What's New in This Release:

· Using the multiple camera QuickTime Capture is much more responsive
· Optimized the drawing of points
· Added drag, open and drop on dock support for 20 new image types: JPEG 2000 (jp2), Pentax Raw (pef), Leaf America Raw (mos), Hasselblad Raw (fff), Hasselblad 3fr (3fr), Sony Raw (arw), Adobe Raw (dng), Apple Icon (icns), Olympus Raw (orf), Panasonic Raw (raw), Microsoft Icon (ico), Microsoft Bitmap (bmp), X Bitmap (xbm), Truevision TGA (tga), SGI Image (sgi), QuickTime Image (qtif), Kodak FlashPix (fpx), MacPaint (pntg), Radiance (pic), and Industrial Light and Magic Open EXR (exr)
· Live Video doesn't stop after painting or cropping
· New Menu Items: Help -> View Help in Browser, Help -> Tutorial Movies
· Fixed crasher after choosing Instant Effects
· Licenser is between twice and a 1000 times faster!
· New Filter: Replace Color: Tasks -> Replace Color - lets you choose to replace any color with another color, this creates very trippy looking video
· Task Menu adds "Replace Color" and "Mask with Image" - use image with transparency to mask the video to a shape
· Leopard ready - 16 new filters!
· Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
· Preferences -> Images "16:9" makes New Slideshows have a 16 to 9 ratio, and images are cropped to fit that exactly
· Uses new QuickTime 7.2 (Tiger/Leopard) Capture classes:
· Quicktime Capture is off by default - turn it on in Preferences if you have multiple cameras available
· Videator no longer "hogs" the video cameras - other apps and windows can open the same camera
· More accurate recording
· Multiple camera support: Handles more camera types, HDV support if Final Cut Pro installed
· Instantly switch camera inputs
· Much faster recording session starts
· Add Another Camera also lets you change camera inputs on the fly
· Change sound input on the fly
· See sound record levels visually
· On Tiger, requires Software Update QuickTime 7.2 (free from from Apple)
· Preferences -> Movie/Video "Use Quicktime Capture" off allows older Sequence Grabber for video: the new QT Capture has many new features, the old Sequence Grabber may give more FPS on some machines
· New Tools -> Slide Editor... - reorder, add, insert or delete slides; drag in photos from Finder or iPhoto directly into the Slide Editor; change the duration time and the transition time of the selected slides; change the transition method (or even remove the transition) of the selected slides
· Cool new icon
· Export Movies easily to iPhone and AppleTV as well as iPod and other formats
· Effects -> Andrew's VJ Effects for a mandalic trance vision (it's sound wired so drop on a trance mp3 for maximal fun or just hum)
· Many optimizations and bug fixes and supercharged for Leopard!
· All new and improved 300 page searchable Help which you can download and print too!... [ read full changelog ]