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ffDiaporama Changelog

What's new in ffDiaporama 2.1

Feb 18, 2014
  • Geolocation projects:
  • It is now possible to geotag projects globally or by chapter
  • Google Maps maps can be added in the titles and in the slides
  • New dynamic variables are added on geolocation
  • Improved music track:
  • From now, the options for pause and volume are available from the first slide on which are positioned music tracks
  • Drag & drop is improved to allow movement "using mouse" of music tracks from one slide to another
  • Improved rendering:
  • Adding "variable bitrate" mode for encoding which reduces quite dramatically the size of videos produced for projects containing mostly pictures
  • Adding a hundred new models of equipment (phones and tablets)
  • Improved quality of transitions:
  • Nearly half of the LUMA transitions have been redone (a quarter of the total transitions) to reduce noise (inelegant pixels) on projects in HD

New in ffDiaporama 2.0.1 (Feb 18, 2014)

  • fix several interface issues.

New in ffDiaporama 2.0 (Feb 18, 2014)

  • Accelerated rendering of video (reduced the time needed to compile videos by up to 25%)
  • Can compile with Qt 4 and Qt 5 (depending on what is available in the system)
  • 64-bit Windows version and support for Windows 8 and 8.1
  • Adding dynamic text variables (calculated texts can be used in the slides)
  • Generate thumbnails at 600×800 corresponding to rendered videos (very useful for differentiating videos when using Jukebox and MediaCenter application)
  • Generate .nfo file for XBMC (very useful for those who use XBMC because it allows the videos to have a poster and a sheet into XBMC)
  • Adding models (predefined elements used as the basis for creating thumbnails or slides)
  • Adding an export project function (saves the project and all the files used by the project in a subdirectory)
  • Support of ffmpeg 2.0 and 2.1
  • Integrating Wiki directly into the application for offline reading
  • Cliparts managment:
  • Alias ​​in the multimedia file browser (A clipart entry is displayed in the directory tree)
  • Portability clipart from one PC to another and an Operating System with another (Cliparts from the clipart directory are treated as library items and do not need to be copied into the project resources )
  • Supports project containing several thousand slides (instead of several hundred in previous versions)

New in ffDiaporama 1.6 (Jun 24, 2013)

  • The improvement of performance for preview and rendering
  • The creation of Addon ffDiaporama-texturemate (a collection of hundred textures usable for the background of slides and of the text blocks)
  • The addition of 24 new shapes for block
  • The addition of a new block type: clip-art texts and adds a collection of 67 clip arts including comics bubbles, panels and papers to work with text clip-art
  • The support of vector images as SVG format
  • The addition of the ability to export the audio track
  • The addition of the ability to change the frequency Sample Rate of soundtracks
  • The complete overhaul of encoding and decoding audio/video engines
  • The move of help about dialog boxes from WIKI Web pages directly into each dialogs as tooltips
  • The addition of Portuguese

New in ffDiaporama 1.5 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • This new version brings:
  • New graphic filters
  • Switching to progressive mode for all graphics filters
  • New speed waves
  • New transitions
  • Adding text margins appropriate to each form and the ability to customize these margins
  • And above all, numerous bug fixes

New in ffDiaporama 1.5 Beta 2 (Nov 19, 2012)

  • Correction of a series of bugs
  • As a bonus, some new transitions have been added

New in ffDiaporama 1.5 Beta 1 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Improved graphics filters with the transformation to progressive mode all filters (example : gradually switch from a color picture to a black & white picture).
  • Adding new graphics filters.
  • Adding margins for text blocks (default margins are defined for all shapes and margins are now customizable).
  • Adding of three new speed curves.
  • Adding the possibility to adjust the speed curves transition by transition, block animation by block animation and effect animation by effect animation.

New in ffDiaporama 1.4 Beta 4 (Oct 2, 2012)

  • Reframing:
  • It exists different standard for geometry of photos: 3/2, 4/3, 16/9 …This ratio is calculated as follows: width / height
  • The problem was that this calculation was not still just, so, according to the manufacturer, of 3/2 can be 1.5 or 1.49 or 1.51 etc…. because the sensors photos are not every same. This small delta seems low but it generated errors in previous version.
  • To there, the styles were static. That is I had used the photos of a CANNON to predefine all the styles. But, with photos of other manufacturers, I had lines in more or less.
  • I thus saw revised all the system to not use any more static styles but dynamic styles (formulae mathematical rather than pre-calculated values).
  • That is why I have of to delete the possibility of creating user styles for coordinates and framing because the user cannot enter formulae.
  • This change causes modifications in the option, edition of slides and edition of image dialogs.
  • Forms of shape:
  • Other big modification concerns the addition of about 60 additional forms for the image and video masks and the blocks of text.
  • Other :
  • Added 1 Gb memory profile for Windows Vista/7
  • Changed image and video icons in Slide edit dialog: display workspace zone and effect zone and enlarged the icons a notch
  • Deleted framing style management in Image edit dialog and replaced geometry locking combo and the 3 default framing buttons with a new combo containing a lot of predefined styles
  • Did what was needed for framing always apply when rotation is changing in Image edit dialog when a predefined non custom style is selected
  • Replaced old combo for framing style with the new one in Slide edit dialog when a block is of type image or video
  • Replaced the couple button of style/name of the coordinate styles in the Edit slide dialog by one combo containing styles by default (deleted the possibility of creating personalized coordinate styles)
  • Reviewed option dialog to use new framing and new coordinates styles
  • Improve the precision of the rulers of the interactive zones of Edit Image and Edit Slide dialogs
  • Added the possibility to use .wmv video
  • Added a lot of new shape forms and modfied combo of selection of shape forme in Edit Slide dialog to a Custom Combo
  • Bug fixed of "Add project" button which did nothing

New in ffDiaporama 1.4 Beta 3 (Sep 14, 2012)

  • A small error skipped into the production of the beta 2. This error crash the application in every addition of video. A version beta 3 which corrects this problem was published.

