Great news about Pan and Zoom from Igor!

[ADB]

I was very excited to read in the BETA #2 thread that Igor and the Wnsoft team are looking to include Pan and Zoom in future versions of PTE.

This is fantastic news and will mean with the one peice of software for under $50 you can make either High Quality PC shows or DVD shows and both can include panned or zoomed images.

In the weekend I showed a couple of shows to my old camera club at their 50th Anniversary, the first show was put together in PTE and got a mediocre response from the club, the second was put together with a Video Editor and included several scrolling panoramas both shows were shown using a data projector hooked up to a DVD player. The show with the moving panoramas fascinated the club and had me staying behind for about an hour answering a myriad of questions but what was obvious was that the addition of motion added so much more to the whole experience.

If PTE can implement the pans and zooms into the transitions then one huge advantage PTE will have over DVD is that you will be able to show much higher resolution shows (using a data projector and laptop), the thought of showing a high resolution PTE show via a data projector and including panoramas and zooms makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end!!

Needless to say I will be watching with great RENEWED interest as WNSOFT develop the pan and zoom function.

And while on that topic to avoid the weaknesses in some other software packages the pans and zooms should have:-

* Constant rate of smooth movement throughout the pan or zoom

* Be able to pan "left and right" and "up and down"

* Have no limit to the length (within reason) of the image being panned

As a foot note Igors comment did suggest this change wasn't an easy one so it could be a while until we see it, but hey that was the case with inlcuding DVD in PTE less than a year ago and PTE now this so you never know..

[Igor]

Thank you for interesting suggestions!

Currently we've already started works in this direction to realize really smooth Push, Slide, Pan and Zoom effects on various PCs. I consider these features as important. But please be patience.

Especially the Zoom effect requires to solve a number of technical difficulties and limitations.

[Guest TheDom!]

realize really smooth Push, Slide, Pan and Zoom.

It would be really great ! I can't wait !

And if I can submit two ideas :

- it would be great to include this options on captions or all inserted objects if it's possible.

- And why not a rotate effect ?

A lot of work is waiting for you.