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PicturesToExe Deluxe Version 5.6 The User`s Guide

1. 13 m After that you can choose background image and customize it When clicking on the folder beside this option the window will appear and you may select the image from your computer When clicking on the Customize button the next window will be opened Here you can select the location of the background tiled centered and so on The examples are given in the figure beside You may also choose background color but you should remember that you will see it only if the image doesn t occupy the whole screen Background property Background color La Ce m Next you can customize Animated Menu and Menu Duration The default duration of the menu is 10 seconds but you may set the time you wish with the help of small blue arrows beside m The last point here is adding music If you want music with your menu you should check the box and the option will be highlighted Clicking on the folder you may choose the sound track from your computer and then customize it Above the preview window you can see the arrows of different form The first two mean Previous and Next Page dl Ib They are greyed out in our example as we have only one project If you have more than one project in this case you will have more than one page and the suitable buttons will appear on the menu The next two buttons Redo Undo give you an opportunity to make some changes if you want to correct something in you
2. If you want to make some actions on the chosen slide in the slide list you should right click on this slide and the following box will appear You can Copy Paste Remove the slide or Clear the Slide List m With the help of the next three buttons you can change the order of images in the slide list You can Move the selected image to Top or End you may Copy Slide Cbr Remove Slide From Slide List Del Clear Slide List Move to Top Ctri Home choose Random Order of images dc to al rio Option Rename allows you to rename the image andom Order and give it another name or title Open Bernie l E Start Preview from the Current Slide means that iria Ctrl u you can see the slide show not from the beginning Objects and Animation ctrl E but from the slide you choose It s convenient if you Rubateiclodudee tlaediaed Ctrl F want to see some effects or a transition from one Rotate counterclockwise lossless F slide to another and you don t have to wait till that very slide It s necessary to note that this menu has the same options as some of the drop menu and Rename Fe control buttons It s just more convenient and quick to use this box while working at the slide show because all necessary options and functions are gathered together Start Preview Fram the current slide Ctri R 26 The Control Buttons With the help of the window The Control Buttons you can perform different actions and create the slide sho
3. Y You can select Fade in out Hour hand Circle Rhombus Rectangle Gates Page Effect Advanced hour hand Mosaic Push Effect Slide Effect Curling of Page Flip 3D To see how these transitions work just click on them and have a look You can also adjust the thickness of smoothing line and Effect duration which is the time of continuance of this effect by using up and down arrows for setting the time 30 Music Tab If you want to add music to the slide you should use Music Tab Customize Slide 1 Use customized settings for this slide Background music for show Play new background music file s at Remove Clear 4 Symphony No 9 Scherzo wma To add personal music for this slide you should turn off Synchronize music and slides option See Project options Main tab Note Current music will be stopped if playlist is empty Note that the sound file you choose will be added only to an individual slide If you want to add music to the whole slide show you should use Project Options Music Tab where you adjust not a single slide but all the slides in the slide show You should remember that if you add music file in this way the music will be stopped after the slide is shown Here you can also Add several music files choose among them Remove them and Clear the playlist 31 Objects and Animation Main Window In addition to the customized settings
4. Modified EXE 29 5 MB 3198KB P 1280 x853 X Images IMG_5590 bmp Hold time points The first word Modified means that there were some changes made in your project If you save these changes this word will disappear The next box shows the file size of the main image of the current slide In the third box you can see an approximate size of your exe file after creating it Further you can see the size of the image which is in the preview window and the directory where the selected image is situated There is one more point in the status bar which is also very important Hold Time Points The default is that this option is unchecked here The meaning of it is that if you add new images to the slide list the other images are moved to give space for the new image on a certain number of seconds which you have set for showing each slide But if the option Hold Time Points is checked the images will not be moved and the slide will be added without adding the space for it 21 Customize Slide If you click on the button Customize Slide in the preview window the following dialog box where you can see three tabs Main Effect and Music Tab will appear Timing Options Timing Background and Advanced Options are found in the Main Tab Timing includes the following features Display slide for sec here you can put the number of seconds and milliseconds and this image will be displayed for a desired period o
5. 83 ISO Image iso is a disc image of an ISO 9660 file system ISO 9660 is an international standard originally devised for storing data on CD ROM More loosely it refers to any optical disc image As is typical for disc images in addition to the data files that are contained in the ISO image it also contains all the filesystem metadata including boot code structures and attributes All of this information is contained in a single file These properties make it an attractive alternative to physical media or the distribution of software that requires this additional information as it is simple to retrieve over the Internet J JPEG is a commonly used method of compression for photographic images The name JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group the name of the committee that created the standard JPEG is distinct from MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group which produces compression schemes for video The JPEG standard specifies both the codec which defines how an image is compressed into a stream of bytes and decompressed back into an image and the file format used to contain that stream The compression method is usually lossy compression meaning that some visual quality is lost in the process and cannot be restored although there are variations on the standard baseline JPEG that are lossless There is also an interlaced Progressive JPEG format in which data is compressed in multiple passes of progressively higher detail
6. Alt S Replace Main Image Shift F1 Burn DVD Video Disc Shift F2 Create AVI file Shift PageUp Bring to Front Shift PageDown Send to Back Ctrl 1 File Panel as Thumbnails Ctrl 2 Slide List as Thumbnails Ctrl 3 Text or Hyperlink Ctrl 4 Button Ctrl 5 Frame Ctrl F1 Classic View Ctrl F2 Horizontal View Ctrl F3 Vertical View Ctrl F4 File Name Ctrl F5 File Extension Ctrl F6 File Date Ctrl F 7 File Size Ctrl F8 Unsorted File Ctrl F9 Create Slideshow and Run Ctrl F11 Zoom In Ctrlt F12 Zoom Out Ctrl A Select All Pictures Ctrl B Objects and Animation Ctrl C Copy Slide Ctrl D Add All Pictures to Slide List Ctrl E Manage Templates 80 Ctrl F Rotate Clockwise Ctrl G Show Tree Ctrl H Shift Timeline Points Ctrl L Timeline Ctrl M Set Comments on All Slides Ctrl N New CtrltO Open Ctrl P Project Options Ctrl R Start Preview from the Current Slide Ctrl S Save Ctrl Shift S Save As Ctrl T Set Time of Points Ctrlt U Customize Current Slide Ctrl U File Info Ctrl V Paste Slide CtrltW Open Picture Ctrl X Cut Ctrl Y Redo Ctrl Z Undo Ctrl Home Move to Top CtrltEnd Move to End CtrltPageUp Forward One CtrltPageDown Back One Ins Add Keypoint Here Ins Clone Keypoint Ins New Transition Del Delete
7. Show settings A _ Use your own icon ICO file in Slideshow or Screen saver file 3 Close show after last slide O Repeat show until ESC is pressed Add 32x32 icon when show ends keep last slide in show on screen Add 16x16 icon Synchronize music and slides Auto spread slides along music his applies to created slideshow only L Display slides in random order C wait For a key press or mouse click to show next slide Time interval For new slides 4 and ms Set for existing slides Set Defaults m Next you can make startup window show if you want it in your slide show You can a customize it by clicking on the same button In this startup window cad case the following dialog box will appear In the Startup window you can set the image if you want by selecting it from your computer You can also add some comments and information about the author of this slide show if you want You can mark Miur the boxes of showing Help and Exit if you need such Web page buttons in your Startup Window E mail Comments Show lt Help gt button Show lt Exit gt button OK 46 m In the next block Show Settings you can select the action after the slide show is over and adjust some other characteristics You can Synchronize music and slides but it is better to do that with the help of timeline option which will be described further You may also
8. This is ideal for large images that will be displayed whilst downloading over a slow connection allowing a reasonable preview after receiving only a portion of the data However progressive JPEGs are not as widely supported L Lossless Compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data This can be contrasted to lossy data comression which does not allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data Lossless data compression is used in many applications For example it is used in the popular ZIP file format and in the Unix tool gzip It is also often used as a component within lossy data compression technologies Lossless compression is used when it is important that the original and the decompressed data be identical or when no assumption can be made on whether certain deviation is uncritical M Midi Musical Instrument Digital Interface is an industry standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments and other equipment to communicate control and synchronize with each other MIDI does not transmit an audio signal or media it simply transmits digital data event messages such as the pitch and intensity of musical notes to play control signals for parameters such as volume vibrato and panning cues and clock signals to set the tempo As an electronic protocol it is notable for its success both in its wid
9. 4 3 3 TV display aspect ratio 4 3 i Va i MN f int ithe Ht tt a UF 16 9 TV display example While viewing this video on widescreen TV display video will look like with 4 3 aspect ratio This means that TV display will add black areas on the left and on the right sides of the video to make aspect ratio as 16 9 Look at the picture below 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 16 9 2 DVD aspect ratio 4 3 3 TV display aspect ratio 16 9 Top black area 54 Encoding slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 Here is the example of slideshow with aspect ratio 4 3 Encoding result of it DVD aspect ratio 4 3 will look original without any black areas Encoding result will look the same 600px 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 2 DVD aspect ratio 4 3 3 TV display aspect ratio 4 3 This is the example how such DVD will look with 16 9 aspect ratio display 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 2 DVD aspect ratio 4 3 3 TV display aspect ratio 16 9 e al A AA S ere Me 99 Encoding DVD aspect ratio 16 9 Slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 For example your slide show has 800 600 pixels dimension 4 3 Source slideshow 4 3 aspect ratio eee 2 Js q x di E abn VE ka Y i des lso ay E gt 600px 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 2 DVD aspect ratio 16 9 600 px Left black area eade 338 09 14613 16 9 TV display example As you can see 16 9 TV display shows this video as it looks after
10. F Ga Microsoft NET Common Files ComPlus Applications DAEMON Tools Lite ar E Morfik E Movie Maker mpc A Fr A eee be Ar MSBuild 1 Autumn pte Project options Y Create menu DYD4 7 vw fii MB 00 00 48 lt Back Modified C Program Files At the upper left corner of the main window there are three main menus File Menu Edit Menu Help Menu File Menu When clicking on the File Menu the following drop menu will be opened Here you can make a New file Open other files Save and aii auth Save As your work Burn ISO image when clicking on the Open Ctro Burn ISO image the following window will appear Save Chris bee oe The Burning 5 Burn ISO image Options are Burning options Export to video file or publish online Device with the E help of which you E Generic DVD ROM Burn 150 image will burn Speed chosen by you Exit Label and the last you should choose the place for ISO image on your computer Then click Burn ISO or Cancel if you don t want to do anything here It is important to note that ISO image is a special file which is used to run the project which you burn on the disc without this disc 68 A new option Export to video file or publish online appeared in this version When clicking on it you will see the following window 5 Export to video file or publish online Sieg Here you May choose whether a re you want to create video for j 3 R
11. If you check this button the figures of width and height will be changed proportionally for example if you change width parameters so height parameters will be changed automatically and vice versa There is one more option Pan amp Scan which is used to adjust the aspect ratio of video to the aspect ratio of the screen of the monitor if the aspect ratio of the screen differs from the aspect ratio of the video and this option is checked the pictire will be cut And if this option is unchecked there will be black lines on the screen After adjusting all these parameters choose the output folder and click button Convert The video will be saved in the chosen by you place in the computer 67 DVD video disc Video Builder If you choose to create DVD Video in Create button another program which is called Video Builder will be opened G Untitled WnSoft Video Builder 5 6 mef File Edit Help Gi ABBYY Lingvo 12 4 Adobe ATI Technologies Sy Common Files 5 ComPlus Applications E DAEMON Tools Lite 5 Far HG ICQ6 Internet Explorer 1 Java 5 Kaspersky Lab 5 Messenger z 5 Microsoft ActiveSync 3 microsoft frontpage 5 Microsoft Office 5 Microsoft SQL Server E 4 Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio 8 5 Microsoft Windows Small Busine E Microsoft Works cue ABBYY Lingvo 12 Adobe ATI Technologies f Plus Applicati ls Li
12. PicturesToExe Deluxe supports different formats such as PNG GIF BMP and JPG which is the main for this program A slideshow in EXE format can be reproduced on any computer under Windows XP Vista Me 2000 2003 No additional program not even PicturesToExe itself is needed to run a finished slideshow except a produced EXE file You can place any objects images text labels with drop shadows on a slide and customize complex animation It s either possible to use various cinematographic transition effects between slides to add background music sound and text comments to a slide You can also synchronize slideshows to music The slideshow has a very high picture quality and the smoothest playback of Pan Zoom effects you have ever seen VideoBuilder in PicturesToExe Deluxe edition allows you to burn a DVD video disc with your slideshows quickly and easily You can adjust the menu and many other parameters of your DVD disc You cannot but notice one more advantage PicturesToExe gives you an opportunity to create an AVI video file HD Video for PC and Mac and Video for iPhone You may also publish your slideshows on Youtube and Vimeo If you think it s necessary you can protect your slideshow with a password and assign an expiration date Burned in PicturesToExe DVD video disc can be played on any DVD player PC or MAC Main features as PicturesToExe produces a single EXE file which contains all pictures and music a PicturesToExe Deluxe can
13. Time of Points tJi slide will be shown in the slide show Specify time in milliseconds 4000 a Set End of Last Slide at End of Music is the option which by clicking on will set the end of last slide with the end of music track notwithstanding with its duration You should remember that only the last slide will be prolonged for the necessary number of seconds or minutes other slides will not be moved It is important to know that in this version you have an opportunity to move the end of last slide on the timeline bar In previous versions this option was unavailable You may drag it with the help of the mouse to the desired direction to the right or to the left a Import Points from Another Project is the option which can be very helpful if you don t want to make a new timeline You may just import points To do this you should click this button and then choose the project from which you want to import the keypoints It is important to know that the number of slides in these two projects should be equal 64 Next to Timed Points you can see a small box with numbers which show the time of y de f i f 0 24 000 the chosen slide in the timeline bar m The first buttons below the timeline bar is Create Preview Video Project Options were explained earlier Options Add Remove Slide Clear List are related not only to the Slide List but also to the Timeline lt depends on what you are adjusting With
