, and at a later place I wanted to extend the trimmed audio track in PTE, the entire audio file would be gone, and I would be left with only the trimmed portion. I guess that sounds a little confusing, and I may not have it right. I use Adobe for video editing, and they have a robust audio editor (Audtion) and a very robust compositing editor (After Effects) that are dynamically linked to the Premier software. But, I know that it took a very long time for Adobe to finally get this mastered. It was something that was requested many years before Adobe finally got it working correctly. If I'm on track about my thinking here, then, as I said, I think it would be a programming nightmare. I haven't tested using an external editor with PTE to see how it works, though. PTE is very robust software but not really designed to be a full spectrum video or audio editing program, or even dynamically linked to external editors this way. It is a quick and feature rich slide show creator. Creating slide shows in Premier is a lot of work. That's why I like PTE. They can be done much faster. And I'm sure there are a lot of users that really don't want to invest the time and energy to overcome the learning curve with full fledged video editing software. That's why they use PTE

I would think something like how you can right click on the slide in the Time Line and pull up the external image editor that is in Preferences > External Editors. I sort of expected the right click menu for my audio track to have the same option, since there was an option to configure an external audio editor as well - R

I just thought it was strange to have that option in the Preferences and it not work like the one for image editor works Actually, being able to call an external image editor is kinda important, cause I have many formats of images. I want to use PhotoShop, yet my Windows association for *.jpg files are a viewer So, double click on a *.jpg and a viewer comes up. It's nice to right click on the slide in timeline and bring up an editor I also have the same issue with Audio files. A double click on an audio file from the windows file system brings up my player Where to edit audio I have to load up my editor, drop the audio file, then edit. We're just talking about a few less key strokes. - R

Duhh. I could have thought of that. What I am trying to say is that > Settings > Preferences > System .. shows (3) options to configure external editors. One each for Image, Video, Audio. When I am in the Timeline, right click my slide, there is an "Edit" function which calls up my external editor There is no such function anywhere that I can see if I right click on the Audio track Why would there need to be a settings to confi an external "Audio" editor if I need to navigate to the file system anyway ?

Adding Audio is a no-brainer. Preferences has settings for external Image, Video, and AUDIO editor I have searched the manual, tutorials, they only show how to "add" but not to call up the "edit" for audio I have an external editor set, but I am completely missing how to pull up the editing for audio ? I quickly got it that one right clicks on the photo to bring up the external image editor, which works fine but, where is the missing trick to call up the external audio editor Thanks

Adding Audio is a no-brainer. Preferences has settings for external Image, Video, and AUDIO editor I have an external editor set, but I am completely missing how to pull up the editing for audio ? I quickly got it that one right clicks on the photo to bring up the external image editor, which works fine but, where is the missing trick to call up the external audio editor