tom95521

Weird. Maybe the first one had too high of a dpi.Here is the original and new one at lower dpi (realizing it shouldn't make a difference). I don't see the ghost but I believe you. I see you fixed the problem by removing background and adjusting white. I can't blame that on Serif Affinity Designer. Good to know. Thanks. Tom star_mask.zip

A star mask should work. It's easy if you have a vector drawing program. Tom

Hi Pascal, Still playing around with parameters but it works great. Thanks, Tom

I forgot I had a free online Excel live.com that launched Excel on my PC. I think I have it (almost) working. The calculation lasted about 12 seconds. I just need to change the image property to the correct path. Thanks! Tom

Hi Pascal, This looks amazing. As much as I would like to use Trapcode Particular it is not within my budget. Have you tried using your spreadsheet/macro with Google Sheets (spreadsheet)? Thanks, Tom

Hi Barry, If I close my eyes and hear your voice I think of Paul Hogan, not Paul Hollywood. I'm glad people think my post is amusing. People should laugh more often to stay healthy. Fyi, awesome and cool are proper Californian dialect. Thanks, Tom

Sadly the mediadigitronics website is not very modern. I was unable to view the demo videos because of the older youtube URLs pointing to .swf video files. I have found the equivalent modern versions of the youtube URLs. It is interesting how the node paths are generated and populated with objects and maybe some day such a feature could be added to PTE at the same time bezier curves are programmed into PTE. VisisketchPro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBxBH4ClrV0 HighlighterPro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKwVvPvh40 CaptionsAlivePro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yh-vMbEia8 Tom

Hi Inova, It has been many years since I have used Photofiltre but it does have many nice features. http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/freeware/reflet-en.htm Thanks, Tom

Hi Inova, Interesting use of 5 row JPG as animated image. What software are you using to convert from video or animated GIF to multi image JPG? Thanks, Tom

LOL. I'm not a world traveler, that's for sure. I'm about 1,000 km away from my nearest neighbors Canada and Mexico and just know a few words in Spanish. Tom

I can see TIFF import as a convenience for users not wishing to convert. It doesn't mean PTE can't convert to an internal format. I hope some day PTE will support 10 bit HDR videos and some of the other lossless formats like CineForm and ProRes for both input and output and also RGBA. Tom

The demo slideshow is great. The only thing that might make it sell better in North America is a more regional voice. Barry has what I consider to be an Australian accent which is probably great for sales in Australia and the UK. I know game developers hire professional voice actors, but I don't know how much they cost. I hope this comment does not offend Barry or other Australians. I just would like to see PTE become more common in the United States. I'm sure a Mac version will help too. Thanks, Tom

That would be very nice. A particle generator has been on my personal PTE wish list. Thanks, Tom

Amazing. Particles must be very time consuming to create. Thanks, Tom

Hi Dave, Interesting applied as a style. I didn't make too many strips since I wanted to make a relatively simple transition. I think I will try to make a basket weave transition next. Also I have updated Spin with a few more variations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvDUAInQvig Thanks, Tom

Playing with Image crop. Horizontal and vertical spin options. https://ptearchive.com/pte/Tom95521/?name=Spin.pteeff Tom

Hi Igor, Yes. This fixes the problem. Thanks! Tom

PTE 10.0.6 Windows 10.0.19037 Build 19037 I have installed the optional (not supported) DVD Video Disc creation tool. Although I do not create DVDs now I wanted to see if it would work by creating an ISO image. When I start the program from the Publish menu I immediately get the attached error message. I don't expect it to be fixed but I thought I should at least report the problem. Thanks, Tom

So many free batch converters. If you are publishing in executable format the file size would be very large. I guess the convenience not having to convert might be nice but I doubt you would notice quality difference. Until 10 bit video becomes common I doubt if most people could tell the difference. Maybe Igor could read tiff and save internally as png without quality loss. https://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm https://www.irfanview.com/ Tom

Just a simple hourglass transition. Angle of repose set to 45 degrees. 16:9 aspect ratio. https://ptearchive.com/pte/Tom95521/?name=Hourglass.pteeff Tom

Strange. The original video has 2 frame rates. Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 50.000 FPS Original frame rate : 25.000 FPS The Photoshop version only has 1 frame rate. Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 25.000 FPS Apparently PTE only looks at Frame rate and ignores Original frame rate. Tom

Hi Lin, That is good to know that it works. I have not bothered to use 4K mainly because I'm using four of my old 1920x1080 LCD monitors on my computer. The only 4K HDTV we have is in our living room for Netflix/Hulu. Tom

Not sure what others are doing but from searching Google for a few minutes... One comparison was 32 Mbps for H.264 AVC compared to 15 Mbps for H.265 HEVC at 4K resolution. If you're not streaming the video over a network or slow USB device you could increase the bitrate but might not notice any difference. The downside of HEVC is much slower encoding. There seems to be a consensus of 50% to 60% bitrate savings at 4K. Tom

It's amazing how well some of the free screen recorders like Nvidia ShadowPlay and OBS Studio can record 1080p at 60 fps (My monitor resolution is not 4K). I can't tell the difference in quality comparing to PTE video export. Even though I have Bandicam, Mirillis, and a few other screen recorders, the free ones work just as well. They are both configured to use the Nvidia NVENC hardware encoder. OBS can also record H.265 but I usually don't capture in that codec. So if you want to try HEVC/H.265 you could use Handbrake to convert or screen record with OBS Studio. Tom

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