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you have a displacement Map - Circle Wave in your project, not an Opacity Mask When you add an Opacity Mask - Circle, you will see the chequer board transparent circle You then add another image into the Mask Content Jill

Opacity Mask is the standard Mask that we have had in all previous versions of PTE Use it add other images onto the background image Jill

When you installed 11 did you tick the box - associate with PTE? (or similar wording) Sounds like it was unticked - which I think is the default for betas, but not sure. This would explain why your project is opening with 10.0 or 10.5 I never tick that box while I am working with beta versions, so all my older shows I can simply double click in Explorer & they will open with 10.5 While I am working in the beta I always start PTE11 & then do a File Open - it will of course open the last project I was working on. Once PTE 11 is finally released I will then tick the associate box when I install it. Jill

You will need to have your plane as a .png file, then you can easily move it across the screen in front of another image Jill

if you have no animation on that image then it shouldn't move. There should only be 1 keyframe at the start & no others Which version of PTE are you using? Jill

videos can also be used as displacement maps. But to acheive the effect of height differences then a Normal Map is best. Jill

Any fonts that are on your computer will be picked up by PTE. Simply add them to the Windows Fonts folder. Jill

I am assuming that these are exe files you are playing? Unless you specifically set to Windowed Mode then they will always fill the screen - why would you want it any smaller? Do you know which version of PTE these were created with? As I said above as long as you allowed 'Control of Keyboard' then you can easily move through using the left & right keyboard arrow keys. Also pressing the Spacebar will pause & restart the show. If you didn't allow Keyboard Control, then you have no way of controlling. You say some show controls so I assume you had the Nav Bar set to on with those. You talk about moving through the video? but if these are exe shows then it is not a video. The keyboard arrows or on screen arrows will move you through 1 slide at a time. As I suggested above as long as you have the project files then you can recreate these in the latest version of PTE and set them up how you want them to play. See Project Options - Screen Tab & Control Tab You could also create an MP4 file as output which depending on which program you use to play them will allow you to quickly scrub through the video & adjust the window size it is played at. If you don't have the original project files (you should always save these & keep backups) then you have no way of altering. Hope this helps Jill

It will work up to 7, after that it was considered to be a new product. If you only have 5, then you can upgrade to 7 for free. Anything after that you will have to purchase. You will find that the improvements are well worth the cost, the program has changed a lot. Even going from 5 to 7 there are big changes. The developers need to make money to keep on improving PTE AV Studio. They cannot work for nothing. You can download the latest version & try it out for 30 days for free. The current price is still a lot cheaper than some other products & well worth it, give it a go Jill

You need to have version 10.5 to be able to run on a Mac. If your key is for an early version - up to 7 then your key will work with all previous versions. After that you will need to purchase a new key, Jill

Hi Don, Sadly Lin Evans passed away, so you will find it very difficult to communicate with him now. If on your old shows you allowed 'Control of Keyboard' then you can easily move through using the left & right keyboard arrow keys. Also pressing the Spacebar will pause & restart the show. If you still have the projects then you can easily open them in a later version of PTE You can download any of the earlier versions from the website. https://www.wnsoft.com/en/pte-av-studio/old-versions/ Jill

Hi Gary, thanks for sharing the video, some lovely pics. Can I sugest to you that you make all your images the same aspect ratio, 16:9 It will flow much better, as it is distracting when images don't match. Difficult without seeing the originals, but yes I agree they do look a little oversaturated, I am viewing on my laptop, but that is also not calibrated. I can only assume that it is your monitor profile that is causing the oversaturation. Jill

I don't use Lightroom, but maybe you have that set to Adobe RGB? This has a wider Gamut than sRGB, so may make your images look more saturated. PTE could be handling that being set to your Monitor Profile. But if you have saved from Lightroom in sRGB then I am not sure. I always use sRGB throughout, in camera, in Photoshop (when I use it) and in PTE. My monitors are just as they arrived, never have calibrated them. I find that my AV's always look as expected, on my monitor and on different projectors when shown at various clubs & festivals. Also over Zoom they look as expected. If you do a lot of printing then maybe you do need to calibrate, but I don't print so have never found the need for it. Is it easy to switch the Monitor calibration off just to check? Jill

A Are you using a different colour space for your images other than sRGB? PTE can handle other colour spaces but the Windows viewers may not. Check the Settings/Preferences/System Tab in PTE to see what it is set to. Jill

what program are you using to play the MP4? Could that be altering the colour. If you bring the MP4 back into PTE does the colour look correct? Jill

Thanks, this will be a great new feature Jill

Yes you can. PTE is upwards compatible. If it was made in a very early version, then best to open in PTE8 first, then in the latest version 10.5 or 11 Beta. Earlier versions can still be downloaded from the website https://www.wnsoft.com/en/pte-av-studio/old-versions/ Jill

I notice in Barry's video that the built in Displacement Maps show X-Waves and Y-Waves In Beta 5 we only have Waves? Will the X & Y be in the next beta?? Jill

you can always use the 'Action on Mouse Click - go to Slide' If you make it a hidden button - zero opacity - say down in a corner, then during your talk just click it & it will go to whatever slide you want Jill

Hi Igor, I have managed to recreate the Lockup on my Laptop. Please see email & WeTransfer with all the details. Hope this helps. Jill

Hi Igor, The project that I was working on in V11 has been updated many times since the problem occured. I was working on it all last week. I can send you the Template Folder if you think it will help. But at the time it locked up I was still using files from my USB3 external drive, they are now all on my hard drive. I have the .pte file from the day before & one from about 4 hours after the lockup, but the project will have changed several times in between. I know I was working in Timeline & I think I had just dragged in a video file in between 2 slides, but realised it had dropped in the wrong place so quickly tried to reposition it along the Timeline. The freezing occurs when repositioning a Slide/Video or a Sound Clip in Timeline view. Only when you are working quickly. No freezing with any other tasks. I will try to see if I can reproduce it later, but have to go out now. Jill

Hi Igor, Sorry but it is not something that is easily reproducable, it just happens. If it does happen again, then I will try to get a screenshot. As I said I think it is if you do something too quickly after doing something else But very difficult to pinpoint what. John says it usually occurs for him when trying to reposition a sound file in Timeline, so just trying to drag the sound clip along. It just freezes & you can't do anything. Sorry can't be of more help. Jill

Igor, we have left it several minutes, but it still stays frozen. Says PTE Not Responding at the top of the Window. On my laptop I only have a hard drive no SSD. I think I was using a USB3 external drive when it froze as my images are on there. Although I do transfer them to the internal drive as I develop the project. I do have an SSD on my Desktop, but that is only for the Programs C: Drive. All other files are on an internal hard Drive. Don't think John has an SSD on his computer. Jill

Yes PTE11 is just as stable as other versions. The freezing occurs in all versions, not sure if it occured in PTE9 as that was a long time ago. I have only had it once on my Laptop, but I don't use that to make projects very often. I think I have only had it once on my Desktop, but that is a fast PC. John has it a lot more than I do on his Desktop which is less powerful than mine, usually when moving a sound file in Timeline. The other person from our AV Group has just emailed to say it happened again after he added a 6 minute video & was about to edit it. Not sure if he works on Laptop or Desktop. Jilli

It is easy, but you have to move the displacement map between keypoints for it to do anything. Jill