Version: 1.11.0 (Date: 15.5.2013)

• Font Importer: Better handling if the computer has a faulty ttf file.
• User Interface: Properties tab is now displayed correctly when using something else than 100% for Windows display size.
• Images: Jpeg files with .jpeg extension is now accepted.
• Transitions: Corrected a problem with television transition.
• [PRO] Background template creation:Using Customizable background contextual menu, user can now create its own templates and categories.
• Object transition "on click": Corrected a problem when setting an object as "on click" when it was already "on click".
• Looped movie backgrounds: Foreground image is now correctly displayed.
• Movies: Added filter effects.
• Backgrounds: On most of the backgrounds (but not all), when two same background are used, the transition is seamless.
• [PRO] Notes: You can now add notes to slides.
• Running Presentation: A window now appear when running the presentation. You can navigate between slides, view notes, pause or fade presentation to black with it.
• Keyboard shortcut: New shortcuts: 'P' to pause presentation, 'R' to restart, 'F' to fade to black.
• New Background: Added "Advanced Movies" background mode.
• Slide Duplication: Corrected a problem on some transitions when duplicating slides.
• Effect on objects: You can now change speed of start/end/anim effects.
• Transitions: 2 new transitions (Page Zoom, Page Change).
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• 2D Text animation effects: Added 2 new animation effects (news ticker (large) and news ticker (small)).
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• Object selection: Better detection of object selection to avoid accidental moving/rotating.
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Version: 1.10.4 (Date: 14.2.2013)

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

Version: 1.10.3 (Date: 7.8.2012)

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

Version: 1.10.2 (Date: 4.6.2012)

• SEF Files opening: If a font is missing, message is only displayed once.
• Images: Corrected a problem when using "Broken Lines" on images with a huge zoom.
• Copy files to tmp directory: Better handling when we have to overwrite read only files.
• Problem with backgrounds: Corrected a problem with corrupted backgrounds when Slide Effect was launched twice.
• Corrected a small problem on startup: In certain case, if a key was pressed on start, an error was displayed: it is fixed.

Version: 1.10.1 (Date: 28.5.2012)

• Backgrounds: Background "Earth (2)" does not throw an error anymore
• 2D text edition: When double-clicking on a text area, the new text typed was replaced by a blank text. It is now fixed.
• 3D text edition: When double-clicking on a text area, the new text typed was replaced by a blank text. It is now fixed.

Version: 1.10.0 (Date: 21.5.2012)

• Backgrounds: Backgrounds have been reorganized.
• Backgrounds: A lot of new templates have been added.
• Backgrounds: New "Flag" background effect
• Backgrounds: New "Plane" background effect
• Temporary files: Better cleanup of the temporary files.
• Opacity: Opacity of images can be changed
• Object Selection: Objects can now be selected using the combo box on the properties area.
• Arrow Keys: Can be used to move elements in the slide.
• Open File: If the currently opened file is modified, a dialog now ask if user want to save before opening a new file.

Version: 1.9.10 (Date: 18.4.2012)

• Movie Playing: Corrected a size problem for movie with a width of <256 and <512.
• 2D Fonts: Corrected a memory leak problem with 2D fonts.
• Background images: Corrected a memory leak problem background images.
• Background images: Corrected a memory leak on particle effects.
• Movie Export: Added "WMV High Quality" preset with an enhanced bitrate.

Version: 1.9.9 (Date: 14.3.2012)

• Movie Playing: When movies take a huge time to load, the time counter is now freezed to have correct animations.
• 2D Text: Euro sign is now displayed correctly.
• Background Preview: The background plain color is now displayed correctly even on very big screens.
• Movie Encoding: internal movies are now stored in wmv2/wma-asf(.wmv) instead of wmv2-avi(.avi) to avoid compatibility issues with old codecs.
• XViD Export: XViD export has been changed to be more compatible with DVD players and TV.

Version: 1.9.8 (Date: 27.2.2012)

• Transitions: Transitions are less pixelized on some resolutions.
• Temporary files: Fixed an issue with Read only temporary files.
• Borders: Changed the way we create borders to be faster and more compatible with picky video cards.

