April 23rd, 2013· Fixed a crash when closing documents.
· Copying slides or audio from one slideshow to another now works again. This was broken in 4.2.2.
· Fixes for updating FotoMagico to the most recent version.
· Dragging from the iMediaBrowser to the Storyboard or Stage is now much faster.
· Badges that indicate which media files are used in a slideshow are nor more reliable.
· Newly recorded narration is now linked to slides according to the settings in the preferences.
· Various small fixes.
April 9th, 2013· Fixed a big memory leak when changing the selection in the Storyboard. This memory leaked caused version 4.2.1 to quickly become unusable.
· When a movie is too short for a long slide, FotoMagico no no longer automatically changes the slide duration. Instead it visualizes the problem, displays an alert icon and offers an explanation and solutions in the popover that appears when clicking on the alert icon.
· The about box is now a regular window with a close box, as opposed to a modal window that can only be closed by clicking inside the window.
· The file format has been updated to be more efficient with external media files in the OS X sandbox environment.
· Quick Save used to be broken after the user canceled closing a document. It now works again.
· Make sure that the Stage gets redrawn when everything is deselected in the Storyboard.
· Fixed a couple of exceptions that could cause inconsistent states in the application.
· Various small fixes.
March 1st, 2013· Masks in the Stage are now correctly updated as various options like size, position, zoom, or rotation are changed.
· Assigning masks via the popup menu now works correctly.
· Rotating masks used to be weird in some cases. Now it always behaves correctly.
· The zoom and rotation jogwheels now behave correctly when working with masks.
· Resizing masks in the Stage by dragging the selection frame handles is now more reliable. Pressing the Shift key keeps a mask centered while resizing it.
· A mask selection frame is now drawn in blue, so it is more easily distinguished from a layer selection frame.
· The background and watermark layers are now once again displayed correctly during authoring.
· Layout glitches in the Stage when adding or removing layers have been fixed.
· Ducking now respects manual audio fades with custom offsets.
· Ducking for movies now works again.
· Custom audio fades are now fixed when dragging or copying/pasting audio to a different location and those custom audio fades no longer work.
· File size limitations for uploading to YouTube have been removed.
· Make sure that the system doesn't go to sleep while an export is in progress.
· Make sure that pressing the spacebar key while we are editing a numeric value in a textfield, actually starts preview playback instead of causing an invalid value error message.
· Make sure that deleting everything in a numeric textfield doesn't cause FotoMagico to enter an invalid state. Instead revert to the previous value.
· Made the file format more efficient for the OS X sandbox environment.
· A bug has been fixed where auto-expanded stacks (slides with multiple layers) in the Storyboard occasionally failed to collapse again when the mouse left the stack. Some users mistook this for an application freeze.
· Make sure that a full save is performed when the app is quit without first closing a document.
· The visibility and animation controls now display seconds tickmarks when a single slide is selected. This helps to position the fadein or fadeout triangles more precisely.
· Various small fixes.
February 13th, 2013· Layers can now have a mask, which lets you create interesting special effects. Masks can be animated independently from the layer image, movie, or title. Download a couple of sample slideshows here.
· Layer opacity can now be changed, thus enabling many interesting transparency effects.
· Auto Save is now supported, thus freeing you from having to select the Save command repeatedly while authoring a slideshow. Auto Save may be disabled in the Preferences window.
· Saving is now much quicker than before. Average save times for large slideshows have been reduced from a minute to less than a second in most situations.
· When resizing a title width, the title now stays centered, which is a much nicer behavior.
· When an audio track is muted, then any ducking occuring in this track is ignored.
· If a document window is obscured during fullscreen playback, various animations are now suppressed, to optimize playback performance.
· Color correction is reflected in Storyboard thumbnails.
· The ducking percentage textfield is enabled when needed.
· Sharing for DVD now exports 48 kHz audio instead of 44.1 kHz.
· Audio fades now sound similar in exported movies and live playback.
· Got rid of a visual glitch where all Storyboard thumbnails would briefly disappear after saving a slideshow.
· Got rid of a layout glitch in the Stage when a slideshow is first openend.
· Many edge case situations that led to inconsistent audio fades have been eliminated. These inconsistent states sometimes also caused failures to share a slideshow.
· Sharing assistant now warns you when chosen filenames contain illegal characters that could lead to problems down the road.
· Fixed incorrect rendering of layer opacity, if visibility was restricted to a portion of the slide lifetime.
· Fixed audio volume of a movie layer, that is not visible during whole slide lifetime.
· Audio timing is now much more reliable if a slideshow is started somewhere in the middle.
· Adding, moving, or adjusting very long audio files is now much quicker than before.
· Various small fixes.
December 14th, 2012· When image, movie, or audio files are dragged to the slideshow document, a small green badge is now displayed in the media browser in the sidebar, to indicate that this media files is being used by the slideshow. This is useful when authroing large slideshows.
· Added sharing to Vimeo (only available on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and newer).
· Added sharing as ProRes video files, which are useful for editing in video editing applications like Final Cut. This option is only available if the Apple ProRes codec is installed.
· Added more framerate options to sharing for AppleTV.
· Fixed a hang when deleting all slides above audio that was linked to slides.
· Fixed a color management issue that sometimes caused image to be displayed with inaccurate colors.
· Fixed an issue where unsaved slides would sometimes end up with missing media files after sharing.
· Software Update now once again works correctly and discovers new releases.
· Various small fixes.
November 7th, 2012· Version 4.0.2 contained a serious bug which rendered FotoMagico completely inoperable after it has crashed once.
· Various small fixes.
November 6th, 2012· Added the German translation of the help pages.
· Quiet parts of audio waveforms in the timeline are now enhanced (so that more detail is visible). This helps to set audiomarkers more accurately.