14. You can customize Drop shadow the figure is shown Drop Shadow and Glow below Here you can select the Color of the shadow by clicking in the color box You may set Opacity from 0 to 100 Angle and Size of the shadow Distance from the image and Spread Form of the shadow At last you can save shadow as the Templates y Spread v Drop shadow templates Animation Tab Animation Tab contains such options as Pan Zoom Rotate Opacity and some others which will be described further Properties Common Animation m Pan effect has horizontal and vertical positions with the help of which you can move the image left right and up down As you can ictal Il see from the figure you may customize it with the help of up down arrows The left block links with the left and right movements of the image and the right block links with the up and down movements Zoom 79 318 S r 79 318 You may also move the slide by dragging it with the help of the mouse In this case the display in these two blocks will be changed automatically Rotate Zoom effect helps you to enlarge or diminish the image it depends on your choice You may do it with the help of up down arrows or by dragging the green rectangle of the image with the mouse There is one special feature in this option You can see a small square between the boxes with arrows by default it is turned off and the Opacity 100 0 slide changes its size proportionally
15. a series of slideshows will work as one large slideshow that provides an optimal memory usage Run application option has been moved to the last tab of Project options More tab The Color outside slide area option is added Project options Screen tab By default if you run the widescreen slideshow 16 9 on 4 3 display you see black strips around the slide Now you can choose their color The menu on Create button is added The faster rewinding of slides in created EXE file and preview The Crypt images music against extracting from EXE file option is added See Main menu View Advanced options enabled by default An improved installer of PicturesToExe multi lingual interface Fully rewritten shadow for objects Now it has correct view and better visual quality for a long text object Disable F1 key to show help window has been moved to Customize help window dialog Main menu Project Various improvements e An old bug since v5 5 when after renaming of the main image in Slide list or File panel MiniPlayer didn t display the renamed image is fixed T e An old bug since v5 1 when changing of display resolution locking of PC or Sleep mode applied during encoding of video caused visual defects in created video file is fixed e An old bug since v5 5 when all color text objects excluding black and white had slight almost invisible greenish contour is fixed e An old bug of all previous versions i
16. box the Manage Templates and the Create Template from this Show The Manage Templates means to save projects in one directory file and then to use them in creating a new slideshow with the settings saved in templates The Create templates from this show Open Recent Project is the option which gives you the shortest way to open the last project with which you have worked already m The Exit option allows you to exit Pictures ToExe 18 Create menu In this menu the following options are represented HD video For PC and Mac ShiFk F2 DVD Video Disc ShiFk F 1 Video For iPhone ANT File FF Publish on Youtube Publish on vireo Screen Saver Executable File Fa Create 45 Quick Preview FS m With the help of this menu you can create different kinds of video according to your aim HD Video for PC and Mac DVD Video Disc Video for iPhone AVI file m You can also create Screen Saver or EXE File as in the previous versions of PTE m There is a new option which helps you to publish your videos with slideshows on such sites as Youtube and Vimeo m Create As is the option which gives you an opportunity to save the project with a new name and to create it as an EXE file Quick Preview is the option which helps you to preview the created slideshow All these options will be described in more details further see Video Options p 66 Project Menu Project Menu consists of s
17. burn a DVD Video disc with slide shows s Pan Zoom Rotate effects for images s A powerful slide object editor with the possibility for adjusting complex animations a You can add buttons or text labels with drop shadows and glows to a slide s Cinematographic transition effects between slides a The slides can be exactly synchronized to music on the timeline with a waveform a Slideshow has a built in player for high quality MP3 and OGG playback It also supports WMA WAV and MIDI music playback a Ability to create a screensaver a Navigation bar in the slide show s An easy solution allowing creation of greeting cards a Ability to create AVI video file s Supports a multi select and visual drag n drop between the file panel and the slide list s Supports sound comments for the slides MP3 OGG WMA or WAV s Images can be in JPEG PNG GIF or BMP format a Ability to rotate pictures lossless algorithm a Every slide can be individually customized with its own time effect background etc a Multilingual interface System Requirements CPU 1 4 GHz 384 MB of system memory video card with 128 MB of video memory Windows XP Vista 2000 2003 DirectX 9 0 or later What s New in PicturesToExe Export of slideshow as video is added See Main menu gt Create Export of HD video for playback on PC Mac Export of video for iPhone iPod Publishing online on Youtube Publishing online on Vimeo with HD quality New 3D
18. by left clicking of the mouse and putting them to the necessary position on the timeline bar In this case the figures above the keypoints will change according to their position On the right of the blue rectangle you may also see two buttons with left and right arrows They are used to highlight the keypoints and move the blue triangle cursor on the grey bar You can also use the mouse for this purpose but if you have a great number of keypoints which are near one another it is not very convenient to control them manually and it is better to use these two buttons Below these buttons you can see one more option Play With the help of it you can preview the animation of the current image with the music background It is just a quick way to check the animation and to change it then if it is necessary It s important to note that if you want to have a look at the whole slide show with all effects and transitions in the wholescreen mode you should use option Preview If you want to see the slide show from the current slide you should use the button nearby the Preview button Below the blue rectangle where the timing of the slide is shown you can see the same buttons as in the Main Window They are Create Preview Project Options and Customize Slide which have already been described see The Control Buttons p 27 Beside Customize Slide there is one more option which have not been described yet Tools When clicking on it the
19. encoding aa Y y 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 2 DVD aspect ratio 16 9 3 TV display aspect ratio 16 9 Left black area eade 432 09 WUBI 56 4 3 TV display example As soon as we try to see this video on the TV display with 4 3 sides we can find black areas at the top and at the bottom of our DVD These areas are added by TV display to make video aspect ratio 4 3 Aj 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 4 3 2 DVD aspect ratio 16 9 3 TV display aspect ratio 4 3 eade 438 10 34614 Le ii i ait ur 2 dir de Encoding slideshow aspect ratio 16 9 Here is the example of source slideshow with aspect ratio 16 9 Encoding result DVD aspect ratio 16 9 will look original without any black areas 800 px Source slideshow 16 9 aspect ratio Encoding result will look the same This is the example how such DVD will look with 16 9 aspect ratio display 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 16 9 2 DVD aspect ratio 16 9 3 TV display aspect ratio 16 9 57 This is the example how such DVD will look with 4 3 aspect ratio display UEP eg Y Ma da a O Lo o SR T es AL ll qa E nea o y de Te ies Lo Sgt Sk T a et E A CE rw f pac Se era ve Fa we a gt al y 1 A l A ee PAS a y 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 16 9 2 DVD aspect ratio 16 9 3 TV display aspect ratio 4 3 How auto aspect ratio mode works in VideoBui
20. following dialog box will be opened With the help of this menu you can Undo and Redo some changes and if you don t like your work at all you can Undo or Redo All Changes at once Besides you can select such options as Show safe TV zone where you can see the zone which you will see on Show Grid Chrl 6 TV Show Grid which has already been described Show safe Ty zone Ignore Objects Not Selected and Hide Selection on Pan Zoom Rotate which are self explanatory Ignore Objects Mot Selected Alt 1 Hide selection on PanZoomRotate 41 How to Create Pan Effect If you want to create Pan effect you should do the following steps m You should select the picture and click Object and Animation in the Preview window m Then you should choose Animation tab in the right upper corner of the main window of the Object and Animation option m After that you should set the keypoints on the timeline bar 1500 ms Project Options Customize Slide a First you should set the keypoint which is shown in pink and then customize the position and the size of the slide by dragging it with the help of the mouse or using small blue arrows in the Animation Tab gt Pan a The next step is to set another keypoint by dragging the blue triangle as seen above to the necessary position and pressing the button for adding the keypoint When you have added the next keypoint adjust the position of the slide That time from one keypo
21. from to desktop options in the new version of PicturesToExe for two reasons This effect doesn t work correctly under Windows Vista due to an error in Windows Vista Slide shows created in v4 48 in which this option is used will work as though they are created without these options There is a problem even with Windows XP Since version 5 0 we have used a fullscreen hardware accelerated display mode for maximally smooth playback of Pan Zoom effects and this option could work incorrectly on some video cards Those are the reasons why we decided to remove this option Where can download the examples of slide shows created with PicturesToExe You can find our slide shows at http www wnsoft com download htm_and a lot of slide shows created by users of PicturesToExe at http www beechbrook com pte 10 Problems lost PicturesToExe PC crash etc How can reinstall the program without being charged again You can download the latest version of PicturesToExe from http www wnsoft com apr apr deluxe zip You can request a new registration key at the technical support web page http www wnsoft com support htm Autorun doesn t work There are many reasons why it may not work 1 Probably CD autorun is disabled in Windows system 2 The inf file and slide show exe file should be in the root of the CD have launched PicturesToExe but the interface language looks unfamiliar How can switch to English or another la
22. has been described earlier You should only add keypoints and customize the images and mask itself fe felix 2 Properties Common Animation Name IMG_7685 Action on mouse click O Drop shadow Customize O Perspective correction for Zoom Transparent To Selection Time range 8000 12000 Mode Fit to slide v Size position in pixels Objects 4 IMG_0046 Mask Container Mask mask 1 It is important to note that this is only one example of using the mask effect With the help of this feature you can play with colors shapes and make amazing effects Everything depends only on your imagination 45 Project Options Project Options are the main options with the help of which you can adjust your slide show They contain several tabs such as Main Advanced Music Comments Screen Effects and Messages Tab It s important that all these options are for the whole slide show and not for each slide Main Tab The first tab in the Project Options is the Main Tab m First in the main settings you may use your own icon for your slide show you should press the button Assign icon ico file for EXE file of slideshow and choose the oy MR de TUNA tobe Sunk ts Pause when window of slide show becomes inactive Project Options Advanced Music Comments Screen Effects More Main settings Assign icon ico file for EXE file of slideshow E
23. jerky and not smooth 1 Make sure that your video card satisfies the requirements for these effects 2 Perhaps the size of your images is too big Try to reduce it and preview the show once again This is the link to our free program which helps you to reduce the sizes of all images at once http www wnsoft com soft MultiResize exe 216 KB 11 3 If the show still has a bad quality please report this to technical support We would be grateful if you indicate your computer s configuration and write a detailed problem description in your ticket http www wnsoft com support htm lost pictures which were used in the show How can get them back You cant extract images from exe files We refused to add such ability to the program because many customers don t want other people to be able to steal their copyrighted pictures We can only advise you to make screen shots of the images and save them Slide show hangs on a certain slide but music continues playing Please check to see if some of your slides have customized settings right mouse click on a slide and select Customize Slide menu item Ripped music stutters PicturesToExe is very sensitive to any errors in audio files which may appear while ripping downloading or converting We can advise you to use Exact Audio Copy program to rip music from CDs This program is free DVD burning can t be completed correctly the progress stops Video Builder sa
24. number of them and vice versa If you want small ones you should select more pieces It depends only on your choice so try to experiment Curling of Page can also be different according to the radius which you choose To see the difference have a look at the examples below 59 As you see in the first picture the radius is large and on the second one it is small If the radius is large the line is more soothing if it is small the line is sharper Besides you may also set the color of the back side as seen from the examples As seen in the Effects Tab you may also set the Thickness of smoothing line and Effect duration which is given in milliseconds by clicking on the small arrows beside the options In the first picture the default setting of thickness of smoothing line is 6 In the second is 52 60 More Tab In More Tab you can see the following options Project Options Main Advanced Music Comments Screen Effects More Run application slideshow on exit poten AE Run only when last slide has been shown 5 Run on any exit fincluding pressing of Esc key Localization of messages in slideshow Captions on buttons Button OK gt Button lt Cancel gt Button lt Run gt Button lt Help gt Button lt Exit gt Help window Window caption Startup window Set Defaults There are two _ sections here Run application slideshow on exit and
25. of 10 1 IMG_5523 bmp 72 IMG_5564 bmp 3 IMG_5590 bmp 4 IMG_5593 bmp 5 IMG_5510 bmp 6 IMG_7838 JPG 7 IMG_5593 bmp 8 IMG_5593 bmp R lt UU Modified EXE 31 3MB 3198KB 1280x853 H Images IMG_5523 bmp Y C Hold time points the main menu the drive selector the directory tree of files the file panel the preview window for a selected slide the control buttons for a selected slide the slide list the control buttons OR N oe ot e ON E the status bar 17 Main menu At the top of the main window you can see drop menu m file menu m create menu m project menu m slide menu m view menu m help menu File menu File menu has the following options Mew Cert m The New this option is used to open a new project Open CO The Open is used to open earlier saved projects Save Ctrl s m The Save and the Save As will help you to save created Save As Shift Ctrl 5 projects under their own or new names ao a The Create Backup in ZIP this option will help you to Templates i save all your projects in ZIP format It s helpful for making Open Recent Project reserve copies of your slideshows if you want to save them 7 ae and then take them to another computer m The Templates this option provides you to save existing projects and to use them as the templates while creating next slideshows Opening this feature will bring you to another dialogue
26. of the slide you can adjust some other options such as Objects and Animation EA Objects and Animation Slide 4 of 12 EJ x MOmAdsa x a E Auto Y a p 2 Properties Common Animation Pan 0 000 x 0000 Linear E Zoom 100 000 m 100 000 Y v Linear a AAA Rotate 0 000 w Linear e Center 0 000 x 0 000 Opacity 100 0 v Yv Keyframe Time 0 Objects 1 IMG_7508 v gt 00 12 000 5 ro Sn cone i HE Duration 00 05 500 Position 00 12 000 H Images IMG_7808 JPG When clicking on the button Objects and Animation in the preview window the main window which is shown above will appear Here you can see the information bar in blue color where you see the name of the file which you have selected Under the information bar there is the tool bar which includes a number of icons MOWADE x mse m The first icon gives you an opportunity to add mask to the slide When clicking on this button lu the window will appear where you can choose any image from your computer as a mask For better understanding this option will be described in the chapter How to create Mask effect p 44 With the help of this icon Frame you can add frames to the slide If you add the frame an _ image or a group of images will be dependent on it It means that a frame will be a parent and all images inside it will be its children You can adjust a lot of options color opacit
