April 12th, 2012· Added: Sponsored mode now available, free for non-commercial use
· Fixed: Various bugfixes
March 17th, 2012· Changed: No more banner in Free Mode. Instead the maximum output resolution is limited to YouTube basic size.
· Changed: Multiplexing MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 system streams is much faster
· Changed: A bit faster loading of DLLs
· Fixed: Reading from system MPEGs larger than 4GB was broken
· Fixed: Writing TIFF images was broken
· Fixed: Memory leaks in some cases
November 17th, 2011· Changed: Length of AV files is automatically synced on open. You can set original length by choosing Edit - In/Out Points - Select Entire File
· Fixed: VideoMach now resolves shortcut files dropped on its main window
· Fixed: There was an error opening MPEG files larger than 4 GB
· Fixed: Support for certain formats would disappear on some machines/systems
July 21st, 2011· Fixed: Inserting unnecessary spaces when generating image sequence numeration
· Fixed: Adjust RGB dialog would sometimes display component value of -0
July 6th, 2011· Changed: GIF and PPM files can be open as image sequences instead of being treated as multi-frame sources
· Fixed: Text Overlay: Loading of Italic and Underline properties from a project didn't work properly
· Fixed: Text Overlay: Remembers style from the previously added instance
· Fixed: Speed and Direction: Invalid frame rate for images
June 14th, 2011· Added: Command-line option /Help to display list of command-line options
· Changed: Speed and Direction dialog has been improved
· Changed: XVID output now automatically rounds video resolution to a multiple of 4
· Changed: Program help is now online
· Fixed: Video direction wasn't loaded from a project
· Fixed: Text Overlay dialog: On Windows with Large Fonts enabled OK and Cancel buttons were out of the window
· Fixed: White Balance dialog: Clicking on the preview uses the original colors, not the modified ones
May 24th, 2011· Added: Command-line option to set the Temporal Average output
· Added: Text Overlay: Text Align and cursor coordinates
· Added: Speed and Direction dialog
· Changed: Text Overlay: Time Scale is now easier to use
· Changed: Text Overlay: New macros added, some old were removed
· Changed: A few items in the Edit menu were renamed
· Changed: Start Now button is replaced with the Tutorial button
· Fixed: Output information didn't always show the actual number of output frames
· Fixed: Video Overlay: Some JPEG files would cause errors
· Fixed: Command-line: Access violation when using the /log option
February 17th, 2011· Added: Option to silently install and register videomach from the command line
· Fixed: Minor bugfixes in conversion engine
November 24th, 2010· Changed: Passing /S switch to setup package installs VideoMach automatically without GUI
· Changed: Add Entire Folder memorizes folders separately from Open Media Files
· Changed: Add Recent Folders opens folders using Add Entire Folder method
· Fixed: Automatic check for updates was displaying a window even if no new updates were found
· Fixed: Help => Tutorial link
November 9th, 2010· Added: Help > Tutorials opens the internet page with tutorials
· Changed: Pick Frame Rate and Pick Audio Frequency buttons are always enabled
· Changed: Other minor changes to the GUI
October 23rd, 2010· Changed: Final Resize button is always enabled in Save As dialog
· Changed: Support for BMPs with negative height (although that's not by BMP specs)
· Changed: Licensing (new licensing models and prices)
October 8th, 2010· Added: Open Entire Folder to easily open all files in a folder
· Added: Sorting files by file name, folder, size and random order
· Changed: Some items moved from File to Edit and Project menu
· Fixed: Commands-line parameters were executed out of order
· Fixed: The output folder in the Save As folder wouldn't always be saved between the sessions
· Fixed: Paste would sometimes insert files in the wrong line
· Fixed: Anti-aliasing problems with Add Text in some cases
August 24th, 2010· Improved: Upgraded MPEG encoder/decoder
· Improved: Faster loading of projects that contain thousands of images
· Changed: Instead of linking, RGB sliders now have an additional common slider
· Fixed: All RGB functions were using only the red component for adjustments (newly introduced bug while making program code more portable)
· Fixed: Distorted picture after Free Rotate when source file is 8-bit
· Fixed: FLIC encoder produced invalid data for large images
· Fixed: Deleting unlinked audio would sometimes cause access violation exceptions
· Fixed: Error when writing audio and video to separate files
July 12th, 2010· Fixed: Changed message when a non-existing project from the command-line
· Fixed: Fixed newly introduced problem with the JPEG library
July 12th, 2010· Added: Keyboard shortcuts to move selected items in a list faster and easier
