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Sorry for late response. Dave, You're right. High, medium and low presets are certain values of "Quality" and "Audio bitrate" parameters in the Custom mode. Low - Picture quality: 43, Audio bitrate: 130 kbit. Medium - Picture quality: 71, Audio bitrate: 192 kbit. High - Picture quality: 100, Audio bitrate: 256 kbit. In all these modes frame rate is 30p. Personally I also use the "High" preset for my videos.

PicturesToExe Deluxe 7.0.4 is available now Download: http://www.wnsoft.com/files/picturestoexe/picturestoexe-setup.exe (12 MB) List of changes: + PicturesToExe shows a link to an uploaded YouTube clip.

We're glad to publish the French version of WnSoft website - http://www.wnsoft.com/fr New customers also receive the email with the license key on French language. Many thanks to Gérard Desroches for the proofreading and advices!

We posted two new AV shows on our website: http://www.wnsoft.com/picturestoexe/slideshows/ 1. Jazz By Jean-Charles Pizolatto, France Music: Dumoustier Stompers Singer: Natasha Border We're grateful to Jean-Charles Pizolatto and Dumoustier Stompers for their permissions to publish this AV show on our website. 2. Trübe Tage in den Vogesen By Jürgen Tappe, Germany. Music: Richard Goldsworthy (This show published on the German version of our website) Thanks to permission of Jürgen Tappe. And we have the special permission of Australian composer and pianist Richard Goldsworthy to publish this show with his music on our website.

Thanks for your suggestion! There was a mistake in the code. We updated this code for the YouTube today. Please try to upload to YouTube right now. After you enter your login & password for YouTube, PicturesToExe should ask you to install the updated version (click Yes button). If you don't see this window, please wait for tomorrow and try again.

Thanks. I successfully solved two issues with music in two shows on this week: 1. Today I will publish a new AV show on YouTube and our website. The author used royalty free music, and I contacted directly to the author of this music - Australian composer Richard Goldsworthy www.richardgoldsworthy.net to ask his permission (because we're commercial company). And he allowed me to publish slideshows with his music on our website. Of course, AV enthusiasts can use his music for personal usage without prior permission, because it's royalty free music. 2. For my "Late summer at the garden" show I purchased royalty free music in Barry Beckham's shop allowed for this use.

Thanks, Peter. As I understand, for commercial license we have to contact directly with these companies (Sony Music, Universal, etc.). I contacted to Sony Music. The commercial license for 1 (one) track is 2500-5000 USD for 5-10 years. That's simply unreal.

I know websites with archives of Royalty free music. But I didn't find where to buy licenses for popular music of large companies (Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group) for commercial use. Please advice.

I recommend www.musopen.org - the large archive of classical music in MP3 format. Absolutely free, even for commercial use. Read more about Musopen project in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musopen

Please look on the attached illustration. 1. The best way to inherit the opacity is to use a mask container. Thanks, Peter. 2. In theory we can add the option to inherit the opacity automatically for child objects. But it will bring a visual problem as shown on the illustration.

I think that I can understand arguments of both sides. My assumption that home users often need the navigation bar, because watching of a slideshow or AV show is similar to watching of movie or video clip where viewers aways have navigation controls (in software video players, YouTube/Vimeo). I can understand the point of view of AV enthusiasts. Also the navigation bar "tells" everybody that this slideshow created in a certain sofware (PicturesToExe). AV show loses a part of it's individuality. On other hand, do you like to watch DVD movie where you can't skip or rewind 1-3 minutes of introduction or advertisement? Rewinding and play/pause are locked and you have to wait patiently. Competing slideshow software have the navigation bar enabled by default. When we suggest the navigation bar by default, we show users the important function of PicturesToExe. I think that it's obvious that there should be a way to turn this navigation bar off. The related option is placed on the first page of the Project options window. If we disable the navigation bar by default, will majority of new users guess that PicturesToExe do have this feature? P.S. Dave, we plan add exit button later. I have this record in my TODO list.

Please tell me in details what notificication do you mean? By emails, "View new content", "Unread Notifications"? Really, unexpected problem.

Bitte erzählen Sie Ihren Freunden (die Verwendung PicturesToExe) über dieses neue Forum und die deutsche Version von WnSoft Website. Vielen Dank! (Google Translate)

I opened experimental sections on the forum: 1. German sub-forums for PicturesToExe Deluxe and PixBuilder Studio. Because we launched the German version of WnSoft website and German speaking users need a place for discussions. Personally I can't reply in this new forum, because I don't know German language. I hope other users will help me with replies. 2. French section. It contains two links to Diaporam@Forum and Diapositif. I think that there is no need to create another forum, because we have two excellent forums in France. See the new sub-forums here: http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/ Please let me know what you think.

Cor, I'm glad that it helped!

Cor, Please press F5 key in your broswer to update the cache. It should help. Some browsers didn't use updated styles/elements immediatelly.

Thanks for your responses! Hello Cor, Please let me know - what browser (and version) do you use? We'll try fix it ASAP.

We launched German version of our website: http://www.wnsoft.com/de/ Two pages ("Reviews") will be ready within two weeks. Graphical titles of several pages also will be translated within several days. P.S. French version of WnSoft website scheduled for January.

Answer from AVG to my previous inquiry:

I checked up all my collection of slideshows with AVG free (updated today). About 700 files created in different versions of PicturesToExe since v1.0. AVG found false positives in 3 slideshows created in v4.40 Beta 8. I sent sample files to AVG company. Please upload sample files for me, if you have problems with false positive with your slideshows in AVG.

I apologize for this problem! I'm trying resolve these false positives with AVG antivirus. P.S. Personally I prefer free Microsoft Security Essentials which works *very well*. Fast, no annoying popup windows, and it doesn't slow down work of a PC.

Ken, Thanks, but I can't reproduce this issue on my computer. I installed latest AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2012 with latest updates and it shows nothing for this file (FLIGHT OVER OAHU). This show created in PicturesToExe 7.0.2 I also uploaded sample shows created in PicturesToExe 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3 to VirusTotal.com service and AVG has no detections.

Barry, I understand, but there is no need to do anything with cables, just unplug all connections and swap displays. P.S. I also checked - your display based on S-PVA technology. It comparable with IPS displays in many aspects.

Gary, Please can you upload source files of this project for me? We'll check it up. I recommend use www.dropbox.com service to upload ZIP file. Mediafire.com have a limitation at 200 MB per file.

Barry, Please try to temporarily swap your two Dell 2709W displays. To determine exactly the true reason - computer, display or combination of certain PC + display.