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Hi, Maybe this is like oil on fire or salt in a wound, but when Igor said in december 2011 that with V7.5 the (music) interface will be upgraded/improved I had to think about this discussion a year earlier in december 2010 & januari 2011 . A year has past and PtE can handle video today. High time to deal with the audio interface? Hope we get this very soon! Can we? Regards, André

Hi APLman I agree with you that it will be very usefull when we can get our hands on the transitions better then we can today. To me the transitions are part of the slide. See this threat I once started: You suggest that it would be handy to choose a start and end transition effect as an option. But is the end transition not always the start transition of the next slide? The discussion of the slide duration, somewhere else on the forum, is to complicated for me. And I do not use video. However, I would suggest that the slide duration is the time between the start of the slide, INCLUDING that part of incomming transition effect, and the start of the next slide, INCLUDING the part of the outgoing transition effect. Too me this sounds logic as I make very often use of those grey areas on the timeline in O&A window. Kind regards, André

Hi Dave, Kind regards, André

I have been using a media player for about 3 years now. Can do without anymore. Since last november I have a AC Ryan Mini. Before I had a Western Digital. With both players my MP4's, made with PtE, standard are cut-off about 10%! That is about the size of the safezone. The AC Ryan Mini has a simple option to resize the screen to the exact format of the (HD LED) TV. And now there is nomore loss. Being there as an option (I have seen more media pleyers with this option) it proves this is a problem, I guess. I have no experience with MP4's direcly plugged in my TV. regards, André

Maybe this time Igor can give his comment on this toppic. Regards

I want the use of keypoint to be as flexibel as possible. And since there is no waveform in the O&A to work with movement of keypoint on the fly is needed. I hope that Igor makes it possible to shift some, or all keypoints in any direction, on the fly. Wouldn't that be perfect for getting the music in sync with the effects we make?! Regards, André

Igor, Which suggestion? regards, André

Igor, Sorry then, it must have been in my mind somehow. The timeline works that way. It is realy very hard work to click the pauze button on the right then move the mouse to the left and change a keypoint, set pointer back, move the mouse to the right again to press the play button and repeat this process as needed. On a 24" monitor. There is a option under the right-mouse button but I think thats not handy at all. But I would like this work the way it works on the timeline. Is that possible? Kind regards, André

Igor, I am not shure if it is worked out or a bug, but in the Q&A window, it is no longer possible to move the key-points on the fly. It its a crime to get the key-points in sync with the music when we have to press the stop/pauze buton first, move a key-point and press play again until its like we want it. Before, I am pretty shure it was possible to grab a key-point, drag it anywhere else and drop it, while the slide and music start playing again from the moved key-point again. Or am I wrong? Kind regards, André

Hi Lin, It was not my intention to debate about "all those other wishes and features"; that has been done many times before. I think I did not understand the quoted part Ken refered to and picked out the tone I felt it was written in. My Dutch is much better than my English, sorry. My father was a Dutch veteran in our former colony Indoniesia at the age of 21 from 1946 - 1948, right after WOII. And that war made deep impact on him. All his life he struggled with what he has done and seen over there, and back home his struggle that it was all done "for the good cause". At the end of his life at 64 this was his conscientious mental conflict and I sure hope he has peace now. At the time of the Vietnam war I was 10 - 15 years young. We demonstrate many times against it (make love, not war), saw the horrors on TV and the consequences many years later in movies and documenteries. I've watched "A Pittance of Time" and it came all back to me. Impressive. So I must agree that this is a good example to use video in slideshows. And a great song! Thanks for your reply. André

Ken, True, but this is just one side of the coin, in my opinion. The other side is that as long as development is focused on video implementation, other important improvements should have to wait. Those who are eagerly waiting for an improved interface or better handeling of audio for example, instead of the video implemantation, have to be very patient. Not to mention the very useful wishes and idea's users asked for over time. I do understand that implementation of video in PtE is commercialy essential for the future of Wnsoft. But it will take some time before a stable and bugs free PtE7 can be released. Thats quite normal. So how long does this group of users have to wait for the improvements they wait for? But they wait! Many PtE users are focused on video today, and following the discussions on this forum, I sometimes got the feeling that those others are not always taken serious anymore and get less respect because they have other wishes and therefor an other opinion. But I am very sure they are just as impatience as the group of video users. Kind regards, André

And with v7 the new name is ...... VtE!

Xaver, Lin, Igor, Like you and all others on this forum I think PtE is a terrific product and I do understand why video implementation, as you mentioned, is very important. And so is the audio part I was refering to, the user interface and all other things that are anounced and on wishlists. Yes, if I could choose in what order things would be implemented .... But I am not a marketing expert. I am very greatfull with PtE as it is developing and will have more patience the next time when things are not the way I was hoping for. Kind regards, André

Igor, The audio features that are implemented today themselfs are very nice, but difficult to work with and to keep the overview. So I like to see a more integrated interface to make it easier to see how (parts of) audio tracks interfere with the slides, something like m-objects for example. Others have mentioned this too. There where many discussions about this subject on the forum. And after reading this: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12402&st=0&p=79874&hl=development&fromsearch=1entry79874 and especialy this: Enhanced timeline The timeline display will be given a major re-write so that it can support the display of multiple audio files. I was convinced that this key feature would be integrated in V 7.0 and that was something to wait for. Now it is not implemented I call the audio part in PtE "unfinished". Support of video clips on slides took significant time. But we're trying implement this feature to PicturesToExe at highest level with smooth playback on wide range of PCs. It's a joy for me to see video in real time in PicturesToExe's slideshow with any effects - 3D transformations, Masks, Pan/Zoom/Rotate, etc. Due to complex work with video, probably we will delay advanced audio editing (global timeline with waveforms) for version 7.5. We didn't expect that video support will take so much time. And that is what worries me so much, because it will take quite some time to make video and pictures run together just as perfect as we are use to. Kind regards, André