News

We released today the version 1.7.4 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few bug fixes. It fixes a big problem on 1.7.3 regarding transitions, so every user of 1.7.3 should update as soon as possible.

In details:

• 3D Texts: Corrected an issue when displaying 3D texts with spaces and start/end effect “Letter by letter”.
• Transitions: Due to a debug code released by error on 1.7.3, transitions were messed up on save. It is fixed, but you will have to set once again transitions on these presentations.
• Main Tab contextual menus: Copy/Cut/Paste menu items are now correctly displayed when clicking on 3D texts and 3D cubes.
• Copy/Paste objects: Cleaned up copy/paste objects: works better now.
• Click Order: Corrected a problem when duplicating objects with click orders in it.

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

It is a maintenance release, but contains some nice enhancements. In details:

Object Apparition on click!

It is now possible to choose between a delay and a click for displaying objects. You can change the order of apparition using the “Order” combo box.
On the main tab, you will see the order number on the top left of each “On Click” objects.

3D Cube face switch on click!

It is now possible to switch faces of the 3D cube on user click. Just choose one of the three following “Animation Effects”:

• Standard (1) – On Click
• Standard (2) – On Click
• Standard (3) – On Click

Bug fixes

Other than these new features, there are a few bug fixes in this new version. Here follows the details:

• Translations: Some texts were displayed in English even when the interface was in another language: it is fixed.
• Water effect: Reduced a little bit the wave speed and amplitude.
• Advanced Particles Effect: Changed display of “Random Speeds” with 3 decimals.
• Image handling: Changed the way we handle image internally to avoid errors of type “The process cannot access the file XXX because it is being used by another process.”.
• Transitions: Changed some details to make some transitions smoother (there was 1 pixel offsets on several).
• New Click Object Display Mode: Objects can now appear after a delay or depending on user click
• “Gang of three” font: Removed a problem that could lead to a “memory access violation” problem.
• Movie Importation: *.mpg, *.mpeg and *.mp4 are now accepted.
• Bug Report: Re-added user email in sent report.
• Powerpoint Import: Corrected a bug when importing from powerpoint: some transitions were not correctly created.
• Export to movie: Sometimes end of sound was cropped, it is now fixed.
• 3D Cube: 3 new animation effects where you can change side on mouse click.
• 3D Cube: Image size and aspect is handled in a better way.

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.

It is a background package week! We just released two new free background packages:

	Business Presentation Backgrounds to create professional business presentations.
	Grunge Presentation Backgrounds to create dirty and rusty original presentations.

These packages are available for free on Add-Ons page for every users of Slide Effect Standard and Professional edition.

We just released two new presentation background packages:

Wedding Presentation Backgrounds to create nice presentations for this unique day (I hope so) in your life.

Christmas Presentation Backgrounds to create Christmas presentations and slideshows (Yeah, I know we are in July… but it was refreshing to work on snow flakes and Christmas trees as I don’t have air conditioning in my office).

These packages are available for free for every users of Slide Effect Standard and Professional edition.

We announce the opening of PresentationGallery.net a website dedicated to be a showroom for the presentations made with Slide Effect Presentation Software.

On this new website, you will find an ever growing choice of presentations classified into several categories (Business, Musical, Leisure, …).

You can watch each presentation directly on the site or download the standalone package (.exe) and even download the project file (.sef) if you want to use it as a basis for your next slide show.

Obviously, you can submit your own presentation using the dedicated page. This process is actually not yet fully automatized, so a delay can occur between the submission and the online availability.

Feel free to send me any feedback on this website.

We released today the version 1.7.2 of Slide Effect Presentation Software (Professional and Standard Editions).

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

In details:

• Movies: Corrected an issue when playing a video with no transition and a small delay: sometimes they were not playing. It is now fixed.
• Images: When opening very old presentations made with Slide Effect 1.4.2 and older, sometimes image were not displayed. It is fixed.
• Bug Report: Re-added user comment in sent report.
• Texts: Fixed a problem when using background particles effects in the same time as text particles effects.

