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  1. Text objects are not well suited for having child objects. The position of a child object (with fixed coordinates) depends on the aspect ratio of its parent. The aspect ratio of a text object typically changes if you change the text, or the font, or the line spacing. I think that this is the reason why PTE does not allow child objects of text objects. My recommendation: Build up a hierarchy of transparent frames and add texts object at appropriate positions.

  2. Styles are a very good concept, but the way to apply them is (to some extent) misleading. As we see here, it happens quite often that users build up their slides (including several animated images), and then they try to apply a particular style to these slides, wondering that the effect does not meet their expectations. What we have to keep in mind: A style is a kind of a generic slide (or a series of slides), and it requires just as input a set of images (or videos), but not a set of (preconstructed) slides. IMO the user interface for styles should take this into account. I would not regard the slide list as the appropriate input medium for styles. It works, but ....

  3. 16 hours ago, jkb said:

    ... maybe Blur.

    Regarding Blur, it seems that presently we have "nested blur" automatically, and it would fine if we could switch it on or off. In the future version, there might be 3 buttons (or tick boxes) for switching on/off the common effects for opacity, blur, and color correction.

  4. 1 hour ago, jkb said:

    The other big difference is that the Toast starts with the transition in from the previous slide.

    I know this quite well. But sometime I prefer to start the local preview without showing the transition.

    Normally I do not use the mouse for the pause. But presently I am working on a live presentation. The pity is that PTE does not offer speaker support as m.objects does. So, for adding asynchronous audio, I have to make use of an external audio player that is controlled from PTE using batch scripts; and for certain reasons these scripts sometimes must do automatic mouse clicks into PTE's screen window. The whole thing would be much easier for me if PTE would offer the coexistence of synchronous and asynchronous audio in an appropriate way.

  5. Long time ago, there was a discussion, if the "Toast" (Preview from current position) should be a standard button or not. It isn't, but you can activate it in the toolbar settings. It has been said that we should rather use the Arrow Button at the mini player. Now, does the Arrow Button really replace the Toast? No, it doesn't. In the standard project settings, a left mouse click does not pause the show when it has been started with the Preview or the Toast; but the show pauses on mouse click if it has been started with the Arrow Button. :angry:

  6. 6 hours ago, henry64200 said:

    Apres avoir changé les textes en langue de votre choix il suffit d'enregistrer un nouveau fichier Pte ( exemple en Anglais ) de ce montage !

    ouvrir ce nouveau montage et enregistrer en un style avec un nouveau nom !

    henry

    PS/Par contre c'est très long a faire ligne par ligne avec " Google " traduction !

    It would really be a tedious job to read the posts in this forum, if all users would write in their native languages. AFAIK, this is an English forum.

  7. The features that I am asking for is part of so-called "Speaker Support", as it is called in the professional German/Austrian AV products.

    Think of a live presentation. In this case you will have parts which run automatically, and which need normal synchronous audio. But there will also be parts where you speak live to your slides. In this situation you cannot work with automatic slide progression; you must work with manual control (on one day a particular slide will stay on screen for 25 seconds, on another day it might be 45 seconds, depending on the situation and the audience). In such a part of the presentation your background audio has to be asynchronous. Furthermore you need well-defined time points for soft changes of audio clips (synchronous and asynchronous).

    At present time, I use PTE for playing the synchronous audio parts, and I use batch scripts for controlling foobar2000 to run asynchronous audio (in combination with NirCmd).

    This is the first time that I have to admit that my German AV friends are better off using their classical AV tools.

  8. Presently, I am working on manually controlled live presentations. Here I see a deficiency in the audio part of PTE.

    My suggestion: Introduce the co-existence of synchronous and asynchronous audio clips. For each clip the user should have the choice to make it synchronous or asynchronous. In the synchronous case, everything should be as it is at present time. In the asynchronous case, the clip should start (fade in) when the cursor reaches its start point on the timeline, and it should stop (fade out) when the cursor passes its indicated endpoint. Of course, the asynchronous clip should go on running in cases when the show stops between these two points (e.g. when waiting for a key press to show the next slide). If needed, the asynchronous clip should run in a loop.

  9. In the Online Help on Slide Options we read:

    Run External Application - Run an external slide show or application automatically. After the external application has terminated, the show continues with the next slide.

    This is not quite correct. The running show only stops if the called application opens a window that becomes the active one, and if you have chosen "Pause when slideshow window becomes inactive". In all other cases, PTE does not stop. If you make the slideshow window active again, the show goes on even if the external application has not terminated.

  10. My observations: In the attached project we should not hear the sound, as it's position is behind the last slide. In the Preview (not in all but in most cases) I can hear the sound. In the Mini Player (not in all but in most cases) the cursor stops not reaching the end point (see image). Nevertheless I can hear the sound. This happens in V9, V10.0.14, and V10.5.1

    testWAV--mod06.zip

    Timeline.thumb.png.a359cff7b24d0c08bb4699116d7ef580.png

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