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Thanks Tom, you can also do it in DaVinci Resolve, which is Free, but a massive learning curve. I only use it occassionally as I find it so much easier to do most of my video editing in PTE. Jill

Also if possible an option to play the video Backwards would be very useful Jill

On the Colour Picker, the OK & Cancel Buttons are partly covering the Hex and Opacity Values This is on my Desktop Jill

I have tried to apply an 'Inverted Cone' Shadow on Text Animation & it is not displaying correctly. It has 'bars' around each letter - see screen grab I wanted to make the Text stand out against a light background Using 'Cone' seems to work OK & I can always add a coloured 'Rectangle' instead, so not really a problem if this isn't meant to work. Jill

yes it does offer the option, but when we have 70 or 90 entries in a competition and most of them are video format, there are a lot of extra clicks to show 'All Files' Or if you could include all video File types along with exe files then that would be better. We can get MP4, Mov, Avi, wmv, MPv file types as not all are made with PTE as some people use video editing programs Jill

Ok then make it 'Absolute Time Values' Jill

Igor, maybe 'User Defined Times' may be better or 'User Fixed Times' Jill

you can very easily Loop a Slide, Slide Options Main Tab. So just make your slide the length of the video & then it will Loop until you move on to the next Slide. Jill

It depends how you work. If you only ever have one program open at once, then there is no benifit in haveing 2 monitors. But if you usually have several programs open then 2 screens is a real plus. I have used 2 for years now & find it difficult if I have to work with just one. With PTE it is very useful for expanding the O&A screen across both to get a larger timeline view. Jill

No need for the Text to be a png, just use Text objects. If they need to be separate Objects then put them in a Frame & move the Frame Use the Rotate and Zoom in the Animation tab to get the effect you want. Hope this helps Jill

Can you make action on mouse click also show all files please. For competitions we get so many mp4 files now that it is a lot of extra clicks when setting up a Menu. Jill

No problem, I understand how it works now. Jill

I work in 1920 x 1080 now but have old shows that are 4:3 as that is what the club projector is. Also most screens at club venues are square although when eventually replaced they are 16:9 or 16:10 I don't have a TV so no problems with that. Jill

It does not seem to work the first time but then does I opened a 4:3 project but the Save Slide settings were still showing 1920 x 1080 a 16:9 ratio When I changed the width to 1600 and then clicked the Yellow Lock Icon it did then change the Height to 1200 I then opened a new 16:9 project the width was still set to 1600 but the height had changed to 900 When I typed in 1920 in the width it changed height to 1080 I then opened another (New) 4:3 project and the width was still 1920 but the height showed 1440 so a 4:3 ratio Would it be possible for the pixel width dimension to change to reflect the Ratio? For a 16:9 set to 1920 x 1080 and for a 4:3 set to 1600 x 1200 But then I suppose some people may want different dimensions Maybe a drop down list for the most common ones? Jill

It looks like you have changed your file associations somehow, so your system thinks that the .pte file is actually a Firefox File. There was no need to uninstall Version 11 as all Versions can easily run alongside each other. When installing look for the check box that says 'Associate PTE AV Studio with the .pte file extension' For a beta Version leave this unticked and always open PTE 11 first then do a File Open. When reinstalling 10.5 then make sure it is ticked. Your files should then open & save as normal Once the final Version 11 is released then make sure you tick the box when installing Jill

Hi Igor, Thanks for this feature - although I didn't spot the new tick box straight away. It keeps the durations that I set when moving keyframes or changing Slide Duration as I would expect. One thing that was confusing me (and may do others who also work visually) I couldn't understand why the end time in the Text Animation window kept changing when I moved keyframes. I now see that the time always starts at 0.0 no matter where the first keyframe is and runs to the last keyframe, so it is the duration of the actual animation and not that of the Slide. I never normally look at numbers as I work visually and expected with Fixed Times for it to show the actual Times for start & end of the Text Animation. I usually have Global Times on. If it is at all possible it would be better if we could see the 'Slide' Times like we can in O&A with the grey bars for Transitions in & out to be able to set the Text Animation positions against these. So if I want the animation to start at 9 secs I can easily see this. But if this is a lot of work then don't worry, hopefully I now understand the way it is working and I will be able to set things up quicker. Jill

As far as I know the new Buttons are not yet finished Jill

Thanks JT49, I did know this but forget! With Audacity yes you could be right, it is not something I have done as I do everything within PTE. It may be slightly larger with extra header information but most likely not much to worry about. Jill

If they are on the same track you cannot link them to the same slide even if they have different names. If they are on different tracks then they can be linked to the same slide. Splitting your clip up in Audacity will increase the file size as you will be using lots of single clips instead of just one. Also doing it in PTE is so much easier and if you get it wrong you can just adjust the ends of each section to get what you want. Jill

Igor, sorry I do not have a copy of the project before the change. The previous version I have has no Text at all. I have tried to recreate the problem several times on a new project with just 1 Blank Slide & adding Text to that. But I cannot recreate it. If it happens again I will let you know. The problem with the Times changing when ever I move a KeyFrame or adjust the Slide duration still exists. It is always basing the IN & OUT times on the %duration and not what I type in. It also seems to use Full Slide Duration even though I always have this set to OFF. Jill

I don't think so as it is the same file. Why do you want to? Jill

Igor, we heard last week that someone else had a similar problem. The sound was ok in all other programs and had been playing ok in PTE. Then suddenly it became distorted. Other music tracks were ok it was just the voice track. I will ask tonight if he has managed to find the problem. Jill

It has always been like this, only main images show. It has been asked many times to also show images added in O&A. Maybe in a future version this can be done. Jill

Thanks Igor. Only one object was selected,but it is good to know that you can edit several at once if needed. Jill Ps you will find there is a missing image in the .PTE file I sent in the above post. But it is only a background image so not important.

A couple of problems 1. It seems that when I have Text Animations on several Objects that if I change one then the others revert to the default Dissolve. I have noticed this before but put it down to me doing something silly but it has happened again in a new project example I have 4 text Objects, initially I have them all set to 'Out' disabled while I work out the timings and keyframe starting positions the 'In' was set as follows - first Text Object is set to 'Zoom In', the others are 'Slide Down' all with a 3 sec duration - set by clicking the time under the 'In' Slider & changing it to 3 This worked as expected. I then changed the first Object to have an 'Out' which I set to 'Zoom In' When I played it in the O&A window the other 3 Text Objects had reverted to 'Dissolve' instead of the 'Slide Down' I went through & made sure the 'In' was still set to 'Slide Down' and set the 'Out' on all Objects to 'Zoom In' with a 2 sec out time. - again set by clicking on the time under the 'out' Slider This then seemed to work ok But I decided that the 2 sec 'Out' Time was too short & so I extended the duration of the Slide in Timeline by an extra 2 secs. It was 14 sec & I extended it to 16 secs by dragging the end of slide in Timeline 2. Now when I go back into the Text Animation box to adjust the 'Out' Durations I find that the durations of both 'In' and 'Out' have changed It appears to be going by the Percentage Time & not by the actural duration that I have typed in. If the user enters the 'In' and 'Out' Durations manually then they should stay fixed until changed by the user This is the last Slide in the project I have now got it working as I want, but I seem to have to keep going back & changing each Text Object more than once to get it to stay. Slide attached Jill TextAnimation.pte