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My choice is: ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/). It is a bit minimalistic, but it does a good job. In the Guides section of the corresponding forum you will find detailed descriptions of all tasks of interest. Regards jt

Hallo Dieter (diaschau), aufgrund Deiner Anfrage habe ich mir das Werk von Barry angeschaut. Es ist schwer zu beurteilen, wie er bei den einzeln Bildübergängen vorgegangen ist. Er lässt leider die manuelle Steuerung nicht zu, so dass eine Analyse kaum möglich ist. Meines Wissens arbeitet Barry viel mit Photoshop, insbesondere mit Masken. In der Erläuterung zu Bushland Botanical Artistry sagt er aber auch, dass er Fokustechniken der Kamera benutzt (differential focus techniques). Die Effekte sind schon bei der Aufnahme eingeplant worden. Zu diesen Thema hat Barry ein Tutorial, das man für ein paar Dollar kaufen kann. Auf der entsprechenden Seite gibt es auch ein Beispiel, das man herunterladen kann. Zu PTE kann man sagen: Die Funktion "Unscharf Maske" in den Projektoptionen ist statisch (globales Schärfen der Bilder). Ansonsten kann man, wie Dave (davegee) sagt, die dynamische Unschärfe bei den Animationsparametern (A&O-Fenster) benutzen. Die führt zu einer sog. natürlichen Unschärfe, bei der die Bildränder unscharf und transparent werden. Gruß jt

A problem with the new structure is to keep it up to date. Looking at Lin's list (Alphabetic Index of Articles and Tutorials) I see at least two outdated entries that include dead links: - Zoom VS Z position - Resizing Images for Camera Club Competitions Regards, jt

Hallo Dieter, die vom Google-Übersetzer generierten Texte sind in der Tat zumeist etwas kryptisch. Einige der anglo-amerikanischen Kollegen sind halt sehr schnell Ich versuche nun, auf die Originalfrage kurz zu antworten, ohne in die Details zu gehen. Wenn dabei Fragen offen bleiben, kann ich gerne auch nachbessern. Um den Originalton eines Video regeln zu können, geht man wie folgt vor: Man fügt das Video in eine Bildszene (Slide) ein (wie es halt gemacht wird) und schaltet über Objekte und Animation > Eigenschaften den Ton des Videos stumm. Danach erzeugt man über Projektoptionen > Musik (sollte besser Audio heißen) bei Bedarf eine Audio-Spur und fügt hier das Video noch einmal ein, diesmal als Audio-Clip. Wichtig ist es, darauf zu achten, dass beide Kopien desselben Videos zur gleichen Zeit starten. Die als Audio-Clip eingefügte Kopie des Videos lässt sich nun über Audio-Keypoints regeln. Bei der zeitlichen Gleichschaltung von Bild und Ton kann die Link-Funktion für Audio-Clips hilfreich sein. Gruß aus München jt49

This is a good exercise, an exercise that more people should do. I see a lot of precise cuts that are spot-on. Others I do not like in the same way, I would regard them a very short time too late. You may sit in front of your show and clap your hands to the beats 1 and 3, while looking at your transitions. Do clap and transition precisely come at the same time, or it there a slight difference? You should prefer to place the cuts on beat 1 (or sometimes 1 and 3), and this happens in many places, but not all. Towards the end you place the transitions according to the snare drum (or whatever sounds like a snare drum). In popular music, the snare drum normally puts a stress on the beats 2 and 4, while the accents in the melody are (where they should be) typically on 1, perhaps on 3. As said above, the latter ones are the positions where the transitions should be placed. Regards, jt

In my opinion, it is a bit difficult to answer these questions. It would be helpful to know which options for video output PTE will offer to the user. My TV likes XVID videos. Although it is an MPEG-4 implementation, my impression is that it runs better than the MPEG-4 AVI that is offered by PTE. So, in the past I often used the Virtual AVI in order to generate XVID videos using external software. Only recently, I also used the H264 export with highest quality parameters just for transcoding to XVID (without noticing any loss in quality). Perhaps a loss, not having the Virtual AVI. PTE generated AVIs with custom codecs seem to have a 2 GB restriction. This feature could be canceled. But it would be fine to have video export to MKV videos with custom codec. Regards, jt

