Pictures to Exe has always been ahead of any rivals, with its ability to take note of what its users want and quickly upgrade to their requirements. Not only is it user friendly but its users are themselves friendly! So much so, that several have spent long hours creating very useful utilities to work alongside the "PTE mothership" as they cruise ahead in the wonderful world of AV software magic.
Sequences are created and experiences shared openly at several International Forums worldwide. Several PTE Forum users host web sites at their own expense where sequences, tutorials and utilities can up uploaded or downloaded to share freely. The only expense is the cost of your PTE licence, although it is hoped some generous spirited individuals will donate some spare cash to help fund some sites.
Apart from the many amazing utilities previously, and currently, available from Granot's site at www.thailandphotoalbum.com , a brand new French software program has hit the scene.
SY(P) is sending waves of enthusiastic cheers around the world. Jean-Claude Sénéchal, its creator has spent over a year writing the software which he states " a compementary tool dedicated to PTE users" and how much dedication must Jean-Claude have to spend all his time writing a program which is free for his PTE friends!
So what are its features .........
A sophisticated "spreadsheet" and an elaborated "light table" are the highlights
of this freeware I have offered to Igor and to PTE users community.
Their features allow you to examine at a glance all the parameters of your PTE project
from thumbnails to personal notes or "reminders" attached to any images of your choice.
With Sy(P) you can add, delete, rearrange several images at the same time and modify any of their
parameters with a click. ...........AND MUCH MORE
Some of the available tools include ....
* A print utility, allowing you to obtain the synopsis listing, with or without thumbnails,
* A light table displaying thumbnails of your pictures.
With the mouse you can move a picture or a group of adjacent pictures.
You can remove, replace, or duplicate images.
You can also switch one picture for the other,
invert the order of pictures within a selected block,
move a selected block of pictures along the time-line,
* A spreadsheet based on the main window set of information.
By Right Clicking on any line you have access to the parameter editor and the text editor
enabling you to apply any modification you want for the selected image(s):
comments (font, size, colour), time code, picture time, effect (type, length).
You can also edit an existing "object text", but you can't create a new one (it has to be present through PTE).
However this parameter editor allows all edited text to be presented in a single window
(otherwise scattered through the different rubrics, comments, object,etc),
* A picture pool that offers the same features for new images as the light table.
You can order and move pictures the way you want.
You can also remove a picture from the pool.
You can display a lot of information about your pictures in this pool such as name, dimensions, weight,
* A parameter editor, that allows you to edit and change time-related parameters
as well as types of effect.
You can activate it when working in the main window as well as in the spreadsheet or the light table.
You can edit a single picture or a block of selected pictures,
* A time marker editor that helps you to carefully adjust time codes for one or several images.
It enables you to assign a time Marker -i.e. a time code- of your choice to certain 'key' pictures.
Combined with Audacity, for instance, this editor can make use of Audacity 'labels track' file
to assign time-codes to some selected pictures that you want to match with aural events you marked on the sound track,
* A block editor which permits you to shift anywhere in the project a block of images without
changing following time codes,
* A picture and sound files path and name manager
which reconstructs the path to the image and sound files
if these have been moved from the folders they were in when the project was created,
* A direct access to *.PTE file contents enabling immediate reading of this file,
* A full screen view of any selected image at any time.
You move to the next image by clicking on it and by double-clicking or escape
you return to your normal set out,
* Finally, two languages are permanently available without restarting the program, including a full documentation in html format.
If you are a PTE user do take time to read the help section
Download SY(P) at http://www.diapovision.com/articles/syp.zip
or click the above link
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