History of Dvd PixPlay Photo and Video Slideshow Creation Software

1.	Multiple slideshows can be burned to a single DVD disk with a menu
2.	A PowerPoint presentation can be opened directly in PixPlay (Pro Version)
3.	Can export slideshow to a YouTube video file
4.	Many improvements to Title Page dialog including new toolbar, "Snap to Grid" positioning, many alignment and sizing functions and layout options for background images
5.	Now automatically rotates your camera photos using the embedded digital camera fields
6.	Now supports XP/Vista style numbered file sorting
7.	New texture files, background music and Clip Art
8.	A company logo can be shown throughout the slideshow display (Pro Version)
9.	Many improvements to styling and layout, including a much improved Add Images dialog
10.	Fully Windows Vista compatible

Complete Change List

• Added: Blu-ray disk burning support (PC and MPEG-2 Format Slideshows)
• Added: Can now stretch, center or tile background images for title pages and DVD menus
• Added: Support for more audio formats: MP2, MPA and AC3
• Added: Many right-click options to better layout multiple objects in Add Text dialog
• Added: New Clean Up dialog allows you to reduce the space used by some optional DVD PixPlay files
• Added: Can now display TV safe areas when creating title pages and DVD menus
• Added: Widescreen DVD cropping and border removal options
• Added: Now all common EXIF and IPTC fields can be used in captions and image text
• Added: Insert Text dialog has a drop down list of suggestions to use
• Added: Can now specify alignment for text on Images or Title Pages
• Added: Can now specify a single caption for all frames (can include EXIF and IPTC fields)
• Added: Project background dialog now shows a preview of the selected background
• Added: Title page background dialog now shows a preview of the selected texture
• Added: Camera Acquisition wizard now supports RAW camera formats
• Added: Full Details display now includes a header row
• Fixed: May get error when pasting a non-object in the title page editor
• Added: New Office style color selectors
• Added: Now custom color selections are remembered throughout session
• Changed: Much better quality when recording narration
• Changed: Better handling of repeated lines in the log file
• Changed: Undo is now much faster
• Changed: Improved default application size and position
• Changed: When clicking Add Selected in the Add Images dialog it now asks if you want to add highlighted items if nothing is checked
• Fixed: May Mis-drag if clicking after drag reordering items
• Fixed: May take an inordinate time to delete temp folders under Vista
• Fixed: Alternate silence handling method to resolve Status_Access_Violation when encoding DVDs
• Changed: When getting burner locking errors it prompts whether to change the burn transport
• Added: Full Details display now normalizes any fields (such as IPTC Description) in captions
• Changed: No longer shows oversize slideshow status as red in the main screen unless we last burned in that format
• Fixed: May prompt to save file even it is not changed
• Added: New SPTD Burn Transport option to improve compatibility and speed on problematic systems
• Added: New power option when creating title pages: Use this style for all DVD buttons in this menu
• Fixed: Strips null characters that may be found in IPTC descriptions
• Changed: Text display boxes such as the Missing Files list always truncate in filename style
• Added: Can now split text onto multiple lines in text editor using //
• Changed: Now limits opening of text files to the following formats: TXT, FVT, BKMK
• Added: Warning about no burners can now be disabled
• Added: Insertion position box in Add Images dialog now has glyphs
• Fixed: Check selected items in Add Images dialog may not be disabled even if there are no checked items
• Fixed: Check selection count may not change when [de]selecting all items in Add Images dialog
• Added: Check toggling button in Add Images dialog
• Changed: No longer warns about file limit when dragging files within PixPlay
• Changed: When previewing slideshow it now displays frame captions even if motion effects are in use
• Added: Frame caption shadows now display when previewing/displaying image slideshows
• Fixed: Textured backgrounds may not appear correctly in DVD slideshows
• Added: Captions on main title bar can now be disabled
