AquaSoft SlideShow - Release Notes

Key

  • # - ID No. inside our  bug tracker
  • WLG - wish list item (basic features)
  • WLT - wish list item (technical)
  • Ultimate - applies to Gilt SlideShow Ultimate only
  • Premium - applies to SlideShow Premium only

Version 7.6.xx (month dd, yyyy)

Improvements



Bugfixes

  • aaa - (#4587)

Version 7.6.04 (May 5, 2011)

Improvements

  • YouTube Wizard
    • Additional choices fro HD (720p and Full HD at 1080p)
    • adjustable bitrate and video paramenters
    • improved video quality at lower bitrates, due to VC-1 support
  • SlideShow-Master has improved Ken Burns Templates (both slow and fast)
  • minor terminology changes (i.e, panels instead of controls)
  • Error reports now have a more suggestive title
  • AVI encoding with DVIX and MP3 (via Lame) needs less memory

Bugfixes

  • segmentation fault error in the Layout Designer after switching from timeline to storyboard
  • thumbnails are not shown right away after an image is added - (#4642, #4661, #4691)
  • Starships template didn't work inside SlideShow-Master
  • segmentation fault error when adding an empty text object with animation - (#4624)
  • Barbeque plug-in did not work
  • DVD Wizard didn't show from within SlideShow-Master
  • toolbox panel did not preserve collapsed state for Decorations - (#4711)
  • text field shows old value, despite internal value update - (#4607)
  • timeline sometimes shows a black bar next to the vertical scrollbar - (#4663)
  • amplitude shape for background music is not updated if inserted with a relative file path - (#3773)
  • sometimes menu commands don't work unless timeline or Layout Designer is clicked - (#4630)
  • segmentation fault error if an object is searched that has previously been removed from the timeline - (#4616)
  • sound rubberband exceeds the sound object box boundary - (#4662)
  • WMV video encoding sometimes does not work if a default profile is selected after a user-defined profile was previously selected - (#4166)
  • deadlock when previewing inside Layout Designer, then pause, then playing in full screen - (#4700)
  •  search results dialog inside player storyboard doesn't render correctly
  • hint window for camera pans appeared on the wrong spot on systems with two monitors - (#4701)
  • preview buttons inside the Layout Designer panel are not drawn correctly - (#4702)

Version 7.6.03 (April 14, 2011)

Improvements

  • Smaller memory footprint when encoding video streams
  • Increased time stamp accuracy during encoding (improves for video / audio synchronization)
  • Improved compatibility with external video codecs - (#4640)
  • Errors occurring while encoding are now shown when processing is completed
  • Improved performance when pasting large SlideShow parts via the clipboard

Version 7.6.02 (April 2, 2011)

Improvements

  • Standalone player no longer loads thumbnails during play (smoother)
  • Improved overall performance and stability
  • Timeline
    • Various optimizations to improve performance
    • Consistent drag and drop support
    • Optimized automatic scrolling during drag and drop operations
  • Layout

Version 7.6.01 (March 29, 2011)

