[Rotating Video Clips-and Trimming [SOLVED]]

Hi Gary,

I believe Igor will be adding a video trim and rotate/mirror? features to PTE 10.

I have videoproc that can rotate but it was not free. I am sure there is free software that does the same thing so I don't recommend buying this just for rotate (also there are 75% discounts most of the time). I mention this software because this article mentions that rotate is not lossless like jpeg. Some players can rotate lossless by reading the metadata.

https://www.videoproc.com/video-process/how-to-rotate-mp4-video.htm

You might try ffmpeg (free to download)

https://superuser.com/questions/578321/how-to-rotate-a-video-180-with-ffmpeg/578329#578329

https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Thanks,
Tom

[HEVC timeline scrubbing problem [SOLVED]]

Very impressed with PTE 10 Beta.

I just upgraded my smartphone from Nexus 5x to Pixel 3a XL. I was testing HEVC (H.265) recording and noticed PTE full screen viewer does not like to scrub (rapidly move) timeline. The video hesitates and never recovers to smooth playback. It works fine in editor mini viewer. In the future I can record in H.264 but I thought I should report the issue.

Zip backup

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MqGnCvs-2p_qa3bpbWJWWw4oOt7tzn_2

I notice that the full screen viewer is still 32 bits so it will probably work when the PteViewer5.exe is updated to 64 bits.  For some reason PtViewer5.exe was not showing up in Task Manager until I refreshed. Also the amount of memory  used by PteViewer5.exe was increasing over time.

Thanks,
Tom

[Multiple Exposure Video Test]

It might be possible to simulate long exposure (motion trail) if you make enough copies of video and start time offset closer together. I have only experimented with 3 layers of video.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Multiple Exposure Video Test]

Hi Lin,

I'll PM you a link to the video. I think they use a different method based on combining a number of still photos and fading opacity compared to PTE video delayed start time. Adobe After Effects has the ability to do this too.

Thanks,
Tom

[Multiple Exposure Video Test]

Trying to create something in PTE that was created with another product. Kind of like motion blur but different.

3 copies of video
top layer 12% opacity - 1 second start time offset
middle layer 25% opacity - 0.5 second start time offset
bottom layer 100% opacity - 0 second start time offset

I don't think the blending mode is perfect but you can still see the multiple exposure effect. Spacing is controlled by time offset. The videos should be shot with a tripod so the focus is sharp for the background (ocean is out of focus).

Videos from https://www.pexels.com/videos/

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Yellow Bird - A Suggestion For Transitions]

Lin, Jean-Cyprien,

Very nice demos of the effect. Tthe ability to clone objects and inherit their properties is very powerful. You could make some interesting flowers from petals made of rotated images. I also sometimes added opacity to make the image fade away.

Thanks,
Tom

 

 

[Display total file size and duration for selected slides]

When you select a single slide it displays the duration and file size in status bar below the bottom left toolbar. It would be helpful when more than one slide is selected to sum up the total time and file size instead of no information.

Thanks,
Tom

[Hardware antialiasing on or off?]

Igor,

Thank you for working on this important feature. It will be a noticeable improvement when publishing to video.

Thanks again,
Tom

[The decline of video optical discs]

Hi Igor,

I can't speak for others but 4K blu-ray output is not something I would use in PTE. Streaming video is much more convenient if you have high speed internet ( >= 5 Mbps) or a modern HDTV or other video device with USB MP4 input.

I would like to use AV1 output and AVIF input in future versions of PTE when it becomes popular.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[The decline of video optical discs]

Samsung and Oppo are no longer selling Blu-Ray players (in the US at least). Even movie theaters have declining ticket sales due to faster home streaming and larger HDTVs. Also most (if not all) new HDTVs can stream MP4 from USB input.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/16/samsung-exits-blu-ray-players-in-us/

https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/03/oppo-uhd-blu-ray/

Tom

[Monitor for photo editing??]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum.

That monitor looks great. Curved panel, 21:9 aspect ratio, usb-c connector. So many monitor options available now.

Thanks,
Tom

[Monitor refresh rate and PTE]

Igor,

Thanks for the information. Still doing research. Some of the BenQ monitors look interesting and are flicker free.

Tom

[Monitor refresh rate and PTE]

I think you are right. There are 4K 10 bit monitors, but without video HDR support.

