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Would it be possible to turn off hardware acceleration in "customize slide" Charlie.

Can someone tell me why PTE5 has discarded the 'transition to desktop' effect at the end of the slideshow? On version 4 it was a very useful and versatile effect. Now, the only way to end a show is abruptly with the final frame of the slideshow cutting straight to the desktop - no fade or other transition can be used. It looks terrible. Alternatively, I can leave the last photo hanging there.... not a very satisfying way to end a show. What made you take out such a useful function? And when are you going to put it back in again?????!!!!!!

Hello, It would not be judicious to envisage a button to record work when we are in the editor of object. It is true that by the keyboard via the keys “Ctrl+S” it is possible to do it, but the majority among us do not have these automatisms. Thank you in advance for the answer.

Production Notes (or Project Notes) Window within PTEs GUI with capability to enter/save/display any notes or comments ... this would be relative to the currently opened .pte project file. This would allow one to keep the current state/ history of the project by inserting any personal text notations. It also would be a very helpful reminder when opening the saved .pte project file after some lengthy time period or when uploading for another users benefit. The information would be saved/contained within the .pte file and only viewable from within PTEs GUI. Something like below :

hello - this is a corrected version of a former post, which probably got misunderstood: I think many of us are resizing their images before putting picture shows together with P2E, with all the "organizational overhead" that comes with it: batch conversion of the puctures, storing them in a separate directory and keeping them as well as the originals as long as you might want to come back and change the pte show. Is there any intention to include picture resizing into P2E - it would just make a great program even better! thanks much for any input -

HD video usually comes with a higher-definition soundtrack than CD-quality (16-bit, 2-channel). Could PTE support this in the future?

Igor, Would it be possible in a future version to be able to join two shows together or append one show to another from within PTE? I would happy to be able to do this BEFORE adding music to the final show. I think that the complications of joining two shows, both with music, might present difficulties (or maybe not?). This would make it much easier to construct shows made up from standard Introductions and Endings. In Powerpoint this can be achieved by the command “Insert slides from files”. A similar method might be adapted to PTE? Best wishes, DaveG

Hi Igor, The following might be a useful idea for people wanting to easily and quickly create audio timesync'd slideshows... especially those who create slideshows for weddings, engagement sessions etc Provide a facility for the user to listen to the audio track on it's own (no slides etc). While listening to the audio, the user can add a timecode marker by clicking an add button (or pressing a key - eg spacebar). This would make it easy for someone to put markers in on beats, or at key points during the audio track. once they finished listening, they could then add slides to the project and choose an option to sync slides using these timecode markers. The slides would then be distributed along the timeline with their durations set by each corresponding timecode marker. - eg slide one starts with the music, slide 2 with timecode #1, slide 3 with timecode #2 and so on. This would make it very easy for a user to sync music & slides together. OK, the sync may not be exact, but for someone doing quick repeated 'production' shows (such as weddings), then it would be a great timesaver. A couple of other ideas to add to this one: + Allow the timecode markers to be saved as a template (then the songs can be re-used again easily without having to redo the listen/mark each time.). + Add the abilty to generate an intial set of random motion effects across the entire timeline using the pan/zoom and cross-fade effects as default. Again, this would save a lot of time in the initial setup of the slideshow for people making lots of them. They would only then need to review each slide and make sure that the pan/zoom effect was centred on the right 'focus' - eg a persons face. Feel free to e-mail me if you want any further explanation of the above!

A feature to link "Comments" to opacity fades, etc. You can easily fade out an image but "comments" remain on the screen which rather defeats the aesthetics. An option to also fade out or control the amount of time "comments" remain on the slide would be helpful. Best regards, Lin

I would like to be able to see which images have animation applied while I am working within the time line. That way I can make allowance in the timing for the animation. Perhaps a change of colour to the blue flag Could the slide list be made to scroll while the timeline is on screen. I don't mean automatically, but being able to slide it along to see what images are coming up without having to close the time line would be useful. I doubt its practical to add a tiny thumbnail to the timeline in place of the blue flag that would do the same thing. Sometimes when going between the image editor, sound editor and PTE5, slides get applied to the time line even though the option to automatically add slides is turned off. They appear right at the far end of the time line which is very confusing until you tumble whats happening. Why does repeat music after playing always appear ticked by default. Isn't it better to do this the other way round. In objects and animation would not Cover screen, Fit to Screen and Original be a better label than fit to slide and cover slide? I would like to be able to easily create buttons of exactly the same size as each other despite what text I apply to them. At present, unless I am missing the solution the button grows if I add more letters than the previous. For the sake of newer users of PTE why not call the Time Line the same inside the dialogue as well as on the button rather than Customisze Synchronisation All for now Barry Beckham

