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I have known no. 2 for a long time, and it is quite useful. Regarding no. 1, I ask myself: Is is a feature, or is it a bug? Regards, jt

The discussion now has reached the level of personal offense. My (only) alter ego who definitely finished posting in 2013 (the same time when fh1805 stopped posting) perhaps would have continued this discussion. jt does not Regards jt

Hi Dave, in my opinion, you present a solution in a situation where there isn't a problem. Let us look at a typical situation where I would like to see an image that can be linked and animated across slides: Think of an image that performs slow movements (e.g. pans and zooms) over a period of (say) three minutes. Now think of this image as background or (kind of) stage for a presentation of changing arrangements (collages) of small images, partially animated. Add some music and perform the changes of images using slide transitions (in oder to do a good synchronization of image changes and the beats of the music). So you will see about 30 slides or more, not all having the same duration. With an AV tool that uses parallel tracks, the situation is easy. You can freely handle the common background in a single track. All other images will live on other tracks on top of the background. In PTE the situation is difficult as the background has to be inserted into each slide, and therefore a free animation of changing pans and zooms over the full period of three minutes causes trouble. So the video solution isn't that bad: You first program just the animated background using a single slide with a duration of three minutes, and export it as a video. In your final show you link this video through all your 30 slides. Of course you could also use the method of Jean-Cyprien, but it would be a hard job. There are other situations where linking of images would be fine, e.g. if you work with partial dissolves, it would be fine to have images that start animations somewhere in the middle of a slide and that end somewhere (say) two slides later. Best regards, jt

I am glad to read this. The incident that I have mentioned is about two years ago. There will be a similar event in November, and I will do some tests in advance. Best regards, jt

The topic of linking and animating images across slides has been addressed here in a thread from 2011. It is far more complex than what is provided in these styles. These styles (more or less) do what davegee has described in the same tread, see here , and in my opinion it is not a very useful concept. A tricky workaround has been provided by Jean-Cyprien (here), but it is not that comfortable to use. In 2011 the feature had been on Igor's to-do-list (here), a long time ago Regards, jt

Sorry, but I cannot agree on all points. Sometimes I like to have an animated still image in the background that runs across several slides. A video can be liked across slides. With an animated still image I have to use an unpleasant workaround (I learned it from Jean-Cyprien). This is why I continue to ask for the feature of linking images across slides Regards, jt

It is difficult to say who is to blame. Some time ago I made the experience that a show created with m.objects, that normally works well, did not run smoothly when following several PTE shows. As a consequence of similar experience, a friend of mine when presenting several shows created with PTE, m.objects, and Wings Platinum organizes the show program in groups, where each group consists only of shows created with the same software. Before starting a new group he reboots the computer Regards, jt

Question: Did you read the discussion on Diapositif mentioned by Jean-Charles? Regards, jt

Thanks, but I am not in a hurry. Maybe I'll have a look at the sample project at some later time I just would have liked to look at it from Jean-Charles' point of view. Best regards, jt

This is not what I want to do. Nevertheless I would like to have a look at the sample project. Why not offering the user a library of sample projects as downloads? Regards, jt

"Transparent to selection" has effects on the final presentation (EXE), while "Ignore objects not selected" (Tools menu) has its effect only in the A&O-editor. So in case your are working with actions on mouse-click it is better to avoid "Transparent to selection". Regards, jt

Indeed, this article provides information that can be regarded as misleading. In my opinion there is no alternative to learning the basics of color management. Once having understood them, it is so obvious to see that the recommendation "Always use sRGB" may not always be a good one Regards, jt

I would like to second the demand of Urmas and others for color management in PTE. A professional AV program should offer it, like Proshow Producer and the (expensive) Austro-German competitors. I would like to see the Proshow options as shown in the SpyderBlog pointed out by davegee (with an additional option on embedded profiles), but also dynamic color management where conversions of images will take place during execution (causing some loss of performance). Regards, jt

