Lin Evans

Or if preferred on White Canvas... Lin

Hi Folks, This is a style which I think offers some promise for further development. It's not difficult to do and if anyone wants to know how to do it, just respond and I'll explain in detail. This is a rough concept and it can be much improved if someone wants to take the time. PTE has some great features which lend themselves to things we have yet to explore in greater detail... So here's the style. Just load one or more 16:9 aspect images and apply. Best regards, Lin Paint It.ptestyle Paint It White Canvas.ptestyle

Any image where you want the image title shown only needs to use the comments and text template. It's been a feature of PictuesToExe for many, many, many years. Best regards, Lin

Barry, if you don't zip them, many web host servers will play them rather than allow download from an FTP perspective. It's best to zip unless you have a very fast host server. I can't say about file sharing services because I only use them to download and never upload to them. But if you have your own website and upload an mp4 to the server and give the user a link, in most cases unless the host has some rule about not allowing "any" play over the web the mp4 will play rather than download... Best regards,, Lin

A little show of some of our Colorado sunsets using your Confetti style in the ending along with Dave's "flip playing card": !!! Best regards, Lin

Hi Pascal, What a super cool effect !!!! Bravo !!!! Best regards, Lin

You click on the "apply to all slides" button after making your changes. This applies the new font and other characteristics to all slides in your current project. I'm not certain what you mean by "legends?" Perhaps this is a language thing and "legends" are "comments" in other language translations? This feature is for "comments" (in the English version) and that includes the various "templates." This is not for manually inserted "text" but there is no legitimate reason that I know why you can't use the comments feature for the vast majority of text use because you have the same ability to select "text comment" in the objects list and do with it just as you would with ordinary text. Best regards, Lin

This is a normal "Slides" image - to see the waveform, you need to click on "Timeline" - What happens when you click on Timeline? Best regards, Lin

Click on "Settings" then "Timeline" - Is it visible now? Best regards, Lin

I've never used a file/image sharing service other than Facebook and YouTube, which of course are totally different concepts than Fickr, etc. Since I retired, photography is now my hobby rather than my profession. When I worked, the images were proprietary (my work was for primarily for art galleries) so stored and displayed on my own server for my clients. These days I probably shoot less that an average of 20 images per day so no real need for a large on-line storage. I archive several hundred thousand images on multiple storage devices but where I live there is no truly decent high-speed internet available. My own systems are connected to rather mediocre DSL. I'm a bit envious of the adjacent close large community of Longmont, Colorado which has the fasted internet in the nation available for less than I pay for DSL. Longmont has 1,000 mbps upload and download symmetrical with NextLight service. Because of my slow DSL even uploading a small portion of my photos to Flickr or SmugMug, etc., would be problematic so I really have no experience to share in this regard, Best regards, Lin

Hi Guys, Thanks! Hopefully they might be useful for some holiday shows... Best regards, Lin

Here's a sample of the latest Snowgobe with wooden base available on the link above... Lin

I've made a bunch of them - here's a link to a zipped archive of them: http://www.lin-evans.org/snow/snowglobestyles.zip Best regards, Lin Here's one more: Snowglobe With Wooden Base.ptestyle

Hi Folks, You old-timers have seen these before - but for the new folks just getting PicturesToExe this is just a reminder that I have many free snow globe and snow animations styles available for your holiday shows... Best regards, Lin

Hi Danna, If you hold down the CTRL key and click on the object you want to move in the Objects and Animations screen, this will let you see the keframes for any or all objects simultaneously. You can then click on any keyframe and hold down the left mouse button and drag it anywhere along the timeline the vertical line will allow you to line up as many as desired on the same time. You can also press Ctrl E and lock as many keyframes as selected and move them together as a group should you want to change the time when something happens across multiple keyframes. Best regards, Lin This little video may help:

LOL - the mysteries of forums... software gremlins permeate our environment I think... I've answered a few that were years old because I didn't pay attention to the dates. Lin

Hi bbela, Could you possibly post a sample. There are several different wedding styles and book styles. If you could post a link to the video where you quote the time 0:59 to 1:10 perhaps we can help locate the template or style you want? Best regards, Lin

Ha! Good catch! That stringed instrument just doesn't get it to add that dimension to PTE - LOL Best regards, Lin

Manuel, Click on the "Tools" button... Best regards, Lin

Good you got it worked out. It's an unusual situation. Most who use video as a background do not want the video as a still image but to begin as a video background. You could also just shoot a screen copy still of the video and use it as the background for image one and the master video and linked background video for the other images. There are multiple ways of getting a solution. But to give proper advice, it's necessary to know precisely what you want to achieve. It works as it was intended. Backgrounds whether video or stills begin with and persist with the slide timing. When you want a video in the background to act like an independent second layer object in Objects and Animations then you use it as a single video clip. So doing it the way you did works but it's not a glitch in PTE, it's just a work-around to achieve a desired effect which is a rather unusual occurrence . Best regards, Lin

Hi Scots, It sound like what you are trying to do is have a slide display before that slide has video as a background. By design, a slide background begins with the slide so in order to have the image display before the background begins, just place the image itself as a first slide with the time set for the number of seconds you want it to display. In your description that would be five seconds. Just make your show, leave the defaults of Offset and Start time, then add the first image on the slide list as a duplicate and set the transition either as a quick fade or quit transition (don't copy paste because you don't want the video involved - insert the same first image from the selection). This should produce what you want. Best regards, Lin

Hi Tom, You might try to contact Dominic - he was doing this back in 2011 as I remember - embedded video below: Lin

Hi Barry, How much video RAM do you have on your video card and what is the file load size on the file you have problems displaying? It "could" be because PTE uses hardware rendering that the video card is causing this problem. What is the total RAM size of objects in O&A where you have problems with the PNG display? In my old XP where I have an nVidia GTX 750 TI Video card with 2 Gig video RAM I don't have any problems displaying a 6000x4000 PNG image in Objects and Animations. I have maxed out system RAM with 4 gig installed and 2.814 gig available. Best regards, Lin

Hi Guys, LOL - it doesn't matter who was first with what... Actually, theDom was using this technique many, many years ago to build wooden boxes and JPD was using it way before Dom. It's all contributing toward some great styles and that's what's important. I remember when Igor first gave us the hierarchical constructs and I made a rudimentary first cube demo. The following day theDom did it a totally different way and much better than my way in my opinion. That way became the way Igor used for the experimental cube and though there are numerous ways to accomplish the same end I personally prefer the way it's done in the experimental (theDom's technique) cube because it's possible for the user to adjust the size and position of cube sides under framing when using non-square images for the sides. It's all good !!! Best regards, Lin

Too cool Tom - You're having fun with your retirement !!!! Best regards, Lin