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Thanks Denis and Jill! I knew I was missing something. Offset is exactly what I was looking for!

I feel like there must be a way to do this but I can't seem to figure it out. I have a single slide that is a collage of several videos in frames with masks which all begin playing at the start of the video. At about the time these videos complete, maybe 2/3 through the running of the slide, I want to overlay a single video on top which covers the screen and plays for the rest of the length of the slide. I can't figure out how to start this overlay slide from it's beginning but not at the beginning of the slide. I have tried to move the first keyframe to the point where I want it to begin but that doesn't work. I did try multiple keyframes with the first two set to zero opacity and the third set to 100%, but of course the video is still playing from the beginning even though it can't be seen. My only other thought is to put the video on a second slide with a fairly long transition time. Does anybody have any thoughts on a better way to do it? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Love the transitions! Very creative vbl2007! Thanks for sharing them.

There is this fairly simple one: And this more complicated and in Russian, but with instructions:

Always looking for relatively inexpensive sources of royalty free music for my travel shows. Needless to say, there are not many decent ones out there that don't cost an arm and a leg. An advertisement kept popping up on my Facebook page for Melodie Music so I checked it out. They are listing a "Lifetime Creator's" license at a special price of $59 US. Before purchasing or even creating an account, you can browse (and play) their complete catalog of music through this link: https://melod.ie/browse#browse-page-results Couldn't find the sale price on their regular website so I contacted them for a link to purchase from my computer. It is: https://melod.ie/lifetime-early-bird-85-off. While I think the "Creator" license will be sufficient for my needs, there is also a "Pro" license that allows for use on multiple channels per platform, 3rd party content creation, stems, etc. And it is apparently possible to upgrade from one license to the other if you need to. To check out "international" type music for travel videos, just select the Genre "World" and search. And Merry Christmas to all of you!

Hi Peter, Glad to know you're still around! We miss you!

Any thoughts about creating animated text for titles using text created in Photoshop and saved as PNG? I know I can do it directly in PTE AV with the standard text by checking the "Animation" box and for instance picking "Dissolve Smooth". However, I want fancier beveled text that I can create in Photoshop and save as a transparent PNG file. I assume that the only way to create a similar automation would be by using a mask and moving it slowly to display the text. Am I correct or has somebody come up with a better / different way to do it? Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Thanks Igor! Not sure what the actual problem was but I manually put all my templates in the folder where I wanted them to be, then uninstalled and re-installed PTE AV and was then able to go into "Preferences/Templates" and make the change to the folder of my choice without PTE AV locking up. Thanks for the suggestion.

I added an additional drive to my laptop and moved virtually all of my data to this "D" drive. When I added the drive a month ago, I went into PTE AV and changed "Preferences/Templates" to "D: PicturesToExe". Today I realized that I should in fact have set it to "D: PicturesToExe/Templates", the folder where I had moved all of my existing templates. So I have tried repeatedly to modify this field in the Preferences/Templates dialog. However, all I get is a spinning blue circle and PTE AV is totally locked up. Anybody have any clues as to what is happening? I had created and saved one template earlier this evening which was originally stored directly in the "PicturesToExe" folder. But I went and moved it under the "Templates" subfolder I don't see why this should cause the problem in re-setting preferences. Thanks for any help!

As someone who has been using PTE AV almost from the beginning, I would like to offer my congratulations on this anniversary and my thanks to you and the team for a wonderful product that has become better and better with each new iteration. I can't wait for the surprises you might have in store for us in version 12. Happy Anniversary!

Thanks for sharing, Dave!

Go to Barry Beckham's free styles and themes for PT-AV-Studio page. Styles & Themes – Beckham Digital There are a number of "triptych" styles (and many others) that you can download. Bring the styles into the program and examine them a bit. This is a very easy way to get started in learning how to do more complicated things in PT-AV-Studio. Once you understand how they work, you can modify them to suit your own purposes rather than trying to start from scratch and figuring it all out on your own. There are many other styles and templates posted on this forum, mostly under the Section "Styles and Templates". There are often demos of the styles so you can determine whether they might be useful to you.

This is an English language forum, including topic titles. Please use a translator before you post. Thanks!

If I understand what you are asking correctly, it sounds like you should look at each of the keyframes before you want any rotation and make sure that each of them is explicitly set to 0 rotation. I assume each of keyframes 1, 2 and 3 are for scaling only. Then based on the rotation parameters in keyframe 4, your image will indeed start to scale just after keyframe 3. Sorry if I have misunderstood what you are trying to do.

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing. I usually just do time lapses on my phone. They are automatically put together as an .mp4, with no additional work required on my part.