Paul L

That's a great style Lin. I had a look at the details and find it very impressive what you did. I wasn't aware that PTE AV Studio was such a versatile and powerfull aplication.

Thanks Lin for the information and for the excellent Starwars style. Even using the trial allows saving a style I learned. Thanks Tom for the suggestion. I played a bit with the Z pan and that's much easier to get the wanted result.

I might take the plunge soon but today I am still evaluating using the trial. Tought let me try a Star wars title effect on a text object. I used several keyframed animation parameters. Enclosed is the result of my experiment. Looks quite good but I am not completely happy with it. For example, it looks like the scroll speed is running up to the end. Question 1: Can I save the combination of used parameters with their set values as a preset style for future use? I did not start the building from the Slides and Styles Tools button but rather while I was working with a blank slide on the TL. Question 2: Has the Star Wars effect been discussed here on the forum? Is a similar and most likely better one than my trial available anywhere? Star_wars.wmv

It's not ideal but there is kind of a workaround for that. At the place you want the music to drop down, make a cut, grab the second part and move it to the right, to the location you want the music to go up again. Now apply a fade out to the first part and a fade in to the second part of the music. The result might not be acceptable in some cases as in between there is 100% silence .

I have an external HDD and I save all my exported slideshows/movies on it in an organized way. I connect that HDD to my TV and use TV 's Media Player to browse the HDD.

Thanks Jill, That confirms what I was thinking. One can launch a show (or any app) from a menu/button but you can't add a menu and/or chapters to a mp4 video file the way we know from DVD or BD disks. It was my understanding that r2dee2 was looking for a way to have a disk like menu and chapters in a mp4 file and that's not possible AFAIK.

Jill, I am a bit confused now. r2dee2 wants to make a mp4 file, I suppose to play on a TV set. Does the procedure you describe makes it possible for the program to make mp4 files with a menu?

Ok here are the results of several tests I did with different settngs in order to find a good compromise between quality/file size/encoding speed that results in a file that my (4+years old) 55" UHD TV likes. Project used is the sample project. 1. Using PTE AV Studio 10 Pro trial: 1.1 Settings as per Igor 's advice above (H264 - 3840x2160 - Quality mode 100%) with 60fps framerate: File doesn't play on TV. This is in accordance with the advertised TV specs. 1.2 Same settings as above but with 30fps: File plays fine on TV. TV specs say max supported framerate for H264 - 3840x2160 is 30. So that's ok for me. File size is 153 MB. 2. Using Handbrake for transcoding the AV 10 exported file from 1.1 above : 2.1 Settings as per jt49 's advice (H.265 - 3840x2160) at 60fps: File plays fine on TV. TV specs say max supported framerate for H265 - 3840x2160 is 60. So that's ok for me as well. File size is 1.90 GB. Encoding time way over 30 mins. 3. Using Handbrake to transcode a AV 10 exported file to H.265 - HD 1920x1080 at 30 fps. OK for TV. File size 29.3 MB. Quality: On My TV I do not see any relevant difference in quality between above mentioned files. My conclusion: I will stick with option 1.2 above and keep 3. above in mind as alternative. Many thanks to everyone who guided me through this process. It's much appreciated. I feel like I am ready to buy a license now.

Hi wideangle I see the vertical line. I hoover mouse over that line, grab the line and drag to the right and I can (again) extent the duration of that second file a bit. If I then rightclick the partially extended file I can delete it using the context menu. My conclusion is taht there is not much, if anything, wrong with the behaviour.

Sorry JT49 I started with the wrong Preset. Needs to be Production Max as shown in your added screenshot. Thanks for that. It's transcoding while I write this but it's veeery slow, will take more than 35 mins for the 2.30 mins sample project.

Not yet, will try that and report back asap.

Sorry, but I can't get Handbrake to output 3840x2160 with HEVC H.265 codec. It always reverts to 1920x1080. Use HB version 1.3.1 which is the latest IIRC and tested with a AV Studio 10 exported mp4 file (sample project) 3840x2160, 20Mbps and 25 fps.

I am unable to repro. My recipe: 1. Drag audio file to TL. 2. Drag another audio file to same TL track and make them a few secs overlapping. 3. Grab the end of the second file and drag to the left to make it zero duration. 4. Grab end of first file and drag to the left to shorten. Result: No problem, I am perfectly able to shorten the first file.

Correct and I think I am going to stay with H.264 3840x2160 at 30 fps.

Tried it, problem however is that it looks like Handbrake doesn't allow the combination of H.265 with 3840x2160. It reduces res to 1920x1080. XMedia Recode is new for me, had a quick look at it but didn't try it.

While I was playing with different export settings in order to get a file that my UHD TV could handle, I tought it would be interesting to be able to save custom export settings as new preset with a suitable name for future use. Link to related discussion.

Ok, new export test with same settings as before but with "Lossless compression" unchecked. File now plays fine with WMP. Will see what happens on TV tomorrow. Oh and there doesn't seem to be a way to save a set of custom settings as a new preset and give it a suitable name. I might perhaps enter a feature request for that.

Thanks for the quick answer. Will try your suggestion asap. Can't test on TV right now, wife is watching her favorite show. BTW, 25fps is standard framerate for PAL.

Thanks for the advice guys. Because I am in PAL land and the max fps my TV supports when using 3840x2160 UHD and H.264 codec is 30 fps. When I reduce resolution to 1920x1080 TV supports up to 60fps. With HEVC (H.265) codec, TV supports up to 4096x2160 at 60fps with 80Mbps. But my HW doesn't support HEVC encoding and I wonder if AV Studio 10 Pro does. Meantime I did a test and exported the sample project with the settings as per TonTon Bruno 's screenshot (except that I used 20000 bitrate and had Lossles compression checked) The exported files doesn't play on my PC system, not with WMP nor with Films and TV app. My TV recognizes the file but it plays it completely scrambled. It looks like, when using AV Studio 10 Pro, I'll have to stick with a max resolution of 1920x1080 and that's quite disappointing because my source files are mostly 4032x3024 for stills and 3840x2160 for video.

As posted elsewhere I am still in trial period. I use Pinnacle Studio as video editor and render my projects for watching on a UHD TV. Used settings in Studio that fit my TV build-in video player are: 1. Codec H264/AVC 2. Resolution 3840x2160 3. Fps 25 progressive 4. Bitrate 40 Mbps Is such setting available in AV Studio Pro please?

Still evaluating the trial version, but can confirm the faulty behavior. Here is the recipe: 1. Open the sample project and be sure you're in Slides mode. 2. Multiselect slides 2, 3 and 4 in that order. 3. Click Delete key or rightclick one selected slide and choose Remove slide. Result: Faulty behavior. See slide 5 (which is now slide 2) selected on TL while preview window shows slide 3. Now hit the Undo button to go back to previous state and do the following: 1. Multiselect slides 4, 3 and 2 in that order. 2. Click Delete key or rightclick one selected slide and choose Remove slide. Result: Behavior is correct, selected slide in project is the one shown in preview. The result apparently depends on the order the slides are multiselected in.

I'd vote for a checkmark in the upper right corner of the thumbnail.