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Hi Igor, Thank you to your team for such great programs and for listening to users! I have a long-standing dream of functionality that I would like to see in both PTE and Video Optimizer. This is the ability to copy at least such settings as color correction. There are always a lot of numbers, it is difficult to remember them, you always have to use a notepad to make similar settings in another file. In Optimizer, so that you can copy the settings to another file. Or make it possible to replace a file with ready-made, applied settings. I used to make suggestions for such functionality in PTE, so that you can copy NOT ALL, but certain settings to another keyframe, as well as to an object on another slide. And I was offered several options, such as making a copy of a keyframe or a copy of an object or a copy of a slide, but believe me, I know and use all of these methods, but they are far from suitable for all tasks. As a result of my projects, I get such sheets of paper in which I myself then get confused. Maybe someday...

Congratulations and thanks to the Team! This is absolutely the must addition to the PTE! So far just couple of questions: 1.Do we have to Import converted Video into the Project or it going to be somehow linked to the Video Optimizer and done while rendering the Project? 2. In order to compare the results it would be great to have Option to turn applied settings off/on momentarily. Once again thanks a lot. Great work! Hope we'll see more upcoming surprises Alex55

I recently purchased a M4 Pro Mac mini with 24 GB of memory and 1 TB SSD. I added an Samsung T7 external 4 TB SSD for multimedia files. Performance and compatibility with PTE have been excellent. PTE can create a show (data or video) with four perfectly smooth 4K videos on a split screen. The Mac mini is very small and low power computer that is powerful enough for video editing. For many years Windows was my favorite operating system but as I grow older I find Win 11 more difficult to use with features that I do not want or need. I am very happy PTE runs natively on Apple silicon.

In current version it's not possible, sorry. You can only partially perform this editing. Your suggestion is very good and I've added it to my TODO list for PTE and Optimizer app.

Mark, glad to hear this! Thanks for your feedback. Currently the new product is not integrated with PTE AV Studio. We plan to implement this a little later. We consider the Undo/Redo functions for the next major version.

In the past, I have never shot any video. But, I will now, this looks great.

That's good to hear! I used "Strong" preset (for the city) and "Normal" preset (the flower). Expand = 0 for both cases. "Expand" option can be used together with the "Strong" preset if you still observe some undesired shaky motion in a picture. This option will crop some part of a video picture (edges) reducing undesired motion. I recommend to try Expand = 5...10% When you use "Strong" preset, the program analyzes 30/30 frames (forward/backward) for each frame to perform the optimal stabilization.

Many thanks for sharing these excellent examples for video stabilization function in PTE Video Optimizer! Looks very convincing. I think this function can be very useful for old videos when cameras didn't have optical stabilizer, or it didn't work well.

This is perfect for my needs with PTE. Early experimenting with the program it functions well. Count me in as an early adopter. Kieron

Hi, We introduced a new product - PTE Video Optimizer today. You can try the Beta version for PC and Mac now. Enhance and optimize your video files. Stabilization, noise reduction, trimming, color correction, reverse video. Batch processing of files. And other functions. Simple user interface. Read more here: https://www.pteavstudio.com/forums/topic/46202-pte-video-optimizer/ You can ask your questions and write impressions here: https://www.pteavstudio.com/forums/forum/88-pte-video-optimizer-beta/ P.S. At the same time, we continue to work on the future version of PTE AV Studio 12.

The images were shot within a 3 night stay just beside the Story Bridge in Brisbane. I made the effort to be up at dawn to make the most of the light, but also at dusk too. I confess I was not shooting with this AV in mind, but ended up with enough images for it to be considered. The images were shot and created in June 2024 and an AV was started at the time, but I couldn’t find music that inspired me or an approach that encouraged me. So, I sat on the project for around 4 months and when I came back to it, I found something to get me started. I have quite a few images that I discarded because they just didn’t fit in as well with the rest. It was all helped by the great PTE AV Studio software of course and when I first joined a camera club in 1975, an AV was the first thing I saw. Twin projectors and film back then, but I recognised the perfect way to be able to display more of the images we shoot. It’s a shame more camera club members don’t display their images in presentations via PTE. The problem of course is the effort necessary to make an AV with impact. It takes a fair bit of time and patience that many are not prepared to commit. Before you saw this, I probably saw it 50 times, or more. Thanks for the positive response. I’m getting to the age where I need all the encouragement I can get.

Tom, I've thought about this topic. The Logo is one of several possible parameters which can customized for every video clip individually: color adjustments, size, background, etc. If the user merges several video files into one and wants to set some common parameters (one or several), the simplest way is to select these video clips in the Slide List (with the mouse cursor) and apply group editing of the desired setting. For example, choosing the Logo. Then the Logo will become common for this group of video clips.