Improvements

  • Improved overall performance and stability
  • Timeline
    • Various optimizations to improve performance
    • Consistent drag and drop support
    • Optimized automatic scrolling during drag and drop operations
  • Layout Designer
    • Improved performance
    • Scrollbars no longer flicker when zoom level is changed
    • Optimized automatic scrolling during drag and drop operations
  • Video Export
    • Video encoding is now faster
    • Increased accuracy for time estimates when creating videos
    • Reduced memory footprint when creating videos
    • Increased compatibility with various AVI codecs
  • Undo
    • Undo function is now supported in a lot more places throughout SlideShow
    • Increased accuracy for time estimates when creating videos
  • Product Update
    • Checking for new versions can now done manually (via Help > Search for Update)
    • Updates can now be downloaded and installed from within SlideShow.
  • User Interface
    • Slideshow objects (i.e. chapters, collages) are now better synchronized between the different views (timeline, storyboard and image list):
      • Selections of objects are shown the same way in all views
      • Expand / Collapse state of control elements (i.e. chapters) is shown consistent throughout the different view
      • Expand / Collapse state is retained when slideshow is saved (*.ADS file)
    • Toolbox: font size is reduced if template titles are too long
    • Improved input fields for numbers
    • Focus moves automatically to the next image when the current image is deleted
    • Reduced flickering when changing panels inside the SlideShow program settings dialog
  • DVD/CD Writing
    • Warning message instead of error when eject fails
    • Writer dialog now shows devices with SPTD and SPTI (#3166)
  • CD/DVD Wizard: Improved help messages on false data entry
    • CD/DVD Wizard: fonts used inside a slideshow can be archived along with other files (#4384)
  • Welcome dialog: indicates the screen ratio  on mouse over when creating a new empty show
  • Text animation: a value of '9999' in the field 'Characters simultaneously' now applies the effect to all characters, allowing for smoothly scrolled text.
  • Cropped images (via image editor) are shown consistently
  • YouTube Wizzard supports extended YouTub runtime limitation (15 instead of 10 minutes)
  • Setup no longer fails if installation files are manually deleted
  • SlideShow-Manager
    • Improved performance (User Interface and video encoding), especially when multiplexing and editing menues
    • Increased accuracy for time estimates when creating outputs
    • Improved application stability
    • Reduced memory footprint when creating videos
    • Error logging and sending bug reports available via menu 'Help'
    • When saving effects, all file paths are updated to make sure they can be used globally

Bugfixes

  • various segmentation fault errors fixed throughout the application
  • Sound volume  was ignored when 'Fade sounds too' was checked in the slideshow settings (located in panel 'Music Settings')
  • Due to computation issues, transparency markers (inside Object Settings > Transparency) were sometimes shown outside of the visual aera (#4563)
  • Duration of the slideshow and the generated video differs slightly (#4560)
  • Sound preview: Pause button is always pressed. However, after the sound played, it doesn't display as stopped
  • Toolbox: Context menu 'Archive Template' was not visible in custom objects
  • possible exception error after a 'device lost' if slideshow contains any video clips
  • User-defined video creation: MPEG1 (als multiplexer) (#4563) and MPEG (#3993) could not be selected
  • Height of timeline tracks was dependent on the screen resolution
  • Exception error when switching views via Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F4
  • segmentation fault errors when deleting custom text effects (#4126)
  • font is not refreshed if selected with keyboard arrows instead of mouse clicks (#4173)
  • Toolbox templates with an underscore "_" in the file name are not shown
  • Undu function requires too much memory
  • Player:
    • In some circumstances, sounds are not played in its correct length (#4136)
    • Sound that was turned off gets turned on again when the slideshow starts looping (#4144)
    • Camera panning with zooming result in blur if aspect ration is set to 'distort'
    • Player requires hardware-assisted texture compression, despite the fact that this feature is not supported by the present graphic card (#4087)
  • CD/DVD Wizard:
    • 'Open folder' is shown even if there isn't a folder available
    •  data entries that are irrelevant for a given configuration are sometimes checked for plausibility, which may stall the wizard
  • Order of tabs in image settings (inside Object settings) is sometimes messed up (#4480)
  • IPod-Video Wizard: segmentation fault error after video is created (#4464)
  • PSP Wizard:
    • Graphics doesn't fit in the PSP player window (#4477)
    • Division by 0 if the slideshow is actually empty (#4473)
  • SlideShow-Manager:
    • Various corrections in the User Interface (#4532, #4513)
    • Hangs in some situations ((multiplexing)
    • Improved stability

Prior Versions


To see detailed release notes about 7.x versions prior to 7.6, please visit the German page Versionsgeschichte.

To see what's new in version 7 compared to SlideShow 6.x, please visit the page What's new in SlideShow 7.