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v2.0 Enhancements |
For information on upgrading, please see our upgrade page.
v2.0 Top Ten New Features
1. | New export option to output the project in its original format (videos, images, music, etc) for playback on a PC |
2. | Added 133 new transition effects |
3. | Optimized the MPEG generation library giving much better output quality |
4. | New Create Project wizard guides users through all the initial steps of creating a slideshow file |
5. | New AVI output options: DivX 5, XviD, Cinepak, Intel Indeo Video R3.2, Microsoft Video 1, RLE and uncompressed |
6. | New option to automatically stretch your slideshow display to match the length of the background music |
7. | Now offers thirty templates when creating title pages (e.g. birthday or christmas styles) |
8. | New option to fade in at the start of the slideshow and/or fade out at the end |
9. | The timing of slideshow previews now closely matches that of the final result |
10. | Added native support for Raw digital image files from Cameras (Canon, Casio, Fuji, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, etc.) |
Complete Change List
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Added: Can now quickly add a caption to each image by specifying it under the image preview |
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Added: Many improvements to the UI including XP style controls throughout |
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Added: Can now paste images directly from the clipboard |
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Added: Can now lock text objects to the center of title pages |
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Added: Can now drag music files into DVD PixPlay (either in main window or background music dialog) |
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Added: Now image caption settings are specified in the main window and can be previewed |
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Added: Start up dialog with access to common functions |
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Changed: Help file is now in (CHM) HTML format |
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Added: Gradient background options for title pages |
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Added: Preview window in transition settings dialog |
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Added: Sorting of items as they are added |
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Added: Can now specify background music that is played after video files complete (if there are images remaining) |
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Added: Navigation buttons when showing an image full screen |
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Added: Underline option to text addition |
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Changed: Handling of temp image saving when creating a CD |
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Changed: Now saves temporary images in JPEG format to lower disk space requirements |
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Added: Now remembers if you always output to file |
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Added: Now remembers the folders that you save video files to |
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Added: Can now specify that filenames should be displayed rather than frame numbers |
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Fixed: Turning off file extensions does not take effect until the display is refreshed |
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Added: Now much faster at encoding images that have filenames overlaid |
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Added: Much faster loading and saving of title page files |
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Fixed: Sometimes text added to title pages will wrap even if it was not designed that way |
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Changed: Transitions use the maximum number of frames available |
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Removed: Option to specify the number of transition frames per second |
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Added: Now remembers your default music selection |
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Added: Now remembers your default transition selection |
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Added: Now warns you when loading a project if any of the background music files cannot be located |
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Added: Now uses checkboxes for selection of items in the Add Images dialog |
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Fixed: If use send to back in the title page designer object may still be drawn in front of other objects |
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Changed: Improvements to the VCD test function |
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Fixed: When try to burn a second identical CD using Back/Next it may re-perform the MPEG creation |
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Added: Now monitors that a minimum level of disk space is left on your system drive |
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Fixed: If click Edit or Add Text while a file is loading it may not edit the correct file |
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Changed: Layout of Help menu |
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Removed: Support and Web Site dialogs (in favor of menu links) |
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Added: Extra logging for transition frame errors |
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Added: Estimate of final project size is now much more accurate regardless of VCD type |
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Fixed: May estimate time of slideshow incorrectly if it contains video files |
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Changed: Show Registration Prompt from first running |
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Changed: Various improvements to the Registration Prompt dialog |
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Added: Can now cut, copy and paste items in the page editing dialog |
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Fixed: On some systems get a line insertion error when printing |
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Added: Now when outputting filenames during CD creation it never puts the filename in the margin area |
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Added: Multimedia header reading is cached even when creating a CD for faster processing |
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Removed: Option to continue display of last frame until music completes (superceded by new stretching function) |
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Fixed: Display time in Create CD dialog not correct for video files |
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Changed: Reduced default automatic cropping to max of 5% of each edge |
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Added: Now the e-mail support link in the help menu also forwards the log |
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Added: Tip advising how to use the soundtrack of a video in a mixed slideshow |
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Added: Function to move all videos to the start of the slideshow |
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Added: Can now resize the image display panel |
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Added: Can now hide the slideshow settings panel |
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Changed: Now usage tips are only shown once per session |
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Added: New option to further improve the accuracy of the preview timing |
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Fixed: Frame index of thumbnails may not update when reorder items in the slideshow |
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Added: More efficient debug logging when building slideshows |
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Changed: Now all work files are put in folders with the name of the project |
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Removed: brassplate.png clip art image |
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Added: Many internal improvements |
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Changed: Doesn't warn about being a video only project if images and videos are added at the same time |
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Changed: Doesn't warn about being a video only project if images added after the video files |
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Fixed: May change the position and size of the text box created |
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Fixed: Videos in slideshow would cause the time display to be slightly incorrect |
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Changed: Disable the status controls for CD writing while not writing a CD |
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Added: Now detects when images with text have been removed (even though the title page remains) |
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Changed: Some toolbar glyphs |
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Added: Now shows the length of background music in the create CD dialog |
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Added: Now remembers the font you used when editing each title page and offers it next time you edit it |
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Changed: Double-clicking in the title page editor now displays the Background Properties |
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Added: Display quality of thumbnails for title frames and images with text is now much better |
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Added: New shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T to remove the text from an image |
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Added: Can now use wildcards, %FILENAME% and %FILEDATE% when specifying the captions for images |
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Added: Improved the display of output project size |
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Added: Can now navigate when in full screen mode or viewer using the space key |
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Added: Manual navigation option for image slideshows |
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Fixed: Sometimes did not warn you if you were saving to a video file and chose a name of a file that already exists |
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Added: Default file/folder name when saving projects to file/folder is always unique |
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Changed: Offer the MPEG save option as default rather than Cue |
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Added: Now displays ellipses for very long filenames |
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Added: Now image selection dialog displays Title pages too |
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Added: Many more pop-up usage tips |
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Added: Now much quicker to specify a custom display time for images as the spin control is not disabled by default |
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Changed: Now when display a slideshow (preview or on a CD) the cursor is hidden |
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Added: New Xequte style key format |
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Removed: Superfluous Full-screen function |