New in ffDiaporama 1.4 Beta 2 (Sep 13, 2012)

  • Bug fix: In the music properties window, the playlist cannot be rearranged
  • Bug fix: In the device database window the audio and video bit rate comboboxes are just too short to display the whole value.
  • Bug fix: Error when render to NTSC with avconv under Windows
  • Bug fix: Error determining image size on image produced by SONY or PANASONIC camera
  • Add rendering option for PAL-M (South America) and for HD formats 720p-29.97 FPS and 1080p-29.97 FPS
  • Add a new render profil for PAL-M : Multimedia system / DVD/DIVX player PAL-M

New in ffDiaporama 1.4 Beta 1 (Aug 31, 2012)

  • AVCHD (.mts) video are now usable
  • Addition of a deinterlace filter for videos
  • Addition of a third display mode including a multimedia files browser in the main window
  • Addition of the multiple selection of slides in the main window with options of edition on multiple selection
  • Addition of progress bars during long processings
  • Set the interface compatible with the "Text Scalling" option of the Linux themes
  • A lot of bug fix

New in ffDiaporama 1.3 (May 28, 2012)

  • ffDiaporama 1.3 introduces numerous novelties:
  • Transformation of texts in rich text (Warning: The modification of the rendering system can provoke an estimate of the texts of the projects saved with previous versions.)
  • Addition of animations for texts (Zoom and scrolling) in mode for this shot
  • Addition of animations for blocks in mode during this shot
  • Addition of UNDO feature to some dialogs (Slide, Text, Image, Cut video and Background)
  • Modification of the slide dialog:
  • To allow multiple block selection (blocks table, interactive zone and some functions)
  • To add locking of properties
  • Addition of a button to capture current image for the preview video player and in cut video dialog
  • Other important point:
  • Switch from LIBAV/ffmpeg to LIBAV/avconv (ffmpeg is always supported if avconv is not available on the computer!)
  • End of support of LIBAV 0.6

New in ffDiaporama 1.2 (Mar 5, 2012)

  • Addition of TAG and chapters
  • Lossless rendering
  • More supported formats (FLAC files, videos with U8 sound track of old cameras, etc)
  • Correction of sound problems (No more saturation nor hatchings during transitions)
  • Various ergonomics improvements (as to copy/paste between several ffDiaporama instances, drag and drop improvements, etc
)
  • Improvement of the performance: rendering speed almost doubled in some cases!

New in ffDiaporama 1.1 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • Numerous new features and numerous bugs correction.As well as two new languages were added : the German and the Greek

New in ffDiaporama 1.1 Beta 1 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • The improvement of the quality of videos produced by the addition of image smoothing
  • The improvement of the performances of videos rendering
  • The introduction of style sheets (to relieve the assembly work)
  • The reorganization and the redesign of dialogs to simplify the understanding and the handling of the software
  • The addition of keyboard and mouse shortcuts (double clik, drag and drop, 
) to improve the user experience
  • The addition of numerous new options in particular for the video rendering and the configuration of the software
  • The introduction of a memory managment system based on LuLo (Last used – Last out) to allow to work on small configurations
  • The correction of bug

New in ffDiaporama 1.0 (Oct 3, 2011)

  • Fix the error on the custom color in all color combobox
  • Fix error message on Linux/KDE to the absence of Coment section in the definition of the mime type
  • File change (image or video) in the slide dialog position now on the directory of the previous file instead of the last used directory
  • Widened the parameter zone in the slide dialog so that all the buttons are visible in Italian
  • Fix error of rounded off which generated by moment a gap live as a parasite on images - Critical - A line appears on the PNG images during their reduction
  • Fix crash of the application when we start the reader without any slide
  • Various: Authorize videos without soundtrack - The addition of a video without soundtrack generates the display of a message "unsupported Format"
  • Various: Addition of 4 new transitions : vertical and horizontal "Book flip"

New in ffDiaporama 1.0 Beta 4 (Sep 17, 2011)

  • For this fourth beta, a particular effort was made towards the internationalization with the addition of Spanish and Italian translations.
  • At the same time, many bugs were fixed.

New in ffDiaporama 1.0 Beta 3 (Aug 27, 2011)

  • Some bug fixes
  • The last part of the corrections of the English documentations. A very very thank you to Hazel Russman who correct all my grammatical mistakes in English.
  • The addition of many keyboard shortcut
  • Some new background in the library

New in ffDiaporama 1.0 Beta 2 (Aug 6, 2011)

  • Fix the bug of the video player of the edit video dialog which stopped alone in a random way.
  • Correct some french translation.
  • Invert play/pause icons in the player.
  • Puts back the good titles for buttons to increase/reduce thumbnails size and for modes.
  • Puts back the rendering video buttons in the same order in sheet mode as in preview mode.
  • Fix problem of reading of some .ogg (Vorbis) files.

New in ffDiaporama 1.0 Beta 1 (Aug 5, 2011)

  • A new sheet mode which allows to display several lines in the timeline
  • Drag and drop to reorganize slides
  • A new background properties dialog box
  • Reset buttons in the framing and image correction dialog box