· The alert that informs the user that an image file is larger than necessary (and offers scaling it down) is no more explanatory about what is going to happen when you scale down an image.
· When adding or removing audio at the end of the slideshow, blank slides are added or removed above the audio as needed. This is the same behavior that was present in FotoMagico 3.
· When changing the in or out points of a movie, the duration of a slide is now adjusted accordingly.
· Loading and initial display of very large slideshows has been optimized. The currently vivible thumbnails are now loaded much more quickly.
· Infrequent crashes when trying to close a document (or canceling opening) has been fixed.
· Occasional failures to export slideshows which contain movies have been fixed. Exporting slideshows with movies is now also much faster than before.
· Setting the in or out point for movies now once again works (as it did in FotoMagico 3) if animation on a slide is disabled. In this case the stage alternates between displaying the in or out point image, depending on which parameter was adjusted last.
· Starting preview playback (via spacebar key) is no longer allowed while we are exporting a slideshow.
· Layout glitches after certain drag and drop operation in the Storyboard/Timeline have been fixed.
· Layout glitches after deleting a collapsed chapter in the Storyboard/Timeline have been fixed.
· Audio fadein and fadeout of movies now once again work as expected.
· The Apple infrared remote now works again for standalone players.
· Detection and unloading of incompatible QuickTime components has been improved. This helps to avoid frequent crashes caused by QuickTime components that are not compatible with the sandbox environment.
· Various small fixes.
October 19th, 2012· Erratic behavior like a failure to save document should no longer occur. Improved sandboxing behavior now lets you add far more media files to a slideshow, before the kernel runs out of resources. So save your slideshow frequently, and should your computer run out of resources, just quit FotoMagico and relaunch it again. Then you can add more media files to your slideshow.
· Slideshow documents no longer grow larger and larger when saving. Media files that are no longer used will be deleted from the document file.
· Fixed a infrequent random crash in iMediaBrowser.
· In the previous version iMediaBrowser would sometimes ask for multiple times for access rights to media files. Now it asks only once.
· All scroller configurations (as set in the system preferences) are now compatible with the Storyboard or Timeline.
· QuickTime components that are incompatible with the OS X Sandbox are now unloaded to avoid crashing FotoMagico.
· When switching between Storyboard and Timeline mode, your current focus of attention is now better preserved. In other words, the slide you have been looking at before the switch will also be visible after the switch.
· In the previous version, titles would sometimes be rendered at the wrong size. This has been fixed.
· Default animation when adding new slides is no longer so fast. The slower speed is much more appropriate.
· Chapter hotkey support has been removed.
· iPhone sharing now also has support for iPhone 5.
· Slideshows that contain movies now have more accurate audio synchronization when sharing to QuickTime files.
· Fixed bugs that could cause a crash when closing a slideshow document.
· Fixed some incorrect user interface translations in the German version.
· Fixed mistakes in the help documentation.
· The downloaded demo version is now fully functional again.
· Licenses can now be printed again.
· Various small fixes
October 11th, 2012· FotoMagico now features a completely new Timeline in addition to the previously existing Storyboard.
· The new Timeline is an addition to the Storyboard. Timeline helps to finetune the timing of a slideshow whereas Storyboard is best suited to quickly organizing your show. You can transparently switch between these modes at any time.
· Audio waveforms are displayed in the Timeline view.
· Editing of audiomarkers is now done directly in the Timeline, which makes the feature much more intuitive to use.
· Storyboard/Timeline are collapsible to make authoring complex slideshows possible on notebook screens.
· Popover help in the Storyboard or Timeline alert you to authoring problems in you slideshow and also provides solutions to fix those problems.
· The timescale in the Timeline can be changed with a pinch gesture on the trackpad or by using the slider on the bottom of the window.
· Visual tracks can be expanded or collapsed with a vertical swipe gesture (two fingers on trackpad).
· When setting slides to "Continue at Audio Marker", there needs to be audio with markers below it. If there isn't, the user is now alerted to this authoring inconsistency.
· Audio markers can now also be added by pressing the M key while scrubbing through a slideshow.
· In previous versions of FotoMagico, audio fade-in and fade-out were always tied to the visual transitions. FotoMagico 4 also lets you customize the audio fades.
· Editing of audio in and out point is now possible directly in the timeline.
· Multiple layers of images, movies, or titles per slide. These added capabilities let you create effects that weren't possible before. Each slide can now contain up to 6 elements. All common options like pan, zoom and rotation are available independently to each of them.
· Each layer (regardless of type) can be faded in/out. Previously this was only possible for titles.
· Images and movies can now have a border with selectable color and width. This is especially useful for picture in picture effects when using multiple layers.
· FotoMagico can automatically scale your photos to a suitable size in order to avoid huge file sizes and long loading times.
· The selected layer in the stage can now be moved with the Cmd-arrow keys.
· Added a menu item to select the counterpart layer (start or finish) in the Stage.
· The selected layer in the Stage can be locked (through a menu item). This helps when trying to positioning or zooming overlapping layers of the same size.
· Template slideshows enhance your productivity.
· If you find that you are often creating slideshows with the same structure, but different images, this is for you.
· Create a slideshow, designate some of the images as placeholder items, and save it.
· When creating a new slideshow, just duplicate the file, and replace the placeholder items by dragging new images on top of the placeholder in the Stage or the Storyboard.
· FotoMagico is now ready for Retina displays.
· Enhanced security: FotoMagico is now sandboxed and ready for Gatekeeper on OS X Mountain Lion.
· Non-destructive color correction is now also available for movies.
· Slideshows can now also contain a single (non-animated) background layer in addition to the existing foreground (watermark).
· FotoMagico now has a new, more intuitive menu structure and a streamlined user interface.
· Direct access to sharing options from a new sharing menu.
