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VideoMach Changelog

What's new in VideoMach 6.0.0 RC1

Nov 14, 2016
  • [new] Opening files: Import for most digital camera RAW formats like Canon, Olympus, Sony, Kodak, Nikon, Hasselblad and many more
  • [new] Opening files: New image sequence scanner, it should now open all files with no-nonsense numerations
  • [chg] Opening files: Upgraded importer for many popular formats including better handling of HEVC, MKV, TS and UltraHD video
  • [new] Exporting files: H.264/AVC encoder is now default for .mp4 writer
  • [fix] Exporting files: Fixed WMV memory leaks
  • [chg] GUI: Added "Edit" button instead of "In/Out Points", offering much more options
  • [chg] GUI: Option "Split and Delete Previous" added to the Edit menu to speed up removing unwated parts of video
  • [chg] GUI: Option to show a file in File Explorer has been added to the Edit menu
  • [chg] GUI: Extend the clip's In or Out Point by using Edit -> Split And Merge -> Extend... functions
  • [chg] GUI: Preview menu has been renamed to Navigate, Preview functions moved to the Edit menu
  • [chg] GUI: Removed the navigation sandwich menu, just click on the time/frame display to open the navigation menu
  • [chg] GUI: File lists are now showing duration first
  • [chg] GUI: File Info shortcut is now F7 and Frame Info is Shift+F7
  • [fix] GUI: Some dialogs weren't opening in the center of the main form
  • [chg] Resizing: Added popular resolutions for animated GIF
  • [fix] Resizing: Sometimes displaying an unnecessary blurry image in the dialog
  • [fix] Cmd-line: Export dialog was opening in the command-line
  • [fix] Project: Saving a project would't always ask for permission to overwrite an existing file

New in VideoMach 5.14.0 (Jul 2, 2015)

  • [new] Image sequences with date/time numeration and non-sequential numbers can now be open
  • [new] Image sequences are expanded to separate images
  • [new] GIF transparency and looping dialog
  • [new] Edit -> Sort By -> Reverse Order, to reverse order of selected files in the list
  • [chg] Edit In-Out Points dialog now opens faster
  • [chg] Keyboard shortcuts changed, grouped more logically
  • [chg] Split button opens a submenu
  • [chg] Merge Parts function can unsplit files back to a single file
  • [chg] HAV is now playing in Internal Player by default
  • [chg] GIF decoding improved, supported more GIF subformats, fixed many bugs
  • [fix] Copy/Paste filters sometimes didn't work
  • [fix] Fixed several bugs in user-interface
  • [fix] Fixed bug in Blend Transparent Area

New in VideoMach 5.13.0 (Apr 23, 2015)

  • [new] Make Color Transparent, new function to replace the selected color with transparency
  • [new] Animated GIF, support for transparent GIF images on input and output
  • [fix] Animated GIF, fixed bugs in decoder for some rarely used GIF types
  • [fix] Fixed "Memory allocation fault" when navigating frame-by-frame on computers with a lot of RAM

New in VideoMach 5.12.0 (Mar 20, 2015)

  • [new] Resize dialog, added aspect ratio presets
  • [new] Resize dialog, option to fit preview to window
  • [new] Resize dialog, more 4K resolutions
  • [chg] Crop dialog, easier visual adjustment
  • [chg] Text Overlay dialog, improved time macro controls
  • [chg] Text Overlay dialog, changed macro names to be similar to Windows time macros
  • [chg] Check For Updates, show if update is compatible with the current license key
  • [chg] Apple Prores faster 4:2:2 export
  • [fix] Apple Prores 4K support fixed
  • [fix] Text Overlay dialog, fixed time display bugs

New in VideoMach 5.11.1 (Dec 10, 2014)

  • [new] Added 12 new timecodes to Text Overlay, all fully customizable (including microseconds)
  • [fix] Fixed minor GUI bugs

New in VideoMach 5.11.0 (Nov 28, 2014)

