JudyKay

A tree fell on your house? Quite a few years ago in a heavy snow a huge pine tree maybe 3 feet in diameter feel across my neighbor's house, right across the bedroom. It smashed it's way all the way down to floor level. Missed their bed by inches. Imagine waking up to that all that crashing, and splintering and swirling snow and cold air! They were shook up, but fine. By the way. Are you and all your's OK?! Were you in the house when it fell? I am worried about you!

Thanks. When I add video I often just add the whole thing, even if I only use a few seconds. But that is a bad way to do it and creates 1) problems, 2) huge exe files. I often have problems with EXE files not playing correctly if I do this. It's not problem if I export mp4. This video inspires me to do it "right." Thanks.

I can't believe I missed that all this time! Oh that makes life better! Thanks so much!

I notice that Ctrl+T is missing in Hotkeys help from O/A for "Change Slide Duration" Is there a way to manually set the exact time of a Keyframe? And to copy that exact time to another keyframe on another photo or object? I spend too much time trying to align times between objects or slides. Maybe this belongs in a different thread. Sorry.

Some great templates and styles here. Thanks you all so much. jk

If you find it, I would like it too!

I think if you dig around on TheDom's website you can find some stuff you can still download. It's pretty broken up, so be creative. Try here. I have a photo album template (not a wedding album--I think he sold that, and I don't have it) from TheDom, but its pretty old. I recommend Barry Beckham's Wedding Album. His prices are VERY reasonable for what you get.

I remember a thread here years ago, which I cannot now find, about beziers. I had a different user name then, and forget what one of several I used. I gave a link to a piece of software long since gone that allowed placing points and creating lines and curves between them, like any good CAD program. An object could be made to follow the curve. The idea is nice.

I have concluded that this is actually a very useful feature if it works properly. I am presently adding photos to a background and then creating a mask for the photo. I want to visually adjust the fade and size of a rectangular fade. Manual adjustments mostly fail. This should be made to work. The work around is to guess and keep creating new masks until I get it right, but that is a lesser idea. Edit: I am also quite successful coping mask parameters from one mask to another with fine tuning. This is very useful, but the slightest mistakes creates error chaos. I really hope this function can be developed dummy-proof for people like me

Most normal people wouldn't try such a thing, but I need protected! Maybe just a little error trapping. Then again, no one may discover it again for 30 years. Actually I discovered the problem by adding a texture as a style to a blank slide and then wanting to modify it. I am not normal, but that is something a "normal" person might do.

I want to add one more: in O/A, DBL Click an image to open the path. Please!

Many variations are possible, but try this: 1. Open a project 2. Insert a blank slide 3. Apply slide style: Image | Color-Grayscale 4. Open O/A for the same slide 5. Choose Properties Tab 6. Adjust the Picture information to something unlikely, for example, change "TextWithSize:640:427:1" to "TextWithSize:640000000000:427:1 " Depending on the variation, all manner of warnings popup and sometimes an inescapable error cycle. This occurs when applying a style to a blank slide. It is not unlikely that a person would do this and then attempt to change to an actual image or just be curious (like me!). An error of entry might produce this error.

Oh this forum is a beautiful thing! Why didn't I ask sooner? Bridge does exactly what I want. And yes I am pretty much abandoning templates for styles for some things. Great solutions. Totally resolved. Thank you both! jk

Now we can easily drop images into a template simply by renaming them something predictable like 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc. Sometimes I have quite a few photos, maybe 50 or more that I want to drop into a template, but the order is wrong. Other times I want a specific number of images to fit specific templates which I may place end to end in a project file. Is there a way to visually reorder slides and then rename them according to the new order--such as 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc.? We can reorder photos in PTE but cannot rename them by the new order. We can reorder images and rename by the new order in Irfanview, but that seems cumbersome and error prone (I goof up some detail almost every time!). Anyone have a better idea?

I used to do some. Haven't in a long time. Probably never will again.

Awk!!! Why did I not know about those arrows in the Slide Option window?! Thanks!

Oh you, DAve! You know what I meant! I must stop writing when I am so tired. Actually Control.MouseDoubleClick is an event in several languages (C++, C#, VB, F# and ??) but that is not what I meant. So I have no defense left. Owell. How about just "fix it." Can I say that safely? Maybe we could invent Control + Double+ Click and make a fortune!

I am traveling in remote parts for a while, and will try to answer better when I get back to "civilization." Pt 10: it is true we can select one of 3 options for dbl click, but all three functions (slide options, O/A, & style) are very commonly used. Why only choose one? I suggest something like: Dbl click slide (s) - open slide properties Ctr+Dbl click slide(s) - open O/A Alt +Dbl click slide(s) - open style Pt 8: We can add a border to an image (O/A, Properties, Adjust image and border). I have wanted to add a border to a frame or rectangle the same way. There are many ways to do the same thing, but sometimes this would be very convenient.

Thanks Lin. That explains the drop shadow. Sorry about my ferhoodled rectangle/frame terminology. That is the result of the silliness of writing at 11 PM! I edited the list so that it makes more sense, hopefully, and took out the frame shadow point *9 because I was wrong. Thanks! jk

1. Make a right click option on any slide at any location (PTE explorer or slide list or lightbox view) to go to Windows Explorer file location with file selected. 2. When there are missing slides/videos/music and a "missed images" dialog box pops up, provide an option to remove such files at that moment from the dialog box. 3. Only allow one instance of a specific PTE file to be opened at once--or provide a warning asking if more than one instance is desired. Many times I have inadvertently had more than one instance of the same file open and then saved an older version over the top of a new version, losing all my work. 4. Hot Key changes: CTR+U & CTR+B are very commonly used, but stretch my fingers too far for fast work and I sometimes miss. Change to CTR+ something nearby the CTR key.Add a hotkey for slidestyle5. Just like there is an arrow to move back and forth among slides in to O/A window, make a way to do the same thing from the slide options window. 6. In O/A window, allow simultaneous Properties/Common/Animation changes to multiple selected objects. 7. In O/A when adding a border, I would like to be able to click on "Width" or "Color" and "Enable border" would automatically be checked and Width/Color would be activated. There is not likely a case that I click on Width or Color and don't want something to actually happen. 8. Add Border to a frame. 9. [deleted] 10. CTR + Click slide opens O/A Thanks, jk

Thanks. The ability to have text color change on mouseover like an ordinary PTE button would be nice too. Using a transparent button makes the effect invisible on that transparent button, and the effect isn't activated on buttons on layers under the mask. But maybe there is a way? Here is what I am doing now (simplified) which works, but with no mouseover color change: Layer 1: Buttons on top - Opacity=0 Layer 2: Mask Container - 1) rotating colors inside 2) mask shaped like buttons Layer 3: Buttons on the bottom - Opacity=100 Layer 4: Background What actually is happening is that the top buttons which are invisible are actually functioning, and the buttons under the mask are visible, but not functioning. I think. Anyway it works minus the text color change.

Thank you very much! You are so wonderful! That is exactly what I wanted to do.

I want to create a menu with buttons that change color. Here is what I have in mind. I have a background and 10 buttons as a menu. I created a 50% opaque, 50%blurred color wheel that spins over the top of the buttons inside a mask so that the color only changes over the buttons. So far so good. But when I cover the buttons with the mask and color wheel, then the buttons no longer get focus when the menu is running. Has anyone done this? What ideas do you have? JK

Got it. Love it. Thanks.

NOw th Now THAT is really smart!