27. on the object list you may perform different operations Add Put to Center Cover Screen Order Cut Copy Select All Delete Alt 5 Ctrl X Ctrl 0 Ctrl 4 Del I As have been said already you may Add Delete Cut Copy and Paste objects You may also change the order of the objects Bring to Front Shift PgUp Send to Back Shift PgDn Forward One Ctrl PgUp Back One Ctrl PgDin Besides you may also use keyboards shortcuts for quicker work at your objects For better understanding of this option it is better to experiment with them 40 Timeline Animation Timeline option is situated below the preview window and contains a number of features 1500 ms 1500 ms revit Project Options Customize Slide Here you can see the blue rectangle which identifies the time of showing a current slide The blue line on the left shows the beginning of the slide and on the right the end of the slide You can also see keypoints which are highlighted in pink Above the first keypoint there are the figures in blue which show the time from the first image up to the current slide You can add any number of keypoints to your slide by clicking the button or delete them with the help of the and make different positions of the slide on the screen That is one of the uses of timeline option you can make various animations with one or more slides You may also drag these keypoints
28. that is the figures in both these boxes are the same and the slide just changes its size without changing its form But if you turn this small square on by clicking on it with the mouse it gives you an opportunity to change not only the size of the picture but also the form of it lt means that you can compress or extend the image With the help of the arrows in the left box you may change the image horizontally and in the right box vertically If you change the image and then you want to make it proportional you can just turn this small square off and the slide will become proportional again Center 0 000 x 0000 keyframe Time Rotate effect gives you an opportunity to rotate the image clockwise and counterclockwise The default setting is zero here If you click on the arrow in the rotate box the following dialog box will be opened A Here by moving the cursor in this box you may rotate the image in Rotate 360 000 w ee both directions It s important to note that you may also move the slide dragging it by the angle of the green rectangle which you may see if the object is highlighted Center effect is a very powerful feature which gives you a lot of opportunities in animating and customizing the images It s important to mention that the center of any image or object which you want to adjust is situated in the real center of it If the image is highlighted you may see this center which is shown by the gre
29. where output of a particular document page film etc is displayed before it is produced in its final form In the case of printed material this is known as a print preview PTE is the abbreviation from PicturesToExe and is also the extension of projects made in Pictures ToExe R RGB is an additive colour model in which red green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colours The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colours red green and blue The term RGBA is also used to mean Red Green Blue Alpha This is not a different color model but a representation the Alpha is used for transparency The RGB colour model itself does not define what is meant by red green and blue colorimetrically and so the results of mixing them are not specified as exact but relative Rotate is to move about an object in a circular motion A two dimensional object rotates around a center of rotation A three dimensional object rotates around a line called an axis If the axis of rotation is within the body the body is said to rotate upon itself or spin S Screensaver is a type of computer program initially designed to prevent Phosphor Burn in on computer monitors by blanking the screen or filling it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use Today screensavers are also used for entertainment or security purposes SECAM S q
30. you can find any information about this programs and ask questions if you have any 69 Below the main menu there is the drive selector where you can choose the necessary drive E S F F ega As seen from the figure above drive X is chosen Below the drive selector you can see the file directory tree of the chosen drive Nearby there is the preview window for a selected file or project Below the preview window you can see the same buttons as in the Edit Menu Add Remove and Clear Then the project list is situated where the chosen projects can be seen and their duration and size are shown below in a special box shown below The red vertical line indicates the end of free space on the disc 55 MB 00 01 15 On the left from this box there are several options which should be described The main of them is Project Options m In the Project Tab of the Options there are several sections In Video options first you Project Program should choose TV system according to the Video options 720 x 576 25 fps country you live in There are two systems IA as fans PAL SECAM is used in the Europe and NTSC j parca is used in the North America Japan and some other countries Options Menu aspect ratio eee m Next you can choose Menu and Title aspect Bitrate kbps ratio The default for Menu aspect ratio is 4 3 E TA i a for ordinary televisions but you may also select amet 16 9 if y
31. 80p is considered a HDTV video mode The term usually assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16 9 implying a horizontal resolution of 1920 pixels This creates a frame resolution of 1920x1080 or 2 073 600 pixels in total The frame rate in Hertz can be either implied by the context or specified after the letter p such as 1080p30 meaning 30 Hz HD 1280x720p is another high definition format the difference with the previous format is in the number of lines HSL is a related representation of points in an RGB color space which attempt to describe perceptual color relationships more accurately than RGB while remaining computationally simple HSL stands for hue saturation lightness HSL describes colors as points in a cylinder whose central axis ranges from black at the bottom to white at the top with neutral colors between them where angle around the axis corresponds to hue distance from the axis corresponds to saturation and distance along the axis corresponds to lightness ly Icon from Greek e Ikwv eikon image is an image picture or representation it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it or by analogy as in semiotics by extension icon is also used particularly in modern popular culture in the general sense of symbol e a name face picture edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well known significance or embodying certain qualities
32. 81 Glossary of Necessary Terms A Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2 D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement lt is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program although several other forms of presenting animation also exist Antialiasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high resolution signal at a lower resolution In the image domain aliasing artifacts can appear as wavy lines or bands or moire patterns or popping strobing or as unwanted sparkling in the sound domain as rough dissonant or spurious tones or as noise Anti aliasing is used in digital photography computer graphics digital audio and many other domains Aspect Ratio of a two dimensional shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension The aspect ratio of an image is its displayed width divided by its displayed height Audio Codec is a hardware device or a computer program that compress decompress digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format The term codec is a combination of coder decoder The object of a codec algorithm is to represent the high fidelity audio signal with minimum number of bits while retaining the qual
33. Display slides in random order In this case the order which you have in the slide list won t be observed m You can also select Time interval for new slides you may set the necessary number of seconds It is better to Set this time for existing slides In this case all slides in the slide show will be shown with one and the same period of time 47 Advanced Tab Here the following options are represented Project Options Main Advanced Music lI Comments Screen Effects More Control of showy Mouse buttons Exit on mouse move For screen savers Disable mouse wheel Auto hide mouse cursor after w A Permit control of show using keyboard Hide cursor at startup Show Navigation Bar Protection of slideshow Show copyright logo Enable time limited usage Password protection C Don t allow lt PrintScreen gt to copy pictures allow to restore images Print button on Navigation bar In the Advanced Options section you may choose the action on the left right mouse click You may choose among seven functions such as Exit Next Slide Previous Slide Help First Slide Pause and no function or None If you want you may also Exit on mouse move or Disable the mouse wheel You may choose to show the mouse cursor or hide it at startup by clicking on the box You may also set the time in seconds after which the mouse cursor will be hidden It is important to note that if you move t
34. F Comments JPEG EXIF Time JPEG EXIF Date 91 Screen Tab Screen Tab is divided into three sections Screen Options Background and Additional Options In the first section you may adjust the images to the screen m First you may choose the Fullscreen mode or Windowed mode The default is always Fullscreen Here you can also set Aspect ratio of a slide according to your monitor size Fullscreen o o and form For normal monitors and not wide kinetiese 4 3 y television screens the aspect ratio is 4 3 T ma gx PC DVD If you want to set another ratio click on the arrow and the drop down menu will be Fixed size of slide in pixels opened You may choose any Project Options Main Advanced Music Comments Screen Effects More Screen and Slide 4 3 PC DVD bl er Caption of show fs ratio from the existing ones but Hardware acceleration 030 rai if you need something different EE you may click on Custom and Background 16 10 PC set the necessary figures O Solid color A asa manually See Aspect Ratio p O Gradient Filling 53 pii Virtual size of slide gives you an opportunity Additional Options scroll down to view to set any size of the image for your slideshow risas O0 If you change the size of the image in these boxes the aspect ratio will be also changed E Display shadow behind slide image Sues automatically It is necessary to add it is helpful only for profes
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36. Localization of messages in slideshow In the first section you can choose among run application slideshow or run nothing To choose another slideshow or application you should click the button Folder nearby this option When you choose Run only when last slide has been shown it means that the next slideshow or application will begin after the end of the first one Run on any exit including pressing of Esc key option gives you an opportunity to go to the next slideshow or application e g menu in any moment when you want by clicking the Exit or Esc button It is important to know that these slideshows should be created in one version If they are done in different versions this option will not work In this case you may use option Run slideshow In the next section you may see the following options Caption on buttons Help window Startup window If you scroll down you will also see such sections as Expired Trial and Print Dialog All sections are self explanatory and give you the necessary information But it is important to explain some sections In Password query you can add the image which tells the user of your slideshow to enter the password In Expired Trial you can add a message saying why the show cannot be run any longer and give some instructions what to do further The messages are added already by default here But if you wish you can rename them by adding your own information If there is not enough spa
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38. Project is necessary if you want the last project automatically opened when you open Pictures ToExe It s very convenient if you work at one project for a long time a Use Hardware Acceleration in Editor and Video should be selected for better quality when using animation effects but if you don t have a very good graphics card you should switch this option off 21 a Show real slide in mini player and Show real slide in Slide List are two options which help you to see the real size of the slide the size like in the slide show in the preview window and in the slide list m The Language option includes more than twenty languages m You may also choose among three views of the main window Classic Horizontal and Vertical Views and the views of File Panel and Slide List m There is also one option which will be described in details further It is the Timeline option Here you can see such functions as TA Help Here you can choose between styles arn a of the Auto Scroll to select the color Advanced Options J of the Waveform and some other Don t Use Auto Srling functions Language j Auto Scroll Style 1 o uz Auto Scroll Style 2 Classic View Ctrl F i A Horizontal View Ctrl F2 Vertical View Ctrl F3 Timeline Vie Ctrl a Color of Waveform w Show Tree Ctl Display Waveform as b Help Menu This option gives you an opportunity to find answers on all your questions and
39. VI gt button and save your file How can make a screensaver and set it for my computer Create a slide show as a screen saver Save it in any folder of your computer Right click on it and select menu item to set it as a screen saver for your PC How can I transfer my PicturesToExe to another computer You can copy the distribution program Pictures ToExe to any removable media CD flash memory device etc and then install to another PC Then register it with your current key If you don t have back up copy of your registration key you can always inform technical support and you will be given a new key http www wnsoft com support htm How can I avoid black strips at the top and at the bottom of the screen in my slide show If you watch any wide screen slideshows say 16 9 on usual LCD display at 1024x768 4 3 you will see black strips at the top and the bottom parts of the screen If you don t want to see these black strips and you would like to use all of your display for a slideshow use Pan and Scan feature of Pictures loExe Create MyShow bat file in Notepad and type MyShow exe Cover See the result below It works for all EXE files with slideshows created in version 5 0 and later You can distribute a ZIP archive with your slideshow with EXE file and additionally include bat file for fullscreen version MyShow_Widescreen exe MyShow_PanAndScan bat How to go back to the menu each time after preview of one of th
40. ading 500 ms Interlaced video a HD 1080p High Definition is the name for a category of display resolutions The number 1080 represents 1080 lines of vertical resolution while the letter p stands for progressive scan meaning the image is not interlaced 1080p is considered a HDTV video mode The term usually assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16 9 implying a horizontal resolution of 1920 pixels This creates a frame resolution of 1920x1080 or 2 073 600 pixels in total The frame rate in Hertz can be either implied by the context or specified after the letter p such as 1080p30 meaning 30 Hz a HD 1280x720p is another high definition format The difference with the previous format is in the number of lines 76 It is important to note that when changing the format the window will also be changed It depends on the number of programs which support this format If the program doesn t support the particular format it is greyed out for that particular format m Next you should choose TV system parameters if you select one of the formats except AVI video file If you live in Canada the USA or Japan you should select NTSC If you live in Europe select PAL SECAM m The default of Sound Fading is 500 ms but if you want you may change it m After that if you want you may choose Audio and Video codecs Codec is a special device which is used to compress data In this case music audio and video It is important to n
41. and you have done some changes on the first or second page for example you can click on this option and these changes will be applied for all pages After adjusting this window press the button Next to go to the next step When clicking the following window for burning the disc will be opened Project name Create MPEG2 Files Create DVD folders Create 150 image C Documents and Settings Burn DVD disc Device E Generic DVD ROM CA Speed Label Indude additional folders and files to disc m First you can enter the name of your project In our example the project is untitled but in your project you can click on this word and enter any name you wish m If you wish you can create MPEG2 Files DVD Folders and an ISO image of your project Check the boxes and just choose the folders for them on your computer m In Burn DVD disc option the device and the speed of burning is determined automatically Of course if you have several burning devices you can choose among them m You may also include any additional folders and files to the disc if you want For doing this you should check the box and by clicking on the folder select the files from your computer Once you have done all this press the Start button in the right lower corner of the window 19 Video for iPhone If you select to create Video for iPhone you will see the following window a shiichion Youtube BEA Here you sho
42. ave it as it is So if you make some changes here you should make them also in Pan Zoom and Rotate options It s important to note that you may save these speed options as Templates and use with other images Object List Object List is situated in the right lower corner of the main window of Object and Animation Here you can see the list of images and objects which you have added and work with You can add objects to the object list in several ways Objects 5 m by selecting the buttons in the tool bar above the preview window Add IMG _7808 Frame Add Button Add Text and so on Frame m by right clicking on the preview window or the object list where pop up menu IMG_7776 will appear and you may choose the necessary object Image Rectangle Rectangle Text or Hyperlink Button or Frame Text Image Ctrl 1 Rectangle Ctrl 2 SO Text or Hyperlink Ctrl 3 ARA Di E Screen Alt 5 Frame Ctrl 5 olaa i It s important to note that there are parents children relations between objects As you can see from the figure above there are two main or parent objects and several children objects for each main image lt means that children objects are subordinated to the parent ones and they have all features of their parents If you delete a parent object all children objects will be also deleted With the help of the object list you cannot only add or delete different objects but also adjust them When right clicking
