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Please, Barry, why should I be interested in changing your mind? I think you missed the point. Besides, you may be right: just try, for example, to make a 51 minutes long "Hot in the City" (just an example, no offence intended...) and yes, it would fill everybody with dread, so, you are definitely right. Best regards, for now, as I must get back to my long and dreadful projects.

No offence intended, I am sorry for you...

As said before, " this kind of PTE projects may be suitable for PTE users, not for the public in general", so a "PTE private channel" only accessed by all PTE users.

May be the overall bitrate of your "Hot in the City", for example, is 6781 kb/s, Bits/(Pixel*Frame)=0,052 and my projects usualy are (example for a 51 minutes long) 23000 kb/s, 0,177 Bits/(Pixel*Frame), audio 305 kb/s - 48kHz (yours 251 kb/s - 44,1 kHz). As I said, most are 90% video, 10% photos. I think "video" is the main reason, not a slideshow but a movie. What about that "PTE private channel" on Youtube? Any possibility?

Barry, nice show! I have been watching this topic with interest, mainly when it drifted into EXE or MP4 discussion. All my projects (mainly video, including photos as well) are MP4 HD 60p 30Mbps 48KHz, all 40 minutes or more, like 53 minutes, MP4 with 8,7GB. How and to where upload this? Not Youtube, as this kind of projects may be suitable (or not...) for PTE users, not for the public in general. EXE is impossible because they must be built in 4 or 5 parts, joined together at the end into a MP4 (problem of the actual PTE 32-bit issue). So, how to? Would it be possible to create a "special" PTE private channel in Youtube, only acceeded by PTE users to upload and watch their MP4 projects? I have no idea. Regards, Jose

Just thinking: PTE was invented in the "old times" of pictures (= slides = photos), when people presented slideshows (made exclusively with pictures = photos = slides). Now, our so-called "slideshows" include more and more video clips, and with future v10 64-bit PTE will turn into the best 4K video editor (for me, it is already the best video editor although 32-bit version is a big limitation). The best video editor with similar capacities to edit video, as well as slides/photos/pictures. I think that this new ability could be explored. In fact, good video editors like VEGAS or PREMIERE would have to fight against a very big competitor like PTE. Moovie maker amateurs, perhaps professionals as well, don't even know that PTE exist, they look after VEGAS or PREMIERE to find their editing software. About changing the name, I have no idea if it would be a good step, but I think something could be made to extend the idea to video editing (videoshows). Jose

Copyright music... big problem! I have been making big PTE movie shows for years always using soundtracks from great movie composers, from Charlie Chaplin to Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Ennio Morricone, Maurice Jarre, etc., etc., which musics I download from iTunes. I think a show (movie) must have a coherent music soundtrack from start till the end, in terms of melody and orchestration, and nothing better to achieve this than taking a professional movie soundtrack and using some of its content. However, my movies are to be seen at home with my family and friends, or burnt on Blu-ray discs and offered to someother friends for home use. Copyright rules should contemplate this kind of amateur private use. Jose

It would be very strange such a degradation since 2014...! I find VLC not too much reliable, I think ZOOM is the best. Regards, Jose

Hi George, How many years ago was this MOV transferred from your camera to your computer? No more transfers since? Anyhow, did you try to play it in another player besides VLC? By the way, could you give all details of such MOV file (MediaInfo report)? I have no answer to your/our concerns about durability of our digital memories, but this is an interesting point to discuss. I never had such degradation in my oldest digital videos. On the contrary, my old BETA and VHS analog recordings, as well as photo Kodak slides and 8mm and Super8 films are degradating fast every day. Regards, Jose

That is exactly what I am doing: I make several PTE project’s parts, respective HD MP4 files and concat them using FFMPEG without any reconversion, so keeping original PTE quality. But it is not easy to decide start and end of each part, mainly because of audio connections, which can not be discontinued. PTE 64-bit is much necessary!

Hi Igor, I am very much affraid to update to a Beta version because I am building a big PTE project and something can happen. I would prefer waiting for a final version ...! Thanks anyhow for your help. Best regards, Jose

Hi, No, never tried. However, I never make EXE fiIes, only build HD MP4 fies of my projects. Anyhow, could you please let me know what happens when we select such option? I mean, in terms of either for EXE files or for MP4 files. I presume that required memory will be less, but is this compatible with publishing MP4 files? My computer is 32GB RAM, graphic card is 4GB (AMD Radeon HD 8970M), Windows 7, 64-bit. I have in front of me a PTE project open. Windows Task Manager indicates: - in Performance: Memory 3,68 GB - in Processes: PTE 563.976 K, Windows Explorer 272.756K, 18 more items with 2.140K to 7.112K. This is because I always delete a lot of unnecessary processes in order to free some memory. Afer 1 hour working with PTE, Performance reaches some 4,12 GB memory. Sometimes PTE freezes. To avoid freezing/crashing, I restart computer and start again (with the actual 3,68 GB). Very much annoying, don’t you think? PTE high quality is well worth, but I am anxious for 64-bit version. Regards, Jose