Version: 1.9.7 (Date: 11.1.2012)

• Lossless movie export: Colors were not correct.
• Merge Presentations: Each steps of the merge is not stored into the undo manager, this way it is faster and uses less memory.
• Undo manager: Undos number has been limited to 10 steps.
• Languages: German Translation added.
• Samples: Added 2 more sample.

Version: 1.9.6 (Date: 19.10.2011)

• Delay and duration for objects: Not anymore limited to 100[s].
• [PRO] PPT Import: Corrected a problem that may hang the application when a string contains only one character.
• [PRO] PPT Import: The ratio of the presentation is not anymore automatically changed to 4:3 after importation: It is fixed according to the PPT presentation
• Movie Export: Corrected a problem with the exported sound: an error was displayed in some rare situations. Fixed.
• Movie Export: Sound export now uses a lot less memory. Should not anymore crash on low end computers when creating large presentations.
• Self Executable Export: Did not add the music libraries in some cases. Fixed.
• Basic Backgrounds: Background image is correctly displayed when set to "stretch" on non 4:3 formats.
• Movie Export: When having movie and background sound in the same time, the global volume is set to 75% instead of 50% previously.

Version: 1.9.5 (Date: 20.7.2011)

• Particles backgrounds: Fixed a problem when opening "Advanced settings" dialog when pictures have been selected but disabled and the tmp directory has been flushed.
• Video Export: Looped movies were not looped when exporting as movies: it is now fixed.
• Video Export: Looped backgrounds may leads to a "Memory Access Violation": it is now fixed.

Version: 1.9.4 (Date: 11.7.2011)

• Video Import: Fixed a problem on slow computers when importing a movie (the dimension of the movie was not correctly calculated).
• Equalizer Background: Added a setting to change the amplitude of the equalizer.
• Equalizer Background: Changed display of equalizer to be more accurate.
• Video Export: Inner videos rendering is better now.
• Video Export: Corrected a problem of aspect ratio with some aspect ratio and some resolutions that may hang the application.
• Video Export: Corrected a problem with lossless movies.

Version: 1.9.3 (Date: 30.6.2011)

• Video Background: Distorsions on High quality movie export has been fixed.
• Video Objects: Fixed a problem when importing a movie with double extension, like "myvideo.avi.avi.
• Export Video: Added a "Customize" button to help customize presets.
• Export Video: The "next" button is not anymore disabled until user choose a filename. Instead, it is enabled and display a popup if the filename is not set.
• Export Video: In case of error, the standard error dialog is now displayed (with a possibility to send a feedback to developers).

Version: 1.9.2 (Date: 13.6.2011)

• Corrected a problem when saving the project: File.Delete(_baseFile) sometimes throw an exception on some OS versions
• Corrected a problem with thumbnails: Sometimes an exception is thrown when loading thumbnails from cache.
• Corrected a problem with fur border: Sometimes a memory access violation was thrown.
• Corrected a display problem with some transitions: Using 3D objects on some transitions, some offset was shown: it is fixed.
• Video Playing: Sometimes a black frame was displayed at the end of the start transition: it is fixed.

Version: 1.9.1 (Date: 1.6.2011)

• Screensavers: Screensaver export fixed(Added a file that was missing in 1.9.0).
• Movie Objects: Movie playing error when browsing the presentation backward has been fixed.
• Memory Management: Corrected a problem with memory management preventing the application to run on some computers.
• Duplicate Slide on Trial edition: An error was displayed if user tried to duplicate a slide when the presentation has already 5 slides.

