Virtual Size of Slide

[davegee]

I asked Google "In pictures to exe what is Virtual Size of Slide?"

The answer was:

In PTE AV Studio / PicturesToExe, the Virtual Size of Slide is the baseline pixel dimension (width and height) used as a reference canvas for positioning, scaling, and animating objects in the Objects and Animation window. 

 

Key Details

• Coordinate System: It defines the internal coordinate grid (for example, 1920 x 1080 for a standard 16:9 Full HD layout). Percentages and pixel values for pan, zoom, and keyframe placements are calculated relative to this virtual canvas. 

• Aspect Ratio Control: Changing the virtual size helps enforce a specific aspect ratio (like 16:9 or 4:3) for your project workspace. 

• Independent of Source Images: Your source photos can be much larger (e.g., 4K or original camera resolution) or smaller; the virtual size simply acts as the design and layout resolution for the screen framework. [1]

• Best Practice: Set the virtual size to match your intended output or display resolution—such as 1920 x 1080 for HD screens and TVs. 

If your Intended Output is a 4K MP4 then the Virtual Size of slide should be set to Custom - 3840x2160 (4K).

 

 

 

[mhwarner]

Interesting and good information.  But just to be confusing, there is no "Virtual Size of Slide" setting anywhere in PTE AV that I could find, nor did a search in the Online Help turn up any results for "Virtual Size of Slide" (but I guess you already knew that being the keeper of the Online Help and thus post to give us an easy to understand explanation).  I guess it just one of those things where if you know,  you know. 

In any case, I seldom take the time to resize my images before creating a slideshow unless I am creating them But thanks for the reminder.from scratch as composites or AI.  All of my shows now are 16:9 for .mp4 final creation.  Unless they are 4K movies, my images are usually 4000 x 3000 px from my phone or 3:2 from my dsLR, so I tend to choose "Cover" under Project Options / Defaults.  Unless the original image is a very tight crop, it usually works ok with perhaps a bit of X or Y pan.  Sometimes I squish them a tiny bit to show everything (a trick I learned long ago from Barry Beckham).  Other times I do edit and use AI to add additional content at the right and left sides to create an actual 16:9.  Other times for a series of verticals or  a triptych if the images aren't quite right, I might use the Properties / Aspect Crop, Aspect Ration in the O&A window to get the appropriate size.  Of course, if you are still creating .exe files only, then you would want to be more mindful of actual image sizes to keep the final output smaller.

Anyway, thanks for the reminder! 

[davegee]

58 minutes ago, mhwarner said:

Interesting and good information.  But just to be confusing, there is no "Virtual Size of Slide" setting anywhere in PTE AV that I could find, nor did a search in the Online Help turn up any results for "Virtual Size of Slide" (but I guess you already knew that being the keeper of the Online Help and thus post to give us an easy to understand explanation).  I guess it just one of those things where if you know,  you know. 

In any case, I seldom take the time to resize my images before creating a slideshow unless I am creating them But thanks for the reminder.from scratch as composites or AI.  All of my shows now are 16:9 for .mp4 final creation.  Unless they are 4K movies, my images are usually 4000 x 3000 px from my phone or 3:2 from my dsLR, so I tend to choose "Cover" under Project Options / Defaults.  Unless the original image is a very tight crop, it usually works ok with perhaps a bit of X or Y pan.  Sometimes I squish them a tiny bit to show everything (a trick I learned long ago from Barry Beckham).  Other times I do edit and use AI to add additional content at the right and left sides to create an actual 16:9.  Other times for a series of verticals or  a triptych if the images aren't quite right, I might use the Properties / Aspect Crop, Aspect Ration in the O&A window to get the appropriate size.  Of course, if you are still creating .exe files only, then you would want to be more mindful of actual image sizes to keep the final output smaller.

Anyway, thanks for the reminder! 

Are you looking at the Version 12 OH?

Look at Project Options / Main. You cannot search for a string inside of a Screen Shot, so I have just added it as a text string - my bad.

https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/12.0/project_settings_1/project

It matters if you are creating 4K video and you want to set "Actual Pixels" from a full size jpeg especially inside of the Framing Option.

I use the Framing option almost exclusively.

DG

[mhwarner]

Thanks! Will check it out on my next project.

[jt49]

PTE describes positions and sizes of objects using percents. Pixel values are not involved. So, if you work in O&A using percent (%) for the inputs of Pan and Zoom, the precise values of "Virtual size of slide" don't play any role, provided that the entries describe the correct aspect ratio. So, for any 16to9-project it does not make a difference, if the virtual size is 3840x2160, or 1920x1080, or just 16x9.

The situation is different if you work with Pan and Zoom in the uncomfortable way using pixels (px). In this case you should chose for virtual size the resolution of the device on which in the end the show will be presented. Nevertheless, as said above, in PTE's project files pixel values for Pan and Zoom will not occur. Everything will be transformed to percents. And working in O&A with percents allows you to position the objects with high precision.