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Advene Changelog

What's new in Advene 1.0

Dec 22, 2011
  • This release marks the end of a series that has been stable for a long time, but never earned its major release number.
  • This version now enters a maintenance state, while development focuses on the next major version (new data model, interface revamp to handle simultaneous analysis of multiple video files and more).

New in Advene 0.48 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • New stable release, candidate for 1.0.

New in Advene 0.47 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Main GUI:
  • Left-clicking on the video slider jumps to the designated position.
  • Note-taking view - new shortcut: Ctrl-C to convert to annotations
  • Timeline:
  • The annotation inspector can be locked on an annotation by clicking on it. Clicking on the lock icon or in the timeline background unlocks the inspector. The annotation content can be edited through the inspector, and validated either with an icon, or with the Control-Return shortcut.
  • Annotation table view:
  • Annotation contents can be modified from the table view.
  • New shortcut: Ctrl-Return to play current annotation.
  • Transcription view - new shortcut: Ctrl-Return to play current annotation.
  • Importers:
  • WebVTT files can be imported.
  • Speech recognition has been implemented through the pocketsphinx speech recognition software. The pocketsphinx software is not bundled with Advene and has to be installed separately to enable this feature.
  • The additional videoplayer offset can be customized by drag and drop of an annotation.
  • The popup menu on screenshot and annotations now offers to save the screenshot as a PNG file. If the player supports it, the screenshot will be in video-resolution.

New in Advene 0.46 (Dec 22, 2011)

  • Stable release

New in Advene 0.45 (Apr 7, 2011)

  • Main GUI:
  • Timecode display: add HH:MM:SSfNN (frame number) display format in
  • preferences. The same syntax can be used for timecode input too. Note
  • that it uses 25 fps by default (smpte-25), this can be modified in the
  • Time-related preferences (it does not yet get this information
  • from each video file).
  • The snapshotter activity can be monitored and controlled through a green icon in the lower right-hand corner of the main window.
  • The imagecache can be reset from the Player menu.
  • Undo behaviour: implement Undo for annotation/query/view creation.
  • Allow storage of binary data in XML.
  • New menuitems "Create a montage from the relations" and "Create a dynamic view following relations" in relation-type popup menu.
  • The comment editor proposes multiple presentation modalities for dragged annotation-types.
  • Timeline:
  • Click twice on an annotation will not start playing anymore. This caused confusion with double clicks to edit.
  • Define generic relation types (from any annotation type to any type) when creating new relation types.
  • Exporters:
  • Two new json exporters.
  • Importers:
  • Advene2 (Cinelab) importer and AIFF (Final Cut Pro) importer
  • Audio/video extraction importers: sound enveloppe, sound detection,
  • new shot detection algorithm, feature extraction (face, eyes...). The
  • extraction importers can be invoked through the File/Process video
  • menu.
  • Options can be specified from the GUI for each import filter
  • For developers: the import framework has been simplified. If you want to import data from an external application,use util.importer.ExternalAppImporter (and see plugins/shotdetectapp.py for an example).
  • Braille table:
  • Long text can be scrolled with left/right buttons in scroll mode.
  • Actions:
  • New parameters (balance, volume) for PlaySound / PlaySoundClip actions

New in Advene 0.43 (Sep 14, 2010)

  • Timecode display can be customized through Edit/Preferences/Time-related
  • Timecodes can be entered as milliseconds (12300), seconds (12.300 ->
  • floating point values) or complete timestamps (00:00:12.300)
  • Website export can now automatically generate HTML5 code
  • Popup menu:
  • Right-click on an annotation, annotation-type or package offers to do
  • a search/replace on the concerned annotations content.
  • The video fragment corresponding to an annotation can be extracted
  • through the annotation popup menu.
  • Player control
  • The player is automatically started and paused when loading a movie/package.
  • The Play/Pause button is now unique, and the Stop button has been removed.
  • The Mute/Unmute button has been replaced by a volume slider.
  • Rate control is available for the gstreamer plugin.
  • Control-Up/Down keys can be used to navigate with user-specified
  • times (without Shift modifier), see Edit/Preferences/Time-related for
  • customization.
  • Fullscreen mode now has specific shortcuts. Basically, navigation keys (space, left/right, up/down...) can be used without holding Control. See
  • http://liris.cnrs.fr/advene/wiki/index.php/AdveneShortcuts#Fullscreen_shortcuts for more details.
  • Timeline view:
  • If there are more than 1500 annotations, display only 2 annotation types in the timeline (to speed package loading), and propose display options through a dialog.
  • Control+click in the timeline background creates and edits a new annotation at the current player position (and in the appropriate type) When the player is paused, click once on an annotation goes to the annotation begin, a second click starts the movie.
  • New shortcuts :
  • Del deletes annotations (previously, it was necessary to hold Shift-Del)
  • a on an annotation-type invokes the "Shot adjustment" interface a/A on on annotation invokes the "Frame selector" interface A new toolbar button toggles the display of all defined relations.
  • Table view:
  • Clicking on the snapshot column plays the movie at the specified position.
  • Cut validation interface
  • Control-click on a frame creates a new cut instead of adjusting the current cut.
  • Implement Undo and action notification
  • When editing textual content, abbreviations can be used to enter text more quickly, and automatic completion can be disabled. See
  • Edit/Preferences/Text Content for customization.
  • Workspace is now always saved in the package and restored at loading in the standard configuration. See Edit/Preferences/Workspace for configuration.
  • Text-To-Speech engine can be more finely configured (cf
  • Edit/Preferences). Available engines are: espeak, festival, MacOS X
  • "say" command, MS SAPI5 interface, custom script.

