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Greetings, I would like to be able to highlight a group of audio files in their track and then move them as one group. For example, say I have 8 audio files in a track. All have been positioned with cross-fades or spacing where needed. But, then I want to move audio files 3-8 as a group to the right or left. I'd like to be able to highlight audio files 3-8 with a 'Ctr+key+End' (for example), without the screen position moving, and then be able to move that group left or right. Also, be able to highlight the audio files to the left of a selected audio file, with 'Ctr+key+Home'. And to be able to select a group of audio files in the middle of the track to move as a group, left or right (Ctr+key). It is also important that the screen stays in the original position, not moving right or left, after the group is highlighted. Gary Added Later: Mur discovered that holding down the Shift key will allow movement of all the audio files as a group that are to the right side of the clicked-on audio file. However, there is still something missing. This method only allows for the movement of a group of audio files that are on the right side of the clicked-on audio file. What if you want to move a selected group on the left side of the clicked-on audio file? Or a selected group of audio files only in the center of the Timeline? Almost there...but...

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To create and convert pictures to exe projects into "PPT" and other known application slideshow format CAN you?>

By right clicking on slides , it can including following options Navigation like Next /previous /Go Home/Go to slide number of .../,etc Switch to 3D Displaying

It would be nice if we had a new keyframe property to move layers up or down. This would be a manual method of adjusting for hidden surface removal without requiring Direct3D or hardware graphics function. It would be compatible with all operating systems that PTE supports. It may not fix all Z order problems but it would fix the simple ones like the one in the video below. The demo slideshow utilizes 4 slides to simulate layer moving at keyframes. I have not tested to see if it accurately models transparency but in theory it should since the layers are in the correct order. Thanks, Tom z-order.zip Update: Z-order transparency test. It appears to be accurate. z-order_transparency.zip

Currently Color Adjustment is limited to Original, Grayscale, Sepia, and Custom. It would be nice to have another option for White Balance. When selected a color picker would allow you to select an area on the image or video and set the reference white/gray neutral color. The color temperature would be adjusted based on the white area you selected. Thanks, Tom

Like Photoshop and many other image editors it would be nice if we could click and drag a line between 2 points (vertical or horizontal) on image or video object to auto rotate image. I know some people think ALL image adjustments should be made outside of PTE but for beginners who just want to import some photos and create a slideshow a simple image rotate would help. The existing method of manual rotation using the alignment grid is not as accurate or fast as click and drag a straight line. Auto zoom to fill in rotated background would be nice too. Thanks, Tom

Hello every body, Hello Igor A third track, for subtitles would be great I apologise for my English ! I am french Noël

One idea, more possibility - under the "object & animations" > "add mask" function, is editable the slide options (and the style also) i mean "slide in slide" function... - in the "project options" > screen > bacground > can be add a video (for background) - if in the project is the "display slides in random order" enabled, the slides are played not with the "default slide durations" but the duration which was paired with the given image - in one project can be added one more "timeline" ( i mean, if i have in the main timeline added a video in the 2nd time line can i add some pictures in a specified minutes (works similarly as the timeline with audio, only in this case, replace the audio with video) - make slide style from existing slide ( if the current slide is ready, with one click can be saved as "slide style" Sorry for my bad english, i just will that this application is better, as before

Igor The new sound editing capabilities in PTE have been available for a while now and I for one have virtually given up on external sound editors. I find it easy and quick to use in PTE and also very flexible when you want to make a minor change and listen/watch the result immediately. However, there is one task I find myself needing a fair bit and that is to remove a section from within a sound file. Maybe shorten a period of silence by cutting it out completely. Is that something that you would ever consider including in the sound editing capabilities of PTE. NB. No work around suggestions please

As per my post in another thread, I'm in the process of building a new show & want to use the 3D transition, but found I couldn't change the background colour, only by going into the O&A screen or building a custom transition. Yachtsman1.