Share your impressions about PTE Video Optimizer. Please post bug-reports on the Beta version in a new topic.

I took some video of a local storm we had on Tuesday using my cell phone. I then used Video Optimizer to brighten and stabilize the video. I found that even with my limited skills, the program was easy to navigate. Congratulations Igor and team. I look forward to being able to access the Video Optimizer through PTE Rosemary

Me too! I can't imagine adjusting a video clip without having the audio tracks (with my Atomos recorder I often record on 2 different stereo tracks), and these tracks must be of adjustable height. Currently, PTE only takes into account the first stereo track, which forces me to go through Da Vinci Resolve to prepare my video clips. For the moment I continue to use Da Vinci Resolve to edit the videos, since unfortunately PTE does not offer me the tools I need. Igor, I am sorry to have to write such a negative message, because usually I greatly appreciate the work you do with your team and I am the first to promote it.

Targa I have videos already made on every topic I can think of. So at the moment any future videos are on hold awaiting inspiration :-) For all my projects and when it’s complete, I save a Backup to Zip from within PTE. This places everything you used in the presentation into one zipped folder and allows you to come back to it at anytime just as you left it. I usually include with that BIZ an Exe version of the show for my PC and also an MP4 video for posting and sharing. I store the backup in zip, the exe and the video off my computer and I have all bases covered.

Hi Aleina, I cannot reproduce freezing with your sample video yet. I ticked the "Reverse playback" option and "Mute" option. Can you give me step by step instuction how to see this freezing? However I know the issue with Reverse playback option with video files in MTS file container (raw video stream). P.S. Please note that reverse video playback is usually not smooth enough - such playback requires a lot of computation, because video files are not optimized for reverse decoding. We hope to optimize it as possible.

Thank you for your wishes! Do you mean PTE AV Studio project? Currently PTE Video Optimizer is completely independent app from PTE AV Studio. We plan to integrate both apps - it will possible to convert/optimize selected video files from PTE in PTE Video Optimizer. Good suggestion. I've added to our TODO list.

Thank you to all developers for the Video Optimizer. The program is intuitive and simple. All control functions are working. Space bar to start and stop the video editor, as in PTE AV Studio, it didn't work for me. Good luck to everyone and success in improving PTE.

Thanks for your response! Frame interpolation option also will appear in future PTE 12. And additionally it will possible to use special keyframes to dynamically control video speed, even to pause a video for several seconds. We'll add a command to the popup menu for the File List in PTE 12 to convert one or several video files in PTE Video Optimizer.

I am curious about what settings Igor used in his demonstration of image stabilization. Not sure about the expand option. Thanks, Kieron

Hi Igor, I have been testing it on my Mac mini and it works well. A few of my video stabilization tests. I think objects near moving water are difficult to stabilize and movement of bicycles during road construction. I will continue to test on my Mac. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3fALeAR4PXyvtVcaZhsp87LWUpZG7vX Thanks, Tom

Hi Igor, Congratulations to your team and us, the users, on releasing a useful program! Its functionality is interesting. I really liked the implementation of slow motion with interpolation - it looks very smooth and beautiful. I have a question, will the video file editing link from this program be implemented in PTE AV? Import-export? Aleina

The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is a large cockatoo. It is easily identified by its mostly black plumage, with most body feathers edged with yellow, not visible at a distance. It has a yellow cheek patch and yellow panels on the tail. The female has a larger yellow cheek patch, pale grey eye-ring (pink in males), white upper bill (grey-black in males) and black marks in the yellow tail panels. Young birds resemble the adult female, but young males have a smaller cheek patch. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos were once content to feed on the seeds of native shrubs and trees, especially banksias, hakeas and casuarinas, as well as extracting the insect larvae that bore into the branches of wattles. I am lucky to have tese birds in our area for the last few weeks. After a recnt camera and lens purchase, I have been able to capture these unique birds in the wild in the northern rivers of NSW. A couple of short Av's showing them feeding in their natural habitat. Ciao Mark

In "Project Options > Audio" we have a volume slider for each clip. It would be fine if we also had one for each track.

Hi, Thanks for your suggestions! We added VU meter and sound volume for a track or global soundtrack to our TODO list. I agree that these functions are important. Jean-Charles also asked me about VU meter feature recently.

This is a good suggestion. Nevertheless, my suggestion is just another matter. Only recently I had a track with lots of clips, each one with an individual setting, and I wanted to reduce the overall volume of this track. I used the following workaround: I exported the said track as a wave file, and I inserted this file as a new track while muting the original track. Now I could change the volume using the envelope. It works, but it isn't a pleasant way to go. So. I would like to see a volume slider for the whole track, as we have it in Audacity.

