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Hi Lin, I think the idea suggested by bbela is to do the same thing in an easier way just by selecting a new background video within project options. Personnaly I do not see how I could use such an option, I've never used a video background in my projects up to now. Daniel

Hi Lin,, I am reluctant to use Facebook for different personnal reasons but however I think that is quite a good idea to create a dedicated Facebook group and let Facebook' friends know what it is possible to do with PTE. Good luck. Daniel

Jill , I know that and use too. I just want to say that, your suggestion is interesting (for me) only if this possibility remains available.

Barry, I agree with you , that is true in most cases ! Daniel JIll, If I understand you correctly, I work in the same way that you described but by my experience I often need to assign a comment part to a dedicated slide. I want that comment be moved at the same time with the slide if I need to do that. Daniel

Dave, I think Barry want to mean he already knows how to solve this problem. Daniel

+1 By the past I've already ask for this improvement Daniel

Thanks Nobeefstu, but that is not the idea. When I am starting a project I would like to be able to drag and drop directly on the timeline (slide list) at once. Dave, I think there is a misunderstanding, dragging multiple images on the timeline should create multiple slides exactly as it is today but dragging multiple images on the same slide (already existing on the timeline) should create multiple image objects inside the O&A list of objects. In my opinion, that will save time and ease the work! Best regards Daniel

Just in order to ease the work, I think that would save time if it was possible to drag and drop several image-objects from the file list on the same slide in the "slides" mode. As it is to day, each time we drag and drop an image from the file list it becomes a new slide on the Timeline and we have to open the O&A editor and add new images if we need more images for the slide animation. But when we are making a project we know which animation we want for a slide and which image-objects we need for the animation so it would be nice if we could drag and drop all the images at the same time. The first drag and drop image would be the "down" image in the objects list and the last one would be the "up" image in the objects-list of the O&A editor. Obviously the AV show maker will have to go into O&A editor for making all the other possible arrangements such as parent/child etc... Daniel

Hi Stu PTE is an amazing software, even after several years, I can yet discover a new feature! I must confess that I am used to use the wheel mouse for adjusting values with many other softwares (I can guess, I am not alone), so I ve never used this possibility up to now. I would not say that it is easier but could be considered as a workaround solution. Thanks Daniel

By my experience PTE could easily supersedes PowerPoint for "professionnal" presentations if there was a real text editor and possibility of effects on text objects without spending too much time for buiding it up. Daniel

That could replace the sliding index which is not accurate enough in most cases Daniel

The new h265 codec standards have been approved by january 2013, today there are several AV editing softwares which already include the possibility to create 4K videos but as far as I know, not yet using h265. The market price for 4k/h265 video projectors are still very high but should drop in the years to come. I think it would be a real breakthrough in AV editing softwares if next version of PTE was able to provide such possibility of 4K/h265 videos and will give guarantee for the future to AV show makers. Daniel

It would be great if it was possible to adjust animation parameters (Pan, Zoom, Rotate, Opacity, etc..) by using the mouse wheel Daniel

If we consider the way one very wellknown AV editing software proceed : 1) you must begin to define a slide duration 2) you may build up animation with keyframe positions along the slide duration as you want 3) if necessary you select and put transitions which are superposed to the slides but they are quite independent of them (so it is possible to adjust transition effects and duration without any impact on slide duration and animation). Alarms are indicated in case of user's error (compatibility between transition and slide duration as an example) And so, working that way, transition effects and slide animations runs indepently and can be tuned up independently as the user want it. Having build up a slide animation, what could help the user to save time if the slide duration should be modified : 1) first option* : If the slide duration should be modified as a whole (for music synchronization as an example), all the keyframes should be scaled. (In such a case the transition effect is not affected except if the user decide to modify it by himself) 2) second option** : all the keyframes remain at their time points and space is added after the last one. (this option ) I think that is a very convenient way for most AV show makers. PTE works a bit differently as slide duration and transition effects are imbricated which leads, some times to times, to complicate situation for "common" PTE users. - The first option mentionned above * is available with V8 and should remain, in my opinion it is very usefull - The second option mentionned above ** does not work with V8 if you want to increase duration with an animation having its last keyframe at C point, which is a strange behaviour ! But I know some of PTE's user do not want to change it. This should lead to 2 different options. On top of that, obviously new PTE versions should also assume compatibility with old ones .... Best regards Daniel

Hi Igor, that is an important source of improvement for the future of PTE! Yes, I would appreciate 1) to be able to display on separate tracks one or several keyframes timelines at the same time depending on the object selected ( why not a tick box associated with each object ) 2) to be able to "mask" one or several objects without having to modify their opacity (exactly like it is today in V8 with the mute track function for the audio track) 3) That the slope of the movement would be on smooth by default 4) To get keyframes tracks object by object, in order to get separated keyframes timelines for pan, zoom, rotation, opacity, etc...and the ability to adjust the slope of the movement at the same time (in this case, a double click on the selected object would display the keyframes tracks related to this object, as an example) Best regards Daniel reedited

