Styles and Themes a few questions/observations

[SeismicGuy]

As an occasional user of PTEAV I find myself forgetting what I have learned or discovered in the past but I am once again putting together a travelogue and have found a few frustrations.  My process it that I pick the jpg's and mp4 files I wish to use and then first move them down into the slides view.  All the jpgs have 7 sec durations (the default I might have set) and the mp4's have whatever durations they happen to be.  So far so good.  Then I generally like to keep things simple and use Ken Burns effect for all of the jpgs.  If I select all the slides and apply the built-in Ken Burns theme it applies the Ken Burns styles that are built into the program which also have varying durations.   HOWEVERif if I forget to deselect the various mp4 files it also applies the style to those files and also changes the duration (which is why it would be nice to have the mp4 files in the slide view have a filmstrip indicator or something to call attention to them).  So the first thing that would be nice is to know whether there is an option of apply styles/themes to only the jpg files and skip over any mp4's or do I just carefully need to go through and deselect any mp4 files.

Second the way I get my 7 second duration back to the jpgs is that I select all the ones where the style/theme was applied and choose Slide Options and change duration back to 7 seconds.  I figured maybe I can modify the built-in Ken Burns theme by editing but the program does not allow for editing the built-in themes apparently.  But it would be nice if when applying styles/themes there was a check box to maintain the original default duration.  

I expect the experts here will set me straight since I am likely missing something.

 

[davegee]

On the first point, you "just carefully need to go through and deselect any mp4 files".

On the second point, you can change any style by applying it and making the changes you desire and then re-create it with a new name and location. You also have the options on the RHS of the Themes Box. 

DG