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Hello Igor The origin of the definition given by this article sounds very special and strange! Since long times, for a lot of photographers and french dictionnaries : Diaporama = diapositive (= slide in english) + rama/orama (greek suffix which means view / show...) see here (document found on Internet under the signature of Laure Gigou.. but in french) and so it comes "Diaporama is the art to show a sequence of slides with or without synchronized music" We all know that everybody can write what he wants in wikipedia ! Best regards Daniel

Thanks Igor, your reply could explain a size discrepancy around 1MB but in fact our member observes that : - indicated project size 48.5MB => created .exe file size 55.2MB - indicated project size 45.6MB => created .app file size 53.3MB In such examples the size discrepancy is around 6,7MB for .exe file and 7,7 MB for .app file. So your answer explains the 1MB difference between .exe and .app but what about the 6.7MB? Best regards Daniel

Problem with .app files for Mac Thanks Igor, I confirm that solve the main problem. The other question was about the discrepancy between the .exe (or .app) file size indicated in the main window of PTE and the created file size which is around 20% bigger? Do you have an idea of what is going wrong? Best regards Daniel.

Problem with MAC Hi Igor one of our members has some problem with files for MAC. It seems that.app files are created normally but he cant execute them. The .app file size is around 20% much bigger. This problem is observed with beta 11 and 10. Best regards Daniel

Surprising new look, bravo Igor! Daniel

Problem with mts video clips. Hello Igor, I dont know if it is the right place to report some experiences with mts video files tested with beta 10 (not yet with beta 11)- I have shot some very short rushes with my Sony Camera in order to test the new ability of PTE to manage mts video files. The video clip files format is mts AVCHD 1920x1080i 50Hz. In fact the video files are displayed inside PTE main window with blue thumbnails "error...." but when dragged and dropped on the timeline, the thumbnail on the timeline is normal and the video are displayed inside the miniviewer, but jerky and scarred. The same thing happens with the preview. I have made the same test on three different PCs with the same results : 1- XP SP2 Media Center Edition/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5200 1,6GHz / NVIDIA Go7600 2- W7 / Pentium T4440 4Go/ Intel GMA 4500M 3- W7 /Intel Q9550 6Go/ NVIDIA 9500GT Nota : I can read all my videos smoothly with VLC,MHC, or Sony' PMB. In our club, we use also Studio14 and Adobe Premiere CS4 or CS5(on 2 or 3)without any problem. Best regards.

Hi Igor following my previous post, here are some other suggestions : 1) Main Window for Slides (see pict1& pict2) : - "Add sound" button could be moved on the same line with "Customize Slide" and "Objects and Animation" (see pict1) - "Change Image file" could be moved on the pull-down menu (right click on a dedicated slide) and could replace "Clear Slide list" as this feature does not concern the slide selected but all the slides.(see fig1) - "Comment" box (above the viewer) could be moved to a new tab to be added in "Customize Slide" window (see pict3) - Scale expander for thumbnails of the file pannel could be moved at the bottom side of this pannel (see pict2) - Then, in order to ease the use of slide list, some control buttons can be added just above the slide list, such as : " Clear Slide List", "View of Slides F4", "New transition", "Cut transition", "Undo", "Redo". In such a modification, the Main Window layouts are the same for Slides or Timeline. - Main Menu, there is no need for "Publish", "Project", "Slide" which then could be suppressed (see pict2) - So one suggestion : a new Main Window for Slides could look like pict2 2) Main Window for Timeline (see pict4) - add the time scale expander available also with Ctrl+F10/F11 3) Sound editing To ease the usability of the "Audio clip properties" ( Project Options/Music tab or Add Sound) it would be fine to enable to switch between Slides and Timeline in order to set the right parameters (as it is up to v7.0 beta5, we cannot switch between Slides and Timeline when the "Audio clip properties" window is open (see pict5)). Best regards Daniel.

