davegee

Claudio, One possible solution: Split your "circle of Cubes" into two halves. One half coming toward the viewer. The other half retreating away from the viewer. If you had 8 cubes instead of nine you could then changes slides every 45 degrees of rotation of your "master" frame. For nine cubes = 40 degrees. If you have a different image on each face of 8 cubes (48 images) each new slide would then have to have different images on all of the faces to make it appear continuous - quite a challenge, but you could create a Style to do the hard work. The movement in each slide would be exactly the same but the images would have to change. If you intend to revolve each cube about its own centre then you have another challenge. DG

Hi Daniel, On your first suggestion, the hidden KeyPoints are hidden even if there is no following audio clip so I think that putting that in might cause greater confusion/misunderstanding. My illustrations to show this are based on "stand-alone" audio clips and don't require following clips to produce the "problem". The problem can be caused either by customizing the clip in Project Options/Audio or by dragging in the Timeline Until Igor provides a permanent "fix" I would recommend using the "Fade In" and "Fade Out" Brackets in the Timeline rather than use Fade In/Out Keypoints which could cause this problem later on. I will add the "sound effect" phrase. http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main-window/the_timeline DG

Thanks for the suggestion Daniel. Something like this?: "Please note that if an Audio Clip having Key Points at the extremes (beginning or end) is customized by having its Duration altered (Start Time and/or Duration) either in the Project Options/Audio Tab or by dragging in the Timeline, it is possible that these Key Points will no longer be seen but will still be active. This might result in an unexpected effect. The Fade In and Fade Out Brackets in the Timeline are not affected in the same way." DG P.S. Here

That makes more sense. Using lots of different transitions is gimmicky and will draw adverse comments from AV purists. The transitions should be in sympathy with the images and subtlety is the keyword here. DG

If you really want it, you could create a style which featured all transitions, but they would appear in the order that you created the style. That would not be random but would not repeat until you exhausted the number of available transitions. DG P.s. if you then play the slides in random order you would have a truly random show - slides and transitions.

Thanks Igor. DG

How do you add Keypoints outside of the Customized Duration? Were the Keypoints added and then the Duration altered? I have found it impossible to drag a keypoint beyond the limits of the Start Time and the End of Duration Time. DG

Daniel, Try a new project and add two sound comments to two different slides in a Track for Audio Comments. I have found it to be impossible to drag a key point from one audio file into another. But you can overlap audio files. DG

Daniel, After doing a little testing, it appears that the Automatic Crossfade does not apply if the Clips are linked to specific slides and are in a "Track for Audio Comments". If audio clip 2 is dragged into audio clip 1 the first clip stops abruptly when clip 2 starts (in my test). However I could not reproduce the gradual fade that you have heard. Have you dragged the two clips apart to ensure that there is no overlap?

The Project Options / Audio screen capture might help to simulate this problem. It looks as though the two files are not overlapping? In an overlap situation the overlap "should" create a Crossfade. Maybe it is so small a crossfade that it does not show in the illustration. Only the Project Options screen grab will show this clearly. DG

Gary, I don't think that Login will give you any extra search benefits. I will ask Igor to reset your Password - I cannot do that (I don't think?). DG

http://www.bkwinephotography.com/technology/good-dam-digital-asset-management-software/ DG

My way of dealing with this is to use Template. When a project is completed and "published" and no more work will be done on it, I save a template of it in my dedicated Templates folder. All images, converted video files (always convert) and audio files USED in the project are saved together in one folder along with all of your other projects Templates. A list of all Templates is available from within PTE so finding a project that you, perhaps, last worked on 5 years ago is simple. A Template is just like a Backup In Zip (BIZ) without the zip and PTE makes it simple for you to find your Template but you have to do your own DAM with BIZ. DG

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?/topic/12916-missing-files/?p=120895 This is a step in the right direction? DG

Thanks, you explained it very well. The difficulty I see is that when you add an audio file, for instance in Project Options, and use the "trim" controls to set the start and end of the audio you are then "applying" those "trim" edits in the Timeline without saving as a new file. If the file used in the Timeline was a saved, new version of the original then it would be possible to send it from the Timeline to your external editor. If you did the same thing in an external editor you would be unlikely to save over the original file - you would Save As a different named file or even a different type of file e.g. WAV > MP3 Compare this with the Video Converter which Trims and then saves a new avi file. It is then the converted avi which is added to the Timeline and not the original. So sending the converted, trimmed file from the Timeline is not an issue. There is an ongoing discussion on this subject. DG

Thanks Mur, It is nice to know why someone feels the need for an external editor. I have not experienced anything that I have wanted to do which could not be done in PTE in the Timeline. I am sure that there are features in Audition etc which will never be possible in PTE but at this time I am quite happy with the envelope features and everything that can be done with a little ingenuity. Listing the things which you feel cannot be done might give Igor some ideas for new features. DG

What sort of editing changes do you want to make to your WAV/mp3 files? DG

Not at all John! I just wanted to clear up the "suspect version" thing. DG

What sort of editing changes do you envisage? Is it something that cannot be done within PicturesToExe? DG

Hi John, Please read my post again. I didn't suggest a "suspect version" - I said: "Back in August Igor released V8.0.6 which was said to cure problems with the Playing of DVDs on certain DVD Players". DG

Right click on the Audio File in the FILE LIST. Edit File. http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main_menu/preferences#system http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main-window/main_window#terminology DG

Right click on the Audio File in the FILE LIST. Edit File. http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main_menu/preferences#system http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en/main-window/main_window#terminology DG

John, The DVD-R that I just burned using the PTE Default settings played with no problems on my BR DVD Player. Back in August Igor released V8.0.6 which was said to cure problems with the Playing of DVDs on certain DVD Players. Maybe he didn't cure all of the problems? Perhaps you should raise a Technical Support Ticket specifying the make of your player and any error messages you are getting. Also list them here? DG

Which version John and do you have the latest download for the version. Using V8.0.11 I have just burned a DVD-R on my PC using VideoBuilder of a 7.5 minute show with 50+ images and a single soundtrack. I clicked the Defaults Button and used the settings obtained. The DVD burned in around 2 minutes and Plays OK on my PC. I will now try it on my DVD Player (BR). DG

Hi TT, Not sure if you are asking me or Lin or........? For Styles: Settings/Preferences/Templates - see bottom of window. For Custom Transitions.............create a folder on a Hard Drive (other than C Drive) called Custom Transitions. DG