Version: 1.9.0 (Date: 30.5.2011)

• Effect List: List alphabetically ordered now.
• Self Executable: A progress bar is now displayed when uncompressing archive.
• Self Executable: Enhanced performances.
• SEF file: Better compression of SEF file.
• Main Tab: Selected pictures are now selected to their exact size not anymore the total size
• Images/Movies/Texts/Cube/Texts 3D: Reworked animation and effects so they blend smoothly.
• Images/Movies borders: New border modes, user can change the color now.
• Error Handling: More information is displayed and sent when an error occurs.
• Copy Paste: Corrected a problem occuring sometimes when pasting a deleted object.
• Customize Backgrounds: Corrected a problem occuring sometimes when customizing an existing background.
• Drag and drop "on click" objects: Corrected a problem when drag'n'droping "on click" objects between slides.
• Export disk space: Corrected a problem when space available returned is 0MB.
• [PRO] Powerpoint Export: Corrected a problem whith missing movies on export (duplicate IDs).
• Shadow and reflection: Shadow and reflection effects are displayed now on the work area.
• 2D Texts: Added gradient for 2D texts.
• Gradient Backgrounds: Gradient is now correctly displayed in the main tab.
• Main tab background: Stretched background images are now displayed without a bottom-right transparent line.
• Duration: Total Duration of the slideshow is now displayed on the main tab.
• Display: Display is faster when browsing on the slides.
• Slide Thumbnails: Thumbnails are now real thumbnails of slides and not anymore static pictures.
• Keyboard shortcuts: You can browse slides using page up/page down. Delete key and Ctrl-c/Ctrl-v/Ctrl-x works in all cases now.
• Project Loading:Added a progress bar when loading a project.
• Slide Display on main tab:Corrected a small graphical bug when doing slides on a ratio different than 4/3.
• Transitions and backgrounds:Currently selected background/transition was not correctly displayed on Windows 64bits: fixed.
• Player:Changed loading screen.
• Images:Added Ken Burns animation effect.
• Movies:Added Ken Burns animation effect.
• Player:Check 3D capabilities at start and display an according message if missing.
• Background:Added Ken Burns background effect.
• Random Transitions:Added an option to set random transitions for all slides.
• Slide thumbnails:Scrollbar now uses the skin of the application.
• [PRO] Merge Presentations:You can now merge two SEF presentation using menu File/Merge Presentation....
• Movie/image animation effects:Added new "shake (2)" animation effect.
• 3D Fonts:Better handling of memory used.
• Images/Movies/Texts:Added "From Back" and "From Front" effects.
• Movie Export: Export is now faster.
• [PRO] Powerpoint Export:Fixed a background problem when exporting a non 4/3 presentation to Powerpoint.
• Print:Fixed a background problem when printing a non 4/3 presentation.
• Music Synchronization:Music algorythms (Bass,Treble,Medium) have been enhanced.
• 3D Cube:Added "custom times" animation mode where you can set display time for each faces.
• [PRO] 3D Cube:"On click" animation modes are correctly handled when doing a music synchronization or a talk-over operation.
• [PRO] Music Synchronization and Talk Over mode:Fixed a bug when click order was not in the same order then objects in memory.
• Screensaver Preview:When the preview is closed, process SE.EXE is now correctly shutted down.
• Executable Export:Corrected a "User lib not found" problem when a slide was set to "Stop Audio" without any audio file.
• Browsing presentation:Transitions are not displayed anymore when going backward.
• Browsing presentation:Transitions are correctly cleaned when browsing fast from slide to slide.
• Pattern Transition:Corrected a problem where the transition was not correctly displayed if it was interrupted previously.
• Music fade-out:Fade out is not anymore applied if browsing backward in the slides.
• Online Help:Help as been completely rewritten and is now available in French and English.
• Movie Export:Corrected a 500 ms delay on music when exporting as movie.
• [PRO] Object Properties:Position, angle and scale are now displayed in the right property panel.
• Movie Import:Movie import is always done at 30FPS now.
• Presentation Sample:Presentation sample remade.
• Background templates:2 new background templates (Blue Rust and Autumn Leaves).

Version: 1.8.2 (Date: 14.1.2011)

• Browser: If the default browser is not found we use Internet Explorer, then, if not found we try with Firefox, and finally we do nothing.
• Italian Translation: Corrected some texts.
• Self Executable Export: Had some troubles with unicode characters used on internal filenames: it is fixed.
• Movie Export: On old hardware, since 1.8.0 the exported movies are black: it is fixed.
• Self Executable Export: Basic backgrounds with a foreground (for instance "Blackhole") were not correctly exported. It is fixed

Version: 1.8.1 (Date: 7.1.2011)

• HD Export: Corrected a problem with the audio codec that leads to a conversion error.
• Audio Export: When Play a sound was selected without any filename, the export wizard was displaying an error. This is fixed.
• 2D Text: Corrected an issue when text was starting by a carrage return on some effects.
• Version checker: A small popup is now automatically displayed if a new version is available.
• Browser: We now use default browser when opening a URL instead of Internet Explorer.
• Background Movie: Sound was lasting too long when exporting a looped movies in some cases.