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 1.7.1 of Slide Effect (Professional and Standard Editions).

It is a maintenance release with just a few bug fixes and a new mechanism to recover from corrupted project files.

In details:

• Solar System Background: Corrected a small issue with the lens flare on some transitions.
• 3D Texts and 3D cubes: Corrected a small graphical glitch when exporting as a movie with some transitions.
• File Saving: A .bak file is now created with the previous version of the project file.
• File Saving: If an error occurs during save, the file is not anymore corrupted, but not saved.
• File Loading: If the file is corrupted, a popup asks if user want to restore a backup.
• File Loading: Project is not flagged as modified anymore when you load it and only view the different slides.
• Bug Report: Added new information (dump of file, dump of tmp dir).

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 1.7.0 of Slide Effect (Professional and Standard Editions).

Here follows a quick list of the main changes in this version.

User interface changes

The user interface of Slide Effect has been completely reworked and is now available in 3 different themes (plus the old look for nostalgic people). Use Tools/Options menu to choose your preferred color scheme. The interface is also available now in 4 languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish.. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need another language and if you have some free time, we will be happy to provide you the tools to translate the interface into your language. The correct idiom should be automatically set, but if you want to set it manually, just go to Tools/Options and switch the language combo box from Automatic to the language you want to use.

New effects for images, 3D texts and 3D cubes

We redesigned many existing effects and we added a lot of new Start/End and Animation effects for images, movies, 3D texts and 3D cubes.

Images and movies can now be displayed and animated using a lot of new amazing effects.

3D texts now supports upper and lower cases as well as specific languages characters. We added also a choice of 20 materials to change the apparency of the letters.

3D texts and 3D cubes can now be completely positioned along the 3 axis (XYZ). This way you will be able to create fully stunning 3D effects.

Final word

Many other small enhancements have been added (Danish characters support, fullscreen preview, outline for movies, …). Check the “history” page of the bundled help for a complete list.

We really hope you will appreciate these new enhancements to Slide Effect. Don’t hesitate to send us feedback if you have feature ideas or any suggestion.

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 are happy to announce we just released the version 1.6.0 of Slide Effect Presentation Creator.

The biggest news of this new version is the availability of the awaited Professional Edition! But this version adds a lot of new features to the standard edition too. Here follows the details of the new version:

Professional Edition and Standard Edition

Slide Effect is now available in two different editions. The standard edition is the existing Slide Effect, and professional edition is dedicated to users who wants more! The two main exclusive features of the Professional edition are: Read and write Powerpoint™ files: using the Professional edition, you will be able to import and export Powerpoint files (ppt & pptx) to Slide Effect. Use your own fonts: the Professional edition comes with a font importer tool. This way you will be able to use your preferred fonts on your presentations. Check the upgrade page if you want to know more about this Professional edition, you may also compare the features of each editions.

Wide Screen Format

Presentations can now be created in wide screen format. By default the presentation will automatically adapt to the screen format you are using, but you can also choose explicitly either 4/3, 16/9, 16/10 or even a custom ratio using the project settings. This way, presentations will run completely fullscreen on each and every available screens and devices. Note: Old presentations will be set to old standard 4/3 by default.

New Text Effects

Text effects have been reworked: 8 new start/end effects and 6 new animation effects have been added. Check it on the following movie:

Unlimited Undo and Redo

Undo(s) and Redo is now available in the interface. Shortcuts are standard (Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Y). Redo is limited to one level, but you can Undo as many steps as you want.

Final Word

As usual, trial and full version 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 are already working on features for the next (Standard and Professional) version : Thanks to all our customers for their trust and their support: 2010 will be a great year for Slide Effect.

We have released a new background package for Slide Effect Presentation Creator: MotionKit Background Package.

This package is available for FREE for every users of Slide Effect Full Version. It contains not less than 25 new background effects.

Thanks to MotionKit.com – Fresh HD Stock Footage & Motion Graphics for this package. Don’t hesitate to check their website if you are looking for professional and spectacular background movies.

Click here for more information and to download the package