Grouping slides as a single entity and other

[uuderzo]

Hello,

In my slideshows i often have distinct parts (introduction, event1, event2, final etc).

Each part is composed of several slides.

It would be really handy to be able to group a sequence of slides into a single entity with his own description.

The grouped entity should be large exactly as the sequence it represents (maybe also the slides

should be visible but something should tell me that this is a group).

Double clicking in the group should let me "enter" it and work as usual.

Clicking some kind of control button should let me "exit" and freeze the content.

Dragging the group should move everything as a single unit.

Moreover, I like a lot the "detailed" timeline, but it would be nice to see the thumbnail

of the slide as the background of the timeline segment where the slide appears.

Maybe not the full thumbnail if the time slot is too short, but it would let me understand

where i'm looking ad without moving the cursor over the timeline to see the content.

A semi transparent thumbnail should be nice. It lets me understand the content but it does not annoy me

with too vivid colors.

What do you think? Umberto.

[xahu34]

Hi Umberto,

Regarding your groups (which remind me of the chapter elements from AquaSoft): Would you expect to have transitions between adjacent groups? Should each group have its own synchronized audio track?

Regards,

Xaver

[uuderzo]

Hi Umberto,

Regarding your groups (which remind me of the chapter elements from AquaSoft): Would you expect to have transitions between adjacent groups? Should each group have its own synchronized audio track?

Regards,

Xaver

Xaver, my initial idea was about a simple grouping of slides with no behaviour change in PTE rendering pipeline.

Say, for example:

A sequence like this: Group1( A, B, C ), Group2( D, E, F )

and one like this: A, B, C, D, E, F

should behave the same way. I mean, if a transition exists between C and D slides, this will be kept

also with grouping. If I reorder groups then the effect should be the same as reordering slides. I don't mean

to have a "super transition" between groups. This should keep the problem at easy levels and make

the grouping easily understandable by users.

About the synchronized audio track.. oh yes! I'd like to have an audio track

sticked to the group... But I understand that this is problematic when we start speaking about

audio track mixing. If each group has his own track, I expect to be able to mix the tail

of one track and the head of next one... I suppose this is hard to solve with flexibility.

Also we will start speaking about multiple tracks with variable volume, that I dreamt from the first

time I started using PTE.

Imagine... multiple tracks with mixing and grouping... a killer app!

Greetings! Umberto

[uuderzo]

I had suggested something related to this about groups of slides.

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....ost&p=60302

Tom

I had a look at your suggestion but I think that you focused on a different aspect.

Your concern is to being able to create multiple isolated sequence loops.

My request is simply to "freeze" some slides in a group to avoid touching them by mistake.

No behaviour change in PTE engine.

Sure your suggestion is really good (I needed this function time ago but was forced

to use multiple slideshows, as you said).

Anyway, I think were are talking about slightly different concepts.

Greetings! Umberto