• Added: Can now optionally have text on buttons in Edit Image dialog
• Added: Now remembers default project folders for saving and loading
• Fixed: May get error that it is unable to create sub-folders when burning an image format slideshow
• Fixed: Dragging and dropping frames in the project may alter the order
• Changed: Now adds new images at the end of the slideshow by default
• Added: Now remembers your image insertion preference
• Added: Toolbar in Insert Title Page dialog
• Changed: No longer allows stretching to background music, if music is less than ten seconds in length
• Changed: Default frame caption margin is 4%
• Added: Improved layout and styling of Add Images dialog
• Changed: Double-clicking images in Add Images dialog no longer adds it immediately to slideshow
• Changed: Reduced the checkbox clickable area in Add Images dialog
• Fixed: Return may not add a file to slideshow in Add Images dialog
• Changed: Selection status is emboldened when checking items in Add Images dialog
• Changed: No longer displays extra blank space on bottom right when previewing videos
• Changed: When loading projects from text and CSV files it always uses the filename as the default project name
• Changed: Moved "Test Slideshow Disk" under the Advanced menu
• Changed: Now uses the system default multimedia player when using "Test Slideshow Disk"
• Added: Third test video display method: Windows Media Player
• Fixed: "Test Slideshow Disk" function may not display the disk correctly
• Changed: Improved error message when an invalid music file is specified
• Changed: Now uses Windows Media Player for slideshow test preview
• Added: Now allows editing of widescreen and slideshow label settings even when burning a single video file
• Fixed: Some raw files display with odd color hues
• Fixed: "Frame" Shape may not have transparent inner
• Changed: Updated DVD encoding library to 6.14
• Fixed: When changing from an image background texture for a title page, the changes do not display
• Changed: Video soundtrack options are no longer disabled. When selecting them your project will be checked to ensure all images follow your video files
• Added: Save dialog now always checks the specified extension matches the filename
• Changed: Improved layout of Edit Image dialog
• Fixed: Possible that a form may appear under a parent window
• Added: Improved registration system
• Fixed: May use margin and widescreen settings for video files, even though the options are not available
• Changed: Improved layout of slideshow format selection when burning
• Added: Now includes a YouTube define file to allow easily manipulation of the YouTube format definition
• Changed: Improved slideshow format descriptions
• Changed: Now displays VCD or SVCD estimated sizes not both (chosen automatically based on past actions)
• Changed: Now slideshow titles can use any characters
• Added: Can now specify a slideshow title in the main window
• Removed: No longer need to specify a disk label in the burn disk wizard, it uses the slideshow title
• Changed: Can now write full debug log for burning problems
• Changed: Now shows Plug-In download link whenever selecting the DVD burning mode (if plug-in is missing)
• Added: Now saves size and length meta data to the project file
• Added: External editor dialog now defaults to program files path
• Changed: Image Format renamed PC Format
• Fixed: After maximizing the main window the ability to drag drop reorder items may be disabled
• Changed: Some improvements to the way the Resize grip functions
• Changed: Now can stop playback of a sound file in the Background Music dialog
• Changed: Default thumbnail sizes are now at the same ratio of DVD display
• Changed: Now much easier to change the thumbnail sizes
• Fixed: Clicking F1 when selecting certain controls in the Options dialog may give a context-sensitive help error
• Fixed: Title page preview in New Project dialog has crosshairs cursor
• Removed: Option to use 8.3 filenames when launching to editor
• Removed: Background thumbnail loading option
• Fixed: When creating a Title Page and you change templates it may not repaint the screen
• Fixed: Background image may not new loaded when changing Templates for Title Pages
• Added: Much more accurate display of progress based on actual output method (e.g. saving vs. burning)
• Changed: Now burning function has 3 or 4 tasks, not 5
• Fixed: Some settings may not be saved if PixPlay is running on Windows shutdown