43. c you should click on the button Add Music and the dialog box will appear where you can choose the necessary music files from your computer lt is important that you can add Bene cleat several files to your slide show Beside there are two buttons Remove and Clear Remove help you to delete one highlighted file from the list Clear helps you to delete all files from the list Main Advanced Music Comments Screen Effects More Background music For show You can have a look at music duration of all files by clicking on the button Show Music Duration which is found below the list of music files You have an opportunity in this program to Play songs in random order if you wish and to Repeat music after playing For this you should check boxes with these settings If you add sound comments to your slide show you can adjust such parameters as Dont interrupt sound comment when next slide appears If this option is not checked the sound comment for the current slide will be played till the slide is on the screen When the next slide appears on the screen the sound comment is interrupted If this option is checked the sound comment will be played up to the end Sound comments parameters Don t interrupt sound comment when next slide appears 90 Comments Tab In the Comments Tab you have an opportunity to add some comments to the slide show and customize it according to your wish m In the first part
44. ce it does not matter much you may continue typing 61 Timeline Operation If you want to add background music to your slide show then customize it and synchronize the slide show to music you should use Timeline Option which is found in the Main Window of Pictures ToExe in the Control Buttons panel The main function of the Timeline Option is to synchronize a number of slides to music There are several ways to do that m to auto spread slides along music at equal intervals of time m to coincide slides with the certain points in the sound track m to coincide slides with the certain points in the sound track not only with music but also with some commentary Some timeline options are represented in the main window menu View If you click on it the following dialog box will be opened Don t Use Auto Scroliing Here you can select the Style of Auto Scroll between Style 1 Auto Scroll Style 1 and Style 2 or Don t Use Auto Scrolling at all The difference between two styles is in the presentation of the synchronization Auto Scroll Style 2 i ad l l while watching it on the timeline bar Zoom In Ctrl F ii o Toom Out Cul4F12 You can also Zoom the timeline window In or Out by clicking on these buttons or using shortcuts which you can see opposite the Color of Waveform words Display Waveform as You may also choose the Color of the Waveform By clicking on it the dialog box will be opened where you ca
45. de from Slide List or Clear Slide List you should use the necessary buttons Other options such as Customize Slide Objects and Animation are related to the characteristics of the slide They are needed to adjust the slide and will be described later in more detail see Customize Slide p 27 and Object and Animation p 31 You may Rotate your slides clockwise and counterclockwise with the help of consequent buttons lt is important to note that it is a virtual rotation in PicturesToExe and the initial files with images won t be modified 20 View Menu View Menu provides options which will help you to adjust your main window res m The File List Sort Order is used to choose the necessary order of your files according to the name extension date or w Show captions in File Panel w Show captions in Slide List File List Sort Order Advanced Options size and so on Timeline Options j Language Classic View ctl F1 e Horizontal View Ctrl F Vertical view Crl F3 Timeline View col w Show Tree Crl w File Panel as Thumbnails ctl 1 Slide List as Thumbnails Cirl 2 Fullscreen View of File Panel F3 Fullscreen View of Slide List F4 m If you click on Advanced Options the following dialogue box will be opened Here you can see different options Advanced Options Timeline Options Language Classic View A Horizontal view Vertical view Timeline view w Show Tree w Fil
46. de to the other one It is important to note that you can change the position of the slides by clicking on a number of the slide and dragging it to the necessary place Besides this you can also change the time of transition by clicking on the end of the grey line and dragging it to the right or to the left it depends on whether you want to make transition longer or shorter 62 Now it is necessary to describe the buttons which are situated above and below the timeline window a m Play button is situated above the options Customize slide and Objects and Animation in the Preview window and is used to begin the preview of your slideshow in a small preview window in the right upper corner This button plays two roles Play and Pause If you click on Play it will turn 1 Pause and vice versa When you click on Play the blue triangle will stand at the beginning of the timeline and will move to the right on the bar Hom 00 34 501 F 00 37 Customize Slide Objects and Animation Slide 9 of 9 m As you can see from the figure above next to the button Play Pause there is another button labelled Stop You should remember that if you click on Stop and then on the Play button the preview will start not from the beginning but from the place where the cursor was situated If you want to watch the preview from the beginning you should do the following a Click Play for previ
47. e Panel as Thumbnails w Slide List as Thumbnails Fullscreen view of File Panel Fullscreen view of Slide List ow Lossless compress BMP Images Ctrl F 1 Ctrl F2 Ctrl F3 Ctrl L Ctrl 6 a Customize Slide on Double Click Ctrl 1 Ctrl 2 laf Use hardware acceleration in Editor and video F3 F4 Fath and Mame of Sound Editor Auto Save Project Allow modification of EXE File with slide show y Mew Style of Mouse Wheel lx Mouse w Load Last Used Project w Enable PTE Program Sounds Objects and Animation on Double Click w Show real slide in mini player wv Show real slides in Slide List a Path and Name of Sound Editor helps you to insert the location and the name of any sound editor you wish a Auto Save Project gives you an opportunity to save your project automatically while working on it every so many minutes as selected from the menu a Lossless Compress BMP Images helps to compress images of BMP format Allow modification of EXE file with slide show Enable PTE Program Sounds are self explanatory a The next two options Customize Slide on Double Click and Objects and Animation on Double Click may be chosen depending on your preference and frequency of usage of these two features a New Style of Mouse Wheel X Wheel gives you an opportunity to scroll any window you choose without clicking on it This option is very helpful and saves your time a Selecting the feature the Load Last Used
48. e kind of durable storage A file is durable in the sense that it remains available for programs to use after the current program has finished Computer files can be considered as the modern counterpart of paper documents FPS frames per second is frame rate or frame frequency the measurement of the frequency rate at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames The term applies equally well to computer graphics video cameras film cameras and motion picture systems Frame rate is most often expressed in frames per second fps or simply hertz Hz H Hardware Acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than it is possible in software running on the normal Normally processors are sequential and instructions are executed one by one Various techniques are used to improve performance hardware acceleration is one of them The main difference between hardware and software is concurrency allowing hardware to be much faster than software Hardware accelerators are designed for computationally intensive software code Depending upon granularity hardware acceleration can vary from a small functional unit to a large functional block like motion estimation in MPEG2 HD 1080 High Definition is the name for a category of display resolutions The number 1080 represents 1 080 lines of vertical resolution while the letter p stands for progressive scan meaning the image is not interlaced 10
49. e opened and just the next one will be opened at once It is important to note that the word Title can be changed by clicking on it and typing the necessary words m First you should choose the background for your menu There are several templates to have a look at them you should click on the picture and you will see the following window 11 Here you can see the templates and choose among them At the bottom of the window you can see two buttons Add template and Organize templates The first one gives you an opportunity to add any image or photo from your computer The second one helps you to choose the order of the templates and rename or delete the images For better understanding have a look at the figures below Organize templates mal dl Silver The green fantasy White theme Burning bridges e v Y Title 12 e e bea es Burning bridges Red douds Red clouds I Add template Organize templates m Next you may choose the number of items and their location on the menu window The more items you want to add the less size they are The location of them also depends on the number of the projects you have added It is better to experiment for better understanding of the difference m Then you can customize Hue Saturation and Lightness When clicking on these words the following window will be opened The default po
50. e slideshows To go back to the menu after slideshow you should use the option Run application slideshow on exit Projects options gt More Tab Here are two variants and you should choose the variant Run slideshow not application This option is used in such purposes as run another slideshow play a series of slideshows creating menu slideshow to run other slideshows You should remember that all EXE files of linked slideshows should be created with the same version of PicturesToExe If it s impossible to rebuild EXE file project file has been lost please use the old command Run application 14 Quick Start PicturesToExe If you want to make the slide show do the following steps Open PicturestoExe Open the necessary folder with the images from the directory tree of files Add the selected images to the slide list a A A Then Customize slide and add Object and Animation to it if you wish in the preview window on After that customize your slide show in the Project Options 6 If you want to preview your slide show click the button Preview and after that make some changes if necessary 7 Your last step is to create video Screen Saver or EXE file with your slide show by clicking the button Create That is the way to create the simplest slide show 15 Quick Start VideoBuilder If you want to burn a DVD video disc with your created slide shows do the following steps 1 Click Create button in the Contro
51. ecommended players Far Payback Fe ee adn eee iPhone or PC and Mac or ma publish your slideshow on Presets Youtube or Vimeo The chosen by you option will be in blue PC and Mac You YouTube Vimeo GMOQUALITY imen com color All these options will be thoroughly described in this chapter Video Options Output Folder Phone Edit Menu Ci Documents and Settings With the help of this menu you can perform some operations with the projects Add Remove Clear Move to left Move to right File info You can Add or Remove projects Clear the entire project list at all Del Move to the Left or to the Right from one project to the other You can i also see File Info If you click on the File Info the following window will be opened Ctrl U Here you can see the information about the chosen project File Name the place where it is situated on your computer the Duration of the sound track the Size the Date of creation and File Info File and Attributes File Name Autumn pte Folder EN Duration 00 01 15 Size 32 6 KB Aspect Ratio as it would be seen from the monitor In personalized settings you can choose Video Type the default is Auto always and you can also choose whether to check Anti Flicker filter or not Date 2007 12 27 14 55 22 Aspectratio 4 3 Personalized settings C Use personalized settings Help menu gives you hyperlinks to the official PTE site where
52. elf explanatory 70 Nearby the Project Options button you can see several options Project options V Create menu DVD 4 7 Y E 5 MB 00 01 15 You can check Create menu box if you want the menu on your DVD disc Next you can choose the size of your DVD the default is 4 7 but if your disc is larger or smaller you can choose two other parameters 8 5 and 1 4 Next you can see the bar which shows the total space on the disc as has been said above Here you can see the blue color which indicates the space occupied and the white color which indicates the free space The red line shows the end of the free space on your disc At the end of the bar there are two buttons Back which is greyed out and Next which are self explanatory Next gives you an opportunity to go forward and Back backwards Untitled WnSoft Video Builder 5 5 PE File Edit Help Auto v Choose Template Deep in the ocean Items 12x 1 v Hue Saturation Lightness E Background image Animated menu Menu duration 10 s 1 Autumn C Music Project options DVD 4 7 34MB 00 00 39 Modified When you have selected the projects which you want to burn it is necessary to click Next button and the window which is shown above will be opened Here you can customize the menu for your DVD disc if you wish You should remember that if you don t check the box Create menu in the previous window this window won t b
53. en circle in the green rectangle If you want to change it for some reason you may do it with the help of this option You should press Shift and drag the center with the help of the mouse simultaneously in the direction you wish That will be your center of the image from that moment You may now move the image and the center will be on its new place In the boxes with up down arrows you may change the figures and the image will move relatively its center horizontally and vertically If you use the arrows in the left box up arrow helps you to drag the image to the left down arrow to the right If you use arrows in the right box up arrow moves the image up down arrow moves it down This option is also very helpful not only in moving but also in rotating the slide To have a look at all possibilities of this option it is better to experiment with it it 3 Opacity effect also helps you to make a lot of different things and views Opacity varies from 0 to 100 that means you can make the image invisible at all or vice versa visible The default setting is always 100 but you may change it by dragging the cursor in the opacity box You may add several objects or images and set different opacity for all of them The effect is very beautiful For better understanding of this option it is better to try to work with it m Keyframe Time option shows the time of the current slide from one keypoint to another one and will be described further
54. er You can also choose whether the slide is the main image in the object list whether the edge is antialiased and whether there is blurring Properties Common Animation Picture HilImagesiIMG O046 gt Main image Edge antialiasing Blur Anti shimmering mipmapping Low quality of resizing The Edge antialiasing should be normally turned on It is used to minimize the distortion of some artifacts of high resolution images when they are shown at low resolution Blur feature is very convenient if you want to minimize the pulsing of the image when you zoom Anti shimmering mipmapping is recommended to use when you make animation In this case there will be no shimmering while the picture is reduced If there is no animation for the concrete slide and you want to have more clear picture it is better not to check this option Low quality of resizing is the feature which shouldn t be always used It s helpful only when it is necessary to use bilinear filtration while zooming the image For better understanding of the functioning of this option it is better to see the difference Both images are zoomed out The first variant is made without the option Low quality of resizing the effect is degraded The second variant is made with the help of Low quality of resizing and the picture seemed to be more legable and sharp 35 Common Tab The Common Tab is fo
55. es with an audio track do the following steps Select the necessary number of slides drag the last one and set it exactly under the blue line which shows where the last track ends and the next one begins Keeping these slides selected click lt Timed Points gt button and select Arrange selected points As a result all these slides on that area will be set on equal distance one from another Then add next group of slides to the time line click lt Insert slide gt button select necessary images and click lt Add gt button and do the same steps with them How can I fade music in the end of each track PicturesToExe doesn t have audio editing abilities You can make fade effects with any audio editor and then add this track to a slide show want to add one or more MP3 music files to my slide show as background music Go to Project options Music tab and add music files MP3 WMA OGG WAV MID which will play in your slide show After the last file ends optionally the first file will be played again and so on 13 How can I create an independent video file not on CD DVD and save it on my hard drive You can create a custom AVI file Click lt Create gt button check Create custom AVI file then select audio and video codecs lt Audio codec gt and lt Video codec gt buttons You can choose any video codec except Pictures loExe video codec You can select codecs from the lists or use your own codecs Then click lt Create A
