History of Dvd PixPlay Photo and Video Slideshow Creation Software

Complete Change List

• Added: PC and DVD+PC formats now available for multiple slideshow disks
• Added: New Project wizard now displays graphical selector for all style templates
• Added: Can now create a title page from your own image in New Project wizard
• Fixed: Preview not updated after editing a title page in New Project wizard
• Added: Can now clone projects by saving them to a new filename
• Added: No longer needs to generate autorun.inf file
• Added: Optimized creation of PC format slideshows by removing many unnecessary calls
• Added: Optimized building of DVD slideshows
• Added: Improved processing messages
• Added: Overhauled layout of Multishow wizard
• Added: Recent projects link in Multishow wizard
• Changed: When adding a project it no longer shows a message if all project files are valid
• Added: Can now add an Exit button to multiple slideshow menus
• Added: When adding buttons to a DVD menu, PixPlay automatically guesses a suitable caption
• Added: Hovering over a button in a DVD menu now selects it
• Added: Double buffering to improve display of DVD menus on a PC
• Added: Previous/Next frame links in Viewer popup menu
• Added: Clicking the screen will advance manually navigated PC slideshows. Middle mouse button will go back to previous
• Added: Now can continue building a multishow even if you choose to cancel stretching of a particular slideshow within the selection
• Fixed: Multishow generation may fail without error if choose to stretch a slideshow to audio which does not contain audio
• Changed: No longer uses a special viewer just to handle video only disks
• Added: Now supports Windows 7 style audio muting
• Added: Frame caption now support bordered text
• Added: Labels and DVD buttons in title pages now support shadows and bordered text
• Added: Automatic calculates an appropriate drop shadow depth based on the font size
• Added: Text in title pages and image frames can be rotated to any angle
• Added: Motion and transition effects show as grayed when disabled
• Added: Insert Blank Frame function for quick access to the page editor
• Added: Slideshow looping option moved to project settings
• Added: Project looping option affects preview
• Added: Combined DVD and PC slideshow looping option (with prompting now available as an Advanced option)
• Added: Improved handling of some internal data structures
• Added: 35 New DVD menu styles
• Added: 35 New Title Page styles
• Fixed: Flashing when changing style templates in the Title page creator
• Added: Link in Title Page creator to download more templates
• Added: Stretching slideshow to music is now offered as a Project property setting
• Added: If auto-stretching is enabled for the project it is also used when previewing
• Added: Now when adding your own images to title pages you can maintain the correct aspect ratio and specify a colored border
• Added: Less flash on start-up of viewer
• Added: No longer locks aspect ratio of images when they are being resized in the title page editor
• Added: Now images in title pages always output in highest quality
• Added: New items for Tip of the Day

• Fixed: May encounter timing issues when setting custom frame display times

• Added: "End Time" column
• Fixed: Some issues related to frame timing
• Fixed: Error when stretching a portion of the slideshow
• Changed: When stretching a portion of the slideshow it finishes halfway through the transition (if longer than one second)
• Changed: Double-clicking screen in viewer has same effect as clicking Esc

• Added: Automatically relocates music files in moved folders
• Added: Some improvement to outputting of logging info while burning
• Added: PixPlay automatically downsizes very large images when adding them to a project
• Changed: Auto-cropping is disabled by default
• Changed: Optimized for TV pixels by default
• Added: Preview from start or current frame are now separate menu items
• Fixed: Better memory-handling of very large images to reduce errors creating transition and motion effect frames
• Added: More control over motion effect zooming added to Project Options
• Changed: Automatically pads the margin for frame captions on DVDs to avoid overscan
• Changed: Default font for frame captions to Tahoma
• Added: New easter egg in Insert Text dialog
• Added: Default frame caption margin is now 3%
• Added: Toolbar now includes a button to enter your serial number
• Added: Total overhaul of Program Options dialog to make it more logically arranged
• Added: Better error message when choking on video files

• Added: Much improved quality with standard and high resolution PowerPoint presentations
• Added: Now maintains the aspect ratio of imported PowerPoint presentations
• Added: Includes looping preference from imported PowerPoint presentations
• Fixed: When importing a PowerPoint project it may not be saved
• Fixed: Occasional error when opening PowerPoint presentations