• Added: Improved layout of buttons in Edit Image dialog
• Fixed: When clicking deselect in Edit Image dialog it may no longer select
• Added: Larger graphics on preview video toolbar
• Added: Preview button in the Add Images dialog can now use the internal video player
• Added: Project now always maintains a constant work folder (even if filename or title changes)
• Added: Can now specify the size at which video files are shown during preview and in PC format slideshows
• Added: Now warns if any debug logging options are enabled and allows them all to be disabled en masse
• Changed: Many improvements to internal data structures
• Fixed: No practical way to set DVD looping when choose DVD+PC format
• Added: Advanced options dialog is now tabbed
• Added: Can now select the columns displayed in Full Details mode from the main window
• Changed: Options dialog is now much less complex with some settings removed and other deprecated
• Changed: Project options dialog now uses the current file as the source for example text when specifying captions
• Changed: No longer converts background images to BMP
• Changed: Copes better with folders containing umlauts
• Added: Texture file used for background is now always cached
• Fixed: Specified Frame Caption margins may not be used when previewing
• Added: Frame caption margins are now used also by image slideshow format disks
• Fixed: In rare situation when background image filename clashes with another image it is not included in a PC format slideshow
• Changed: When burning a single video file to disk, it now checks the source file to see if it is already of the output format and no longer converts it
• Changed: Improved performance of looping background music
• Fixed: Some issues related to log file handling under windows Vista
• Added: When sending email to support it now includes a log for your last burn attempt
• Added: Now has two versions, Personal and Professional
• Changed: Improved the layout and styling of many dialogs
• Fixed: Improved wording when an IPTC description is found in an added file
• Added: Now saves a log when there are missing files detected in the project
• Removed: Advanced Setting: Always display Frame Captions box on Slideshow Settings panel
• Added: Can now burn multiple slideshows to a single DVD disk with a menu
• Added: Can now directly open a PowerPoint slideshow
• Added: Can now export slideshow to a YouTube format video file
• Changed: New texture files, background music and Clip Art
• Added: Now supports XP/Vista style alphanumeric sorting
• Added: Positioning of objects in the editor is now much easier due to a Snap to Grid option
• Added: Can now specify a company logo to show throughout the slideshow display
• Added: Now when adding files it automatically rotates photos based on the embedded camera field
• Added: "Automatically Rotate Files" function on the Frame menu
• Changed: Reduced default Autocrop to 8%
• Changed: No longer automatically crops Power Point presentations
• Added: Checking for null display time
• Added: More checking for invalid total display times
• Fixed: Hint does not change when hovering over thumbnails
• Fixed: Music may loop when previewing even if looping is disabled
• Fixed: Autocropping of preview may not match burned autocropping
• Fixed: Specified border removal may not be used for images when burned to disk
• Added: Right click option to remove text from an image
• Changed: Improved Font Selector: Better performance, hides undesirable fonts and only shows font names in font if they can display
• Changed: Combined Advanced Burn settings and Burner info dialog
• Removed: Other Burner settings dialog
• Changed: Combined TV format and widescreen option selector
• Changed: Removed some burner specific settings from advanced options to Advanced burner options dialog
• Removed: XVCD and XSVCD compliant video format options
• Changed: Improved default position for new objects in title page editor
• Changed: Now uses a folder tree to determine clip art categories
• Changed: Renamed Clip Art folder
• Fixed: Title page editor does not center correctly in work area
• Added: Now remembers the last used clip art category
• Added: Shows progress while cleaning up temp files after burning
• Changed: Added to default clip art selection
• Changed: Re-ordered some items under the Help menu
• Changed: Now Autorun is digitally signed

