What's new in AddMovie 2.0.3
Apr 22, 2016
New in AddMovie 2.0.2 (Feb 14, 2015)
- Help menu link to the website has been fixed.
New in AddMovie 2.0.1 (Nov 6, 2014)
- Fixed an issue with buttons in the Splitter not activating.
New in AddMovie 1.9.9 (May 31, 2011)
- Reloading very large file lists can be time consuming, as a new movie is created for each file. An indeterminate progress indicator has been activated to provide additional feedback in the file list window as it works to reestablish the previous file list. (Remembering the file list is optional, select in Preferences.)
New in AddMovie 1.9.8 (Mar 17, 2011)
- Fixed an issue with the movie splitter: for some movies the splitter did not know it was at the end of the movie and you had to force it to stop and save the filtered movie by clicking the "Stop" button.
- The Help menu documentation has been moved to the web and updated.
- The web page and icon for AddMovie have been updated.
New in AddMovie 1.9.7 (Jan 31, 2011)
- The "Frame Filter" feature has been modified and its name changed to "Movie Fillter." This is because the filtered frames are no longer output as a series of images in the destination folder, but rather assemebled into a new movie.
- After filtering the movie the soundtrack is copied from the orginal movie to the new filtered movie, and automatically opened for you for viewing.
- Note that the procedue for creating the new movie does not perform temporal compression, so the new movie will be larger than the original. In order to reduce its size you can add it to the file list and export it using the compression method of your choice.
New in AddMovie 1.9.6 (Dec 19, 2010)
- Greatly improved performance and speed due to two modifications: stopped updating the file list window and its table during some notifications, caches all movies in the file list as opposed to recreating them for any type of processing or querying.
- Improved feedback during processing: when loading, adding or exporting movies the file window displays progress messages and a chasing progress indicator.
- Filter window now has a clear movie button. The accessibility of various buttons is now properly conditioned on whether or not a movie is loaded. (The Filter window enables you to apply Core Image filters to movie playing and saving frames of movies with the filters applied. Open it with the "Frame Filter" button in the file list window.)
- Splitter window now has a clear movie button. The accessibility of various buttons is now properly conditioned on whether or not a movie is loaded or frame split times are selected. The window shows progress indicators while splitting movies. (The Splitter window enables you to split movies at one or more selected frames of the movie. Open it with the "Splitter" button in the file list window.)
- When the viewer window is closed a playing movie is paused.
New in AddMovie 1.9.5 (Dec 13, 2010)
- The viewer is no longer in a drawer on the side of the file list window. It is now in its own window. This provides more flexible resizing of the viewer, and opens the door to other features of this window in the further.
- The new viewer window's visibility can still be toggled using the viewer disclosure button in the file list window.
- When a movie is loaded into the new viewer window its title path popup is set to the movie file, and the viewer window's title is set to the display name of the movie.
- The "slow down" or "speed up" play rate button (which can be used for sound files too) has been expanded to grow with the viewer window, providing more density of values. This is particularly useful when slowing down sound.
- A new button has been added to the viewer window for going to the movie poster frame.
- When movie splitting from the movie viewer window is complete an alert is displayed notifying you of completion.
New in AddMovie 1.9.4 (Dec 8, 2010)
- There is now an option to specify an output file name when a default output directory is specified. Previously the program automatically generated a "default" filename for the output. This option is ON by default, and can be set on the "Output Directories" pane of the Preferences window.
- When prompted for a filename for the output file, if you click the "Cancel" button in the "Save" window, the whole operation is cancelled, rather than not accepting a new filename and continuing generation of the file.
New in AddMovie 1.9.3 (Dec 5, 2010)
- Using the new "Columns" pane in the Preference window you can now specify which columns you want included in the file list window.
- The file list window path popup (in the title bar) is set to the last combined movie, and the name of the window is set to the name of the combined movie. This facilitates finding the file in the Finder after it is created.
- The movie filter window has a new button named "Copy Frame" which is used to copy the current filtered movie frame to the clipboard. (You can then paste it into any application that handles images on the clipboard; or use "New from clipboard" in Preview.)
- The filter window and movie splitter buttons in the file list window have bee changed to standard plain buttons, rather than icon buttons.
