We released today the version 1.9.7 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes. The only noticeable addition is the complete translation in German (Interface and online help).

Thanks to Lokaldo guys for their work.

In details:

• Lossless movie export: Colors were not correct.
• Merge Presentations: Each steps of the merge is not stored into the undo manager, this way it is faster and uses less memory.
• Undo manager: Undos have been limited to 10 steps.
• Languages: German Translation added.
• Samples: Added 2 more sample.

Trial, Standard and Pro editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page). Existing users who want to upgrade to the Professional edition can check the upgrade page.

We released today the version 1.9.6 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes. It fixes mainly a problem when creating a very long movie with sound.

In details:

• Delay and duration for objects: Not anymore limited to 100[s].
• [PRO] PPT Import: Corrected a problem that may hang the application when a string contains only one character.
• [PRO] PPT Import: The ratio of the presentation is not anymore automatically changed to 4:3 after importation: It is fixed according to the PPT presentation
• Movie Export: Corrected a problem with the exported sound: an error was displayed in some rare situations. Fixed.
• Movie Export: Sound export now uses a lot less memory. Should not anymore crash on low end computers when creating large presentations.
• Self Executable Export: Did not add the music libraries in some cases. Fixed.
• Basic Backgrounds: Background image is correctly displayed when set to "stretch" on non 4:3 formats.
• Movie Export: When having movie and background sound in the same time, the global volume is set to 75% instead of 50% previously.

Trial, Standard and Pro editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page). Existing users who want to upgrade to the Professional edition can check the upgrade page.

We released today the version 1.9.5 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

• Particles backgrounds: Fixed a problem when opening "Advanced settings" dialog when pictures have been selected but disabled and the tmp directory has been flushed.
• Video Export: Looped movies were not looped when exporting as movies: it is now fixed.
• Video Export: Looped backgrounds may leads to a "Memory Access Violation": it is now fixed.

Trial, Standard and Pro editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page). Existing users who want to upgrade to the Professional edition can check the upgrade page.

We released today the version 1.9.4 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

• Video Import: Fixed a problem on slow computers when importing a movie (the dimension of the movie was not correctly calculated).
• Equalizer Background: Added a setting to change the amplitude of the equalizer.
• Equalizer Background: Changed display of equalizer to be more accurate.
• Video Export: Inner videos rendering is better now.
• Video Export: Corrected a problem of aspect ratio with some aspect ratio and some resolutions that may hang the application.
• Video Export: Corrected a problem with lossless movies.

Trial, Standard and Pro editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page). Existing users who want to upgrade to the Professional edition can check the upgrade page.

We released today the version 1.9.3 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few small bug fixes.

In details:

• Video Background: Distorsions on High quality movie export has been fixed.
• Video Objects: Fixed a problem when importing a movie with double extension, like "myvideo.avi.avi".
• Export Video: Added a "Customize" button to help customize presets.
• Export Video: The "next" button is not anymore disabled until user choose a filename. Instead, it is enabled and display a popup if the filename is not set.
• Export Video: In case of error, the standard error dialog is now displayed (with a possibility to send a feedback to developers).

Trial, Standard and Pro editions have been updated and are available for all registered customers (using "Product Updates" page). Existing users who want to upgrade to the Professional edition can check the upgrade page.