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My target : produce a manually controlled show where defined audio-titles will start at defined slides . As a solution in PTE 7.5.3 , I run several concatenated shows which start with these slides and the wanted audio-titles . Draw-Back : as I can't predict the current audio-title (manual control) there will be an angry 'break' in the music performance when changing to the next show which allows to fade-in the first title. Proposal : during the display of the last slide of a show allow for a defined fade-out of the current audio-title. This could be related to a button which when activated initiates the fade-out . For me a fixed / standard fade-out time would be sufficient . Regards - Paul

Hi! I have tried to drag sounds in Timeline, its works very well but I would like to adjust times by steps of 0.5 seconds (for example). I think this is only possible in Project options panel, by changing the times by hand. I suggest to define a grid or a time step, then when I'll drag sounds in Timeline it will be possible to snap to this grid by holding Shift or Ctrl key for exemple. What do you think about it?

I recently dipped my toe into the screen capture software fountain. I have tried 3 versions, Camtasia 8 came out head & shoulders above the three I tried. Unfortunately PTE's video conversion system (7.07) will not accept any of those I have tried without upsetting the original video to the extent that it becomes unusable without running the video through a third party software. So what I'm asking for is for PTE to increase the range of video codecs it accepts & to include videos from video capture software. Camtasia now records at 30FPS giving a much clearer picture than the others I have seen, I believe the codec is TSC2. Yachtsman1

Igor said (09 JAN 2013): The idea is really interesting, but I can't answer now. Please create a new topic for image stabilization in "Ideas and suggestions for next versions". The suggestion is to introduce in PTE (video section) an image stabilyzer. Almost all video editors have this feature. My experience shows that SONY VEGAS stabilizer is far better than any other, it has 3 stabilization degrees and it is very much effective in each degree. For people including videos in PTE projects, this feature in PTE would avoid at least 1 video conversion and consequent quality loss, because, as Igor says, stabilized image should be the original one, and after zoomings, fades, etc., it would be rendered only once (on the PTE converted video file), or so I understood. Jose

I wonder if the behaviour that I am experiencing when switching between the Slides view and the Timeline view is the most appropriate. Consider the following two sequences of actions: Sequence of actions 1: I am working in the normal Slides view I use the "triangle" icon to switch to Fullscreen mode of the Slides view I switch to the Timeline view Sequence of actions 2: I am working in the normal Timeline view I use the "triangle" icon to switch to Fullscreen mode of the Timeline view I switch to the Slides view In both cases, the final action reverts to normal mode on the selected view; it does not preserve the fact that I am working in Fullscreen mode. The question I am asking myself is: should it preserve the Fullscreen mode? I've started this topic to see what thoughts others have on this subject. regards, Peter

Slideshows that contain static images would benefit from variable frame rate video export. File size should be smaller than fixed frame rate video. Wiki Variable frame rate MPEG-4 Allows variable frame rate Thanks, Tom

The standard time that the clone of a keyframe advances in O/A appears to be 0.500 seconds. I want to clone keyframes numerous times by the same amount to match the beat of music. Is it possible the set the clone keyframe advance time to a different value other than 0.500? I know there are a few ways of repositioning the individual keyframes with Keyframe time, Shift keyframe, etc but they are very time consuming if a lot of cloning is required with a fixed advance. If there is no easy way in any "settings", can the advance value be changed in the PTE programme? Roger

Igor I would like to ask you to re-think your decision to hide the icon away that will easily start a slide show from any highlighted image. I have been making a couple of slide shows recently so I have been putting 7.5 to a good test. As usual I find myself wishing to do a full screen preview from a cetain image dozens, if not a hundred times during the production. Am I unique in doing this? I doubt it, but the button to allow that does not even show untill you access the options to display it. Yes, I appreciate Ctrl+R does the same thing, but I make this point for others, not me or the faithful. Although, having said that, when you work with a graphics tablet rather than a mouse. A button to tap is sometimes more convenient than Ctrl+R In my view, that button to start a slide show from a select image should be big and bold and up front where even the most innexperineced user will see it. Our main working area is along the bottom third of the screen and that is where it should be along with the main preview button. IMHO of course :rolleyes:/>/> PS. there still seesm to be a visual issue with the mouse pointer in the Objects and animation screen. There has been little mention of this so I am unsure if it is work in progress or it's been missed. I have recreated it on 3 separrate PC's and reported it in another thread.

