jt49

This did not happen in Version 8. It should be possible to enter more than one digit, also in the slide option window! My question (bug or feature) should be regarded as a joke

I start with a new project. I drag an image to the slide list. I open the slide options and any transition that allows me to enter manually a transition time. If i choose a time with a single digit following the decimal point, things are OK. If I enter 2 or 3 digits, things go wrong. Examples: 0.75 is changed to 0.699; 2.43 is changed to 2.399; 3.77 is changed to 3.7 ..... Is it a bug, or is it a feature?

Jeff, It's fine that we agree that color filters are not to be regarded as modifiers Now you ask if the given behavior is to be regarded as an important problem. Of course, it isn't. It is just an inconsistency

Correctness means here "correctness by definition". But is it a good definition to regard color filters as modifiers. I don't think so! What is a key frame? Key frames provide the possibility to define state information for animated objects. We can fix size, position, blur, and other state parameters of an object at a particular point of time. On times between key frames the state parameters of the animated object are evaluated via some kind of interpolation. What is a modifier (or what should a modifier be)? Modifiers allow us to have influence on the interpolation process mentioned above, on the change of the state parameters from one key frame to another one. Example: We define the speed profile with which the blur changes between two key frames. With these definitions in mind I cannot accept a color filter like Sepia as a modifier. A modifier has to refer to a state parameter that is to be changed between key frames. So for me the color filter must be regarded as a state parameter similar to Blur, Zoom, or Pan, and we have Animation Speed as a corresponding modifier. The original poster has been correct to point out his observation in this thread. Color correction is a state parameter that shows an inconsistent behavior when creating new key frames. This is not a serious problem. But I do not accept the "modifier definition". It is odd!

It is very likely that I did it ! Looking at the error message: Drive D is my data drive, and a folder WnSoft does not exist there

Presently, I can't, sorry!

Sorry, presently I cannot reproduce the error. I switched between German and English. If I remember it correctly, the program did not crash, but it was in a particular state where changes from one language to another one always showed an error message. The version was 9.08.

The audio track height can have any (integer) value between 75 and 400. So I would not regard a toggle as that useful. I would like to see individual heights for audio tracks, similar to Audacity, where you can change the height of a single track by dragging, while the other track heights remain invariant. In addition to that I like to repeat my former suggestion for manual input for audio key points

When closing PTE (V 9.09), I saw the following error message:

We all expect new features from PTE, and the program gets larger and larger. In order to maintain the software it is indispensable to get rid of functions that are not of much use today.

It helps, to some extent. Nevertheless it is an unpleasant workaround!

In 2015 I asked for this feature (here), but my request was not successful

I don't see any reason why this should be changed. In the O&A timeline I can see the global times (which I need reasons of synchronization), while in the animation tab I see the relative time of a highlighted key frame. That's fine for me.

Just changing the language gave me the following error message:

When I look at the timeline, I only see the durations of the slides, but not the lengths of the videos that are contained inside the slides. A single slide may contain 10 or more videos all of which may have different lengths. If you now adjust the time range of one of these videos, what should happen to the duration of the corresponding slide? You are looking at a very special situation. But if you want to see a feature where the adjustment of the time range should have an effect on the slide duration, you should provide an appropriate specification of this feature.

The video does not have a duration in the timeline. The slide containing the video as an object has that kind of duration. This slide may contain other objects. Why should its duration be changed automatically? This would spoil the synchronization of all subsequent slides. Another feature with an awful side effect (like KFSD)

Maybe it is a question of naming. If this function would really do what its name says, it would be nonsense. So the name should be: Hide child objects in case of hidden parent (maybe too long)

It seems to work as in V8.

When the blur effect was introduced, there was a discussion it the blur effect should preserve the edges or not. The present blur effect does not preserve edges, and the outer parts of the blurred image become transparent. This is fine in a lot of cases, but not in all cases. In cases when dealing with background images, or with images having a border, I often would like to see a blur effect that preserves the edges, and which leaves the whole image opaque (like Gaussian blur in Photoshop). If I remember it correctly, this feature has been announced for future versions when version 8 was released. A request to all experts: Please do not post any workarounds here, I am aware of them

I wonder why this topic is marked as "solved". The original problem has not been solved! We only seen workarounds. What we really need is a second version of the blur effect that blurs the image but preserves the edges (and borders). I often use the blur effect for images that just fill the screen. The blur effect makes the outer parts partially transparent, a rather bad effect in many cases. Please notice that I do not want to see any workarounds here!!!!!!!

If WnSoft would implement all feature requests of that kind, PTE would overloaded with features that we do not really need. In your case you may start a new project, insert the images of your folder, choose the the slide options that you would like to see, and finally save this project into your folder. Now you can open this project whenever you like it, copy the slides and insert them into any other project.

Ich würde von einem kleinen Projekt, das dieses Verhalten zeigt, eine Zip-Sicherung machen, die fehlerhafte Exe-Datei mit in das Zip-Archiv legen und das Archiv dann auf einen Cloud-Server hochladen, freigeben und den Link an WnSoft übermitteln (z.B. als persönliche Nachricht an Igor). Gruß aus München jt49

You may the "Toast"

It seems to be a logical problem. You will see a similar effect when replacing images. You can open the slide options of some slide and replace the standard slide name (the name of the image) by some other name, as you like. Now PTE will keep this name, also in cases when replace your image. What you observe is rather a feature than a bug.

This would be a disaster. It should not! Make both objects to children of a common frame. Use the frame for programming animations, while blurring the background object.