[About version 10: Will there be timeline scaling in O & A?]

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[V10-Hardware Acceleration-changes bitrate??? [SOLVED]]

I still haven't had a chance to do any testing on the beta versions.
I am just keeping up to date reading all the posts.

The fact that the new hardware acceleration is producing such large file sizes is worrying.
Running a lot of competitions and accepting most entries in by internet file transfer I can see big problems with these file sizes.

Luckily I have a fast download/upload speed, but for those who don't uploading such files will take forever.

Obviously we want the best quality especially when entering competitions.
Until the problems with Nvidia graphics are sorted, we have been recomending people to send MP4 rather than exe files.
So maybe we have to suggest that people don't use hardware acceleration to keep file sizes small, even though it means rendering will take longer?

I would appreciate others thought on this matter.

Jill

[Zero slide duration causes program freeze]

For a manual show set 'wait for key press' in project options.

If you need some slides to advance automatically then change on the individual slide options.

Jill

[keyboard control of show]

As long as you have 'allow keyboard control' ticked in project options, then space-bar should pause the exe and left and right arrow keys should go backward and forward.

I have never had to define mouse clicks or any other settings and never had any problems with it not working.

Windows 7, maybe something in Windows 10 that works differently?

Jill

[Optimization of Video Clip Message AFTER Export]

Ok so you were just seeing if the created mp4 was ok. Use VLC player to play video files rather than pte.

As I said above an MP4 needs to be converted before PTE can play it, even one that you have just created.

Jill

[Optimization of Video Clip Message AFTER Export]

George, are you trying to import the video clip you have just created into another or the same project?

If so then create an Avi file instead. 

From memory the MP4 that PTE creates cannot be read directly back in and needs to be reconverted first.

When Pte10 is released we shouldn't have this problem.

Jill

[Visual clue during playback]

Why not add something to those images yourself?
A small icon in a corner of the image would suffice if you need it.

Jill

[Ingrid Gane]

I assume, as you say you have transparent text on the main image, that it is a PNG file? What size is this file? If it is too large then it sometimes won't show in full screen.

Try reducing the file size of this image and see if that works.

Jill

[News concerning Ken]

Igor is away until the end of this week.

[Use of Space Bar in Preview]

I have come across this problem with someone who was using very large file sizes on a laptop with a 4k screen. 

I think it was just taking a long time to process the images and couldn't keep up. 

Also it would not load images into O&A. I told the person to reduce the image sizes and this seemed to cure the problem.

I think it was pte9 and windows 10

Jill

[PTE MENU]

Glad you are getting somewhere and managed to get rid of the file name.

There is nothing you can do about the brief flash when the MP4 starts, at least I haven't found a way.

To make it return to the menu at the end, make sure that 'quit at end of playlist' is ticked under the media menu.

If you press ESC when it is playing it will show a minimised VLC window and the sequence will keep playing and you have to close it down using the usual X button top right. But you shouldn't normally be pressing ESC when running.

If needed you can pause and resume with the space bar as with PTE.

Jill

[PTE MENU]

Hi John,

Running many competitions we get lots of different file types. MP4, AVi, Mov, WMV etc

For all video type files we use VLC Player as the default.

You can set it to always open full screen, not show any controls & exit at the end of the video.
Clicking from a PTE Menu this is then as smooth as running an exe

If you are not currently using VLC then taks a look at it - it is free to download & use.

Jill

 

[No match for your search......i am totally lost [SOLVED]]

can you post a screen grab of what you are seeing in PTE

Looking at the image size that you have posted it should be OK.

 

[No match for your search......i am totally lost [SOLVED]]

17 hours ago, Renedh said:

.I open Pic to Exe and I can see the USB stick

Have you tried copying the images from the USB stick on to the Microsoft Surface?

What size - resolution & dpi - are the images?
Do you see any thumbnails in the file view?

Jill

[Will PTE10 use DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API?]

1 hour ago, jt49 said:

Do you think that Windows 7 will still be in use when PTE 11 will be released?

