Objects and Animation Synchronisation to Waveform

[TonyFalla]

Sorry if this topic has been raised before but I have been out of action for about 6 months and have only just started to explore PTE5 in any detail.

One of the reasons I bought PTE several years ago was for its ability to synchronise slides and transitions with the soundtrack using the timeline and waveform. I may be missing something but it appears that I have lost this ability with PTE5 if I use “objects and animation”.

If I use the timeline facility, after I have performed objects and animation then with the slide(s) that have undergone this process, I only get the start and finish point. There does not seem to be a way of displaying the waveform in “objects and animation” so that I can synchronise keypoints against the waveform. Have I missed something?

A further point which I have been investigating to try to get over the problem above is recommendations for “objects and animation”. How much should you do in one slide?

I can see that I could actually using this facility to create a whole slide show which would just in effect be one slide. It doesn’t seem to be a sensible option to me but got me thinking suppose I had a sequence I wanted of a slide with 4 images on it and what I wanted to do was zoom each individual image to full a full screen and then zoom back to 4 image screen. I could do this with one “objects and animation” or I could split it down into 8 “objects and animation”. The 8 would be 2 for each image, first zooming to full screen and second zooming back to 4 image screen.

Apart from giving me more synch points on the timeline what are the other pros and cons of 1 slide against 8 slides?

[Ken Cox]

TONY

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ken

[TonyFalla]

Thanks Ken have already downloaded and printed the guide and using it to expand my knowledge. It is a very good reference

Tony

[Lin Evans]

Hi Tony,

If I understand your question correctly, the answer is twofold: First, you haven't lost any ability to synchronize music with transitions - it's exactly the same as with the earlier version, but there is no way to automatically or "visually" synchronize keypoint animation times with the music because there is no "live view" of the animation in the timeline mode, only in the preview mode. So it's not possible via the timeline view to move keypoints to synchronize with a particular instant of the sound track. You can, however, note the specific time on the sound track visually in the timeline view, then set the keypoint numerically to correspond to that moment in time in objects and animations. Hopefully in version 5.2 there may be a live view of not only the transitions as we have now but also the animations in the mini-window on the timeline to further facilitate synchronizing not only transitions as we can now do, but also to synchronize animation points visually with the sound track.

On your second question, there is no real penalty in terms of doing it all in one slide. That is you can zoom in, out, pan and so on for a slide with four images all on the same slide or you could duplicate the slide if you wanted to use a particular transition between segments. As far as the program is concerned it's immaterial which way you choose to do it. Actually, I've created a single slide slideshow using a panorama. Here's a link so you can see the result. This one has multiple pans and zooms.

http://www.lin-evans.net/pte/cliffhouse.zip

Best regards,

Lin

Sorry if this topic has been raised before but I have been out of action for about 6 months and have only just started to explore PTE5 in any detail.

One of the reasons I bought PTE several years ago was for its ability to synchronise slides and transitions with the soundtrack using the timeline and waveform. I may be missing something but it appears that I have lost this ability with PTE5 if I use "objects and animation".

If I use the timeline facility, after I have performed objects and animation then with the slide(s) that have undergone this process, I only get the start and finish point. There does not seem to be a way of displaying the waveform in "objects and animation" so that I can synchronise keypoints against the waveform. Have I missed something?

A further point which I have been investigating to try to get over the problem above is recommendations for "objects and animation". How much should you do in one slide?

I can see that I could actually using this facility to create a whole slide show which would just in effect be one slide. It doesn't seem to be a sensible option to me but got me thinking suppose I had a sequence I wanted of a slide with 4 images on it and what I wanted to do was zoom each individual image to full a full screen and then zoom back to 4 image screen. I could do this with one "objects and animation" or I could split it down into 8 "objects and animation". The 8 would be 2 for each image, first zooming to full screen and second zooming back to 4 image screen.

Apart from giving me more synch points on the timeline what are the other pros and cons of 1 slide against 8 slides?

[TonyFalla]

Hi Lin

Thanks for that I hope what you say is correct and that in 5.2 you can synchronise to keypoints. As you say there are always ways of getting round problems but the easier it is to achieve an effect the more productive you can be.

From your reply I can now see that to continue working the way I like to work is to split any objects and animations into as many steps as possible I can then synchronise at least the start and finish of each on the timeline. Keypoints in between I would have to note from the timeline where I want these to apply and then go into objects and animation and adjust the keypoints accordingly.

Thanks again for the information

Tony