Hi Lin, I have no idea what kind of file Martin Engelmann may have used in this particular case. He a is an Austrian photo professional who gives live presentations. This kind of artists typicalls does not use videos, but presentation tools with an appropriate speaker support, in order to have an interactive presentation. Nevertheless, it is a fact that Wings normally places videos outside the exe-file. I tried to do the same with PTE by using the two files Internet version of the PTE exe presentation by inserting two videos of total size of 3 GB. This method failed. The final result showed missing images. Best regards, jt

Wings is a 32-bit application, as well, but it places the videos into a seperate folder, in order to keep the exe-file small enough. Regards, jt

PTE does not say "enough is enough". But there are restrictions in the O&A window regarding the pixel dimensions of images (not file sizes). You may look at Igor's statement here. Regards, jt

I would guess that your license key for v7.5 (purchased in December) should work with v.8. You may uninstall the beta-version, and install the present version v8.0.2. Start PTE and go to: Help > Enter New License Key. Enter the key from the e-Mail that you obtained when purchasing v7.5. Regards, jt

Users of this forum obviously know who is behind Slideshowclub. Nervertheless, wouldn't it be better to present an "About Us"? Regards, jt

I have had similar experience: You post an answer to a question. Another user does the same, almost at the same time. Now there are two answers that cover the given question. But this is not the end of the story. Some time later, another user comes along, more or less summarizing what has been said. The original poster re-enters the scene, giving his thanks to this last poster. In my particular case I deleted my own post, leaving the message that posting had been a waste of time. Regards, jt

Yes, I think so. You may look at a scene with small images that are zooming, starting blurred, and ending up sharp. In cases of that kind the border of the blurred images must be blurred as well, and in addition partially transparent. Regards, jt

Dateien vom Typ PTEF stellen von Benutzern selbst definierte Überblendungseffekte dar. Über Bild einrichten > Spezielle Effekte > Eigene Überblendungen oder Projekt-Optionen > Effekte > Eigene Überblendungen kann man diese Effekte erzeugen, aber auch laden und danach anwenden. Leider ist der Text für die beiden Schaltflächen bei den Bildoptionen zu lang geraten und daher schlecht lesbar. Grüße aus München jt

Thanks Eric and Dave, I have already solved the "problem" via editing my standard template. The funny observation: I used the same template with 8.0 and 8.0.1, and there the X for terminating the preview came together with the navigation bar. Regards, jt

It seems that version 8.0.2 does not to remember the settings for the navigation bar. For each new project I have to activate the exit button anew. Regards, jt

You must have lost the main aspect of the discussion above as the consequence of the ongoing and fruitless dispute which color space is the best one, and the bad advice to use sRGB in any case. You will obtain what you want to have, but only in one of the next versions. Some future version of PTE will have color management on the fly, see the topic here. At present time, PTE acts in a transparent manner. You have to feed PTE with images having the color profile of your output device. If you calibrate your output device according to a given fixed profile, then you may use it. If the output profile changes frequently, you need color transformation on the fly, and you have to wait for the new version of PTE. Regards, jt

Sorry, but my former post #27 does not exist any longer. The attempt to correct one line in the new user guide (IMO an easy exercise) seems to be a big affair. I do not need this guide, so why wasting time? Regards, jt Sometimes there we see signs and wonders: My vanished post is back again

Executable? I can't see it. It must have vanished in the air Regards, jt

This my view: Ignore objects not selected: A feature with influence on the behavior of the O&A editor Transparent to selection: A feature of a particular object, to be transparent with respect to mouse clicks while the show is running Regards, jt

Hi Lin, Quite a nice killer argument But the question remains open: Rotation Y - where is the axis of rotation? Best regards, jt Rot_Y_axis.zip

What about reading the posts in this topic? Regards jt

Merci beaucoup - vielen Dank! Grüße aus München jt

Hi Lin, It is not my intention to present detailed descriptions on Euler angles in the user guide. But the version we see there sounds definite and precise while being incorrect. This is my concern. I agree that it is quite difficult if not impossible to be precise in this situation. So if we have to stay vague, the description should be vague, as well. Best regards, jt

I don't know if this is the correct place for posting any kind of incorrectness in the Online Help. On the page "3D Parameters" we read: "Rotate Y “flips” an object/image about its vertical axis ...". The three rotations Rotate, Rotate Y, Rotate X constitute (if I got it correctly) a Tait-Bryan system with Z-Y'-X" convention. So Rotation Y does not always give a rotation around the image's own y-axis. You see this if you first set Rotate X to a value different from zero, and then perform Rotation Y. Regards, jt49