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Question: Will WnSoft have to pay for any kind of licenses in case of publishing the video-builder together with PTE 10, or as a stand-alone application?

I wonder if it would be a good decision to offer PTE 10 with a component that will not be supported. It might be better to remove the video builder. There are lots of cheap and even free tools for authoring DVDs and BDs (for those who really want to use them).

A Slide Style is a pre-constructed, re-usable template for a slide, or a sequence of slides.

I would like to see if PTE would provide what sometimes is called speaker support. Assume that we have a show with alternating sections which change between automatic change of slides and manual control. Then it would be fine to have synchronization of slides and audio in the automatic parts, while there should be asynchronous audio in the manual parts. Of course it should be possible to define cross-fades between synchronous and asynchronous audio clips.

You should have a closer look

Beside producing AV, I have got involved with two German AV organizations; I organize a judging team for the Challenge 321; and I care for a local PTE user group. So I haven't got the time to produce video tutorials, in particular I do not intend to start a business of that kind

I fully agree, and there should be timeline scaling in O&A, as well. BTW: IMO audio in styles, as requested here, does not make much sense

Quite a nice demonstration. What I am missing are appropriate examples for custom speed profiles, e.g. accelerated motion but with a smooth stop, and others. BTW: The word linear (though being taken from former PTE versions) is not a good one. In the case called "linear" here, we see a uniform movement, the speed is constant; it is only the distance that grows linearly

What about making a simple test

There is a simple workaround. Assume having a project where the project file and all media are in folder A. Then copy the contents of A to some other folder B. If you now open the project file in B, PTE still uses the media from folder A . Close the project again. Then give folder A a new name (just for a moment). Then open the project file in folder B again, and save the project via the file menu. Rename A to its original name. The path B's project file will now point to the media in B .

I think that the Q&A-Window needs a more general kind of revision. It should be possible to scale the timeline in O&A (has already been discussed in the Alpha period of PTE 9); we should see the objects from the previous and the next slide during the transition periods, and it should be possible to see audio tracks in O&A in order to synchronize KFs. The revision may include a more direct way to change the duration, why not!

Don't you like to open the slide options from O&A?

The new button does a similar job as the "Toast", but not exactly the same one. If you highlight a slide, the cursor's position typically is behind the incoming transition. So clicking the new button does not show the transition, while the Toast does show it So, I myself like to have both buttons, depending on what I want to see, a start exactly at the cursor's position, or a slide including the incoming transition

Is it possible to avoid showing the vertical slices in the book's pages?

Referring to splines and the mathematics behind them cannot be regarded as helpful. What we need is a graphical description. We had it for the speed parameters in the old versions. I asked for it in the said thread from November 2016. And this is what Igor replied (November 28, 2016): We plan to add a graphic for better understanding how it works. So, let us hope that WnSoft will manage to offer a better interface for the speed settings.

It would be fine to see this feature in the Online Help

IMO this is a good suggestion

Presently we have a so-called natural blur for images, where the borders of the images become soft and partially transparent. This works well in many cases. Sometimes, in particular when working with images that precisely fill the screen, it would be fine to have a blur option that would work like Photoshop, with sharp borders, and without transparency. In cases where the image has a colored border (PTE Property in O&A), this border should remain as it is while blurring the image.

I would regard this as an implementation specific question. The present situation, where you cannot directly link two clips on the same track to the same slide in the timeline isn't perfect, as well. The reason: You can first draw a clip to some other track, link it, and draw it then to the place where you want to see it, with the known consequences (crossfade does not work, and an error indication in the project options) both of which which I do mind. So you force us to apply an odd workaround. BTW: I do not regard crossfades within the same track as a good solution, as you do not have a good control. I prefer crossfades using two tracks and the envelope. In the typical situation where you link several (normally very short) clips to the same slide you will not have any crossfades.

I am glad to read this! Sometimes I make heavy use of this feature (see below), and (so far) I have not noticed any problem.

As you see in my posted image above, I already make use of the feature of linking several images on the same track to the same slide, although PTE indicates errors in the Project Options. I would be glad if PTE wouldn't show these errors any longer, and if it were possible to do this kind of linking also in the Timeline.

I do not agree. You say that clips (not explicitly linked) that follow a linked clip were linked, as well. This is not really true. The effect that we see is only a side effect, as the position of this kind of clips is described via an offset relative to the preceding one. If you move such a clip (not explicitly linked) to some other track it looses its implicit link, and it may become linked (only implicitly) to some other slide. This is perhaps not what we want to see. Only a clip that has been explicitly linked to a particular slide remains linked to this slide, even if you move it across the tracks. Furthermore: Think of a clip that is explicitly linked to some slide. Now move it to some other track that already has some other clip linked to the same slide. Now you will see two clips on the same track, and they will both have an explicit link to the same slide. Things will work as you will expect it, and the world will seem to be OK. But there will be an indication of an error, but you will only see it in the Project Options. Question: Does this really make sense? It is an error that isn't really one! My suggestion: Make it legal, linking 2 or more clips that are on the same track to the same slide The attached picture shows a typical situation where I prefer to link several clips on the same track to the same slide:

I would have liked to see a statement by WnSoft

I know about all your arguments. But here we are talking about video editing and nothing else. Think of a new customer. He will not know that much on animation in 3D. But he might see that some AV tools offer "video editing", and this might be an argument. The competition offers video editing at frame level, and it might be good for PTE it it would offer something of that kind, as well.

If we look at the competition like m.objects or AquaSoft Stages we see that they (to some extend) are ahead of PTE. They offer at least a few tools for video editing, and it may also be regarded as an advantage that they work with multiple image and video tracks (instead of a single track of containers (slides)). I think that all programs for AV or slide shows cannot compare to video editors like Edius or Premiere Pro. Nevertheles it would be fine if PTE would improve its video editing capabilities, as far as possible.