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I've just had a think about this suggestion & don't think it is practical. However, on my Russian Cruise shows I am superimposing a feature slide above a common image. I add the common image the usual way & insert the feature image in the O&A page by selecting add image. I am using this tecnique where the feature image is an odd size & I don't wish to animate it. In the slide list at the bottom of the screen, the base image is listed not the feature image, would it be possible to have both image titles, or preferably the feature image. In the screen shot, the two feature images have the base image title, I would like to see the feature image title. Yachtsman1 V7.07.

Hi, Would it be possible to enable navigation to an external editor FROM O&A Object List as we can from Slide List. I for one would find this a great help. Regards John

In Object&Animation when slide(s) are synchronized with sound(s) in Beta11 (and previous) no similar "mute" option exists as track timeline, a bit (more?) annoying and distracting when focused on image(s) Da Campos

Hi, I don't know how others use this facility but I use it fairly frequently and find that if I don't remember to activate it as I add objects I can get into all sorts of trouble when later selecting an object in the image frame rather than the list. For me it would be great if this could be selected by de-fault. What do others think? John

Hi, Unless you are very well organised with your preparation for building sequences it can become troublesome when creating a Back Up to Zip folder. I refer to duplicate file names. I'm afraid that I am often guilty of this as I get ideas and head off in different directions pulling in images and objects from all over the place. My basic filing of original files is good (I use Aperture) but when I pull copies into my working folder structure (which eventually gets deleted) things can get out of hand. My way of working is that when researching an idea I copy images that I think I may need into this area (it is also structured with folders) so I have virtually every likely area covered. I then perform any Photoshop work from there. At various stages mainly towards the end of the project I consolidate by creating a B/U to ZIP. Occasionally I find that I have a file with the same name in two separate locations. PTE tells me that and that is a great help and totally necessary. However it does NOT tell me in which slides these objects are. When I am working on a sequence with in excess of 100 slides many with multiple objects it becomes difficult to locate the offending files to rename them. Would it be possible for PTE to also list this information, after all it clearly has the data. I know that many years ago somebody produced a program that could provide this data plus much more but for me that was OTT and an additional process. Cheers John

In 7.07 when I want to work on a video clip, I have to right click the clip, then select "convert" which opens the video editor, where I can do both functions. IMO this should be re-named "Edit Video Clip" or "Edit". New or infrequent users may get confused by the terminology, "Edit" covers both functions. Sorry if this has already been adressed. Yachtsman1.

Igor It would be useful to enable or disable snapping of a clip at the cursor... Il me semblerait utile de pouvoir activer ou désactiver le magnétisme des clips audio sur la ligne rouge du curseur, pour une plus grande précision ...

Many of us now use PTE to produce video output (in fact I no longer create any .exe files). Most NLE (Non-Linear Editor) software allows the user to specify times in frames rather than seconds and fractions of a second. This makes more sense for video output. For example the PAL standard has 25 frames per second. If I want, say, a simple fade effect from slide A to slide B and my output will be PAL video it only makes sense for the duration of the effect to be in multiples of 1/25 of a second because for each 1/25 of a second the video will display an entire frame. For PAL video it's very easy to do the arithmetic but it gets much harder to do the same arithmetic for NTSC and 24p output. Can we have a choice to set times in either seconds and fractions or in frames please?

Igor, When using some of the options in "PUBLISH" there is no "CANCEL" button and the only way out is the "x" button. e.g. HD Video I would like to see a "Cancel" option? DG

Since the new v750bx, there are some little inconsistencies with the french language 1) Timeline Timeline is translated as "Synchronisation" on the button of the right bottom toolbar and as "Ligne de temps" inside Parameters/Preferences. It would be better to keep "Ligne de temps" everywhere. However, in order to be coherent with other AV makers wordings, "Timeline" should have been translated as "Table de montage" (even if it is not exactly the case today, as it is not yet possible to drag and drop objects on the "Timeline") But in this case "Slide list" should have been translated as "Liste des vues" 2) Publish Publish is translated as "Publier" on the toolbars buttons except in the main menu where it remains "Créer" It would be better to keep "Publier" everywhere. Daniel

I'm sure that we all have, at sometime or other, encountered the following error condition: Yes, I know, it's always our fault for having renamed, deleted or moved the file; but wouldn't it be nice if PTE had some features to help us sort this out? What I envisage is a new Button (Search) that only appears in conjunction with this error. If we click that button, PTE initiates a Search for the missing file. If it finds a file of the same name, it offers us these choices: - use this file from that location - copy this file to a new location of our choice and use it from there - move this file to a new location of our choice and use it from there - continue the search (because this wasn't the file we wanted) - cancel the search Anyone else think that this would be a nice helpful feature to have?

Sometimes you might have one or many audio clips associated with various slides. Once the slideshow grows to a large enough size it becomes difficult to remember which slides have audio tracks associated. If the slideshow creator wants to change out a track (audio clip), or restore a missing [audio] file they have to manually hunt down the correct slide by opening the 'Customize slide' dialog box and selecting the 'Music' tab. Could we have the slide list thumbnails show if there is an audio file attached...maybe with a small icon or indicator of some sort?