Version: 1.8.0 (Date: 16.12.2010)

• Italian Translation: Corrected some texts.
• Dutch Translation: Dutch Translation added.
• Wipe Transition: Added ease parameter.
• 2D Texts: Empty text does not throw any errors anymore.
• 2D Texts: Added "Rolling Credits" Animation Effect.
• 2D Texts: Added "Star Wars" Animation Effect.
• Shake Animation: The objects was not displayed if the Shake animation was set AND the start time was 0 AND in the first slide AND when creating a movie.
• Graphic Memory Management: Changed the way we detect if the gfx card is out of memory.
• Graphic Memory Management: If the presentation is not looped, we delete unused resources as soon as they are not used anymore.
• Graphic Memory Management: 3D Cube memory leak fixed.
• Installer: Removed license display when installing.
• Audio: Audio has been completely rewritten (you can now put more than one song on a presentation, with several options) and is now on a separate tab.
• Movie Export: Export is now much faster.
• Movie Export: You can now export in much more formats and settings (including HD,XViD,...).
• Most Recently Used Files: Added 4 more recently used files in the file menu.
• [PRO] Talk Over Mode: Talk over recording mode have been added.
• [PRO] Music Synchronization Mode: Music Synchronization mode have been added.
• Export to an installable executable: This option has been removed.
• Program Options: New option to display the presentation in fullscreen using the hardware (old method) and on the desktop.
• Program Options: New option to display the presentation on the secondary screen.
• Batch Pictures Import: New wizard to import a full directory of pictures on one click.
• Print: Added "Print" option to print slides, handouts or handouts with notes.
• Preview Presentation: Windowed preview only plays the current slide and not anymore the full presentation from the current slide (to save loading time).
• Movie Playback: Fixed a bug with movie delay: audio was always starting at zero.
• File Loading: File loading should be more secure and should handle better damaged files.
• Movie Export Preview: The preview is now displayed in the wizard window.

Version: 1.7.5 (Date: 26.8.2010)

• Save project: Display in a more user friendly an error if the target directory is not writable by the current user.
• 3D Texts: Corrected an issue when displaying 3D texts with spaces and start/end particles effect.
• 3D Texts: Corrected an issue when displaying empty 3D texts.

Version: 1.7.4 (Date: 23.8.2010)

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

Version: 1.7.3 (Date: 19.8.2010)

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

Version: 1.7.2 (Date: 19.7.2010)

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

Version: 1.7.1 (Date: 21.6.2010)

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

Version: 1.7.0 (Date: 2.6.2010)

