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Sometimes i need to adjust objects parameters to accomodate the final result of very complex slides. I feel the need to place the time cursor before or after the key point and still being able to edit key point attributes. I currently need to select the key point, blindly change parameters values then move the time cursor in the interested location. And iterate more and more until good result is reached. With complex structures it's really annoying. Maybe something like CTRL+click over a key point to enable a "sticky editor" mode and being able to see how my edits reflect on the time point i'm currently on? Umberto

The mask trick worked for me! Sometimes i think i have not enough fantasy Thank you DG! Umberto

Found it! I tought it was possible to add through the popup menu and get lost Thank you! Umberto

I tought being able to add children to a text object but i cannot manage it. I need to move a bunch of text objects and fade them simultaneously. I tought that defining a "master" text and attaching all children under it would solve my issue but it's not possible in 7.5 Now i'm forced to work on each text object's timeline and dissolve them all. it's an hard work especially if you need to retune the timings if you made a mistake. Working with frames doesn't work for me because if i change frame opacity this will show the frame itself... Any hints? Thank you! Umberto

Hello... reading the forum discovered that it's possible to use multiple masks on images (say, two circles that moves on a single picture to discover it in two different parts). But i could not manage to achieve that in 7.5 Every time i try to add a new mask to a mask container i get a new mask container and not two masks into a single mask container... What i'm missing? Than you! Umberto

I feel that a "slide description" tag would be useful in the slide caption text. Sometimes i don't have the correct description in the image metadata and don't want to insert it for various reasons. Greetings! Umberto

Just finished the rendering... exactly same thing. Looks like there is something wrong when you are working on the slide "time range", and not when you play fully from the start. This thing is still puzzling me.... Umberto

Well... i double checked it now. It was ticked. Sorry for the misinformation... Now i'm trying to see what happens if i untick it. I'm rendering now. I'll let you know asap... Umberto

No, this option is not active (i never activated it because i never understood what it means). It looks like while you are working in a time range "near" the slide containing the video it works as expected, but if you play all the video from the beginning when the video comes in it is out of sync (the video itself not its audio that i muted) with the music track. I really cannot well understand the rule, but it's what i'm facing now... Greetings! Umberto

I found myself in trouble because i'm working on a presentation that includes some videos. These videos contain at certain times events that should be synchronized with the music. I arrange the video on the timeline to get the right video/music synchronization and when i play from preview it looks perfect. But exporting to exe or mp4 leads to a video/music loss of synchronization. Is it due to the AVI file i'm using? I tried also converting with the p2e internal converter but doesn't seem to solve. Any hint please? Thank you... Umberto

You are right, but at the time i was using Beta 14. Anyway, the "issue" is still here in 7.5 final. Well, it's not exactly an issue... it's all due to the quality parameter, setting it to 100% produces some high bitrate transitions that my pc cannot smoothly handle. Just lowering the sharpen effect on photos produced a lower bitrate transition that worked well. Greetings! Umberto

I worked aroud the issue by re-rendering all my video footage at 60 fps then raising the video encoder output of PTE to 60 FPS. Now the video runs without any noticeable glitch. I also noted that i had a couple of over sharpened images (with lots of background noise) that caused the video encoder some difficulties about smootheness. Umberto

Well, the feature appears to be already implemented, but in a different way than i expected. Not straightforward but now i can shift all my clips without pain! Thank you DG and Xaver! Umberto

Doh! I always tried to multi select all clips with shift key and never being able to. Good to know! Anyway, if i know that i will insert a 2 seconds slide, it would be useful to numerically specify a 2 seconds audio track offset. Thank you! Umberto

Agree. I had some difficulties with a slide that contained a 3 minutes video and needed to fine tuning some pictures on it. P.S. After that i discovered the "Main video" flag

I miss a function to easily offset forward/backward all (or single) audio tracks with all the audio clips that they contain. This would allow me to re-accomodate all synchronized audio when i insert a new slide at the beginning of the project. Moreover, it would be cool to offset all audio clips that begin after the moved/inserted slide (maybe with option to deactivate the feature) Umberto

Hello all! I found a little issue in video encoding with 7.5 beta14... I rendered the entire show in 1440x1080 HD video for PC or MAC. The video renders ok (it takes long time but that's ok). During the playback everything plays super smooth (30fps) but there is a couple seconds when the video glitches like it was realtime rendered. This happens when a bright object enters the screen... looks like the encoder cannot handle this white area like the other image parts. The white area belongs to an embedded video that, funny thing, if played realtime works smooth. I don't understand what can i do to solve this glitch issue... its annoying for the audience to see everything smooth but this couple of seconds. Any hints? Thank you! Umberto Uderzo

Hello, I just noticed that there is some kind of magnetic alignment in the object animation window. I mean... if i put two pictures in the object stack and define some time points in its timeline, when switching to the other picture and define other time points when dragging them on the timeline they will "stick" for a moment when they come near to other picture time points. But this happens only once, if i keep dragging the time point and then come back to the stick point it doesn't seem to stick again. And I'd like to do so. What am i missing? Umberto

Finally a dream coming true! Great news!

Thank you for your example template Jean-Cyprien, now i see, that under the constraint you stated, the formula is correct. I'll keep it for future referral, even if i found that perfection is not really needed for a real photo, and manually adjusting each layer "by eye" is usually enough to obtain a pleasant result (and faster than calculate each layer zoom factor). Anyway, this thread was really helpful to my knowledge. Thank you! Greetings! Umberto

@thedom: I think that your solution is not mathematically correct. I mean.... after posting the picture, i realized that the relative zoom levels needed to restore the apparence of the picture are not absolute, but they depend on the distance from the observator. You can see that by setting up a set of "aligned" layers, then moving all the block on the z axis. you will notice that they will go "out of sync" again. If you wish, feel free to use text and pictures to illustrate the problem. @xaver: I think that your hint is on the right way, but I fear we miss the distance from the observator to correctly apply the theorem... mumble mumble... Greetings! Umberto

I'd love to see an Adobe Premiere like approach. Slides timeline as usual, and tracks timelines under, with the ability to hide all tracks or to visually collapse on a single waveform. Obviously, the audio "editing" is enabled only when all tracks are expanded and the collapsed mode is only to gain screen estate. With audio editing i mean, more or less, what we already have now (only visual) plus volume enveloping. I know this is really a challenge, but IMO it's the most versatile solution. Should be ok for users that want to keep audio editing in Audacity (just add a single track with single audio file) and for users that want to perform audio fades directly in PTE. Greetings! Umberto

I been aware of JPD death in the worst way... that makes me more and more sad. Condolences to the family.

Oh... I'm dismayed... it's really no good to stay away too long... Everything is really sad now. I'll look at his work with a different eye now. Thank you. Umberto

Thank you TheDom, i'll give a look at PJD work asap. Too bad I missed JPD bad news few months ago, what a shock! Hope now he is recoverying well. Greetings! Umberto