It's a Puzzle

[davegee]

Two Jigsaw Puzzle Styles which can be used as transitions.

Add two 16:9 (1920x1080) images to the Slide List twice (1;1;2;2) with zero Transition Times.

Apply the style to slides 2 and 3.

Jigsaw 01.ptestyle

Jigsaw 02.ptestyle

Lovingly developed and created using TTT.

[davegee]

Jigsaw Demo:

HERE

DG

[tom95521]

This is one of my very favorite custom transitions.

Thanks!

Tom

[davegee]

........or as a Custom Transition:

JigsawTT01.zip

[mhwarner]

Dave,

These are great! Thanks for sharing. I am wondering whether in any of your other transitions you have generously shared there is something similar but only with square blocks instead of the puzzle pieces. I don't recall seeing one but I may have overlooked it. Thanks again!

[davegee]

How many pieces?

What AR?

DG

[tom95521]

........or as a Custom Transition:

JigsawTT01.zip

Hi Dave,

I must be doing something wrong because I don't see the fade at the end. There are a few puzzle pieces remaining to fill and it jumps to the next slide. I tried changing the transition duration from 4 seconds to 5 seconds but that did not help. I tried changing the slide duration from 5 seconds to 7 seconds but that did not help. Also tried slide options KFSD on/off. The styles work great so it's not a big problem.

Also what is TTT? Software?

Thanks,

Tom

[davegee]

Tom,

Try setting a 5 sec Transition Time and 10 sec slide duration before you apply the CT.

I just D/L'd it to be sure and it works fine with a 2 sec or a 5 sec transition.

Are your two transition times greater than your Slide Duration? - that causes a problem (obviously).

DG

[mhwarner]

How many pieces?

What AR?

DG

16:10 AR (I don't like cropping my pictures)

8 horizontal, 6 vertical (or whatever numbers close to this which are easiest to work with)

I have tried doing it with the built-in "Mosaic" transition but never can get the effect I want. I like your puzzle transition but would just like square blocks. Thanks Dave!

[tom95521]

Tom,

Try setting a 5 sec Transition Time and 10 sec slide duration before you apply the CT.

I just D/L'd it to be sure and it works fine with a 2 sec or a 5 sec transition.

Are your two transition times greater than your Slide Duration? - that causes a problem (obviously).

DG

Still missing the end of the transition. Since the style works fine I don't think it's the computer. I will try on my newest i7 cpu tonight.

Update. The transition works great on my Dell 8700 with Haswell i7 and Nvidia GT635. It might be the hardware on the older PC just does not like video mask transitions. I know this does not explain why the style works and the transition does not. Oh well, it works on my new PC.

Thanks,

Tom

[davegee]

16:10 AR (I don't like cropping my pictures)

8 horizontal, 6 vertical (or whatever numbers close to this which are easiest to work with)

I have tried doing it with the built-in "Mosaic" transition but never can get the effect I want. I like your puzzle transition but would just like square blocks. Thanks Dave!

Mary,

Please try this:

Here are the Templates to make the Video Mask - 50 second original and 5 second short:

SquaresMasks Templates.zip

Here is the Style complete with the Video Mask:

Jigsaw 03.zip

DG

P.S. You said "16:10 AR (I don't like cropping my pictures)" - did you mean that you like you show to fill your 16:10 monitor. Or did you mean that you have a camera which takes 16:10 images?

[mhwarner]

Perfect, Dave!

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. Studying the template has been a great learning experience. I appreciate it!

[davegee]

Options:

You can create a gap between each tile by taking a pixel off each side in "Size/Position in Pixels of Parent".

DG

[Craig]

Hi Dave-

In the Jigsaw Puzzle style, is it possible to have the pieces of the puzzle remain visible on the screen for a couple seconds before the edges dissolve into the final picture?  Is this something we can control through one of the settings?

Thanks!

-Craig

[davegee]

Just increase the Slide Duration.

Incidentally, if the style does not "cover" the Image 1, go to O&A and change the Mask Container to Cover Slide in the Common Tab.

DG

[Craig]

Thanks, Dave, but I am hoping to show the display of the puzzle pieces themselves for a couple seconds before the edges of the puzzle pieces disappear into the picture.  After the final puzzle piece appears, the pieces rapidly dissolve into the main picture, and I want to hold the image of the edges of the puzzle pieces for another second or two.  Increasing the Slide Duration doesn't seem to change the length of time the pieces of the puzzle display.

I think maybe it could have something to do with the timing of the items in the mask container.

 

[davegee]

It's a difficult one because the Mask in this case is a Video Clip and you need to pause the Video Clip.

DG

[Craig]

Okay, Dave...no problem.  Thanks for the clarification, and for all your great work on so many styles right up to the new styles in Version 9!