ffDiaporama Portable Changelog

What's new in ffDiaporama Portable 2.1

May 27, 2015
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • 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 and above all, numerous bug fixes.

New in ffDiaporama Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 1.0 Beta 1 (Aug 6, 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