I hope so as there is no way I want to move to Windows 10.

As long as my PC & laptop keep going I will stick to Windows 7

I like to be in control of the computer not the other way around

Jill

[Blending mode "Add"]

Thanks. Eric. I will have to have another look at those. Maybe you can show me on Friday.

Jill

[Blending mode "Add"]

In Photoshop (CS3) the blend modes I use most often are  'Overlay' , 'Screen' and 'Multiply'

I don't have 'Add' blend mode - is this the same as 'Multiply'?

It would be useful if PTE could replicate the different modes in Photoshop if at all possible.

Jill

[How many 64 bit installations of Windows?]

As has been mentioned before, I think that you keep PTE 10 as all 64bit and anyone who needs 32bit will have to use PTE 9.

You cannot keep trying to be backward compatible for ever.

Jill

[New Here]

The Free download is the full version. It does everything the paid for version does.

There are 2 versions Deluxe, which has lots of extra features and the Essentials which is more basic but still very poweful.

You can switch between the 2 versions in the Free download to check out the features of each to decide which one to buy.
If you do buy the Essentials you can then upgrade later to the Deluxe for an extra charge.

To switch click on Settings from the main Menu bar, then select Preferences and on the Editions tab you will see the button to select the version.

You can compare the versions here https://www.wnsoft.com/en/picturestoexe/compare/

Jill

[Playback of HD videos in PTE 10. Comparison]

Great. The PTE9 one doesn't play at all very jerky.

The PTE10 one is very good, just a couple of very small hesitations.

Look forward to the final versions.

Jill

 

[Does PTE need a name change]

Running competitions means that I make Menus to run all the entries a lot. It is interactive in a sense in that I have to click to get the next show to run.

We get many different formats entered - Exe made with PTE or another program - eg. Proshow Gold or Proshow Producer, Wings, M.Objects, DGFects

We also have MP4 or AVI again made with various different programs and sometimes WMV files.
 

A Menu made with PTE will run all of these shows perfectly and seamlessly. (using VLC Player to run the Video files)
I would not like to lose this capability.
Wether exe or another format when downloading I always virus scan the zip file and then the individual files once unzipped.
With entries coming from many different sources one cannot be too careful, even though I usually know the people who sent them.
 

Also dissolves in Exe's always seem to be smoother than with a video type of file - although PTE video output is usually better than with other programs.

Jill

[Scaling of time range (or not)]

Thanks, no rush V10 will do.

[Scaling of time range (or not)]

29 minutes ago, Igor Kokarev said:

I confirm the problem with Time Range and "Scale keyframes..." option. If Time Range were changed it works wrong after a change of a slide duration. We'll try to fix it soon.

Igor, is it also possible to reinstate the dragging of the vertical lines at each end of the O&A timeline to adjust the time range?

This worked in V8 but not in v9

Jill

[Fixed font and colour]

Mike, the easiest way is to set the text up on the first slide how you want it, including shadow, position etc.

Then copy and paste that text object to all the other slides that you need. All you have to then do is change the actual words.

This gives the advantage that your text is always in the same place on screen so the audience knows where to look.

There is nothing worse than the text moving around the screen as by the time the audience has found it they usually then don't have enough time to read it.

Jill

[Hide object before the first keyframe ?]

Hi Lin,

Well you learn something new every day!
All the years I have been using PTE & I never understood what Time Range was, this could have saved me a lot of effort in some of my previous animation!
Thanks to Pieter for asking the original question.

I now see how to do this, thanks to Dave's video.
Bit confusing at first as you have to add all the zeros - so for 3 secs you have to put 3000

I rarely work with the numbers and just do things by eye dragging the keyframes to the required position.

Looking at V8 you could drag the 'lines' at the start & end of the O&A timeline, much easier than having to go to properties & type in numbers.
There doesn't appear to be a way to do this in V9? if not then a suggestion to Igor for V10 to reinstate this.

Jill