I like this AOC monitor. If I buy a monitor now I will try to by one that will be compatible for at least 3 years in the future. It is not true 10 bit because it is 8 bit with temporal dithering.
https://www.amazon.com/AOC-Q3277FQE-32-Inch-2560x1440-Mountable/dp/B01N8ZIWM3/

In the future if AV1 becomes the common video format then maybe AVIF will also become popular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#AV1_Image_File_Format_(AVIF)

I realize there are other licensed formats like HEVC/HEIC/HEIF that require additional software installed  at least on Windows 10.

Thanks,
Tom

[Monitor refresh rate and PTE]

Is 10 bit HDR something I should consider in my next monitor?

Thanks,
Tom

[Monitor refresh rate and PTE]

I will definitely buy a faster computer monitor next time. There are so many options now. 4K, refresh rate, response time, HDR, Freesync/G-Sync, IPS, ...

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Monitor refresh rate and PTE]

I have always used a 60 Hz LCD monitor with PTE. If the GPU and the monitor are capable of higher refresh rates or variable refresh rate (g-sync or freesync) will PTE operate at other than 60 Hz refresh rates? Is there a noticeable difference in pans, zooms, or transitions?

Thanks,
Tom

[Last One I Promise !!!]

Hi Lin,

I have never experimented with VisiSketch Pro. Video mask sounds interesting.

Thanks,
Tom

[Last One I Promise !!!]

Hi Lin,

Very nice. I think I might have enough patience to create a spray painted version, without so many keyframes.

Thanks,
Tom

[Blending mode "Add"]

Flash had great blending modes 10+ years ago.

Tom

 

[Does PTE need a name change]

My limit is one hour. Even then it had better be narrated by David Attenborough to keep my interest.

Tom

[Will PTE10 use DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API?]

15 hours ago, jkb said:

I hope so as there is no way I want to move to Windows 10.

As long as my PC & laptop keep going I will stick to Windows 7

I like to be in control of the computer not the other way around

Jill

Less than a year of patches remaining before January 14, 2020 (extended support end date). Not sure if home users are still getting updates. Supposedly corporations can extend that to 2023 if they pay extra.

When I first started using Windows it was version 3 on top of DOS 6 with extended memory. Anything was an improvement over the old 16 bit versions. We had bulky CRTs and our supervisor did not believe in color monitors. The Windows GUI was grayscale and the highest screen resolution was 1024 x 768. The early 1990s was painful.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-windows-7-support

Thanks,
Tom

[Will PTE10 use DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API?]

5 hours ago, Igor Kokarev said:

Tom,

Since PTE 5.0 we use own technology of edge-antialiasing. It doesn't affect to a performance (zero cost) and works on any hardware. A weak side of this technology you discovered in certain 3D angles.

I would try to avoid supersampling if possible, to avoide a decreased performance on slow video cards.

By the way, when I first time tried hardware edge antialiasing in 2006, it often lead to a blue screen error in Windows XP. So we decided to avoid it and create our own solution.

DVD output since PTE 5.5 doesn't use supersampling. PTE smartly renders directly to DVD format using distorted (not square pixels) picture format of a DVD (720x480 or 720x576).

 

The newer graphics cards are much improved but I understand you must also also try to support older hardware.

PTE has come a long way since the temporary pte video file created to import into DVD authoring software.

Thanks,
Tom

[Will PTE10 use DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API?]

Instead of oversampling I think the correct name is supersampling. Software supersampling may slow down the FPS too much, but maybe hardware supersampling would not. Also it may not help PTE slideshows unless the source image resolution is greater than the display resoution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling

https://www.howtogeek.com/316682/how-to-run-pc-games-at-resolutions-higher-than-your-monitor-with-supersampling/

Thanks,
Tom

[Will PTE10 use DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API?]

I think I remember that DVD publish option was oversampling for higher quality because reduced framerate during encoding was not a problem.  Maybe not possible to use at high resolution 60 FPS executable. 

Thanks,
Tom

[Will PTE10 use DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API?]

Interesting. I did not know about Metal.

Will there be an improvement to software or hardware antialiasing in PTE 10? Is there a maximum number of objects or buffer size?

Thanks,
Tom