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Hi Igor, This is the MSI card on order. My motherboard is also MSI. https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1650-OC/dp/B081Q6KKDS/ https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1650-SUPER-VENTUS-XS-OC I think the MSI cooling system is Ventus and Gigabyte is Windforce? Windforce has alternate spinning fans that remain off during low GPU load. https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N165SWF2OC-4GD#kf Tom

Hi Judy, Waiting for it to arrive. I think bad weather causing delay. Maybe in a day or two. I plan to benchmark encoding times at various settings using the PTE Studio Sample Project (Barry's demo video). Thanks, Tom

Upgrading my PC with a newer budget graphics card. It has the new Turing H.264 encoder. 4 GB of GDDR6 memory. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3481636/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1650-super-review-best-budget-graphics-card.html https://devblogs.nvidia.com/turing-h264-video-encoding-speed-and-quality/ Tom

Hi Igor, Looks good. Thanks, Tom

Hi Barry, I like the quality of the tutorial and the bouncing text to focus attention. I didn't know how to use the + timing until watching one of your videos. The only thing I do differently is adjusting the audio fade in/out by moving the corner brackets at the beginning and end of the audio track instead of adding blue keypoints. PTE 10 is amazing software. I hope the fire danger decreases and the air quality improves in Australia. Thanks, Tom

PTE 10.0.2. Quality value displayed but does not appear to be change lossless Mb/s or file size. Maybe add Lossless to window title instead of Quality: Number. If I remember correctly HWA (Hardware acceleration) is not an option in lossless? Both enabled and disabled did not change encoding time, file size, or FPS. Maybe Hardware acceleration check box could be disabled (grayed out like Quality) when Lossless compression enabled. Thanks, Tom

Gary, Installed new test version of PTE 10. Trimmed blank sections begin and end. Length 34 seconds after trim and looks accurate. Audio OK now. For some reason previous PTE 10 trim function reduced audio bitrate to 2 Kbps. Tom

While playing with custom transitions I have noticed banding of background on video output. Apparently due to limited 8 bit video (256 shades) and mp4 compression. I tried adding 10% gaussian noise to gradient rectangle (screen capture of rectangle) and it seems to help. Maybe it would be a good idea to include option to add gaussian noise to gradients during 8 bit video publishing. Davinci Resolve Studio and ffmpeg have a deband filter but apparently not x264. Update: Potplayer has a deband filter, temporal noise filter, and many other features (screen saver, recorder, ...). You can also open URLs with PotPlayer so the deband filter works on YouTube and other videos. I have been using Potplayer instead of MPC-HC on my Windows PC. I have not found a deband filter option in Nvidia Control Panel. Thanks, Tom Download original or watch on YouTube that may have been re-encoded. Fade from black to gradient produces temporal noise that is related to banding. Maybe possible to reduce with gaussian noise gradient or x264 denoise option. Download original video or watch on YouTube.that may have been re-encoded.

I was able to trim both sections of video with PTE 10. The mediainfo time of playback was a few mSec different than displayed by PTE 10 and in Word document. 1:02:20 0:36.240 Gary's MPG file lost audio when trimming blank begin and end sections. All of the tests were very fast due to hardware encoding. Tom Windows 10 Ryzen 7 2700x Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB

Many video players support chapter markers. It would be nice to have the ability to add a chapter marker to slides. Video is the universal format between operating systems. Thanks, Tom

Hi Igor, I understand now. Thanks, Tom

PTE AV Studio 10 Pro Added video to custom transition. It works in preview and published video but not in EXE. Maybe a bug or maybe me not understanding video object in transition. Thanks, Tom

I have never tried using a video in a transition before. It was created in PTE AV Studio 10 Pro but seems to be compatible with PTE 9. There are many other free background videos that you might enjoy. https://pixabay.com/users/tommyvideo-3092371/?tab=videos Larger than 3 MB forum upload quota so here is link to my google drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ne0bpJDRwU31qrMoLP6col5xOXtI9uNd/view?usp=sharing

Hi Dave, Yes. That seems to work with PTEViewer opening video in current working directory. I was not thinking about myself making this mistake as much as a new user. It could be more user friendly by either alert message or automatic adding video to zip file (PTE created zip limited to 4 GB unless zip64 is used in the future). I think PTE 10 will be very popular with many new users. Thanks, Tom

If you have video in slideshow there is an option "Do not include file for EXE". That is fine for with video on local storage device or local network. When you create a zip file for sharing over internet the video is not included in zip file as part of the folder or in .ptshow data file. Maybe I am missing something but I think it would be a good idea to warn user video will not be included or maybe save video into zip folder or .ptshow data file. Thanks, Tom

Great. I have been using PTE for awhile now and still learning new things. The online manual is really good as a reference tool. I found this which mentions the mouse controls in animation properties. https://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/9.0/objectsandanimation_1/animation_tab#changing_parameters_with_the_mouse Tom

Hi Mike, The horizontal click and drag next to the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness text labels act like virtual sliders and the numeric values and image are both updated in real time. Did you want actual gui slider controls? Tom

I find that instead of typing in a rotation value I sometimes click and drag using the object handle while watching the property value to adjust to 45 or 90 degrees. A faster method used in some other software is to change the value by fixed amounts when holding down the shift key during rotation. Currently shift is assigned to 3D (X rotation) so maybe switch ctrl or alt for 3D. Thanks, Tom

Gary, After watching a raytraced video of Minecraft I would probably get the Nvidia 2060 AMD computer and it should be future proof for at least 3 years. I know AMD wants to take over the GPU market but Nvidia is still number one. Tom

Gary, Fyi, in case you didn't see this recent post from Igor regarding laptops and PTE 10. Tom

Gary, I can verify the AMD 7 2700 processor works great with PTE 10. I decided on an AMD CPU when all the Spectre/Meltdown/... security problems were in the news. My AMD computer has a Nvidia 1060 3GB and seems to work fine with PTE 10. Memory usage is usually around 1.5 GB on my 1920x1080 slideshows. I can only assume the Nvidia 2060 would be even better. Igor can probably recommend which of the systems listed would work the best with PTE 10 hardware acceleration, video hardware encoding, and number of CPU cores. The AMD graphics cards may not be supported as well as the more popular Nvidia graphics cards. The prices quoted seem reasonable. Good luck. I'm already thinking about my next computer. Tom

Hi Pascal, You make the greatest styles and transitions. I think the facets version of this transition is my favorite. Your shop is amazing too. https://diaporashop.com/ Thanks, Tom

If you type Windows + . you get a pop up of graphic emojis. If you select one with the mouse it appears in upper left corner of screen and also in the text input box. I'm not sure if there is some method to disable this from the text input and corner of screen but I thought I should mention. Thanks, Tom

Time Range allows you to set the start and end times when an object will be visible on the screen. It would be nice if you could select an object, place the timeline cursor (vertical red bar) to where you want the object to start or stop and watch the time range (blue rectangle area) change in real time when you click and drag the time range control horizontally. If that is not possible maybe click and drag the blue rectangle or a hotkey or mouse click option to set the start and stop time based on the timeline cursor position. Thanks, Tom

Works great. Thanks, Tom