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Hi Aleina, My wife and I live in a small town (population 18,000) in Northern California. Since we are only a few miles from the coast we rarely get snow (but lots of rain) unless we travel inland into the mountains. No kids, just us and our 3 cats. My wife likes to bake so we have plenty of Christmas desserts. I started using PTE many years ago before it supported video. It's amazing how fast you are progressing and looking forward to future videos. Thanks, Tom

Here is an example of curved wings. There is a short snap at the end of the incoming "bird" when it switches from curved surface to flat surface. Not sure how noticeable it is but it could probably be fixed. Feel free to modify and improve on my transitions. Thanks, Tom Wings Transparent.pteeff Wings Background.pteeff

Hi Lin, Hardware acceleration really helps speed up encoding videos in PTE. I have an 8 core AMD Ryzen 7 2700x CPU that is almost as fast encoding video. My 1660 super was shipped yesterday, but it might be a couple of days before it arrives. The only problem you might have is Nvidia driver support on older versions of Windows. Nvidia ShadowPlay is a really good screen recorder so I hope that works on your system. I sometimes use Windows 10 Game DVR, Bandicam, Faststone Capture, and Filmora Scrn. I know you have other screen recorders you could use too. Thanks, Tom

Hi Dave, Fantastic. I was hoping you would post an example. Thanks, Tom

Thanks. It's fun to experiment. That's a great idea. I will try to make the wings bend. Also maybe split the image into multiple birds. Thanks, Tom

The transparent background transition option with split background slides is really fun. Many possibilities for future transitions. Thanks, Tom Here is a fly out fly in version. https://youtu.be/FU3e6XTrhmQ

Hi Lin, Just playing with custom transitions. I'm going to make a new version with the 'bird' flying out on slide 1 and flying in on slide 2 with the split layer background showing. Thanks, Tom

Hi Dave, I understand now. I was not linking to the master video properly. This might work great with my bird transition except I will need to change it so the bird is flying out on slide 1 (with only the video background remaining) and then flying back in on slide 2. I think that would work with a title slide with transparent png background also. The things you can do with PTE are amazing. Thanks, Tom Test of a simple fade out with delay before fade in transition with slide 1 transparent png with text.

On my PC in PTE when I place the video below the splitter and the video duration is longer than the slide duration. Does background video work only with custom transitions or with any transition that does not cover the screen? Tom

This one is popular with our cats so I thought I would post it to the forum. Only tested on 16:9 screen. Thanks, Tom Bird.pteeff

Hi Dave, I don't see the video background but I can hear it on the next slide. Will continue testing. Thanks, Tom

Hi Lin, Thanks for the transparent png cutout method. I have some photos of cats that I can use as test subjects. For video of a moving subject it would probably take a polygon mask editor with a number of keyframes (object tracking). Tom

Hi Lin, Thanks for the snow. Very nice. Living in Northern California on the coast we get rain but rarely any snow. I was looking at this video about foreground and background snow (small snowflakes only behind person) but was not sure how it would work in PTE. Davinci Resolve/Fusion can do this but I'm guessing I could create a custom mask in PTE and put the small snow in the background layer? Thanks, Tom

Hi Lin, Video in custom transition is limited to preview and videos, not in the exe file format. It also makes a larger .pteeff transition file (.zip) due to the video background. It might work for animated snow, water, clouds, etc. Thanks, Tom

With PTE 10 it seems like it would be easier just to create an EXE for each video with a button action "Run slideshow with return" back to the menu. Tom

Hi John, My first thought would be to import the video into PTE and create a EXE slideshow instead of launching a video player. PTE viewer engine is a very good video player and supports many video formats/codecs. Tom

Hi Igor, Fixed. Thanks, Tom

It was on our local PBS this morning. I caught the last few minutes. Many still photos with pan and zoom. I will record and watch. Thanks, Tom

Hi Igor, Yes. It's amazing a 3 year old graphics card can easily handle a modern multimedia program like PTE 10. Monitoring with MSI Afterburner I noticed Barry's sample project during preview only consumes about 900 MB of GPU memory with average load of about 15% and maximum load less than 50%. GPU temp less than 40 deg. C. I wish I had the 1060 6GB instead of 3 GB, due to GDDR5X instead of GDDR5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce#GeForce_10_series It will be interesting to see the new AMD GPU cards next year. Even the next generation AMD APU laptops will probably be powerful enough to run PTE 10. Update: The Gigabyte WindForce 1660 Super card I ordered is supposed to ship by Dec. 17 so will be able to test before next year. The encoding may not be much faster than my 1060 3GB model but the NVENC encoder should be higher quality. Tom

I was planning on replacing my MSI GeForce 1060 3 GB with the MSI Geforce 1650 Super 4 GB but after testing there was little to no increase in performance with video rendering in PTE and a slight increase in another video editor. I decided to return and wait until the Gigabyte 1660 Super 6 GB is in stock again. My other upgrade is a replacement for my 120 GB SSD C: drive with a 1 TB Samsung EVO 860. Tom

Version 10.0.2. Minor problem but maybe not too hard to fix. The trim editor does not stop a user from entering a start time greater than end time with arrow keys or typing in numbers. It only stops incorrect time when changing time with click and drag markers. After the start time is larger than end time the program crashes (window freezes and locks up until killed with task manager) when trimming video. Tom

Hi Judy, Let me know how it works for you. I installed it on another PC today. It does default to install McAfee WebAdvisor. If you uncheck and click Next it should let you continue. I did a virustotal upload and a malwarebytes scan it came back clean. Screen grab and EULA attached. Thanks, Tom potplayer.txt

I have never used a workstation graphics card on my desktop computers but this is what I found searching. The P620 is a lower power/lower bandwidth mobile GPU compared to desktop Geforce models. It's a Pascal based GPU with 2 GB of memory. https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-GTX-1060-vs-Quadro-P620 Performance close to Geforce GTX 1050 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Quadro#Video_cards It's important that a graphic card has NVENC h.264 hardware chip(s) for hardware accelerated video encoding (also most Intel CPUs have quick sync). Not all Nvidia Quadros have h.264 video encoder. https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix Tom

If you want to view multiple PTE videos as a screensaver with time, date, and text (or just the media) then PotPlayer is great. You can have different media playing on different monitors. http://potplayer.daum.net/ Format options https://devhints.io/datetime Screen saver settings Window 10 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4026828/windows-change-your-screen-saver-settings Tom

The new graphics cards are very powerful and if you have room for a second monitor PTE works great with full screen preview in one monitor and the editor in the other monitor. Tom