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=========================================== Yes, I really want to know and understand what the empirical values of the parameters mean. What should I expect the action to be if I choose 26 vs. 29, for example? If you are not sure what a change in an parameter will do, you can spend all day trying to come up with the action you are trying to create. And what about Start and Stop? What are they supposed to do? When you say, if you change the parameters, you move into the "Custom" settings. But why does the heading of 'Animation Speed: Smooth' change to 'Animation speed'? Can't we make an adjustment to 'Animation Speed: Smooth' and stay in that setting? I don't want 'Speed' but that is what it is saying. Confusing. I searched for a post on ANIMATION SPEED by IGOR and did not find what you might be referring to. However, I did find this post by Jevans with a similar question as I have posted. His post was Nov. 24, 2016 and there was no solution to his questions. I have not found an explanation or answer yet that makes the parameters understandable. Gary

Lin and Dave, Thanks. Yes, I see that my problem in perceiving what was going on was that I did not have a long enough slide time. Once I increased the slide time, it made more sense. I got the Pan to work with Smooth. Then I added a Zoom with Smooth. The Smooth was added to the first KF for the Zoom. Worked well. I'm getting to see some light. However, I'd still like to know what are the attribute's measuring. What is the 50 vs. the 26? or the Start's 0 vs. 10? Percents of the slide time? 50 of what? 26 of what? What are Start and Final speed's inputs measurements or measuring? I also just notice something strange. If I am working with the Smooth Accel. at 26, and change it to 50, it changes to 'Speed'. If I change the 50 back to 26, it stays 'Speed'. I don't get it. Gary

How about this? I want a Pan to start out slowly and end slowly. I seem to be able to make it end slowly with just the default Slow Down but I can't seem to make it start slowly. Any ideas? Is the % indicating the % along the time of the slide when to start the slow down? How do you do it for the beginning of the pan? Do you use Accel. and Decel. for this to happen? Gary

Greetings, The demos are good to see what can be done. However, I still don't understand what the inputs mean. For example, Animation Speed gives you Accelerate, Slow Down and Smooth. Each comes up with their own default settings for 'Accel.time (%)', 'Decel. time (%)', 'Start speed', and 'Final speed'. I don't understand how to interpret or use these settings. It would be very helpful if someone would get an explanation on how these inputs work. For example, the percentage. What does the % inputs represent or what does it do? Same for Start speed and Final speed. I have tried to play with these inputs but without some basic understanding of what they are supposed to be doing, it has been just frustrating. So, any help in understanding how to use these inputs would be appreciated. Gary

Greetings Dave, I'd like to start out with something simple with the Animation Speed modifier. I'd like to, for example, slow down a pan. It seems to default to 1,56,0,0. So I'd like to understand how to use these settings and achieve a simple Slow Down in a Pan, for example. So I clone a keyframe and have the image move from keyframe1 to keyframe2. Which keyframe gets the Slow Down modifier? And which of the 1,56,0,0 do I change and what settings? Gary

Yes, I had looked at that example. However, I 'see' something happening and I 'see' something can be done with Modifiers. What I don't understand is how to implement them. I have played with them and something happens but I don't understand how to really use them. I'd like some examples of what the 'thinking' is when they are used. And what do the '%s' represent. %s of what, or when? What is 'Start speed' and 'Final speed'? Based on what? I can plug in figures but I don't really understand what they are based on or what they will do. For example, the defaults for Accelerate and Slow Down seem to be 1, 56, 0, 0. Why? Smooth, is 26, 26, 0, 0? I just like to understand how to use these modifiers. I would be of great help is some would make a video and talk us through the process of using modifiers. Gary

Greetings, I am trying to understand how to use Modifiers. In the User Guide, the text has no punctuation so it is a bit difficult to read it. Can the periods be entered in the sentences? Thanks... Gary "Acceleration Time and Deceleration Time can be set separately or together to produce the Speed Option effects of Version 8 Combinations of Acceleration and Deceleration will produce an almost infinite number of “Smooth” Animation Speed Effects Start Speed will either Slow Down (Negative values) or Speed Up (Positive values) the Start Phase of the Animation Speed set with Acceleration and Deceleration Times Final Braking will either Slow Down (Positive values) or Speed Up (Negative values) the Final Phase of the Animation Speed set with Acceleration and Deceleration Times “Bounce Effects” are possible by using Negative Values of either Start Impulse or Final Braking"

Greetings, It would be helpful to add 'Length' to the File List attributes: Gary

Greetings Roel, Your posting was timely, for me. I have been following the '1803' problem. But I could not install the '1803' update until yesterday. Just could not get it to install for a long time. Maybe I was too impatient but I let it run for a long time and finally, all the Windows updates were installed, including the '1803'. So I am able to experience the exception error when trying to play the exe with the NVidia display adapter, if selected. On my laptop, I never noticed that if I right-click on the PTE exe file, I can get 'Run with graphics adapter' and it lets me choose between my 'Intel 4600' and my 'NVidia Geforce GT 740m' display adapter. Choosing the Intel 4600, no problem; choosing the Nvidia, I get the exception error. As stated before, the desktops don't seem to have this problem. I checked and my desktop only has the NVidia GeForce GTX 1070, but no Intel 4600. And, yes, if I re-Publish the exe that was made in an earlier PTE version with the latest 19.9 version, it will now play with the NVidia display adapter. So thanks for shedding light on this problem and I finally see what is going on. Gary

