Lin Evans

Hi Igor, Welcome back from your holiday! I think you will be very happy with the RX100. It has perhaps the best overall video of all small cameras. The overall image stabilization is exceptionally good on this camera - much better than the lens stabilization available to dSLR's on external lenses by Canon and Nikon from results of testing by major reviewers. Looking forward to your first videos when you receive it! Best regards, Lin

Hi Bill, You've "definitely" CAPTURED Bermuda in all its beauty and colorful essence. The music lends an air of excitement and the photography is superb! It makes me want to save my spare change and book a flight to escape the Colorado snow and bask in the warmth of the sun drenched beaches. It appears you had a great holiday and by golly have the pictures to prove it!! Thanks for the vicarious trip to the tropics! Best regards, Lin

Hi Dave, But that's not what's actually happening. You are not returning "the image," you are zooming out the zoomed-in image until the original (which is the only image actually stored inside the program) is displayed. The image after the zoom in and return to regular 100% size (assuming you began with the original) is the "identical" image you started with. All intermediate images are math computations derived from the original. When the zoom is returned to 100% the original is again displayed. The original is never actually changed in any way. Likewise with Photoshop. Photoshop loads your original and any zooms out or in have no real essence until a save is done. The original remains as you loaded it unless you overwrite. Dave, from a programming perspective inside both PTE and Photoshop and other image editors other than Photoshop are electronic "pointers" referencing the original file. This is how they know where it all starts and/or ends. So when zooms are done and the pixel dimensions reference the original, the actual original is returned as the value. Best regards, Lin

Hi Jose, Actually, PTE uses the original image to do everything with. If you zoom in from say an original 1024x768 to twice it's original size there will be image degradation, of course. However, if you subsequently zoom back out to the original 1024x768 there will be zero image degradation because the original image is always being used, not the degraded zoom. PTE only keeps the copy of the image you load on your slide. All actions including zoom out, zoom in, etc., are done via this image. The zoom-in image is simply being returned to the original in much the same way it is done in Photoshop. You do not loose any quality by zooming out, zooming in, etc., because it's all being done via the original. Best regards, Lin

Hi Jose, I don't know if this might be useful to you as a temporary work-around or not. I just made a show which runs 96 different separate videos simultaneously, and duplicates this five times plus a six video rotating, zooming cube all running on a single slide. That's a total of 486 simultaneous videos on a slide. Since your final project will be in a video format, you might proceed like I did. I never added more than 12 videos at a time, then I created a MP4 h.264 video, loaded it as the project and added another dozen videos, and repeated this process until I had the initial "video wall" built. Then I loaded this video wall (as a video) five times to create my Video Room and created yet another MP4 h.264. Then I added that as a project and created my rotating video cube and once again saved as an MP4 h.264. By doing this in increments in an iterative fashion, I was able to avoid out-of-memory issues and the finished show actually runs pretty good as an executable as well as a video. If your project can be created in this fashion, you might get on with it while Wnsoft is working on the errors. Just a thought... Best regards, Lin

Hi Ken, Thanks - misleading Windows message says "save link as" .... probably should say "save source file as:".. Best regards, Lin

Hi Mary, Can't seem to get the link to work but Happy New Year to you and your family! I'll try back later. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, I did that but the exe was over 500 meg so I went back to the original. It runs fine on my system I have a "decent" video card. It's a long way from being top of line these days (nVidia 8800GT) but the exe's play very smoothly. With less than optimal cards or perhaps with a CPU which is running other code, I guess there isn't enough power to do it justice so an exe with optimized video would be perfect. The only problem is that at 500 meg nobody would probably download it - LOL.. Best regards, Lin

Hi Cici, Thanks! I thought the exe was a bit heavy for most video cards. It seems as we add more and more animation and video to PTE shows, we must gravitate toward a video solution, at least until perhaps a whole new generation of systems are launched with more GPU power. Best regards, Lin

Hi Cici, Welcome back! Great way to usher in the New Year!!! They are among us! Best wishes to you and your family for a fantastic New Year and loved the presentation "and" message! Best regards, Lin

Hey Ken, I'm taking a nap now! Too much excitement for one night. I think I'll listen to the radio later and maybe hear a football game - LOL Thanks for checking them out... Best regards, Lin