56. espread adoption throughout the industry and in remaining essentially unchanged in the face of technological developments since its introduction in 1983 Mode is a distinct setting within a computer program or any physical machine interface in which the same user input will produce perceived different results than it would in other settings The best known modal interface components are probably the Caps Lock and Insert keys on the standard computer keyboard both of which put the user s typing into a different mode after being pressed then return it to the regular mode after being re pressed MPEG 1 defines a group of Audio and Video AV coding and compression standards agreed upon by MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group MPEG 1 video is used by the Video CD VCD format and less commonly by the DVD video format The quality at standard VCD resolution and bitrate is near the quality and performance of a VHS tape MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3 is the popular audio format known as MP3 MPEG 2 is a standard for the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission bandwidth MPEG 2 is widely used as the format of digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial over the air cable and direct broadcast satellite TV systems It al
57. ewing the slide show 2 As soon as Playback begins click Pause 2 Drag the blue triangle to the beginning and click Play once again m New transition is the option which gives you an opportunity to add new keypoints in the desired place on your slide show and timeline It is important to know that for adding the keypoint you should set the blue rectangle to the necessary place on the timeline bar and then click on the button New transition The slides and their transitions will be moved from their old places to new ones m f you want to delete the keypoints you should use the option Cut transition But you should remember that the keypoints will not be deleted but just moved to the end of the slide show If you press the button New transition in this case the keypoints which were deleted earlier will be moved to their previous places m Next option Timed Points includes the following functions 2 Arrange All Points helps you to set all points on the timeline bar in the equal intervals of time along the sound track Arrange All Points Cut All Transition Points Ctrl Alt H Shift Points Ctrl H Set Time of Points Shift HCtrl T Set End of Last Slide at End of Music Import Points from Another Project 63 a Arrange Selected Points is greyed out because there are no selected keypoints But if you select some points this option will be highlighted and you can use it It functions in such a way you should selec
58. f Customize Slide 43 Use customized settings for this slide Man Effect Music s time You can also use up and down arrows for Taing setting the time A A ES m The next menu gives you an opportunity to Scale keypoints in objects on time change choose among the options which are self explanatory You should just select what you need No actions after this slide Background No actions after this slide Use own background preference Stop at the end of this slide Loop this slide Background color O Gradient filing 20 0 Wl a For example if you set Stop at the end of this Tiled background picture slide for the third slide the slide show will be stopped till you click Right on the keyboard Advanced options Run external application 2 If you select Loop this slide in this case the slide will get caught in an endless loop If there is animation in this slide it will also be looped A till you press Right This option is very useful for creating the menu from which the slide show will go further m Scale keypoints in objects on time change If you set several keypoints to the slide and then change the time of display e g from 8 to 16 seconds this option will automatically correct these keypoints e g from 4 to 8 seconds Look at the example below From this example you see that the time of slide display is 8 seconds Here we set the time of display
59. format A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce their file size or stored as is The format was originally designed by Phil Katz for PKZIP However many software utilties other than PKZIP itself are now available to create modify or open unzip decompress ZIP files Zoom is decreasing narrowing the apparent angle of view of a digital photographic or video image Digital zoom is accomplished by cropping an image down to a centered area with the same aspect ratio as the original and usually also interpolating the result back up to the pixel dimensions of the original It is accomplished electronically without any adjustment of the camera s optics and no optical resoluton is gained in the process Most of the terms are taken from http en wikipedia org 87 Tutorials and Articles Please visit our web site http www wnsoft com apr useful htm You also can have a look at unofficial User Manual http www wnsoft com apr PicturesToExe v50 UserManual_en pdf 88 Slide Shows Created in PicturesToExe Please visit our web site http www wnsoft com download htm 89 Contacts Our Web site http www wnsoft com You can find User Guide and unofficial User manuals on our website http www wnsoft com apr help htm 90
60. he Deluxe edition want to burn DVD Video discs with my slide shows If you bought PicturesToExe v4 48 or earlier or you bought PicturesToExe Standard edition you can upgrade to Deluxe edition and use VideoBuilder to burn DVD Video discs httos www regnow com softsell nph softsell cqi item 1639 38ordertype Uparade 20to 20Deluxe How can make my slide show EXE file start just after inserting CD or DVD discs into the drive Create a new document with the name autorun inf using any text editor e g Notepad and write the following text autorun open YourSlideshow exe icon Yourlcon ico Note instead of YourSlideshow you should write the name of your slide show and instead of Yourlcon you should set your own icon This file autorun inf must be copied to the root of CD or DVD disc with your slide shows EXE file of my slide show is too large How can I reduce the size of my EXE file a Reduce your JPEG images to 1024x768 or 1280x960 160 500 KB a Use MP3 files for background music don t use WAV music files You can determine the size of your slide show by watching the status bar at the bottom of the main window 3rd section EXE file 4 MB How can calculate the size of a produced EXE file with my slide show The size of your EXE file with slide show is 280 KB plus size of your files images and music How can synchronize several groups of slides with a certain audio track To synchronize a group of slid
61. he Internet How can purchase it on CD You can purchase a CD with PicturesToExe from Barry s Beckham web site http www beckhamdigital co uk digitalav pte pte htm What screen resolution is needed to view the presentation You can use any resolution 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 or higher A slide show in EXE file uses the currently set display mode All elements of a slide scale are visible automatically and proportionally at any display mode Will PicturesToExe create presentations that can be viewed on Apple Macintosh computers Mac OS X You can t run EXE file with a slide show on MacOS but you can burn a DVD Video disc in PicturesToExe Deluxe and add EXE files of the slide shows Thus the DVD disc will play with highest quality on a PC as an EXE file and as a DVD Video on Mac computer Can put my slide shows EXE files created with PicturesToExe on CD or DVD discs Yes of course How many slides can include in my slide show Up to 20000 slides unregistered version is limited to 10 slides What is the largest size that the generated EXE file can be The resulting EXE file cannot be larger than 2100 MB 2 GB What additional files are needed to run the EXE file of the slide show on my computer or any other computer No other files are necessary to run the EXE file PicturesToExe v4 48 had the transition from to desktop effect can t find this effect in PicturesToExe 5 Why We removed Show transition effect
62. he mouse the mouse cursor will appear again and then will be hidden after the number of seconds which you have set up The next Permit control of show using keyboard gives you an opportunity to control the slide show with the help of keyboard buttons For example you may use PageUp and PageDown buttons for going to the next and previous slide There is a number of shortcuts which you may use It is convenient to use them for quicker work if you know all or several of them m The next button Show Navigation Bar is used if you want to see it in your slide show You may also Customize Navigation Bar by clicking on the button In this case the following dialog box will be opened Customize Navigation Bar Available buttons Selected buttons Help First slide Exit Previous slide Next slide Pause Print L _ Position Bottom Offset 11 50 aa Show background Fade in lago Sky lo Hide Navigation bar at startup cr Auto hide Navigation bar after Scale A SEC sco 48 You can see two small windows Available and Selected Buttons where there are seven buttons which you can select for your Navigation bar First Slide Previous Slide Next Slide Pause Print Help and Exit It is very easy to choose them and their order by clicking on them and dragging to the necessary window or using the buttons Add and Remove below these windows You may also select t
63. he position and the offset of Navigation bar in the slide show a If you want you may Hide Navigation bar for a number of seconds which you can also adjust with the help of arrows beside the button You may also click to Hide Navigation bar at startup a You may also choose the style of Navigation bar between Air and Sky Styles If you want you may also open other styles in your computer or create them and then open with the help of the button Styles which you can find on the right of this dialog box Besides you can show background To make it you should click the necessary box with these words a You can also set Scale and Hue of Navigation Bar by clicking on the necessary buttons and choosing the size and the color The result of your adjustment you can see below in the preview box m In the Protection of Presentation options you can make some settings to protect your slide show They are Password Enabling time limited usage and not allowing to copy pictures with the Printscreen button You may also show the logo of your company and customize its position size and opacity if you wish While customizing Trial Usage Details usage of the slideshow you may set the last date of its usage the number of runs and even write the message for other users why the slide show doesn t work any longer 49 Music Tab in Project Options With the help of the Music Tab you can add music to the whole slide show Me jechfintion Fal To add musi
64. int to another one the slide will move from one position to the other one See the example That is one position of the slide on the first keypoint This is another position of the second keypoint That is how to create panning of the slide if you want it in your project 42 How to Create Zoom Effect If you want to create Zoom effect do the following steps m You should select the picture and click Object and Animation in the Preview window m Next you should select Animation Tab in the right upper corner of the main window of the Object and Animation option m Then you can zoom enlarge or diminish your image with the help of small blue arrows in the Zoom tab You can also do it by dragging the angles of the image with the mouse m You can use timeline bar to make animation here You should set the keypoints on timeline and adjust the position and the size of the slide in each keypoint See the example EE 1500 ms 1500 ms oe 1500 ms 1500 ms Project Options Customize Slide As you can see from the example this is the position of the slide in the middle of its duration The blue triangle is in the middle of timeline beside the second keypoint From that example you can see the zoomed picture in another keypoint position The image can be adjusted with the help of the mouse by dragging the angle of the green rectangle to the necessary direction You can also do thi
65. ity This can effectively reduce the storage space and the bandwidth required for transmission of the stored audio file Most codecs are implemented as libraries which interface to one or more multimedia players such as XMMS Winamp or Windows Media Player Audio format is a medium for storing sound and music The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data AVI file Audio Video Interleave is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft as part of its Video for Windows technology AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a standard container that allows synchronous audio with video playback Like DVDs AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video although these features are seldom used B Background or desktop picture is the image or colour displayed on a website or computer desktop behind the visible content Bitrate is sometimes written bit rate data rate is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time Bit rate is synonymous with data rate The bit rate is quantified using the bits per second bit s or bps unit often in conjunction with a Sl prefix such as kilo kbit s or kbps mega Mbit s or Mbps giga Gbit s or Gbps or tera Tbit s or Tops C CD Compact Di
66. l Buttons panel of the PicturesToExe and select DVD video disc 2 Add the necessary projects to the project list and click Next Customize the menu of your disc by choosing the background and adding music to it and press Next 4 After that select the place on your computer for saving temporary files and ISO image of your disc and click Start for burning the disc That is the easiest way to burn DVD disc with your projects 16 Main Window Menu As you can see the main window menu consists of a number of smaller windows and icons They are EX Project Pictures ToExe Deluxe 5 6 File Create Project Slide view Help 41 ai oa E a E 2 2 aa y 2 J AS Comment B Change Image File 4 Add sound 5 ComPlus Applications y DAEMON Tools Lite Far 3 ICQ6 5 Internet Explorer Java 5 Kaspersky Lab E Messenger O Microsoft ActiveSync microsoft frontpage 5 Microsoft Office E Microsoft SQL Server 5 Microsoft Visual Studio 5 Microsoft Visual Studio 8 5 Microsoft Windows Small Bu E Microsoft Works 3 5 Microsoft NET G Morfik Movie Maker IMG_0046 jpa ARS E IMG_5510 bmp IMG_5523 bmp H H H ee Ee Er ER IMG_5564 bmp IMG_5590 bmp H MSN Gaming Zone O NetMeeting G Online Services l OpenOffice org 2 3 gt m 00 01 501 00 40 v Customize Slide A v Objects and Animation 6 Slide 1
67. l just be seen in the preview window and you won t be able to customize it But if you choose the slide in the slide list you will be able to make all necessary changes Here you can see the chosen image and some of its control buttons m Main image shows the current position of your chosen file Comment y Ej Change Image File Add sound om 00 01 501 c Customize Slide Objects and Animation 00 40 Slide 1 of 10 m In the Comment box you can write any suitable comment to the image If it s not very convenient for you to write in the comment line you can click on the icon next to the line The dialog box will appear and you can write any comment You will see this comment on the very slide you have chosen In the Add sound box you can add the necessary sound file to a certain slide If you want to add music or some sound commentary you should double click on the icon beside the sound line and the dialog box where you can choose the sound file to open Below the main image you can see the timeline bar where you can preview the slide show On the left of the timeline bar there is the display which shows the position of the current slide On the right you can see the total time of the slide show m Here you can also see two buttons Play Pause and Stop Play button is used to begin the preview of your slideshow in a small preview window This button plays two roles Play and Pause If you click
68. lder This issue is about how Video Builder auto aspect ratio mode works Each of the videos being located on DVD disc may have one of the following aspect ratio 4 3 or 16 9 VideoBuilder can t burn DVD with slideshows using different aspect ratio If you set aspect ratio 4 3 VideoBuilder options in options all presentations will be in 4 3 if you set 16 9 VideoBuilder options all of them will be 16 9 Even if one of all presentations has an aspect ratio which differs from 16 9 slideshow aspect ratio all of them will be with 4 3 aspect ratio Only in the case when all slideshows have 16 9 aspect ratio will all slideshows will be in 16 9 Therefore if you create DVD disc for wide width display there is the reason to set 16 9 aspect ratio for all slideshows Custom aspect ratio slideshow Custom aspect ratio 4 3 aspect ratio lm iia Pi of el the nearest aspect ratio see the picture below 58 In case if slideshow has aspect ratio which differs from 4 3 and 16 9 for example 5 4 it will fit to Photos resolution and slideshow aspect ratio This is the fact that there is no relation between photo dimension and slideshow aspect ratio As a default the value for slideshow aspect ratio is 4 3 for new project and in case if you add some photos with 16 9 aspect ratio the slideshow will not change the aspect ratio automatically To change slideshow aspect ratio go to the Project options gt Screen tab and set it manua
