Choosing Between Autorun MAX! and AutoPlay Media Studio
Indigo Rose Software has two different autorun menu tools. There’s the extremely easy to use Autorun MAX!, and then there’s its big brother AutoPlay Media Studio. Both products are excellent tools for creating autorun CD’s and DVD’s, but AutoPlay Media Studio is a “bigger” product that is also used for creating full multimedia software applications. Compare the differences in the chart below to see which product fits your needs the best. Either way, you’re getting a best of breed professional solution!
Comparison Chart
| Feature | Autorun MAX! Home Edition | Autorun MAX! Business Edition | AutoPlay Media Studio |
License and Branding |
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| Distribute Projects for Commercial Use |  |
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| Remove Branded Credits Screen | |
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| Change Executable Version Information | |
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Design Environment |
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| Maximum Pages per Project | 100 | 250 | 2500 |
| WYSIWYG Design Environment | |
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| Guidelines, Rulers and Grids | |
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| Project Explorer Panel | |
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| Object Properties Grid Panel | |
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| Object Browser Panel | |
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| Hide Objects at Design Time | |
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Runtime Features |
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| Non-Rectangular Windows | |
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| Background Music | |
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| Simultaneous Audio Channels | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Startup Movie (Video) | |
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| Startup Movie (Flash) | |
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| Third-Party Dependency Checking | |
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| Menu Bars | |
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| Resizable Applications | |
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Objects |
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| Button | |
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| Label | |
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| Paragraph | |
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| Image | |
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| Video | |
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| Flash | |
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| Web | |
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| Hotspot | |
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| Input | |
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| ListBox | |
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| ComboBox | |
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| Tree | |
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| Progress | |
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| Expandable with Object Plugins | |
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| Modify Objects at Runtime | |
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Actions |
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| Quick Actions | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Scripting | |
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| Scripting Actions | N/A | N/A | 520 |
| Expandable with Action Plugins | |
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| Color Syntax Highlighting Script Editor | |
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| “Intellisense Style” Code Completion Editor | |
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| Arithmetic Operators | |
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| Custom Variables | |
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| Relational and Logical Operators | |
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| User-Defined Functions | |
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| Control Structures (if, while, repeat, for, do, else) | |
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| Tables, Arrays and Custom Data Structures | |
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| Custom Error Handling | |
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| SQLite Database Support | |
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| XML File Support | |
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| Web Downloads/Communication | |
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Events |
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| Globals | |
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| Project Events | 2 (Startup, Shutdown) |
2 (Startup, Shutdown) |
4 (Startup, Shutdown, Size, Menu) |
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10 (Preload, Show, Close, Timer, Audio, Size, Menu, Key, Mouse Button, Mouse Move) |
| Object Events |
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1 (On Click) |
2-7 (Depends on the object) |
File Formats |
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| Image Files | bmp, jpg, pcx, png, tga, tif, wmf, apm, emf, psd, pcd, gif | bmp, jpg, pcx, png, tga, tif, wmf, apm, emf, psd, pcd, gif | bmp, jpg, pcx, png, tga, tif, wmf, apm, emf, psd, pcd, gif |
| Video Files | asf, asx, avi, wax, wmv, wvx, wmp, wmx, mpg, m1v, mpa, mpe, mpv2 | asf, asx, avi, wax, wmv, wvx, wmp, wmx, mpg, m1v, mpa, mpe, mpv2 | asf, asx, avi, wax, wmv, wvx, wmp, wmx, mpg, m1v, mpa, mpe, mpv2 |
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| Audio Files | wav, raw, ogg, aif, aiff, wma, asf | wav, raw, ogg, aif, aiff, wma, asf | wav, raw, ogg, aif, aiff, wma, asf |
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Publishing Options |
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| Burn CD-R/RW | |
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| Burn to DVD-R/RW | |
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| Build to Hard Drive Folder | |
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| Build to Single File Executable | |
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| Build to ISO Image | |
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Pricing |
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| Price (US$) | $49 | $129 | $295 |