Version 4.48 versus version 5 beta - pan/zoom

[garic]

Hello,

I'm new to this forum and have been using Roxio Media Creator suite 8 to do all my DVD slideshows. I find to be very buggy and slow, the reason I searched for new tools. Reading photography forums lead me here.

I've been viewing pictures2exe slideshows using the beta version 5 and am very impressed with the quality and how powerful it is. Pan and zoom are two tools that I will extensively use. What concerns me is the requirements to use these two tools. Are the people I send the exe file to require to have the latest in video cards just to view the slideshow? Will it pan or zoom if they don't? I guessed I can covert it to AVI and burn it to DVD but there would be quality lost if I do this. I plan tho show pictures at 1024x768 resolutions and no larger.

Thanks,

-Garic

[alrobin]

Garic,

Welcome to the Forum!

Like everything else in computers, the answer depends on how extensively you plan to use the PZR effects, the size of the images, how many and how "close" together they are, etc. All of these take up computer resources, and as you know, these are more limited on some people's computers than on others.

V.5 will operate quite well on most pc's with Win XP and DirectX ver. 9c (comes as part of Win XP's SP2 upgrade), and a video card with a minimum of 64 Mb VRAM (128 Mb recommended). However, if some of your clients do not have this minimum, and/or if you plan on many effects happening at the same time, then you would be best either converting to DVD, or creating a special show in version 4.48.

Igor has promised that the final release of v.5 will have the ability to detect whether or not a pc has the necessary resources, and if not, to switch to v.4 (without the ability to run PZR effects, of course).