· Changed: Newer and better Ogg Vorbis and Theora encoders
· Changed: File information shows video aspect ratio instead of size in megapixels
· Changed: Minor GUI updates
· Fixed: Input preview didn't refresh after editing in/out points
· Fixed: When audio list was active, Ctrl+Right and Ctrl+Left didn't behave as expected
· Fixed: After loading a project the in/out points of a video filter could sometimes shift
July 12th, 2010· Added: New keyboard shortcuts in the Edit menu, selections can be moved faster in the lists
· Added: Extended free upgrade period for this version
· Changed: Minor GUI modifications
July 12th, 2010· Added: Choose any WMV and WMA codec, not just the latest one
· Added: File => In/Out Points => SyncToShortest (fixes differences in audio/video duration for a single file)
· Added: New macros and macro options for Text Overlay
· Added: Extra Copy/Paste options
· Added: Current frame information (press F6)
· Added: File Information displays embedded comments for AVI and WMV
· Changed: Enhanced MPEG video encoder and MPEG audio encoder/decoder
· Changed: Fade In/Out now produce a more natural fading effect
· Changed: Text Overlay macro paramters are now enclosed in { }
· Changed: When clicking on a video file, it's linked audio is selected as well
· Changed: File Comments button moved from AVI dialog to Output Settings dialog
· Changed: Much faster Paste/Duplicate
· Changed: When loading presets the output file name is only minimally modified if necessary
· Removed: Project => Clear List doesn't exist anymore
· Fixed: OpenSeq was asking for confirmation when used from the command line
· Fixed: Animated GIFs are now open as video files, not image sequences
· Fixed: Estimated time to completion was invalid on computers with inaccurate microsecond timer
· Fixed: Internal Player crashes if the Space key is pressed during playing
· Fixed: "Same file on input and output" warning even when it wasn't the case
· Fixed: Errors when trying to write OGG audio with sample rate below 16000 Hz
· Fixed: Custom print resolution couldn't be enabled
· Fixed: After calling Audio => Sync Length on the silence item, the new length wasn't displayed
· Fixed: Some macros weren't interpreted immediately in the Text Overlay dialog
· Fixed: Many incosistencies in the documentation
August 19th, 2009· Added: Support for CINE compression 5
· Added: Automatic frame rate correction for high speed imaging sources
· Changed: Decimal separator is defined by local system settings
· Fixed: Site license wasn't working for non-admin users on XP
· Fixed: When loading a block of images the ESC key wouldn't abort the operation
· Fixed: GIF palette problem
June 11th, 2009· Changed: Output info panel easier to read
· Fixed: A few minor bugs in the engine
June 3rd, 2009· Changed: After modifying in/out points for image sequences the real name of the first image is displayed
· Fixed: Places bar wasn't displayed in the save-file dialog
June 1st, 2009· Changed: After modifying in/out points for image sequences the real name of the first image is displayed
· Fixed: Places bar wasn't displayed in the save-file dialog
April 17th, 2009· Added: Native WMV/WMA reader resulting in much better support for Windows Media format
· Added: Support for YUV colorspace inside TIFF file format
· Fixed: Invalid preview when using Ctrl+Up / Ctrl+Down to move files up and down in the list
· Fixed: Several minor bugs
March 24th, 2009· Added: Resize preset 2048 x 1152 (16:9)
· Fixed: A few minor bugs in GUI
· Fixed: Several bugs in the Video Overlay filter
· Fixed: Insert Video Filter would display preview taking into account all previous filters, instead just of those above it
March 4th, 2009· Fixed: Site and World-Wide Site license keys weren't always recognized on Vista
· Fixed: Preview frames in the main window may sometimes display unnecessary scrollbars
February 14th, 2009· Tested on Windows 7 Beta (slightly modified for compatibility)
· Added: New presets in the Resize dialog to directly support popular LCD resolutions
· Changed: Default resolution offered by Adjust Size => Resize is the original image resolution
· Changed: Periodical update check now asks for permission before connecting to the Internet
· Changed: Removed Abort button from the Pause Processing dialog
· Fixed: Some GUI problems
January 10th, 2009· Added: AVI file splitting
· Added: Free rotation with anti-aliasing
· Changed: Vision Research Cine decoder now supports files over 2GB (up to milion TB)
· Changed: No more evaluation period, program is free for non-commercial use with a small banner on the first few frames
· Changed: Installation folder is by default always the same, for all versions
· Changed: Last used display unit is saved between sessions
· Changed: AdjustRGB now has Symmetric turned on if all three values are equal
· Changed: Show Produced Files Info is moved in Files menu
· Fixed: Problem with UNC file names in some cases