· Audio options now have the ability to preview in and out points. Double click on the triangles to reveal the popovers which contain the play button.
· The jogwheels now allow modifier keys to slow (option key) or speed up (shift key), and support single stepping by clicking at the left or right ends of the jogwheel.
· The standalone player now has its own preferences window, which is shown when pressing the option key while launching the player.
· CYMK image files can now be used, even though they are not recommended.
· When a slideshow was started somewhere in the middle of a song, the audio sometimes started playing from the beginning. This should now work correctly.
· Collapsing a chapter that contains only a single slide no longer produces inconsistent behavior.
· Scrubbing through a slideshow (by dragging the playhead) is now more reliable as we get closer to the window edges.
· Tabbing between text fields in the sidebar now works again.
· Export settings for several iOS sharing plugin have been tweaked to conform to Apple specifications.
· Flickr is temporarily removed from iMediaBrowser until it works correctly within the sandbox.
· iPhoto Events are temporarily removed from iMediaBrowser until a bugfix is availble for the new iPhoto version.
· Lot and lots of smaller improvements and fixes.
September 21st, 2012· Sharing plugins now always prompt the user to choose a destination for the exported movie files.
· A crash when showing the Get Info panel has been fixed.
· Standalone players now work on OS X Mountain Lion again.
· Various small fixes.
September 6th, 2012· Bugfixes to show the media libraries in iMediaBrowser on Mac OS X 10.6 again.
· A crash when selecting chapter options in the contextual menu.
· Various small fixes.
February 28th, 2012· A bug where images would disappear in exported movies, if slide duration and transition duration were the same has been fixed.
· When opening an exported movie automatically in a DVD burning app fails, show the Reveal in Finder button ot locate the file manually.
· All sharing plugins now automatically open a file panel to let the user choose a file destination. This is necessary to comply with new Mac OS X guidelines.
· Various small fixes in iMedia Browser.
January 13th, 2012· A bug in iMedia Browser which caused the application to crash when hotplugging cameras has been fixed.
· Various small fixes.
December 15th, 2011· Support for browsing faces in iPhoto and Aperture libraries.
· A bug in iMedia Browser which caused the application to crash at random times has been fixed.
· Audio syncronization in exported slideshows that contain movies has been improved.
· Various small fixes.
November 8th, 2011· Purchasing licenses from within FotoMagico is now powered by FastSpring.
· Much improved quality when sharing slideshows to YouTube. Now also supports 1080p.
· A bug in iMedia Browser which caused the application to crash at random times has been fixed.
· The new transitions that were introduced with version 3.8 were distorted when being exportted to DVD. This has been fixed now.
· The progress bar in the dock icon is now displayed correctly again when sharing a slideshow while running on Mac OS X Lion.
· If old (incompatible) versions of plugins are discovered at startup, the user is now prompted to remove those plugins.
· Buying a license or upgrading to a better license now works again.
· Various small fixes.
July 13th, 2011· This release has been tested for OS X Lion compatibility.
· Storyboard thumbnails no longer disappear after saving a slideshow on Mac OS X Lion.
· Using very short slides (less of 1s duration) with cut transitions now work correctly when exporting to QuickTime movies.
· The plugins for Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Motion, and Adobe After Affects sometimes failed to load in the previous release. This bug has been fixed.
· Adopted new overlay style scrollers when running on OS X Lion.
June 16th, 2011· This version brings several completely new transitions (Blinds, Flash, Pixelate, Broken TV) and adds new options to existing some existing transitions (Fade, Flip).
· Improved random transition and added a sheet that lets you exclude certain transitions from randomizing (by unchecking them in a table).
· When sharing a slideshow, the export progress is now also visible in the Dock icon, so that the FotoMagico window can be minimized.
· Added display size to options in QuickTime export, so that difference between encoded size and display becomes more clear.
· All sharing plugins that can send movies to iTunes now have a checkbox that lets you turn off that behavior.
· Added a HD 720p format option to the iPhone sharing plugin. This lets you display a HD movie from an iPhone or iPad on a HDTV with an appropriate connector cable.
· All sharing plugins that can send movies to iTunes, now automatically delete the duplicate file if iTunes is set to copy files in its preferences. Previously you have to manually delete the duplicate file.
· The transition menu is now grouped by transition type to make it quicker to find the desired transition.
· Internal changes to playback engine.
· Internal changes to audio playback.
· When editing audio markers, the correct line in the tableview is selected when an audio marker fires.
· Master volume is now also resprected when playing audio from the LCD display in the Audio Options.
· Improved stability in Lightroom support.
· Adding a new title now stays in edit mode. The previous version would exit edit mode immediately.
· Selecting titles in a collapsed chapter in the Storyboard now works correctly.
· A bug that resulted in incorrect title layout or failure to edit titles has been eliminated.
· When pushing the blue triangles in the animation control directly together, this resulted in images being invisible during playback, instead of showing a hard jump in the animation. This bug has been fixed.
· MP4 icon is now displayed correctly in the sharing assistant.
· Various small fixes.
May 6th, 2011· Putting back 10.5.8 and PPC compatibility.
· Improved dissolve interval during flash effect.
· Some minor drawing gliches.
· Various small fixes.
April 29th, 2011· All sharing plugins that can send movies to iTunes, now automatically delete the duplicate file if iTunes is set to copy files in its preferences. Previously you have to manually delete the duplicate file.
· All sharing plugins that can send movies to iTunes now have a checkbox that lets you turn off that behavior.
· Added a HD 720p format option to the iPhone sharing plugin. This lets you display a HD movie from an iPhone or iPad on a HDTV with an appropriate connector cable.
· Updated French help for new features.
· Improved random transition and added a sheet that lets you exclude certain transitions from randomizing (by unchecking them in a table).
