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Manuel, Thanks! And PTE 9 works fast now with latest drivers?

Manuel, Please can you run dxdiag utility (press Win+R > type dxdiag > press Enter) and send me a saved report? I will check what drivers are installed now. It may help other users solve same problem.

Manuel, Thanks!

Hi Paiche, Thanks for your permission!

Hi Paiche, Thanks for these impressive art styles! Please can you give me a permission to include them to future PTE 10?

Thanks, Lin! Two nice simulations of watches from you and Dave at same time

Yes, the animation is elegant.

Thanks, Dave! Nice implementation.

Gary, Thanks. Yes, traditional "linear" Dissolve becomes more "smooth" with long duration, whereas smooth Dissolve looks "smooth" even with short duration. All versions of PTE include "linear" Dissolve transition. 15 years ago, one user asked me for a smooth Dissolve and we added it as an experimental option to PTE 4.4.x. You can experiment with smooth transition. See the file link above. If it really looks good, we can include this transition to future PTE 10.

Try a smooth version of Dissolve transition. I used a speed modifier (Smooth) for Opacity parameter to make dissolving more smooth. Do you like it? Smooth Dissolve.pteeff Demo. Smooth Dissolve: https://files.wnsoft.com/picturestoexe/demos/Smooth-Dissolve-Demo.exe Demo. Linear Dissolve: https://files.wnsoft.com/picturestoexe/demos/Linear-Dissolve-Demo.exe

PicturesToExe 9 allows construct a series of color filters to create special effects. I prepared two examples, just to give an idea how color filters can be used in extreme combinations: 1. Flaming Sky style Here I used a mask (same image converted to a grayscale stencil) to separate the bright parts of an image (usually sky) and then apply a series of color filters to add saturated paints. https://files.wnsoft.com//picturestoexe/demos/FlamingSky-Color-filters.exe Flaming Sky.ptestyle 2. Engraving style. https://files.wnsoft.com//picturestoexe/demos/Engraving-Color-filter.exe Engraving.ptestyle

Barry, Try to encode a simple project into MP4 video. Just 1 JPEG image, 3-5 seconds for a slide, and Quick transition (No Dissolve transitions!). The resulting video file should be very small. Dissolving is a challenge for video compression. Whereas Pan/Zoom/Rotate are more easy task for effective video compression. Check updated WnSoft website, I added 2 video clips as illustrations (encoded in PTE 10): https://www.wnsoft.com/en/picturestoexe/ First video is only 1.1 MB (900 x 550, 30p, 11s, Quality: 70 for encoding) Second video is 1.2 MB (1712 x 1038, 30p, 12s, Quality: 70)

Barry, H.264 encoder used by PTE 9 has at least 20-30 internal parameters which affect to final picture quality and file size. We use standard recommended parameters. When you encode H.264 (MP4) video, PTE always re-encodes source images. Try to re-encode two same JPEG images (Jpg Level 12 and Level 6 which have different file size) into new JPEG Level 12. The final file size will be almost same. It's difficult to predict a final file size, because it will depend on a visual content in images, animations, video clips in a project.

Interesting idea! Thanks, Dave! P.S. Turn on "Edge antialiasing" for both images.

We added this change for PTE 10:

Congratulations, Barry! Simple show but very impressive photos.

No worries, we will improve PTE in many aspects, step by step. Please don't forget that we are small software company and can't implement all requested features too quickly. In future PTE 10 we already vastly improved work with video: support of all modern video codecs, fast and smooth playback of video clips, hardware acceleration and reduced CPU loading. We also added two professional features for video encoding. PTE 10 will able work directly with H.264 video files with smooth playback. Also a half of our team is working on Mac version of PTE 10.

Sorry, 360 pictures will not be supported in future version 10.0 yet.

Pierre, We plan to restore this function in future PTE 10.

Tom, Currently PTE doesn't support video output to DCI-P3 color space. However PTE 9 supports color profiles in JPEG images (Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, etc) and correct output for preview and EXE shows on wide-gamut displays (Adobe RGB).

Regarding initial suggestion, we need time to think how it implement it. Gary, I remember about your question. Sorry, I feel myself as a politician who promise something and then doesn't do this! That's terrible.

Geoff, Is it OK if we do it in future PTE 10? Sorry for the late reply.

Hi Roel, I understand your point and that situation with same project opened twice. If it really necessary and other users confirm it, we can add a warning when you open same project in another copy of PTE. So you will be informed about this situation and still can open same project if you really need it, or close second copy of PTE.

Daniel, Yes, it's a problem with these cameras. For this reason, I purchased Sony camera from another region to have possibility record video at 30p/60p. My recent Canon camera allows to record video at 25p, 30p, 50p and 60. iPhone always to choose between 30p and 60p regardless a country.

Manuel, I apologize for this problem. Please try PTE 10 Beta 1 when it's ready. I also hope that Microsoft and NVIDIA/AMD will solve issue with performance on laptops with Windows 10 v1803.