CorVdK
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Hello Mickp, Thank you for watching my show and your comments. If there must be some more people who are interested in the narration I have done in the show, I might consider a show in English. It's just a tremendous lot of work, with a daily job to do I have to find the time (by the way, I don't like translator machines). Cor
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Ken, The beam headlights that she used for "the eyes of the cat" must be of a Volkswagen Beatle or van of +/- 1964. Cor
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Hello Paul, Hello Lin, Thank you both for watching my show. As a Dutch speaking person it's not that difficult for me to understand the Afrikaans language when people of South Africa or Namibia speak it slowly. It helps also to visit the region regularly. Helen Martins was a person who wanted to live differently, in a time when that way of life did not correspond to the average citizen. What's more, this small part of history took place in a more or less inhospitable area and in a small community. Due to constant lack of money Helen took everything she could find to use in her art. She was probably one of the first people in the region to do some recycling in the true sense of the word (probably without even realizing it). I'm glad that you could appreciate the show anyway. Cor
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On a cold winters' morning in 1976, at the age of seventy-eight, Helen Martins took her own life by swallowing caustic soda and crushed glass. So ended the tragic life of a colourful character whose artistic vision and psychological depth went mostly unnoticed by her neighbours in the dusty, out-of-the-way Great Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, South Africa. The house of Helen Martins, the so called "Owl House", is a museum now. The spirit of Helen is still palpable, because everything is still there as she left it after her horrible death. In those days, for the people of Nieu-Bethesda the house was a place of mystery and fear, a place which loudly disturbed the Calvinist calm and quiet of their town. Although Helen Martins spent 17 years looking after her ailing and elderly parents. After their dead and abandoned by her husband she became increasingly reclusive and isolated from the local community. The relationship with the workman Koos Malgas became an affront to the burghers' sensitivities in the depth of apartheid. Helen shied away from general contact and began transforming her house and garden. Helen Martins' art was greeted with derision and suspicion from the village. Despite crippling arthritis, and the amputation of her small toes (her feet were disfigured from wearing narrow shoes) which left her unable to wear anything but slip-ons on her feet, Martins decorated her home with extreme colors, mirrors, crushed glass, selfmade objects and cement sculptures, especially owls. Over about 12 years Helen Martins and Koos Malgas created from her imaginings the hundreds of sculptures and relief figures that crowd the "garden" and cover the walls of the house. Owls and camels - her favourite animals - predominate, but all kinds of real and fantastical beings are to be found. A procession of shepherds and wise men lead a vast, almost life-size camel train toward the east, integrating Christianity with Martins's fascination for the Orient. In 1996 the Owl House Foundation was formed as a non-profit organisation made up of Nieu Bethesda residents. Martins's desire to be recognised as an artist is magnificently realised in the attention the Owl House receives, and in the fact that her artwork, once an object of derision and embarrassment, has become the most important asset of the village of Nieu Bethesda. On a trip to South Africa in August 2009 my wife and I visited the house of Helen Martins. March 2010 I made a documentary slide show of the visit. Documentary: Owl House, 11:55 minutes. PTE 6.5. Rather heavy download: 142.527 kb. Aspect ratio 16 x 10, 1680 x 1050 pix. I tried to give an impression of the art of Helen Martins. In the storyline there are a few anecdotes from the life of Helen Martins. A lot of effects and the rhythm of the music plays an important role (that was certainly the objective). I am very sorry but the narration is in Dutch. I hope you can enjoy it anyway. With the kind permission of Bill, download from Beechbrook.Com: Owl House Cor
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Adri, Why didn't you mension that your show is made with M-Objects and not with PTE? Or at least you worked in M-Objects to make the exe. That's why people get this strange behaviour when they play your show. See reply of Gary and Patrick. Greetings, Cor
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Hello Barry, Monitor 1680 x 1050 and 1920 x 1200. Cor
