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John, the file you are refering to in your mesage is the exe and is not zipped : http://thefreedom.free.fr/PTE/PTEMasks.exe Here is the link to download the PTE project : http://thefreedom.free.fr/PTE/PTEMasks.zip If you have problem when opening this .zip file, I really don't know why. Sorry. Did you try to download and to open the "light" PTE project ? http://thefreedom.free.fr/PTE/PTEMasks2.zip

Royo, Actually, you can find tutorials about PTEv5 here And/or you can download the full project (reduced to only 1,16 Mo. At 3 Ko/s, should take about 6min 30sec to download it) :

Hi Royo, No, sorry, no tutorial but if you really are interested in this demo, I can reduce size of images to the maximum possible and remove the music. What is the biggest size file you can download without beeing too painfull for you ?

Hi JudyKay, I think this question is similar to the one of elIvarz (here). And Igor's answer was : I'm really interested in this feature too ! We just have to wait...

Thanks for your comments. No problem Michel, here is the full project :

An other little demo to show how "masks and layers" can be used with PTE v5 (10,5 Mo). Honestly, nothing revolutionary, but simple things just to give ideas. As usual, if you have other ideas or possible improvements, you are more than welcome to tell...

Lin, what a beautiful show ! It's hypnotic ! I really love it. Music is just perfect and really match what we see. Perfect use of PZR, sometimes slow and sometimes fast, depending on the music. In my opinion, there is not to many PZR because there is an alternance with some still images. Only one suggestion : would be interesting to add some comments to describe what we see... But again, really really excellent work. PS : transfert rate : about 100Ko/s from France. Lin, could you please tell us what music did you use ? Thanks.

Igor, I guess the presentation of the forum is related to the last version of Invision Board you implemented. I would like to have the previous presentation with all messages fully displayed (instead of this "Posts in this topic" block at the bottom). Is it possible to change a parameter in my profile to do it ? Thanks.

I just send it to you. I made the test. Nothing happens when I increase the size of the image. When I reduce size of the image, black thin edges appear. Yes, you're right, I made the test (reduce image) in Photoshop, and no edges with the "Nearest Neighbor"resampling method. So, how to make the same thing in PTE now ? Ken, I don't think it's the same problem as Bussty had, but honestly, i am not quite sure.

Too bad, because it would be very useful. But never mind. Actually Igor, I'm wondering if I didn't find an other bug. I'm making an other demo about masks and on a slide, I want to use a mask to present two pictures. I started with only one picture and the mask and realized that there is a display problem. Here is what I got in Photoshop (no problem) : When I use the same mask and the same picture in PTE, a thin white border appears : To be honest, I made the same test in Proshow and I don't have the problem. Tell me if you want me to send the "project" (one slide).

No, Igor, no bug, quite boring... But I have a suggestion of improvement : on the timeline, the ability to select several keypoints and to move them all with the mouse at the same time (instead of only one right now) keeping the same time there is between each of them. And why not, the ability to delete all the keypoints you select at the same time (even if I think it's much less usefull). So, what do you think ?

Thank you very much for those very interesting informations.

Igor, I'm not quite sure to understand. Do you mean that, in beta #4, if the music duration is longer than the show duration, the music will automatically fades out at the end of the show ? And do you plan to give the ability to the suer to modify the time duration of this fading out. Because, if you do, it's the begiinig of an internal audio editor. But It's not compatible with synchronization I guess... I understood that, right now, we have to use an external audio editor like Audacity by example, to exactly fit the music duration to the show duration. But what if we decide to change the time duration of some slides ? We have to edit your music again, right ? Does it mean that the sound editing has to be the final step of a slideshow ? The problem is that the time slides are really dependant on the music, and I think it's even more true with PZR features. If you guys could give me some advices and explanations on how you work with you music and the order of the process, I would really appreciate. Thanks.

May be Igor could you consider to give the ability to zoom on the timeline in a future version ?

Two thumbs up, really really excellent !!! I can't wait to watch the continuation... I'm a little bit surprised with the weight of the exe (almost 42 mb!) for such a "little" sequence.

About the non-linear PZR, the boss said :

Thank you for the information. I Think it will help me to wait. Do you know that Proshow should release their version 3 of Gold / Producer at the end of this summer too ?

You're right Granot, I think it's the best option. I will send them a PM, even if SteveF's last post was on Mar 1 2006. My hope is more on JPD. Thanks again for your answer and for your great utilities (even if some of them are a little bit useless now that there is v5 ). Good luck for the project you're working on (PTE related ?).

Igor, Is it premature or irrelevant to ask you how many betas do you consider before the final release ?

Under each field (PZR), there is already an other field that - I think - will give the ability to choose those sub-options via a list.

Ken, Thanks a lot for taking time to try find an alternative solution for me. But unfortunately, I already tried DrVideoPTE and it doesn't fit my need (you only can play a single video and the video is played on a windowed mode). But I don't loose my hope. I noticed that JPD has not posted on a forum for a long time. May be he's in vaccation. But I think I have more than 50% chance that he still has the last version. JPD, come back here ! Anyway, thanks again Ken.

Thanks Granot, I received your ShowVideoPTE version 2. But there are still some options I can't make work : - with this v2, I only can play a single video by slideshow. if I run ShowVideoPTE a second time in the same slideshow, it runs the same video - I can't play it full screen even if I put 0 on first and second line in VideoSettings.ini The only way I found to play it fullscreen is to display control buttons (1 in the fifth line) and click on fullscreen - I can't change the height and width of the video, whatever values I put, the video keeps its original size - there is a grey rectangle which appears at the end of the video - I can't play a .mov file. The same grey rectangle appears in place of the video and stays on screen (no video at all). - The TaskBar appears quickly at the end of the video (and I run HideTaskBar.exe at the first slide of my show) Are you sure it's really the last version ? I noticed that "Deletevidtmp.exe" is not included in the zip. I saw that there is a thread called "ShowVideoPTE, Run multi videos" that you started on February 2006. After several improvements you made Granot, it seems that the utility ran perfectly well at the end. JPD, I saw that you make a lot of tests and seemed pleased with this utility. Did you by chance kept the last version. If so, could you (or anybody else) please upload the utility ? Thanks.

Sorry Al, I'm not with you on this one. I agree With Igor when he says "Often selection bother to exactly place an object". That's why I think the feature in the tools should be "Show selection on PZR". (Hidden by default). I know, it's just a small detail but I wanted to say it. Btw, Thanks Igor for your answer about "Music still not fully synchronized".

Granot, I just send you a PM.

Thanks Igor for implementing it in the beta #3 !