· Adding a new title now stays in edit mode. The previous version would exit edit mode immediately.
· MP4 icon is now displayed correctly in the sharing assistant.
· Various small fixes.
March 11th, 2011· iMedia Browser now also displays and lets you skim through iPhoto events. Dragging directly from an event is not yet supported. Simply double-click to open an event, and drag images from there.
· The Flickr part of iMedia Browser now works again as expected.
· When dragging local files (e.g. iPhoto images) from iMedia Browser to the Storyboard, previous versions used to makes unneeded copies of the files in a temporary folder. This has been changes to avoid wasting disk space and processing time.
· The FxPack plugin for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Motion, and Adobe AfterEffects now works again on 10.5.8. This was broken in the previous release.
· Fixed a bug where simply pressing the control key while the mouse pointer is over the Storyboard would act like clicking into the Storyboard.
· When replacing image or movie files, the new filename is now correctly displayed in the Options panel.
· Upon opening a document, the scroll position in the Storyboard is now restored exactly as is was when the document was last saved.
· Changing the tint (color correction) now correctly updates all thumbnails of multiple selected slides in the Storyboard.
· Deleting items in the Storyboard is now much faster, which is especially apparent if you select and delete a lot of items at once.
· After changing a value in a text field, then textfield is automatically deselected, so that global hotkeys (like e.g. spacebar for preview playback) work as expected.
· Various internal changes.
· Various small fixes.
February 28th, 2011· The master volume slider was moved to the lower right corner of the window and is now always visible. It now also affects audio playback in the audio panel.
· The attenuation of the master volume slider was changed to be more useful in most cases. If this has an impact on the relative volumes of songs and movies in your slideshow, please check that the show sounds as expected.
· Audio playback is now more efficient and wastes less CPU cycles.
· The initial setting of the playback behavior radio buttons in the preferences is now immediately respected. In the past you had to change the setting once before it took effect.
· Stopping playback in large slideshows is now much faster. This is especially helpful as you preview short sections of very long slideshows, since you do not have to wait as long anymore, before you can start modifying the slideshow again.
· Titles that started with an empty line used to be displayed as an empty box in the Storyboard. This has been improved - now the box always the first couple of words.
· A crash when quitting the application has been eliminated.
· Various internal changes.
· Various small fixes.
February 1st, 2011· The FXPack now supports rendering slideshows with motion blur.
· Numerous fixes for crashing bugs in iMedia Browser.
· Images from Lightroom can once again be dragged from iMedia Browser to a FotoMagico document. You no longer get a placeholder image. For those cases where the processed image is truly missing, the placeholder image has been improved to provide a better explanation of how to fix the situation.
· Bugfix for Aperture plugin failing to export because of missing slideshow notes.
· Bugfix for black frames rendered by the Final Cut Pro plugin (FxPack).
· Animations in looped slideshows now render correctly at the loop-around point in the Final Cut Pro plugin (FxPack).
· Modifications to the demo slideshow can no longer be saved, as this would corrupt the application if it was bought from the App Store.
· DVD sharing plugin now selects the best format (NTSC or PAL) upon first use.
· Various small fixes
January 18th, 2011· FotoMagico plugin for Final Cut Pro now works again (without quitting FCP).
· Bugfix in German and French user interface of the Aperture export plugin.
· Bugfix for launching iDVD after exporting to DVD.
· Improved first run experience of iMedia Browser by automatically loading those libraries that are allowed by the installed license.
· Improved stabilty of iMedia Browser.
· Lightroom libraries in iMedia Browser now display folders correctly again.
· Lightroom folders no longer display a folder icon at the end of the image list.
· Double clicking in list and combo view in iMedia Browser should now work correctly again.
· Preliminary support for iPhoto events in iMedia Browser.
· Improved user interface for Flickr in iMedia Browser, by adding a smart folder icon for each Flickr query. That way the user can double click the folder icon to display the images of that query.
· The transition icons now look much better with nicer anti-aliasing.
· The logo and application icon for of FotoMagico Home for the App Store has been slightly modified so that this version is immediately recognized.
· Various small fixes.
December 23rd, 2010· FotoMagigo can now be used on Mac OS 10.5 again.
· Audiomarkers now work correctly again when jumping to another slide.
· Avoid a potential crash when jumping to another slide while a movie was playing.
· Various small fixes.
November 3rd, 2010· Folders in media browser now sort the media items in the same order as the Finder.
· Version 3.6.1 sometimes crashed when playback of a slideshow with audio ended.
October 27th, 2010· The correct order of images, movies, or songs is now retained when dragging from the media browser.
· Folders in the media browser no longer show a disclosure triangle if there are no subfolders inside.
· Packages (like iPhoto library) are no longer displayed as folders in the media browser.
· Bug fixes for some crashes in the media browser.
October 14th, 2010FotoMagico now uses the new iMediaBrowser 2 framework. iMedia 2 is a completely new rewrite that provides numerous improvements, amongst them:
· Supports searching for images on Flickr.
· The various supported media libraries can be enabled or disabled in the Libraries section of the preferences window.
· Better, more consitent look and feel throughout Images, Movies and Audio.
· Choice of icon view, list view, or a brand new combined view.
· Improved display of metadata and easier Quick Look access.
· Much better performance than the previous version.
· Libraries are loaded on demand, which means much less memory usage and CPU processing is required.
· FotoMagico now adds a new option for audio items called "Linked to Slides". In previous versions of FotoMagico 3 audio always stayed in the same place in the Storyboard, regardless of how the slides above were being rearranged. While this behavior is desirable in some cases, it may be counter-productive in other cases. Sometimes it would be better if audio was linked to the slides, i.e. it would move along with the slides, as those slides are being rearranged. For this reason the author of a slideshow can now decide for each audio item which behavior is desired.