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1) I also support that the user can choose some basic settings before starting a project. This can be, a fixed number of parameters that are introduced, ex. duration 4 seconds, fade time: 3 seconds, collection of images, video and audio, etc. Many of today's software starts with a welcome screen where the user has to answer some questions. What would you do? - Create a new project * A standard project (with a fixed number of parameters) * An advanced project (custom settings for advanced users) Enter name of project A folder is created in users "Documents" with the project name - To work on a recent, existing, project - A project with template - Reference to Help 2) One can not avoid it, PTE will be easier to use, when objects can be presented in a visual way, preferably on multiple timelines. The use of other programs, to make an audio mix, should be avoided or even expelled. Objects such as images, videos, music, voiceover, sounds and effects must be easily positioned and moved on the timelines. For many people the current sound capabilities in PTE are still unworkable because of the non-visual presentation. 3) About Peter's post #15 Workload on the translators: The English context-sensitive help is already there in the language ini-files of PTE. All the sentences have been translated by most of the translators as far as I know. I follow the translation in French and I did it myself in Dutch. Only a few of those tool-tips and pop-ups have been used so far, there is a lot more. (It's a list of about 23 pages of printed text) Cor
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That's what you get when you forget your line : "No offence meant to any forum members " Anyway, as always, great pictures Barry . Cor
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The advantage I see with "Backup with ZIP" is that the file is saved on the location I want it to be. And the file has a date and hour in the name, ex.: Project1_Apr22-2011_10-14-14 Can be of use as a record file. Anyway, about the date and hour, the template file that is stored in "PicturesToExe\Templates" has also this information in the Windows explorer. Maybe Igor could merge those two function as one. Greetings, Cor
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To Igor, About PTE 7.0 beta 5 1) I noticed some strange behaviour in "Objects and Animation" see It occurs when you close the program with a smaller window of "Objects and Animation" then the screen at that moment. When you re-open PTE and go to "Objects and Animation" and make the window bigger, then you get the strange windows. To remove the windows you must close PTE again. 2) "Objects and Animation"| "Animation" tab, in the drop down menu, there is 2 times "Linear" Speed Options, Setting up..., Templates... there is also 2 times "Linear". When you push "Reset to default" it goes away. see Thank's Cor
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To Igor, Some small issues. 1) Is it normal that the "remove" - "X" button is moved over other buttons as "Objects and Animation" when the main screen is reduced? See extract: 2) In "Adjust Video and Border" the title reads "Adjust Image and Border" See extract: 3) Project Options | More the word "Additionally" can not be translated See extract: Thanks, Cor
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Hello Igor, I understand that for some applications, the new navigation bar can be very useful. Everything depends on what kind of AV you have in mind. If you make AV which are synchronised to the rhythm of the music, or documentaries that tell a story, then I think that you don't need the navigation bar for playing the AV. Because in this case, you as a creator want that the audience will see the integral show without interruption. In this I can understand Barry as I see what kind of AV he makes. The navigation bar is a great asset in marketing for PTE, I understand this very well. On the other hand, if you want to activate this feature by default, then a lot of users will have to get used to turn the feature off, including me. But I can live with it. Cor
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To Igor, If you could improve things more, make the working of those options more time saving, more dynamic,... You have my vote for these. You and your team have worked very hard. We have a lot of improvements to try out, new features to play with, to test out. To avoid confusion. Please keep the names in the program as it is today. A lot of people are happy with it, or more or less happy with it. That's my opinion. Cor
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Whatever new names we choose, I believe that the logic in the program must be preserved. When we are going to nominate key functions such as "Cover slide" different than the actual process really is, then new users will be totally lost. "Cover slide" is completely different than what is meant by "Cover screen". I have no objection to change names but they have to remain logical. The context of "parent and child" is rather logical to me. This is a statement with a rather thin argument. Every software has a learning curve. There are manuals in different languages, as a user you have to read it. If someone is interested enough there is this forum and there are very well known forums in other languages also. I have started from scratch one day and I learn everyday. Something to think about: What right do someone have to see an "average user" or "a beginner" as an illiterate person who does not understand a thing. Sometimes I have the impression that some people are completely lost in their own world. And by the way, I see myself as "an average user". Cor
