September 13th, 2011Video Clips in Slideshows:
· Put video files onto slides and apply any effects (3D effects, Masks, Pan/Zoom/Rotate, Shadow, etc). Playback in real time. PicturesToExe has built-in convertor for video files with ability to resize or crop video clips.
Unsharp Mask for Sharp Picture:
· This feature dramatically increases sharpness of picture. PicturesToExe adds unsharp mask for entire screen in real-time, even for slides with animation.
Improved Quality of Picture on DVD:
· Now PicturesToExe is the only one software which provides the best quality of picture with more details on DVD. We use smart image processing to deliver best quality.
Improved User Interface:
· Slide list displays times of slides and durations of transition effects. Updated view of the main window of the program.
New Navigation Bar in Slideshows:
· With a slider control for rewinding and sound volume control.
Recording of Voice Comments:
· You can easily record sound or voice comments to slides right in PicturesToExe.
August 4th, 2010Audio Editing and Manipulations:
· Crossfading between audio clips. Multi-tracks and simultaneous playback. Tools for editing of an audio clip (start time, duration, fade in, fade out, time offset, etc). Envelope Tool for an audio clip.
Animated GIF Support:
· In addition to animated GIFs, professionals can use manually animated PNG/JPEG images specially processed in a graphical editor.
New Features in the Objects and Animation Editor:
· Better usability, special improvements for editing of 3D objects. Reworked a tree of objects with icons. Automatic naming of new objects.
Video Output for iPad and iPhone 4:
· Watch slideshow in HD quality on mobile device.
1080p for YouTube Output:
· FullHD quality for your slideshows now.
Improvements in Slides:
· A new feature "Insert blank slide". Name of slides displayed in the Slide list. Improved "Go to Slide..." of objects which can use a name of a slide in addition to a slide number. "Show Next/Previous slide" buttons in Slide properties window.
November 9th, 2009· 3D effects for Images and Text. You
· Multidisplay support.
· Built-in editor to create masks directly in PicturesToExe for special effects.
· A lot of small important improvements which makes PicturesToExe the best photo slideshow software
January 22nd, 2009· Added export of slideshow as a video. (See Main menu -> Create)
· Export of HD video for playback on PC, Mac.
· Export of video for iPhone/iPod.
· Publish online on Youtube.
· Publish online on Vimeo with HD quality.
New 3D transition effects between slides:
· Added "Flip 3D" effect.
· Added "Swap 3D" effect.
· Reworked "Curling of page 3D" effect. Set large radius parameter to get completely new effects.
Improvements in Objects and Animation window:
· Mask objects for creating of special effects. You can apply several Masks to one image object.
· Music and sounds when you click "Play" button for preview.
· Added "Anti-shimmering (mipmapping)" option for Image and Text objects. This option prevents appearing of shimmering when object has zoom from small size to large size.
· Improved view of "Action on mouse click" list.
· Added new action "Run slideshow".
· Added "Pause" button.
· "Original size" mode of objects has been replaced. Now use "Fixed size of slide (in pixels)" mode in Project options | Screen tab. And "Size/position in pixels" button in Common tab of object properties.
· Added "Virtual size of slide" parameters as alternate way to set aspect ratio of slide (Project options | Screen tab). It helps in work with "Size/Position" tool window in "Object and animation" editor.
· Added new commands "Run Slideshow" and "Run Slideshow with Return" to Project options | "More" tab and as an action for objects. This option highly recommended if you want to start another slideshow from current one and for building of menu. It will guarantee flawless start of next slideshow from current one. In fact a series of slideshows will work as one large slideshow that provides optimal memory usage.
· Added "Color outside slide area" option (Project options | Screen tab). By default if you run widescreen slideshow (16:9) on 4:3 display you see black strips around the slide. Now you can choose this color.
· Added menu on Create button.
· Faster rewinding of slides in created EXE file and preview.
· Added "Crypt images/music against extracting from EXE file" option. See Main menu | View | Advanced options. (Enabled by default).
· Improved installer of PicturesToExe, multi-lingual interface.
· Fully rewritten shadow for objects. Now it has correct view for a long text object. And better visual quality.
