We released 7 new background add-ons for Slide Effect today!

• Abstract backgrounds (5): 88 animated abstract backgrounds
• Abstract backgrounds (6): 58 animated abstract backgrounds
• Christmas backgrounds (2): 5 animated abstract backgrounds
• Music backgrounds: 12 animated music backgrounds
• Nature backgrounds (2): 42 animated nature backgrounds
• Particles backgrounds: 49 animated particles backgrounds
• Wedding backgrounds (2): 12 animated wedding backgrounds

You can download all these packages from our Add-Ons page for free.

We released today the version 1.12.2 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

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

In details:

• Text 2D: Corrected a critical issue with empty texts.

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 1.12.1 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

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

In details:

• Movie Export: Corrected 2 critical bugs when exporting.
• Memory Usage: We only use max 500Mb of memory for player.

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 1.12.0 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

This release add some nice new features to Slide Effect:

New Text System!

The text system of Slide Effect has been entirely reworked. The characters will render perfectly even for very big texts.

It is not anymore necessary to import a font before using it: All fonts installed on your computer will be available for Slide Effect automatically (you can now even preview the font before using it directly in the font combo). It means there is not anymore any font limitation in the Trial and Standard edition.

The fonts are not limited to “latin” characters now, it supports Unicode. You can now type any text in any language (Chinese, Hebrew,…).

That’s not all: we added several new features on the text rendering system and it is now possible to outline the fonts, add advanced gradients and use bold or italic fonts! Create cool looking texts in a few clicks.

New “follow path” effect!

We added a new effect for every objects: “follow path”. Using this effect you can move any object where you want and following any trajectory. You can preview the animation directly in the interface.

And more to come!

This major upgrade is only the first one. We are actually already working on the next major upgrade that will introduce new effects, reworked background and transitions and a lot of new features. We are fully committed to Slide Effect and this next major upgrade should be delivered really soon (this Spring). Stay tuned.

Thanks for your continued support to Slide Effect, we appreciate.

Changes in details:

• Player: Better handling of JPG pictures using “.jpeg” instead of “.jpg” extension.
• Movie Import: Corrected an issue on some setup when importing movies (unable to get info from movie).
• Main editor: Objects outside of the slide are now visible.
• New Anim/Start/End effect: Follow path effect to move where you want objects.
• Powerpoint: Now check if Powerpoint is already running when trying to import/export..
• New Text System: Complete rewrite of the text system. Higher quality, not anymore needed to import fonts, outline, better gradient, etc…
• Preview Window: is now bigger.
• Font Combo: the font is now written using the target font.

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.

As the end of the year is near, we would like to thank all our customers and all our visitors for the continuous support these last years.

So, from today and until end of December, we started a massive Christmas Promotion.

In advance, we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2014!

We released today the version 1.11.2 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

This release contains some bug fixes, a better quality for movie and the possibility to change the volume of the presentation when running.

In details:

• Movies: Changed maximum dimension to 1024 instead of 512 pixels.
• Movies Export: Changed audio codec for MOV from AC3 to MP3.
• Movies Export: Optimized export of embedded movies: now export only the visible part of the embedded movie.
• Running Presentation: You can now set the volume and mute the sound of the running presentation.
• Movie Playing: Corrected an issue when playing movies inside a presentation on a 16 bits colors mode desktop resolution.
• Click Target on image: Removed, it was displayed by error on the previous version.
• Movie export: Corrected a small issue when exporting as movie and using looped movies as background.
• 2D Text edition: A vertical scrollbar is now displayed when the text id longer then the text box.
• Window Position: Now we check if the stored window position is visible, if not, we display it on the default position.

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 1.11.1 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

This release contains some bug fixes, and the possibility to change the opacity of movies.

In details:

• 3D Fonts: Corrected an issue when a 3D string was using unsupported characters on the beginning or the end of the string with some effects.
• Music synchronization on preview: Corrected an issue with the synchronization on some transition effects.
• Template creation: Corrected an issue when using unsupported characters in the name of the template.
• 3D Cube: Corrected a problem with cube color.
• Movie Filter: Corrected a problem “Black as Transparent”, “White as Transparent” and “Green as Transparent”.
• Advanced Movie Background: Corrected a speed problem when using more than one movie.
• Movie Object: Added opacity setting.
• Particles: Corrected an issue with particle effects when two backgrounds are the same.

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 1.11.0 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

This major release contains a lot of new features and bug fixes.