  • [new] Reader/decoder for DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) file format (single image for now)
  • [new] Big visual indicator during open file progress
  • [new] Added 5 fps preset frame rate, suitable for wigglegrams
  • [cgh] Speed and Direction dialog now remembers last used display mode
  • [fix] Video Resize dialog didn't always apply the aspect ratio

New in VideoMach 5.10.8 (Nov 13, 2014)

  • [chg] Resize dialog redesigned and simplified, added one more 4K resolution
  • [chg] Default resize method is now proportional
  • [fix] Fixed invalid presets

New in VideoMach 5.10.7 (Oct 15, 2014)

  • Added: Support for Fastec TS3Cine Bayer encoded TIFFs
  • Changed: Removed outdated settings from the Options window
  • Changed: If output settings are unsupported by the codec VideoMach will display a more informative dialog
  • Fixed: MP4 export didn't support all frame rates
  • Fixed: MPEG multiplexing failed for HQ encoder

New in VideoMach 5.10.5 (Aug 7, 2014)

  • Changed: Option to switch off automatic color correction for Vision Research CINE files
  • Changed: Maximum MP4 video data rate increased to 40,000 kbps
  • Fixed: Changing video speed didn't change linked audio duration
  • Fixed: On some systems there were memory allocation faults

New in VideoMach 5.10.3 (May 2, 2014)

  • Fixed: Recently introduced bugs in CINE and OGG decoding

New in VideoMach 5.10.2 (Apr 18, 2014)

  • Fixed: Export to AC3 audio only files was broken
  • Fixed: Memory exceptions and leaks when opening H.264 and few other popular file formats

New in VideoMach 5.10.1 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Fixed: In some rare cases the program would freeze when opening clips with an audio track
  • Fixed: File caching didn't work for some 2GB+ files
  • Fixed: It was trying to open numerated video files as a sequence
  • Fixed: Sometimes after deleting files Access Violation Exception would appear

New in VideoMach 5.10.0 (Feb 1, 2014)

  • Added: Native support for opening popular file formats without external codecs
  • this includes MP4 (H.263 and H.264/AVC), MOV, WEBM, MKV, FLV, M2TS (Blu-ray), RM, 3GP and more
  • Changed: Navigation slider moves to the exact mouse position, instead of page forward or backward

New in VideoMach 5.9.16 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • Added: Support for packed CINE (Vision Research) format
  • Added: 32-bit images can be converted to 24-bit by two methods: stripping alpha or blending with color
  • Fixed: Recently introduced bug in CINE importer affecting Bayer color decoding

New in VideoMach 5.9.14 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Added: Importer for IDT RAW format
  • Added: Exporter for Apple ProRes 444 format
  • Changed: Time macros in Text Overlay display zero-padded values
  • Fixed: Very short MPEGs sometimes crashed newest versions of Windows Media Player
  • Fixed: Rare MPEG-export memory exceptions
  • Fixed: Memory allocation faults when using time macros in Text Overlay

New in VideoMach 5.9.13 (May 22, 2013)

  • Fixed: Program would report error when ESC was pressed during opening files
  • Fixed: Frame rate when creating MPEG based formats was fixed to 25 fps
  • Fixed: OGG audio bitrate is now limited to 500 kbps (per standard)

New in VideoMach 5.9.12 (May 16, 2013)

  • Fixed: Fatal error when converting GIFs in case that every frame is a keyframe
  • Fixed: Reporting error when a file Thumbs.db was encountered

New in VideoMach 5.9.11 (May 15, 2013)

  • Fixed: Fatal error when converting GIFs in case that every frame is a keyframe
  • Fixed: Reporting error when a file Thumbs.db was encountered

New in VideoMach 5.9.10 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • Fixed: No more warnings when output picture is over 1200x1200 pixels
  • Fixed: License decoding module