What might be nice to have if at all possible, would be to be able to select a group of slides & have them fit to a selection of music. Say you have a piece of music & you want certain slides to auto fit to a 30sec part of it. You could select a group of slides eg slides 10 to 20 & then have them fit to that 30s of music. The other slides could be manually arranged to the rest of the music. I doubt I would use this as I always want my images to change in time with the music, but I am sure it would be useful to beginners. Even if it was just to be able to fit to a whole piece of music rather than a part of it. So if you had 3 pieces of music, you could auto fit groups of slides to each piece. Jill

Quand on travaille en bi écran, il est possible de mettre la fenêtre O&A sur le 2e écran. mais il faut le faire à chaque nouvelle ouverture de cette fenêtre. Il serait très pratique de pouvoir enregistrer dans un profil, la position des fenêtres et palettes d'outils, comme dans Photoshop par exemple. When working in dual screen, it is possible to put O&A window on the second screen. but it must be done for each new opening of this window. It would be very convenient to register a profile, as for example in Photoshop.

It would be interesting to film a person on a green (or blue) background and obtain a type Chroma key inlay in PTE. This is possible someday?

I'm on the second of my Edinburgh shows using 7.07, (daren't venture any further yet ) I have a 40 second video clip that I want to split into three sections to add stills between the video clips. I tried dragging the stills into the timeline view but it doesn't work. Suppose it's asking too much in view of all that's going on to introduce it in the next version, or is it impossible. :unsure: Yachtsman1.

It would be possible to obtain a list of project data, operative, name, time of the slide, etc .... Similar to Sy (p), but built into the PicturesToExe

Igor, If it is not too late PLEASE PLEASE consider within O&A enabling AUTOMATIC selection of the text entry box in the Properties Tab whenever the Text Icon is selected. I for one use this extensively and it drives me mad when I foget to take the EXTRA steps of going to the Properties Tab and clicking into the box. Thanks John

DAve, Are you happy for me to move this post into the topic under "Ideas and suggestions..." that I opened at Igor's request? It would keep all this related material in one place. Peter

This topic has been opened at Igor's request. It stems from a brief discussion in the v7.5 Beta section of the forum. Background V7.5 of PTE introduces at least three new "file types" that can be saved on behalf of the user: - a "Profile" of the Toolbar settings from Settings | Preferences | Toolbars - the auto-recovery data file(s) - a custom-built transition effect file It seems possible that other new file types might be introduced in future releases of PTE. Proposal I suggest a possible solution for managing these files via the following design: - add to Settings | Preferences a new tab called "Folders" - in this tab allow the user to specify their choice of folders for such as Templates, Custom Transitions, Toolbar profiles, Auto-Recovery files, etc. - when PTE launches, use these defined folders to access the relevant data - when PTE is running, use these defined folders to access the relevant data - if a new release of PTE introduces a new type of file that the user's data is being saved into, add a new folder definition to this new tab regards, Peter

Suggestion: The ability to save and load PREFERENCES SETS might be beneficial. I can envisage that different workspaces might be helpful for the Keep Full Slide Duration on and Keep Full slide Duration off options. The control for this is in the SYSTEM TAB. The options of Graphical, Video and Audio editors are in a different TAB as are the TOOLBAR options. It would therefore make more sense to me if the PREFERENCES SET could be saved and cover the whole gamut of controls. DG

Igor I wonder if you have thought about allowing the addition of silence anwhere in a sound track. To explain: I often use PTE for tutorials(commentary) and we also use it for our camera club competitions with the critique of our images being recorded from the judges comments. Its too time consuming to add the voice commentary to individual images, so I always mix the voice recordings together in Camtasia and bring it into PTE as one file. Its very convenient and quick to do that, but inevitably there are times when a slight miscalculation means I could do with a couple of seconds of silence inserted into an already made soundtrack. For example, between a short pause in the speech, I need to add a further 2 second pause to allow the image to be viewed longer.

When I use F4 (or F3) to show the Slide List (or the File List), I have difficulty in getting ALL the slides to show fully on one screen. I find using the slider bar erratic - the slides are either too small and fill only part of the screen or are too big and don't all fit on one screen. To have ALL the sldes showing on one screen is particularly useful when sorting the slides into order in a new project. My suggestion would be to have a default setting for both F3 and F4 functions to initially show ALL the slides filling one screen, after which the slider bar could be used to suit the subsequent sizing of the slides.

Igor, I wonder if this request has already been considered. Is it possible in the Object list box to be able to drag any object (perhaps not a child for obvious reasons) up or down to change its position rather by Rt clicking and selecting 'Order'? Rather like changing the layers in photoshop. I would imagine this would be too late for the next version as that is nearly ready I believe but perhaps to be on the 'To Do' list for a future version. Anthony

There are no specific guidelines in the user guide on use of the text facility in the "Objects and Animations" Window. In particular I wanted to change the default font. I looked right through the user guide but could find no information on the details of the text button in the Properties tag. I did notice the "Save and use by default" facility but it appeared to be "greyed out" and didn't react when clicked - so I assumed it hadn't done anything. I think it would be helpful if the guide covered all the facilites in this dialogue box and the appearance of the button to set the default text improved to make its function more obvious. DaveOR