• Multi-language support: Slide Effect interface is now available in French, Italian, Spanish and English.
• User Interface Redesign: User interface has been reworked to look more fancy. It is now available in 4 flavors (black,gray, blue and old school). You can choose the one you want using the options.
• Player: Corrected a memory problem. Slideshows crashed after a few hours because they were using too much memory. It should be mainly fixed.
• Characters: Danish characters support
• Z Order: Corrected a bug with Z ordering reseted each time you browse in the presentation's slides.
• Z Order: 3D objects are now displayed always on top on the preview.
• [PRO] Corrected a problem when loading a presentation with custom fonts: they were not loaded an an error message was displayed. It is now fixed.
• Images: Sometimes images was displaying lines on the border where it shouldn't: it is now fixed.
• Icons for end effects: Icons for end effects are now correct. (in the past, the direction icons were inverted)
• Exit confirmation: It has been changed to a more standard message (it only pops if modification has not been saved).
• New Document confirmation: It has been changed to a more standard message (it only pops if modification has not been saved).
• Border Outline: Now available also for movies.
• Text Effects: 2 new animation effects (Left Perspective and Right Perspective).
• Text Effects: 3 new start/end effects.
• Image and Movie Effects: 2 animation effects reworked.
• Image and Movie Effects: 9 new animation effects.
• Image and Movie Effects: 14 new start/end effects.
• 3D Texts: You can now choose from 20 materials to use.
• 3D Texts: 3D texts accepts now the same character set as standard texts (including special characters like ���...) (But, unfortunately not the Euro sign and some Turkish characters .. i am not able to render it in 3D)
• 3D Texts: You can now set X and Y angle for these objects.
• 3D Texts: 14 new start/end effects.
• 3D Texts: 6 new animation effects.
• 3D Texts: Rendering (it shines a little bit more) has been enhanced, and existing effects have been reworked a little bit.
• 3D Cube: You can now set X and Y angle for these objects.
• 3D Cube: 13 new start/end effects.
• 3D Cube: 18 new animation effects.
• 3D Cube: transparency is now supported on cube images.
• Movie Export: Width and height can now only be multiple by 2, because some codecs do not accepts non multiple by 2 values.
• Images: Max quality (resolution) of images has been improved.
• Fullscreen Preview: Preview can now be played fullscreen using the menu or F4.
• Ring Effect Transition: reflection is now correct.
• 2D Fonts: better handling when missing characters.

Version: 1.6.0 (Date: 22.4.2010)

• Advanced Particles Background: corrected a bug when deactivating an image, then save, then reload.
• Slide Caption Bar: changed the bahavior to automatically scroll to the selected slide.
• Slideshow preview: it previews now all the presentation from the currently selected slide instead of only the current slide.
• Bug fix: when opening a presentation without any slides, Slide Effect does not throw an error anymore.
• Screen Ratio: Slide Effect now supports 4/3, 16/9, 16/10, auto (adapt to the current screen) ratio and even custom wider modes.
• Keys: Page up and Page down are now supported to navigate from slide to slide.
• Standard Text: when you create a new text, its size is the same than the previous you created before (like fonts and color).
• Bullet Text: corrected a bug when using blank bullet lines: preview was not the same than editor.
• Bullet Text: blank lines does not have anymore bullets displayed
• Object Rotation: handle for object rotation change its size depending of the size of the object, so you won't rotate anymore small objects by accident.
• Object Sizing: Sizing is handling a better way when object is rotated.
• Undo/Redo: Unlimited undo and redo (one level) is now available.
• Standard Text Start/End Effects: Added 8 new effects and reworked others.
• Standard Text Anim Effects: Added 6 new effects
• Backgrounds:Several new background templates
• Blur Transition:Changed a bit the effect to remove annoying noise on the screen on some graphic cards
• Ripple Anim Effect:The ripple effect is now much smaller.
• Misc Bugs:A lot of very small bugs have been fixed.
• [PRO] Added Powerpoint import
• [PRO] Added Powerpoint export
• [PRO] Added Fonts Importer and the availability to use your own system fonts

Version: 1.5.1 (Date: 12.11.2009)

• Solar System Background: Lens Flare that was not visible on 1.5.0 are back.
• 3D Transition: Enhanced Effect, added a new setting to choose the ease of the transition.
• Tunnel Background: Corrected a bug when running two tunnel backgrounds on the same presentation.

Version: 1.5.0 (Date: 20.10.2009)

• Player: Several small speed optimizations have been added on transitions.
• Player: Memory usage has been enhanced.
• User Interface: Corrected a small bug when saving the initial trial project (added the full path on load)
• Backgrounds: now when using a presentation made with an additional background pack on an installation of Slide Effect without these backgrounds, the selection of the actual background is correct.
• New project option to wait for space to begin.
• Bullet Text: new 2D text mode.
• Duplicate Slide Option: corrected a small bug when duplicating a slide containing picture templates (Memory Error on Play).
• Flame Effect: Reduced a little bit the size of the effect.
• Movies: Quality of movie rendering has been improved.
• Movies: loop movies option added.
• Movies: Added .mov support.
• Options: A new menu Tools/Options to set the global options of Slide Effect has been added.
• Bundled Sample: The sample presentation has been remade.
• Background Mode: Added Looped Movies background mode.

