Name: Hollywood Designer
Version: 2.1 (24-Mar-08)
Platform: AmigaOS3, MorphOS, AmigaOS4, WarpOS
Price: 79 euros (Order here)
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Hollywood Designer is the high-end WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) presentation editing software for AmigaOS and compatible operating systems. You can create amazing presentations with just a few clicks and they will be shown with Hollywood then. You can also save your presentations as stand-alone executables for AmigaOS3, WarpOS, MorphOS, AmigaOS4, and AROS. Additionally, your presentations can be saved as Hollywood scripts. Pages can be exported as single pictures too so that you can e.g. embed them in a HTML page. The program makes project management very easy by organizing all your project files in one directory which you can administrate with the inbuilt data manager. If you create a new project with Hollywood Designer, it will create a whole environment for your work complete with icons, drawers and info files. It just doesn't get any easier!

Hollywood Designer has everything you would expect from a modern multimedia application: Many colorful icons, images and toolbars, extensive online help system, Undo/redo, context menus, recent menu, clipboard usage, keyboard control and a completely localized interface. It uses a slide-pased presentation concept, which means that your project consists of as many slides as you want and each slide consists of as many objects as you want. Objects are for example texts, animations, brushes and graphics forms. It has a powerful layout window where you can easily drag, scale and rotate all objects using the mouse. Everything is implemented in a WYSIWYG way.

The program supports bitmap, color, intelli and truetype fonts for your texts. You can edit your text objects by using the powerful integrated text editor or you can import texts from external files into Hollywood Designer. Clipboard text import and export is also supported of course. There are many text formatting possibilities like bold, italic, underlined, shadow and outline text which can be used. Of course the shadow and outline style can be configured to fit your needs. You can also specify the text alignment (left, right or centered). Automatic wordwrapping is supported by Hollywood Designer as well as the possibility to use anti-aliased text objects.

You can use brushes and animations to create absolutely unique presentations. 24-bit transparency is supported for both types. You can also scale brushes to your desired size and you can rotate them. You can also work with brushes that have an alpha channel. Hollywood Designer can insert many graphics forms into your presentations like rectangles, ellipses, pie slices, lines, polygons or one of the many pre-defined auto forms (arrows, bubbles, stars, explosions and many more!). Of course all forms can be freely scaled and rotated. You can configure the shadow and border settings, and the fill style for these objects as well as some other attributes like round edges for rectangles and line thickness. Anti-aliased drawing is fully supported on all systems. You can choose colors from a pre-defined palette of popular colors or you can mix your own colors in the powerful color manager. Hollywood Designer is a complete 24-bit application that can display every single color of the 16.7 million possible colors.

Every object and every slide can be displayed with a transition effect. You can choose from a massive palette of over 150 different transition effects which are partly very impressive. You can use cool fly-on effects for your objects like sine wave fly-on, curved fly-on or bounce fly-on. You can also remove your objects from the display with transition effects! Objects and pages can be used to assure the correct timing of your presentation which is precise in milliseconds.

Hollywood Designer can play sound samples, streams, and Protracker modules when a page or an object is displayed. You can modify the pitch value, volume, panning and loop settings of sound samples. Samples are loaded through datatypes so that you can use almost every format you want, 8 or 16-bit, mono or stereo. Hollywood Designer supports them all. MP3s are supported too, of course. Additionally full channel mixing is supported which means that you can play as many sounds as you want at the same time. And also Protracker modules can be played at the same time as sound samples. Audio support is implemented fully retargetable through AHI.

You can also use the program to create interactive presentations, e.g. you can add menus to your presentation that query user input and react on it. This allows you to create even complete multimedia applications like front-ends or disk magazines. Every object can be used as a button that monitors several events like mouse over, left mouse or right mouse click. If an event occurs, you can define many actions to take, e.g. show/hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, switch page, quit presentation and more.

Advanced users who are familiar with the Hollywood script language can also embed their own Hollywood code in the presentation. Every object and every page has the option to execute custom Hollywood code to make the presentation even more unique. Hollywood code can be easily edited within Hollywood Designer and there are such helpful tools like syntax checking, online reference and import/export of code.

