I have PE2 on my Sony Vaio laptop, but still only have PE1 on my study machine which is the one used for video editing.
Today I took delivery of 'PE2 In A Snap' and then downloaded the added chapters on Transitions and Effects (and the Setting Preferences one as well), which is really what I bought the book for in the first place, because some of the FX are rather vague, to say the least!
Anyway, wonderful book, very helpful!
I found in the FX add-on chapter that there is a very good Page Curl effect, and when I booted up PE2 on the laptop and tried it out there, I found it to be a very useful effect/transition indeed.
However, on the Study machine (which has a 3.2GHz P4 processor, with 320Gig Drive C, 160Gig Drive D (for video), 320Gig Drive E (for audio, sound tracks, etc), plus several other HDrives for Backups, etc.) the GPU Effects (which Page Curl comes under) does not show up.
My Graphics card is a Matrox Parhelia 128Mb, which drives two Iiyama monitors to give me enough real estate on which to edit.
The FX chapter does say at the top of the GPU effects descriptions that the GPU effects only show up if your graphics card supports them, which I would have thought mine would. I checked in the Program files to see if they were there, and they are, but of a different color to the others - could this be showing that they are not able to be used?
Can anyone shed more light on this, please?
All the best,
Bill