Imagination Changelog

What's new in Imagination 2.1

Oct 14, 2009
  • Added a new transition family named Rochade.
  • Added 3GP export for mobile phones.
  • Fixed seg-fault when using Imagination with GTK 2.18
  • Fixed crash when playing with Ken Burns and slide text after closing the project.
  • Added a Slides Transitions Report Dialog. Please give feedback on this.
  • Added Japanese translation.
  • Fixed display of music duration after loading the slideshow.
  • Fixed seg-fault when exporting with more audio files.
  • Image rotation is now stored inside project file.

New in Imagination 2.0 (Sep 27, 2009)

  • Fixed loading of text position icons.
  • Made the audio files to be concatenated, trimmed at slideshow length and have fade-out effect at the end
  • Fixed save warning dialog to appear when it shouldn't.
  • Fixed rescale images regression.
  • FLV export supports several video sizes.

New in Imagination 2.0 Beta 1 (Aug 23, 2009)

  • Fixed bug that caused exported slideshows being 20% longer than reported by Imagination.
  • Added ability to insert an empty slide with the option to choose a background color gradient in three different ways: solid, linear and radial.
  • Added Widescreen option to FLV exported video.
  • Added Cut/Copy/Paste ability on the slides.
  • Added Dissolve transition effect.
  • Added an overview mode to the GUI which displays slides in a matrix.
  • Added icons on the slides for indicating the transition type and if text is set on the slide.
  • Added ability to add text on the slides with some text animations.
  • Added HTML documentation.
  • Added Ken Burns effects.
  • Made GUI work better on smaller screens.
  • Added russian translation.
  • Changed suffix for exported OGG Theora/Vorbis slideshow to ".ogv".
  • A progress bar is now displayed when loading a project with many slides.
  • Fixed missed update of the total time slideshow when deleting slides.
  • Added "Insert" family transitions thanks to Jean-Pierre Redonnet.
  • Added slide total number on the toolbar thanks to David Prieto for the idea.
  • Slides can be rotated inside Imagination but the original image won't be affected since the EXIF info would be lost.
  • Added ability to import audio with drag and drop.
  • Added first, prev, next and last buttons to move the selection on the slides; thanks to David Prieto for the suggestions.
  • Addded ability to import pictures with drag and drop.
  • Centered the Heart transition effect of the Misc Shape Wipe family.
  • Removed ffmpeg's dependancy in the configure script.
  • Use icons from the current Gtk theme for import image and import sound menu/toolbar entries thanks to David Prieto for the idea.
  • Changed accelerator of menu Slide->Delete to DEL key.

New in Imagination 1.5 (Jun 24, 2009)

  • Added ability to add audio to the slideshow.
  • Added OGG Theora/Vorbis slideshow export.
  • Last slide closes the slideshow with the same transition applied to the first one.
  • Imagination can open project specified on cmd-line, thanks to Jean-Pierre Redonnet for the code.
  • Imagination can produce OGG and FLV with different video quality, thanks to Jean-Pierre Redonnet for the idea.
  • Added ability to randomly choose the transitions.
  • Grouped the transitions in families and added icons for describing the effect.
  • Added new transitions effects: Barn Door Wipe, Box Tie Wipe, Four Box Wipe, Ellipse Wipe, Diagonal Wipe, Clock Wipe, Wave, Misc Diagonal Wipe and Misc Shape Wipe families thanks to Tadej BorovÅ¡ak.
  • Added man page thanks to Alessio Treglia.
  • Added French, Czech, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Spanish translations.