69. lly according to the dimension of your photos Effects Tab With the help of Effects Tab you can add different transitions between slides and make your show animated When checking the box Enable transition effects all transition effects become highlighted and you may choose among them lt is necessary to note that if you want to see how these effects work it is better to experiment with them Project Options Transition effects Enable transition effects Fade in out F Fade infout The first several effects such as Fade in out Hour hand Hour Hand Rhombus Rectangle Gates Page H clockwise Effect Push Flip 3D and Slide Effects and Counter clockwise p fea some others are self explanatory Circle effect To center Center has one peculiarity you may change the Center From center Bo wx o here with the help of small arrows which are Rhombus found beside If you scroll the Effects Tab down To center IF From center you will see such effects as Mosaic Curling of Page which should be described Rectangle To center E Mosaic has different appearances and can consist of different number of pieces which can Gates horizontal vertical gt move with different speed Thickness of smoothing line 35 0 Effect duration 1500 ms about 1 second s Mosaic F Mosaic e A A A ee Parts x 8 Appearance 10 You can set any number of pieces If you want large pieces you should set less
70. n choose the necessary color Besides you can select Display Waveform in two ways While adjusting your slide show in the Project Options tick the synchronization of music to the slides in the Main Tab If you do this then in the Customize Synchronization window the default is Synchronize music and slides Besides this you may tick Auto spread slides along music In this case the timeline window will be greyed out and the slides will be equally distributed along the whole music track For example if you have sound track which lasts 1 minute and you have 10 slides in your slide show then the intervals between the slides will be 6 seconds Cut transition Timed Points 0 00 000 gt Customize Slide Objects and Animation Slide 1 of 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 2 23 24 25 06 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 to 6 i gt To see the timeline and synchronization window you should click the button Timeline and the following window instead the Slide List will be opened The timeline window is represented below Here you can see slides which are represented by figures below the line The figures above the line indicate the seconds The beginning of the timeline is zero the end depends on the duration of the sound track and may be any number of seconds or minutes Thick grey lines beside each slide indicate transition time You can also see a blue triangle with the help of which you can go from one sli
71. nguage Open the fourth menu from the top panel of PTE window Select the fourth line and then switch to the necessary language from the list When I try to open save one of my projects it says that the images are not found This problem may be caused if you remove or replace any files images music while making a project or after saving a project You shouldn t remove or replace any files used in a show from their original folders because the program keeps in memory each file s path in order to find it next time you open your project When I create the show my images look normal but when play the created presentation the color gamma of these images is much brighter By default we use a hardware accelerated screen mode in v5 00 It allows us to attain ideally smooth Pan Zoom effects This mode used in Media Center Chess Game and Aero Glass uses the interface in Windows Vista Unfortunately drivers of ATI video cards for Windows XP contain a bug It ignores color gamma settings in the fullscreen mode which you adjust for the desktop ATI has already fixed this bug for their drivers for Windows Vista and they also promise to fix it for Windows XP later As a temporary solution go to Project options gt Screen tab and uncheck Use hardware acceleration option But if you use Pan Zoom effects it will not play smoothly enough You can complain to ATI and ask them to fix this bug as soon as possible Zoom Pan transitions are
72. of interest and click on it this file will appear in the file panel EE EE 6 5 Microsoft ACT Ey Microsoft ActiveSync Ey Microsoft Chat H E microsoft frontpage H E Microsoft Office H E Microsoft Visual Studio NET E E Microsoft Windows Small Bu E E Microsoft NET H E Movie Maker H MSN Gaming Zone E NetMeeting 4 am Online Services 3 m3 H OpenOffice org 2 0 1 iL Opera A E Outlook Express E E PicturesToExe 4 43 E E PicturesToExe 4 48 E E PixBuilderStudio E PRMT6 y Rambler Assistant Ey visbroker PP a Windows Media comoonent El mee IMG_0046 jpg mT J Litt Above the window which is on the right you can see several icons What do they mean this is the feature for adjusting the size of the images in the selected file this icon changes the file directory tree to a full screen window where you can see all files and images more clearly S this icon gives you a short way to go to the file My Documents this icon gives you an opportunity to go up to one level while searching for the necessary image 24 Preview Window for a Selected Slide or Image When you click on the necessary image in the file panel or the slide list it will appear in the Preview Window for as a Selected Slide or Image You should remember that if you choose the image in the file panel it wil
73. of the tab which is called Customize comment font you can select the font of your comments Bold Italic or Project Options Main Advanced Music Comments Screen Effects More Customize comment Fant Underscore font Color Line Spacing Offset Drop shadow and the Size of the text On the right to the font s zlu A adjustments you can select the Position of the comments on a slide by clicking on the arrow aan Position on a slide where drop down menu will be opened You PH anacng may set from the variety of choices on the Left Offset or on the Right at the Top or at the Bottom Size and so on You may either 3 add Drop shadow if you mm check it and Customize for Top Color Opacity Angle Size Right Set text comment for new slides and Spread If it IS 2 Pina sas necessary You shouldn t Left Top forget to Set for existing Fight Top files all your settings a m In the second part of the Comments Tab Set text comments for new slides you may either use comments templates or add new ones according to your choice If you click on the button Insert template the drop menu will be opened Here you can choose what you want and the necessary information will be added automatically Picture Name Picture Name with Extension Picture Path Picture Path with Extension Folder Name Folder Path Picture Width Picture Height Slide Number Slides Count JPEG EXIF Description JPEG EXI
74. on Play it will turn 1 Pause and vice versa When you click on Play the blue triangle will stand at the beginning of the timeline and will move to the right on the bar It is necessary to add that right click of the mouse on the preview window gives you an opportunity to see the slide show on the whole screen Here you can also see two buttons Customize Slide and Objects and Animation They are used for adjusting each slide which you choose and which appears in the preview window These two functions will be described in details further see Customize Slide p 28 and Object and Animation p 32 25 The Slide List The Slide List is the place in the main window where all slides which are selected for the slide show are situated It s important to note that all slides are set up in a certain succession and you can move slides by dragging them in the necessary direction You can add images in the slide list in several ways m by double clicking on the image in the selected file in the directory tree m by clicking on the image and then clicking on the button Add which is situated in the Control Buttons panel m by dragging the image with the help of the mouse in this case it will look As seen from the figure keep clicking on the image and drag it to the necessary place The black line behind the image shows the place where this image will be set 3 bmp 3 IMG_5564 bmp 4 IMG_5590 bmp 5 IMG 0046 3
75. ote that the quality of sound and video is not changed only their size is reduced When you press the buttons Audio and Video Codec you can select the necessary program for compression manually but the program always does it automatically m The next three windows here denote the number of vertical and horizontal lines and the number of frames per second FPS You can also change it manually but it is better to set the default settings here m You may see the preview button here and set the time the number of seconds which you want to preview The default is 10 seconds here m At last you should press Create AVI or Cancel if you don t want to create anything m When you press the Create AVI button the dialog box for saving it will be opened and after that the creating process will begin m When creating process is finished burn this AVI file on the disc Publish on Youtube If you want other users to see your slideshow in the Internet you may publish it on Youtube When selecting this option on the button Create you will see the following window where you may also sign up to this site ns ay For publishing your slideshow you should enter your Login and Publish slideshow online on Youtube corn You can watch slideshow on Youtube or embed it into your website and Passwo rd blog HD quality 1280 x 720 and Standard quality 640 x 360 modes are available Sign up to YouTube corn j ce etd After that you can select be
76. ou have new televisions such as LCD E or flat panel TV screens The Aspect ratio for Audo options MPEG awdio 48 KHz Stereo them differs from the old ones The default of Title aspect ratio is Auto but you may also select 4 3 or 16 9 You should remember that it is the aspect ratio not for your slideshow but only for the menu and title Audio format MPEG Audio Ay Advanced options m Next you can choose Bitrate the default is 7000 kbps but if you have the necessity you Return to menu after each title can change this figure Add chapters tS min The next Video Type can be also changed There are two types of them Interlaced and Progressive The default is Auto that is Interlaced But if you have a new TV such as LCD or flat panel televisions you d better select Progressive video type Repeat playback of a disc m In Audio options you may select the necessary Audio format and its Bitrate Here it is better to use default settings to avoid a bad quality sound track m In Advanced Options you can customize such settings as to Repeat playback of a disc or not to Return to menu after each title or not You can also add chapters to your DVD disc and set the number of minutes for each chapter m Inthe Program Tab you can choose the place for the temporary file of your project yy Project Program Idle priority Temp folder m The next buttons are Set Defaults OK and Cancel which are s
77. ou should remember that if you delete a parent object all its children objects will also be deleted The icon Undo and the gt icon that means Redo give you an opportunity to make changes during your work till they are not saved The last icon here which is called Show Hide Grid helps you to set or hide grid if necessary for better and easier customizing of the image If you click on this icon you will see the following view This grid is very helpful if you want to customize buttons or frames and to set them regularly It is centered on the image from the left upper corner You may also customize the grid on clicking the button near the icon Grid In this case you will see the following window 1 E K p Db PI SS a iad A f ii y IM pa Tt PALO gt ae y First you can customize the Color s of the grid by clicking the button A The first box is for the whole grid and the second box is for every tenth cell of the grid From the example you can see that the color of the whole grid is green and of every tenth cell is orange Color s You may also show this grid in pixels or just in columns Moving A 4 the bar near this option gives you an opportunity to enlarge or diminish the grid If you set to show the grid in columns you will 4 In pixels J see two boxes with numbers where you can set the necessary w Snap To Grid Offset number of columns vertically
78. r menu 9 Nearby Redo Undo buttons you can see the Scale button with the help of which you can change the size of the preview window if you want to customize it and you need another scale The default is Auto But you may select from 10 to 500 of the screen As you can see from the figure below the preview window is surrounded by dark blue rectangle which shows safe TV zone 1 Autumn OOO RO 1 Autumn 3 0008 74 In the first picture you can see this rectange which determines the zone you won t see on your TV In the second picture you can t see this zone you just see the whole picture on you monitor It is recommended to show TV safe zone because it is more convenient to adjust your menu watching this zone But if you want to switch this option off for some reason then you should right click on the menu and the following box will be opened y Apply changes for each page Show safe TY zone Next Page Select frame Properties This dialog box is the same as Edit menu of this window So you have two ways of opening it by right clicking on the preview window and by clicking on the Edit menu in the left upper corner of the main window You can see several options here almost all of them have been described already Apply changes for each page is the option which helps you to make all changes very quickly If you have more than one project and more than one page in the menu
79. rate is 1 44 Mbps VCDs can be played on a VCD player connected to a television set in the same way that video cassettes can on a VCR or computer on a CD player W WAV or WAVE is an audio file format standard for storing audio on computers lt is the main format used on Windows systems for raw audio Though a WAV file can hold compressed audio the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the pulse code modulation PCM format PCM audio is the standard audio file format for CDs containing two channels of 44 100 samples per second 16 bits per sample Since PCM uses an uncompressed lossless storage method which keeps all the samples of an audio track professional users or audio experts may use the WAV format for maximum audio quality WAV audio can also be edited and manipulated with relative ease using software Waveform means the shape and form of a signal such as a wave moving in a solid liquid or gaseous medium In many cases the medium in which the wave is being propagated does not permit a direct visual image of the form In these cases the term waveform refers to the shape of a graph of the varying quantity against time or distance WMV Windows Media Video is a compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft The original codec known as WMV was originally designed for Internet streaming applications 86 ZY ZIP is a file format popular data compression and archival
80. reen E The last and next to waveform option and icon gives you an opportunity to have a look at chosen images in the standalone window On clicking this button you will see the following window Here you can see all images which you have added to your slide show Below the images you have the option which gives an opportunity to observe images with names or without them Next to this option you can see the bar which can be regulated manually to zoom images In previous versions this option wasnt available in the timeline operation it could be used only in the slide list 65 Video Options If you have a look at the Control Buttons you will see Create button When clicking on this button you will see the window where you can select what to create You may choose between several kinds of videos such as HD Video for PC and Mac _ DVD Video disc Video for iPhone and AVI HD Video for PC and Mac video file Creates high quality video File Besides you may publish this video on Youtube DYD Yideo Disc and Vimeo For players connected to television As in the previous versions of PTE you may create Screen Saver and Executable File Yideo for iPhone Creates video file For iPhone and iPod All these options will be described in details further AVI video file Creates real or virtual ANI File with any video codec Publish on Youtube As a preview of slideshow on
81. s fixed It is pressing CtrltO Open project Ctrl N CtrltS and other key shortcuts whilst PicturesToExe creates large EXE file caused the incorrect work of the program e An old bug since v5 5 when Image Load Error might occur in Slide list MiniPlayer and Objects and animation editor on projects with hundreds slides of large images about 8 megapixels each one is fixed e An old bug since v5 0 Push effect mixed up Bottom Top and Top Bottom variations with disabled hardware acceleration option is fixed Questions What are the system requirements for slide shows For slide shows with Pan Zoom effects CPU 1 4 GHz 384 MB of system memory video card with 128 MB of video memory Windows XP Vista 2000 2003 DirectX 9 1 or later For slide shows created with simple effects PC with 500 Mhz CPU 64 Mb of system memory any video card any version of Windows How can register Pictures ToExe Please open this page hittp www wnsoft com apr bought Pictures ToExe vX xx Should pay again for next versions No you need not pay for PicturesToExe again and you can use all future versions of PicturesToExe free of charge Besides you will get two years of free upgrades for VideoBuilder module in PicturesToExe Deluxe After two years term you can use last version of VideoBuilder installed on your computer or pay for upgrade to use its new version don t have an opportunity to download the program from t
