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I hope I have not missed something that covers this already (if so, apologies) but here's my wish: I sometimes make mistakes in O&A when importing a new image - if I haven't taken care (don't say it) I may have an object selected when I import the new one, with the consequence that the new image appears as a child of the one accidentally left selected. It would be good to be able to change the status of the 'child' to correct this without deleting and then re-importing it. Similarly I might sometimes change my method for a particular bit of animation in some way, when the same kind of need arises. (The 'child' might have had quite a bit of work done to it, which I might not want to discard.) Any thoughts...?

PTE provides dynamic blur, that's fine. It has been called natural blur, with the consequence that the edges of a blurred image become transparent, This is a nice feature when dealing with images which do not cover the whole screen. When having images that just cover the screen, the given dynamic blur is awkward, because of the transparency. So you often have to work with appropriate objects in lower layers. It would fine to see a choice for dynamic blur: natural blur (as we have it now), and Photoshop-like blur where the edges remain opaque and keep their original straight shape. Remark: Please don't provide any workarounds! I am well aware of them. Regards, jt

1. Make a right click option on any slide at any location (PTE explorer or slide list or lightbox view) to go to Windows Explorer file location with file selected. 2. When there are missing slides/videos/music and a "missed images" dialog box pops up, provide an option to remove such files at that moment from the dialog box. 3. Only allow one instance of a specific PTE file to be opened at once--or provide a warning asking if more than one instance is desired. Many times I have inadvertently had more than one instance of the same file open and then saved an older version over the top of a new version, losing all my work. 4. Hot Key changes: CTR+U & CTR+B are very commonly used, but stretch my fingers too far for fast work and I sometimes miss. Change to CTR+ something nearby the CTR key.Add a hotkey for slidestyle5. Just like there is an arrow to move back and forth among slides in to O/A window, make a way to do the same thing from the slide options window. 6. In O/A window, allow simultaneous Properties/Common/Animation changes to multiple selected objects. 7. In O/A when adding a border, I would like to be able to click on "Width" or "Color" and "Enable border" would automatically be checked and Width/Color would be activated. There is not likely a case that I click on Width or Color and don't want something to actually happen. 8. Add Border to a frame. 9. [deleted] 10. CTR + Click slide opens O/A Thanks, jk

Greetings, I would like to be able to add a border to a Mask. An example of this would be to be able to put a border (adjustable) around a Mask for an image that has been made smaller through the use of Zoom and I wanted to animate it within the borders of the Mask. Thanks... Gary

Greetings, I would like to have a 'Rectangle with a Window' object added to the O&A menu items. I'd like this object to have handles, not only on the outside, but also on the inside window so that the inside and outside edges are fully adjustable, and this window can be colored and have its Order changeable. I added a crude example in an attachment. The red window represents the 'Rectangle with a Window' with handles. I am sure this can be created in Photoshop, etc., but I think it would be very useful to have it built-in to the O&A menu with its full adjustabililty within PTE. Gary

I'm hoping some of the following are not too late to make it into the next edition: I keep thinking it would be handy to have a marker on the timeline in O&A which I could set (maybe more than one) which doesn’t do anything except sit there without moving, as an aid to synchronising different bits of animation. At the moment I do it using the figures in the blue boxes associated with the keypoints, but static markers which could be placed and then removed as required would be a real help – quicker and more intuitive.... Could filenames which have had only ‘subsidiary’ use (i.e. in Objects and Animations) also be shown in bold, or better still apply some other distinguishing feature such as a different colour, or show in italics, or both. Ideally two different typographical characteristics could show when it has been used in both situations – ‘main’ and ‘subsidiary’. (I think I have offered this before, and I believe others have made similar suggestions, so... “Pretty Please” Igor!). Could we have a facility for moving all the sound files ‘en bloc’. As an example of the need, I have nearly finished a very complex sequence, but have not put a sufficiently long black frame at the start. If I want to increase its length I have to shuffle all the sound files along, in all the different tracks, each independently of the other. This could easily cause problems with some of the quite critical bits of sound that have been very precisely synchronised with a particular image or animation. Again I think this has been suggested already, but I’d like to add my voice. Files with long names, especially sound files can look very much alike, as they are truncated when the icon size is small. Peter Appleton (pers. comm.) has reminded me that the full path of the currently highlighted file appears at the bottom of the screen, but could the filename be made a bit more conspicuous please – I’ve been using PTE for years, and failed to notice it! (Yes... okay! Don’t say it!)

Today, the digital camcorders provided by world leader manufacturers are using h264 AVCHD and the videos are delivered under .mts or m2ts file extension. If we want to reuse this kind of video clips inside a PTE project we have to convert them again in order not to "optimize them" as PTE said but to ease PTE work and avoid jerky effects. The problem is that PTE converts them into an .avi file using a h263 coder whose performances are weaker than h264, and if, at the end of the PTE project we want to create an HD video, PTE will reconvert h263 into h264. In fact to simplify we have the following process : h264 AVCHD=> mpeg4 ASP h263 => h264 AVC We are cascading coding disagreements and lowering the signal/noise ratio of the video. For editing videos, it is quite difficult to avoid this cascading process but the result could depend on the data compression used by the intermediate coder. I promote PTE for slideshow and video editing but I still must use Adobe Premiere (CS5) for h264 AVCHD conversion into an Mpeg2 High@High profile / GOP N=3 whose quality should be better than Mpeg4 Advanced Simple@L1 profile (h263) provided by PTE converter. Should it be possible that PTE provides a video conversion which minimizes the cascading coding noise effects even if the resulting ("optimized") video file size is bigger (less data compression) than the original one? Daniel

One of the things I find difficult to re-produce in PTE is the weather, such as fog, snow & rain. I have one "fog" pre-set, that I used in my "Fog on the Tyne" show, it was an Elements/PS freebie from RedPaw media ( http://www.redpawmedia.ie/ ), whether it's still available I'm not sure. With video becoming more prevalent in AV where a set of images are on screen longer, being able to switch on & off a weather simulation would be great. I know others regularly show weather demos, but in my opinion, the ability to just switch one on & off as opposed to spending hours trawling through the actions needed to re-create an effect would be an asset. Yachtsman1.

Greetings, It seems that many 'Suggestions for Next Versions' have been made, but few get a direct response from Igor and his team. I have assumed or hoped that Igor takes note of them and perhaps they are addressed. But we really don't know. There are many suggestions that I thought were good but they seem to fall into a black hole. There is no indication that they have been read or dismissed or planned to be incorporated into PTE. Then, today, I happened to read Igor's Pinned Readme posting. It says "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." It would really be nice to get some feedback like this, but I don't see any of the suggestions that have received these types of comments from Igor. Wouldn't it be nice to get this type of feedback? Gary

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...

omissis...if next version Pte (8.5, 9.0?) has, for example a "tool" similar Oak software, if other track of images (at time more sounds is possible but only track at time in use for video and still, I think same problem wrote Peter old site moderator) and if above all interface is redesigned because Pte, at time obviously, is pretty ridicule and not great as other editor for professional slideshow. Best regards Manunzio Ps. Please note I wrote, again, at technical support who invited me to write here!.(Case Tracking ID: 3WM-Z8M-EH56)

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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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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