· Changed caption of "Change Image File" button in the main window.
· Added a new command line for a slideshow in windowed mode: -desktopalign (for example: "Show1.exe -desktopalign"). With this parameter if size of a window larger than main display it will not be reduced to fit the main display. This command useful if you wish to place a window on all space of two or more displays.
· Improved view of keypoints on the timeline in the main window.
· Improved scrolling of the timeline when you move blue triangle cursor outside visible area.
· After switching between Slides list and Timeline modes the program adjusts scrollbar position to make visible selected slide.
· Various improvements.
· "Run application" options has moved to the last page of Project options (More tab).
· "Disable F1 key to show help window" has moved to "Customize help window" dialog (Main menu | Project).
· Fixed old bug (since v5.5) when after renaming of a main image in Slide list or File panel MiniPlayer didn't display renamed image.
· Fixed old bug (since v5.1) when changing of display resolution, locking of PC or Sleep mode applied during encoding of video caused visual defects in created video file.
· Fixed old bug (since v5.5) when all color text objects (excluding black and white) had slight almost invisible greenish contour.
· * Fixed old bug of all previous versions: pressing Ctrl+O (Open project), "Ctrl+N", "Ctrl+S" and other key shortcuts whilst PicturesToExe creates large EXE file it caused incorrect work of the program.
· * Fixed old bug (since v5.5) when "Image Load Error" might occur in Slide list, MiniPlayer and Objects and animation editor on projects with hundreds slides of large images (about 8 megapixels each one).
· * Fixed old bug (since v5.0) Push effect had mixed up "Bottom-Top" and "Top-Bottom" variations with disabled hardware acceleration option.
· * Fixed old bug (since v5.0) with an incorrect work of "Save image/slide" dialog in slideshows (if it was configured through "Print image" option).
· * Fixed old bug (since v5.5) with sticking of picture in MiniPlayer after closing Objects and Animation editor on some NVIDIA video cards (the most likely the problem in those video cards).
November 27th, 2008· Added "Run Slideshow with Return" command for making of menus.
· Added "Pause" button to "Object and animation" editor.
· Added "Crypt images/music against extracting from EXE file" option. See Main menu | View | Advanced options. (Enabled by default). This option was added to Beta 7. Since Beta 9 you can turn it off if you wish.
· Various small improvements.
· Fixed small bugs with "Run Slideshow" command.
· Fixed crashing of the program at 99% of creating of H.264 video. (It was announced for the previous Beta 8 but the problem still existed.)
· Fixed bug of previous betas when error message "Resource avi_apravs not found" could appear.
June 10th, 2008· Pan/Zoom effects in real-time with highest quality. Sharp picture and smooth animation.
· Timeline is integrated to the main window now.
· Slide list displays pictures of real slides.
· Preview displays real slide at top-right part of the main window.
· Added mini-player to the main window. You can quickly play your slideshow in this small preview window.
· Added Grid (Ctrl G) to "Objects and animation" editor.
· Improved reliability of VideoBuilder.
June 3rd, 2008· Timeline is integrated to the main window now.
· Pressing "Timeline" button switches between Slide list and Timeline.
· You can drop new slides to Timeline from File list.
· Parameters of the timeline mode are located in Main menu | View | Timeline Options.
· Waveform now displays mixed left/right channels. But you can turn on independent view of left/right channels waveforms. See timeline options in Main menu.
· "Autospread slides along music" option moved to Project options | Main tab.
· Faster work of the timeline on very long slideshows (one hour and longer).
· You can adjust end of a slideshow on the timeline (dragging vertical green line after last slide).
· Added "Set End of Last Slide at End of Music" command to "Timed points" menu in Timeline view.
· Slide list displays pictures of real slides. (See Main menu | View | Advanced Options | "Show real slides in Slide list" option)
· Preview displays real slide at top-right part of the main window. (See Main menu | View | Advanced Options | "Show real slide in mini-player" option)
Added mini-player to the main window:
· You can quickly play your slideshow in this small preview window (press Play/Stop button)
· Quick access to any part of a slideshow.
· Left mouse click for Play/Pause.
· Right mouse click for fullscreen preview in both states: when paused and when it plays.
