Just Release: Xara Designer Pro X11

[handrawn]

The BIOS dosen't load faster, but once past that the OS loads far faster

Hi Egg

the BIOS does not load faster because it is not on the SSD [as you later stated correctly] so its access times are not affected

you should consider disabling windows disk defragmentation for SSD - SSDs don't suffer the same loss of efficiency when accessing defragmented files as do HDDs
Click Start and type dfrgui into the search bar
Select your SSD and click on Configure schedule
Run on a schedule should be unchecked. Be sure to click OK after unchecking it

also disabling indexing:
Go to Start and open Computer.
Right-click your SSD drive and select Properties.
At the bottom of the disk properties window, uncheck Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties.
Click OK to save your changes.

both tweaks will reduce the constant background usage of the SSD an help reduce degredation

windows search does not need indexation to run - and a third party search such as agent ransack [which I use] is even better

EDIT - you could try disabling indexing on your other drive[s] too

[handrawn]

the defrag bit - you won't need to worry about that on win 8/10 as MS have taken care of it, only on win7

in fact most of the set up issues are dealt with, as you would expect, and you probably don't need to upgrade BIOS either though it might be worth checking that

but there are still things to do/check; some details:http://www.back2gaming.com/focus-sto...ows-8-and-8-1/

I am sure steve will give you good advice over at XU

[browj2]

Thanks for the replies and information as to how to improve the speed, etc. Once I get to the login screen, everything goes much faster. From login to ready to load programs is much, much faster with the SSD than the HD that I had. DPX11 loads very quickly. As for Windows 10, I think that I'll wait awhile. There still seems to be too many problems being reported.

My only complaint about X11 is still the animation interface with Movie Edit Pro and Video Pro X7 not working correctly. The background video doesn't advance with the frames, and the animation is not returned to the video, only a static image.

I did notice another problem with animation, export to avi. No matter which frame rate that I put in the properties, it always exports at 24 fps. I'm away from home so I can't check this, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this. I watched XaraXhris' excellent animation tutorial and he indicated that the frame rate could be changed. However, the result for me is always 24 fps in the avi. I want 29.97 or 30.

Thanks,
John

[Xhris]

I did notice another problem with animation, export to avi. No matter which frame rate that I put in the properties, it always exports at 24 fps. I'm away from home so I can't check this, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this. I watched XaraXhris' excellent animation tutorial and he indicated that the frame rate could be changed. However, the result for me is always 24 fps in the avi. I want 29.97 or 30.

It seems locked at 25 fps when uncompressed. When set to something like Microsoft Video 1 compression, the set frame rate is honoured on export, so try that.

[browj2]

Hi Xhris,

Thanks for your reply. I wasn't sure if it was 24 or 25 and couldn't check. Still can't; I'm out camping. I was using uncompressed as the other ones seemed to have a problem, don't remember with what. I'll check when I get home next week and try your suggestion.

Thanks again for the reply and the super tutorials.
John

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[MarcT]

Hi,

I had some problem registering XAR files to V11, it always opened with V10, even when pointing to V11 in "open with" context menu.
Had to reinstall a couple of time.

Does anybody know how to change the anchor point size?
I've found the registry for the selection blobs but not anchors.

Xareg doesnt appear to work in that regard.
It's kinda hard to work with tiny little anchors at high resolution.

Marc

[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks for that handrawn, I'll have a look at that when I get my machine back.

[MarcT]

Just sorted out the blob/points it works ok now.
I must have done something wrong before.

Marc

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Just got XDP11 activated properly on my main desktop PC. Seems to load up in a reasonably short amount of time. Good to go.

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