DVD PIXPLAY CREATES SLIDESHOWS AND BURNS DVD/CD DISCS.Xequte Wellington, NZ, has released DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. PixPlay version 2.0, their popular Image Slideshow Creation Software for Windows. DVD PixPlay is an inexpensive and easy-to-use solution for digital camera users to share their digital photos and videos with friends and family, through the use of image slideshow discs that can be played back on a TV using a DVD player A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. . Slideshow discs created with the software function like a standard DVD making them particularly suitable for friends and family who do not own a computer or have only rudimentary rudimentary /ru·di·men·ta·ry/ (roo?di-men´tah-re) 1. imperfectly developed. 2. vestigial. ru·di·men·ta·ry adj. 1. skills in their use. Version 2.0 is a significant upgrade, delivering over one hundred changes and improvements, with particular focus on enhancing the output quality and speed, improving the user interface and adding new export options. To meet the requirements of users creating discs primarily for computer playback Playback could mean:
Another new export options allows outputting to AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. formats, including DivX, XviD, Cinepak, and Intel Indeo. The quality of created slideshows is also greatly enhanced with an optimized video generation library and the outputting of transition effects at the maximum possible frame rate. Many improvements have been made to the user interface, including XP styles throughout the software, a new start up dialog that provides quick access to common functions, and many new usage tips that pop up to offer advice relevant to the current task. Users will find the designing of their slideshow to be more streamlined with the updated release. A new project creation wizard quickly guides them through all the initial steps of creating a slideshow, and offers over thirty pre-built templates (such as birthday or seasonal styles). Other editing enhancements include pasting paste 1 n. 1. A soft, smooth, thick mixture or material, as: a. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth. of images directly from the clipboard A reserved section of memory that is used as a temporary holding area for data that is copied or moved from one application to another using the copy and paste and cut and paste (move) menu options. Each time you transfer something into the clipboard, the previous contents are deleted. , dragging of music files from Windows Explorer See Explorer. to add them to a project, automatic sorting of images and preview of transitions as they are selected. To improve the styling of slideshows over 130 new image transitions effects have been added, and the slideshow can be faded in and out when commencing and ending. A powerful new option allows users to automatically stretch their slideshow display to match the length of the background music. Other improvements include gradient gradient In mathematics, a differential operator applied to a three-dimensional vector-valued function to yield a vector whose three components are the partial derivatives of the function with respect to its three variables. The symbol for gradient is ∇. backgrounds for title frames, native support for raw image files from digital cameras (Canon, Casio, Kodak, Nikon, etc.) and much faster output due to improved caching, encoding See encode. and other optimizations. DVD PixPlay is priced at $29.50(US) and can be purchased from http://www.xequte.com/order. About Xequte Software Founded in 1998, Xequte Software focuses on the creation of image and multimedia management and viewing solutions for Windows. Their leading products, Smart Pix Manager, MailList King and DVD PixPlay have received numerous top reviews and are some of the more popular products within their market space. Xequte has also developed custom solutions for such companies as Shutterfly, Ofoto and Amazon. For more information, visit http://www.xequte.com. |
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