Stop Photostage from putting in transitions after every change? Make it actually use default slide duration?

nzot

I've had a recurring problem over as far as I can tell all the Photostage versions I've tried from 9.33 onward. Every time I make a change it suddenly wants to update all the transitions between all the slides in the project, even though I unselected "add transitions automatically" in the options. And I specifically removed all the existing transitions before. But nope, when I removed a slide or changed a duration, Photostage wanted to make a bunch of transitions again. What is going on? How do I stop the program from doing this over and over and over again?

On a side note, I've also had issues with slide durations. In spite of having a default still duration of, say, 2 seconds specified in the options, Photostage would decide to start using the 15 second duration I used for one particular slide I inserted from that point on, and then I'd have to manually fix it. The reason I bring this up in the same thread is because in both cases the options don't appear to be doing what they are intended for--to set default behaviors so you can predict what the program will do when you do something.

So...anyone else notice these bugs in working with Photostage? Any suggestions?

n1x1

Hi,

When adding the wanted transition, make sure that you click only "Apply" and not "Apply all". For a better understanding, I have recreated the steps using 3 slides. As you can see on the uploaded screenshot ( screenshot 1) the second and the third slides have the same transitions, and only the first one has a different one. In order to apply the transition only on a specific slide click "Apply". Here is the link for the uploaded screenshot: https://files.fm/u/3zgdq8cmt

The same applies to duration.

nzot

n1x1 wrote:

Hi,

When adding the wanted transition, make sure that you click only "Apply" and not "Apply all". For a better understanding, I have recreated the steps using 3 slides. As you can see on the uploaded screenshot ( screenshot 1) the second and the third slides have the same transitions, and only the first one has a different one. In order to apply the transition only on a specific slide click "Apply". Here is the link for the uploaded screenshot: https://files.fm/u/3zgdq8cmt

The same applies to duration.

The thing is, I'm not necessarily applying a transition at all--the program is at times doing it on its own, over all the slides, without me asking it to, in spite of my setting the preferences to not automatically add transitions. It seems to be basically redoing all the transitions in the project after I make a change, with no obvious reason for doing so. Similarly, the duration problem is something where I have a default set, then occasionally I make one slide different, but then the program starts making all the new slides the same duration as the one I did manually, even though I didn't say I wanted to change the default duration.

n1x1

Hi,

Have you tried to reinstall the program? You may want to try the following:

Uninstall PhotoStage, then delete 3 folders named "PhotoStage" and 1 named "Components" from these locations:
**C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\PhotoStage\
**C:\Program Files (x86)\NCH Software\PhotoStage\
**C:\Program Files (x86)\NCH Software\Components
**C:\ProgramData\NCH Software\PhotoStage\
**If you can't find any of the folders, just continue.

If you can't find the AppData folder, set Windows to show hidden files and folders with the steps from this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files.

If you need assistance for downloading the version that is covered by your license I suggest you to contact NCH technical support, here is the link: https://www.nch.com.au/support/index.html

Before reinstalling the program I suggest you to save your project first (Menu > File > Back Up Project File to Folder).