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  1. Well, I tried again today and it seemed to work well to adapt a PTE file to 830 x 312 dimensions, setting both the Project Options and HD Video output to 830 x 312.  I have attached the test mp4 that I created using Dave's amazing new "waving flag" style that he posted over the weekend.  I'll keep doing Facebook cover videos and will certainly report back if I experience any more formatting problems!  Thanks again to Lin and Dave for your thoughts and help on this issue.

    -Craig

    test waving palm tree PTE 830x312.mp4

  2. Hello, and Happy New Year.  I am trying to create a Facebook cover video.  The dimensions are quite specific:  820 x 312 pixels, while the recommended size is 820 x 462 pixels, and I cannot crop the cover video within Facebook's interface.  When I specify the recommended pixel settings in PTE's Project Options (under Main | Aspect Ratio | Custom), neither the PTE edit screens nor the resultant mp4 video reflect the custom aspect ratio.  I used the PTE HD Video option and tried several different settings, such as Pan Scan enabled (and disabled), etc.  I am still using PTE 9.0.13, if that makes any difference.

    How can I create PTE projects of, say, 820 x 462 pixels and then publish them as mp4 in that same aspect ratio?  Thanks!

    -Craig

  3. 4 hours ago, Igor Kokarev said:

    Hello Craig,

    Plus sign (+) appears on keyframes only if "Scale key frame times in objects (on time change)" option in turned OFF in Slide Options.

    By default, key frames in a slide has positions in percentage ("Scale key frame times in objects..." is ON) and can't be linked.

    Same in PTE 9 and PTE 8.

    Thanks so much, Igor.

  4. Hello...in trying to analyze a project made with PTE 7.5, I see a plus sign (+) next to every initial keyframe time in each O&A screen in that project.  I suspect it has to do with the image fade time, but cannot figure this out, nor can I replicate it in a PTE 9.0.10 project.  Otherwise, all parameters appear to be the same in the older version as in the new project that doesn't have the plus sign.

    Is this plus sign next to the KF time still used in the current PTE version?  I am wondering if it invokes any kind of subtle formatting change.

    Thanks for any clarification.

    -Craig

     

  5. Hello!  Is it possible to modify multiple objects at once to apply the same parameters to all the selected objects?  For example, the attached sample slide shows the text "PicturesToExe" as six different text objects so that the smaller letters dissolve into the initials "PTE."

    I would like to change the zoom (or the pan, or the opacity, etc.) of all six text objects at once.  When I select all the objects and try to apply the changes, only one object changes at a time.  How can I apply the same parameters to all six objects at the same time?

    Thanks.

    -Craig

    PTE Text Alignment.zip

  6. Hi Lin-

    With your help, I have managed to change the frame.  With frames shaped and sized like Jean-Cyprien's original frame, the new frames work pretty well, though a small portion of the upper-right corner of the new mirror frames often show a brief overlap (such as in your demo file at 00:10).

    I am attaching sample file in which I used an oval shape as the mirror.  Is there any way to have the background photo conform to the curved edges of this oval?  I am not sure if conforming the background photo to the curved edge would be a Photoshop or a PTE function.

    Thanks!

    -Craig

    Rubik Cube with Oval Frame_Jun4-2017_13-54-50.zip

  7. Three years ago, davegee posted a nice-looking Tetra style, which I recently found in searching this site.  However, when applying the Tetra style in PTE V9, some of the triangle's sides disappear after a few rotations. Puzzled by the disappearing sides, I went back to PTE V8.0.20 and it ran just fine.  Now, when I need to use Tetra, I will just run it on PTE V8.

    Just the same, are there any settings I should tweak to make all the sides of the triangle appear properly under V9?  Thanks!

    -Craig

     

  8. Bingo!  Thanks for laying this out, Lin.

    I appreciate your quick help with this (as with so many other questions).  To avoid any potential future confusion over version used, next time I will start a new thread instead of piggybacking onto a very old thread.

    Thanks again.  I hope my elementary questions might be helping others who might also be newer to PTE, because your patient answers are certainly helping me!

    -Craig

  9. I am trying to fade in objects in V9 using keyframes, but it doesn't seem that each new object has its own keyframe, so I am having trouble modifying the opacity of objects using keyframes.  In the attached example, I am trying to fade the zebra into the corner of the photo, but the keyframes (or perhaps the modifiers?) are confounding me.  This is admittedly a very basic question (which seems to be a specialty of mine) and I appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction.

    Thanks!

    -Craig

    Fade in_Apr19-2017_15-12-11.zip

  10. Thanks, Gary.  No, I was hoping for a simple right-click solution that would avoid having to open the [PTE] program and then navigating to the preview function.  The right-click option makes it much more efficient to quickly review many files in presentation mode, one after the other, rather than opening each file separately.

    This is not an urgent request, but a possible nice tweak for a future version.  Thanks again.

    -Craig

  11. A very useful feature of PowerPoint is the ability to right-click on a slideshow (.pptx format) and choose “Show” to view it as a presentation instead of converting it to .pps (presentation) format.  This is handy for quickly previewing many editable PowerPoint presentations.

    In PTE, it would be very useful to preview a slideshow by right-clicking and choosing “Show,” or perhaps “Preview.”  Would it be possible to add this functionality to PTE?

    Thanks.

    -Craig

     

  12. 17 hours ago, Lin Evans said:

    Hi Sami,

    The easiest way to create a parallex effect with PTE is to use a jpg as a background image and a PNG with partial transparency as the foreground image. Then by manipulating the PNG image in terms of pan and zoom, the background image is revealed as if it were a live video with the camera position changing. One good way to do this is to start with your own photo of a background with the camera on a tripod. Then move your subject into the frame and shoot again. Next take the image containing your subject into Photoshop or another suitable image editor and "cut out" your subject leaving transparency everywhere else. The place the original photo without the subject as the background and the PNG transparency of the subject as the object on the layer above. Then you can manipulate the motion of one or both to simulate the parallex effect.

    For cinemagraphs, I either shoot a single frame for the backdrop then without moving the camera shoot a video or I choose a suitable frame for the backdrop from the video and then use a copy of the original or screen captured frame to paint a mask where I want to see action from the video. Paint pure white where you want action and pure black where you want to reveal the motion from the time-lapse or pseudo time lapse video. Use the original frame or screen captured frame as the backdrop with the video running under the mask. You can also take your creation as an MP4 and use a few frames extracted as layers to images in Photoshop to create an animated GIF of this "cinemagraph" Below are two samples. The first a cinemagraph I created last week and below it the animated gif I created in Photoshop. If you don't know how to create an animated gif in Photoshop let me know and I'll make a turorial for you.

    Lin

     

    cinemagraph.gif

    Lin, your time lapse cinemagraphs are entrancing and I hope to learn more about Photoshop masking techniques to create similar cinemagraphs from my own photos and videos.  Thanks for sharing these fascinating effects!

    -Craig

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