82. s with the help of blue arrows in the Animation Tab On clicking the Preview or Play button you can see how the animation works 43 How to Create Mask Effect For creating special effects in your animation you can use Mask Let s see how this option works After opening the image in the Object and Animation window first you should add the mask with the help of the button M in the tool bar For our example we have chosen this image which is used as mask It will look in that way EA Objects and Animation Slide 3 of 3 MEAR M I w A sa 9 el B i E Auto vi de ye lt Properties Common Animation Objects 3 IMG_0046 Mask Container Mask mask 1 v gt z ms Duration 00 04 000 Position 00 12 000 Here in the object list you see that we have mask container as a parent object and the mask itself as a child object To achieve a special effect when instead of the white circle you will see another image you should add the image you want but you should remember that this image should lay in the mask container and should also be its child object The example of how it will look like you may see below 44 kA Objects and Animation Slide 3 of 3 MO AL D x B i 4 A I v lt gt 1500 ms Duration 00 04 000 Position 00 12 000 H Images IMG_7685 jpg m After you have added the mask and the image you can make pan zoom effects as it
83. sc is an optical disc used to store digital data originally developed for storing digital audio The CD available on the market since late 1982 remains the standard playback medium for commercial audio recordings to the present day Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 mm and can hold up to 80 minutes of audio There are also 80 mm discs sometimes used for CD singles which can store up to 24 minutes of audio Comment in Pictures ToExe is the text which appears during the showing of images D Duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval 82 DVD video disc Digital Video Disc is a popular optical disc storage media format lts main uses are video and data storage Most DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs but store more than 6 times as much data The capacity is from 4 7 Gb on a single sided single layer disc up to 8 54 Gb on a single sided double layer disc E Effect in PicturesToExe is any comment transition animation pan zoom and so on EXE file is the common filename extention for denoting an executable file a program in different operating systems Besides the executable program itself many EXE files contain other components called resources such as bitmaps and icons which the executable program may use for its graphical user interface F File is a block of arbitrary information or resource for storing information which is available to a computer program and is usually based on som
84. see Timeline Operation p 62 38 Linearity In several options such as Pan Zoom and Rotate you may find Linear movements of the image which you may adjust When clicking on it the following dialog box will appear Here you can see Settings up Linear and non linear features Accelerate Slow Down and Smooth setting up Linear Accelerate Slow down Smooth m Linear means that an object or an image moves begins continues and ends with one and the same speed Accelerate begins slowly and then accelerates up to the end m Slow Down begins at a high speed and then decelerates up to the end Smooth begins slowly and ends also slowly but in the middle it moves with linear speed More often Linear and Smooth movements are used First you should choose linear or non linear movement then click Setting up and the next box will be opened EA speed options Separate here Last Templates 39 Here you can see the number of keypoints which you have created for a certain image in the timeline window You always have the first and the last keypoint and a number of inner keypoints The first and the last cannot be changed but inner keypoints are changeable You can see the scissors on the inner keypoints which may help you to seperate the movement or vice versa to glue it The difference is that if you separate the movement will not be smooth So it is better not to do it and to le
85. shadow behind slide image Customize By clicking on the Customize button you may select the necessary Color Opacity Angle Distance from the Image and Size of the 100 of the slide to show main images Shadow If the image does not fill the whole screen there will be black lines on the screen In this case you can choose the Color outside slide area by clicking on the button A and selecting the suitable color Additional Options scroll down to view The Percentage of the slide to show main images is the option which gives you an opportunity to watch your slide show at any size on the monitor 92 Aspect Ratio This article will help you to prepare your slideshows for burning on DVD by using PicturesToExe and Video Builder Let s try to explain what the difference between DVD aspect ratio and slide show aspect ratio is DVD aspect ratio is set in Video Builder in Project Options window Slideshow aspect ratio is set in Pictures ToExe in Project Options gt Screen tab Encoding DVD aspect ratio 4 3 Slideshow aspect ratio 16 9 Here is the example of what happens with slideshows if you encode presentation with 16 9 800x450 aspect ratio slideshow aspect ratio with 4 3 aspect ratio DVD aspect ratio bottom black area 53 4 3 TV display example While viewing this DVD on TV set with 4 3 sides video will look like encoded before picture below r 1 Slideshow aspect ratio 16 9 2 DVD aspect ratio
86. sional users This option is described in more details in the section Objects and Animation Common Tab p 36 Set Defaults Fixed size of slide in pixels is the option which doesn t allow the picture to change in size if the screen is larger than the picture itself In this case the black lines which color you may change appear If the option is unchecked the picture can be zoomed The next option Caption of show works only for the Windowed Mode If you have chosen Fullscreen mode then this option is of no use to you Hardware acceleration option should be generally checked if you create the show with animations It gives you an opportunity to watch your slide show with a better quality m In the Background Section you may set the background as Solid color Gradient filling or Tiled image You should remember that if your images fill the whole screen then this option is of no use to you But if the images dont fill the screen you may select among three variants which have been already described earlier See Customize Slide Background p 28 m In the third section Additional Options first you may see Display shadow behind slide image If this option is checked you can also Customize it It is important that this function also works only when the image doesn t fill the screen Don t Color outside slide area ee forget to click on the Set for existing slides button to set this option for the whole slide show _ Display
87. sition is represented here but you may adjust everything according to your wish by moving the cursors to the right or to the left Menu colors Saturation Lightness l 12 m You can also see two options Properties and Select Frame which are greyed out To highlight and customize them you should click on the project in the menu window When clicking on the Properties the next window will appear where there are two tabs Property and Drop Shadow Tabs Property x Property A Properties Drop Shadow Position Drop Shadow Enabled Size Color Opacity Opacity r Angle Distance Size In the Property tab you may set the position and the size of the project window by clicking on the small blue arrows You can also customize Opacity if you wish In the Drop Shadow Tab you can add and customize shadow to the project window if you wish You may adjust the color opacity and Angle of the shadow distance from the window size and shape of it You may also add some shadow templates to your wish In the Select frame option you can choose the picture which you want to see in the project in the menu window You can scan the project with the help of the Play button and stop at the necessary image This image will be represented in the project window gt Select video frame Seles
88. so specifies the format of movies and other programs that are distributed on DVD and similar discs such as TV stations TV receivers DVD players and other equipment are often designed to this standard MPEG 2 was the second of several standards developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group 84 N Navigation Bar also known as links bar or link bar is a subregion of a web page that contains hypertext links in order to navigate between the pages of a website Since it usually appears on all or at least on several pages of a website it is one of the key design elements of websites NTSC is the analog television system in use in the United States Canada Japan Mexico the Philippines South Korea Taiwan and some other countries mostly in the Americas It is named for the National Television System Committee the U S standardization body which adopted it O Object in Pictures ToExe is any image file frame comment text or button in the Object List OGG is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation The name Ogg refers to the file format which can multiplex a number of separate independent free and open source codecs for audio video text such as subtitles and metadata The term Ogg is often used to refer to Audio File Format OGG Vorbis that is Vorbis encoded audio in the Ogg container Opacity is the
89. state of being impenetrable to light An opaque object is neither transparent allowing all light to pass through nor translucent allowing some light to pass through When light strikes an interface between two substances some of the light is reflected some is absorbed and the rest is transmitted P PAL Phase Alternating Line is a colour encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world Other common analog television systems are SECAM and NTSC PAL was developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken in Germany The format was first unveiled in 1963 with the first broadcasts beginning in the United Kingdom and Germany in 1967 PDF Portable Document Format is the file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange PDF is fixed layout document format used for representing two dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software hardware and operating system Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2 D document and with Acrobat 3 D embedded 3 D documents that includes the text fonts images and 2 D vector graphics that compose the document PNG Portable Network Graphics is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression PNG was created to improve upon and replace the GIF format as an image file format not requiring a patent license PNG supports palette based palettes of 24 bit RGB colors or greyscale or RGB images Preview may be
90. t Right Style It means that you can add color background at the top or at the bottom of the screen or on the left or right side of it To select the color you should also click on the buttons A m f you choose Tiled Background Picture the following box will be shown Background Use own background preference Background color Gradient filling Tiled background picture Size of image gt As you can see by clicking on the folder you can select the image from any directory file you wish and adjust its size 29 Advanced Options Advanced Options include the button Run External Application On choosing this option you can add to your slide show any application from any directory file It may be any picture menu slide show and so on Effect Tab If you want to add some settings for the slide or to use transition effects you should have a look at this tab Here you can choose among a great number of different transitions by clicking on them Customize Slide 3 Use customized settings for this slide Main Effect Music Use own transition effect Use default effect but with own duration Quick no transition effect Fade in out Fade in out Hour hand Clockwise Counter dockwise Circle To center O From center Rhombus To center O From center C Own thickness of smoothing line 60 w Effect duration 1500 about 1 second s
91. t the necessary keypoints and then click Arrange Selected Points In this case all selected points will be set at equal intervals of time Of course you can do this manually but it is much easier to set them automatically New transition Cut transition Timed Points 9gs 10s Ve 122 132 14s 15 Ibs 17s 18s Cut All Transition Points is the option which helps you to delete all keypoints and then to set new ones 2 Shift Points is the option which gives you an opportunity to move all or selected points to the necessary direction to the right or to the left on the necessary number of seconds For doing this you should select the keypoints and click Shift Points In this case the following dialog box will be opened i Here you can Choose Direction where shift Points tal to shift the points the first arrow gives you an opportunity to shift to the left the Choose Direction second one to the right Then you can set a number of seconds and milliseconds on which you wish to shift the points After that click OK and see the result a Set Time of Points is the option which gives you an opportunity to set all the slides or just selected slides at the intervals time which you can set manually To do this you should select the slides if you need and click button Set Time of Points In this case the following dialog box will be opened i Here you can set a number of milliseconds which the set
92. the first box and horizontally the second box 4 ri ic The Offset is used if you want to move the grid relatively You can move the grid up and down or to the left and to the right with the help of arrows which are situated beside the option itself 33 The ninth and tenth icons Copy and Paste are used to save images and other effects and to use them later with other slides It s very convenient if you want to use similar effects and transitions with several objects You just should highlight the necessary effects in the object list and click the button Copy then open the next slide and press Paste All effects will be applied to that image The next icon shows the scale of the slide You may choose the necessary percent from 10 to 500 for better view of the image It s convenient when you want to have a look at the image but the size of it is very large or small If it s large you may reduce the Percentage View up to 10 if you can t see the whole image at 100 On the other hand if the image is too small you can put 100 and more for better look at it The last icon Close allows you to close the main window of this option Objects and Animation option 34 Properties Tab The Properties Tab is situated on the right side of the main window of the option Objects and Animation and shows the main characteristics of the image or object Here you can see the information where this image or object is located on your comput
93. the help of these options you can Add slides to the timeline Remove one or more slides and Clear List In the last case all the slides will be deleted from the timeline and you can set a new timeline if you wish Next to these three options you can see the button which is called Waveform Clicking on it you will see the waveform of the sound track on the timeline bar It is important to hi know that the waveform will appear only if the soundtrack is added le 22 Gs de 5s be Te 8s Ys 10s lle 12s 132 14s 15s 16s 17s 18s 19s Oe le 222 12 de bs Fhe ffs 20s 24s 3 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to F ta E to 9 to 10 m lt is necessary to note that you can adjust the color of the waveform in the View Menu gt Timeline Options Besides you can select the Display of the waveform in two ways 2 Mired danek The difference is only in the way of presentation the waveform In the Left and Right channels example above you can see the waveform with Mixed channels Below you can see the example with Left and Right channels le 22 Gs de Ss bz fs 8s Ys 0s lle 12s 13s 14s 15s bs 17s 18 19s 20s le 22s 23s de Pas be Fis Z0 24s 3 1 to 2 ta 3 to 4 ta to E toad to 10 After having adjusted all these options you can see the result either by clicking button Play in this case you may see the slide show in a small preview window or by clicking button Preview in this case you may see the slide show fullsc
94. the same virtual size of the image as its real size not to contradict with the position and size parameters of the image It is important to note that this option is helpful for professional users if they want to compose the slide from several images for example If you know the real size of the image you just set the same virtual size in the Project options Screen Tab and then enter the exact figures of position of the images in the position box and the images will be set in the necessary places without any difficulties If the virtual size of the images contradicts with their real size the images will be put in the wrong places ss nl EN In the option Size position in pixels you can also see one more ad Orignal mode tab Original mode which gave you the size and position in percents in the previous versions So if you earlier prefer to use Position 0 000 option Original Mode then use this tab in that version te r Size 80 000 80 000 2 m Perspective Correction of Zoom is used instead of camera zoom m Transparent to Selection gives you an opportunity to make changes in the selected object without touching the other objects if there are any m Time Range here you can set the time to display the image in the slideshow But you d better use timeline window Mo ct to slide You can also select the Mode between Fit to slide Cover Slide Fit to slide Cover slide 36 a Drop Shadow and Glow
95. those whose file extensions indicates that the file type is intended as a starting point from which to create other files Thumbnails are reduced size versions of pictures used to make it easier to scan and recognize them serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words Timeline is the presentation of time of images and music and their synchronization TV System analog television system includes several components a set of technical parameters for the broadcast signal a system for encoding color and possibly a system for encoding multi channel audio In digital television all of these elements are combined in a single digital transmission system V Video Codec is a device or software that enables video compression and or decompression for digital video The compression usually employs lossy data compression Historically video was stored as an analog signal on magnetic tape Around the time when the compact disc entered the market as a digital format replacement for analog audio it became feasible to also begin storing and using video in digital form and a variety of such technologies began to emerge VCD also called video CD video compact disc or disc is a format specifically designed to hold MPEG 1 video data and to include interactive capabilities VCD has a resolution similar to that of VHS which is far short of the resolution of DVD format Each VCD disc holds 72 74 minutes of video and the bit
