tom95521

Starting to play with custom transitions again but ran into a problem with Invalid floating point operation. Not sure why it doesn't like my transition. Maybe I can only use 2 slides/images on transition? PTE Deluxe 8.0.12. Thanks, Tom ViewMaster1.zip

I don't want to reinvent the wheel if somebody has already created this style. A view-master is a simple stereoscopic device with film on a circular disc. I will try to create a style if it's something that does not exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/view-master-video-gallery-tutorial/ What I am looking for is something like this at around 0:45 seconds. An up/down rotating motion that combines 2 images in the center. I think the rotation axis for each image should be opposite but this example has the axis on the same side. Thanks, Tom http://youtu.be/zv4u_q8m8rw?t=45s

Android and iOS PTE clients have already been suggested. Tom

Interesting problem. Maybe PTE thinks you have a dual monitors and is trying to output to a secondary monitor. Does your graphic card have more than one output? Tom

Hi Igor, Thanks for the update! Tom

Igor (or anybody else who might know), Do we have a new date estimate when beta testing will start? It's something I look forward to every year. Thanks, Tom

Hi Ken, Looks like a great camera. I will have to put it on my very long wish list. Tom

Most new smart HDTVs support DLNA digital media player capability. It would be great if you could preview your slideshow inside the PTE editor to your HDTV via wireless. PTE would be the media server. Some cameras and media players have this capability. If in the future there is a standalone PTE viewer app (to play .ptshow files) it would be nice if it also had optional DLNA support. http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2011/03/28/using-play-to-with-a-dlna-certified-tv/ Tom

The Samsung NX1 camera provides h.265 encoding. It must have a very fast imaging processor to encode in real time. The problem is that most editing software does not support importing and editing h.265 video. I am sure it will be easier in the future. Tom

Hi Daniel, Yes. I am very impressed with h.265. I have a Panasonic FZ1000 camera but have not been using it to shoot 4K. Now that I have a device that will display 4K videos I have no excuse. I usually sit only 2m from the 4K Vizio because it is easier to see the fine detail in the video. Unfortunately the UHDTV prices increase rapidly for larger display sizes. The image quality is just as good or better than my Sony Bravia 1080p.. The Hybrid program lets me batch convert many videos during the night so I don't mind waiting. Tom

The level of complexity and configuration options in h.265 is much higher than h.264. Decoding of h.265 seems fast but encoding is much slower. I like the small file sizes it produces. The amount of detail is amazing. Example that looks amazing in 4K Tom

The problem has been fixed. At least it is for the problem I was having with MB. Tom

I recently purchased a low cost Vizio P series 50" 4K UHDTV. http://www.vizio.com/p502uib1e.html It has 5 hdmi inputs and a USB 3 input. I was having difficulty creating 4K videos because the Vizio USB media player requires h.265 hvc1 codec instead of h.264 codec when playing 4K videos from the USB input. I tried various h.265 command line encoders (divx265, f265, x265), but was not able to create a 4K video that would play on the Vizio. Then I was reading a forum post and they mentioned Hybrid. I has a large number of options. I select the x265 option and then audio pass thru. Now I can create fantastic looking videos for my 4K TV. It also converts YouTube 4K videos you might download. Hybrid http://www.selur.de/ My workflow is to create a custom 3840x2160 HD mp4 video in PicturesToExe and then convert that video using Hybrid. The encoding takes about 4 times as long as a normal h.264 encoded video. The file size is about 25% of the size of the original file. Even 2 Mbps h.265 videos look perfect on the 4K TV. I don't know if PicturesToExe will directly support h.265 video encoding in the future (licensing), but it's possible using a 3rd party application. Tom

Hi Peter, I received the subscription verification email message in less than a minute after registration. Maybe it was marked as spam. Tom

Hi Igor, My MB has a false positive for Jean-Cyprien's Christmas 2014. My PteViewer is normal. Posted to the MB forum. https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/162947-picturestoexe-slideshow-false-positive/ VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e5f3b95a7e813ecd1f371f4f9a245b3baa74913e167ea52bf44cec8ba46bd579/analysis/1420020519/ Thanks, Tom

Hi MUR, This would make a great slide style. Thanks, Tom

I use VMware often at work but for my Macbook I use Parallels. You have to own a copy of Windows to install or use Windows 10 preview which is free and also free for personal use after it's released. I have no idea if Windows 10 runs under Parallels or Fusion. Also someone needs to test PTE on Windows 10. Tom

Hi Daniel, I would test the Safe Executable File for Internet file by uploading to virustotal.com. I did a simple test that was interesting. I uploaded a small .zip slideshow and had 2 false positives. I unzipped the file. I uploaded the .exe file. It had 3 false positives. I then uploaded the .pteshow and it passed with 0 false positives. So even though the .exe was properly code signed some of the AV tests thought it was a virus. It might be that the secure hash algorithm SHA1 is rapidly being replaced by SHA256 and so SHA1 is not trusted as much by AV software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1 I am really hoping that some day we have a PTE player so all we need to do is create .ptshow files. Tom

Hi Eric, Watching Rockford rght now! I have been busy working but ready for beta testing any time. Thanks, Tom

I remember that great show and others like Hawaii Five-O, Magnum PI, and dozens of others. I never realized that any of them played in GB. Small world. Happy Holidays, Tom

Hi Igor, I installed f.lux free software on my PC. It might cause problems with slideshow color balance but at least I will have less eyestrain. https://justgetflux.com/ Thanks for the information, Tom

Works with HD custom 60 fps uploads to YouTube. Should make smoother slideshows. Select 720p60 or 1080p60 HD from playback options. Apparently it requires using the Chrome browser for now. http://kotaku.com/youtube-finally-supports-60fps-and-it-looks-awesome-1652460542 Tom 30 FPS Test 60 FPS Test FPS Test

Maybe require 2 cpus? http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?/topic/17956-how-to-run-pte-exes-on-a-mac/?p=119338 Tom

Playing with Instagram's Hyperlapse app for iOS. It captures video and extracts every Nth frame (1x-12x). They utilize the iphone gyro data to stabilize the video instead of the more cpu intensive frame comparison. Explanation http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/95922900787/hyperlapse Video

Interesting question. Not sure if there is a definitive answer as to why the file sizes are smaller when resized automatically (by ffmpeg/x264 or PTE). Assuming the video frame aspect ratio is the same and not letterbox is happening. ffmpeg/x264 has many scale options. http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#scale Thanks, Tom