Daniel, I just gave it a try. I set the initial Project Setting to 'Anamorphic'. But when I tried to set the Export Presets to be 'Anamorphic', that choice did not show up in the settings list. So I will just live with the differences and fix it in PTE to whatever looks the best. But interesting discussion. Thanks... Gary

Greetings Daniel, Your explanation is very interesting. I had never heard of rectangular or square pixels in video. I just when back into the HitFilm program and I see that I can set the Project Settings to change the default Aspect Ratio from 'Square Pixels' to 'Anamorphic'. Maybe this is what is needed to change if I am using the digitized clips from my HI8 camera. I'll have to play around with it some more to see what happens if I select that setting. So, perhaps if I select the 'Anamorphic' in HitFilm and export the clip, the DAR would be 4:3 (as is the original clip), and not 3:2. I'll give it a test later and let you know. Thanks... Gary

Greetings Daniel, I've fiddle around a bit more with this question. I do understand, as you explained, about selecting the the aspect ratio of the screen (slides) in PTE. However, let me explain a bit more. I notice that the Aspect Ratio (AR) and the Display Aspect Ratio (DAR) of video clips taken with a digital camera seem to make sense. They match up. For example, a 1920x1080 will show a DAR of 16:9 (1.77). And, 1280x720 will show a DAR of 16:9 (1.77). And, 640x480 will show a DAR of 4:3 (1.33). (using MediaInfo for the properties). Now, I am working with video clips that I took with a HI8 tape camera and were digitized. What is strange to me is that these 720x480 clips show a DAR of 4:3 (1.33). I would think the DAR should be 1.5, to be mathematically correct. Even when these clips are PTE Converted, these 720x480 clips show a DAR of 4:3 (1.33). OK. So, then I run this digitized HI8 clips through another video program called HitFilm to trim and export (just trying out a new program). I would expect MediaInfo to show the same results. However, it show 720x480 and a DAR of 3:2 (1.5), which is really the correct info. So, I am wondering why, with the HI8 digitized clips, the 'incorrect' DAR is shown, even with the PTE Convert process. Not until I played around with HitFilm did the DAR show up 'correctly'. I am not sure what the ultimate effect of using the PTE's DAR 4:3 vs. the 3:2 that HitFilm shows of trimmed clips. Does it even matter??? However, I notice if I set the Aspect Crop in PTE's O&A to 3:2, the clip's width looks stretched. Apparently, the clip actually is 4:3? Just curious why I'd get two different DARs of the same clip. Gary

Greetings, I am not sure what the difference is between ‘Aspect Ratio (AR)’ and ‘Display Aspect Ratio (DAR)’ for a video clip (as shown in MediaInfo). I started out with the original video clip’s AR being 720x480 and a DAR of 4:3. I ran the original through PTE Convert/Trim and the properties remained the same, 720x480, 4:3. I also ran the original clip through Hitfilm video editing program to trim it but the clip came out as 720x480, 3:2 (not 4:3 as expected). The 4:3 DAR seems to look correct while the 3:2 seems to be ‘stretched’ out a bit. Mathematically, it seems that if the AR is 720x480, the DAR should be 3:2, not 4:3. But the 4:3 seems to be visually correct and not stretched out. If the original clip’s AR is 720x480 and the DAR is 4:3, why would Hitfilm change the DAR to 3:2? The Hitfilm’s export preset was set to use the same Dimensions and Aspect Ratio as the source. And what is the difference between the AR and DAR? Should a 720x480 be 4:3 or 3:2? Though PTE keeps it at720x480, 4:3, Hitfilm changes it to 720x480, 3:2. Can you tell me why? Gary

Lin, Thanks for the recommendation for Hitfilm Express. I have been playing around with it. It took a bit to figure it out but it looks pretty good for trimming. My only negative at this point is that it does not import MPEG-2 video format. You have to purchase that ability. But other than that, I have been successful in trimming and exporting other format clips. One thing that took a while was to set up a Preset for Exporting. They offer several but the exported files that kept coming out way too big. The Preset's bit rates are apparently too high. So I figured out that if I selected the Constant setting for bit rates, I could set my own bit rate to 10. The file size was more reasonable and still good quality. And retaining the 'Keep Source' for other properties seemed to work out fine. I liked that you can set the trim for a clip frame-by-frame to get your precise edit. The HitFilm's MP4 export format is 'AVC'. It seems to play well in PTE. But, my question is, do you have to still do the PTE Convert of the Hitfilm's 'AVC' to make it 'MPEG-4 Visual'? My clip from HitFilm's bit rate was 10 mb/s (46 Mbs) and its PTE converted bit rate is 12.6 mb/s (59 Mbs). Do you see anyway in Hitfilm to export a clip as 'MPEG-4 Visual' to avoid having to convert exports from Hitfilm, if that format is required? Gary

