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Sorry for that Thanks, Denis

Thanks Daniel. The relevance of the mask's dimension can be studied in the following project: 3 (almost) identical slides. The only difference: The masks have different dimensions (512x512, 1024x1024, and 4096x4096). Run the project at full screen (1920x1080). Dimension_of_Mask.zip

You only get perfect round corners in cases where the mask's size is at most "Original Size". So on a screen with a resolution much larger than 1024 (e.g. 4K), the mask has to be rather small in order to have perfect edges. If you make it larger, it will be up-scaled. Of course in cases where the edges are blurred or the radius is zero, up-scaling does not matter.

It is a pity that the mask template is restricted to 1024x1024

Berny, kannst Du Deinen Vorschlag etwas genauer beschreiben?

Do you think that people not using styles produce AV on a lower level? Let me comment this with a smile

I am sorry to say that I do not totally agree with the opinions from above If someone comes to this forum in order to get an impression of PTE, he might have a look at this video. He may not look at the whole video but only at the first 5 or 6 minutes. What does he see? It is a single track of images with black stripes that do not cover the whole screen. After a while the black stripes are eliminated. But this is done using styles which add effects that not all photographers or AV-people would like to see. This may lead to a wrong impression

I have saved a few templates without any images, just with a blank slide. I use them to set the Project Options for new projects (Settings > Preferences > Templates ...)

In the Timeline you can link several audio clips to the same slide, if the clips are on different tracks. In the Audio tab of the Project Options you can link several clips to the same slide even if they are on the same track (they will be marked red, but it works). It has been asked several times to change the present behavior in the Timeline. Remark: Overlapping clips on the same track which both are linked to a slide do not have the automatic crossfade.

l do it in a similar way as Jill. I prefer a portable version of MPC-HC in the folder of the overall presentation. Calling the player can be done using a relative path, and the relative path to the video is added as parameter. The advantage of this method is that you can move the presentation folder to other machines. Of course you have to set the options of MPC-Hc that it starts at full screen and exits at end of playback.

It seems to be OK now

While giving a course on PTE I used my notebook with the notebook's monitor as Monitor 1, and a projector as Monitor 2. I started PTE, placed the Main Window on Monitor 2, and chose Monitor 2 for the Preview (Preferences > System). This was OK for the normal Preview (starting with slide 1) and also for the "Toast". The fullscreen preview from the cursor position only showed on Monitor 1 (not that fine for a demonstration). I opened the O&A Editor (on Monitor 2) and tried to change the options for the Grid. The Grid options showed up on Monitor 1.

Photodex ended development of ProShow Gold and ProShow Producer in 2018. http://web.photodex.com/

The world will go on turning if we do not have this feature, but I myself would be happy to see it. As long as I present my shows in an environment that is under my control, I will not need it. But as I take part in festivals, and as my work will be distributed among the regional groups of AV-Dialog (German umbrella organization), among the juries of Challenge 321 and others, it would favorable for me to have upscaling protection. IMO it is a good feature, at least it would be very nice to have it

BTW, Beta 27 (August 16) still had this feature, and I did not check the subsequent versions if there were missing features without being announced. It is just now that I am going to submit something, and this made me notice that the upscaling protection now is missing. The project in question has been developed with PTE 9. In version 9 it has upscaling protection, but if I export the presentation with v10, it hasn't.

If you add a feature to software, it will always happen that some users will apply it in a wrong manner We had a long discussion on this subject (fixed size, which is not really fixed but just a bound for upscaling) in September 2014. Some people liked it (like davegee and myself), while others did not. We must not repeat it. I usually develop my productions with images at full size. But before sending a show somewhere, I optimize it, which results in a smaller size and a smoother playback (depending on equipment that is not under my control). PTE claims to be a professional slideshow software, and not just a program for hobby users. Then PTE should offer professional tools

The said feature hat nothing to do with downscaling, it just prevents upscaling, no more, no less.

Removing this mode is not a good decision!! What is the main reason for using the fixed size mode? It is protection of shows from being up-scaled ! I typically optimize my productions for being shown at WUXGA (1920x1200). If I send it to a fried running a monitor at 2560x1440. The result is an up-scaled presentation with blurred images. The same will happen if people submit an optimized shows with AR 3:2 to a festival, where projection at FullHD is announced, but (what sometimes happens) WUXGA is actually used. The show will be upscale about 11%, again resulting in blurred images. The other way round: A user with a monitor of size 2560x1440 now has difficulties to develop a show optimized for a projector with a lower resolution, say 1920x1080. You suggest the windowed mode. I cannot accept this solution, as it shows part of the desktop outside the window. The fullscreen mode with an upscale protection it the appropriate solution.

You can change the speed of videos (Objects and Animations > Adjust Time Range). You can create parent-child-constructions (including masked objects), and you can use these constructions again as masked (nested masks) You can create periodical animations via modifiers, e.g. using oscillation (play with the parameters) I think for you there is a lot to discover

BTW: Questions of this type rather belong to "General Discussion" 1) What about creating a video that runs 15 sec.? 2) For animations you may use keyframes.

I am missing "Fullscreen, fixed size"

Ein automatisches Absenken gibt es bei PTE derzeit nicht. Ich benutze dazu die Hüllkurve. Manuell lässt sich das ohnehin wesentlich harmonischer regeln als bei einer Automatik, die die Musik radikal um 12 bis 15 db abgesenkt.

This actually happened to me: Two camera bodies which happened to use the same image names.

Sorry, but it is not clear to me if your answer refers to the first part of my question (single alpha channel), or to the second part (all objects with their own alpha channels)

Will it work with a common alpha channel (as we have it when using a mask); or will each object have its own alpha channel?