Your presentation can be displayed in a window on Workbench/Ambient or on a full screen for a very noble look of your work! You can configure every detail of the background frame of your presentation. You can use a background pattern, background color, gradient, an image or even everything together! Presentations can be configured to loop after they have reached the end and they can also be started in mute mode without sound output. Hollywood Designer is just the ideal tool for all your presentation needs on your Amiga or Pegasos.

Hollywood Designer is a modern application that requires a modern system to work best. A graphics board is required as well as much memory. You should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory. Additionally you will require Hollywood 2.5. Hollywood Designer comes on a CD-ROM together with example presentations and an extensive documentation which explains every part of the program. The program is really easy to use. Most things are self-explaining and for the rest you have the documentation. Everyone can create stunning presentations now!

The program has direct support for CyberGraphX and Picasso96 as well as for AHI. There are versions for AmigaOS Classic, MorphOS, WarpOS and for AmigaOS4 (PPC native). The program has been successfully tested on AmigaOS Classic, MorphOS 1.4, AmigaOS 4.0, WinUAE and Amithlon. Hollywood Designer is written in a OS friendly way and should run on every Amiga compatible system. Get creative now with Hollywood Designer!

General:

State-of-the-art GUI allows you to design your presentations
Uses the popular slide-based presentation concept
Create presentations with a few clicks
Easy to use layout part which allows you to drag, scale and rotate objects
Object, page and color manager are very useful tools to manage your project
Modern interface design with many colorful icons, toolbars and big images
Fully WYSIWYG compliant
Support for Undo/redo and clipboard usage
Extensive online help interface for all dialogs
Hollywood Designer is completely localized
Many context menus for easy access to all popular functions
Modern project managament with a data manager to organize your project files
Save your presentations as AmigaOS, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS or AmigaOS4 native executable!
Every presentation can also be saved as a Hollywood script
Fully keyboard controllable
Presentations can be shown in window and full screen mode

Slides & Objects:

Add rectangles, ellipses, pie slices and polygons to your slides
Support for lots of auto forms (arrows, bubbles, stars, explosions etc.)
Customize your auto forms through draggable hot spots
Choose from many different object fill styles
Each object can have a configurable shadow and border
Every object can play sounds and can execute timing options
All objects can be used as buttons to catch events
Objects can be displayed and removed with a transition effect
Every object has its own layer and can appear behind other objects
Objects can also execute your own custom Hollywood code (for advanced users)
Objects can also be hidden and grouped with the page background
Full 24-bit transparency support for brushes and animations
Support for brushes with alpha channel
You can use color, bitmap, intelli and truetype fonts
Create formatted text with border and shadow
Different text styles are supported for every font type
Over 150 transition effects can be used for all objects and pages
Objects can be scaled to any size and freely rotated
Slides can have a gradient, image, color or texture background
Slides can be exported as single pictures too
All graphics are loaded through datatypes
Slide and object positions can easily be changed
Rectangles with round edges and thick lines can be used
Cool fly-on effects with sine wave, curves, bounces, etc.
Anti-aliasing support for all object types

Sound:

Play sound samples, sound streams and Protracker modules
MP3 playback full supported
Adjust the pitch, volume, panning and looping of samples
Audio playback fully retargetable through AHI
Sound samples are loaded through datatypes
Support for 8 and 16-bit samples
Play virtually any number of samples at the same time
Sample size is not limited

Interactive presentations:

Every object can act as a button so you can create interactive presentations
Objects can catch mouse over, left mouse and right mouse click events
Many reactions on events are possible (e.g. show or hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, quit presentation, skip page...)
Custom reactions for events are also possible with Hollywood code (for advanced users)
Pixel-exact collision detection possible
Use Hollywood Designer to create your diskmags, front-ends or games!

Kickstart 3.0 or better
68020 CPU
Hollywood 2.5
Graphics board with Picasso96 or CyberGraphX
32 megabyte memory recommended
800x600 screen size recommended

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Unfortunately there is no demo version available for download. The reason for this is that all the demo versions of my other Shareware programs were cracked and I do not want that this to happen with Hollywood Designer too. So there will be only screenshots available to demonstrate how powerful Hollywood Designer is. Thanks for your understanding.

Updates:
DEUpdate2_1.lha Designer 2.1 Update (24-Mar-08)
Designer2_0R2.lha Hollywood Designer 2.0 Rev. 2 (01-Feb-08)

Translations:
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