Still Relevant Maybe - After Nearly 6 Years....

[Lin Evans]

Hi Folks,

Just a re-post of the PTE Demo Show I put up in very early 2009 - This one was made with a very early beta of version 5.7 - before we had video capabilities. It demonstrates various effects possible even then with PTE including Snow, Water Effects, Rotation of Earth, Simulated rotation of Sun, masking techniques, reflection, 3D transforms, etc.

The rotation of the Earth was accomplished with well over six hundred separate photos made into small PNG transparencies and keyframed in and out on over 600 layers. The simulated rotation of the sun was done with a technique developed by Domenique (theDom) involving masking and a long - flat moving sun surface with shadowing, etc. The snowfall was done with my own processes as was the moving water.

It's always amazing to see how powerful PTE was even six plus years ago! Now we have superb video and audio controls, highly sophisticated nested masking, chroma key, keyframe color control, blur/sharpen with keyframe control, chroma key extraction, RGBA Alpha Channel, incredibly precise keypoint control of audio waveform, and numerous other features and improvements. The future is very bright for this product indeed!!

Link To PTE Demo Show - About 97 meg Zipped Windows EXE

Best regards,

Lin