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No, I have never had this either. Is there anything different about the last few Slides? Try saving the Project as a different name, remove the last few Slides & see if that works If it does, then keep adding the Slides back 1 by 1. Not sure what else to suggest. Jill

Are you waiting for Publish to finish before checking? You will get a green Tick when it is done. It can take a while to finish. Also make sure nothing else is running on your computer while you do the Publish. If using a laptop, make sure it is plugged in & not running on battery - it will complete faster when on mains power. Jill

Hi Ian, It is easy, but as it is something I have never changed it took me a while to find it! Settings/preferences/System - at the Top Double Click in Slide List - Click the drop down Arrow & change to what you want Jill

If you have the Font Size on your Computer set to a large size this can cause the boxes to overlap. Mine is set to 125% & it is OK, but any larger & starts to overlap. Jill

Hi Igor, yes I am using beta 8. I just downloaded and installed as a separate version. I will try later to see what it does in beta 7. I am trying to finish an AV for a competition and the closing date is Tuesday. It works ok for now as it is, so no rush if there is a bug. Jill

PPS. In fact the keypoints at the end of the video don't seem to be working at all. It doesn't matter where I position it, the video isn't slowing down at the end. The starting points work great, but the end doesn't Jill

PS It would be really helpful if it is possible to show the Transition points as in O&A. At the moment I keep having to make a note of the times & keep coming in & out of the Speed window to try to get it right. Jill

Not sure if I am doing something wrong or it is just the way it works. I am trying to adjust the speed of a video so that it is static during the fade in & fade out of the Slide. I put a keypoint at 0 (start of Slide) & set the Speed to 0 I have another keypoint at 2 (end of Fade in) also at 0 Speed I then add another keypoint at 3 sec & set Speed to 70% This works fine at the start of the Slide. However the green track does not increase in length, so trying to position another keypoint at 7.6 Secs (start of fade out) Also for 70% & then a final keypoint at 9.6 Secs for 0% Speed I can't The original video was only 8 secs so I cannot select 9.6 secs Should the Green track expand to the new adjusted length or am I missing something? The Overall Duration shows as 15 secs but the green Track still shows the original duration of 8 secs. Also it would help if the actual window was wider as when the cursor is at the end then the displayed time & Speed are off the window & can't be read. I will keep playing until I get the keypoints as I want, but it is a bit trial & error. Otherwise it works great Jill

Very easy to do by using a Text Symbol. In O&A Click on the down arrow next to Add Text. Scroll down the list of symbols, you will see there is a Square and further down a Circle. Add this & then you can repostion over the face, change the size, colour & shadow. Very quick & easy. Jill

Hi Rosemary, I understand what you mean about keeping all the Text the same throughout a Show. If you are using a lot of Text, I find it best to type it out in something like Word first. That way you also have a Spellchecker. If you know that you can get say 15 lines of Text on one Slide, then simply add Blank Lines to each section, so that you always have 15 Lines. Then you can just copy those 15 lines needed for a Slide & Paste it directly into PTE. That way it will always be the same size. To make sure all the Lines are aligned then set the Text Object to be Left adjusted & set the Center Point to -100. Your Pan X is then set to say -90 and you know that all of your Text will start & be aligned to the same position. Do this before you add any actual Words You then just copy & Paste from Word for each Slide needed. Maybe set up a standard set of 15 lines - doesn't matter what it actually says. Add this to Slide 1 & then using the Quick Slide Style, Apply this Sample Text to all the others you need - It is then done in one go. You then can quickly change the actual words by Copy & Paste from your Word doc Quite quick really. Hope this helps Jill

You don't copy & paste the Slide with Text, just the Text Object in O&A. At least with this method you are certain to keep the same Font, Shadow & colour throughout the show. I don't find it a problem. But then I mainly only use Text for a Title & end Credits. And each of these would be a different size anyway. I never look at the Zoom size & just drag the Text to the size that looks right on the image. The ability to easily use a different colour or Font for some characters in a word or line, without having to create a separate Text Objects would be much more useful. I have recently needed to create a line where the first letter of each word was a different colour & size took much longer as they all had to be separate Text Objects. And keeping the spacing correct, especially if there is animation was difficult. Jill