Hi Igor, Something for the future. Possibly a "fade-out" and a separate "fade-in" transitions. One thing which has been problematic is matching precisely the end of a slide which is zooming in with the start of the next slide to continue the zoom in a seamless fashion. Perhaps if there were separate "fade-out" and "fade-in" transitions it would be easier to match these to make a seamless transition rather than the fade out/fade in. That is so that the timings could be different rather than the same for the beginning and end of a slide. If it were possible to end a fade out on slide "A" while slide "B" was beginning a "fade in" then when each are set to linear and with the same slide timings and zoom ratios and identical points and sizes on the timeline where one begins the fade out and the other the fade in then if the timings for the fades were identical the change from slide "A" to slide "B" would be virtually indistinguishable provided that the images were carefully matched for color, saturation, sharpness, contrast, levels, etc. Best regards, Lin

This is really a question for Igor. There are a number of default setting parameters defined within PTE. For example in the "objects and animation" window under the "common" tab, the default setting for "mode" is "fit to slide". Question : Are these defaults defined in the .ini file, and if so, can this file be edited to change the order of the defaults, e.g. change "fit to sldie" to "cover slide"? Jeff

Minor request for future version. Would it be possible to choose a default font - something other than Times Roman - anything but Times Roman! Thanks, DaveG

Hallo! For the next Version my desire: Support Dolby Digital (ac3) and/or DTS for Burn DVD with VideoBuilder No create ac3 in PTE, but Support for existing files! Is that realizable? Thanks for answer Uwe

Hi, It would be nice to display pixel size image somewhere in status bar. This will help to know if image need to be resized for slide show. here is a screen copy to illustrate. Alain

Hello gentlemen, I am using now PTE, spending many hours to learn the software and I have suggestions : 1) - Can we in the future to have the name of the sound in the timeline mode, right now the end of each sound is pictured by a vertical red line, and when the project is long, it is difficult to see which sound is curently played à this position. 2) Actually when we play at the current slide the 1st sound starts, and we don't know the position of the sound in regards to the slide. Is it planned in the future to get this function ( may be I don't know how the software works). This software is very fantastic , and I hope you will issue the help file for the finale release showing the whole functions. My best regards Your best supporter.

Before I saw the light I used ProShow Producer, it had a nice feature in that it would run an intro movie before showing the DVD Menu. This looks very professional, it enabled me to display a disclaimer and run my logo animation. I believe that this would be a nice feature in future PTE versions. I have also commented on the wish to be able to play music over the DVD Menu.

Could you add options to add Vol Up and Down. So we could add the option for viewer to turn up or down the Volume on the computer while viewing.

In the timeline window, to help the user to mix his soundtrack, it would be very useful to have the ability to display time delay between two points. Left click on the timeline to choose the beginning and right click to choose the end of slide with "display time" in the popup menu.

You can associate a sound to a slide. It is very useful to include sound sfx. It would be nice if you could specify a delay for this file sound to be played (by example, sound starts 1,3 seconds after beginning of slide, 0,7 seconds before beginning of slide).

If I remember correctly, Igor plan to make improvements on the "timeline" window. Will all objects (with animation) be displayed in the "timeline" window like they are in the "Objects and Animation" window (instead of main image) ? And it would be nice if the timeline window could be in fullscreen with a bigger vizualisation window, resizable by the user like in the "main" window.

At the moment when selecting text comments for new slides in the project options - Comments window, selecting an option from the popup always overwrites the current contents rather than adding it at the cursor position. So if I want the comment to show the Exif date and time, I have to select time copy it, select date (which replaces the time) and then paste the time back in. Would it not be a good idea to add the selected comment to the current cursor position?

Hi Igor, What would be nice would be a macro calling a formatted EXIF text containing the more common EXIF data fields. Fields such as Camera, date, time, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, exposure, etc. so that it wouldn't be necessary to use a third party program to output a separate text file containing the EXIF information for each photo. We could ask for user input to decide which fields would be ideal. There is generally no need to output "all" EXIF fields because some are quite esoteric and only important in some cases and these can always be done on an individual basis, but having a convenient way to quickly add the major information to a slide would be a very big and important feature for photographers. Here's a quick link to a single image file using an EXIF text file exported from Panda PowerExif and imported into PTE showing how it might be used. Of course this one has all the relevant EXIF information and much more than generally needed. http://www.lin-evans.net/pte/testmenu.zip Lin

Hi, Sometimes, I'd like to add a null image in Slide List, just in order to go to O&A window and make some animation with text, button, .... So each time I'm looking for a simple image (white or black) in directories, add it in slide list and delete it in O&A object list. Would it be possible to add in right clic menu Slide List something like : Add a null image. This will allow you to go to O&A window whithout any object in object list. Alain

Hi, Sometimes, in tree list or in file panel I'd like to : - delete an image in file panel with "delete" in right clic menu. (instead to use "Explorer" and look for "Delete" Windows action.) - to create / delete some directories. - to drag and drop some images / directories in tree or file panel. Well, nothing much what's possible to do under an Explorer. Alain