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PicturesToExe V5.1
PicturesToExe Deluxe has a simple and intuitive interface that makes creating a slide show very easy. All you need to do is choose your images and add some music if you wish. The Slide show produces sharp, clear pictures and the smoothest playback of Pan/Zoom effects you have ever seen! You can place objects (images or text labels with drop shadow) on a slide and customize complex animations. Moreover, you can use a variety of cinematographic transition effects between slides, add background music and add sound and text comments to each slide. You can also precisely synchronize slides to music. VideoBuilder in PicturesToExe Deluxe allows you to quickly and easily burn DVD-Video discs from your slide shows. You can adjust DVD menus and customize many parameters of your DVD disc. You may also create AVI video files. If desired, you can protect your slide show with a password and also assign an expiration date. No additional programs (including PicturesToExe itself) are needed to run the resulting slide show because the program produces a stand-alone EXE file. The slide show will work under Windows XP, Vista, 95, 98, ME, 2000 or 2003. A DVD-Video disc created in PicturesToExe Deluxe can be played on any DVD player, on a PC or Mac, or on your DVD player attached to a television.
What's new in version 5.1
+ VideoBuilder:
> 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.
PicturesToExe is try-before-you-buy software. Unregistered versions of PicturesToExe have all functions available, but are limited to presentations with 10 slides or less. Web site
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