AV News 197 - August 2014
ROBERT ALBRIGHT FRPS
Has worked in Audio Visual
photography for over 20 years and is
a past Chairman of the RPS AV
Distinctions panel.
He is a Council Member and a
Trustee of The Royal Photographic
Society. A Winner of the National UK
AV Championships and a winner of
the European Cup at the Flanders
International Image Festival, he also
produces exhibition prints with
acceptances in International Salons
and in the London Salon.
Robert has all of the background and skills required to help ensure the
smooth running of the Awards for Photographic Merit in Audio Visual and,
if appointed, will be a great asset organising and controlling the
Adjudication Events. (Robert already serves on the Executive of the PAGB
as the member nominated by the RPS.)
P T E 8 .5 - P ro p o s e d N e w F e a tu re s
Igor Kokarev
Future version 8.5 will bring significant improvement for AV authors who
create heavy animation with a lot of keyframes. The new O&A editor will
give new possibilities and together - more simple work with animation,
especially if you create a complex scene. For example, if now you have to
use many keyframes, in new editor you can create same animation with two
or even *one* keyframe. We'll add new tools and features and together we
found a way to simplify the user interface.
That's not all, due to the new architecture of keyframes the final version
8.5 will consume even less system memory. For example, I compared a
work of Rubik demo by Jean-Cyprien in v8.0 and future v8.5. Size of .pte
project file is 14 MB (509'343 lines). Time to load the project. Almost 2x
faster in v8.5 than in v8.0. Memory usage. v8.0 - 640 MB of system
memory. New v8.5 is 353 MB. Almost 2x less memory usage.
Memory usage was reduced after deep optimization of work with .pte
project in memory. Of course, if a slide includes a lot of very large images,
we can't do anything with it. Images consume system/video memory.
The new version will be published at the end of year, as usual. Beta
version will be available in 2-3 months.
I can also confirm that we're working on a Mac version of PicturesToExe
and we really have good progress with this.
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