It would be great if PTE had a circle geometric primitive. I can simulate a circle by rotating object rotated 1 degree, then copying object, and pasting 180 times. It is a very accurate circle but PTE must rotate 180 objects to create. Zoom effect slower due to large number of objects that must be scaled and transformed instead of 1 object. Other method might be with use of circular mask but it would still be nice to have a simple circle object with lower computing requirements. Test circle created by rectangle rotation. Thanks, Tom

Greetings, Maybe it can be done now, but I can not see how. I have 3 audio tracks that I have positioned just right, except that I want to nudge them slightly, as a group, without interupting the careful crossfading and customization that I have made to all of the audio tracks. So my suggestion is to be able to highlight the audio tracks (as we can do with files) and then use the mouse or arrow keys to move them all together as one track. Perhaps there could be an specific amount of time that can be selected to move the selected tracks per left/right arrow click. Gary

In making these suggestions, I am assuming 7.5 is the same as 7.07 in what I'm suggesting. Last night I used the Publish for IPhone/IPad function. In view of the proliferation of such devices, should this function now be re-named Publish for Smart Phone & Tablet? The last couple of shows I've made I've been trying to improve my knowledge of the functions in the O&A screen, in the Properties tab the directional arrows for the pan controls are not logically arranged & because of unfamiliarity with them invariably press the wrong arrow for the direction I want to move, if they can be moved to the left & right <> orientation & the pan up & pan down reversed, I'm sure it would help new & confused users. Yachtsman1

Sometimes i need to adjust objects parameters to accomodate the final result of very complex slides. I feel the need to place the time cursor before or after the key point and still being able to edit key point attributes. I currently need to select the key point, blindly change parameters values then move the time cursor in the interested location. And iterate more and more until good result is reached. With complex structures it's really annoying. Maybe something like CTRL+click over a key point to enable a "sticky editor" mode and being able to see how my edits reflect on the time point i'm currently on? Umberto

I feel that a "slide description" tag would be useful in the slide caption text. Sometimes i don't have the correct description in the image metadata and don't want to insert it for various reasons. Greetings! Umberto

I have looked at Picture To Exe and I'm impressed. But it is not what I'm looking for. Like many others I want to be able to put my slide shows on the web - I have hosted space to upload to. I don't want to email them or post a DVD. Far better to make something which only requires the user to click on a link. At the moment I have used Adobe Bridge. The current Adobe Bridge web offerings are still mostly based on Flash, with only a very basic HTML version. As Flash dies out, a good web based HTML5 solution is needed more and more. So you have a marvellous opportunity. All you have to do is write a new back-end that generates HTML5 instead of a .EXE - everything else remains the same. You will have a new product and will be twice as rich. The extraordinary thing is that as far as I can see there is NO competition yet! You could be first. What do you think?

I would like to save the set of properties of objects from "Objects and animation" window as a (custom) style. And then apply the same (or another) saved style to a new object. Like text in editors users can define their own set properties as a style and then reuse it or change the style and all objects with the same style change as well. At the moment the templates feature or simple copy and paste enables to clone the same set of properties and replacing text and/or images applies the same properties to a new object. It would be real benefit being able to edit the style and correspondingly change the properties of all objects with the same style in the same slideshow or (re)use the same styles in another slideshow. For example, I create an educational slideshow with explanatory text appearing on slides. However, after completing the slideshow, It appears, that there is need to change lets say font or fine tune some animations of all text. Or there appears need to fine tune some animation properties of picture (video) objects on several slides. Some of such tasks can be done with editing the pte text file directly. Some changes are difficult of impractical in this way. Having possibility to create, edit and apply styles when seeing it on monitor, would be really helpful.