· You may want to link audio to slides when you have completed a chapter in your slideshow with carefully synced audio. If you then add or delete slides before that chapter, the audio moves along with the slides and everything stays in sync.
· In other cases you may elect to not link the audio. This may be the case for background (ambient) sound where exact synchronization is not needed, or while you are still working on a chapter. Unlinked audio always stays in the same spot, regardless of how the slides above it are being rearranged.
· Please refer to the Audio Options section built-in help for more information.
· Added new 27" Cinema Display choice in the New Document assistant.
· iPad export now also supports the Elgato turbo.264 HD stick.
· Improved reliabilty of plugin installation in setup assistant.
· Slideshows that are exported to YouTube can now be up to 15min long (up from 10min previously).
· Automatically expand teleprompter notes, when selecting a slide that contains notes.
· The button to hide additional audio tracks is now disabled, if multiple audio tracks are used by a slideshow.
· Bugfix for mysteriously disappearing FotoMagico slideshow files (fms) from disk.
· Bugfix for black export movies on late 2010 iMac models.
· Chapters with empty names no longer result in crash when exporting to DVD.
· Fixed an obscure bug for saving excrypted images in standalone players and screensavers.
· When starting playback of a slideshow, all controls in the Options panel are properly disabled now.
· Fixed an error where opening of fms files would sometimes fail.
· Images with transparent areas no longer show pixel garbage in the Storyboard thumbnail.
· Long song titles are no longer drawing past the edges of the LCD panel.
· Layout was tweaked in various panels of sharing plugins.
· The custom watermark is now displayed while scrubbing with the Storyboard playhead.
· The Software Update prefs pane is now loaded if running in French language.
· Various small fixes.
June 16th, 2010· Option-clicking on a chapter triangle now expands or collapses all chapters in a slideshow.
· The FxFactory Plug-In for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Motion, and Adobe After Effects is now also compatible with Leopard (10.5.8).
· Exporting very long slideshows to iPad should now work fine.
· Fixed a bug where playback with teleprompter would fail to finish properly at the end of a slideshow.
· Images in standalone players no longer pose a problem if a single image is used more than once.
· Internal changes in preparation for upcoming features.
· Various small fixes.
June 3rd, 2010· Support for rendering slideshows into Final Cut, Motion, and Adobe After Effects projects with the new bundled FxFactory plugin. Requires one of the mentioned applications, FxFactory by Noise Industries, and FotoMagico Pro.
· The setup assistant now offers installation for the Aperture and FxFactory plugins. If FxFactory is not installed, it will also be downloaded from the Noise Industires server. This assistant is also accessible at a later time with the "Install Plugins…" command in the "FotoMagico" menu.
· The Sharing Assistant now offers export to iPad.
· Added preliminary support for Aperture 3, which now can also host audio and movie files.
· Storyboard can now be scrolled with (vertical) scrollwheels of most mice.
· Multiple audiomarkers can now be selected and deleted in one step (in the table in Audio Options).
· Compression quality of HD plugin was increased.
· Screensavers are now 64-bit compatible and can thus be used in Snow Leopard. However, due to 64bit limitations in the current version of QuickTime, movies cannot be displayed in screensavers. Instead a placeholder image will be displayed, until Apple fixes QuickTime.
· Lots of internal changes for 64bit compatibility.
· Look of Setup assistant has been overhauled.
· Name of the Aperture plugin has been changed to FotoMagicoSlideshow.ApertureExport.
· Updated logos and font to match the new Boinx Software CI.
· Bugfix to avoid freezing problem when loading audio files with QuickTime 7.6.4 on Leopard.
· Popup menu in present sheet is now always enabled, so that the iPhone remote option can be selected even without a Pro license.
· Aperture export plugin is now 64bit compatible and can now be loaded by Aperture 3.
· Fixed a bug where opening corrupted document would fail silently.
· Exporting for DVD should now be possible without an internal error message, even if AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) is not installed.
· Dragging the right edge of an audio item past last slide no longer freezes the application.
· Images are now encrypted by default when creating standalone players.
· NEF (Nikon Raw) files are now excluded from encryption due to a long standing bug in image I/O that Apple still hasn't fixed since Tiger.
· Spotlight can now index fms files.
· Various small fixes.
May 28th, 2010· Bugfix to avoid freezing problem when loading audio files with QuickTime 7.6.4 on Leopard.
· Bugfix for exporting to iPad.
February 15th, 2010Version 3.1 adds full support for chapters in slideshows:
· Create a chapter at any slide. Each chapter has a name, an optional color and an optional keyboard shortcut.
· Use name and color to visually organize your slideshow in the Storyboard.
· Collapse chapters you are not currently working on in the Storyboard for better overview of your slideshow. Just press the up cursor to collapse the chapter the playhead is in, press cursor down to expand it.
· During authoring navigate between chapters using the next/previous commands or directly jump to a chapter using its keyboard shortcut.
· Also navigate using the same commands during a live presentation.
· Chapters are stored in exported movies so that iDVD and Toast can use them for DVD submenus.
· Version 3.1 brings support for scrubbing, which lets you preview animations and transitions in slow motion - to help you finetune the visual aspects of your slideshow. Grab the playhead and drag across the Storyboard to see a live preview of your slideshow.
· FotoMagico Remote iPhone app also brings support for chapters (navigation during playback) and adds swipe navigation and master volume control.
· Sharing to YouTube can now optioally create HD movies in 720p resolution.
· Documentation has been updated for the new features.
· The initial setting of the mute checkbox in the Record Narration panel is now respected.
· Pincode entry in iPhone FotoRemote has been fixed. If no pincode was entered in the FotoMagico preferences, then the FotoRemote app won't ask for a pincode.
· AppleRemote now should work again when running on Snow Leopard.