Hi Everyone, Thanks for your reply, I discovered what I was doing wrong. When publishing the slideshow, I needed to select the MP4 option instead of the first option which is for replaying on a computer. Michael

Thanks, Rosemary! Aleina, thanks for reminding. I'll read again that topic with your suggestion.

Hi Aleina, Thanks for the idea. We plan to implement saving the presets in the Optimizer app. Please remind me a link to your topic where you suggested this for PTE?

Hi everybody, I try to achieve Cinematic look in this short Slideshow Project. Nice song from the 70's... Note than the Pictures order in Project is not the order they've been shown in the slideshow. So adjust accordingly. Find and replace them in the .EDIT compositions. Here's the Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_PdwioGxaYItQXgma92-DyfIeTvPgU2/view?usp=drive_link Best Alex55

Hello Alex55, Beautiful achievement...and beautiful song from the 70s as you say. For the moment I don't see the immediate use of it, but I downloaded the ZIP file, and I looked at the details of the animation: always remarkable. Thanks for sharing. René

Clever, not sure that I have a use for it but very clever just the same.

Hi Kieron, I think it should work great. I have four different 4K/30fps 100 Mbps HEVC/H265 GoPro videos running on one slide and it's very smooth. The .pteav data file size is 14GB. The Mac mini can output to three 4K/60 monitors. You can also use an iPad as a monitor on the Mac. I still use a wired keyboard and mouse on my main Mac mini (via usb-c to usb-a converter) but you can use wireless input devices. Thanks, Tom

Hi Igor I tried your new video optimizer and of the color adjustments do the same as in PTE 10.5 for the still images. What I would like in an video optimizer is something what does the same as the "Highlight and Shadow Adjustments" sliders in Lightroom. I don't know if that could be done in Video files.

Hi Aleina, 1. We consider to for future version. But I'm a little skeptical that this will be useful, because width of a waveform is very small (limited by a with of the video options panel), the peaks of the sound will be barely noticeable. 2. Reverse playback option. I'll reply in another thread today. 3. We plan to add some Save function for a Task in the future version. I agree that it would be very useful. Currently you can to open the Tasks window (click the "Show Tasks" button), find a finished task and click to edit it. So you can continue editing with all saved options.

I watched the video files from a professional camera, a camera, a smartphone and a monitor. I turned off the sound in all files and checked the reverse box. Then the reverse preview checkmark was removed from one video file. The program works well in all variants. Combined video files captured by a professional camera. Video playback in Video Optimizer slows down. It plays well on the player.

Thank you, Igor, interesting program! Quite a lot of settings! Saved a video with the same settings as the original - the file size decreased by 22 percent. Great! I support the proposal to view the old and new changes in the file. I did not find the ability to undo actions (Ctrl-Z). Question: when inserting a video from this program into PTE AV Studio, will there be further repeated improvement of the inserted video? Do I need to run the output MP4 file through this program after PTE AV Studio?

Denis, we'll try to improve it. I agree. Thanks for your message.

Space bar will pause/resume playback in next updates. Currently you can use Print/Break key on a PC keyboard. Or click left mouse button on a picture of the mini player. The same in PTE 11. Thanks for your feedback!

I had a similar problem a long time ago. I solved it by simply renaming the image in the original folder, then PTE saw the modified version. Aleina

I suppose that Bridge modify only the Orientation metadata (without modify the photo itself and PTE does not recognize the corresponding value (2 or mirror horizontal) PTE recognize the value of rotation (6 or rotate 90 cw for example) Denis

no idea as I don't use Bridge, but it would be much easier to simply flip them in PTE in O&A use a Rotate Y of 180. If you are using PTE11 then you only need do it to the first image, create a Quick Slide Style & then Apply that to all the other images in one go. Jill

Greetings Fellow Creatives, If you happen to be using my free music tracks in your projects, please don't forget about my Ogg music packs. These packs enable you to download all of my tracks at once from various genres. Here's a link: https://soundimage.org/ogg-music-packs-2/ That said, I've uploaded some cool new seamless abstract texture images...perfect for tiling. You'll find them here: https://soundimage.org/txr-abstract/ Have a good weekend and keep being creative! :-)

Thank you for that. I had obviously not understood the use of templeates correctly. I will have a look at them in more detail.

What Jill said. https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/11.0/how_to_v11/templates?s[]=template DG

Australia has some beautiful birds, closest we came to finding those guys were finding Baudin's black cockatoo in Perth

Hi Judy, A good question. I think, software like PTE is the point/station where you create a montage of images/video/audio/text. You have a fine control over everything you do in a project. And you need to use other apps (camera software, image editor, audio editor, text editor) where Ai (neural engine) can be intensively used for content creation. You then add this content to PTE and complete the final edit. Maybe I don’t see all the possibilities for using NPU yet. But we are tracking all related news.