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Hi Igor, Would it be possible in a future version to be able to "distort" images? At present we can alter height and/or width. How about narrowing the top of an image while making the bottom of the image wider? What I would like to be able to do is create the shapes necessary to do do "Star Wars" type intros within PTE and not have to do it in PS etc. That's just one example. I have mentioned this before - is it still impossible? DaveG

Hi all, I'm working on a slideshow with beta 11A, it has just under 1000 photos. I've got music independent of slides so when a certain slide appears I have added an .mp3 to start playing at that point. Having previewed my slideshow (63mins) I have discovered a few places where I need to add a 2nd or 3rd .mp3 to a certain section of slides but it's VERY difficult to see which SPECIFIC slides I've manually added music to - am I missing the obvious here, is there not some icon or colour that can be used to show on your list of slides which ones you've overriden the defaults and applied CUSTOM effects/music to? Also, without being able to easily find these specific slides with music attached, I'm not sure which .mp3 files out of my folder that I've actually used in the show - it would be nice if there was a way to show a list of ALL attached music files used in the show and maybe even list which slides they are on etc.... Does any of this make any sense?! Thanks, Fedorov.

Hi, Following Multi time line suggestion, which seems not so easy to implement, here is another suggestion may be easier to implement in PTE. The idea is always the same : to have a wider point of view of others object's keypoints in order to synchronise and place others object's keypoints at same time. The idea would be to add some cursor marks in time line for a slide. This mark would be seen by any objet in the slide. This would help to add some keypoint at the same time. - in time line with right click you could choose in menu : "Add Cursor mark here" - you could add several "Cursor mark". (let's say up to eight with default different colors) - you could also delete a Cursor mark. Here is a screen copy to illustrate. This follow another and same suggestion already done but I couldn't find it again in forum. Alain

Hi, In O&A window, I'm trying to use Keypoint time value in Animation Tab. But I can't manage to think (or my mind is too slow) with relative keypoint time values (in animation tab). Keypoint time values in time line is displayed in absolute time. In fact the problem occur only when time is less than one minute. Here is a screen copy to illustrate. I posted this topic here because it could also be posted in "Report bug beta" or "suggestion for future". Depending point of view. Alain

I would like to use "dynamic blur" in the same way as the pzr parameters are designed. Today, blur is per object but it is just "on" or "off". It would be great if you could change the amount of blur (0 - 100 %) for different objects from keypoint to keypoint. Would it be possible to extend the "pzr" concept to "pzrb" ? Ragnar

What would be very great is to associate at a picture or at an object with all its children an alpha layer in which we can put a W&B picture with its own PZR effect, it would be possible like that to do a lot of effects, for instance make moving the part of a picture with opacity at 100%.

To day we can have an effect between 2 slides, it would be nice to have the same effects on an objects and its children. For instance we could put a curling of page for an album. It would be also nice to have the possiblity for some effects as hour hand, rhombus, rectangle to do as for circle : change the center.

It would be very handy to be able to select multiple keypoints in the O&A window (like you can now with the Timeline window using CTRL or SHIFT + Click) As it stands now if you make an animation but want to insert something or move the animation back or forward in time its a very time consuming process. Andrew

I would appreciate if I could set my own default values for PTE to use. Lets say that I almost always will use "smoothe" (or some of my own created) speed schemes for animations, and always want "separate here" (not glue). These are just an example, there are many default values in PTE that that could use my suggested feature : - A pte.ini file where you set your own default values, or a menu selectable setup window for PTE defaults. Ragnar

Hi, In order to follow "reset to default vlue" by a mouse click on actions (Pan, zoom, rotate, ...), this feature is missing for "Line spacing" in "Properties" tab. A "reset to default value" should be added when clicking in "Line spacing" text. Here is a screen copy to illustrate. Alain

Hi Igor, I just lost about three hours of work on a menu system because I ran out of memory - LOL. I "should" have been saving my work, but didn't. If it's not too much work for a future version, perhaps an "autosave" feature with a check box so it would be prossible to prevent this type thing and one could only loose the work since last save. Best regards, Lin

Hi, In objet list, it would be nice to add "Drag and Drop" feature for objects. By this way, you could move up or down easily objects rather to use Ctrl+Pgup or Ctrl+Pgdown. This is not important feature but this will give to PTE a better "window" use. Here is screen to illustrate. Alain