· Fixed: Problem with resize preview with some resolutions
· Fixed: Output preview refresh after modifying in/out points of a video filter
· Fixed: Shift-click on the preview in Video Overlay filter didn't change the transparency key
· Fixed: In Text Overlay filter negative coordinates produced same result as positive
· Fixed: On systems without Windows Media encoder, WMV/WMA formats are now automatically disabled
· Fixed: Problem with site licenses on systems with remotely stored registry database
· Fixed: Errors when decoding certain FLC files
October 21st, 2008· Added: Renaming of output presets
· Fixed: AddVideoStream failed when creating WMV files with non-standard resolutions
· Fixed: When saving image sequences the Produced Files Info dialog wouldn't display the size of the entire sequence
· Fixed: Output picture size wasn't refreshed after changing in/out points for video filters
September 22nd, 2008· Added: Export to file (backup) and Import from file (restore) of output presets
· Added: Insert Macro button in the Text overaly
· Fixed: Bug in Edit In/Out points dialog, edit boxes were partially covered by the video preview
· Fixed: In some cases the output preview wasn't refreshed in the main window
September 11th, 2008· Added: Free rotation of images
· Fixed: Setting to keep original number of frames wasn't working
· Fixed: Option to use negative and positive numbers of image sequences was hidden
· Fixed: Command-line parameters with spaces were causing problems
· Fixed: Minor problems on Windows Vista
August 20th, 2008· Changed: Increased speed of OGV decoding and improved frame seeking
· Changed: Internet update check is now less frequent
· Changed: Some Text Overlay settings
· Fixed: Not all Text Overlay parameters were saved to a project file
· Fixed: Rounding errors when specifying OGV / OGG data rate
· Fixed: Internal player time display wasn't rounded to the nearest second
· Fixed: Help in codec dialog boxes didn't work
· Fixed: Skewed OGV video for some non-standard resolutions
· Fixed: Seek problem in HAV files resulting in wrong video and audio data
August 13th, 2008· Added: Real-time preview for most of video filters
· Added: Writing of Windows Media Format 9 compatible files in WMV and WMA file formats
· Added: Support for writing animated GIFs (one palette per frame or single palette for all frames)
· Added: Ogg Video format (Theora codec) for both reading and writing including multiplexed Ogg Video Audio
· Added: Anti-aliasing and soft shadow in the Text Overlay filter
· Added: Custom presets to change all output settings in two clicks
· Added: Linking of audio and video
· Added: Support for new CINE subformats (10, 12 and 14bit) and new filename extension ".cine"
· Added: File Info dialog now displays image size in megapixels
· Added: New command-line parameter /SaveOutput
· Added: Automatic update notification
· Added: Border function to add fixed-size borders
· Changed: Resize, Crop and Rotate moved to Video Filters => Adjust Size submenu
· Changed: New project files, not 100% compatible with the old ones due to changes in Output Settings dialog
· Changed: Simpler use of Matrix and Temporal Average functions
· Changed: Paste now accepts copied file names from a text editor, just make sure they contain full path to the file
· Changed: Improved caching results in faster loading of large images
· Changed: VideoMach shows a warning if output resolution is too high
· Changed: There's no default session anymore
· Changed: When opening image sequences there's no frame rate dialog displayed automatically anymore
· Fixed: High amounts of Saturation produced invalid results
· Fixed: In very rare cases some JPEG images had swapped R and B color components
· Fixed: Video seek in MPEG files returned wrong images
· Fixed: Unsupported files were locked after trying to open them
· Fixed: Exception in some cases when opening AVI files
· Fixed: Problems with uncompressed AVI files larger than a gigabyte
· Fixed: Error if Cinepak doesn't exist (for example on Wine/Linux)
· Fixed: When reading some video clips via DirectShow interface VideoMach froze completely
· Fixed: When loading an image from plain-text list it would load entire sequence instead of a single image
· Fixed: Preview movie resolution was invalid in some cases
· Fixed: Some dialogs werent properly resized when Large Fonts option was set in Windows
· Fixed: Bug when copying certain video filters
· Fixed: Video artifacts when decoding some GIF images
March 8th, 2007· Added: File => Add from Clipboard to paste files copied in Windows Explorer to VideoMach
· Changed: Separate warnings for deleting files / video effects / alternative players
· Fixed: Problem with support for GIF and other formats in some cases
· Fixed: If Cinepak doesn't exist (for example on Wine/Linux) VideoMach would generate an error
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