What's new in Photo to Movie 5.0.7
Feb 6, 2012
- Added feature to check for missing media files (menu item File > Check Media...).
- Fixed intermittent file dialog crash on Mac OS Lion.
- Improved handling of user selected image aspect ratios.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.6 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Added floating layout.
- Fixed open file dialog.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.5 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed intermittent crash occurring when using any file dialog.
- Fixed bug where menu items and keyboard shortcuts weren't always available.
- Allow grouping of single photos for layout purposes.
- Fixed crash while compressing multiple photos to near zero duration.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.4 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed intermittent crash bug when clicking menus and quitting application.
- Improved default title style to include shadow and alignment.
- Added ability to set text alignment on multiple titles simultaneously.
- Updated 'Advancing' layout to work on wider variety of graphics cards.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.3 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Improved high definition rendering quality by enabling automatic frame sync.
- Improved performance with hundreds of photos in timeline.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.2 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed scroll bar bug in timeline.
- Fixed bug in collage layout to make it more random.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.1 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed crash when double clicking on documents to open application.
- Fixed problem loading NEF files.
- Fixed problem with gather media.
- Fixed problem in setting marker start times.
- Fixed problem in scaling of photo style background.
New in Photo to Movie 5.0.0 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Added photo layouts such as 2x2 grid and collage.
- Added photo effects such as blur, vignette, etc.
- Added background effects such as photo or pattern.
- Added timeline markers for audio and photos.
- Added marker effects such as jitter, color burst, etc.
- Improved aspect ratio controls for key frames.
- Restored voice recorder (missing since version 4.2).
New in Photo to Movie 4.7.4 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Improved rendering on some older graphics cards.
- Improved default title styles to include shadow.
- Improved copy and paste style to include shadow.
- Improved media browser drag and drop to show outline of photos.
- Improved reliability of video playback.
- Improved reliability of gather media command.
New in Photo to Movie 4.7.3 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed problem drawing some transitions (gradient wipe).
- Fixed problem with send movies to iDVD.
- Fixed problem setting background of text editor.
- Fixed background issue in full screen mode.
- Improved performance of large media libraries in media browser.
- Added keyboard shortcuts Cmd-Less and Cmd-Greater for zooming key frames.
New in Photo to Movie 4.7.2 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed localization bugs.
- Fixed problem with crash recovery.
New in Photo to Movie 4.7.1 (Feb 6, 2012)
- Fixed bug rendering to non-QuickTime files such as .dv or .mp4.
- Fixed motion blur problems when including transparent titles or photos.
- Fixed timing bug when adding title linked to existing photo.
New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0 (Dec 17, 2010)
- Add ability to insert video clips in timeline
- Add ability to resize height of tracks in timeline
New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0 (Oct 17, 2010)
- Added YouTube and iDVD panel to Make Movie dialog.
- Added ability to link titles to specific photos.
- Added ability to automatically label all photos with name, date, time, etc.
- Added ability to change font and color of multiple titles at once.
- Added ability to align multiple titles to each other.
- Added ability to add graphic objects in much the same way as titles are added.
- Added a panel for setting the background of titles
New in Photo to Movie 4.5.4 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Added support for text shadows on titles.
- Added Swedish localizations.
- Improved timeline performance.
- Improved stability and problem reporting mechanism.
- Improved previous version file loading (title fonts/styles).
- Fixed bug when using media files with # in their file names.
- Fixed bug after double clicking on key frames.
- Fixed bug when redrawing audio waveforms.
- Fixed bug in expanding file folders.
- Fixed bug in reverse key frames command.
- Fixed bug when opening .ptm41 files in Open Dialog.
- Fixed bug when rendering files with photos containing non-English letters in path.
- Fixed bug with rendering title effects.
- Fixed bug after undoing title or audio dragging.
- Fixed several title editing/drawing bugs.
- Fixed bug where timeline zoom slider would return to left when editing document.
- Fixed bug when entering title and audio time values with colons.
- Fixed problem when audio had negative start time.
New in Photo to Movie 4.5.2 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Added Cut transition to avoid setting transition duration to 0.0.
- Added Transition... button when editing blank images.
- Added keyboard shortcut for Add Key Frame.
- Added another option for rendering for AppleTV.
- Improved responsiveness of media browser.
- Improved loading of old document files.
- Fixed several bugs in media browser.
- Fixed several crash bugs (Thanks to anyone who reported crashes).
- Fixed 2nd dock icon when rendering movie on Mac OS.
- Fixed Font and Color panels so they don't lose their connection to text.
- Fixed several keyboard handling errors (delete and spacebar).
- Fixed connection of Ctrl-X to Edit > Cut on Windows.
- Fixed problems entering fractional frame rates in Document Info.
- Fixed several defaults when making a movie.
New in Photo to Movie 4.2.0 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Added new title effects such as move, scale, typewriter, and more.
- Added new menu command Audio > Fit Photos to Audio (Cmd-F).
- Added command to gather all media into a single folder.
- Added ability to specify movie sizes with aspect ratios other than standard 4:3 or widescreen 16:9.
- Added menu items to quickly move to next and previous photo (under Photo menu).
- Added contextual menus for photos and music to open and reveal originals in the Finder.
- Added ability to drop folders of photos or music into document from Finder.
- Speed-ups and memory footprint improvements, especially in thumbnail generation.
- Improved copy and paste to include transitions, makes copying entire documents easier.