New in AddMovie 1.9.2 (Oct 31, 2010)
- A new feature named "Movie Filter" has been added. Access this feature from the File menu or the file list window. The Movie Filter can be used to apply multiple Core Image filters to movies, for display and output. Select a movie file, and then select the filters. Use the "Apply filters to movie view" button to apply the filters to the movie viewer, as it plays. Click the "Filter Frames" button to output filtered frames of the movie into a selected folder. Start filtered frame extraction from the current movie position. Frames are extracted until either the end of the movie if reached, or you stop the extraction manually. Filters are applied in the order they appear in the filter list. (Movie view filters are not available in Mac OS X 10.4, but you can still extract filtered frames. This feature works best in Snow Leopard.)
New in AddMovie 1.9.1 (Oct 17, 2010)
- The file list is stored as aliases so that if you rename or move a file the change will be reflected in the file list.
- Changes to preferences are immediately visible in the file list without the need to force it to reload manually.
- The names of files in the file list can be modified from within the file list. Click on the name to begin an edit.
- File can be automatically renamed so that when they are sorted by filename they appear in the same order as in the file list. This is achieved by prefixing the names with a properly formatted index. Use the new menu item "Rename Files By Sequence" to perform this operation.
New in AddMovie 1.9 (Oct 1, 2010)
- The Preferences window has been significantly improved for clarity and ease of use. Instead of using one single panel to contain all the various options for the program, they have been collected into named groups using a tab control. This helps you find and understand there function: General, Output Duration, Output Format, Output Directories, and Imaging Frames. None of the options or their effect has changed.
New in AddMovie 1.8.9 (Sep 19, 2010)
- Added an "Export" menu item command to the File menu (Option-E). Use this function to save the current list of file's, by pathname, to a plain text file which can later be imported.
- Added an "Import" menu item command to the File menu (Option-I). Use this function to load a list of files, by pathname, from a plain text file which was previously created by an export.
New in AddMovie 1.8.8 (Aug 15, 2010)
- Poster frame: when setting a movie poster frame (using the "Set Poster" button viewer pane) the current movie time is set to the beginning of the movie so that the movie does not start from the poster frame time.
New in AddMovie 1.8.7 (Aug 7, 2010)
- This version introduces the "Movie Splitter." This inverse operation enables you to set breakpoints in a movie file and split it into multiple movies at those points. Select this function using the File menu "Movie Splitter" command. Then select a movie to split. Use the movie controller to scroll through the movie. Click the "Add" button to set a breakpoint at that location; repeat this process for all the points at which you'd like to split the movie. All breakpoints, and thumbnail images of the movie frames at those points, are displayed in a list, chronologically sorted. Click the "Split" button to create the movie segments. Each segment is named after the original file appended with the frame time, in the same folder as the movie.
New in AddMovie 1.8.6 (Jul 26, 2010)
- A new option has been added to Preferences labeled "Auto-convert sound to new movie." This feature, when selected, will automatically convert any sound file you add to the file list into a QuickTime movie with two tracks: One track that hold the sound file, and one track that holds video consisting of a single "placeholder" image (which is obtained from the application bundle.)
- The new "movie from sound" file is then added to the file list, and not the original sound file.
- The advantage of this is that when the sound is stored inside a movie you can alter its duration, either via the play rate in the viewer (for playback only), or save the new duration inside the movie for persistence. (Any movie's duration can be set by editing the value displayed in the "Duration" column.)
- Once the sound duration has been changed you can then use the "Save Sound" button in the viewer to create a new sound file of the new duration.
- Filenames: the new movie is named after the sound file, with the current data-time appended, and saved in the same location as the sound file, provided a file by that name does not already exist.
- The "Delete" button on your keyboard will now clear the selected items from the file list.
New in AddMovie 1.8.5 (Jul 21, 2010)
- Added "QuickLook" icon display in the file list for 10.5 and above (icons are cached.) If a QuickLook icon is not available the Finder icon is used (which is of course true on Mac OS 10.4)
- Refresh of the file list table is linked to a File menu item: Refresh Table. Refreshing updates movie information displayed in the file list table from the disk file.
- Added "Play" button to the file list window, adjacent to the "Play All" button. This will play the selected movie (To see it make sure the viewer window is open; use the disclosure triangle in the upper right corner.)
- Fixed duration display to update when the movie is edited in the viewer panel. (Note that when the movie view is "selected" (by clicking on it) you have access to edit commands in the program "Edit" menu, as well as in the contextual menu for the movie view.
- Fixed the "Cut" command in edit menu for movie editing, it wasn't properly linked.
- The "Clear" button now only removes selected movies (it would previously remove all items if there was no selection.)