Nice one Eric! By cracky I think you've got the synchronisation thing down pat! Great mix of images with music which kept me taping my feat and nice editing! Best regards, Lin

Like Cheech Marin in "Up In Smoke" - My head is like a sieve - LOL - Fixed now! Lin

Here it is 1:05 am and I'm "at it again" - HA! This time a Curved Video Wall with a theme of "Then and Now." Then when times were simple and Blue Christmas was a hit with young and old. Now J' LO Rocks out with special effects and a pulsing beat... Another all day job - actually technically more difficult than the last to synchronize dancers on other videos with the "Then" side - LOL.. Link To Windows Exe (about 87 Meg download) Lin

Hi Andrew, Thanks! Actually you could do it, it's not that difficult - just takes some time. I have one request on YouTube for a tutorial and am thinking about the best way to proceed with perhaps doing one. The primary features of PTE which make this possible are the "parent/child" relationships, the ability to easily and visually move the center of rotation, and the ability to apply 3D transforms with all three (X, Y and Z) axis to all objects including video clips. The most time consuming part is collecting and formatting the over 100 videos used to create the initial wall. Making small FLV videos with a freeware Video to Flash converter and doing some cropping using the freeware version of Video Pad Video Editor greatly facilitated the construction of the screen. The built-in totally adjustable grid in PTE made alignment a breeze and the ability to create and totally manipulate the color and dimensions of "frames" made constructing the dividers very straight-forward. I already have published the template and tutorial for constructing the cube including adding live video to each face so this project can be done in "stages" with the created components assembled and adjusted for the final exe or video output. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, That's a shame that they dropped their lower priced program - Particleillusion really is the best particle generator around - has been used on numerous multi-million dollar movies and also many television shows. I suspect it's a result of GenArts purchasing Wondertouch. They also took the developer (Alan Lorence) and gave him a cush job at GenArts but larger companies are all about money so they tend to "trim" any programs which appear to not be making them rich. Lots of other software incorporate Particleillusion in their own code so maybe Motion might do it. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, I use Particle illusion. You "can" create custom particles or modify existing ones (huge collection) .... Particleillusion Best regards, Lin

Hi Ken, Yes, that's Martina McBride - it's one of the videos running on the cube... Lin

Hi Tom, I wonder if it would be possible to use short video clips for part of the transition animation? If so, I have software to create realistic rocket propulsion ... I'll look into the possibilities and get back to you.... Later: Just looked into it and it works great... I'll make a Rocket exhaust video and maybe you can use it. The only problem is that right now it will have to be used with a custom mask because PTE doesn't support the Alpha Channel yet. So to make one without a background showing we need Alpha Channel support or contained in a mask... Here ya go.... zipped mask and rocketexhaust avi Link To Files Best regards, Lin

Hi Ken, Thanks! It would be nice if I could get a few of these "channels" at home. I only get one channel which is worthwhile. I get three revival channels in Spanish, one in English and "ION" which plays mostly re-run detective shows. My "Rabbit Ears" just doesn't do it. Maybe some day I'll get cable - LOL. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, Yes, sometimes it overwhelms the CPU and GPU so video makes more sense. The nice thing about video is that it can be used as an iterative tool to limit the load on the system. This allows building very complex animations which will run even on limited resource systems. Best regards, Lin

Hi, I'm loading an updated version now - will be correcting the original link as soon as it is updated in about a half hour. Improved room design, etc. Sorry for the inconvenience... Original Link Now Corrected and Live... Best regards, Lin

Hi Claudio, Great Christmas show - the cube and the snowglobe are perfect! I'll have to check on the Hex construction - I think David Gee posted a tutorial which may have covered how to do this. I don't think I've tried a six sided construct. I've done some octagons but I don't remember making a hexagon so I'm not certain about the accuracy of the math with PTE. I suspect PTE can handle it and maybe David will post a link to his tutorial on the "football" construct which I believe may have some tips. If he doesn't read this I'll try to find his post and put it here. Best regards, Lin

Hey Andrew, Check out the latest one - all live wall with video cube! Tired from all the work - LOL Lin

Hi Ken, Maybe - I spent today making the ultimate Video Wall - nearly 500 separate video screens each with live video and the rotating video cube in the middle - it was fun and now I have to go shovel snow... HA! Lin