History of Dvd PixPlay Photo and Video Slideshow Creation Software

Complete Change List

• Added: Now allows you to convert incompatible formats (such as WMA) to MP3 or WAV
• Added: Automatically deletes files from your project folders when you remove them from your project
• Added: Now videos can be interspersed amongst images and maintain their soundtrack (for all slideshow formats)
• Added: When importing PowerPoint presentations the audio is also included
• Added: New Reveal effect for title pages and images with text allowing you to reveal text and other objects during display of frame
• Added: 26 new transition effects featuring hearts, stars, crosses and explosions
• Added: Improved MCI testing
• Added: Can now grab music tracks directly from audio CDs
• Added: Title page editor has circular, 50% larger grips
• Added: Transition effects are now categorized for easy selection
• Added: Title page editor now supports undo
• Added: Improved layout and wording of "Add Shape" dialog
• Fixed: Progress bar may continue to display in Windows 7 Taskbar when building of a test slideshow completes
• Added: Project Options dialog now shows previews using the current background
• Added: Right-click option (or Ctrl+G) to go to any frame when viewing a slideshow
• Changed: Reversed confirmation checkbox behaviour when removing frames
• Added: Clip Art dialog now shows preview of custom images added from your computer
• Added: New Pxp internal formatting for faster loading and saving and reduced size
• Added: Text properties dialog now shows a preview of the current label style
• Added: Modern Windows styling of thumbnail grids
• Added: New UI theme: Chrome
• Added: Improved styling of skins
• Fixed: PxpViewer may not display transition effects
• Added: In title page editor it is now much easier to insert an image from your computer
• Added: Faster generation of similar frames when building slideshow
• Fixed: Small memory leak when burning slideshow
• Fixed: May auto-crop title pages that are not created at the screen ratio
• Fixed: When previewing DVD buttons they may appear over the text
• Fixed: DVD menu button style dialog may appear in odd positions
• Fixed: Sort Slideshow dialog may initially appear without selection
• Added: Clicking heading in Project properties dialog moves to next checked transition/motion effect
• Fixed: Filename position may be off after creating a new slideshow project
• Added: Allows addition of title page when creating a video only project with the wizard
• Added: Hold down the shift key when clicking navigation keys to move through PC slideshows more quickly
• Added: New graphics for motion and transition effect previews
• Added: Now can find the linked image of an Image with Text file even if the project has been moved
• Fixed: Sweep transition may not display correctly for small images
• Fixed: When using Improved DVD Aspect ratio buttons may not appear in the correct vertical position
• Fixed: When previewing DVD menus it may not align text correctly for DVD button objects
• Added: 18 New DVD menu buttons styles such as Double Stars, Explosions, Crosses and Hearts
• Added: Objects in Title Page editor now remain visible as they are being moved
• Added: Title Page editor shows guide lines to help line up objects
• Added: Locked objects now show with darkened grabs
• Added: Improved layout of various dialogs
• Added: New start up tips
• Fixed: Now supports trailing spaces used for frame captions
• Added: True preview of frame captions in Project Options dialog
• Fixed: Select Frame combo box may not display video glyph
• Added: Select Frame combo box shows chapter breaks
• Added: When installing a newer version you are redirected to the web site for an updated serial number
• Added: Updated various UI graphics
• Fixed: When performing custom zoom from full screen it may not be centered in video output
• Fixed: In some situations custom motion effect changes may not stick
• Fixed: More accurate rendition of motion effects when output does not match designed aspect ratio
• Fixed: When manually navigate a PC slideshow it may upset the frame timing
• Added: Now confirms removal of slideshows from a multishow project
• Added: Now prompts to edit a custom menu if slideshow list has changed
• Added: Improved layout of slideshow list in multishow dialog

• Added: Now supports MOV, FLV, RM and MP4 format (requires installation of a plug-in)
• Added: Can now convert problematic formats such as MJPEG to standard AVI
• Fixed: PNG files may not preview in Clip Art dialog
• Added: May not clear display panel when finish showing a video
• Fixed: May get conversion error when burning title pages
• Fixed: Crampt nodes in directory tree under Windows Vista and 7
• Fixed: More robust Power Point importing
• Added: Log now includes a processing summary