Hi Igor, You said: “Being a 32-bit app, PTE 9 can use only up to 2 GB of system memory. With a special trick we can extend this limit up to 3.9 GB.” What is such special trick? As you know, I am always figting against this 2GB limit in my PTE big video projects. I wonder if I could use such trick to easy my life... Regards, Jose

Thank you very much, good idea! Regards, Jose

Hi Igor, Something more about this problem: Project (Part 2) with 132 slides, lots and lots of Master/Link videos along it. First 3 slides were there just for me to figure out how Part 1 would connect with Part 2 ( I am building my project by parts, due to 32-bit limitations). When I finished this Part 2, I had to delete those first 3 slides. All Master/Link videos were lost, I mean, not green, but frozen! Now I have to rebuilt all these Master/Link videos. I hope you can solve this for PTE 9. Thanks, Jose

PTE can publish very high quality HD mp4 files which deserve to be burn in Blu-ray discs, not DVD anymore. Such mp4 files can be changed into BD format without any re-encoding, so keeping 100% of their high quality. BD discs result simply amazing! DVD days are finished.

Hi Igor, Jill said "You would be better spending the time on making video editing better with multiple image tracks." Not a bad idea! But I would ask once more to keep timeline static while you zoom in, I mean, line position static. Now, when we zoom in, timeline runs to left or right. Thank you. Jose

Hi Denis, Yes! Even with a very small project and a very simple avi file! So, this problem really exists. Igor said before that "Future PTE 10 works correctly anywhere". I wonder why it shows in v9 and not in v10...? Regards, Jose

Hi Igor, Sorry for the delay. Only today I could stop for a moment my actual big PTE project in order to prepare such small project. ZIP file is 256 MB, so please let me know an email adress to send it by WeTransfer. This test project has only 8 slides, last 5 have 1 Master video and 4 linked. Before, the project had not slides nr 2 and 3. Then I inserted nr 2 and 3. I expected to face the usual problem, video slides turning green. But this did not happen, I don´t understand why. May be the problem only shows when the project is big. In fact, the project I am working on (where the problem shows) has 338 slides and 26 minutes by now, ZIP file has 12,2 GB! And this is only Part 1. As usual, facing the PTE 32-bit limitations, I have to build big projects by parts, and join them at the end. In case you let me know how to send you the 12,2 GB ZIP file, I will be pleased to send it to you and you could make your own tests on it. Regards, Jose

Igor, Preview and fullscreen “green”. Jose

Igor, I can see "green" in Timeline and O&A and play in timeline and O&A. I did not try to see in Slide list, neither in preview, fullscreen, EXE and created MP4 file. Next time I will face this problem, which will hapen still today, I will let you know about preview and fullscreen. By now, I will not make EXE file or MP4. When do you expect to deliver a final PTE 10 version? Regards, Jose

Hi Igor, Sorry to insist in this point: " how would it be possible to copy a audio track in the timeline, with all its keyframes and respective volume values, and paste it, complete as it is, to another new audio track? It would be most convenient for movie edition. Actual situation to achieve this is creating a new audio track, with this same audio file, and copy by hand, one by one, all keyframes and respective volume values". Please, kindly let me know if this is possible or not, or if you are intending to include this in your next update. Thanks, Jose

Hi Igor, Thank you. As I said, I am now with a very big movie project, fighting every day with this old problem (PTE native 32-bit, 4GB limit), and I am very much affraid of updating to v9.0.20 and making tests. I am sorry. By the way, I am glad that you will start to prepare a PTE Windows 64-bit, after the Mac 64-bit. You can not imagine how PTE is the best movie editing software, as I already said more than once, and it will be perfect when you will introduce some small details like the above "Copy/Paste audio track", "Bring to front option of audio track", "Keep static the timeline when zooming in", etc., as I have suggested in past times. The PTE movie editing big advantage is its capability of inserting precise graphics, zooming without quality loss, etc., etc.. This I can say, as I worked before with Premiere and Vegas. Best regards, Jose

Example: 1. Project with 10 slides, first 3 with photos, next 5 with a Master video and respective linked video, last 2 with photos. Everything working ok. 2. I insert 3 new slides (either with photos or videos) , for example between nr. 2 and nr. 3. Project is now 13 slides, and these 3 inserts are located before the Master and linked video, nothing to do with it. 3. Result: the 5 slides containing the Master and linked video turn green, either in timeline or in O&O. To make it work, I need to delete all the linked video, and start again to copy/paste them from the Master one to respective following 4 slides. So, I think there is some bug here, a most annoying one in my last case, a project with more than 100 slides, all with Master/linked several videos, and I decide to insert a single new slide somewhere: result is that I must re-make all Master/linked videos after this insertion, for example, some 50 or more times! Is this a bug, or am I missing something? By the way: how would it be possible to copy a audio track in the timeline, with all its keyframes and respective volume values, and paste it, complete as it is, to another new audio track? It would be most convenient for movie edition. Actual situation to achieve this is creating a new audio track, with this same audio file, and copy by hand, one by one, all keyframes and respective volume values. Most annoying! Thanks. Jose

Lin and Igor, Thanks. So, Igor confirmed what Lin said. Best regards, Jose