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- VidFun is an easy-to-use, viewer/player,
- thumbnail manager, slideshow/screensaver,
- capture utility and graphics toolkit. It
- integrates as helper app for Web browsers
- (e.g., Netscape).
-
- It's Explorer-style interface works even in Win31.
- Win95/NT features include long filenames w/ multi-
- select, 32-bit video/printing/GDI (graphics) ...
-
- Aside from variable, Fit-to-Window previews,
- support includes FAST JPEG support plus MPEG,
- AVI, MOV, FLI/FLC, MIDI, WAV, CD music, BMP,
- DIB, CMP, KQP, PIC, MAC, Photo-CD, PICT, PCX,
- PNG, PSD, RAS, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG and
- Multipage DCX/TIF fax files.
-
- It features Instant Multimedia Slideshows (or
- screensavers) with multi-track graphics/video/audio
- with 30+ effects, variable loops, speed, volume,
- gamma, randomization, size, position, background,
- delays, presentation controls... UNLIMITED slides!
-
- COLOR printing includes different dithering styles.
-
- Extensive image processing include: gamma, sharpen,
- variable unsharp mask, Shadow/Highlight stretching,
- smooth, histograms, color reduction and dithering,
- compute bitmap, RGB/CMYK/HSV/HLS tuning, edits
- (cut, paste, .01 deg. rotate, border, trim, resize)
- ... format conversions, TWAIN...more!
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
-
- Minimum: 386,VGA,4Mb,Win3X;
- VBRUN300.DLL if not included.
-
- Recommended:
- 486,HiColor,8Mb,sound card,Win95 (or WinNT 4.x).
-
-
- OPTIONAL DRIVERS:
-
- MCI Drivers for Win31:
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- a. VFW 1.1e (or later); search for "VFW" online.
- b. WAV and MIDI; included with sound cards.
-
- MCI Drivers for Win31 and Win95/NT:
-
- c. FLI/FLC;search for "FLI" or "AAPLAY" online.
- d. Quicktime for Windows (http://www.apple.com)
- e. MPEG; VMPEG v1.7 (or later); ATI; SoftPEG ...
-
-
- VidFun 3.6 Update
-
- 1. Automatic color matching for "cut & paste"
- (e.g., paste 24-bit JPG image on B/W fax).
-
- 2. Added WMF (Windows Metafile) support.
-
- 3. More optimization; faster.
-
- 4. Added right-clicks, as optional method of
- advancing to next slide in slideshow;
- integrated with slide controls.
-
- 5. Enabled Win95 print driver as default for
- new/improved, color matching print devices.
-
- 6. Added support for *.JPE extension.
-
- 7. BUGFIX: On some systems, new toolbar caused
- GPF when hidden/resized; corrected.
-
-
- VidFun 3.51 Update
-
- 1. BUGFIX: Running slideshow from VidFun Explorer
- with toolbar enabled caused GPF; corrected.
-
-
- VidFun 3.5 Update
-
- 1. Enhanced interface:
-
- - Normal toolbar option ("docked" under menu)
- - Auto-Unfloat toolbar
- - integrated preferences dialog
- - popup Mask menu (faster editing)
-
- 2. Enhanced image text with anti-aliasing
- options for seamless blends with textured
- backgrounds and colors:
-
- - variable shadow depth
- - smooth and soft styles
- - variable anti-aliasing
- - variable embossing direction and depth
-
- 3. Enhanced image editing (e.g., collage):
-
- - New Image
- - Copy selection to Clipboard
- - Paste inside selection
- - Clear (fill) selection
-
- 4. Pattern fill with any image format (e.g., use
- Internet and Web page JPEG tiles as background)
-
- 5. Texturize filter - Matte or Underlay effect to
- create "embossed paper" effects, textured
- backgrounds or borders.
-
- 6. 3D Bevels (Shadow, Raised or Inset) for nifty
- borders, backgrounds or buttons; works with
- textured backgrounds for transparent effects.
-
- 7. "SlowEffects" option to slow down
- transition effects on fast systems.
-
- 8. Contact sheets.
-
- 9. White balancing.
-
- 10. Thumbnail sort warning.
-
-
- VidFun 3.1 Update
-
- 1. Progressive JPEG support.