New in VideoMach 5.9.9 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • Updated standard output resolutions in the Resize filter
  • "Don't show this message again" check box reintroduced
  • Fixed: When loading output presets the audio bit rate was not applied
  • Fixed: Better support for MPEG based output file formats
  • Fixed: Codec warning couldn't be turned off
  • Fixed: Main window is confined to desktop rectangle on startup

New in VideoMach 5.9.8 (Oct 18, 2012)

  • Fixed: Produced FLC files are now compatible with FlxPlay
  • Fixed: Minor changes in some dialogs
  • Fixed: Update check was performed way too often

New in VideoMach 5.9.7 (Oct 1, 2012)

  • Changed: Info dialog after entering the license key
  • Fixed: Bug in Adjust Size when output resolution was 4x higher than input
  • Fixed: Text Overlay dialog would reset Time Offset to zero when displayed for 2nd time
  • Fixed: Message box was reporting "Out of resources" on some computers

New in VideoMach 5.9.6 (Sep 19, 2012)

  • Added: Uncompressed codec for FLC
  • Changed: FLC RLE/Delta encoder optimized
  • Fixed: 32-bit images are blended with the background color before conversion to 24-bits

New in VideoMach 5.9.5 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Fixed: Internal memory overwrite causing various bugs

New in VideoMach 5.9.4 (Jun 13, 2012)

  • Added: Support for writing WebM (YouTube) format
  • Fixed: Bug with missing buttons in the message box
  • Fixed: Fixed problem with file names containing non-ASCII characters

New in VideoMach 5.9.3 (Apr 12, 2012)

  • Added: Sponsored mode now available, free for non-commercial use
  • Fixed: Various bugfixes

New in VideoMach 5.9.2 (Mar 17, 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

New in VideoMach 5.9.0 (Nov 17, 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

New in VideoMach 5.8.8 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Fixed: Inserting unnecessary spaces when generating image sequence numeration
  • Fixed: Adjust RGB dialog would sometimes display component value of -0

New in VideoMach 5.8.7 (Jul 6, 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

New in VideoMach 5.8.6 (Jun 14, 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

New in VideoMach 5.8.5 (May 24, 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

New in VideoMach 5.8.4 (Feb 17, 2011)

  • Added: Option to silently install and register videomach from the command line
  • Fixed: Minor bugfixes in conversion engine

New in VideoMach 5.8.3 (Nov 24, 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

New in VideoMach 5.8.2 (Nov 9, 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

New in VideoMach 5.8.1 (Oct 23, 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)

New in VideoMach 5.8.0 (Oct 8, 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

New in VideoMach 5.7.4 (Aug 24, 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

New in VideoMach 5.7.3 (Jul 12, 2010)

  • Fixed: Changed message when a non-existing project from the command-line
  • Fixed: Fixed newly introduced problem with the JPEG library

New in VideoMach 5.7.2 (Jul 12, 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

New in VideoMach 5.7.1 (Jul 12, 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

New in VideoMach 5.7.0 (Jul 12, 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

New in VideoMach 5.5.3 (Aug 19, 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

New in VideoMach 5.5.2 (Jun 11, 2009)

  • Changed: Output info panel easier to read
  • Fixed: A few minor bugs in the engine

New in VideoMach 5.5.1 (Jun 3, 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

New in VideoMach 5.5.0 (Jun 1, 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

New in VideoMach 5.4.0 (Apr 17, 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

New in VideoMach 5.3.2 (Mar 24, 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

New in VideoMach 5.3.1 (Mar 4, 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

New in VideoMach 5.3.0 (Feb 14, 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

New in VideoMach 5.2.0 (Jan 10, 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

New in VideoMach 5.1.1 (Oct 21, 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

New in VideoMach 5.1.0 (Sep 22, 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

New in VideoMach 5.0.5 (Sep 11, 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

New in VideoMach 5.0.1 (Aug 20, 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

New in VideoMach 5.0.0 (Aug 13, 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

New in VideoMach 4.0.2 (Mar 8, 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