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Glimpses (formerly Briefly) Changelog

What's new in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 2.2.1

May 26, 2018
  • Made minor changes to Glimpses' About- and Splash Screen windows (removed newsletter subscription, added privacy policy link)

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 2.2 (Nov 14, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Touch Bar Support: Glimpses now offers deep integration of the Touch Bar.
  • Filter or sort photos in your project, import photos from flickr or Instagram, control QuickLook and adjust your project's audio- and video settings, all without leaving Touch Bar.
  • Improvements:
  • Instead of showing "Creating audio wave form..." indefinitely for soundtracks that fail to load, an "empty" audio wave is shown, allowing for selection
  • Removed some unnecessary draw calls during video creation, making it slightly faster
  • Improved performance when QuickLook'ing Glimpses project files
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed Instagram interaction
  • Fixed a bug that caused faulty window resizing in some cases

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 2.1 (Aug 15, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Accepts drag and drop from Photos.app
  • Right-click on selected photos to edit them in an external image editor. Double-click to open photo in default image editor
  • Share Extension: Send selected image files from other apps (like Photos or Finder) directly to Glimpses
  • QuickLook Plugin: Allows for easier identification of Glimpses project files
  • New photo sorting option: Shuffle
  • Improvements:
  • Improved performance of sorting (by color, especially)
  • Slightly improved performance when rendering videos
  • Glimpses now remembers last open project, selection, open windows, zoom level and scroll position over relaunches
  • Improved loading of projects (version checks, integrity checks)
  • "Base duration on soundtracks" better calculates the duration
  • Video rendering now runs in its own, isolated process for improved main-app reliability and separation of privileges
  • Glimpses uses more modern API in some parts
  • As groundwork for the future, Glimpses now uses AutoLayout throughout the app
  • About window was updated to include new information, newsletter signup
  • Cleaned up unused files
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where the photo-duration would be reset if the Video Settings popover was opened
  • Fixed graphical issues of the Create and Show buttons
  • Fixed a bug where drag'n'drop to a specific location didn't work
  • Fixed an issue that occurred when unexpected keys were pressed in the main window
  • Fixed a localization bug when importing files
  • Fixed a rare crash when browsing through Flickr or Instagram and quickly switching to the other

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 2.0 (Jun 8, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Face Detection: Glimpses analyses your photos for faces and places the photos in your video accordingly for much nicer results.
  • Soundtrack Selection: The new soundtrack selection lets you add multiple soundtracks and select only the parts you need.
  • 4K Resolution: Going beyond 1080p, 2K and 4K resolutions have been added.
  • Projects: You can now save your projects.
  • Improvements:
  • A revamped and cleaned-up UI that fits in perfectly with OS X Yosemite.
  • The smallest photos can now be shown, as well as all landscape or portrait photos.
  • Auto-Timing: Let Glimpses choose the duration for your photos based on the duration of your soundtrack.
  • You can choose a duration from 0.1 to 4.0 seconds in 0.1 second-steps.
  • Improved support for panorama photos if reduction of pillar- or letter boxes is enabled.

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 1.5.3 (Feb 25, 2015)

  • Fixes a critical bug that would keep Briefly from creating Still Motion Videos without soundtrack if the "no soundtrack" warning was disabled

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 1.5.2 (Oct 24, 2014)

  • Fixed a few minor bugs for OS X Yosemite

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 1.5 (Apr 22, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Sort Photos by Color for amazing, colorful Still Motion Videos
  • Loop the selected Soundtrack or select more than one Soundtrack for longer Still Motion Videos
  • Disable reduction of black borders to show your Photos in their entirety
  • Improvements:
  • Switched to the JPEG Video Codec (from H264) for more beautiful, stunning, crisper, sharper images
  • Slightly reduced memory and disk usage
  • Speed improvements when creating Still Motion Videos
  • Sort Photos by Title
  • Support for App Nap and Automatic Termination

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 1.1 (Jul 26, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • The duration can now be raised to up to 4 seconds per photo in Briefly's preferences
  • Added an "All Photos" category for easier import from Instagram
  • Improvements:
  • Added a "Clear photos and soundtrack" menu item to make it easier to start over
  • Now checks the EXIF date for "Sort by Date" instead of file creation date
  • To comply with Facebook, sharing videos on Facebook with a duration of less than 1 second was disabled
  • Added Facebook as contact/support method
  • Bug fixes:
  • The "Delete" menu item now works
  • Minor timing adjustments when creating the video

New in Glimpses (formerly Briefly) 1.0.1 (Jul 10, 2013)

  • Fixed an issue where videos wouldn't be saved in the Movies folde