PTE should take into account MONITOR PROFILES , which have been generated for the monitor by products like Datacolor Spyder , Xrite I1 Display Pro etc. This is required to view the pictures in exactly the way they were overworked in products like Adobe PS CS5 etc. EXE-Files should behave in the same manner - if there are issues with feasibility or performance , a workaround could be to incorporate the Monitor profile during EXE-generation . I am convinced that PTE would benfit a lot from the proposed extensions . Thanks - Paul

will Pictures to Exe ever be available for tablets?

Greetings, I would like to have file extensions of videos (and perhaps still images) to be included in the file names in the Timeline View and the Slides View. I understand it might be a rare circumstance when you would have similar video file (or still image) names with different extensions, but I have run across this possibility. I have attached a screen shot example of this problem in the Timeline View. Perhaps the best way to handle this is to have it as a Preference setting to allow extensions to be shown or not shown. This could be applied to still images, too. Thanks... Gary

I miss a function to easily offset forward/backward all (or single) audio tracks with all the audio clips that they contain. This would allow me to re-accomodate all synchronized audio when i insert a new slide at the beginning of the project. Moreover, it would be cool to offset all audio clips that begin after the moved/inserted slide (maybe with option to deactivate the feature) Umberto

After installing version 7.5 on Windows 8 I have (as expected) a new app (PicturesToExe 7.5) pinned to my Windows 8 start tiles. Because the start tiles are new in Windows 8 the installer must be aware of the version of Windows it is installing to, I would think. But during the installation I see the option not to create a start menu item. This may confuse some users because in Windows 8 there is no start menu any more (OK there are some 3rd-party tools out there to add an "old-style" start menu but the installer shouldn't rely on the user having one of these installed). Wouldn't it be better (if this is possible) to take away that option completely when installing to Windows 8? Please note the issue of terminology difference between Windows 8 and some earlier versions of Windows. Windows 8 does not have a start menu. It does have a "Start Screen" with tiles but this is not the same thing as what Windows users will understand by the term "start menu."

A have projects made and saved in PTE 7.0,with music clips atached to specific images, and now when I opened them in 7.5 beta14, all the clips appear in the timeline and in project options. Miracle? MUR

Igor I have only just started using PTE 7.5 for reasons you know. I felt the need today to be able to nudge a selected wave file a very small amount one way or the other. Picking it up with the cursor to drag and drop it in place had me fiddling one way and then the other. A Ctrl+ Cursor Control Key Arrow would be a godsend. Later, I could have done with the same thing with an image on the timeline Is that something worth considering at some stage. I have that ability in Camtasia and use it a lot.

Hi, Perhaps this should be posted in the MAC area but it concerns both OS's. As a MAC user I am finding the integration through Parallels (there are other brands!) so successful sometimes I am not certain which side of the house I am in and on occasions I find that I have a PTE icon on my desktop or in my downloads and have no graphical way of identifying whether it will open on the MAC or the PC. Would it be possible to have a different icon for each? Perhaps MAC on the MAC version and leave the PC icon as it is. John

PTE (PicturesToExe) ables to convert all media files to an Executable desire structure file ie. I can convert all All Audio video and All pictures format to an exe file , If Wnsoft Team can support some new formats in pte (i.e : *.doc /*.txt/ *.pdf/ *cad/*.zip/*.rar/*.pptx/*xlsx/,...) in this case Why just say PicturesToExe , Doesn't it ? Hope To be benefit With thanks

Igor, Could we use UP and DOWN Arrows to move a Highlighted Audio Track up and down?? The use of these arrows is quite common in other software applications. DG P.S. I just noticed that Peter has mentioned a similar suggestion.