What's new in Instagiffer 1.75
Jun 29, 2016
- Fixed YouTube download issues.
New in Instagiffer 1.73 (Apr 14, 2016)
- Fixes:
- Line-spacing adjustment - modify the space between lines of text
- Soft outline is now called officially called Shadow. Shadow parameter was tweaked a bit too. It looks pretty nice :)
- In the instagiffer.conf
- set default text margin (distance of text from image’s edge)
- Set duration=0.0 to have insta default to max video duration on video load
- Caption dialog now reports the dimensions in real-time as they’re adjusted
- Scrollwheel, Control-scrollwheel and Shift-scrollwheel on caption dialog resize the capture width and/or height
New in Instagiffer 1.72 (Apr 12, 2016)
- Way faster when opening the effects panel, previewing and generating cinemagraphs
- Progress bar doesn’t just loop endlessly anymore - It actually shows progress percentage
- When you hold down the next/previous frame buttons, the preview plays back at the actual speed (handy!)
- Screen capture:
- If you CTRL-CLICK the start button, you’ll get a 5 second count down
- Small but worth noting: you can click-drag the blue area to move it
- Vastly improved audio support:
- Adjust volume
- preview button on audio dialog
- m4a supported
- Audio plays in the Instagiffer player
- Logo can now be moved vertically and horizontally by the number of pixels you specify
- Improved softened outline. It’s more of a drop shadow now
- Instagiffer.conf:
- Default values for all caption parameters can be specified
- Default YouTube quality adjustable (settings/downloadQuality)
New in Instagiffer 1.72 Pre-1 (Apr 11, 2016)
- After spending a day making GIFs with Instagiffer, I became infuriated with the a) infinite progress bar, b) the amount of time it takes to show a preview when opening the fx panel or right-clicking the preview window, c) the inaccuracy of the playback rate when holding down the next frame button (forcing me to generate gif just to test the speed), and d) the lack of usability of the new audio feature.
- An old boss of mine, whom I respect a great deal, used to refer to this as “Eating your own dog food”. When you really sit down and spend some time using your product, you start to notice these things. I am so sorry it took so long to deal with these issues!!
- Anyways, 1.72 is feeling so so so much better with these little enhancements - I feel like the usability has increased two-fold. I’m going to continue testing through-out the day to make sure I track down all of the areas that require polishing.
- Some other features include the ability to nudge the x,y position of your logo, the ability to set your favorite caption defaults in instagiffer.conf (font, size, outline etc)
New in Instagiffer 1.70 (Apr 8, 2016)
- New features:
- Webm and Mp4 support (File -> Change Save Location… and add .webm or .mp4 extension to activate)
- Add sound to your “GIFs”
- If you add sound, it will default from gif to mp4
- When adding sounds, you can use a local file or you can specify a URL such as a Youtube link, and the mp3/mp4/aac will be downloaded
- Specify the start time in mm:ss.000 format
- Android users can upload .webm files to Vine. Make sure video is 480x480. Not sure about Iphone. Please help us test this.
- Added opacity control to logo configuration dialog
- Other goodies only available via instagiffer.conf include individual frame timing, more social media warnings, and leveraging transparency when cinemagraphing
- Bug fixes:
- Properly handle anamorphic (non-square pixel) videos. You may have noticed that some videos were horizontally squished. This has been corrected.
New in Instagiffer 1.69 (Apr 5, 2016)
- Transitions:
- Cross-fade different scenes to together seamlessly
- You can even blend the end with the beginning to create an infinite loop as seen below (Just set the start position after the end position)
- Import Dialog addition: Insert blank frames. Combined with the cross-fade feature, it allows you to do fade in/outs
- If you type “random” into the location bar, you will be served a random video.
New in Instagiffer 1.68 (Apr 4, 2016)
- This update contains a lot of smaller features that are long overdue as well as some bug fixes to prepare for the next big release:
- Added new text animation types:
- Fade In, Out and InOut
- Multi-select images from open video dialog. I have to admit, image sequence workflow was pretty confusing before.
- Improved import:
- Option to maintain aspect ratio when importing
- Any image type supported, not just png anymore
- Import GIFs. All frames will be added. You can even multi-select gifs and all frames from all gifs will be imported
- Extra file compression using Gifsicle (PC only for now, still testing the Mac version)
- Video downloading - Fixed failed to verify certificate error
- Improved logo support:
- Any image file supported
- Ability to resize by percentage
- Ability to place logo pre or post filter
- added Reverse Frames feature
- lots of bug fixes reported by the community
New in Instagiffer 1.67 (Mar 28, 2016)
- Mask editor - Fixed lots of quirks:
- Added undo
- Scale the window size to fit on screen
- Added invert function on cinemagraph effect
- GUI re-arrangement / simplification
- Mac bug - width was always off by one - fixed
- Text animation cleanup + More envelopes added.
- Youtube download quality fixed: Low, Medium, High, Highest maps to: 240, 360, 720, best available
New in Instagiffer 1.66 (Mar 26, 2016)
- Make beautiful cinemagraphs. Use the mask tool under the Frames menu to paint the regions you want to move. Everything else will stay frozen. Don’t forget to check “Cinemagraph” on the effects panel. Give it a try, it’s easy!
