Text Animations
Beautiful animations for letters and words. Choose a simple preset with text animation to make the caption appear or disappear. A powerful editor allows you the flexibility to set animation rules in the advanced mode: for letters, words and text lines.

Export Slides as Images
Export one or several slides as a series of JPEG or PNG images. Or choose a point on the Timeline. Set custom pixel resolution. PNG format allows the use of a transparent background.

Displacement Map effect
You can distort the surface of an image, video, or text caption. Create stunning visual effects: waves, ripples on water, magnifying glass, or drops of rain. PTE AV Studio includes several customizable templates for the Displacement Map effect. Or use a normal map from an external image file. (Pro version only)

Directional Blur and Blur with Bokeh
Apply a Directional Blur to your image, video, or text caption. Blur with Bokeh (optical defocusing) will help you create a beautiful background with accentuated sources of light. These blur options can be dynamically changed using keyframes. (Pro version only)

Improved Objects and Animations
Drag’n’drop in the Tree of objects with the mouse cursor.
Nested opacity for child objects.
Nested color filters for child objects (Pro version only).
Vector icons. A collection of 440 scalable icons.
New customisable theme for Button object for executable shows.
SmoothMove modifier which simulates Bezier curve (Pro version only).

Slide Styles
New slide styles: Collage, Photo Story, Album 3D, Gallery, Stack of 5 Pictures, 4 Pictures, Portrait — Zoom In/Out, Border — Portrait Zoom In/Out, Circles.
Improved Styles and Themes window. It’s possible to re-arrange images, add or remove images for a style.
A recently imported style is marked with a bold font in the list of styles.
A command «Apply Style to Selected Files» in a popup menu of the File List allows users to quickly apply a slide style.

Transitions
New transitions: Circle Waves, Waves with Dissolve, Dissolve with Blur, Photo Flip
You can choose the centre of the Shape transitions with the mouse cursor using preview.

Other Improvements
• Quick Style for slides. Copy animation from one slide and apply to other slides.
• Sound for a preview in Convert/Trim Video Clip and also in Adjust Time Range for a video clip object.
• Added a new option «Save a copy of .pte project file in a .bak file» in the Preferences.
• Improved full screen Blur effect.
• Added support of images in HEIC format (Mac only).
• Video encoding works faster by 20% when using the Hardware acceleration option with NVIDIA graphics.
• Added «Show in Explorer (Finder)» button when video encoding is finished.
• Text macros support multiple main images on a slide. For example, <%MainImg2.FileName%>
• Added «Rename Category» command for a group of custom transitions.
• Added a command «Export Slides to Images» to a popup menu of the Slide List and Timeline.
• Added command Clear Cache of Waveforms in the Preferences.
• Smooth progress when creating a Backup in a ZIP or Safe Executable file in a ZIP for a large project.
• Backspace key can remove slides, objects, or audio clips (Mac only).