At a price of 200 $ (or €) you cannot expect much regarding image quality and large color spaces. A monitor at this low price will not even cover sRGB at 100%. I think that you have to look at a monitor like Dell U2413, or ever better, go for NEC or Eizo if you want to cover sRGB at 100% and AdobeRGB at almost 100%. Regards, jt

It's about 1 3/4 Regards, jt

If you link an audio clip to a particular slide, the clip will keep its position relative to this slide and all slides following it, when making changes at earlier positions. You may use this feature. Regards, jt

Having 16:9 as default value for the AR would be OK for me (not an important subject). I would regard the new suggestions for "Cover" as over-organized. What should happen to a quadratic image? Why not having an option in the Editor section of the Preferences (or somewhere in the Project options) a default value for the mode of all new objects: Cover or Fit? I often use the mode Cover for portrait images, combined with a vertical pan BTW: I really do not like the notion of Slide in the Screen options (Fixed/Virtual size of slide), and in the Mode menu (Cover/Fit to slide) Regards, jt

I agree! The same can be said on the screen options:I would prefer "Fixed/Virtual size of screen" (rather than "Fixed/Virtual size of slide"). In my opinion slide sounds outdated. Regards, jt

I sometimes use a Startup Window with a copyright declaration. Of course, I know that there are workarounds Regards, jt

What about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOv2BkO0eM ? Regards, jt

I must admit that I have not jet come across this problem, as I have never used styles. In my opinion, styles are a kind of macros. You apply them, but they should not be part of the project. So when collecting all media to a single folder using the zip-backup, then all media should be there. This is what version A suggests. It is the minimal solution, and in my opinion it is a consistent solution, while version B is not. If we use images in a project which are outside the project folder (a notion that should be defined ), PTE does not copy these images. So, why should this happen with objects stored with styles? If you use 3 styles when creating a project, styles that may all contain an image, say "Background.jpg", but where all 3 backgrounds are different (though having the same name). There will be a problem with Solution B. I would never recommend to use different images with identical names, neither in the standard situation nor in styles. But as long as it is possible to do it, solution B cannot be the way to go. Regards, jt

I agree with Mavi. A few additional options (such as fit/cover) in the Project options would be fine. But I doubt that the O&A window will be good for setting the default values, regarding new users. As I typically configure each slide for its own, I do not need any default values at all. Most of my new projects have an aspect ratio of 16:9 now, and my photos are 3:2 or 4:3. Hence I have to import the images with the cover slide option. But for each image I have to correct its vertical position individually. So changing the mode isn't a tremendous affair, as I have to go to O&A in any case. And I also do not need default animations, although I often use animations, but not in a monotonous way where all slides have a standard animation What I do not like in the present version is that the aspect ratio is in the main tab, but this parameter will be changed when setting the screen in the Screen tab. Aspect ratio and maximum screen resolution (a very important feature, presently called "Fixed size of slide" which I regard as an odd name) should again be in the same tab. Regads, jt

You will receive an e-mail with project files and some additional information. Best regards, jt

Does anybody know under which conditions we see "Waveform Errors", i.e. PTE opens a project and cannot show the waveforms (see screen shot). In the underlying project there are lots of audio clips. On my computer, the project exists twice, the original project, and a copy created via a zip-backup. First, only the original project showed the waveforms, while in the copy I saw the waveform errors. Then I cleared PTE's WaveCache, and restarted Windows. I opened the project copy, and PTE generated the corresponding waveforms. But then, when opening the original project, the waveform errors showed up there Regards, jt

In the meantime, I have noticed that it actually is possible to do what I want to do. I only tried to link several clips on the same track to the same slide using the audio clips' context menus. There it does not work. If you link a second clip to some slide, the other clip pointing to this slide looses its link. But: If you set the links using the project options, it works. In the project options the corresponding slide numbers turn to red. Maybe that PTE dos not like these kinds of links. I don't know. Regards, jt