Hello We can arrange files in explorer PTE or add a caption with the date. The DATE considering is DATE EXIF corresponding to DATE OF MODIFICATION (modification of the file, or developing date of JPEG file from RAW ….). It’s will be very interesting, if we can order (or add caption) views with DATE OF ORIGINAL or DATE OF DIGITIZED. Although, the same think with TIME. Best regards, Vincent

Please add new option to publish the data file for slideshows. This should prevent most false positives for viruses when shared over the internet. Also a stand alone PTE viewer app that can be installed on the PC and file extension configured to play .ptshow data files when opened. The viewer app can read slideshow version information and prompt to upgrade viewer if the slideshow was created in a newer version of PTE. Thanks, Tom

Just in order to ease the work, I think that would save time if it was possible to drag and drop several image-objects from the file list on the same slide in the "slides" mode. As it is to day, each time we drag and drop an image from the file list it becomes a new slide on the Timeline and we have to open the O&A editor and add new images if we need more images for the slide animation. But when we are making a project we know which animation we want for a slide and which image-objects we need for the animation so it would be nice if we could drag and drop all the images at the same time. The first drag and drop image would be the "down" image in the objects list and the last one would be the "up" image in the objects-list of the O&A editor. Obviously the AV show maker will have to go into O&A editor for making all the other possible arrangements such as parent/child etc... Daniel

Greetings, Peter just posted a suggestion on creating simultaneous publishing for PC and Mac. This brings up a pet-peeve that I find when trying to Publish for 'HD Video' vs for 'Exe'. When you re-Publish for 'Exe', it asks if you want to overwrite the previous file. However, when you re-Publish for 'HD-Video', it will automatically create a file with a '2' added to the file name. I have to remember to delete the existing file first, or I have to fiddle with deleting the file original file and renaming the replacement file to remove the '2'. Not sure what happens when you create a Mac file. But, it would be nice if all re-Publishing would be consistent and ask if you want to overwrite the existing file. Gary

I think it would be a nice "user-friendly" improvement to be able to define, perhaps via a Project Option or a Preference, that PTE should create more than one type of output in a single Publish execution. Let me give an example to explain what I mean. When I ask PTE to Publish for PC, I would like it to run a Publish for Mac as well and also, perhaps, a Publish for HD Video. Similarly, if I ask PTE to Publish for HD Video, I would like it also to run a Publish for PC and a Publish for Mac. Most of us these days have PCs with multiple processors, so the three tasks could be running alongside one another. I would accept the save location being the same for all output types since it is a trivial task to move a file or folder to a different location, especially if the location is on the same disk drive. regards, Peter

Please add option to convert jpeg images with numerical filename sort into video. I think video converter utilizes ffmpeg which supports command line option to join jpeg images. Yes, I know I could do this in PTE by importing all of the images and setting no transition and 1/30 second duration and then publishing as video, but that's not as easy as a dedicated time lapse converter. Also it would be nice if you could extract 1/N frames from normal speed video to create time lapse video. This is also a feature of ffmpeg command line. Thanks, Tom

By my experience PTE could easily supersedes PowerPoint for "professionnal" presentations if there was a real text editor and possibility of effects on text objects without spending too much time for buiding it up. Daniel

The new h265 codec standards have been approved by january 2013, today there are several AV editing softwares which already include the possibility to create 4K videos but as far as I know, not yet using h265. The market price for 4k/h265 video projectors are still very high but should drop in the years to come. I think it would be a real breakthrough in AV editing softwares if next version of PTE was able to provide such possibility of 4K/h265 videos and will give guarantee for the future to AV show makers. Daniel

It would be great if it was possible to adjust animation parameters (Pan, Zoom, Rotate, Opacity, etc..) by using the mouse wheel Daniel

Would it be possible to have a warning appear when removing a slide from a sequence when there is an audio clip linked to that slide?

It was just a few minutes ago while working on a new slide show in the time line that a thought occurred to me. I have multiple tracks on screen so the Mini Player is quite small. This leaves lots of white areas all around and I would love to be able to change the whole look of the screen so it looks like the new Slide Show Club, or Photoshop. Kill all the white that is almost dazzling for a more subdued colour, one better for our creativity and one that would make the software look state of the art as well as being so. What about adding images on the fly via a keystroke while in full screen playback mode. How neat would that be?

Please add reverse video option. Maybe call it -100% on the existing speed control? Yes. I know video editors outside of PTE can already do this. Thanks, Tom Example. Enigma: Return to Innocence.

In the object and animation window, there is a dialog to set the position and size of an object. One clic is enough to reset the original size and position, nice. If you want objects in different views to be at the same position and size, for instance text, you should put manually the values. In the input dialog, I propose to add two lines with two buttons to store the current values of size and position and two buttons to paste them in the current value.