Version: 1.4.1 (Date: 21.7.2009)

• Advanced Particles Background: Fixed some bugs with background/foreground images.
• Player: Removed a bug that occurs on very special case at the end of the presentation (User lib not found)
• 2D Text: removed a bug when deleting all the charcters of a string.
• Clouds Background: Added a background picture option
• GUI: Improved overall speed
• Startup: Corrected a nasty bug that crashed SE when starting when using coma instead of dot as decimal separator.

Version: 1.4.0 (Date: 13.7.2009)

• Movie Export with sound: Corrected a bug introduced on 1.3.4 when exporting a movie with a looped background sound.
• Large Font Support: The GUI will be always correctly displayed, even using large fonts or custom DPI.
• Cut, copy and paste: Cut, copy and paste is now supported in the application.
• Drag and drop: You can now drop directly your movie or pictures files into the application. It works also from edited bitmaps not saved on the disk or from your favorite Internet browser.
• Apparition Effects on text: Display of these effects have been slightly improved.
• Multi-Line text: Standard Text now supports multi-line text areas. You can align it on left, center or right.
• Object Rotation: You can now rotate each objects on the slide.
• Standard Text: Standard Text is now much clean (no more trash pixels on some letters).
• Standard Text: Preview on GUI is much more faster.
• Standard Text: Extended Ascii is now supported: It means support for Spanish, Portuguese, German, Turkish,... characters.
• Standard Text: When you create a new standard text, the program will now automatically use the same attributes (color, font, ...) than previously used.
• Rendering in 1280x1024: Added black lines on top and bottom of the screen because it is not a full 4/3 format.
• Main Tab: It now displays the background image.
• Splash Screen: Added a splash screen.
• Navigation: You can now step back one slide using left or up arrow key.
• Backgrounds: Background tab is now organized in categories.
• Backgrounds Templates: Several predefined templates are now bundled with the application.
• Pictures: New outline option to add a black or white border to pictures.
• Solar System Background: Corrected a bug where program was looking for ring.3ds and not founding it.
• Basic Image Backgrounds: Slowed a bit some rotation speeds.
• Particles Effects: Added new particles images.
• New Customizable Background Mode: Extended Particles Effect.
• Slide Context Menu: Added a contextual menu to duplicate or delete slides.
• Exportation Wizard: Added a new export mode to create standalone executables without any installation.
• Exportation Wizard: Default parameters for Flash movies have been slightly modified to enhance the quality and reduce the size.
• Help: Online help have been upgraded to reflect the latest changes.
• Player: Memory leaks on texts have been removed.
• Export: Corrected a "User lib not found" problem that sometimes occurs when exporting a project that use to contains music but not anymore.

Version: 1.3.5 (Date: 16.3.2009)

• Bug Fix: Corrected a bug introduced on 1.3.4 (with Unicode support): some users were not able to put an image on a slide. It is now fixed.
• Resize: Improved resize of items on the slide.
• Resize: It is not possible anymore to resize an item to a size below zero.
• Player: If the current screen resolution is bigger than 2048x1536, it does not throw an error anymore.

Version: 1.3.4 (Date: 6.3.2009)

• Screensaver Export: Installer for screensaver should work correctly now on 64 bits version of Windows (XP & Vista).
• Movie Export: Added a new "Custom" mode for Flash movie export where you can fine-tune each parameters.
• 2D Fonts: Added 9 new 2D fonts (Full Version Only).
• Clouds Background: Corrected a bug when using this background after the equalizer one: the clouds were coloured by the background color of the equalizer effect.
• Start/End Effects: Added a new "from left/right/top/bottom" mode with a basic light easing in/out.
• Pictures And Movies: Now supports Unicode filename(such as Russian, Chinese, Arabic...).
• General: If you try to open a second instance of Slide Effect, it will now just put the first on the top and maximize it.
• Movie Export: Some export bug have been fixed (when a presentation contains a movie) and speed has been enhanced.
• Movie Export: Sound of embedded movies is now correctly processed.
• Movie Import: Now use wmv2 codec instead of wmv1.