Judy... Very odd. I can get Davinci Resolve to work on my PC. But I gave up on it because I can't figure out how to use it. It seems to allow imports of only mp4s. MPGs don't even show up. And if I can get an MP4 imported, I get a 'Media Offline' warning. I have no idea what is going on. I just hope Igor will improve the PTE video processing. Gary

Judy, I found that version and I tried to install it. Got the same error message. I said Ignore and finished the install. I was able to import one video but could not do anything with it. Other videos just won't import and freezes. I have Win10. Not sure what that error message means but there is something going on.... Gary

Lin, Yea, kinda weird. I found two different Filmora download files. One was 'filmora_setup_full846.exe' and another one was 'filmora-idco_setup_full1901.exe'. Both give me an error message during the install and the install stops at 97%. Too bad, I was looking forward to giving it a try. Gary

Lin, I've given up on Filmora. I can't import any video clips. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. No go. Very strange. But the first time I imported a video clip, the preview was a mess. After that, could not import anything. I just wish Igor would improve the PTE video processing. Don't like to go outside to other programs for video processing. Always a pain,. Gary

Greetings MUR, I gave Avidemux a quick try. Its output is MKV. Do you then run it through the PTE's Convert process? I ask this because the trimmed clip I made using Avidemux (MKV) did not seem to degrade in quality from the original clip. However, when I ran the MKV trimmed clip through the PTE Convert, the quality seemed to be degraded, even though the MediaInfo for both (the MKV trimmed/converted and the original trimmed/converted files) were pretty much identical. Do do you Convert the MKV clip or not? I get good results just using the PTE Trim/Convert process but setting the trim's beginning and ending is really crude and not precise. Gary

Greetings Judy, Since you mentioned Filmora, I downloaded/installed their latest version. Looked promising. But...I see it is a trial version. I gave it a short try but really did not like it for a few reasons. The video preview image was really degraded...lots for splattered colors (hard to explain). I tried to just drag one clip over the other to have a simple transition fade. It would not let me. In PTE, simple. Anyway, if Igor will just concentrate on improving the 'Convert' process, he will have a real winner and more useful process to deal with videos. I recently took a 90 minute video tape and created about 40 or so clips for a show using the PTE Convert/Trim process. One problem is the Trim function. After you set the Trim indicators, the little up/down arrows next to the green arrows should help to move the Trim indicators to a more accurate position. I don't think they are working well. Even though the Start Time changes, when you click the green arrow to reset the position, it does not do that. And once you have the Trim indicators (left and right) set, it would be nice to be able to preview only that portion to doublecheck the trimmed clip. You can't. Once you Convert/Trim a video, you have to start all over again. You can't trim out one section of the video and Convert it and then Trim another section of the same clip without having to close the Convert Window and start over again with that same original clip and trim out another portion of that clip. Wouldn't it be nice to have video stabilization??? Simple things like that make it frustrating and should be improved. I have tried many outside programs but they all have negative aspects. I like to stay within PTE to do the video editing process, even if it now is pretty crude. Video is becoming more important to the slideshows. Like I said, I've tried many other video programs and have just about given up. Let me know if you come with a winner. Gary

Greetings, When you add an audio file, you currently can pick the placement of the file either before or after another audio file on a particular Track. But then you still have to drag the audio clip along that Track to where you might want the exact placement to be. If you have many other audio clips, especially if you are adding in audio from specific video clips, this can a bit difficult trying to drag it to the slide you want it to be aligned with. My suggestion is that, when an audio clip is added, it can be added to where you have highlighted a particular slide (on the selected Track). Gary

Jill... Yes, I understand. But if we can move Tracks up or down, it seem that we should be able to move audio clips up or down with the same ease. And if they are linked, doing a simple move to the next Track down would prevent the cutting off the ending sound of the first clip, if there is a crossfade (as you pointed out in the your other reply). Gary

Greetings, I'd like to have a menu item that gives the ability to move an audio clip up or down in the Audio Tracks. You can move Tracks up and down but not specific audio clips between Tracks. This would be helpful when you have linked, for example, two audio clips and the crossfade of one is covered up. Moving them by hand is hard to keep the precise placement. If there is already a way, please let me know. I have tried every keystroke but haven't found it yet. Gary

Greetings Jill, Thanks. I haven't run into this before so I wasn't sure if it was 'normal'. But I don't see any advantage to this 'design'. Why would it be good to cover up the crossfade of one of the linked audio clips? I see your solution is workable but just adds to more complicated tracks. But thanks for the info. Gary

Greetings, I have linked 2 slides (video clips), #4 and #5. The crossfade of the first slide (#4) gets covered by the following slide (5#). So once they are linked, I can not see the crossfade of slide #4. Is this a bug or not? Gary