· Audio ducking for for live playback was made more consistent for certain unusual situations.
· Audio ducking for QuickTime exports has been rewritten to produce identical results as during live playback.
· Exporting QuickTime movies now uses different timescales depending on framerate to make Final Cut Pro happy. FCP should now always display the correct framerate.
· Clicking on a in-place editing field in the Storyboard now positions the insertion point as expected instead of ending the editing session.
· Made file references more robust. In case a file goes missing and it can be found easily, the reference will be fixed automatically without bothering the user.
· Dragging the width of a newly added title doesn't produce very narrow, but tall titles anymore.
· Entering negative transition durations is no longer allowed.
· Master volume is now remembered after end of playback - if volume was set to 0 it will be reset of 0.5 upon next playback.
· Aperture plugin installer now sets the correct permissions.
· High quality rendering in DVD plugin now also doubles the framerate, i.e. 50fps for PAL and 59.94 for NTSC, thus giving you twice the temporal resolution.
· Various small fixes.
· Screensavers created by FotoMagico cannot currently be used on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. They may still be created because they can be installed and used on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5).
October 27th, 2009· Screensavers cannot currently be used on Snow Leopard. They may still be created because they can be installed and used on Leopard (10.5).
· A memory leak that was discovered in 3.0.7 and previous versions should now be gone. This probably has an impact on a number of other bugs that were reported by users.
· Playback of movies should now exhibit less stuttering at beginning of long movies.
· Undo was broken in previous versions after adjusting the length of an audio item (by dragging an edge). This should now work correctly again.
· Dropping new images after the last slide should now work correctly again.
· Bugfixes to make opening of some files more robust.
· Made MobileMe login in Sharing Assistant more secure. Illegal characters in account name are now stripped out.
· Support for page up/down and b key during playback enables the use of Keyspan remotes.
· Internal changes to prepare for upcoming features.
· Various small fixes.
October 1st, 2009· Screensavers cannot currently be used on Snow Leopard. They may still be created because they can be installed and used on Leopard (10.5).
· QuickLook in the Sidebar and Storyboard now works again.
· File references to remote file servers that are no longer reachable now no longer cause long timeouts when opening a document.
· Web sharing should now respect chosen movie format when using Elgato Turbo264 stick.
· Drawing of images in Stage has been changed in editing mode to avoid crashes that some users have experienced.
· Rendering of previews and thumbnails while saving files has been changed to avoid crashes that some users have experienced.
· Internal changes to prepare for upcoming features.
· Various small fixes.
September 2nd, 2009· Screensavers cannot currently be used on Snow Leopard. They may still be created because they can be installed and used on Leopard (10.5).
· Improved performance when saving files.
· Rendering of previews can now be skipped when saving files. This greatly speeds up saving while you are authoring, but it is still recommended to save with previews once the slideshow is finished.
· FotoMagico now uses a thumbnail and preview cache that discards the oldest items, so that memory is not flooded. This should help to avoid excessive swapping.
· The "Preparing" step in the Sharing assistant has been sped up by skipping the thumbnail creation.
· Cached titles are now correctly stored in .fms files and reused when opening the file again. This should speed up working with lots of titles. Old files will be repaired and the user is prompted to save the file again.
· Empty documents (without any slides can now be saved and opened correctly.
· Drag and drop issues in the Storyboard have been fixed.
· Recording narration now works on Snow Leopard.
· Copy/Paste Animation now works as expected and displays the results in the Stage accordingly.
· Fixed a memory leak when dragging from image browser.
· Audioitems now have a context menu item to shorten them to available slides if the audioitem extends past the end of the slides.
· Non-looped audioitems now get a warning triangle if they are extended beyond the length of the audio file.
· The Aperture plugin and its installer is now compatible with Snow Leopard.
· Updated DVD export settings.
· Creating encrypted players and screensaver now works again and no longer corrupts the original image files.
· Movies created with the Web Sharing plugin now work with fast-start again.
· The iPhone FotoRemote app now once again closes the curtain when playback of a slideshow has ended.
· Internal changes to network communication between FotoMagico and FotoRemote (iPhone).
· Various small fixes.
July 7th, 2009· Sharing slideshows for DVD has been made more reliable. Exporting to iDVD should now work again.
· More reliable communication between FotoMagico and export process.
· Eliminated undefined behavior when deleting slides in certain conditions.
· Fixed potential crashes at end of slideshow playback.
· Standalone players with encrypted image files now play correctly when copied to other computers.
· Title formatting with Font and Colors panel has been made more reliable.
· A visual glitch in the Topple transition has been fixed.
· Missing audio fadeouts in exported slideshows should no longer happen.
· Slideshows containing audio markers failed to save in the ssp format. This is fixed now.
· Slideshows containing audio markers should now export with the same timing as during playback.
· Removed support for iDVD 5.
· Various small fixes.
June 29th, 2009· Eliminated crashes after canceling export.
· More reliable communication between FotoMagico and export process.
· The audio of a slideshow containing only movies (but no audio) is now properly exported.
· Movies are now rendered much faster during export.
· Changed a warning to a note in the DVD plugin.
· Exporting a slideshow with HD Plugin and setting 1080p using Elgato turbo.264 HD now results in the right movie size.
· Alert triangles in Storyboard are now clickable again. When switching to Cut transition, timing warnings about transition duration are suppressed.
· Various small fixes.
June 9th, 2009· Starting movie playback has been changed. Crashes related to movie playback should now be gone.
· Ducking should now work as expected. In the previous release the end of ducking produced strange jumps in volume.
· Bugfixes to make exporting slideshows more reliable. The "internal error" message should now be much less common.
· Fixed error where audio was sometimes missing in exported QuickTime movies.
· An error message is now displayed when saving large slideshows to a volume that doesn't have enough disk space left.