Version: 1.3.3 (Date: 8.1.2009)

• Fullscreen Display: Fixed graphical glitches when using Blur and Glow transitions on non 4/3 display modes.
• Movie Export: Added a new "High Quality" mode for Flash movie export.
• Movie Export: Corrected a bug with DVD Pal export: the movie was a bit too fast.
• Trial Installer: Now when launching Slide Effect Trial for the first time, the sample is loaded automatically on startup.
• Screensaver/Executable/Movie Export: Does not throw anymore an error when trying to export a presentation with blank pictures or movies.
• Embedded Sample: Corrected Z Order problem on the sample, due to the new feature introduced in the previous version.

Version: 1.3.2 (Date: 5.12.2008)

• Movie Export: Rewrited the way we save the sound of a movie to be more robust.
• Object Order: Rewrited the way objects are placed on the screen (z order).
• Object Contextual Menu: Now when you right click on a picture, a movie or a standard text, a contextual menu appears with the following options: "Bring To Front" and "Send To Back".

Version: 1.3.1 (Date: 26.11.2008)

• End Effect: Corrected an issue with pictures and some other objects: the end effect was not displayed after the first loop when the presentation was in loop mode.
• Corrected error "Could not find a part of the path ...": When saving a presentation with some blank objects, the saved file was corrupted and this error was displayed. It now works correctly.
• Add a slide: Fixed a small bug when adding a slide on a presentation (index out of bound error).

Version: 1.3.0 (Date: 22.10.2008)

• Windows Vista Compatibility: Use correct Windows temporary directory to enhance Vista compatibility.
• Export to movie: New option to export to movie (web format and DVD (PAL/NTSC) format.
• Backgrounds: 3 new backgrounds (Gradient, Moving Shapes and Solar System).
• Lighting: Lighting in general has been reworked.

Version: 1.2.0 (Date: 28.8.2008)

• Transitions: 15 new transitions.
• Backgrounds: 2 new backgrounds (water and clouds).
• Object Properties GUI: Changed the GUI to be more ergonomic.
• Save Project: Removed some bugs which occured when you open a saved project, then save it without navigating in the slides: all medias where not saved.
• Clean up error: Do not throw anymore an error if Slide Effect is not able to delete tmp directory.
• Export EXE/SCR: Music saved with the correct path (not the full original path anymore).

Version: 1.1.4 (Date: 12.7.2008)

• Background GUI: Fixed some display problems when using several different backgrounds.
• Transition GUI: Fixed some display problems when using several different transitions.
• Transitions: Correctly hide the previous background images when using several times the same transition.
• Garbage Collection: Manually added many garbage collector calls when opening/saving/erasing a document to avoid "Process cannot access" problems.
• Fade transition: fade with logo was a bit strange, it is now fixed.
• Reflection effect: bug fix: sometimes reflection image was not removed when object was hidden.
• Movies: Preview with no movie does not throw an error anymore.
• Particles: Particle effects on 2d text when not centered and with a scale different than 1 was not correct.
• Movies: Now supports Flash video (*.flv) as input.
• 2D/3D Text: Double click on a "2D Text" or a "3D Text" item open a small dialog box where you can enter your text. (easiest to use than properties)
• Trial Version: If you try to open a presentation with the trial version, it is correctly cropped and display a message (do not throw an error anymore).
• Color Pick Dialog: Custom color are now stored.
• Transition Properties: Corrected some typos.

Version: 1.1.3 (Date: 19.6.2008)

• Save/Open a file: Corrected a problem with file cannot be deleted.

Version: 1.1.2 (Date: 18.6.2008)

• Screensaver export: Slightly modified event handler.
• Reflection effect: Corrected minor bugs.
• Move slide up/down: Corrected a problem when a slide has been deleted.
• Multiple shape background: Bug fix when zoom effect is off.
• Slide preview control: Added a scrollbar when a slideshow has many slides.
• Bug report: Added an optional description field.