Hi Igor, Some suggestions * Main window / File / Templates - "Manage Templates" and "create Template from this show" these commands shoud be merged, like it is up today, only "Manage Templates is useful as it enables to browse, choose and name the registration folder. * Main Window - avoid saving again after creating an exe or video if the project has not been modified since the last saving. As it is today if you 1) save your project 2) create an exe 3) close your project Then Pte requires to save again before closing, that is confusing. *Main Window - an hourglass pointer should be nice during "exe" creation or when PTE is occupied with a batch task *Main Window - add a button to switch on the slide list (was existing before v7.0), and leave the possibility to use F4 hotkey *Main Window / Project Options/ Sound tab - the check box ""Don't interrupt sound comment when next slide appears" should be moved to Main Window / Add Sound/ Audio clip properties (as it is today, it is very confusing for beginners and there are many mistakes due to that) *Objects and Animation - start playing should start from the last blue index position *Objects and Animation/ Objects/Animation window - movement settings on "smooth" by default rather than "linear" and all sections "separated" and not "glued" - should it be possible to also set the speed slope for "opacity". *Objects and Animation/ Objects/Properties window - posibility to add an additionnal mask in a mask container by a right click on a mask container object then add a mask rather than to go and open Properties and click on "additional Mask" *Sound features : (refer to my previous post on this subject) sound editing with v7.0 There is a lot of possibilities with sound editing for backgrounds music (project options/ music tab) and now the same for comments and sounds slide by slide (Add sound/ Audio clip propeties). Every parameter can be adjusted with accuracy except the envelope / volume modulation. If I am right, the only way I found to set the volume parameter at a keypoint is to use the mouse hand cursor dragging up or down on the dotted line which is not very accurate neither easy to do. That would be very nice if it was possible to set this parameter by taping the volume required directly in a dialog box? Best regards Daniel

Sound editing with v7.0 There is a lot of possibilities with sound editing for backgrounds music (project options/ music tab) and now the same for comments and sounds slide by slide (Add sound/ Audio clip propeties). Every parameter can be adjusted with accuracy except the envelope / volume modulation. If I am right, the only way I found to set the volume parameter at a keypoint is to use the mouse hand cursor dragging up or down on the dotted line which is not very accurate neither easy to do. That would be very nice if it was possible to set this parameter by taping the volume required directly in a dialog box? Daniel

I full agree with your comment. I think that this problem of video duration/slide duration has the same origin that this one I reported in my previous post see here In fact when we drag & drop a video clip on the timeline the slide duration is automatically equal to the first video clip duration put as a slide but afterwards if in the o&a properties window, we modify the video clip duration or we replace the video clip by another one of different duration, the slide duration remains unchanged. Daniel

Igor, I think there is a misunderstanding, the duration parameters (specified in O&A properties, or original video files duration) are known in advance there are no need to re-calculate it on the fly. Daniel

Thanks Igor, I understand your point and knowing that, I can manage like it is. However, like it is, when you drag and drop a video clip on the timeline, the indication which appears automatically on the slide is the total duration of the video clip. May I suggest that each times there are no other objects on the slide, except videos, the duration of the slide is calculated to be equal to the sum of total or specified duration of all videos clips. If there is only one (or more) object other than video clips, the slide duration must be specified as we used to do before v7.0. That is just a suggestion! Daniel

Some problem with video duration parameter. It seems a bit different that this one which has been reported previously by bbdigital. I openned my previous slideshow which includes a slide within a video clip (the video clip duration was 1mn 11s, I wanted to stop the video at 51s 824 and I modified the duration parameter to this value in the O&A window. The result was unexpected : in fact the video is played during 51s 824 and freezes on the last frame which remains as a still picture up to 1mn 11s then the next slide is played. I expected that the video would have stopped playing at 51s 824 then the next slide should have been played. The information of the duration of the video clip on the timeline remains unchanged at 1mn 11s. But if I modify the duration parameter by clicking on the information directly on the timeline, the video is played as expected! Best regards Daniel

Igor, I confirm that beta 3, solves the sound problem (amplification and saturation) on my side, Thank you Daniel

I full agree with Jean-Cyprien, this cross button is more dangerous than useful as the right click on a slide enables to remove the slide Daniel.

