[Drop shadow and Glow]

Hi,

Thanks, Alain!

But I'm afraid it's impossible at this moment. Only modern video cards can do transformation of drop shadow in realtime. And it requires vastly modify PTE. So I leaved your idea for future.

Ok, I understand this is huge of work.

What about to "Rasterize text to PNG image" function.

By now only text is rasterized.

Is is possible to add in to do list "Rasterize shadow text to PNG image" ?

By this way, you could give some animations to text shadow with PNG image.

Alain

[Drop shadow and Glow]

Hi,

Drop shadow and Glow options for text object is absolutly fantastic.

This give a lot of creative and animations possibilities.

In order to give much more power to this feature it would be nice to determine some specific shadow parameters for each keypoint.

This would give some animations to shadows. (shadow won't be any more statics)

Here is a screen to illustrate.

Alain

[Rotate Object in 3D Space with PTE]

Hi,

Just had a chuckle when reading something one of the competitor's users was trying to figure out from a little Youtube show they had seen. It was something which seems not possible to do with their software but is easily accomplished with PTE so I made a tiny little sample showing rotation of an object in 3D space with perspective distortion and rotation along XY AND Z axis - nothing special....

Lin

That's quite an impressive result.

"easily accomplished with PTE" ? !

Nothing special ? !

Well, I didn't find how to do similar example and how you did this astonish tiny little sample.

Could tell me (us) more about this ?

Best regards

Alain

[Multi time line]

Hi,

Hi, and welcome to the forums!

An interesting suggestion which has been discussed previously. That works well when you have only a few objects, but what happens when you have perhaps 20 objects? Then you must have a scroll bar on the time line and some means of switching the view between seeing object one and two, object 4 and 16, etc.

Time line could be displayed only for selected objects, not for all of them.

This would be better than only one time line ?

if there is not enough space or if scrolling bar is quite long, the user could deselected some objects

If you allocate more space to the time line to see more than two objects compared, then there is less space to see the actual images in relationship to each other. It can get very complicated as with some video software where the "preview" area becomes tiny and too much space is allocated to time line observation. Then there is the issue of seeing multiple sound tracks as well.

This is a tricky problem to solve between space and displayed objects.

It's not a simple decision. Right now you can see the relationships by checking the "Transparent to Selection" box in the Properties (Common) Tab then observing the bounding rectangle.

The idea of having multiple time lines visible appeals more to those who work visually while using the physical timing numbers appeals to those who visualize the relationships and see the effects by moving the small green arrow along the time line to "step" through the actions.

I think the utility of this idea is more of a "comfort" level of how one is accustomed to working rather than a necessity for achieving precision in animations but it is something worthy of discussion.

"comfort" ? well.... may be I don't know yet how to use correctly PTE and such feature (multitime line) could be usefull only for newbies ? Hmmm, what about projects like The Big Picture from Thedom! This is not so easy to modify and have a look at all time line objects.

Best regards

Alain

[Key point improvements]

Hi,

1. I think this would be a good idea - maybe a small, compact menu window with text boxes to show the current PZR and time parameters and be able to make changes as required, without having to click on the correct properties tab.

Yes, there is Keypoint time field on animation Tab (I just discovered this with your answer) but the scale is in "ms" from the beginning of the picture! and time line time is from beginning of slide show. This is not easy to use and not very direct because you have to calculate each time in your mind for the right value.

Here is an example to show.

(also a small, compact menu window could be better.)

2. I'm with you on this one too. Quite often I wish I could nudge the keypoint by clicking on the arrow bars, but of course these serve only to change focus from one keypoint to another. "Ctrl - right-arrow" and "Ctrl - left-arrow" would work just as well and be valuable additions.

Yes, I agree.

Here is also an example to show.

Best regards

Alain

[Key point improvements]

Hi,

PTE 5.00 beta 8u

I don't know what will come with next beta versions but here is some comments or suggestions about keypoints features.

1/ Keypoint edit window :

It would be nice when you are on a keypoint to open an window edition with a Double clic or Return key.

By this way, you can enter the right value with keyboard.

2/ Keypoint moveable with keyboard.

It would be nice when a keypoint is selected to drag it in the time line with keyboard : CTRL + left key (decrease keypoint time by 0.1s) or CTRL + right key (increase keypoint time by 0.1s).

By this way, it would be easier to change keypoint time values, specialy when there is several keypoints in a few lap time.

Best regards

Alain

[Multi time line]

Hi,

It would be nice to display several timeline in PTE. (a bit like in video)

This would be very usefull to synchronise in a frame several objects between each others.

This is particulary true in examples like "BigPicture". (from TheDom)

Here is a simplist example below :

(objects time line could be displayed with right clic, check box, also highlighted, ..........)