Multiple image Tracks were asked for a long time ago & have been worked towards for equally as long. It is not that the programming itself is complicated, but that it changes the whole way in which PTE will work It is far more than just adding in extra code, the whole structure will need to change. I am not involved with the development of PTE, but I can fully appreciate what is involved it trying to do this. It is a major rewrite of the basic code. To enable existing Projects to still work will be even more complicated. PTE is extremely powerful as it is, you can do so much in O&A. But some things require a bit more effort from the user. Adding in extra image tracks may make some things easier to do, especially for beginners. But we still need to retain the power & flexibility of O&A. Jill

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Hi Igor, this all seems ok now. Thanks for fixing it so quickly Jill

Hi Igor, I have managed to recreate the Master/Linked Video section in V12. I had to completely delete the Video from all Slides, then I was able to add it again as Master on Slide 1 then Linked on the other Slides. So no rush to fix this now. Thanks Jill

Thanks Igor, I can only do it once in PTE11 to a new Project, then it no longer works. Hopefully I can manage a work around as trying to complete my AV for Friday & still have a lot to do!! It started when I opened the Project in PTE12 to use the new Audio Objects in O&A. I added the Audio Object (Click4) to the Slide before the Master Video one. Not sure exactly what I did next as I was copying & pasting Objects from other Slides to get the effect I wanted behind the video. But it suddenly stopped working correctly. I saved it as a new file name & tried opening that in PTE11, but it still didn't work. I didn't get any warning message that I was opening in an older version of PTE which normally happens. The Audio Object still showed in the list of Objects but there was no sound in PTE11 (as expected) Jill

PTE12 beta 5 I am currently working on a project, (started in V11.0.20) that needs to be completed in the next couple of days. Within the Project I have 5 Slides, the first has a Video set as Master Video, the other 4 have the same video as Linked. The Video is muted and a separate soundtrack is added linked to the first Slide. It all went wrong last night & so far I can't get it to work. So I tried setting it up in a new Project. When I set this up in a new project it all works fine. But when I copy these 5 Slides to my main Project the Video is no longer Master & Linked. Trying to reset the Video on the first Slide no longer works, I click Master Video but it does nothing. I have tried Deleting the previously Linked Video from Slides 2 to 5, but I still cannot set the Video to Master on Slide 1. It is though something has broken and can't be reset. In fact I now cannot even Paste into V12, the Paste option is there on right click but nothing happens. I have tried the same thing in PTE11.0.20 & it doesn't work there. I have tried copying from PTE 11 to PTE 12 & it still won't work. Once the Master - Linked Video is broken it cannot be reset. I will have another try later today to see if I can repair my master Project, and try to get a clear set of steps. Any suggestions please - Igor I can send you Slides if needed. Jill

very easy, just copy & paste the slides to a new project. If you want the sound as well then you need to Link the Sound Clips to the Slides first. You can then unlink them afterwards if needed. Or another option, but may take longer is to save the Project under a new name & then delete the Slides & sounds that you don't want. Jill

I find it best not to use any special characters at all, keep things with just AtoZ and numbers. I have found that filenames containing special characters or characters with accents will not always work when used in a Menu. Keep it simple & you shouldn't have any problems Jill

Thanks Denis & Igor. Adding the black rectangle does work. I am only playing at the moment & not quite sure what transition I want. I may end up using the Circle Waves Mask as I have more control over the timing, than when using the transition. Jill

When I use a Circle Waves Transition to a Blank Slide, you can see the waves moving, but the image does not change. It then quickly changes to the Blank at the end of the Slide. The same thing happens in PTE11 so not sure if this is meant to happen or it is a bug that has not yet been picked up When the Transition is between 2 images it appears correct & you can see the new image fading in. I am only just starting to play with PTE12 & thought I would try it out on a new project. Jill PS it works ok going from a blank to an image

Get it right for the first slide, then copy and paste onto all the other slides. You can do this in one go by using a quick slide style. Then you just have to change the text for each slide. Jill

Could this then be placed inside another Mask? It is a long time since I have used Blend modes, I do all of my photo editing inside PTE & have not used Photoshop for several years. But it would be good to have them within PTE. As long as we can still use Masks within Masks then I think either option will work ok. Jill

Hi Igor, Either option would work for me. With A. will you still have a Mask shape? Circle/Square etc? Or would it just be an image acting as the Stencil? I use Masks a lot to merge images or with the same image to remove unwanted parts. To have Blend Modes would be really useful Jill I think that usually I would only want to Blend a part of an image, so would be using Masks anyway

The MP4 just contains the trimmed part. If you make an exe then it will contain the whole video but only show the trimmed part. Jill