SeismicGuy

Hi Alex--even with "plain vanilla" image software like On1 or Photoshop I have never completely dived into masks but have a basic understanding of what they are. Even more mysterious (to me) are the masking techniques in PTEAV in terms of the mask, then the mask stencil, then the mask contents. I sort of understand what these things are but knowing how and when to use them is the missing link for me. An analogy with regular photo enhancing programs like Photoshop is that some people can look at the starting image and know precisely what needs to be done to achieve a certain result. That escapes me.

I am always astounded by the clips you create. I wouldn't even know where to start. Thanks as always.

Bringing up the suggestion again to create a way to to have mp4 clips stand out distinctly from jpg's in the slide view. I have made the mistake a number of times now of selecting what I thought were a number of consecutive slides to apply a style or theme only to find out later that one of more of these were mp4 clips rather than jpg's. An alternative would be to have some option buttion that applies styles/themes ONLY to jpg slides and skip any mp4 slides if that makes sense.

Thanks--nice effect.

I think what I have been doing as a work-around was to go ahead and apply the theme/style to the bunch of slides and then go back and select all of the slides in question on the slide view line and change the duration back to what I originally had it (usually 8 seconds for most cases) and that takes care of it in one step. Of course there are some slides where I wish to keep the duration from the style so I go back after-the-fact and verify/tweak once again. I have also sometimes made the mistake of selecting a number of slides for applying a style not realizing that one or more slides in the sequence were actually mp4 videos. I think I was suggesting in the past that it would be nice to easily distinguish jpg slides from mp4 slides in the slide view other than noting the longer duration.

It has been a while since creating a vacation slideshow so I may have asked this before but just forgot the answer. If I place slides in the slideview line or timeline and set the duration of each to be some consistent number (e.g., 8 seconds) but then apply something like the Ken Burns theme to some or all of the slides the duration of each changes. This works sometimes but sometimes not so I need to go in and tweak the durations on the slides. I assume the duration change is by intent depending on the style/theme being applied, but is there any way to lock the durations?

Thanks very nice as usual!

I don't have a specific answer but there are a bunch of tutorials by Barry Beckham that helped me learn more and just playing around and trying things was also useful. The program is not all that intuitive but once you get the hang of things it is very powerful. Have created a number of travelogue-type videos that have a few hundred images and videos and learn more each time I use the program. I am sure someone will have a specific answer for your question soon.

I think PowerPoint has this feature.

This would be a nice feature to add to upcoming versions. The video show program I was using before PTEAV had a "normalize" button to make all of my various music clips the same basic volume which was a pretty slick feature.

Nice--thanks!

He's right. Just after posting my last post I remembered about the styles.ini file and other ini files. Again in my case I have styles.ini in 7 different locations, probably from previous versions/installs. If you can read the ini file it basically ties together all of the weird named folders with data about what each does, author, etc.

I don't think you can just move around the folders with the styles. I think you actually have to go through the importing of each style while using the program, but I may be wrong.

Not using 10 anymore so I guess it would be best to uninstall it. I wonder if that will also delete the miscellaneous other folders.

On my machine the files are frequently in more than one location--for example: I suppose this is because I was first trying/using PTE 10 and eventually upgraded to 11. I would really prefer to have these all in just one folder location and perhaps I can just delete the ones that are extraneous?