willemx

Hi Igor, I tried build 4 and can confirm that the error has been fixed.

Without Reversed Order I have not been able to reproduce the problem.

I tried with a folder containing a small number of files, see attached screenshot "filenames.png". At first I had the File List Sort Order set to "Exif Date", trimmed a file and had no problem. Then I switched the File List Sort Order to "Name" and "Reverse order" and trimmed the same file again. After trimming, PTE came back with an "Image load error", see attached screenshot "error.png" Also, the file list was corrupted again, see attached screenshot "corrupted list.png"

If I select a video file from the file list and do a "Convert/trim video clip", I would expect that after converting/trimming the converted file should show up in the file list next to the original file. However, when the conversion is ready, the file list shows up again, but is corrupted. Some thumbnails do not match with the file names anymore, see attached screenshot. You can see that the video file gets the name of a still image (A7_04287.png). After switching to another folder and then switching back, the file list is ok again.

I checked with version 10.5 and it also crashes. You don't need to add an image to the timeline, just selecting an image from the file list in fullscreen mode and double clicking it in the preview window will cause PTE to crash. I'm using the touchpad of the MacBook.

After some more testing I think the crashing is also caused by PTE's inability to handle fullscreen mode. I can now easily reproduce a crash (using latest PTE V11 RC): Create new project in partial screen mode, add an image to the thumbnail timeline (any image will do), enter fullscreen mode, double click the image => crash crashreport.txt

I tried this new version and I can confirm that the .HEIC image now renders correctly. Thanks! I have also downloaded version 10.5 and this version works fine on my system. I did not have a single crash. With PTE V11 RC3 (4?) I have noticed one more problem: if I run PTE in fullscreen mode, I cannot drag items anymore. I cannot drag images into the timeline or move images along the timeline. As soon as I start to drag, the PTE window completely disappears from the screen and I am left with my draggable item over a clean desktop. If I switch to partial screen mode, dragging is working fine.

I am experiencing lots of problems with the Apple silicon version of PTE version 11 RC3. Crashes happen at various moments: when dragging an image into the timeline, when double-clicking an image, when clicking the preview button. These crashes do not happen always; I have not been able to consequently reproduce a crash. However, they happen very often, like 20 times in half an hour. Sometimes I can then restart PTE without a problem, but sometimes I must first use the "Force quit" option to kill a crashed PTE instance. I am using PTE on a MacBook M1 Pro, 16 GB RAM, OS: Ventura 13.1 Apart from these crashes, there are some other problems with this version: Some .HEIC images do not display correctly in PTE (they are ok when viewed with other apps). It looks as if a colour channel is missing when viewed inside PTE. Most .HEIC images render ok however; it's about one in ten that have a problem. I have attached an image that will not display correctly in PTE. .MTS videos can only be played from the very beginning, if I move the cursor along the timeline, the video starts to stutter and will not sync until I place the cursor at the start again. Is there anything that I can do to help to resolve these problems? Edit: I added a crash report Crash happened when clicking Preview button in Objects and animations screen. IMG_1520.heic crashreport.txt

...so you can easily include photo's from your iPhone / iPad in your slide show.

It would be nice to have a button action "Run Slideshows" that can play multiple consecutive shows. With the current version (PTE V9.0.16) this can be a rather painful experience, see this issue

I inserted a new blank slide at the beginning of the show, but still I get mixed results: Sometimes (depending on slide durations maybe, I think...) the show seems to play ok when published to exe, but almost never when in preview mode. Also sometimes I still get only the last or the last two shows. I have even seen the shows being played in reversed order! To me it seems that this part of the software is buggy. It is certainly counter-intuitive and the manual/help is also not very helpful. It is not clear to me what is meant by "run external application". Will the application start as soon as the slide is reached or after the slide duration or when the transition to the next slide starts? Will it wait until the application finishes or can another application being started by a following slide while the former is still running? From what I can see now is that the blank slide is shown for some random duration, then the external application is started and on finishing the same blank slide is shown again for some random duration. Then something is flickering and the next blank slide is executed. Or sometimes not... or in reverse order... I think I will leave this feature alone until a more stable version emerges. Wish there was a button action "Run slideshows" in stead of "Run slide show". Shouldn't be too hard to implement I think; just add an extra 's'

Thanks everyone for helping me out... The most promising option for me is inserting blank slides with run commands as proposed by @jt49 I gave this a try, but the results I got were very unreliable: I created a series of 3 small test shows with just a few slides and a menu show with blank slides containing run commands for the 3 test shows. When running the menu show most of the times nothing happens; I just see a few black slides and some flickering in between. Sometimes however, one of the 3 included shows will run, most often the last show or the last 2 shows. I did see once that all 3 shows were run, but I can't reproduce this anymore. I tried both absolute and relative paths for the run commands, fiddled with the slide durations and transition times, but I can't get a reliable result.

I would like to create a menu slide that lets me select to play one of several slide shows (and then returns to the menu to select another show) plus a button that will automatically play all shows consecutively (and then also return to the menu). Is there a way to accomplish this with PTE ?

Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok, mea culpa, mea culpa. I will order my brand new PTE licence tomorrow... Kind regards to everyone involved!

Sorry to hear that. It was not my intention to start a negative tread to scare people away from PTE. Actually, I am reconsidering to using PTE myself. After reading Lin's remarks I have been playing all day with PTE and Adobe Premiere. Both applications are sort of overkill for what I basically need. I am slowly getting used to PTE's "dual timelines" (the slidelist in thumbnail-mode acting as a sort of simplified extra timeline). My major issue is with trimming video clips. I can understand that a slide can have multiple clips or other objects and that they all could have different lengths. But then there should be at least some button or option to set the slide duration to the length of the maximum enclosed object or something like that. I now have (to remember) to manually fiddle with succeeding slides to get things right again after trimming a clip and this just does not feel right. What itches me most is that when I import a video clip into my project, a slide is automatically created with the right duration, so the developer who wrote the code to do this has rightly assumed that this is what I want. Now, if I do not add any other object to this slide, he (or she) can safely assume that I want to keep it this way, that is: duration of slide = duration of clip. So, developer, please finish what you started to do so well? Anyway, I've not given up yet...