· Images or titles that have been zoomed to 0% used to cause trouble. This is no longer the case. Zoom levels of 0% are now ok to use.
· Replace File menu command in Options panel is now enabled even if file is missing.
· Match duration to Audio is now smarter: Movies and deselected slides are no longer modified. This way slides that require a certain duration (e.g. pans across long panoramas) are left untouched.
· Improved drawing performance when selection changes.
· New Elgato Turbo264 HD stick is now supported in more sharing plugins.
· Misleading timing alerts in Storyboard are now avoided.
· Various small fixes.
May 14th, 2009· The "Made with Boinx FotoMagico" watermark is no longer applied to exported slideshows once a valid license is installed.
· Launching iDVD or Toast from the Sharing Assistant now works again.
· Made starting of export tool more reliable.
· Various small fixes.
May 12th, 2009· Movie files with non-thread-safe codecs can now be converted to a more suitable file format right inside FotoMagico.
· Movie files with non-thread-safe codecs can now also be used without conversion in FotoMagico, but converting them is recommended for performance reasons.
· Added QuickLook support to the Storyboard.
· Dragging existing audioitems in the Storyboard has been made more consistent. The length of the item isn't changed anymore but now stays fixed.
· A watermark is now display if FotoMagico is running in demo mode.
· Drag & Drop in the Storyboard has been made more robust. Crashes should no longer happen.
· Recording narration with audio markers now works correctly.
· Exporting files has been made more robust.
· The cursor is no longer hidden while previewing a slideshow.
· Working with photos on dual graphics card machines now works.
· The application is now internally named "FotoMagico3" to allow side-by-side installations of version 2.6 and 3.0.
May 5th, 2009· FotoMagico has been completely re-written from the ground up to provide advanced features for version 3.0 and beyond.
· FotoMagico now adds support for movies. Movies can be used like images. You can animate moves, add titles and more.
· FotoMagico now adds support for multiple audio tracks. Refer to the help for more detail.
· Recording narration for your slideshow is now possible directly from within the application.
· Audio ducking automatically lowers the volume of other audio tracks. An common use for this is to attenuate music while a narrator is speaking.
· A new Instant Slideshow Assistant lets you create nice slideshows with minimal authoring effort.
· The new Elgato Turbo264 HD stick is now supported in the Sharing Assistant where appropriate.
· Live playback now supports remote control via an iPhone Remote application (which will be available separately at the App Store).
· Added new context sensitive authoring guides. Small alert and note icons in the Storyboard help to identify authoring problems in your slideshow and provide useful tips on how to rectify problems.
· Added new assistant to locate missing media files.
· Added a "Getting Started" movie to the Setup Assistant and the Help menu.
· Added menu item to open demo slideshow from Help menu.
· Added option to choose a random transition type.
· When new features like movies or multiple audio tracks are used, the app now forces you to save the slideshow in the new .fms file format.
· Added additional help pages for timing and DRM protected audio problems.
· Added a focus ring to the Storyboard, to indicate when it is going to respond to keystrokes.
· Added Quick Look support in Images and Movies panels.
· Files in iMediaBrowser panel are now sorted like in the Finder.
· Added improved progress bar when inserting large number of slides.
· Function of spacebar key can now be configured in the preferences.
· Audio tracks can now be muted.
· Added optional names to audio markers. These are for reference only, and do not have any effect during playback.
· Support for multi touch gestures in recent MacBook (Pro) computers. Zoom and rotate items in the stage.
· FotoMagico 3 now comes in Home and Pro flavors.
· The animation algortihm has been changed to achieve constant zooming speeds throughout the lifetime of a slide.
· The way that shadows are rendered in titles has been completely rewritten. Shadows are now scaled along with the text and thus provide a much more intuitive user experience. Obviously this represents a change from past behavior, and old documet may now look slightly different.
· The "Made with Boinx FotoMagico" watermark is no longer displayed once user have purchased a valid license.
· When changing the selection, the playhead now always snaps to the beginning of the selection. This leads to a nicer preview experience, since pressing the spacebar then always starts playback at the selected slide.
· Selection behavior in Storyboard has been improved. Extending the selection with shift and command keys now work on a per track basis, leading to a much mor intuitive experience.
· Status overlays are now always displayed when previewing in the document window, but never during a fullscreen presentation.
· PDF files cannot be imported as slides for now. Will be fixed in a future release.
· Changed algorithm for rescaling images when stage size of a slideshow is changed in Settings.
· When previewing a slideshow, the sidebar no longer collapses, so that playback buttons do not move from underneath the mouse.
· Since title layouting has been changed a bit, when opening documents that were saved with older versions, the layout of title will have to be adjusted accordingly. Please check if the line breaks are what you expected.
· Title layout behaviour has been improved over version 2.x. A newly added title automatically expands while typing, but once a width is chosen by dragging one of the two horizontal resizing handles, that width remains constant.
· Rendering of title with large zoom factor has been improved. Text bitmap sizes are now clipped to a maximum size, to avoid hogging the GPU, and text is now always display at the correct size.
· It is finally possible to enter Asian scripts, French accents, and other special characters into titles!
· Many small bugs in title formatting that were present in 2.x have been ironed out.
· Dragging RTF files to the Stage or Storyboard now works correctly.
· Screensavers are more reliable now.
· Standalone player and screensaver now works with new file format, enabling it to use movies and multiple audio tracks.
· Eliminated a potential crash in standalone player.
· Cursor now is hidden during full screen presentation.
· Lots of small bug fixes.
December 10th, 2008· User can now select in preferences which image libraries get displayed in iMediaBrowser.
· If multiple Lightroom libraries exist, they are now named in a way, so that they can be told apart.
· iMediaBrowser now shows outline view instead of popup upon first launch.
· Reduced memory footprint of iMediaBrowser.
