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Your construction of an image with an oval border is a bit simpler than mine. You avoid the second mask container by using a copy of the standard mask (circle) as an image object. It actually works, and its clever, but on the other hand, it is an undocumented use of this kind of mask, and you cannot be sure that it will work in future versions of PTE. Good luck

I don't see a straightforward method to create oval borders in PTE. You may try the method used in the attached project. Oval_Border.pte

You may have a look here

Did you ever try Affinity Photo, not that expensive, and not that bad?

AFAIK this is a feature of version 4 and perhaps of earlier versions. I have been using PTE since version 5, and I have never noticed the fade to desktop.

I would like to see two kinds of blur: Blur 1 (as we have it today) which makes the image border blurry and partially transparent, and Blur 2 which blurs the image like Photoshop while keeping a sharp border (and which would work together with PTE's border function) Of course, the vignette in case of images that (largely) cover the screen should be avoided.

I hope that I got it correctly: You have a (synchronized) sequence of slides, and then you delete 1 or 2 slides. Now you want to have a function that extends the new sequence to the original duration while all slide durations, animations, transition times etc. keep the proportions. Sorry, but in most cases I would not regard this procedure as a good one. Typically you synchronize your transition points according to the music. A natural way is to place them at beat 1 in the corresponding bar. This order would be destroyed when you would apply the function that you want to see (and which you regard as a "missing" one). The transition points would be shifted to (more or less) random positions relative to the music. At least people with an education in music or dancing would not like it that much. On the other hand. I really would like to see the feature of stretching or compressing a sequence of slides (while keeping proportions), but only if the soundtrack could stretched or compressed at the same time. This would keep the transition points at the correct positions, and we could modify the overall duration of a given sequence without loosing synchronization.

I also noticed that the Forum Search does not work well. I often get 0 results, even though l know that some results must exist.

In this case he should head for Bavaria

Which version of PTE is on your backup computer?

Please note that this is an English forum. I myself would prefer to write in German. Nevertheless I follow the rules and do it in English

I'm sorry to say that Lin Evans has passed away.

You may set the opacity of the given first key frame to 0, and move this key frame to the right (to the position of your second key frame). Use another key frame to set opacity to 100.

I think that there are 2 locations: For built-in styles in PTE's program folder; for use created styles: Folder defined in "Preferences > Templates"

Only recently I deleted a style in "Styles and Themes", and PTE deleted the corresponding files "source.pte" and "style.xml", but the corresponding (empty) folder remained. I deleted it. This does not seem to be the standard behavior. Maybe one of the two files had been opened in a text editor.

Why do you want to delete them?

When you watch your animations in Timeline view, you see global times. In order to make an adjustment, you open a slide in O&A. Then it is helpful to see the key frames with global times, as well.

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Sorry, I do not agree! If you like to use a special transition several times, you may define it to be the default transition (Project Options).

It really would be nice if PTE would offer the blending modes that we all know from Photoshop (Add, Multiply, Overlay, Screen, Hard Light, ...). This feature has been asked for several times, e.g. here. Perhaps, some day it may happen ....

The player itself has about 14 MB (Windows version).

https://www.wnsoft.com/en/pte-av-studio/download/

I've made a few tests with "Run external application" (Slide Options) using cases in which I had problems. With 10.5.7 B1 it worked correctly.

That's fine