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Hi, Beta version of V12 will appear soon.

Lake Ainsworth is a 12-hectare freshwater, tea-tree lake in Lennox Head, NSW, known for its dark, tannin-stained water from surrounding paperbark trees. It is a popular spot for family-friendly swimming, paddleboarding, kayaking, and canoeing, with amenities like paths, barbecues, and picnic tables. The lake is located at the northern end of Pacific Parade in Lennox Head, NSW. The area has undergone recent improvements and features pathways, picnic tables, barbecues, and toilets. The lake can be affected by blue-green algae, which can be harmful.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to everyone! We wish peace, joy, and good health to all of you and your loved once! Alex55 The Link to the Project files provided

Simple backlight frame using two masks and gaussian blur. LED backlight is sometimes known as Ambilight available on certain model Philips HDTVs. https://www.philips.co.uk/c-e/so/tv-buying-guide/what-is-ambilight-tv It is slightly different than the Border Simple Style in PTE AV Studio. Thanks, Tom Update: New version should work with any aspect ratio. LED Backlight Frame.ptestyle

Thanks Kieron, always a pleasure to help. Jill

I would like to thank Jill and others who quickly answer PTE queries and provide valuable insights to forum members. I know that I personally have gathered a greater knowledge of the program through her. Kieron

There is a new feature in Photoshop called "Harmonize" which will do a little more than just colour correction. Not sure if it will work on layers so you might have to merge your two layers, apply harmonize, then extract your object again or something similar, but I think that I would give it a try. (It does work with layers). There are a few YT videos explaining the procedure - try this one to start.

Hi Alex Thanks for commenting, I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I don't see many people fishing in the lake as I think the strong tea tree tanim staining/environment might stop that. The other thing is that the Pacific Ocean is less than 50 metres away, so most people go surf fishing there. This 360-degree image will give you a better idea of the location. https://kuula.co/share/Ngn5m?logo=1&info=0&fs=1&vr=1&sd=1&initload=0&autorotate=0.02&autop=5&thumbs=1 As for the 16:9 aspect ratio, it means cropping some of the top and/or bottom as the width remains the same. For this style of image that I want to show the ground and the trees, I much prefer the 3:2 for this presentation/location. On saying that, I do sometimes crop to 16:9, especially for drone images or where I want to accentuate something in the image, which I did do for one shot below. For me, it did not work as well for the remainder of the images. I was using a wide angle lens 14mm on most and a ND filter to blur the water. Thanks again Mark

Nice, Looks like a fishing also is on attraction list. Why don't you use 16x9 ratio for this kind of pictures? Alex

Affinity 3 (Canva) is now free - I have used affinity since version 1. In Affinity it is possible to create transparent pages in SD, HD, Vertical video, Social Media Portrait post, QHD, UHD (4K) DCI 4K and 5K2K video sizes. While this has been available in many programs over the years, the fact that Affinity is now free will give more people access to its tools. You can then create text, logos, pictures, borders or anything that you would put in any publishing programme and export it complete with transparent backgrounds. If you want to put scrolling text with logo's or whatever, you can stretch theAffinity page's length to anything you want export it as a .png then import it into PTE and scroll it between two points - if you work at it, you can have scrolling from bottom to top (or vice versa) and from left to right. All you need is the imagination!

very easy to do. Simply link those audio files to the slides you don't want. Then in Slide View delete the Slides, the audio files will be deleted along with the Slides. I would first move the audio clip on Track 2 to the right to roughly where you want it under Slide 6 Or you could delete those audio files from Track 1 first & then delete the 5 Slides. Again reposition Track 2 first Jill

Hi Mike, By default, user slide styles, custom transitions and templates are located in these 2 folders on your Mac: /Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/PTEAVStudio/Templates /Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/PTEAVStudio/Styles and Transitions You can check PTE AV Studio > Main menu > Settings > Preferences. Templates tab for exact path to these folders. I remember from your previous post on the forum: Your program may have deleted the PTEAVStudio folder in Application Support. This likely deleted all the templates and styles as well. Sorry! We offer a special uninstaller utility for PTE AV Studio on a Mac which allows to remove only configuration and keep slide styles and templates: https://files.wnsoft.com/pteavstudio/RemovePTEAVStudio.app-11-0.zip You can change a location of StylesAndTransition folder and Templates folder in PTE AV Studio and make backup of these folders.

Updated version of PTE AV Studio 11.0.19 is available for PC and Mac Download: https://www.wnsoft.com/pte-av-studio/download/ Improved YouTube compatibility for 30p videos. Previously, YouTube might have detected them as 29p with dropped frames. 60p is still recommended for smoother playback. Fixed an issue in Timeline mode where applying a slide style could unexpectedly alter the duration of following slides. Improved compatibility for macOS 26. About window shows: 11.0.19 Build 3. It's the same build as previous Beta version.

Hi, Please translate your messages into English. You can use Google Translate, for example. Let me know - do you have a PC or Mac? Check an exact version of PTE AV Studio in the About window. If it isn't v11.0.18, I highly recommend to download and install the latest version from WnSoft website: https://www.wnsoft.com/en/pte-av-studio/download/ If it doesn't help, restart your computer and try again.

Got there in the end by pure cussedness . Used Clean my Mac ran a full scan and also took out all my PTE folders. Then reinstalled PTE from the Wnsoft site and after requesting the serial number managed to get it to run.

