Big John
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Strangely it just seems to be on one picture - and no it hasn't been flipped in any way - very strange ....so maybe not a problem?
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HI Igor,
The crop tool seems to be working incorrectly in this latest version.
'Left' takes it off the top
'Top' seems to take it off the right
'Right' seems to take it off the bottom
'Bottom' seems to take it off the left.
Your thoughts please
John
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Using 10.0.14 I am working in Timeline view, changing transition times and moving position of the some slides, the program locks up completely and nothing works with the mouse - all you can do is to close the program.
The Undo and Redo buttons do not work but I have then found that Control +Z allows me to step back until the program starts working again.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?? -
Avast Virus Checker didn't like the downloading .exe file but eventually agreed it was ok!
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For sound - your ears are best at judging this rather than sitting watching a VU meter.
You talk of different audio clips in your sequence - then adjust them by listening to what is important - if something jars - then adjust it.
If you are talking about the overall sound level - we occasionally get sequences into competitions which are either higher or lower than the normal - but these are adjusted when shown to what is the average level of all sequences.
One easy way to get this level is to play a few CD's until you get an idea of the sound level - then make yours the same.
Obviously if the track is recorded too loudly it will overload and distort and this will be obvious.
Likewise a quiet recording will be equally obvious in that you will have to increase the sound to be able to hear it correctly.
Go by your ears would be my advice. -
You could of course hit the space bar to stop the playback
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Will it ever be possible for the number of video tracks to be increased and be edited in just the same as the audio.
ie can the video be cut at both ends and users have the ability to add in more tracks?
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Hi Rob,
We have found that we can successfully teach members of camera clubs how to do most things within AV Studio in just a couple of hours.
Maybe post what you are trying to achieve within your sequence and then somebody will no doubt be able to tell you how to do it.
John
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'It's a brand new laptop so the drivers will be the latest'
Not necessarily - when I got my new laptop there were many many updates to drivers - the machines are often built a long time before they are sold and so they are often not the latest!!
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Hi Igor,
Downloaded and tried and it did the same fault again - it circled and then screen went white and I had to shut it down.
Decided to screen record it so that I could show you - and of course it would not do it again!!!Will keep trying.
This is on my main Windows 8.1 machine.
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This does sound like the problem that I experienced the other day whilst moving sound files around on the timeline
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Hi Igor,
Apologies for the delay in replying.
Yes I was working in 10.0.1.
I managed to finish the bit I was working on by keep saving the project - just in case.
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Strange fault that occurred three times this evening.
I have a 7 minute video clip that runs with its own sound track.
I was trying to add some very small sound clips on separate channels and as I tried to move them suddenly the screen went white and froze.
There was no 'exception error' - just the circling icon.
I waited It did not recover so I had to close the program down and of course lost all the work that I was doing.
Has anyone else had this?
John
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What exactly happened - slide duration was not changed, or video clip was not trimmed, or wrong preview?
Note that trim command works only for slides where video is a main object (not additional video object).
Hi Igor,
It was a main object, the slide duration did not change and the video clip was not trimmed.
If you did it again - sometimes it did trim. This seems to occur randomly - but I am still testing.
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Hi Igor - yes it appears to be much more accurate now.
Just occasionally I have found that it doesn't always shorten the clip - but after a couple of tries - it does.
I will try and see if there is a pattern to that or if I can reproduce it.
Being able to edit in the timeline view is a vast improvement.
Is it ever going to be possible to just drag the front edge or is that a major coding problem?
Thanks for all the work you are doing.
John
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Further testing and I think the leaving more of the clip in than planned is because of the dissolve in - a snap change and it starts as expected.
With the dissolve in it allows for the dissolve before it gets to the point you planned it to start.
Definitely a big improvement - well done.
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Hi Igor,
Many thanks for doing this.
Trimming using the red line is easy and makes editing so much quicker by not having to go off to O&A.
Testing it I found that it is not that accurate - it tends to leave more of the clip than you want - maybe something you can adjust??
Otherwise a big bonus selling point
John
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It really is appreciated
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Hi Lyn,
'Let the user decide what they want and realize that it's not the job of the software to teach or "encourage" what has been referred to as "good practice."
But surely everywhere within PTE we have 'default' settings which most beginners (and some advanced workers'!) will never change so, as Igor does not want to make things difficult for new users and put them off ,- surely it makes sense to make the default the option the one people are most likely to use????
Regards,
John
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Just looked at Aginum's excellent video and some of the dissolves work very well because the movement continues in the same direction - others where I suspect they wouldn't have worked quite so well he has used snap changes.
Agnium knows what he is doing with his editing but we have seen videos panning right to left merging with videos going left to right or top to bottom - try doing that and you will immediately see what we mean.
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What??????????
Lin, your question was answered in what I posted earlier!!
You strive to create a mood in a video/av sequence and then try not to break that mood with any distractions.
I would suggest that, when dissolving from a video to a still image, a still video frame for a fraction of a second whilst the dissolve is taking place is less noticeable that a moving picture dissolving over a still frame - and definitely preferable to a moving image dissolving into another moving image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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IMHO
As I suggested - from a marketing point of view aiming PTE at video producers, the ease of being able to put text and other object on screen is a really big selling point. The negative points are the inability to edit the front end of the video in timeline view as you can with the sound.
An additional video track would be a bonus but not essential if the front and back of a clip were easily edited without having to go off to 'O&A' and then 'adjust time range'
It needs to be easier that having to do that - as it is with the audio track.
Black Magic 'Divinci Resolve' have made a great play in their latest 'version 16' of the ability to speedily shorten and cut video clips.
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I agree with Jill (which is unusual
)that it might be best to make the default transition for video a snap change.
Having a moving picture dissolving over a still picture is distracting enough - having a moving picture dissolving over another moving picture really is distracting and is the reason why all video producers and television programmes tend to always use snap changes.
The only time they ever seem to use dissolves is for the 'passage of time' .... and then it is usually done by dissolving to black and then back up into the next clip. as Mur does
Make the 'default' transition for video clips a snap change and the more experienced users know what they are doing and as such can subsequently select the transition they need.
Problem with the Image Crop in Version 11.0.8 [SOLVED]
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Hi Igor - many apologies - I am obviously cracking up!
The image in question had in fact been rotated by 90 degrees - something that I had forgotten that I had done.
This of course answers why everything was incorrectly operating and why the second picture was fine ......oooh the shame!
With apologies!!
John