· Various small fixes.
October 31st, 2008· Improved stabilty of iMediaBrowser.
· Various small fixes.
October 23rd, 2008· New: FotoMagico now supports Adobe Lightroom 2 libraries thanks to iMediaBrowser.
· New: The new FotoMagico Plug-in for Aperture (separate install) lets you create FotoMagico document directly from Aperture.
· New version of iMediaBrowser. Hopefully more stable now.
· Screensaver should no longer freeze up the computer when pressing spacebar key.
· Various small fixes.
August 12th, 2008· Another bugfix for a crashing issue with new iMediaBrowser.
· Bugfix for screensavers failing to load.
· Improved playback progress display at the start of playback. Bogus elapsed and remaining times used to be displayed before the first slide was fully loaded.
· Updated the FotoMagico logo in screensavers.
August 1st, 2008· Bugfix for a crashing issue with new iMediaBrowser.
July 28th, 2008· Version 2.5 contains many features like the new teleprompter which helps with live narration while presenting a slideshow on stage, by displaying upcoming slides and notes.
· Furthermore FotoMagico now has the iMedia Browser included which makes browsing your image libraries even easier.
· On top of that Adobe Lightroom support was added.
· Direct to YouTube export.
· The Sharing Assistant now contains a new plugin that lets you export Slideshows for YouTube and upload it to your account.
July 24th, 2008· Teleprompter now works on Tiger.
· YouTube export now works on Tiger.
· Added French translation for new features.
· Various small fixes.
July 19th, 2008· Version 2.5b5 improves compatibility of the YouTube Plugin with Mac OS X Tiger.
· German Translation was added and various minor bugs fixed.
July 7th, 2008· Fixed a bug in new .fms file format that prevented FotoMagico from opening files after they were copied to another computer.
· Fixed a bug where FotoMagico would ignore any color correction info during playback.
· Renamed "Notes" in options panel to "Teleprompter Notes" so that connection between existing UI and new feature is easier to understand.
· HTML code for embedding YouTube video into your own webpage has been moved to a modal window, which is only shown on demand.
· Various small fixes.
· This release is only available in English.
June 30th, 2008· Fixed a bug in new .fms file format that prevented FotoMagico from opening files after they were copied to another computer.
· Fixed a bug where FotoMagico would ignore any color correction info during playback.
· Renamed "Notes" in options panel to "Teleprompter Notes" so that connection between existing UI and new feature is easier to understand.
· HTML code for embedding YouTube video into your own webpage has been moved to a modal window, which is only shown on demand.
· Various small fixes.
April 2nd, 2008· New: Version 2.2 introduces the Sharing Assistant which replaces the old export user interface. Access it via the "Share..." menu item in the "FotoMagico" menu. The old "Export..." menu command is still accessible by pressing the alt/option key.
· New: The web plugin in the Sharing Assistant now offers direct to web publishing. Choose one of the built-in themes, customize the web page, and upload to .Mac or any web server.
· New: FotoMagico now offers Elgato Turbo.264 support when sharing your slideshow for iPod, iPhone, or AppleTV.
· New: Added iChat Theater integration.
· New: Added QuickLook plugin.
· New: When using the Sharing Assistant for the first time, the user is now prompted to enable high quality playback in QuickTime Player.
· New: New and improved about window for standalone players.
· New: Web themes can be installed by double-clicking them in the Finder.
· New: Debug logging preferences now expire after a few days and are reset to avoid negative impact on performance.
· Change: All sharing plugins now use the new 2-pass export, which produces higher quality movies, at the expense of higher disk space usage.
· Change: New document sheet now sports a recent documents popup menu for convenient access.
· Change: Made info fields in slideshow settings more consistent with web sharing plugin.
· Change: Replaced some icons in the toolbar and made playback buttons resolution independent.
· Some documents with references to a watermark image on missing volumes failed to open. Document now opens again, but watermark will be lost and needs to be set again.
· Fix to avoid potential crashes when moving a window to different displays while a slideshow is playing.
· Audiomarkers now use correct timing in exported movies regarless of the transitions being used.
· Kerning and leading now work again when editing titles.
· On some slow machines exporting (sharing) a slideshow would sometimes hang. Should no longer happen.
· Bugfixes for various issues with screensavers. Freezes and flashes in screensaver should now be gone. Audiomarker should work correctly. Please note that screensaver need to be created anew with this version to benefit from these fixes.
· Wipe to blank slide now produced correct visual results again.
· Avoid a potential crash after a slideshow finishes playing.
· Avoid a potential crash when moving/resizing the window while playing a slideshow (preview mode).
· Sharing a slideshow for web now produces significantly smaller movie files while retaining high quality.
· Apple remote control now works again on Leopard.
· Spotlight plugin should now work again.
· Sometimes title of slideshows saved on Tiger and opened on Leopard would be shifted to the right and cut off. This bug is (hopefully) fixed in this version.
· Black stage during window resize should no longer happen.
· Audio timing is now more precise for exported QuickTime movies. A cumulative rounding error has been eliminated.
· Estimated remaining time now better for all phases of exporting.
· Feedback assistant no longer prompts users to submit ancient crash reports.
· Various small and not so small fixes
March 10th, 2008· Added French and German localization for new features.
· FotoMagico now offers Elgato Turbo.264 support when sharing your slideshow for iPod, iPhone, or AppleTV. Please send us feedback.
· Replaced some icons in the toolbar and made playback buttons resolution independent.
· Settings popups in Share Assistant now respect multiple folder domains.
· Bugfixes for various issues with screensavers. Freezes and flashes in screensaver should now be gone. Audiomarker should work correctly. Please note that screensaver need to be created anew with this version to benefit from these fixes.
· Improved Feedback Assistant.
· Various small and not so small fixes.
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