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Eric (yachtsman1), user gordy9 is interested in an animation Dave's suggestion is the one to follow! Regards, Xaver

Start Menu > Programs > PicturesToExe 7.0 Beta > Beta16 > Tools > Video Converter Regards, Xaver

Here is another funny example for the synchronization problem. The attached PTE project shows two rather identical versions of my hand clapping video. The first one, uses the MP4 container, including an Xvid video and an MP3 audio part. The second video has been derived from the first one just by changing the container format to AVI, while video and audio parts just have been copied. During preview of Beta16, the MP4 video is out of sync, while the AVI video runs correctly. Regards, Xaver Clap123_Beta16.zip

Please have a look at the examples given here. Regards, Xaver

Similar results can be observed with the attached videos. The first one is an AVI that was created with PTE v6.5, using the Xvid Mpeg-4 codec (v.1.3.2). The second one is a WMV-2 video, a recoded version of the first one using XMedia Recode. Both videos show a nice behavior in Windows MP, VLC, and MPC-HC. Both videos also show a bad behavior in PTE 7 Beta15. Regards, Xaver Clap123.zip Clap123_WMV2.zip

What about making a test for yourself I don't think so! I don't think so! Regards, Xaver

You can play the music in the O&A window, listen to it, and stop it with the Pause button. Then insert a key point. This is not totally precise, but after one or two corrections, it should work Regards, Xaver

No surprise, a suitable German translation is similar to the Dutch one: Wie haben Sie dieses Programm kennen gelernt? Regards, Xaver

Watch my example video in the Windows Media Player. You need not be a musician to notice that the background image exactly starts together with the music, and the background, the texts, and the small panorama image always appear exactly with the first beat of bar (music in three quarter time). Then compare it with preview of PTE 7B13 (single black slide of appropriate length which contains the video as an object). Regards, Xaver

You may search the Internet for transparent videos (videos with an alpha channel), and you will find tutorials on YouTube how to generate them (e.g. using Adobe After Effects). Then the question arises, if the video player in PTE (FFMpeg) will be in the position to respect this alpha channel. I made a test with a flash video with transparent background (downloaded from totalwebvideo.com) which did not work with PTE. I could see the video, but the background was black. Regards, Xaver

Beta 13 does not solve the problem described here. Regards, Xaver

In my experience, 30 FPS sometimes give smoother animations. Why not an audio bit rate of 192? Regards, Xaver

MP4 is a video container format, like AVI, MKV, etc. An MP4 container typically includes a video encoded according to MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC/H.264)), MPEG-2, or MPEG-1. I have a Samsung TV with an internal media player, as well. I export my PTE sequences as MP4-videos encoded with Xvid (MPEG-4 Part 2) which run better than those encoded according to H.264. Regards, Xaver

Igor, I know this declaration, but you should take into consideration that the GPL asks for the so-called "Corresponding Source". There are several ways to provide it in a compliant way, as described in the well-known compliance guide by Kuhn, Williamson, and Sandler. You are right that there are many (typically small) companies who do not provide the corresponding sources of the open source components that they use, but this does not mean that this behavior is legal Best regards, Xaver

X264 is an open source library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format (www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html). There are several sources from which one can obtain executables for Windows, but it is not clear which build is used by PTE, as there is no appropriate link in the PTE program folder (which should be there!). I don't think that it will make sense to download some x264.exe from the Internet, and replace the one contained in PTE. Regards, Xaver

Search for "Hawk Method"! Regads, Xaver

Look at the Comments Tab in the Project Options. Delete all entries there and press "Set for existing slides". Regards, Xaver

This is not surprising! PTE installs a codec which appears in the system's list of video codecs as "PictureToExe Video Codec". What is this codec good for? In my understanding, it can be used by applications to read (decode) virtual AVI videos that have been generated with PTE (and which only exist as long as the generating PTE application remains open). It sounds surprising that this codec should do anything useful in other situations. I have made a test with VirtualDub. I could recode a video using the PictureToExe Video Codec, but in the result, the video part was empty. Regards, Xaver

Free??? Regards, Xaver

Highlight your slide, and open and close the Customize Slide window! Regards, Xaver

This video is too large! I am going to prepare a short example. Watch your e-mail (later this evening, or tomorrow) for the download link. Regards, Xaver

I have created a FullHD video from one of my sequences: The video codec is Xvid (MPEG-4) at a bitrate of about 10000 kbps, the audio codec is MP3 (192 CBR), the container format is MP4. The media player of my Samsung TV plays this video perfectly. The Media Player Home Cinema does not play it absolutely smooth, but it is not too bad! In the preview of PTE 7 Beta11 the sound is significantly too late (about 1 sec). Regards, Xaver

A user who does this job should be in the position to make the necessary (and indeed trivial) correction manually! We should not ask for for too much automatism! Regards, Xaver

Peter, Good luck for your proposal. It is a requirement which introduces quite new time (or context) dependent aspects, which may become complicated in cases where we have big graphs of objects with the inheritance option for opacity in various generations. Presently, the parent/child mechanism is restricted to the geometrical states of the objects, and at each single point of time the size and position of a child can be derived from the size and position of its parent (at the same point of time), and the child's own (independent) geometrical parameters which are not global ones but which are to be interpreted relative to the geometrical state of its parent object. In the language of 3D applications: The object model of a PTE slide is a kind of scene graph (with the screen as common root), and it is very likely that this model is nicely supported by D3D (DirectX). Regards, Xaver

Peter, I would like to learn how inherited opacity should be defined, in more detail! Consider an object A with opacity a%, a child B with opacity b%, and a grandchild C with opacity c%. What is about to happen to B and C if you now tick your box? Regards, Xaver