Version: 1.1.1 (Date: 12.6.2008)

• Screensaver export: Corrected a problem with some Windows XP, where screensaver was leaving directly after starting.
• Bug fix: Corrected a problem when converting movies and, for some reason, percent was bigger than 100.
• Error reporting: User can now enter an email to have feedback and/or help us to resolve the problem.

Version: 1.1.0 (Date: 4.6.2008)

• Reflection Effect: New reflection effect available for 2D Texts, pictures and movies.
• Standalone Executable Exporter: Installable standalone executable exporter added.
• Standalone Screensaver Exporter: Installable standalone screensaver exporter added.
• Bug fix: Add slide when a slide has been removed does not throw an error anymore.
• Bug fix: Load twice the same sef file does not throw an error anymore.
• Bug fix: Music settings does not throw an error anymore when open twice.
• Installer: Installer graphics changed.
• Error Window: Now displays and send the Slide Effect version

Version: 1.0.1 (Date: 29.4.2008)

• Media list in .sef file: Fixed a bug when re-opening an existing .sef file without changing transition or backgrounds (some medias were not saved in the archive.)
• Character collision effect: Fixed a small bug on it (text was too spaced at the end of the effect)
• Delete an object: Fixed a bug when no object was selected and delete button was still enabled.
• 2D Text: Unsupported characters (like �) does not throw anymore an error, they are simply not displayed.
• 3D Text: Corrected a scale bug with some start/end effects.
• GUI Fonts: If a title fonts is not found, it search for another one and does not display an error anymore.
• Error Dialog: Added Windows version into the bug report.
• Error Dialog: Dialog is automaticaly closed when bug report is sent.
• FFMpeg: Replaced GPL FFMpeg by the LGPL version.
• Error Dialog: Added Windows version into the bug report.
• File/Exit menu: Confirmation dialog added.

Version: 1.0.0 (Date: 23.4.2008)

• Memory usage: Cleaned up things to use less memory
• Particle Effect: On 2D text, particles were not on the correct position if size was different than one. It is now fixed.
• 3D Text: Removed an obsolete start/end effect.
• 3D Text: Changed label of one start effect.
• GUI: Tweaked some texts.
• Tunnel Effect: You can now choose between several predefined textures.
• Quit confirmation: Changed the text.
• Installer: Desktop icon is now checked by default.
• Trial: Url display is now outlined in black.
• Bottom Icons: Tooltips added.
• Samples: Sample added.

Version: 0.0.6 (Date: 17.4.2008)

• Cube Effect: You can now set a color for the cube and set its visibility mode (hidden,transparent or opaque)
• Cube Effect: Time settings has been changed, it is not anymore related to the slide length.
• Error Handling: A new dialog box appear when a unknown error occurs. Users can now send error report to Slide Effect website.
• Exit Confirmation: When exiting, a popup ask if you are sure you want to quit.
• Objects: Removed a nasty bug when deleting objects.
• Bottom Item Icons: Added an information text.
• Restart animation flag: Bug fixed: it is now working.
• General/Stability: Removed some memory leaks on the player.
• Transitions: Removed a bug when choosing a transition, then choosing back the "None" transition: Duration was wrong.
• Slide time: When entering a duration for a slide, directly by typing, instead of using arrows, it was not working: it is now fixed.

Version: 0.0.5 (Date: 13.4.2008)

• Movies: if a movie is not supported, a correct error message is not shown.
• Pictures: A conversion bug has been fixed: no more black pixels will appear.
• Slide Preview: It is not anymore possible to open more than one preview on the same time.
• Regional Settings: Fixed a bug with country using ',' char instead of '.' for floating values.
• About box: About box text has been changed.
• Stars Effect: Particles count has been incremented for a more cute effect.
• Particles end effects for 2D text: Bug fixed: it is now working.
• Basic Background: Scale settings is now correct.
• Movies: Shadow is now working.
• Movies: Selecting a movie using properties table is now working correctly.
• Music: If /tmp/ directory is not created when choosing a music, it is now created.
• Delete a slide: Fixed: Removing a slide was crashing the application or leads to unsynchronization between slides and backgrounds/transitions.
• Project settings: "Loop" text has been replaced to "Restart" .

Version: 0.0.4 (Date: 10.4.2008)

• First beta release