Thanks to you all for your answers. First of all I woud say to Dave, that I full agree with what mhwarner said about piracy. I just would add : nobody is complaining against the possibility to download HD video ! But there is no difference in term of copyright between the use of an exe or an HD video file! But it is far more easy to modify an HD video. As Lin have underlined it, the purpose of this thread was not to open a discusssion on hacking process but to find a solution for PTE users who, for a reason or another have lost their .pte file or some part of their old PTE project (this can happen to anybody one day or another) and want to make an HD video. Obviously I agree with Ken advice except that saving the .pte file is not enough, the best way is to keep a full project back up in zip. And even doing that you are not certain to be able to reuse your old project if you had not made a copy of your fonts or converted all of your texts into png. So it is not so obvious for all PTE users. Thanks Denis and mhwarner for the links. I tried movavi : the first trial was not so good, the video images were flickering and not usable. The second trial was a bit better but the transitions were no longer smooth enough with visible jitter so, I think it is not a real good solution to match the PTE quality. Peter thanks for your proposal I will send you a PM However, I can guess, that for the future, the best technical solution is in Igor's hands. Best regards Daniel

Several times I get this question from our club's members : how can I convert my old PTE exe files ( the .pte file does not exist any more) into HD Video files. Perhaps I missed a step but personnaly I cannot answer correctly to this question. Does it exist an easy to use technical solution? Who can help us? Thanks in advance. Daniel

Sorry Igor for being very late to answer your question, perhaps too late...but in any case, just for your information... Creating an AVI file there was 3 different options available for project customization : 1) Virtual AVI video file (which existed previously since several years) 2) MPEG4 ASP video with AAC audio 3) Custom video & audio codec Personnaly I have made some experiences with all these 3 options Option 2 could have been interesting for those who had not powerful PC or video players but it is less and less the case. Today, in most countries, the TV programs are broadcast in h264 (MPEG4 AVC). Option 3 in my opinion is redundant with option1 and is even more difficult to use, I do not see any real interest for it as we can do the same and more with option 1. Option 1 is interesting. I used it several times exporting AVI frames from PTE to a third party video editor ( Virtualdub, as an example) this option gives the advantages to avoid cascading video coding and to use different codecs and filters depending on our needs. Personnaly I would appreciate if this option was maintained in the future. Best regards Daniel

Connection is faster and the pre existing problem of DNS I had mentionned several months ago has been solved (no more need to use public Google DNS to acceed PictureToExe Forum). Welldone Igor, good job! Daniel

Sorry Urmas but I think you have not understood my point. Color mamnagement will not solve this issue. Daniel

I want to add some comments about color mangement. We, in our club, have very few problem with color management between jpeg pictures and display screen as, in most cases they are all working in sRGB color space. (We made bad experiences with calibration : expensive tools, spending too much time, repeatedly, for a very very little different result and not always in the good way. Calibration is required only for printing.) Our main concern in fact, as I said in a previous post, is the difference of color settings of video-projector or TV set between videos (YUV) and Slideshow (sRGB) displays. In other words, I would say, if the color settings of the sRGB monitor are acurate for exe slideshow (sRGB), they are not for videos (YUV) and vice versa. When we make a screening session, we often have a mix of videos and exe files and it is not always easy at all to find the good "average" color settings for each category so, assuming this problem is due to YUV/sRGB color space difference, it would be very interesting, if it was possible, to have an option to switch from one color space to another in order to avoid to modify color settings during the session. Daniel

Sorry Igor, I missed this step before. The result of my tests with your Test Color Management 3 are in accordance with that. So in this case that will be perfect for me. Thanks. Daniel

Umas thanks for making some tests but if you are right in principle your tests are wrong, that is my fault, I must apologize for that. In fact when I said "original picture" that was not right, that was a print screen of the original picture saved with pixbuilder. The original picture was in sRGB, and I made the test with my original picture and obiously not with the printscreen. Most of the cameras, and "digital" screens are in sRGB which is a de facto standard for displaying pictures. Daniel

Hi Igor, After testing your latest version, I cannot see any differences between the three modes with my pictures which are all in sRGB; For my understanding, if you intend to work with color management I would like to know if it will make conversion from 8bits coding depth to X bits (and so in this case, is X a setting parameter)? And, in which color space will the pictures be converted by PTE. I just want to draw your attention on the fact that, up to now, few people know how to deal with color management and for the others I fear that color management option in PTE will bring them some more problem without a great interest for them due to the fact that, today, most of the displaying screens are still in sRGB for a while (I think, it will take time before the UHDTV becomes widely spread as there is no interest for common users except the color space). Personnaly I would prefer a color management option which could be able to switch all the slideshow from sRGB color space to YUV or UHDTV for example in order to avoid to modify the color settings of video projector or TV set. Best regards Daniel

Igor, sorry for being late to answer your question, I made your exercise with one of my own picture which was re-worked in photoshop. My conclusion is : with your test, the color management gives me a bad result : see attachment bellow. My personnal opinion : it is not easy to work with color management, except for some experts. I would leave that job to Photoshop, or other picture editing software. Daniel original picture (reworked in photoshop) result of your test :