davegee

Hi Ken, I have tried your Pan & Zoom demo and am sorry to say that none of the options you give work successfully on my 1280x1024 monitor. There are black lines above, below and to the sides of all of the zooms. What doesn't help is that you have chosen to put your white line on the image in Photoshop or similar. This means that the white line is constantly moving during PZR. Like you, at first, I was trying to avoid the black areas but on the other hand do not want to lose the pixel generating power of the 3:2 aspect ratio of my DSLR. I have always tried to compose my images within the camera and very often find that a 1280x1024 crop from a 3000x2000 image is just impossible. Here is the compromise I decided on: I have decided to proceed with the 3:2 aspect ratio images on my 1280x1024 monitor and put the boundary white line on in PTE instead of doing it on the image itself. Igor has given us the opportunity to do this and it works quite well. My zooms, pans and rotates now take place within a fixed white 1280x854 frame superimposed on a 1280x1024 black background and I am learning to live with the black areas above and below the image because they are separated by this FIXED white line boundary. My screen settings are: Fit to screen (for the time being), Custom and 1.5. I have also had some thoughts about the pixel sizes of the various images I am using. As I said above my monitor resolution is 1280x1024 and if I am only performing a small amount of zoom why use a 3000x2000 image? It makes more sense to me to tailor the pixel size of my image to the way I intend to use it. PTE must use up processing power in interpolating the 3000x2000 image to fit the screen whether it is interpolating up or down and Igor stated some time ago that PTE does the interpolating DOWN better than it does the interpolating UP. So let's say that I have an image that I will want to zoom into at 120%. All I have to do is multiply the 1280 width by 1.2 and I have the pixel width size of the image necessary to perform the zoom. Try it - it works. Instead of needing a 750KB file I only need a 350Kb file (for the same compression ratio). The result is the same quality in a smaller file size and less processing power is needed for interpolating the image leaving more to handle the PZR functions. I also noticed, early on, some unwanted effects taking place when OVER-ZOOMING and came up with the following figures for MAXIMUM amounts of zooming possible with various different image sizes. Bear in mind that these figures are for a 1280 pixel wide monitor and avoid UPWARD interpolation by PTE. The figures would change for a different size monitor. 3000 pixels wide image - 229% Max Zoom 2500 pixels wide image - 195% Max Zoom 2000 pixels wide image - 156% Max Zoom 1500 pixels wide image - 117% Max Zoom DaveG

Thanks Igor. I can't wait!! (But will have to). DaveG

You can rename the image in the "Properties" section (Top Right). Other options for each image are available by right clicking on each image. DaveG

Thanks for you iput Jeff - no one seems to be working this way or didn't care to join in. I agree about "hold Timed Poits" defaulting to "unticked" and that seems to be the solution for me. DaveG

Be sure to install to a new fplder and NOT overwrite your 4.43 version. V5 is not a fully functioning version - yet. DaveG

If you have the original reg.txt file all you have to do is copy that into the PTE folder and when the prog asks you for it just tell it WHERE it is - it will find it. You do not have to type the number in anywhere. DaveG

Hi Igor, I have sent a text file to Support@wnsoft with more instructions. I cannot download the Microsoft program for a few reasons: 1. No internet connection on my laptop and 2. The download has to install and cannot be transfered to another machine 3. Dial up connection on my internet machine - no broadband! If it is still a problem I can send some screen grabs? "Auto adding of new transition points for new slide" ("Customize Synchronization" window, menu via "View" button) is TICKED.

Hi Igor, Please try this: Set up new project with three slides with default slide time at 8 seconds. Slide 1: Change time to 30 seconds and add keypoints at zero 1.5 seconds and 30 seconds. Slides 2 & 3: Keep slide time of 8 seconds and add keypoints at 1.5 and 8 seconds. Go to main window and drag new slide on top of slide 1 with "Hold Timed Points" ticked. Check Keypoints in OandA and you will find that the New slide 1 has a Keypoint at zero and a slide time of 30 seconds (not the default 8 seconds). The original slide 1 now has a slide time of 8 seconds and has lost its 30 second keypoint in the OandA timeline. All of the original Keypoints in the original 3 slides now seem to overlap. If the "Hold Timed Points" is unticked when the new slide is dragged on top of slide 1 the above does not happen.The new slide will be 8 seconds and the original slide 1 (now slide 2) will still be 30 seconds with keypoints at zero, 1.5 and 30 seconds. I think that this is "correct" for the setting of "Hold Timed Points" ticked but could cause a lot of confusion if slides are added in the main window by dragging into place. DaveG

