Glitches with new Trim and Adjust Speed Window

[mhwarner]

While creating my latest project I have twice run into issues with the new Trim and Adjust Speed Window.  Both times, on separate small videos (less than 12 seconds), I adjusted the speed to maybe 40% or 50%.  When I went back in again later to make additional adjustments, the "Speed" dialog was grayed out and could not be changed.  I closed the program,  reopened, etc.  The only solution was to delete the video and re-add it and start over.  On the second one, when I closed the window and reopened, the speed said something like 107%.  At that point I also tried trimming the video and that entire viewer window  in the Speed and Adjust dialog went black.  I gave up and deleted that particular video and added it back in again and I had no further issues.  I have done quite a bit of work with different small videos in this project and not experienced other issues in Speed and Adjust except for these two, so it is pretty intermittent, perhaps some combination of trimming and reducing speed on the same video.  Not earth shattering, but I do believe there's a bug or two.

[mhwarner]

There are several videos in the beginning of the project that are supposed to be in motion as they come on the screen.  The initial motion is correct in all of the PTE viewer windows and in the preview window and when played in the O&A editor.  But when I render the .mp4, those videos start from a static state (not with any motion).  Very frustrating.  

I have rendered my current project (multiple times trying with and without hardware acceleration and both as "Video for Mobile Devices" and "HD and 4K Video" -- all at 1920 30 frames).  Just for the heck of it, I ran the video files through the built in converter (although that shouldn't have been necessary).  The same problem occurs with those videos no matter what. The initial motion doesn't happen.  I have chopped the project down and created a zip template and corresponding shorter .mp4  because the whole project is probably more than 3 gb.

HOWEVER, before attempting to upload my files,  I just had a thought and tried something.  For 2 of the problematic video slides, I reset the speed to 100 and they work fine.  The motion in the rendered .mp4 is as it should be.  I could not reset the speed on the third file because the speed block is grayed out and locked (as I  mentioned in my previous post here earlier today).  

So, I believe the bottom line is that the new Trim and Adjust Speed piece is still somewhat broken when a video's speed is adjusted to less than 100%.  Maybe you can find the bugs without my files but if not, let me know where I need to upload them.  Together the zipped template and the rendered .mp4 are about 500 MB.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, mhwarner said:

There are several videos in the beginning of the project that are supposed to be in motion as they come on the screen.  The initial motion is correct in all of the PTE viewer windows and in the preview window and when played in the O&A editor.  But when I render the .mp4, those videos start from a static state (not with any motion).

I can't reproduce this issue yet. I chcked it with a one video object, changing the speed to 50%, and also changing the speed keyframes.
Send me a test project. Try to simplify the project as much as possible so that the issue clearly visible. Ideally, it would be a project with 1 slide and 1 video file. Of course, if it possible.

3 hours ago, mhwarner said:

While creating my latest project I have twice run into issues with the new Trim and Adjust Speed Window.  Both times, on separate small videos (less than 12 seconds), I adjusted the speed to maybe 40% or 50%.  When I went back in again later to make additional adjustments, the "Speed" dialog was grayed out and could not be changed.  I closed the program,  reopened, etc.  The only solution was to delete the video and re-add it and start over.

Probably you've added video speed keyframes to the timeline below? Check to see if there's at least 1 blue dot (keyframe) in the timeline?
Click the "Clear Keyframes" button (in this window - Trim and Adjust speed) to remove all keyframes, making the simple speed box available for editing again.

P.S. I combined both topics into one.

[mhwarner]

Happy to report that the second issue is resolved.  I had accidentally added a video speed keyframe to the timeline.  Once I removed it, the simple speed box is available for editing.

Unfortunately, I could not resolve the other issue where several videos in my project do not start with motion as intended but are static.  Again, they look just fine in the main window and in both of the Preview and "Preview from Here" windows (all 3 starting in gentle motion).  But when I render the project to an .mp4, they all start as static frames before motion begins.  On all 3 of them, I adjusted the speed to 50. I also trimmed all of them.  If I change the speed back to 100, they seem to work and render just fine, but of course the timing of the slides is off.  I checked to be sure that there were no speed keyframes set.  If it matters, the first video is a free video I downloaded from Unsplash overlayed with another short video I created in PTE from one of my photos.  The last 2 videos were still images animated in Meta AI.

As a work around to complete my project, I took each of the videos in question into the PTE Video Optimizer and changed the speed to 50 and also trimmed them and saved them out.  I put these modified videos into my project and everything displayed and rendered perfectly.

I have made a small project with those 3 files but it is 75 mb.  Where do you suggest that I upload it?  Thanks in advance for troubleshooting.

[Igor]

Glad that you solved one issue.

Please send me a personal message with the download link regarding the second issue.

[mhwarner]

3 hours ago, Igor said:

Please send me a personal message with the download link regarding the second issue.

Message and link sent.  File is on Boomerang.

[Igor]

12 hours ago, mhwarner said:

Message and link sent.  File is on Boomerang.

Hi Mary,

Thanks, I've downloaded your file and now see this issue.
We'll try to fix it in the next update.

[Igor]

On 8/10/2026 at 6:36 AM, mhwarner said:

Unfortunately, I could not resolve the other issue where several videos in my project do not start with motion as intended but are static.  Again, they look just fine in the main window and in both of the Preview and "Preview from Here" windows (all 3 starting in gentle motion).  But when I render the project to an .mp4, they all start as static frames before motion begins.  On all 3 of them, I adjusted the speed to 50. I also trimmed all of them.  If I change the speed back to 100, they seem to work and render just fine, but of course the timing of the slides is off.  I checked to be sure that there were no speed keyframes set.  If it matters, the first video is a free video I downloaded from Unsplash overlayed with another short video I created in PTE from one of my photos.  The last 2 videos were still images animated in Meta AI.

Mary, please try the new version 12.0.3 Build 2:

https://files.wnsoft.com/test/pteavstudio-setup.exe

https://files.wnsoft.com/test/PTE-AV-Studio.dmg

We've fixed this issue with a video object.

Let me know about a result.

[mhwarner]

Thanks!  Will check it out when I have a few minutes.