New in Advene 0.42 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • It brings graphics (SVG) overlay over the video, the ability to synchronously play multiple video files, a new shot validation interface for frame-precise adjustments, as well as many improvements.
  • Data can be imported from the following formats: text, SRT subtitles, ELAN, PRAAT, CMML, IRI, Anvil, MPEG7 (FreeTextAnnotations only), Xi, AnnotationGraph, shotdetect, lsdvd
  • Data can be exported to the following formats: SMIL, SVG, HTML+CSS, SRT subtitles, spreadsheet, CMML, TimedText

New in Advene 0.39 (Feb 27, 2010)

  • The gstreamer player plugin now works correctly with gstreamer >=0.10.22. Additionnaly, the windows installer now comes with gstreamer support. gstreamer is now the default player on all platforms (with VLC being an alternative).
  • Website export improvements.
  • The FCKeditor browser-based WYSIWYG editor has been removed, in favor of the new HTML editor.
  • Trace timeline: interface improvements, previous traces can be reopened.
  • Multiple search sources can be specified in quicksearch.
  • Timeline:
  • optimal alignment of annotation sets
  • basic statistics about annotation types are available from their popup menu.
  • Export:
  • a RDF export filter is available
  • annotation types can now be invidually exported (through their popup menu)
  • Import:
  • New Transcriber import filter

New in Advene 0.37 (Feb 27, 2010)

  • New trace visualisation component (vertical display).
  • HTML editor: fix drag-and-drop on windows and improve HTML code generation.
  • Finder view: modify presentation.
  • Timeline: change behaviour when clicking on an annotation: go to its beginning even if the current player position is already inside.
  • Note taking view: font size can be specified from the preferences

New in Advene 0.35 (Feb 27, 2010)

  • The shotdetect application has been integrated and is available through Player/Detect shots menu.
  • Very large medias (like 24h captures) can be edited in the timeline, and precise zoom can be achieved by limiting the timeline range to a specific fragment of the media, through the timeline contextual menu.
  • New event BrailleInput allows to handle cursor key events from a dynamic view.
  • New action: CreateBookmark
  • Static views output can be exported as a set of HTML files and accompanying resources, that can be put online (File/Website export menu).
  • New webserver path ( /media/overlay/package_id/annotation_id ) returns the snapshot for the given annotation overlayed with its content (mostly used to render SVG annotations).
  • Export filters can be activated from the command line.
  • Arrows can be drawn in the SVG editor
  • Video player plugins can be dynamically selected.
  • Activity trace can be recorded and displayed.
  • Adhoc views can be opened embedded by default (cf Edit / Preferences / GUI)
  • The optional autosave feature can regularly save backup files.
  • An Edition History view display latest edited/created elements

New in Advene 0.34 (Aug 25, 2008)

  • It features the long-awaited undo feature (when editing annotations, views and queries), as well as an integrated basic WYSIWYG HTML editor, which allows to easily create basic comments on annotations.
  • Data can be imported from the following formats: text, SRT subtitles, ELAN, PRAAT, CMML, IRI, Anvil, MPEG7 (FreeTextAnnotations only), Xi, AnnotationGraph, shotdetect, lsdvd
  • Data can be exported to the following formats: SMIL, SVG, HTML CSS, SRT subtitles,
  • spreadsheet, CMML

New in Advene 0.28a (Apr 22, 2008)

  • Offers a new finder view a-la Mac OS X, a more flexible quicksearch behaviour (ability to specify multiple keywords, to exclude keywords...). The timeline view now supports selecting a range of annotations, displays screenshots along the timescale and offers the possibility to navigate to the next/previous annotation in a given type.
  • New actions are available in dynamic views: Pronounce (text-to-speech synthesis of the annotation contents), PlaySoundClip, PopupGotoOutgoingRelated (displays a navigation popup based on relations).
  • Data can be imported from the following formats: text, SRT subtitles,
  • ELAN, PRAAT, CMML, IRI, Anvil, MPEG7 (FreeTextAnnotations only), Xi, AnnotationGraph, shotdetect, lsdvd
  • Data can be exported to the following formats: SMIL, SVG, HTML CSS, SRT subtitles, spreadsheet
  • The location of the preferences directory has changed, it is now stored in %USERPROFILE%/advene. Previous settings are not preserved.

New in Advene 0.26a (Dec 7, 2007)

  • Autocompletion in annotation edition windows, workspace customization, auto-saving, etc.
  • Many usability enhancements, new virtual montage view, and many improvements in the timeline for viewing and editing/organising annotations.
  • Text autocompletion has been generalized to the note-taking editor.
  • The results of searches can be converted into montages or new annotations.
  • Dynamic views editing is improved by the availability of common predefined values and the ability to activate multiple dynamic views.
  • Importers for MPEG7 (FreeTextAnnotations), Anvil, and AnnotationGraph have been added.