• Added: Never assigns a default reveal effect to an image when adding text if a motion effect has already been selected
• Added: Can now output slideshows to WMV7, WMV8, WMV9 and WMV9 VC-1
• Added: Faster handling of slideshows without audio tracks
• Fixed: Error that can occur when running out of audio
• Fixed: Pxp Viewer may unnecessarily create registry folder
• Added: Updated MPEG conversion library
• Fixed: May get error when closing PPT files
• Fixed: Text preview may show ampersand character
• Added: Now automatically converts incompatible AVI and WMV files too
• Fixed: Screen saver may not disable during a preview
• Fixed: Object grabs in Title Page editor may not clear background on first show
• Fixed: May get error if show preview during burning
• Fixed: Percentage stationery for motion effects may apply to transitions
• Fixed: Now always changes format to JPEG when editing unsupported image save formats
• Fixed: Unusual situation with invalid temp file handling
• Fixed: No longer adds line break when using http://

• Fixed: Problems sorting selection
• Fixed: Some internal problems handling audio files
• Fixed: DVD Chapter may be lost when renaming a file
• Added: Thumbnails shown for MOV files
• Fixed: Borders may not be applied when using images with text
• Fixed: Burn conversion preview window may not show Widescreen videos correctly
• Fixed: Other minor errors

• Fixed: Some project editing options may be applied if disk is viewed on PixPlay installed computer
• Changed: Renamed PxpViewer.exe to PixPlayViewer.exe
• Changed: Distributable PixPlay projects have the extension .pixplay
• Fixed: Project files may not be found for "PC" format slideshows
• Added: New project option to use maximum display quality for PC format slideshows
• Added: Access to some template saving functions
• Added: WMV support now included in main installation

• Fixed: DLL Load Error when burning slideshow on some systems

• Fixed: Custom motion effect can be cleared by adding or editing text
• Added: Can now disable warning about YouTube length
• Added: Now supports MOD video files
• Changed: Downgraded MPEG generation library due to quality issues

• Fixed: May not show captions in PC slideshows
• Fixed: Display times may not update when syncing frames
• Added: Can use Ctrl + Wheel to change thumbnail display mode
• Added: Full details display mode for Add Photos dialog
• Changed: Loads all settings before warning to visit Xequte.com for updates
• Fixed: Check project in Multishow function does not show information dialog if all files are found
• Changed: Updated Splash graphic
• Changed: Updated help file for pricing adjustment
• Added: Can now disable warning about lack of slideshow music

• Added: Now supports PowerPoint PPTX format
• Added: Other improvements to PowerPoint importing
• Added: New Search function (Frame > Go to Frame) to search filenames, captions, or indexes
• Added: Supports new Dicom compression formats
• Added: Image display is now optimized for multicore processing
• Added: Preview Timing Info now shows detail if it is falling behind (and accurate preview is enabled)
• Added: Better handling of launched DPG files
• Added: If slideshow is previewed fully the position returns to previous selection
• Added: Optimized handling of all internal data lists
• Changed: Improved layout of main menu

• Added: Gesture support: Click and drag the mouse to navigate, rotate, remove, etc

  

• Added: Double sized thumbnails

  

• Added: Now converts MT2S/MTS files
• Added: Autoplay supported even on Windows 7 and Vista
• Removed: No longer needs to run PixPlay on uninstall
• Fixed: Music files may not be imported from PPT files on localized installations
• Fixed: When importing the filename may be reset
• Added: For better menu compatibility PixPlay ensures menu button edges fully encompass two interlaced scanlines
• Added: Now automatically switches widescreen DVS menus to 4:3 if it will exceed the widescreen DVD button limit of 12
• Added: Custom Zoom
• Fixed: Font difficult to read when in film strip mode
• Added: Improved display of frame information in thumbnail caption
• Added: Shortcut to convert adhoc video files: Shift + Alt + C
• Added: Auto-hides slideshow frames heading for a bit more screen space

• Added: Now shows thumbnails even for non-native video formats
• Added: Close Project now always prompts to confirm changes (so have a chance to undo all)
• Fixed: Displayed frame number may not update after removing/repositioning frames
• Fixed: Difficult to disable slideshow preview with a single click

• Fixed: Thumbnail may not be updated when changing the text of a frame
• Fixed: Slideshow may be off-center if 100% auto-cropping is enabled