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Pascal, Probably you noticed some color artefacts on a picture during your effect? It occurs due to lack of accuracy with many multiplications at 8-bit per color calculations. In PTE 10 we used 16-bit per color channel (64-bit per pixel) calculations to keep absolutely exact colors for Motion blur effect.

Yes, it should work. Motion blur applies automatically for all kind of animated objects (in any directions) excluding video clips (because PTE cannot generate intermediate frames for video clips objects). Please write me your impressions when you try it later.

Great work! Thanks! We added a Motion Blur option in video output in future PTE 10. With this option, all animated objects will be blurred in a direction of their motion automatically. Static objects are not affected. This post-processing requires more powerful video card we currently we enabled it only for video output. Your implementation suitable also for EXE shows in real time.

Ken, Please read comments from Barry and Jill above. Alternatively you can use Pause/Break key on the top row of your keyboard. Or special Play/Pause key on some keyboards with multimedia keys.

Hi, I've sent you a message.

Many thanks, Barry, for your great work on these tutorials!

Gary, Future PTE 10 with new video and audio decoders will play fine this video clip and sound. Regrettably I can't do anything with current version.

It's a cache of waveforms for audio clips in the Timeline view. PTE periodically clears old files to reduce used disc space. You can delete all files, or entire folder WnSoft-WaveCache. PTE will generate new cache when any audio clip is displayed (it will take some time - from several seconds to minutes, depending on duration of audio files).

Lin, I'm very glad that you're OK!

Gary, 'MPEG4' usually means MPEG-4 ASP (not H.264). H.264 appeared later as a further development of MPEG4 standard and to avoid confusion it's called AVC or H.264. In PTE 9 optimal video codec is MPEG-4 (ASP), not H.264. It works better in the preview and in EXE shows. For this reason I recommended in Handbrake change H.264 output to MPEG4. PTE 10 will natively work with H.264 (with smooth playback) and it will be optimal codec for PTE 10. PTE 10 also supports H.265, but if you create an EXE show I recommend to re-encode H.265 to H.264 for more smooth playback of video clips on slow computers. If you use PTE 10 and create a final movie in MP4 format, you can work with ANY source video clips which you prefer. PTE 10 will work fine with all these video codecs.

Yes, because when you create a MP4/AVI video PTE mixes all still images and video clips and then encodes a final NEW video file. A format of source video clips doesn't matter.

Lin, Thanks for this information. I wish Ken a speedy recovery.

Tom, We just finished a code of a new edge anti-aliasing algorithm for PTE 10. It will give much better visual result than all previos versions.

Hi Bern and Keith, I'm glad that you solved that problem. We don't recommend to use Interlaced option for saving of PNG images. I never used it for my PNG images. PNG decoder is same in PTE 9.0.22 as in many previous versions.

Hi Patrick, Regrettably I have no news from Ken for a while. Did you see this topic: https://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/topic/21052-ken-cox/ Probably Lin Evans can tell more.

Gary, Speaking about MPEG-4 I mean "MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile" video codec. This codec is very simple for fast video decoding using CPU. H.264 has a full official name - MPEG-4 Part 10 Advanced Video Coding. But usually all name it H.264 or AVC.

Hi, Let me know what version of PicturesToExe you have. Please attach a small test project in a ZIP and screenshot with this problem. You can use Firefox Send service to send me a large file: https://send.firefox.com/ with a link in a private message (it removes automatically after first downloading).

Jill, Thanks for your note.

A license key for PicturesToExe (25 digits/letters) which you received by email when purchased PicturesToExe.

Hi, What version of PicturesToExe you have? And what version of Windows? I never heard about this problem earlier. Try to update drivers for your video card and sound card. Check Windows Update centre for available updates.

Carolyn, Please read my personal message which I sent you through the forum.

Carolyn, When you work in VideoBuilder to burn a DVD video disc you need to add .pte project files to the main window of VideoBuilder. All project files should be saved (or updated) in same version of PicturesToExe (7.5 for example) before you add them to VideoBuilder. When you added one or several projects you press "Next" button and choose a Template for a DVD menu. All templates allows to choose a number of items (a grid of projects) for one screen - 1 x 1, 2 x 1, or 4 x 2, etc. For 5 projects you can choose "Items: "3:2". P.S. To make a screenshot press PrintScr key (on the top of your keyboard) and then insert image from a Clipboard in your graphics editor. Or press Win + PrintScr hotkey - it will save a screenshot as a file in "Pictures" folder > "Screenshots" folder

Hi Carolyn, I apologize for this problem. Please tell me - do you need to burn a DVD video disc in VideoBuilder, or you need to put EXE shows on your DVD disc? Tell me in more details and attach a screenshot. I'm not sure that I rightly understood this problem. Try to insert a new blank DVD media before you run PicturesToExe or VideoBuilder.

Carolyn, I moved your question to a new topic here: https://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/topic/21059-problem-with-dvd-video/

Lin, Thanks