Peter, You need to read Igor's initial notes when he introduced this BETA (and perhaps the other 100 or so replies in this thread). Many original functions do not yet work, including the Synchronised Music track. That will come in Beta#3. This Beta is purely for evaluation of the PZR facilities. DaveG

Igor, This is what I was doing: In the main view I was dragging a slide from the FILE PANEL to the SLIDE LIST and trying to create a new First Slide. With the Hold Timed Points ticked the new first slide would take the time of the original slide and the New Second slide would take on the time of the original 3rd slide. All keypoints after the first new first slide would then be out. With the Hold Timed Points unticked this does not happen. When adding a slide in the TIMELINE between two original slides with the Hold Timed points ticked only the previous slide's Keypoints are affected. When adding a slide in the TIMELINE with the Hold Timed Points unticked no previous or following Keypoints are affected. It is difficult to explain and it could cause confusion. DaveG

Jeff, Try this: If your first slide is 60 secs, the second 20 secs and the third 10 secs, try adding a slide with the "hold time points" ticked and then unticked. DaveG

Thanks Igor, I understand. I have to UN-TICK the "hold time points" to insert slides without affecting all of the other slides. On the PNG problem - I will investigate further and if necessary send you a sample. It does not happen every time - maybe it will be OK on the first "cycle" and show up on the second cycle (or vice versa). DaveG

Hi Igor, At present, it is impossible to add a slide at the beginning or middle of a show without affecting the following slides. Is this something which will be corrected when the 4.4 features are added or is it a problem? I am also getting unwanted bright pixels when PNG files are panned etc (the bright pixels travel with the PNG file) even though they were transparent when constructed/saved from PS. Any ideas why? DaveG

Thanks Al, I'm on XP - I'll try it. DaveG

Al, Please explain: "Enditall" ??? DaveG

Lin try this. Distort the text using perspective in PS so that your text layer (you will have to merge to a new layer before attemping this) is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. In PTE bring it in from off screen at the bottom and pan upwards while zooming from large to small. Don't let the text disappear off screen - fade it out toward the end and keep on screen. Otherwise it looks as though it is changing course. Add "Star Wars" music for effect - it worked for me. DaveG

The advantage of using a Gaussian Blur overlay as opposed to doing it from within PTE is that by varying the opacity of the Blur layer some interesting halo effects are possible. I have been using this technique in still images for some time.

You can position the first and last slide in a group and Click on first slide; Shift Click on last slide and then use the "Arrange Selected Slides" option. That should help you to do what you want. DaveG

Create a keypoint at the beginning of the second transition on the first slide in the timeline. End your zoom/pan/rotate at that point instead of at the end of the incoming transition. Keeping ALL PZR functions between the two transitions helps to prevent jerkiness for those whose Graphics Cards are not as "modern" as they should be. Has anyone got a better way of describing the two transitions/grey areas in the timeline? DaveG

Hi Igor, Many thanks for this new Beta. I'm happy to report that the Gamma problem with the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M card has been solved. Happy holiday! DaveG

Hi Igor, Thanks for replying so quickly. The results of the test: The Test_NoGamma is the closest to the original of the three that you posted. The others appeared to be brighter. Incidentally, on my machine Lin's Test show has the same appearance - too bright. Thanks again, DaveG

Hi Igor the card is NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M and no settings have been altered - don't have any games. In PTE 4 and Photoshop - images OK Same images in PTE5 - much brighter. DaveG

Is anyone experiencing (as I am) that their images are brighter (too bright) in PTE5 compared to the same images used in a PTE4 show? My images in a PTE4 show look exactly as they do when I save them from PS but the same images are much brighter when used in PTE5. DaveG

Congratulations Igor!! Well worth waiting for. Installed smooth as silk - PAN, ZOOM and ROTATE all easily set and works likw a dream with my NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M card. Now to read the instructions.

I, too, work with RAW only. I do the initial tweaking in Nikon Capture which allows the saving of the edits back to the original (or a copy of the original). Photoshop recognises the edits done in Capture and opens the RAW for the final editing and saving as JPEG for use in PTE. What this means in terms of storage is that I am dealing with 5-6 Mb files wheras, if I convert to TIFF, I am dealing with 34 Mb files (at 16 Bit). I also have two external 120 Gig storage devices. So my vote goes to RAW!