tom95521

I was having trouble achieving Low Earth Orbit. I had to redesign the shape of the exhaust nozzle for maximum thrust. The hardest part was making the text look like the rocket was rotating. I eventually decided to use zero X zoom at the edges with custom zoom speed (+-,-+) and 65% opacity on the right side where the sun is shining.

I admire Elon Musk for his various projects in transportation and energy. I really enjoy watching the returning booster trying to land on the floating barge. My primitive attempt to create a rocket utilizing gradients, mask (nose cone), blur, transparency, pan acceleration, and fading sound (no sound in space?). Like all my projects. Just for fun. Tom

I would like to have more control over the object and animation zoom. Currently if you have an object off screen and you want to edit at that keyframe you have to zoom out to 10% to see the object and really hard to edit. It would be nice if we could center the zoom relative to the slide or relative to the object. Then when the object is selected and zoom relative to object is selected it would be centered no matter where it is located. If you have no object selected then it would default to relative to slide. The object keyframe can be moved so the object is visible on the slide but it seems like we should be able to edit objects at any keyframe location. Thanks, Tom

Hi Eric, Looks fine on YouTube. That is a really fancy bathroom with lots of marble and glass. Does it include the beautiful model in the white dress? Tom

Interesting problem. Maybe use a mask for blue and chromakey for green? Tom

Hi Eric, Nice mixture of music, sounds, photos, and video. Relaxing to watch. Thanks, Tom

H Lin, Yes. Not knowing the flight dynamics of a butterfly I made the wings rotate 90 degrees. It's probably more like 135 degrees with some vertical lift created. My guess is the butterfly is designed to fly in random directions so they do not get eaten by birds. I'm sorry but I borrowed your slide 1 from your project without your permission to create my version. I didn't realize it had sound until I watched it on youtube and was amazed the wings and the music were synchronized. Thanks, Tom

Hi Lin, Loaded your project file and I think I understand how you did it so fast. Chroma key sure saves a lot of time. Here is my butterfly animation using alpha png wings and a lot of keyframes. Not very random but if I spent some more time I could probably do better. Thanks, Tom https://youtu.be/5qOaHj2Z5OA

Hi Lin, That was fast! Cool! I just had time to watch the video this morning before work. I will check out the project tonight. Thanks, Tom

Has anyone tried creating moving butterflies? Maybe png alpha wings with keyframes? I think the monarch butterflies are cool Not so much the other colors. This is a screen capture from an android app.

Hi Lin, I hope that horse doesn't get a speeding ticket. My Ram 5.7L hemi pickup has 395 hp and can't go that fast. Tom

Hi, That is really cool that there are so many ways to do moving lines on a map. Here is my crude attempt using a rectangular mask the length of the line and just following the road from San Francisco to Eureka. The map with the red line is on the bottom. Tom https://youtu.be/uTNaNzRLFaQ

Hi Dave, As you mentioned another method that I have seen is to use a mask to uncover the line on a second copy of the image. I think it can also be used to simulate handwriting animation. I am not sure exactly how to do handwriting animation. I think it would be difficult with multiple lines of text on the display. Tom

You can use .app file extension instead of .exe. I have tested it with 2 mac slideshows and it works. If you create a slideshow for mac and name it 1 and then create another slideshow for mac and name it 2 then 1.app can run 2.app and vice versa. This assumes you have all your slideshows in the same folder so the path does not change. Tom

I think the gpu hardware needs to catch up with the video encoding. YouTube 4K 60 fps video crush your hardware Tom

Hi Bert, I was able to access the forum with IE without a problem. One of the first steps I would do is install malwarebytes and scan the computer. Your PC might have some type of malware. Have you tried Google Chrome or Firefox? https://www.malwarebytes.org I did submit this forum url to virustotal and the results were negative. Tom

I think it would take a powerful graphics card to play a .exe slideshow at 4K, even without using video. Pan, zoom, rotate, and transitions may not be smooth. It may not play at 60 fps. I have no experience creating this type of slideshow as .exe file. Video output may be a better option. Tom

I think this will help. http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18243-macintosh-native-executable-files-and-gatekeeper/?p=121706 Tom

A couple of observations of 8.0.13. Tested on three different Windows 8.1 computers and no more floating point error message. During install the default is to accept the license agreement. I think most software that I install defaults to not accept and you have to check the accept box before you can continue. Not a problem but I thought I should mention it. In custom transitions there is an option to add video objects. I was trying to add a sound effect by adding a video object and set opacity 0%. I can hear the sound in the custom transition editor but not outside editor. Is audio allowed in custom transitions? Thanks, Tom ViewMaster3.zip

Hi Igor, Yes. On my Lenovo ideapad laptop version 8.0.13 fixes the custom transition problem for Windows 8.1. I will test further this weekend on my other Windows 8.1 computers. Hi Gary, I can upgrade at a very low cost to Windows 8.1 on my new Dell 8700. I might do that but I will make a Windows 7 clone of the hard drive first. I was happy with Windows XP for many years. I also use Linux often at work. Probably 40% Windows, 40% Linux, and 20% Macs. Thanks, Tom

Thanks for testing. I hope it's an easy fix. Tom

It seems to be related to using only custom transitions (use no regular transitions) and Windows 8.1. If you continue past floating point error and try to preview then there is an EAccessViolation in module PteViewer5.exe. Thanks, Tom

Attached project. It seems to happen when I add/remove Basic Transaction, Dissolve + Custom Transition. Thanks, Tom custom_transition_Mar10-2015_10-08-22.zip

Decided to order a Dell XPS8700 on sale. My current Dell XPS8700 has been running 24/7 for > 1 year with no problems. The good news is that it ships with Windows 7 Pro so I should be able to create custom transitions. Maybe someone can verify that Windows 8.1 does not like custom transitions. http://www.costco.com/.product.100155381.html Thanks, Tom

Hi Chris,DG, I tried it on my Lenovo ideapad i7 laptop running PTE 8.0.10 and it still has the problem. The only thing my 2 computers have in common are Windows 8.1. The Lenovo did not display Invalid Floating Point error message until after I unchecked the Basic, Dissolve transition. I am hoping to create variations of the transition but I need it to run on Windows 8.1 first. It's not only this custom transition, but other custom transitions not created by me I have tried to load cause the error message. Not sure why. Thanks, Tom