jt49

The video does not have a duration in the timeline. The slide containing the video as an object has that kind of duration. This slide may contain other objects. Why should its duration be changed automatically? This would spoil the synchronization of all subsequent slides. Another feature with an awful side effect (like KFSD)

Maybe it is a question of naming. If this function would really do what its name says, it would be nonsense. So the name should be: Hide child objects in case of hidden parent (maybe too long)

It seems to work as in V8.

When the blur effect was introduced, there was a discussion it the blur effect should preserve the edges or not. The present blur effect does not preserve edges, and the outer parts of the blurred image become transparent. This is fine in a lot of cases, but not in all cases. In cases when dealing with background images, or with images having a border, I often would like to see a blur effect that preserves the edges, and which leaves the whole image opaque (like Gaussian blur in Photoshop). If I remember it correctly, this feature has been announced for future versions when version 8 was released. A request to all experts: Please do not post any workarounds here, I am aware of them

I wonder why this topic is marked as "solved". The original problem has not been solved! We only seen workarounds. What we really need is a second version of the blur effect that blurs the image but preserves the edges (and borders). I often use the blur effect for images that just fill the screen. The blur effect makes the outer parts partially transparent, a rather bad effect in many cases. Please notice that I do not want to see any workarounds here!!!!!!!

If WnSoft would implement all feature requests of that kind, PTE would overloaded with features that we do not really need. In your case you may start a new project, insert the images of your folder, choose the the slide options that you would like to see, and finally save this project into your folder. Now you can open this project whenever you like it, copy the slides and insert them into any other project.

Ich würde von einem kleinen Projekt, das dieses Verhalten zeigt, eine Zip-Sicherung machen, die fehlerhafte Exe-Datei mit in das Zip-Archiv legen und das Archiv dann auf einen Cloud-Server hochladen, freigeben und den Link an WnSoft übermitteln (z.B. als persönliche Nachricht an Igor). Gruß aus München jt49

You may the "Toast"

It seems to be a logical problem. You will see a similar effect when replacing images. You can open the slide options of some slide and replace the standard slide name (the name of the image) by some other name, as you like. Now PTE will keep this name, also in cases when replace your image. What you observe is rather a feature than a bug.

This would be a disaster. It should not! Make both objects to children of a common frame. Use the frame for programming animations, while blurring the background object.

This does not make sense, and it is not a question of a particular workflow. Videos, images, texts, etc. are visual objects, while slides are something completely different. Slides are logical objects, they are containers for all the visual objects. And such a container may include hundreds of visual objects. Perhaps you are asking for an additional button "Apply the default slide duration to all existing slides that do not contain any video"?

It really would be fine to have this feature. Let's hope to see it in V10

Will the low-compression codecs become an official feature of PTE 9 ? Will there be UltraHD video output based on H.265 ?

Do you really think that this wasn't clear to me? You may regard it as a political statement. Some time ago, if some people from the RPS AV-Group and I hadn't objected, the standard duration would have been totally replaced by the full duration with all its negative effects, including KFSD.

Where do you want to place it.Why not the standard duration, a parameter of greater importance?

It is logical that in case of "Show Global Times" we do not see the full duration (a parameter of minor importance ). It is not an anomaly. What we see is quite normal

There is nothing to correct here !!! A slide is a container for a set of visual objects, and it does not make sense to change the duration of a slide if one of its objects (maybe a video) will be replaced. An automatic change of duration is to be regarded as harmful, as it would destroy the synchronization of all slides that follow the one with the changed object. Regards, jt49

I don't think that it would make sense to link images to sound clips. You do it the other way round: You link clips to slides. You can easily link several clips to the same slide if the clips are on different tracks. Presently, you cannot link two or more clips from the same track to the same slide when working in the timeline. This restriction is nonsense, as you may want to link several short sounds to the same slide, and why not having them on the same track? But you can do it via the project options. In this case, an error is indicated (slide numbers in red), but nevertheless, it works

In V9, when highlighting an image in the file list, I can see the full path name in the status bar, while highlighting a slide, I only see the file name. I would prefer to see the full path name in both cases (as it is done in V8). Regards, jt

There isn't any confusion for me. I once proposed the feature for the export of the soundtrack (for testing it in an audio editor regarding clipping ...). If you really use PTE for extracting the audio part from a video, you typically do it in a separate project, and it is a conversion at the same time (say from AAC to MP3 or WAV). IMO this is a kind of workaround. For this action (and for a pure extraction) I would prefer a tool like XMedia Recode. All in all, this is not a big affair. On the other hand (repeating what I said twice above) it would be fine if PTE would accept more audio formats like AAC and FLAC. (BTW: I have ripped all my 1000+x CDs to FLAC).

There is another aspect: Some people regard it as a matter of course that the typical PTE user speaks English . As far as I know, the majority of PTE users speaks French. And even for the small German group of PTE users that I care for, I can say: They neither use the English online documentation. Thus, in cases of PTE's shortcomings it may not be a good argument to refer to the online help. BTW I do not look at it either

PTE does not extract the audio part of a video, it just uses it. You may apply a tool like XMedia Recode to extract a video's audio part. But as I said above: Extraction can be useless, as videos include audio parts (e.g. AAC) that PTE does not accept. So if you extract the audio part of a video, you also have to convert it to a format that PTE likes (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV). Isn't that confusing?

There is no doubt that the audio part of PTE should be revised, sooner or later. Examples: (1) I regard it as a disadvantage that we cannot add FLAC audio to a PTE project. (2) PTE can play AAC audio, as AAC is the standard audio coding for MP4-videos. But you cannot add AAC audio directly into PTE. You have to put it into an MP4-container and make it an MP4-video with an empty video part.

Two remarks: I have a notebook (bought in 2014) running the latest Windows 10, and it allows me to choose the graphic system (Intel or Nvidia) when running an exe-presentation. From my experience with shows prepared with a well-known AV-tool from Austria, I know that at least since Windows 7 the DirectX coming with the operating system does not include all legacy components. The easiest way to solve problems of missing DLLs is to download "dxwebsetup.exe" from Microsoft and runt it once. It will add to the system all legacy components.

The O&A button typically is grey when you have selected more that one slide in the slide list or in the timeline.