AV News 189 - August 2012
Master video clip
The only other thing worth noting is the ability to have a single instance of a video
clip played on a number of slides. Why would you want that? Well, let's imagine
the situation where you have a background video of breaking waves. Onto this
you have a number of changing slides. (Yes, I know, a bit tacky). If you create
this with a number of separate slides, then the bit of video will be repeatedly
added to the exe file and each time the slide changes, the video will restart.
To overcome this, make your first slide with the video background and
overlying still image. Select the video clip and in the 'properties' box of O&A you
will find a pull down list which allows 'Single Video clip' or 'Master Video track'.
Select the later. Now make your next slide, but in this case, you will see an
option to 'Link to:file name'. Select this. If you do it right, the slides will change
from one to the next and the video will continue without pause.
Saving and making an exe
The project should be saved in the usual way and when you come to making
your exe file, the video components will be incorporated into the single exe file,
just like any other AV show. You can chose to keep the video clips outside the
exe file (in O&A, 'Properties tab' chose 'Don't include file to EXE'). I guess that
it might make a really big sequence run smoother as the video clips will only be
loaded when required, but I haven't tested it out yet.
Version specific information is available as part of the help file for PTE, have
a look at it, it might make more sense to you than this article.
You may well feel that video is not for you. But for me, the ability to make a
holiday show which includes mainly still images, but also those bits of video that
Carole and I take, is useful.
Have a go yourself, and have fun.
See the Links page of www.avnews.org.uk for a link to the PTE help files.
N.B. If you exclude the video clip