What's new in ffDiaporama 2.2 (20140701 Snapshot)
Jul 1, 2014
- Fixed a bug on sounds when there is more than one video on a slide
- Fixed a bug on exporting soundtracks (generated export file without sound)
- Fixed interactive areas editing in edit slides and edit image dialogs to make the blocks movement and blocks resizing fluid (removing redundant display)
- Fixed a bug in calculating the duration of slides when adjust duration on sound
New in ffDiaporama 2.2 (20140510 Snapshot) (May 11, 2014)
- Increases the gap between the ref-frames in rendered video to reduce flicker (from 4 to 2 per second)
- Operates the preview player and the player of the video editing dialog even if there is no music track
- Fixed a crash when click in the time bar and the project is empty
- Four new translations
New in ffDiaporama 2.2 (20140503 Snapshot) (May 3, 2014)
- This new version includes a major change: the replacement of the SDL library to its equivalent QT (QtMultimedia for QT5 version and qtmobility for QT4 version).
- This replacement can resolve once and for all the problems of audio/video synchronization
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a display bug in the timeline (the display for audio video could leave the frame when the sound was on auto)
- Fixed audio/video synchronization problems (through QTMultimedia)
- Reduced the gap between the ref-frames in rendered videos (pass from 1 every 10 seconds to 4 per seconds)
- New features:
- Adds a button to control the volume for the preview player
New in ffDiaporama 2.2 (20140402 Snapshot) (Apr 2, 2014)
- It contains a new "master volume" feature which allow to keep constant sound volume during the project and several bug fixes.
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... and above all, numerous bug fixes.
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 Devel 2014.0121 (Jan 21, 2014)
- The ffDiaporama package is now cut in 2 parts
- A package build script is now proposed for Fedora and openSUSE users
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 Devel 2014.0114 (Jan 15, 2014)
- This new version includes critical bug fixes and some improvements on the music track
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 Devel 2014.01.11 (Jan 11, 2014)
- Half of LUMAs have been reviewed in order to improve their quality
- Several bugs concerning the use of maps in title templates and the use of videos were corrected
- As well as better use of proxy to access the Internet
- This release also includes new translations and some additions to the WIKI.
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 Devel 2014.01.03 (Jan 6, 2014)
- This new devel version fixes several problems specific to Windows when using the multimedia browser and some issues with the new GMap object.
- This release also includes new translations and some additions to the WIKI.
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 Devel 2013.12.27 (Dec 27, 2013)
- This new version includes several bug fixes (including one on the NTSC rendering) and completion of the work on the integration of new GMap object.
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 Devel 2013.12.21 (Dec 21, 2013)
- This new devel version includes many improvements on the implementation of UNDO in the edit slides dialog and an overhaul of the system of inheritance property changes. This new system...
- replaces the old locking system properties
- is much simpler to use and understand
- can inherit only modified properties
- This new version also includes progress on the new Google Maps object. There is still work to be done to complete this integration, but this object is now useable.
- Finally, several bugs have been fixed
New in ffDiaporama 2.1 (Dec 13, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed the bug on the images in the generation of WIKI
- Fixed bug regarding titles of untranslated pages in the generation of WIKI (highlight them instead of hide them)
- New features:
- Change the format of .ffd file order to integrate resources
- Changes the registration of slides's thumbnails in the .ffd file so they are stored as a resource and not in the slide
- Adding new types of objects: Image from clipboard and Google Maps map
- Added "Add Special" button in the edit slide dialog box to insert new object types
- Added a new tab "Google Maps Map" in the "edit and crop images/video/map" dialog box
- Changed the operation for copy/paste in the edit slides dialog box to allow paste of image as a new object "Image from clipboard"
- Changed the operation for copy/paste in the main window to allow paste of image as a new slide containing an object "Image from clipboard"
- Created a new dialog box for select/change a GPS location using Google Maps and adds a new entry in the Wiki for this dialog box
- Added new entries in the WIKI to describe the types of objects used with ffDiaporama (the pages have to be completed!)
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
- ...and above all, numerous bug fixes.
New in ffDiaporama 1.6 Beta 7 (Jun 17, 2013)
- This new beta version fixes the bug that some met with the Multimedia Browser (well, hopefully).
New in ffDiaporama 1.6 Beta 6 (Jun 3, 2013)
- This version fixes some bugs, add new features and improves tooltips and WIKI.
New in ffDiaporama 1.6 Beta 5 (Apr 24, 2013)
- Fix a memory leak in the video playback that caused crash in preview and render
- Adjusts the size of the font used to display thumbnails on KDE systems
- Operates the deinterlace filter on Windows
New in ffDiaporama 1.6 Beta 4 (Apr 12, 2013)
- Fixed a compilation error on ArchLinux with ffmpeg 1.2
- Fixed the problem of bouncy images in video playback and rendering
- Fixed a memory leak error reading videos [beta 3 regression]
New in ffDiaporama 1.6 Beta 3 (Apr 9, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug for displaying thumbnails in the browser when media images are 2:1 or higher geometry
- Fixed display bug of slide number in the render dialog when the render does not start at first slide.
- Fixed bug of bad anamorphism of images in render using DVD mode [regression]
- Fixed bug of inactivity of "up" button in the multimedia file explorer when the current directory is in the file system "/" [Linux]
- Fixed the bug on the value of audio compression for codec AMR in device dialog (the value stored is not redisplayed)
- Fixed crash when encoding video without sound
- Fixed bug of encoding sound to mono (AMR format) [openSUSE]
- New features:
- Adds selection of the default value for audio frequency to use when render movie using advanced mode in application option dialog
- Reduce number of possible combination for advance render (too much work to keep it all for too little interest)
New in ffDiaporama 1.6 Beta 2 (Mar 28, 2013)
- This version fixes the crash when advance rendering without audio track and speeds up the rendering by activating threads and by optimizing calculations of fixed images.