Igor Installing the new beta 2, I reproduce exactly the same phenomena as described previously with beta 1 so this time I made a save of the files I will provide to you. Best regards Daniel

SUPERBE! Bravo! Daniel

SUPERBE!...Bravo! Daniel

Thank you Bert, Thank you Lin I will transmit your comments to the slideshow creators! Best regards Daniel

Sorry Igor, but following your demand I tried to reopen the project but was unable to reproduce this sound problem. Perhaps a problem of memory reset? I should have restarted my PC after the v7.0 installation. Have a good week-end! Daniel

AMBIGUITE Or the two faces of the mankind(sorry the text is in french) This slideshow has been created by several members of our forum. They were very impatient to play with the new V7.0 by inserting video clips. Perhaps it could gives somme ideas? PTE v7.0 : ....one giant leap for the diaporama world! Thank you Igor ( from GY, Diou, Dan ...)

Yes in Project Options/ Music Tab. I used a slideshow already prepared with v6.5 and I opened it with V7.0 everything was OK the music works fine. Then I inserted a video clip as a new slide, but it was necessary to stop the music during the video clip, so I modified the duration parameter of the sound file (Music Tab). But I was very surprised because the duration was not modified but the music was amplified and saturated during the video clip. I thought the effect was caused by the video clip so I deleted the video clip from the timeline but the problem remains the same. I saved the project with a new name but I got the same result. see above, no the program did not hung up In fact the first time I read the slideshow with the mini viewer I think (not so sure because I cant reproduce it after)it was OK but reading the slideshow with the preview button or by creating an exe file the problem was there. No that is not a sound click. I could recognise the music but very amplified and saturated, it appears on the synchronization bar/timeline as a plain rectangular blue bar. Daniel

Sound problems Congatulations Igor, there are a lot of very attractive features in this release. Even with my old Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 I had no problem inserting a MPEG4 video clip (see Mediainfo report). It required only few seconds to create the EXE file, and the quality is quite good, very very impressive! Now, I am very eager to test my Sony and Panasonic AVCHD 720p and 1080i videos! 1) However I have experienced an important problem with sound features. Using the music tab of Project Options, when I specify a duration shorter than the sound file length, PTE plays the music perfectly well up to the duration specified but after there is a big amplification and saturation problem and it becomes unusable. This problem did not exist with v6.5. I must say the problem remains with or without the video clip. 2) It would be nice if it was possible to be able to adjust the sound level of the video as for music and comments Daniel For your information : Mediainfo report on video ID : 1 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Profil du format : Advanced Simple@L1 Paramètres du format, BVOP : Oui Paramètres du format, QPel : Non Paramètres du format, GMC : Pas de warppoints Paramètres du format, Matrice : Default (H.263) Identifiant du codec : 20 Durée : 1mn 11s Type de débit : Variable Débit : 5 195 Kbps Largeur : 1 280 pixels Hauteur : 720 pixels Format à l'écran : 16/9 Type d'images/s : Constant Images par seconde : 24,000 Im/s Espace de couleurs : YUV Sous-échantillonnage de la chrom : 4:2:0 Profondeur des couleurs : 8 bits Type d'image : Progressif Bits/(Pixel*Image) : 0.235 Taille du flux : 44,0 Mio (96%) Bibliothèque utilisée : Lavc52.66.0

This new main window looks fine, several information about slides are added but I agree with Peter, it is very important to keep an icon button for the digital lightbox, short keys are important for experts but are real traps for beginners who do not want to read all the user manual before making their first slide. The most intuitive is the interface the better it is for all PTE users! I Some questions to Igor, - I do not understand the reason for the cross ( on the same line as Customize Slide and O&A ) what is the purpose? Other comment : Even if Xaver is right, personnaly I do not see any inconvenience to keep the same wording "Slide" for Pictures or Videos or both. Daniel

Hi Igor You will find a short AVCHD 1080i 50fps (MPEG4/H264 AVC Part10) video taken with a Sony HD camcorder. Daniel