- Nashville filter
- Blur effect
- Text blinking has been improved. Captions pulse instead of turning hard on/off
- Make It Loop! feature added. Got a gif that doesn’t loop nicely? Turn it in to a forward-reverse loop with a click. Also known as bouncing loops or symmetric loops.
- Filters can now be applied to captions (via captions dialog)
- Misc bug fixes
New in Instagiffer 1.65 (Mar 26, 2016)
- Make beautiful cinemagraphs. Use the mask tool under the Frames menu to paint the regions you want to move. Everything else will stay frozen. Don’t forget to check “Cinemagraph” on the effects panel. Give it a try, it’s easy!
- Nashville filter
- Blur effect
- Text blinking has been improved. Captions pulse instead of turning hard on/off
- Make It Loop! feature added. Got a gif that doesn’t loop nicely? Turn it in to a forward-reverse loop with a click. Also known as bouncing loops or symmetric loops.
- Filters can now be applied to captions (via captions dialog)
- Misc bug fixes
New in Instagiffer 1.65 (Mar 25, 2016)
- New features:
- Make beautiful cinemagraphs. Use the mask tool under the Frames menu to paint the regions you want to move. Everything else will stay frozen. Don’t forget to check “Cinemagraph” on the effects panel. Give it a try, it’s easy!
- Nashville filter
- Blur effect
- Text blinking has been improved. Captions pulse instead of turning hard on/off
- Make It Loop! feature added. Got a gif that doesn’t loop nicely? Turn it in to a forward-reverse loop with a click. Also known as bouncing loops or symmetric loops.
- Filters can now be applied to captions (via captions dialog)
- Misc bug fixes
New in Instagiffer 1.64 (Mar 23, 2016)
- We’re trying to make the effects a little more useful. Be honest, who actually used “Oil Paint”? Effects are now on a separate dialog and as you make changes, you are given a live preview. Each filter also has tweakable parameters which we will be expanding in the future. Please suggest any other cool filters you’d like to see (need screenshots!) along with a really cool name like “Canned Cheese”, or “Wet Newspaper” and we’ll add it!
New in Instagiffer 1.63 (Mar 21, 2016)
- Added:
- Captions (text):
- Cleaner outline
- Optional “soft outline” effect
- Transparent Text. Set opacity between 1-100%
- Manual cropper:
- In addition to this feature, I also sorted out all of of the width x height inconsistencies. (Sometimes the resulting gif width or height would be off by a pixel)
- Right-click on the preview pane:
- See a quick preview of what your GIF will look like - very handy! You no longer need to generate a GIF just to see how your captions will look for example :)
- Save Video For Later:
- You can now save downloaded Youtube/Vimeo/etc videos to your computer for later processing. Saves time and bandwidth.
- Other:
- Lots of bug fixes
- Rotate by any angle on export
- Web-optimized setting on screen capture pane
- Update of core dependencies
- Enable only the social media warnings you care about (via instagiffer.conf)
New in Instagiffer 1.62 (Mar 14, 2016)
- Long-overdue Mac release. Fonts and captions should be widely supported
- Save for Instagram feature - Ask us how to use it if you’re interested
- Auto-fix language issues
- Loads of bug fixes
- General update to core dependencies
New in Instagiffer 1.61 (Feb 24, 2016)
- General update of core dependencies:
- Helpful Tooltips
- Signature error fixes
- Fixed bug caused by trying to Imgur upload before clicking Create Gif
- rate limit error popup to 1 every 10 sec
- GUI glitch if export folder is not writable
- Common error explanations: Signature errors, Firewall
- Handle user deleting images in Explorer better
- Screencap improvements
- MaxFPS is default on
- Loads of other small glitches and bugs that everyone reported over the last 3 months -thx
New in Instagiffer 1.60 (Oct 26, 2015)
- Updating core modules
- Windows 10 support
- Bug fixes
New in Instagiffer 1.58 (Dec 30, 2014)
- Bug fix update:
- Fixed most signature errors when downloading from Youtube
- Fixed several screen capture bugs
New in Instagiffer 1.56 (Nov 10, 2014)
- This is a minor release that fixes several small issues that you guys reported over the past few months
- Fixed Youtube and vine download issues
- Language and locale fixes
- Custom DPI scaling now supported. Preview window now longer gets cut off if you have a custom zoom level set in your Windows display settings
- Updating Tumblr warnings with the new maximum GIF width of 540px.
New in Instagiffer 1.54 (Sep 12, 2014)
- This is the first synchronized release of the PC, Mac and portable versions
- Feature: Holding down left and right trackbar buttons preview at actual speed
- KeyError in thumbnail cache when deleting large amounts of frames
- Fixed bug where tenths spinbox would only go from 0-4.
- Fixed several bugs which would occur when overwrite gif was un-checked
- Added specific Tumblr constraint warnings
New in Instagiffer 1.51 (Sep 3, 2014)
- Feature: Add a custom logo graphic to your GIF!