New in AddMovie 1.8.4 (Jun 21, 2010)
- When saving exporter settings in Preferences, if the selected exporter's settings have not been changed then the default settings for that component will be saved.
- This way you can easily restore the default settings for that component after a change.
New in AddMovie 1.8.3 (Jun 15, 2010)
- After a saved settings file is loaded in Preferences (using the "Load" button) the settings for the currently selected exporter is displayed.
New in AddMovie 1.8.2 (Jun 14, 2010)
- Export settings can be saved and reloaded from settings files. This is done from the Preferences window using the new "Save" and "Load" buttons under the export component menu. Settings files have extension "amse"
- The menu items in the export component menu now have "tool tips" that contain the export components description, as provided by the component itself.
- Whether exporting via "Add Movies" or "Export Movies" the export dialog will display the name of the movie file currently being exported, as well as the components type and manufacturer code.
New in AddMovie 1.8.1 (Jun 7, 2010)
- The name and type of the currently selected export component is displayed on the export panel. (Export type is selected and configured in Preferences.)
New in AddMovie 1.8 (May 10, 2010)
- The file list has a new column called "Create Date" that shows the creation date of the file. The list can be sorted by this column. (Note: files are concatenated according to sort order.)
- Fixed a bug when looking for EXIF dates that could cause the program to unexpectedly quit.
- Minor enhancements to the user interface, such as new tool tips for various buttons and other controls.
New in AddMovie 1.7.9 (Apr 20, 2010)
- The selected movie is now editable (shift drag on the position thumb, control click to display an edit menu to copy, paste, cut movie segments and select all.) Use the new "Save Movie" button to record edit changes to disk, overwriting the original movie.
- Added a movie play rate slider. Values 0 to 1 (first tick mark) slows the movie by the a factor equal to the corresponding fractional value, and values 1 to 4 (last tick mark) speeds up the movie by the factor equal to the corresponding value.
- The duration of the movies added to the file list can be modified via the "duration" column of the table. Click down to begin an edit session, enter the desired duration using the format "days:hours:minutes:seconds.frames/timescale" [Note: since "timescale" is the number of frames per second, frames/timescale is the fractional part of seconds.] This only works for files which are movies (not sound or picture files - these must be converted to movies first.)
New in AddMovie 1.7.8 (Apr 15, 2010)
- When extracting the sound of a movie 3 file formats are now output: .aif (Audio Interchange Format), .caf (Core Audio Format) and .wav (Waveform.) [CAF and WAV only on Mac OS X 10.5 and higher.]
New in AddMovie 1.7.7 (Apr 10, 2010)
- Added a "Print..." button to the movie viewer panel that will print the whole movie view frame.
New in AddMovie 1.7.6 (Apr 6, 2010)
- The movie viewer now enables you to go to a specific movie frame.
- You can set the speed (rate) the movie advances to the desired frame (all intermediate frames are displayed as the movie advances when the rate is set, and the "desired" frame field is updated with current frame number displayed.)
- Advance to the desired frame fastest by leaving the rate field empty.
New in AddMovie 1.7.5 (Mar 31, 2010)
- When saving movie frames as TIFF files, you now have the option of using LZW compression to reduce file size. Select this option in the Options (Preferences) window.
- When saving movie frames as JPEG files, you now have the option of specifying the compression quality to reduce file size. Select this option in the Options (Preferences) window.
New in AddMovie 1.7.4 (Mar 28, 2010)
- The file list display now includes a column that displays the EXIF date and time, if available.
- You can sort the file list using the EXIF date and time, if available, so that they are in chronological order.
- Added the "Clear" button for the URL download directory in Preferences to all localizations.
New in AddMovie 1.7.3 (Mar 22, 2010)
- Bug fix: Although you could specify the desired duration of the combined movie as a number with a fractional part with two decimal places, the actual duration was being truncated to a whole number when the combined movie was scale. This has been fixed. The desired duration is specified in the Preferences window.
New in AddMovie 1.7.2 (Mar 18, 2010)
- In the Preferences window a button has been added to clear the URL Download Destination option (Note: the directory itself is NOT deleted.)
- In the File menu two menu items have been added to open the URL Download Directory and the Default Output Directory. (Alerts are presented if there is no reference to either in the Preferences window.)
New in AddMovie 1.7.1 (Mar 4, 2010)
- In the file list window the display of the total combined movie duration now includes the actual duration when the option to scale the movie is specified in the Preferences window. (The duration of the un-scaled movie is also display.)