Hi, It would be nice to add a "Play" button which could play slide from current cursor position. This would save quite a lot of time when trying to synchronise effects near end of slide time. (specially when slide time is quite high. (> 30sec)) Here a screen copy to illustrate. Alain

Another poster has posted this somewhere else in the forum's but I can't find it just now so thought I would make it a seperate heading in "suggestions". I have spent some time programming shows of late and am finding after I synchronise some transitions to a soundtrack I might want to insert some silence or a title sequence and I need to shift the current slide plus all slides to the right backwards or forwards along the timeline. Would be very useful in the timeline window to be able to right click a transition point and choose the option "Select current slide and all slides to right..." this would make it easy to shift all the affected points to resync with your soundtrack and tweak as necessary. Andrew

Hi 2 topics I would like addressed in future versions of PTE The text facility could be updated with bevel, emboss etc like in Adobe Photoshop. I would also like to be able to make a voice commentary with a click of a button 'record' say what you have to say then click button 'stop' This facility is also in photostory3. Look forward to hearing your comments Regards Jean

Would it be possible to access the O&A window for any slide by right clicking on the transition point in the timeline and selecting a menu option? This would save having to back out of the Timeline Window everytime you wanted to make small adjustments. Andrew

Hello, just another idea, sounds easy but maybe isn't, I tested in v5 beta 11 adding animated .gif image would it be possible without too much programming to display the picture's inherent animation when showing it? Rgds, Volker (sorry for posting this in the wrong section at first, Ken, maybe someone can delete my original post)

Currently ONLY in the timeline can you use the option to "Replace the main image.." by right clicking on the transistion point and selecting the option. This allows you to keep timings, effects, objects and animation of the slide but change the image. Can this option also be included in the main Slide List View i.e without having to go into the Timeline.

For many years now I've been making my friends happy with screensavers made with Pictures to Exe. One problem though: several of my friends have a Mac and they don't want to change their minds. As far as I know there is only one program, ScreenTime, which can produce screensavers both for PC and Mac. It's very expensive though. Would it be possible to expand Pictures to Exe with this option?

I would like to see the ability to sync an audio track (music or speech) across a section of slides - eg starting at a particular slide instead of the beginning of the show. For example, at present I use a two part presentation - 1st part is talk and manually change slides. 2nd Part is a sync'd audio-visual. 1st part is variable duration depending on how much I talk...2nd part is a fixed duration according to the slides and music. At the moment, I have to create two separate slideshows and run one after the other as I can't fix the soundtrack to the timeline (I know which slide it starts at...but not the time!). Because they are run as two shows, this often means that the desktop is visible during the changeover between shows, and doesn't look 100% professional. It would be great if the two shows could be rolled into one, with the music being synced across a particular section of the slides eg between slide 100 and 280. If this could also be extended to work multiple times then it would be really great.... eg: slides 1- 100 talk (no sync or audio track) slides 101 - 200 AudioVisual (sync'd audio track) Slides 201 - 220 talk (no sync or audio track) Slides 221 - 300 AudioVisual (sync'd audio track) etc etc.

I feel a little bit guilty to already post suggestions for new versions although final v5.00 has not been released yet and Igor and Team still work hard on it. Anyway, here is one of my suggestion for FUTURE version : - ability to hear/mute background music and sound in O/A window

- Sounds comments in Customize synchronization window Scheduled for v5.1

Please post each suggestion or idea in separate topic. It will help me and other members quickly find new suggestions for future versions of PicturesToExe. When I will work on new version I will read this forum. Also I'll post suggestions from my TODO list (which I've received by email from other users or my own ideas). I'll comment every topic (in field which located below title of a topic) with remarks: "Done: v5.10", "Scheduled for v5.10", "Declined", "Maybe in v5.20", etc. Thank you in advance! Your opinion is very important for us.

3. Declined improvements - all suggestions not accepted by Wnsoft are taken off the Suggested improvements list and added to this list. see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....c=6550&st=0 for basic guidelines ken

2. Accepted improvements - all suggestions that have been accepted by Wnsoft are taken off the Suggested improvements list and added to this list, maybe even with a future implementation date added (if possible). see see http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....c=6550&st=0 for basic guidelines ken