-
- 2. Extended JPEG encoding with smoothing option;
- limited only by memory (e.g. save 15Mb images).
-
- 3. More slides; up to 2000 slides per AVL file.
-
- 4. New custom dialogs (faster user input).
-
- 5. Enhanced 256-color video palette management.
-
- 6. Multi slide/thumbnail functions:
-
- - Tag & Move multiple source files
- - Tag & Erase multiple slides
-
- 7. New slide/thumbnail functions:
-
- - Rename source file & slide
- - "Go to" slide
-
- 8. Slide sorts by Name, Size or Date (find
- duplicates faster; better thumbnail management).
-
- 9. Image text.
-
- - user-defined area
- - centered, left or right justification
- - variable font, color, style
- - shadow, shadow color, background color
- - one degree font rotation
-
- 10. Single borders (left, right, top, bottom);
- great for adding image text.
-
- 11. Support for WinNT "High Contrast Black".
-
- 12. Faster Thumbnail processing; up to 2x faster.
-
- 13. More keyboard shortcuts.
-
- 14. BUGFIX: Thumbnailing JPEG images wider than
- 1350 pixels caused a memory error; fixed.
-
-
-
- VidFun 3.0 Update
-
- 1. Thumbnails!
-
- - fast thumbnail creation
- - multi-view (open), move, delete functions
- - drag & drop reordering
- - Thumbnails w/ common palette
- (True color option)
-
- 2. 32-bit printing
-
- - color print preview
- - Win95 print dialogs
- - faster COLOR/gray shade printing
-
- 3. Image capture
-
- - AVI, MOV, MPG or VideoCD frame grabs
- - screen capture from ANY window
-
- 4. Major rewrite & optimization
-
- - quicker start-up
- - overall 5% to 10% faster
- - removed "virtual memory warnings"
- - common VBXs replaced; no version conflicts.
- - smart pop-up menus (adjusts to some
- video drivers peculiarities in Win95)
-
- 5. New interface elements
-
- - Floating toolbar w/ more zoom options
- - Floating slide control
- - Floating progress bar
-
- 6. New slide controls
-
- - Trash source file (while viewing)
- - Blank slide (while viewing)
- - auto-invoked during slideshow abort
- - keyboard shortcuts
-
- 7. New custom color palette dialogs
-
- - current 256-color SVGA palette
- - common palette in HiColor & True Color
- - common dialog palette option
-
- 8. UnInterlace functions; clean-up jaggies from
- video grabs into a single smooth video frame.
-
- 9. Zoom keys [+] or [-] keys zoom in/out at variable
- increments (optional for MouseKey users).
-
- 10. Auto 256-color reduction in SVGA.
-
- 11. Optimized Safe MPEG mode.
-
- - faster, low-level routines
- - full-featured slideshow options
-
- 12. More slides; up to 1800 slides per AVL file.
-
- 13. Enhanced slideshow editor
-
- - Thumbnail integration w/ drag & drop
- - Auto-scrolling thumbnails
- - Auto delete/update thumbnails
- - slideshow subsets w/ thumbnails
-
- - Trash source file
- - Move source file
- - Source file info
- - View source graphics (Multi-select)
-
- - Insert slide(s)
- - Find slide (partial filename search)
- - Move slide
-
- - larger work space
- - enhanced right-click menus
- - more accesibility + keyboard shortcuts
- - Win95 file menu key (i.e., 104 keyboard)
-
- 14. Audio override;
- play WAV file as AVI, MOV or MPG audio track.
-
- 15. Music videos; play MIDI music over video files
- with audio.
-
- 16. 1/10th second delay; new slideshow option.
-
- 17. Updated Win95 buttons
-
- 18. Improved detection of
- PIC (KQP, Pegasus JPG) vs. Apple PIC files
-
- 19. More file i/o conveniences:
-
- - default Save filename
- - saved files added to recall list
- - file actions (e.g., Batch Conversion)
- added to VidFun Explorer's Goodies menu.
-
- 20. Enhanced histogram w/ bin selection.
-
- 21. 32-bit video switch
- (for testing 32-bit MPEG drivers).
-
- 22. Auto-correction of "inverted" JPG files.
-