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The Publish Menu

The "Publish Show" Button

(“Export Show”)

If selected from “Settings/Preferences/Toolbars”, a “Publish Show” button can be added to the Main Window toolbars. This provides further information on the “Publish” options and these are described below.

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The Options are:

HD and 4K Video

PTE AV Studio supports Output of UltraHD 4K video (3840 x 2160).

Creates high quality MP4 Video File (H.264)

The Project should be saved before clicking on the option - if you have not done this you will be asked to Save the Project.

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The available options are shown above.

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Clicking on Custom reveals further options:

Quality Mode - Set Quality 0-150

Bit Rate Mode - Set a Bit Rate

The Video File name is the same as the Project Name and the location will default to the same as the Project location.

Motion Blur

Motion Blur simulates an exposure in a video camera and fast moving objects will be blurred.

Motion Blur option is applied only to animations of PTE objects (not for video clips).

You can adjust 2 parameters:

1. Exposure (in milliseconds). We recommend 10 ms.

2. This parameters affects to a quality of Motion blur. A higher value gives better visual result. I recommend to use 20-30 frames for normal cases.

Using of Motion Blur option slow downs video encoding by 2-3 times.

All professional video editors offer Motion Blur option for video output. All professional computer graphics clips and movies use Motion Blur effect.

You can use the PTE project to test Motion Blur: https://files.wnsoft.com/test/Push.zip

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Examples:

Hardware Acceleration

With “Hardware acceleration” option PTE AV Studio uses hardware video encoder from graphics card (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel).

Benefits: usually works faster, CPU is not used, CPU stays cool and silent.

Negative effect: visual quality worse, file size larger by 5-10%.

Hardware acceleration gives better visual quality on NVIDIA graphics (Geforce 1030 or newer) than on AMD / Intel.

It is recommended to use Hardware acceleration for a draft (or preview). Or when you encode very long project and you want to save time. Hardware encoder is especially useful for producing 4K video to save time.

Note the Information:

HW encoder is available in Macs with Apple Silicon chips (M1, M2, etc).

Click Convert to start the encoding. The Progress Window is shown below:

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When the encoding is completed you can view the video on a PC. Media Player Classic - Home Cinema is recommended for PC. You can also transfer the file to a USB device and view the video with the USB Device plugged into a suitably equipped Television or Blu Ray Player connected to a Television via HDMI.

Video For Mobile Devices

Creates a Video File for smartphone and tablets

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The Preset Device Options (above):

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The Preset Quality Options (above):

Pan and Scan

AVI Video File

Creates AVI File with SD or HD Quality

The Presets:

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The Presets for Resolution, Quality and Frame Rate are shown.

For the more adventurous, click on Custom:

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Executable File For PC

Safe Executable File For PC

Export Slides as Images

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The MAC Publish Show Menu

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Command line options

Command line parameters in executable shows for Windows

You can pass some parameters for your EXE shows created in PicturesToExe.

For example,

myshow.exe -slide 5 - run slideshow from slide No. 5.

myshow.exe -slide x - run slideshow from slide No. x.

myshow.exe -cover - enlarge slide to cover all screen without black strips. For example, when screen is 16:9 and slideshow 4:3.

myshow.exe -display x - this parameter allows to run a show on secondary display. For example: -display 2

myshow.exe -nomouse - hides mouse cursor, disables mouse clicks, hides Navigation bar, disables double click. This option can be useful for a projection of EXE shows on AV competitions.

myshow.exe -icc auto | sRGB | AdobeRGB | anyprofile.icc - set color space for your show according your display

myshow.exe -noicc - disables loading of color profiles from JPEG and PNG images.

Additional information:

On Windows use commands like this:

MyShow.exe -slide 2

On Mac in Terminal window:

open -a “PTE AV Player” MyShow.pteav –args -slide 2

Any supported PTE AV Studio options after prefix –args …

DVD-Video Disc - Video Builder

For Players connected to a Television.

Click on Publish and DVD-Video Disc.

If the currently open project has not been edited since opening then you will be taken directly to the VideoBuilder interface. If the currently open project was created in an earlier version and not edited, it is recommended that you Save As a different version before entering the VideoBuilder.

If the currently open project was edited after opening then you will be prompted to Save the Project before continuing. You cannot proceed without saving so if you want to keep the original project intact then a Save As is required.

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Add one or more Projects to the Project List by dragging from its location. The current project is added by default.

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Click on (VideoBuilder) Project Options:

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In the Program Tab of (Video Builder) Project Options you can set

In the Video Builder Main Menu you can set “Create Menu”.

Click on “Next”.

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Click on “Next”

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You can select any of the following options:

Add a User-Defined Template

In VideoBuilder:

Create HTML5 Video

Add a User-Defined Template

In VideoBuilder:

Create HTML5 Video