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I agree with davegee. What one see in Options & Animations is the background of the container, in PTE called the "slide". The background that you see is black (or no color), but one can give it any color via Screen/Background or Customize Slide/Use own background preference. The slide (the container) can have one or more objects, picture(s), videoclip(s), photograph(s), map(s), text, or whatever you call the objects that can be used. If you want to see the difference between the background of the container and the screen, go to Project Options/Screen. If your display is 4:3 put the aspect ratio of a slide to 16:9, or vice versa. Put Background/Solid Color to ex. red. Put in Additional Options/Color outside slide area to ex. green. Confirm with OK. Start Preview and you can see clearly which is what: Red is the background of the Slide (container) and the green area is the Screen. To Igor, I personally feel that we now have to continue with the name, slide. One can see the container as a slide mount, which can contain both images and video. The Dutch translation of PTE for version 7.0 is now adapted that way, "slide" is translated to "dia". Any possible confusion with the words "image" ("beeld", "afbeelding") and "picture" ("foto") are avoided that way. Cor
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Hi Xaver, I can only speak for the Dutch translation. You are right that "Afbeelding" as a translation for "Slide" and/or "the image container" may be confusing now. However, this situation has grown with the evolution of PTE. Several versions ago, I made the choice to translate "Slide" to "Afbeelding", because I found that not only slides but also other objects could be imported and used (photographs, maps, backgrounds, etc.). With the fast development of PTE and the many technical possibilities that are added and will continue to be added, there must be a consistent way to decide which English names and/or descriptions will be given to important elements in the program. This mainly to avoid confusion. Translation, although in some instances, remains a compromise in finding the right words. One can try to be technical as accurate as possible. I therefore believe that Igor and his team will have to, in addition to the layout, consistently determine which keywords will be used in the program. If they decide not to change anything, that's OK with me, but it will have implications in some translations. Therefore I asked the question. Greetings, Cor
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1) It is not the intention to start a controversy. It's just a simple reflection. For several years I have tried to provide a good translation of the program in Dutch. I follow the developments of PTE and other programs fairly well. Now I wonder whether we can continue to use the term "slide" as a description. The "slide list" of the new version will probably also contain video footage and then I find the description "slides" on buttons and elsewhere in the program rather poor. PTE has evolved from a "slideshow" program to a universal AV program, so the correct names should also be considered. We will use video footage, images of all types, backgrounds, titles with transparent background, etc. Should we not generally speak of objects, given the diversity of the elements that one can use and add in the program? 2) About the new layout: For me it's OK when it looks simple and it's intuitive. 3) Question for Igor: Will there be a color code on the "slides" in the "slideslist" when an object is linked to a "slide"? Ex. highlighted in red or green or other color. The currently selected "slide" is blue in your example. Or will there be an other indication? Regards, Cor
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Better name for "Low quality of resizing" option
CorVdK replied to Igor's topic in General Discussion
Hello to All, In my opinion the option is in the right place (properties). Other name suggestion: "Anti-Moiré (low quality)" With warning message at the side of the option: "To avoid this option for normal use, only usefull when moiré shows up during animation." Greetings, Cor -
Better name for "Low quality of resizing" option
CorVdK replied to Igor's topic in General Discussion
Hello Igor & All members, Name it as you say: "Preserve hard edges" (no interpolation) It's just what you see as a result. In Dutch it would be: "Gekartelde randen behouden" (geen interpolatie) Greetings, Cor -
To Igor, Thank you. Greetings, Cor
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Hello Dave, I have followed your example and the result is no music at all and no waveform. See and It is very strange, I tried also an other hierarchy to put the tracks, the music. I tried with an existing project, a new project, reset the defaults, etc. All of no succes. The music must be there because I see the red "music end" line But the only way I can see the waveform and hear the music is with only one track to mix the music. Greetings, Cor
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Hello Jean, I only can have a good result, when I put the pieces of music on one track, then the mix of music will play fine. See and The mix with more then one track is still not working I think in PTE 6.5 Beta 6. Greetings, Cor
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All's well that ends well. Thanks Ken
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Renewal post today 11:01 AM: Hello Igor, Just for your info. I noticed some minor flaws in the layout of PTE 6.5 Beta 6, Dutch language setup and some languages other then English: - Project Options, Music (Dutch: Projectopties, Muziek/Geluid) When you add a second track (or more then one track) with the corresponding music, close the window with OK, re-open the window again, there is some mix up of the layout (see picture 1) All is well with only one track. picture 1: - There is a mix up of the title on some buttons (see picture 2), or the title is not in the middle of the button anymore. picture 2: Greetings, Cor
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Hello Ken, I adapted the pictures in the original post. Is it working now? Thanks in advance. Cor