New in AddMovie 1.7 (May 2, 2009)
- Updated the Japanese localization.
New in AddMovie 1.6.9 (Mar 27, 2009)
- The total duration of all movies is displayed at the bottom of the file list.
New in AddMovie 1.6.8 (Feb 18, 2009)
- Updated Greek localization.
New in AddMovie 1.6.7 (Feb 14, 2009)
- The method of specifying movie duration has been changed: a new "Desired Duration" text field in Preferences provides the ability to specify the movie duration in seconds.
New in AddMovie 1.6.7 (Feb 14, 2009)
- The method of specifying movie duration has been changed: a new "Desired Duration" text field in Preferences provides the ability to specify the movie duration in seconds.
New in AddMovie 1.6.6 (Feb 11, 2009)
- The full pathname of a selected item in the file list is displayed in the messages text field at the bottom of the window.
- The messages text field is now selectable so you can copy it.
New in AddMovie 1.6.5 (Jan 31, 2009)
- Fixed the default movie filename when movies have been added to the file list by dragging URLs.
- Reversed the order of movies when added by dragging URLs. (Note that the order can be re-arranged by dragging one or more file list entries to the desired location in the list.)
- When movies are added from dragged URLs the chapter titles are set to the movie filename and the URL name, in parentheses. (Note that chapter titles can be edited "in place" by clicking on them in the file list.)
New in AddMovie 1.6.4 (Jan 22, 2009)
- Added Japanese help files.
- You can now drag URLs into the file list window while a URL download is already in progress. The program will queue all subsequent URL drops, and download them individually.
New in AddMovie 1.6.3 (Jan 19, 2009)
- Added Japanese localization.
- Fixed a bug that prevented movie urls from being downloaded after dragged into the file list window on the most recent version of Leopard (10.5.6).
New in AddMovie 1.6.2 (Jan 11, 2009)
- Updated the German localization.
New in AddMovie 1.6.1 (Jan 9, 2009)
- Fixed the localization of the "choose folder" dialog window.
New in AddMovie 1.6.0 (Dec 8, 2008)
- Updated the Greek localization.
New in AddMovie 1.5.9 (Nov 11, 2008)
- When imaging frames the resulting image size is the full image size, rather than the current size of the movie viewer.
- The movie viewer now displays the total frame count of the currently selected movie.
New in AddMovie 1.5.8 (Oct 10, 2008)
- Added Danish localization.
New in AddMovie 1.5.7 (Sep 17, 2008)
- The file list window now has a "Size" column which displays the size, in bytes, of the files in the list.
New in AddMovie 1.5.6 (Sep 4, 2008)
- A new option to preserve modification, creation and access dates of exported files has been added to the Preferences window.
New in AddMovie 1.5.5 (Aug 20, 2008)
- Progress messages are now displayed at the bottom of the file list window during movie exporting.
New in AddMovie 1.5.4 (Aug 15, 2008)
- To improve navigation, invisible files and folders are no longer displayed in the folder selection windows, and the titles of these windows has been changed to better reflect their purpose.
New in AddMovie 1.5.3 (Jul 29, 2008)
- An issue with the German localization has been resolved: the localized strings file was not encoded properly and that's why German Umlaut's, etc. were not displaying properly in text fields.
New in AddMovie 1.5.2 (May 26, 2008)
- When extracting frames: the Preferences window has a new option to specify if the image file name should be appended with the current frame time.
New in AddMovie 1.5.1 (May 23, 2008)
- In the Preferences window there is a new option to specify the image format when saving movie frames. (Previously the output format was always TIFF.)
New in AddMovie 1.4.9 (May 20, 2008)
- Updated Greek localization.
New in AddMovie 1.4.8 (May 17, 2008)
- Added a new option to clear the file list whenever new files are added to the list.
New in AddMovie 1.4.7 (Apr 25, 2008)
- The default filename is now the name of the last folder or file added to the file list. In the later case the name is appended by the the number of other files combined.
- When using the "Browse" method of adding files you can now select one or more folders, as well as files.
- Updated Greek localization for recent changes to the user interface.
New in AddMovie 1.4.6 (Apr 17, 2008)
- The file list can now be rearranged by dragging multiple items at once, as opposed to only one at a time.
- The file list can now be arranged by title or modification date, as well as by path name. Two new buttons have been added to the list window for this purpose.