Main new features:

• Running presentation window: From now, you can control the presentation when it is showing (display the presentation on secondary screen and control it on the primary screen). You can browse or pause the presentation.
• New background mode: a new advanced background mode has been added. With this “Advanced Movie” background mode you can add several movies and pictures in different layers.
• Effect speed: You can now change the speed of any start/anim/end effects.
• Movie filter: Add a filter to a running movie to display it with style.
• New transitions: 2 new tranisiton effects added.
• News ticker: Display text like TV news tickers.
• Notes [PRO]: You can now add notes to the slides and display them when showing the presentation.
• Template creation [PRO]: Create your own template in one click using the Professional edition.

In details:

• Font Importer: Better handling if the computer has a faulty ttf file.
• User Interface: Properties tab is now displayed correctly when using something else than 100% for Windows display size.
• Images: Jpeg files with .jpeg extension is now accepted.
• Transitions: Corrected a problem with television transition.
• [PRO] Background template creation:Using Customizable background contextual menu, user can now create its own templates and categories.
• Object transition “on click”: Corrected a problem when setting an object as “on click” when it was already “on click”.
• Looped movie backgrounds: Foreground image is now correctly displayed.
• Movies: Added filter effects.
• Backgrounds: On most of the backgrounds (but not all), when two same background are used, the transition is seamless.
• [PRO] Notes: You can now add notes to slides.
• Running Presentation: A window now appear when running the presentation. You can navigate between slides, view notes, pause or fade presentation to black with it.
• Keyboard shortcut: New shortcuts: ‘P’ to pause presentation, ‘R’ to restart, ‘F’ to fade to black.
• New Background: Added “Advanced Movies” background mode.
• Slide Duplication: Corrected a problem on some transitions when duplicating slides.
• Effect on objects: You can now change speed of start/end/anim effects.
• Transitions: 2 new transitions (Page Zoom, Page Change).
• 2D Text animation effects: Added 2 new animation effects (news ticker (large) and news ticker (small)).
• Object selection: Better detection of object selection to avoid accidental moving/rotating.

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 1.10.4 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

This release contains a lot of bug fixes, and the possibility to change the duration (speed) of transitions.
In details:

• Keyboard: Removed a problem when pressing arrow keys when no object is selected.
• Background: Corrected a problem with background – Business/Cloudy Building (1).
• Background: Corrected a problem with background – Business/Cloudy Building (2).
• Background: Corrected a problem with background – Abstract/Black Hole.
• Background: Corrected a problem with background – Abstract/Blue Circles.
• Background: Corrected a problem with background – Abstract/Blue Circles Title.
• Powerpoint Import/Export: Better detection of Powerpoint installed.
• File/Exit menu: When exiting this way, the application was not correctly closed: it is fixed.
• Transitions: Duration of transitions is now customizable.
• Loading File from recent items menu: If a full directory of files was deleted/moved then, later, tried to opened via this menu a crash occured. It is fixed.
• Installer: On Windows 8 we don’t try to install .net 2, because it is automatically detected by the OS.
• Corrected a problem on 2D Text with particle effects: When end effect was started before start effect was over, sometimes “Memory Access Violation” message was displayed: it is fixed.
• 3D Cube: The “Edit Time Settings…” button for custom animation times is now correctly positioned.

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 1.10.3 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

This release contains a lot of speed and display optimizations, and 3 brand new transitions.

In details:

• Images: Optimized display of big images with 100% opacity.
• PPT Import: Corrected an issue with transitions on PPT imported presentations.
• Movie lossless export: Changed codec from “Raw video” to “uncompressed 10 bit 4:2:2”.
• Movie Export: Corrected a problem when movies are overwritten in read only mode.
• Effects: A button “…” was displayed in some cases, it is now fixed.
• Remove a slide: Corrected a problem with some transitions when removing a slide.
• Player: Removed some black artefact when using white background or images.
• Player: Changed the way we check memory available to be compatible with 64 bits machine with more than 4GB RAM.
• Player: Optimized display of transitions when running a very heavy presentation.
• Backgrounds: If an error occur when loading background template, we now ignore the faulty background instead of throwing an exception.
• Print Support: If no printer is available, the “Print” menu item is now disabled.
• Transitions: Added “Door” transition.
• Transitions: Added “Cube” transition.
• Transitions: Added “Change Page” transition.
• Transitions: Added “Next Page” transition.

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.