Some more Rainbow Bee-eater action. This is a series of around 1,230 images from a 1,310 series of images taken over an 1 hour and 5 minute on Thursday November 20. The same family of Rainbow Bee-eatrs were very busy although they did sometimes fly over the nest and return to the branch without feeding the chicks in the nest. They would return to a branch with and without food for a clutch of chicks in the nest nearby. During the process, a small snake came by the nest (in the ground) and there was a flurry of activity to chase it off (unfortunately not captured due to the timelpase framing. All images are full frame on a Sony A7RV so there are quite a few single frames for use in the future. It took quite a while to process this AV at the best resolution. Ciao Mark

Thank you all for your suggestions. Dave Gee's suggestion was the perfect solution. The sailor was prom an old painting and to the wood image as a PNG. The Harmonize feature is pretty good. Adds shadows too.

The first AV consists of just over 1200 images taken in the morning over a period of approximately 65 minutes. The Australian rainbow bee-eater has a unique method of preparing prey by rubbing venomous insects on a branch to remove stingers. They can consume up to 300 insects daily, which minimizes their need for drinking water. In this AV you will see them fly off and catch insects near the roosting branch. Sometimes seen hitting the insect on the branch to remove the sting. Additionally, communal colonies are now common in the area in summer, where sandy soil is perfect nesting material. Sometimes creating tunnels up to 1.6 meters long, and their mating is monogamous, with pairs potentially returning to the same nesting sites year after year. Often, juvenile birds from a previous brood assist the parents in feeding the next lot of chicks. You will see up to 4 birds that were feeding the same nest. While capturing the sequence for this AV, I witnessed the family bomb diving a small snake that ventured into the area. This is a very short AV with limited display time for each image. The second AV has about 180 images from the time-lapse of the birds in flight. I struggled with the number of images from the series and the duration of the AV to hold the viewers' attention. The duration of this AV is around 4 mins and 37 secs. I was back at the nesting site this morning to get some more images, as they are very restful to watch them come and go. Mark

A wonderful project and song selection, everything is true to the songs, we were young and believed, but the years..., I hope your loved ones liked it.

Here are a couple of short AV's of consecutive images of Rainbow Bee-eaters coming in to feed chicks in the nest. The rainbow bee-eater is the only species of bee-eater found in Australia and is monotypic, meaning it has no accepted subspecies. Its closest relative is most likely the olive bee-eater (Merops superciliosus) of southern and eastern Africa, but molecular phylogenetic analysis places the rainbow bee-eater as the closest relative to the European bee-eater. It was first described by John Latham in 1801. The generic name is Ancient Greek merops, which means 'bee-eater' and the specific epithet is Latin ornatus 'ornate, adorned'. The birds do not only eat bees with other insects part of their diet, including dragonflies, march flies, damselflies and other flying insects. The nest's end is large enough to fit two adult birds and the chicks. The birds also rely on adolescent chicks from a previous clutch to feed the new brood. This particular nest had 4 birds providing food for the chicks. The birds generally land on a nearby branch as a lookout perch. I had placed a dead branch on a dead tree as a lookout perch. Often, taking some time to peruse the area and be comfortable, it is safe to enter the nest. They do become comfortable with people/photographers and are always on the lookout for other birds and snakes as they nest in the ground. I had hoped to record the unusual sound of the birds calling, but this generally happens in flight while chasing insects. Unfortunately, there is too much background noise. The first one is a flyover and the second one shows the bird disappearing down the nest in the ground. Regards Mark

Hi Digatral, Thank you for sharing these two beautiful videos and for the information about them. Always great to learn about other bird species. Rosemary

I made a couple of AV's recently of infrared images at a local tea tree lake. The first one features the scene without the ND filter and some images have an ND filter applied in the following image to smooth the water. The second AV features just the ND images, and it is a shorter version. I am also working on a version of monochrome IR images with colour added in post-processing. Interesting that Youtube features the same image as the thumbnail. Cheers Mark

It is so easy for judges to influence what we do. I once made a judge bait sequence with every arty dissolve I could find. I only inflicted on one judge as I could see the palpitations

Hi Mark They certainly have impact although I did find the snap changes a bit repetitive and some of the images appeared to be duplicated. Perhaps some long dissolves would fool the eye into not realising that a dissolve had taken place. The music would have to change and be more soothing ng

Open your project / save it using a new name (this helps to keep your original project) / open the new project / make a right click into the Slide List / choose random order / create an Executable file for PC

You can use Colour Correction Filters to adjust each image individually - Levels/Saturation/Hue etc Also if you set the background slide to have Nested Colour Filters, then if the PNG's are Children you can adjust all 3 images at once. Jill

have you updated Photoshop? You may need to re-establish the Link to the new version. Jill

Yes, looks like a surf fishing paradise to me! Immediately see a couple of spots to go... By 16x9 I mean it fits the screen right away. Of course you use whatever better serves you. Thanks Mark Best Alex

Looks like an interesting place Nice production

Un grand Merci Alex !! le père Noel a plus d'un mois d'avance !!!! Henry

Jill--I find that a stationary image that does nothing is kind of boring so I do tend towards using Ken Burns typically but I try to be subtle about it. The old program that I had used would allow for applying an effect (like Ken Burns) to multiple slides without affecting the duration and also there was a "randomize" option. Still I always needed to do some tweaking after the fact which is unavoidable. AleAle--again better feature would be the option to keep the original duration imo.

Hi, We'll introduce our new product this fall. And then PTE 12 will be shown. We already added new fuctions and effects for V12.