- Improved default title behavior (selection, timing, etc.).
- Improved stability of media browser.
- Photos and other media is now sorted alphabetically when being added to document.
- Cosmetic improvements to transition menu.
- Cosmetic improvements to scrubber time display for international users.
New in Photo to Movie 4.1.5 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Added support for Adobe Lightroom 2.x libraries in media browser.
- Improved stability during thumbnail calculation on various graphics cards.
- Improved stability of Adobe Lightroom libraries in media browser.
- Improved crash reporting mechanism for improved feedback to developers.
- Fixed minor bug when unchecking title fade-in/out checkboxes.
New in Photo to Movie 4.1.2 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Added Color Drop transition, available with Extended Transition Plug-in.
- Added button in motion path inspector to edit associated transitions.
- Improved performance and memory footprint while previewing and rendering.
- Improved performance while scrubbing through large slide shows while thumbnails are loading.
- Improved timeline drawing to make overlapping titles and audio more apparent.
- Improved cross fade transition rendering performance on non-Quartz Extreme video cards.
- Improved pan angle control for QTVR so that it can accept values outside of 0-360 degree range, allowing full circular panning.
- Changed search for missing images to avoid mounting unmounted volumes.
- Changed QuickTime High Definition rendering formats to use AAC rather than LPCM.
- Fixed problem loading transitions from older files where all transitions would load as cross dissolve.
- Fixed problem displaying full resolution image when loading many images in timeline.
- Fixed problem where real time preview would flicker black if thumbnail images were loading simultaneously.
- Fixed progress indicator during multi-pass rendering so that it displays overall progress rather pass progress.
- Fixed several problems in media browser: searching, folder views, and more.
New in Photo to Movie 4.1.0 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Numerous new transitions include page curl, mosaic, and more.
- Support for multiple audio and title tracks.
- Resizable timeline section of main window.
- Improved rendering capabilities.
- New media browser (including Aperture).
- Preferences for default timing preferences.
- Added automatic updating via the Sparkle framework
New in Photo to Movie 4.0.1 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Fixed problem when exporting movie to same filename after crash.
- Fixed problem where a loaded, unchanged document was automatically closed when loading another document.
- Fixed problem with scrollbar updating in timeline.
- Fixed crash when pressing F6 to start fullscreen preview while fullscreen preview already running.
- Fixed problem where audio items added after missing audio in reloaded document would not be rendered.
- Fixed problem with height field in QuickTime custom rendering panel sometimes showing garbage.
- Fixed problems when stretching photos in timeline with multiple motion paths.
- Fixed documentation problem where key references were missing.
- Fixed problem when splitting or trimming recorded audio.
- Fixed problem where recorded audio would disappear just after recording.
- Fixed problem when trying to resave a file loaded from an older version.
- Fixed problem loading audio from older version files.
- Fixed crash when changing one of the media files just after cancelling make movie operation.
- Fixed problem where make movie dialog was disabled after cancelling dialog asking for filename.
- Fixed case where blank images duration could be set to zero.
- Fixed problem with calculating hold durations when stretching photos.
- Fixed problem where scrubber would move to different location when making selection in zoomed timeline.
- Fixed crash when hitting cancel twice in make movie dialog.
- Fixed crash when closing document while a waveform is being calculated.
New in Photo to Movie 4.0.0 (Jun 4, 2010)
- Added full screen preview.
- Timeline now works properly at all zooms with unlimited images.
- Improved the way missing images are handled.
- Improved overall memory handling by fixing leaks and managing images in memory better.
- Improved export system to be more goal oriented. Integrated with various 3rd party applications.
- Added direct export to iMovie, iDVD, .Mac, Mail, and Toast.
- Improved playback system for much smoother playback using OpenGL.
- Sequence view is now split into its own key frame panel and works on selected motion path
- Application is now a universal binary.
- Added ability to drag and drop to reorder photos in timeline.
- Added photo organizing window for reordering and sorting photos within document.
New in Photo to Movie 3.5.0 (Jun 16, 2006)
- Added ability to export directly to DVD-Video format.
- Fixed bug causing movie rendering to occasionally fail on moderately large images.
- Implemented audio recording on systems with QuickTime installed.
- Implemented custom AVI export.
- Added ability to export to MPEG-2.
- Implemented custom WMV export.
- Modified standard WindowsMedia export formats to use the WMV-9 codec.
- Dragging right edge of photo in timeline can now be used to strech path.
New in Photo to Movie 3.2.4 (Mar 10, 2006)
- Timeline can now be zoomed to fine detail even if hundreds of pictures have been added.
- Added Title->Make Default Style menu item to let user change the default title font, size, or color.
- Added Edit->Reload Images menu item to reload selected images from disk if the image file has changed.
- Added Edit->Replace Image menu item to let user replace selected image with new one. Key frames are scaled appropriately for new image.
- Custom Quicktime format no longer forces frame size to match aspect ratio.
- Square Pixels option was added to list of aspect ratios.
- Document name now appears in window title.
- Document name is now used as default export movie name.
- Audio tracking now snaps correctly to photos when audio does not start at time 0.0.
- Photo to Movie can now handle variable rate QuickTime audio.
- Fix bug preventing QuickTime exports when multiple codecs of same type installed.
- Fixed bug where copy/paste would merge adjacent paths based on same image.
- Double clicking on motion path now correctly selects only all paths in image, rather than all paths in document.