Complete Change List

• Added: You can now improve the aspect ratio of DVD slideshows to more closely match the original
• Added: New preset video file format: HD Bluray compatible (NOTE: not true Bluray movie format)
• Changed: Email video format is now MPEG-2
• Added: New field, %FileTime%, which uses the digital camera time field or the file creation time
• Added: Browse for projects in the multiple slideshow dialog supports multiple selection
• Added: Better suggestions for text in title pages and images with text
• Added: Improved layout of DVD button edit dialog
• Added: Now supports IPTC Title field
• Added: Multishow Projects now show under recent files
• Added: /NOSPLASH parameter to hide splash screen on start up
• Fixed: Now hides the splash screen when displaying debugging options on start up
• Removed: Autoplay video files option (now always included)
• Added: Can now clear your registration key by holding down shift key
• Added: Now includes an ASPI driver in main install
• Fixed: Doesn't reload last project if /NOSPLASH parameter is used
• Added: Now when you try to insert an invalid disk it advises what formats your burner supports
• Added: Silence.mp3 now in the Music folder
• Changed: Better error message when PPT conversion fails because PowerPoint is not installed
• Changed: Reduced the verbosity of the log
• Fixed: Irrelevant controls may not be disabled in the Frame Properties dialog
• Added: Fallback project directory is now Vista compatible
• Added: Now video files support margins
• Changed: Now disables rather than hides the remove border tab for title pages
• Added: Improved logging during multishow
• Removed: Minimize while burning option
• Fixed: Warning about overwriting narration even if the narration is no longer in use
• Fixed: Narration start timing may be offset by confirmation dialog
• Fixed: Narration is appended to existing content
• Fixed: Copes better when canceled due to source file error
• Added: Better handling of very large images
• Added: Debugging option to handle special character sets

v4.02 Changes

• Fixed: Ampersand in folder name may cause conversion to fail
• Fixed: Theoretical situation where it may try to re-lock the drive
• Changed: No longer auto-enables burner logging
• Fixed: "Cannot lock burner" error
• Added: More informative error message when using serial number for older version

Other Changes

• Added: Includes a DVD menu template for up to 14 slideshows
• Added: New option to automatically save project changes without prompting
• Fixed: May give error when export selection from Smart Pix Manager
• Fixed: Error when trying to modify the colors in the Edit Image dialog
• Fixed: DPX files may show as being multishow files in Explorer
• Fixed: Some display issues on systems with non-standard font sizes
• Added: Add images dialog shows full filename when hovering
• Added: Now checks that DVD menu buttons do not link to removed slideshows
• Fixed: Some DVD menu buttons may not lay out correctly
• Added: Now even if drag and drop files to project it follows your project copying rules
• Fixed: Some problems cleaning up folders under Windows Vista 64
• Fixed: Margins may offset DVD menu buttons
• Added: Frame captions now support // for line breaking
• Fixed: Shows "Finalizing Disk" text even when disk does not need finalizing
• Fixed: No error displayed if multiplexing of a DVD menu fails
• Changed: Improved display of disk speed selector
• Fixed: Wrapped text may change position if it is locked to center
• Removed: Flat style thumbnails option

v4.06 Changes

• Fixed: May encounter problems with filenames containing semicolons when burning
• Fixed: Copes better with custom menu buttons that are too high (and obscure other controls)
• Changed: Improved audio status display when using video soundtracks followed by music

v4.07 Changes

• Fixed: Can get blank Add Images dialog
• Added: Now copes if you moved your project folder to a new location
• Fixed: Stationery image motion effect may not work in burned DVD
• Fixed: Enlarged the thumb grips in the color editing dialog
• Fixed: Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End work as expected
• Fixed: Cell may become unselected after adding text to it
• Fixed: Application of a frame change to multiple frames may not apply if you click another frame
• Added: Now custom menu can handle rearranging of slideshows in multishow projects
• Added: Hidden option to disable burner support
• Added: Updated splash screen and about box
• Fixed: May lock up when sending email via Outlook Express

v4.08 Changes

• Added Support for PPTX PowerPoint format
• Added: New high quality PPT import feature that uses EMF vector format
• Fixed: Workaround for bug in PowerPoint 2007 SP1 where exported slides can be cut off
• Fixed: No confirmation before prompt to save on shutdown when filename is not set
• Added: F5 key to reset caches
• Fixed: Multimedia file length cache not reset when re-adding a video to a project
• Added: Now checks for splitting of output files

v4.10 Changes

• Fixed: May not finalize burned disk
• Removed: Quick erase and eject after burn options (now always enabled)
• Fixed: Portion of end of slideshow may not display in some rare situations