Version 5 suggestion and question

[rakn]

Hi all,

Being new to PTE and this forum I must say that finally, it looks like I found the right product.

I have worked with dia slideshows for some years in the past, but since I "upgraded" to digital photography I've been looking for the perfect slideshow tool. The best I found was Proshow and Producer from Photodex, but they perform too bad when you zoom or pan across large images, even on a high-performance machine. With PTE #5 beta, I get 100 % smoothe zoom's and pan's even with huge panorama images (11870 x 2307 pixels), so now I look forward to exploring my 8 Mp images in every detail.

I will just have to learn how to use PTE ... just about to explore the tutorials (thanks to all of you authors).

I have one suggestion (is this the right place for suggested improvements ?) and one question :

- If I zoom an pan between different keypoints in an image, it would improve things a lot if there was a way to get a "softer" animation start/stop on these keypoints. That would mean a non-linear move, it should accelerate slowly from one keypoint and stop slowly at the next. Imagine an image with some people, and you want to "Ken Burns" from one person to the other with a pause at each one.

- Under the "Show image", "Comment" and "Sound" boxes, there are three buttons : "P", "Customize Slide" and "Objects and Animation". What is the "P" button ?

Regards

Ragnar

[Lin Evans]

Hi all,

Being new to PTE and this forum I must say that finally, it looks like I found the right product.

I have worked with dia slideshows for some years in the past, but since I "upgraded" to digital photography I've been looking for the perfect slideshow tool. The best I found was Proshow and Producer from Photodex, but they perform too bad when you zoom or pan across large images, even on a high-performance machine. With PTE #5 beta, I get 100 % smoothe zoom's and pan's even with huge panorama images (11870 x 2307 pixels), so now I look forward to exploring my 8 Mp images in every detail.

I will just have to learn how to use PTE ... just about to explore the tutorials (thanks to all of you authors).

I have one suggestion (is this the right place for suggested improvements ?) and one question :

- If I zoom an pan between different keypoints in an image, it would improve things a lot if there was a way to get a "softer" animation start/stop on these keypoints. That would mean a non-linear move, it should accelerate slowly from one keypoint and stop slowly at the next. Imagine an image with some people, and you want to "Ken Burns" from one person to the other with a pause at each one.

- Under the "Show image", "Comment" and "Sound" boxes, there are three buttons : "P", "Customize Slide" and "Objects and Animation". What is the "P" button ?

Regards

Ragnar

Hi Ragnar,

I can answer part of your question - The non-linear (softer stop, etc.) is coming and will definitely be in the release version and quite probably in the next beta version.

There are lots of features which are not yet incorporated into the beta. The "P" may or may not be one of them. I'm not certain what it does either - LOL, but we will find out and let you know... Anyone else know??

Best regards,

Lin

[Ken Cox]

the P flags it as "MODIFIED"

ken

[rakn]

I can answer part of your question - The non-linear (softer stop, etc.) is coming and will definitely be in the release version and quite probably in the next beta version.

Nice to hear that Lin, it means that we all have something to look forward to. Thanks for advice.

BR

Ragnar

[thedom]

About the non-linear PZR, the boss said :

Of course, it will be added! I think about beta #4 or beta #5