96. to see how different options may function On clicking this menu the following dialogue box will appear m User Guide Online opens the page of our official site where User Guide Online Fl i Download User Guide in PDF you can find the User Guide What s Mew Download User Guide in PDF helps you to go to the Useful Resources necessary place in the site and then download and save the clean Sereen User Guide to your computer About PicturesToExe m Whats New the option which gives you a link to the website where you can see what is new in the new version of Pictures ToExe m On clicking Welcome screen the following window with all opportunities of this program is shown Welcome to Pictures ToExe 22 About PicturesToExe option gives you information about the developers of this program Licensed to Olga Deluxe Edition Visit our Website Developed by wey WIS of corn Igor Kokarey Aleksey Elin Technical support Pavel Koshkin whit Ys Of com Sergey Malychev Copyright c 1996 4008 ne oft 23 The Directory Tree of Files The drive selector and the file panel is represented on the left side of the main window It s an ordinary window where all directories and files of your computer are arranged on different drives It s very convenient to choose among them and to look for the necessary directory or file When you choose a file in the directory
97. transition effects between slides Flip 3D effect is added Swap 3D effect is added The reworked Curling of page 3D effect Set the large radius parameter to get completely new effects Improvements in Objects and Animation window Mask objects for creating of special effects You can apply several Masks to one image object Music and sounds are added when you click Play button for preview Anti shimmering mipmapping option for Image and Text objects is added This option prevents appearing of shimmering when object has zoom from small size to large size e An improved view of Action on mouse click list e Anew action Run slideshow is added The Pause button is added Original size mode of objects has been replaced Now use Fixed size of slide in pixels mode in Project options Screen tab And Size position in pixels button in Common tab of object properties Virtual size of slide parameters as an alternate way to set aspect ratio of slide Project options Screen tab is added It helps to work with the Size Position tool window in Object and animation editor New commands Run Slideshow and Run Slideshow on Exit to Project options More tab and as an action for objects is added This option is highly recommended if you want to start another slideshow after the current one and for building of the menu It will guarantee a flawless start of the next slideshow after the current one In fact
98. tween e emt or HID quality f yoy want to ogin Password i customize the quality of video manually you should select the video option Custom and adjust the SD quality HD quality 2 Custom parameters Width and Height of your video C keep Your Login amp Password Fan amp Scan enabled Keep converted video File s after uploading Then press the button Next Output Folder Documents and Settingsolga Tf Then the program automatically checks your Login and Password and the next dialog box will appear 5 Publish on Youtube AH Here you may customize some of the Publish slideshow online on Youtube com You can watch slideshow on Youtube or embed it into your website and video file pa rameters blog Medium quality 480 x 360 Sign up to YouTube com such as Title Description Video Video File params Category Comedy ro a Science Sports and so Description September 2008 on and Tags Next you should choose the output Wideo Category folder for your slideshow and click the Tos button Convert After converting the video will be automatically laid out on Youtube in your Output Folder Publish on Vimeo If you are registered on Vimeo you have an opportunity to publish it here When selecting this option you may see the following window SE Here you should also enter 7 Email and Password of Publish on Vimeo Publish slideshow wideo online on Yimeo corm with HD quality Yo
99. u can watch slideshow on Vimeo or embed it into your registration on bsik d blog HO lity 1260 x 720 and Standard lity 640 x 480 mod lable 5i E bd and blog HD quality x and Standard quality x modes are available Sign up to Vimeo select the output folder and click the button Login and Password Next Ema PI In the next window you you Keep Your Login amp Password may customize almost the same parameters as with Youtube they are Title Description and Tags lv Pan amp Scan After that click the button e Keep converted video file s after uploading Convert and the slideshow after the converting process will be laid out on Vimeo Video 5D quality 2 HD quality Output Folder C Documents and Settings 78 Screen Saver You may also create a Screen Saver Choose this option you will see the window where you can select the place for saving it on your computer and click the button Save The file in SCR format is ready Executable File If you want to create an EXE file select this option on the button Create and save on the computer anywhere you want 19 Hotkeys F1 Help F2 Rename F3 Fullscreen View File Panel F4 Fullscreen View Slide List FS Preview F7 Create Screensaver F8 Create Slideshow As F9 Create Slideshow F10 Exit Alt B Create Backup in ZIP Alt F Rotate counterclockwise Alt l Ignore Objects Not Selected Alt R Random Order
100. uch options as ll File List Customize Startup Window Customize Help Message Project Options Ctrl P m he Undo and Redo options will help you to make some changes while creating your slideshow Customize Startup Window Customize Help Message Project Options Ctrl P 5 Tools Lite ES A Select All Pictures Unselect All Pictures Add Selected Pictures to Slide List Add All Pictures to Slide List Ctri4 E Rotate clockwise lossless Rotate counterclockwise lossless Rename File List this option goes to the selected file in the directory tree With the help of this option you can select or unselect all pictures at once and add them to the slide list It will save your time as the work will go more quickly m The Customize Startup Window Customize Help Message and the Project Options will be described thoroughly later see Projects Options Main Tab p 46 19 Slide Menu Slide Menu has a number of options which are related to the slide itself and its characteristics Sin View Help Copy Slide Customize Current Slide Objects and Animation Reset Personal Settings of All Slides Random Order Remove Slide From Slide List Clear Slide List Rotate clockwise lossless Rotate counterclockwise lossless Rename Ctrl U Ctrl B Set Comments on All Slides Current One Ctrl M Alt F m f you want to Copy Rename Remove Sli
101. uentiel couleur a m moire French for Sequential Color with Memory is an analog color television system first used in France A team led by Henri de France working at 85 Compagnie Francaise de T l vision later bought by Thompson invented SECAM It is historically the first European color television standard Slide in Pictures ToExe is the image which you is used in the project and can be seen on the screen Slide List is the list of images which you use in the project Slide show is a display of a series of chosen images which is done for artistic or instructional purposes lt is becoming more common to see digital slideshows Slideshows custom made for people using their photos music wedding invitations birth announcements or virtually any other documents that can be scanned Some people are calling these DVD s the new photo montage or DVD slideshows SVCD disc the Super Video CD standard upgrades the Video CD format It utilizes better Video and Audio quality It also standard includes extensions for surround sound multi channel audio provisions for PC playback It s also based on variable bit rate VBR MPEG 2 coding for more efficient use of disc capacity The bit rate is up to 2 6 Mbps T Template when used in the context of file format refers to a common feature of many software applications that define a unique file format intended specifically for that particular application Template file formats are
102. uld enter Login and Password and select between Publish slideshow online on Youtube com You can watch slideshow an Youtube or embed it into your website and the S D and H D q uality of video blog HD quality 1280 x 720 and Standard quality 480 x 360 modes are available Sign up to YouTube com Then choose the output folder and convert video Login and Password LI Keep Your Login amp Password Video 5D quality HD quality Pan amp Scan enabled Keep converted video File s after uploading Gutput Folder C Documents and Settings olgal Create AVI video file When selecting AVI file the following dialog box will be opened E First you can select what kind of video to create If you want to create an AVI video file first you should make some O ies urn E adjustments But if you want to select EA Making of AVI video file width Height FPS among other variants youd better DeD Yideo Disc understand the difference between O AD 1080 E them HD 1280x720p 50 FPS For Adobe Encore DVD i Doa i EE a DVD Video disc Digital Video Disc F Smart anti flicker Filter is a popular optical disc storage media format lts main uses are video and data storage Most DVDs are of the same dimensions as compact discs but store more than 6 times as much data The capacity is from 4 7 Gb on a single sided single layer disc up to 8 54 Gb on a single sided double layer disc Sound f
103. und next to the Properties Tab and includes the following options Properties Common Animation m First you can see the Name of the image you have selected and adjust Then you can choose the Action on mouse click None Exit Next Slide Previous Slide Help and so on Action on mouse click Mone w e None Run slideshow O a Run slideshow with Return A AR Run application or open file Run application and exit Drop shadow Print picture slide F Perspective correction For Zoom Help Open Web page Transparent To Selection write e mail Next slide Time range s500 E Previous slide Go to first slide Mode Fit to slide hu Go to slide number Positi dea askon n pereents Exit E kee Ey The next option Size position in pixels defines the position Fin Pixels original mode and size of the image on the screen With the help of the small arrows you can enlarge or diminish and move the picture If you Position 0 000 x 42 800 click on the word Position your image will be moved to the Size Zero position to the left upper corner of the window If you click on the word Size the image will get a real size notwithstanding the size of the preview window You should remember that if you change the virtual size of the images of the slideshow in the Project Options Screen tab the figures here wil be also changed and the image will be moved not right So it is better to set
104. up to 16 seconds but 1500 ms 1500 ms dont switch on the option Scale keypoints in objects on time change The time from the first to the second keypoint hasn t changed E Here we also set the time of 1500 ms 1500 ms the slide up to 16 seconds and switch the option Scale keypoints in objects on time change So the time from the first to the second keypoint is twice bigger now 1500 ms 28 Background It s important to note that this option is necessary if the size of the image doesn t fit the whole size of the monitor screen and you should fill the left place with some color or background to be exact Here you can choose among Background Color Gradient Filling and Tiled Background Picture If you choose Background Color just simple color will appear To choose the color you should click on the button A beside and you will see the following dialogue box Choose color Style 1 Style 2 Style 3 Reference New Old Components RGB Using this color box you can choose any color you wish You can also choose between RGB and HSL which is the modification of RGB You can adjust all necessary parameters m f you choose Gradient Filling you will see the next box Background Use own background preference Background color 2 Gradient filling Tiled background picture Here you can choose between Top Bottom Style and Lef
105. w Here you can see the following buttons Create button is used when you have finished customizing your slide show and want to create video file of different formats such as HD Video for PC or Mac AVI video file DVD Video disc Video for iPhone exe file or screensaver Besides you can publish this video with your slideshow on Youtube or Vimeo This new for this version of PTE option will be described in more details further see Video Options p 66 Preview button allows you to preview the whole slide show from the beginning up to the end If you want to preview it from a particular slide you should use the button which is found by Preview When clicking on Project Options a large dialog box with numerous options and settings for your slide show will appear A detailed description of this button can be seen see Projects Options p 44 Timeline option is necessary for synchronizing images to music On clicking this button you will see the timeline window where you should do all adjustments This function will also be described in more details further see Timeline Operation p 62 Add Remove and Clear List buttons are related to the slide list and are used to add new images remove unnecessary ones and to clear the whole slide list The explanation of icon was given earlier in the article about the directory tree of files The Status Bar At the very bottom of the main window you can see the status bar
106. y drop shadow pan zoom size of the frame and so on The next icon Add Button helps you to add buttons to your slide With the help of it you can make different actions to the slide and to the slide show on the whole For example you can exit the slide show go to the next or previous slide make a pause send e mail The whole list of all possible functions you can find in the common tab on the right side of the main window As well as with the Frame you can customize the view of the button according to the color size shadow You can also add the necessary text of any font color and size The icon in the form of A helps you to add the text to the image You can choose font size also shadow pan zoom and other options here to make your comment fit the style of the image and the slide show gt 32 L The fourth icon Rectangle as well as frame may be used for making slide shows more animated It may be also used as backgrounds to the images On clicking the fifth icon Add Image the dialog box where you can choose the necessary image from the directory tree of files will appear If you want your added image to be independent from the other objects you should see that no objects are highlighted in the object list in the right lower corner of the main window before clicking on this icon The next button Delete is used when you want to delete the selected object from the object list Y
107. your website or blog Publish on Yimeo Watch slideshow online with HO or SO quality Screen Saver Screen Saver For Windows Executable File Highest quality and quick creation 66 HD Video for PC and Mac If you want to create high quality video file for PC Mac and PlayStation 3 When choosing this option and clicking on it you will see the following window Creating HD video for PC and Mac Creating of videofile in H 264 Format For viewing of slideshow on PC MAC and PlayStation 3 Recommended players for playback are Media Player Classic Homecinema QuickTime and others Presets 5D 800 x 600 Low quality Output Folder C Documents and Settings Here you can see several presets which are cusomized already It means that width height fps mode and some other features are customized and you may choose the necessary one But if you want to customize all these parameters manually you should click the button Custom and the following window will appear Presets You can customize such video parameters as width height fps a mode quality and such audio parameters width 800 E Height Fos Auto se oo bitrate camp erae Mode One pass qualty v Quality 43 v channels leon 2 Between width and Audio height you can see this Bitrate Samplerate Channels small yellow Icon which is used to fix aspect ratio if it is necessary
108. ys the disk is full recorded disc doesn t play in a DVD player 1 Make sure that your disc is not full 2 Do you use high quality DVD discs Please try to use another disc and try to record once again If the program does not respond or you face any error messages please report this to technical support service Il burned DVD video disc but it doesn t play smoothly Before burning DVD video disc check TV system parameters in the project options If you live in the USA Canada or Japan choose NTSC If you live in Europe you should choose PAL SECAM have a problem with the playback of HD video file there is mistiming of audio and video and even visual defects of the picture What should do You should take into consideration that this video format has very high requirements to hardware Most software players use only CPU to decode and play this video file and sometimes even the newest Intel Core 2 Duo can t play FullHD video file 1920x1080 successfully There are some players PowerDVD WinDVD which can enable hardware acceleration of video card the modern video card is required and in this case video will be played very well even with the low CPU loading The best result with software player is using free Media Player Classic HomeCinema http www wnsoft com soft other setup_mpc exe lt already includes all necessary decoders to play created video files with slideshows 12 How to How to upgrade PicturesToExe to t

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