· Main window now displays duration of a slideshow (in minutes and seconds).
Other improvements in the main window:
· Picture/Sound/Comment fields are moved to the top part of the window.
· Reworked pictures of a folder, improved view of a selected slide.
· Reworked view of a drag'n'drop cursor in Slide list.
· Other small improvements.
Improvements in Objects and Animation window:
· Added Grid (Ctrl G) to "Objects and animation" editor. You can adjust parameters of the grid and enable "Snap To Grid" option.
· Added "Cut" button to the top toolbar.
· Reworked view of Delete, Undo, Redo, Copy, Paste buttons.
· New version includes official User Guide in PDF format.
· New Welcome screen (when you first time starts PicturesToExe).
· Added "Auto Save Project every ... minutes" option. Visual improvements in Music tab of Project options.
· Added support of media keys on a keyboard: Play/Pause, Stop, Next/Preview slide
· Displaying of pixel size of main image has been moved to status bar.
· Added Farsi language.
· Fixed problem with black screen on encoding of DVD-Video disc or AVI file on some PC/laptops with Intel integrated video cards.
· Fixed crashes of PicturesToExe (main program only) and VideoBuilder under Windows Vista with DEP protection (NX-bit) option enabled for all applications.
· Improved burning of DVD-Video discs. Previously discs couldn't be burned on some PCs with previous versions.
December 18th, 2007· Encoding of DVD-Video disc (and AVI) works in 2-4 times faster now due to optimization for dual-core CPUs and using of hardware acceleration for video post-processing (if modern video card installed). Exactly same video quality as in previous version.
· You can choose a number of items per page in DVD menu.
· MPEG2 files can be added to a project. For example, you can encode your slideshow(s) to MPEG2 video file(s) and then use it again in new projects without re-encoding of it again.
· Music for DVD menu (with "Fade in" and "Fade out" parameters).
· Color adjusting of DVD menu (Hue, Saturation and Lightness). It allows very quickly modify a view of DVD menu and find your own individual style.
· Adjusting of a background image parameters (Tile, Stretch, Fit)
· Support of all kinds of AVI files imported to a project (including AVS video file scripts).
· A new tab in the Project options window - "Program" (customizing of priority mode for encoding and temp folder).
· More exact calculation of required disc space.
· "Wait for a key press to show next slide" option in Project options available again. You can overwrite global value in a properties of a slide.
· Adjusting of colors for Text/Button objects in hover and pressed states activated again.
· PicturesToExe starts much faster now.
· Timeline window remembers current position of a cursor and selected keypoint when you switch between Timeline window and main window of PicturesToExe.
· Added support of multi-line default text comment for all slides (Project options | Comments tab).
· Visual improvements in Music tab of Project options and Customize slide windows. You can visually re-arrange files in the playlist.
· Slide list shows a hint what to do, when no slides added.
· Added "Offset" parameter to "Advanced hour hand" effect in properties of a slide.
· Small improvements in Create AVI file window (it displays filename of created AVI and browse button to open folder with AVI).
· Fixed bug with too large controls in Drop shadow dialog when 120 dpi graphics mode used.
· Fixed bug of previous versions when you couldn't create AVI file and "catCantCreateFile" error message occured. It happened when name of project contained a dot symbol ("Project 1.1" for example).
· Fixed bug of previous versions with renaming of image filename in Slide list if there are two or more slides with same image file.
· Fixed bug of previous versions when mouse wheel didn't work in Open/Save dialogs.
· Fixed bug of previous versions when "Load last used project" option in fact always was enabled.
July 19th, 2007· Creating of ISO image of DVD disc in VideoBuilder works much faster now.
· Fixed bug under old Windows 95/98/Me in the slideshow engine. When Help window, or startup screen adjusted without an image appeared, slideshow crashed.
· Fixed bug when startup screen with an image could be larger than current screen resolution (for example, if you used huge 3500x2200 image).
June 23rd, 2007· Fixed bug with incorrect size of shadow for JPEG images in slide show when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled.
· Fixed bug when Distance of shadow for a button object changes according length of caption.
· Fixed bug with earlier appearing of a next slide where set "Quick transition" when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled.
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