- Feature: mkv and HD video processing is VASTLY improved. No more sluggishness when previewing frames :)
- Feature: Detect and auto-remove duplicate frames (Can be disabled via instagiffer.conf but we suggest leaving it on)
- Feature: Riffle shuffle option when importing (for wigglegrams and what ever else you can think of)
- Bug fix: stuck on “extracting frames”
- Bug fix: closing Instagiffer while it’s busy is now graceful
- Bug fix: Max FPS is now configured to be the maximum FPS of the source video
New in Instagiffer 1.50 (Sep 3, 2014)
- Feature: Show Youtube download progress in status bar!
- Feature: Right-click+drag in cropping tool for better cropping control. Give it a try!
- Feature: Control the size of the text outline from 0 to 15 pixels.
- Feature: Allow size and crop settings to be exported in Export Frames dialog.
- Feature: Adding command-line mode. However, please contact us before integrating Instagiffer into your software solutions.
- Feature: Download Vine videos directly
- Bug fix: Screen capture. Increased maximum FPS. Also fixed restrict FPS feature.
- Bug fix: Several internationalization fixes. No longer need to select a custom Instagiffer working directory!
New in Instagiffer 1.42 (Aug 14, 2014)
- Feature: Added time trackbar - A nice alternative to entering start time by hand!
- Feature: Updating default maximum FPS to 30
- Major bug fix: Frame rate glitch. Gifs would often have an annoying slow framerate glitch in the first few seconds. This has been repaired.
- Bug fix: Failed Youtube downloads
- Bug fix: miscellaneous crashes
- Bug fix: various “overwrite disabled” bugs
New in Instagiffer 1.41 (Jan 6, 2014)
- Bug fix: some Youtube videos (especially music videos) were failing to load
- Feature: File save path can now be configured
New in Instagiffer 1.33 (Nov 11, 2013)
- Several small bug fixes. Thank you for all of the bug reports!
- Improved unicode support.
- VEVO videos work now!
- Improved portability. Implemented requests offered by forum users at portablefreeware.com
- Gif preview trackbar: left/right buttons loop around. Handy for making seamless gifs.
- Maximum FPS can be un-capped by modifying instagiffer config file
New in Instagiffer 1.32 (Jul 10, 2013)
- Fixed caption bug reported by a handful of users. When opening the caption dialog, Instagiffer would crash. This was due to custom font names containing unicode characters.
- Added a check to prevent entire Youtube playlists from being downloaded.
New in Instagiffer 1.31 (Jul 9, 2013)
- Added: File -> Upload to Imgur! Note. There is no progress bar support yet. Just be patient. it will upload :)
- Added new option to delete dialog: delete even frames only
- Added: File -> Delete all temporary files
- Stability + diagnostic improvements. Code restructured to make new features easier to add.
New in Instagiffer 1.30 (Jul 8, 2013)
- 3 new effects! Sepia tone, faded edges (vignette), oil painting
- Added caption positioning
- Added font styles (bold / italic)
- Export and import frames. This allows you to combine clips from two or more videos. It also allows you to make bouncing loops (A->B->A)
- The ESC key now cancels long running tasks (ie. Youtube downloads, image processing)
- Added tool tip help
- Re-added next/prev frame button
- Screen capture window: Remember last size and position
New in Instagiffer 1.25 (Jul 3, 2013)
- Replaced the left/right buttons with a slider
- Caption Editor: Remember font, color and size
- Fixed double-click deletion bug
- No longer stripping trailing/leading enters/spaces. (Hint: This allows for arbitrary placement of captions :). You can use this method until I add support custom caption placement)
- Updated Youtube downloader module. This appears to fix the Youtube download issues that some users were reporting.
New in Instagiffer 1.24 (Jun 28, 2013)
- Added blinking text feature. Settings are off, slow, medium and fast.
- When selecting what frames during text captioning, the frame preview will update as you move the start and end sliders around
- Added option to show mouse cursor during screen capture
- Added a “Delete Frames" dialog which allows you to delete frame ranges.
- When doing a screen capture, there is now a 3 second count-down before recording begins to give you some time to prepare
- Fixed some glitchy bugs introduced in v 1.23
New in Instagiffer 1.23 (Jun 27, 2013)
- Added support for multiple captions with custom start/end times
- Added font chooser
New in Instagiffer 1.22 (Jun 26, 2013)
- Improved screen grab tool. You can now capture a portion of the screen
New in Instagiffer 1.21 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Work-around (for now) for users experiencing the Unicode bug.
- Now displaying the GIF width, height and aspect ratio to help assist users create photosets with similar-sized images. If gifs are side-by-side in a photoset and they have different aspect ratios, it sometimes results in the bottom half of the image being cut off.
New in Instagiffer 1.11 (Jun 8, 2013)
- Each slider now has a numeric display
- Caption color button is now colored to represent the current font color
- Fixed issue #68. Sometimes wouldn’t pick up manual edits to files outside of Instagiffer when using additional third-party tools like Photoshop, Paint, etc for editing
- Renamed Desaturate 50% to “Color Fade”. Performs a 30% reduction in saturation.