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Photo to Movie Changelog

What's new in Photo to Movie 5.2.0.0

Dec 21, 2012
  • Added 64-bit support (Mac OS).
  • Improved rendering on Mac OS 10.7 and later.
  • Improved audio recording on Mac OS 10.7 and later.
  • Improved video clip support on Mac OS 10.7 and later.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.7.4 (Feb 15, 2012)

  • Fixed minor undo problem.
  • Fixed minor timeline drawing issue.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.7.3 (Jan 20, 2012)

  • Improve performance of preview playback.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.7.2 (Jan 9, 2012)

  • Fixed intermittent crash when using various dialogs.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.7.0 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Added feature to check for missing media files (menu item File > Check Media...).
  • Fixed file dialog crash on Mac OS 10.7.
  • Improved handling of user selected image aspect ratios.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.6.1 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Fixed intermittent crashes during playback.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.6.0 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • Added floating layout.
  • Fixed open file dialog.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.5.3 (Dec 15, 2011)

  • Fixed another intermittent crash during rendering.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.5.2 (Dec 14, 2011)

  • Fixed intermittent bug during rendering.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.5.1 (Dec 13, 2011)

  • Fixed bug in crash reporter.
  • Fixed bug in updater.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.5.0 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • Fixed intermittent crash occurring when using any file dialog.
  • Fixed bug where menu items and keyboard shortcuts weren't always available.
  • Allow grouping of single photos for layout purposes.
  • Fixed crash while compressing multiple photos to near zero duration.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.4.3 (Oct 27, 2011)

  • Fixed intermittent problems with displaying and rendering video clips.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.4.2 (Oct 19, 2011)

  • Stability improvements (including minor fix from version 5.0.4.0).

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.4.0 (Oct 14, 2011)

  • Fixed intermittent crash bug when clicking menus and quitting application.
  • Improved default title style to include shadow and alignment.
  • Added ability to set text alignment on multiple titles simultaneously.
  • Updated 'Advancing' layout to work on wider variety of graphics cards.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.3.1 (Sep 26, 2011)

  • Improved high definition rendering quality by enabling automatic frame sync.
  • Improved performance with hundreds of photos in timleine.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.2.0 (Sep 2, 2011)

  • Fixed scroll bar bug in timeline.
  • Fixed bug in collage layout to make it more random.
  • Fixed a variety of other minor bugs and crashes.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.1.1 (Aug 22, 2011)

  • Fixed crash when double clicking on documents to open application.
  • Fixed problem loading NEF files.
  • Fixed problem with gather media.
  • Fixed problem in setting marker start times.
  • Fixed problem in scaling of photo style background.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.0.5 (Jun 29, 2011)

  • Updated user's guide and localizations (Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish).
  • Fixed several aspect ratio bugs.
  • Preliminary Spanish and Japanese localizations.
  • Added timing style pop-up to marker inspector.
  • Various minor bug fixes.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.0.4 Beta (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Fixed several aspect ratio bugs.
  • Preliminary Spanish and Japanese localizations.
  • Added timing style pop-up to marker inspector.
  • Various minor bug fixes.

New in Photo to Movie 5.0.0.3 Beta (Jun 13, 2011)

  • Added timing style pop-up to marker inspector.
  • Various minor bug fixes.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.4.1 (Apr 13, 2011)

  • Fixed problems involving menus and clicking in timeline.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.4.0 (Apr 9, 2011)

  • Improved rendering on some older graphics cards.
  • Improved default title styles to include shadow.
  • Improved copy and paste style to include shadow.
  • Improved media browser drag and drop to show outline of photos.
  • Improved reliability of video playback.
  • Improved reliability of gather media command.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.3.3 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • Fixed problem with rendering crash for some transitions and titles.
  • Fixed problem with running on case sensitive file systems.
  • Fixed problem with running on Mac OS 10.5.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.3.2 (Feb 21, 2011)

  • Fixed problem drawing some transitions (gradient wipe).
  • Fixed problem with send movies to iDVD.
  • Fixed problem setting background of text editor.
  • Fixed background issue in full screen mode.
  • Improved performance of large media libraries in media browser.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts Cmd-Less and Cmd-Greater for zooming key frames.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.3.1 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Fixed problem drawing some transitions (gradient wipe).
  • Fixed problem with send movies to iDVD.
  • Fixed problem setting background of text editor.
  • Fixed background issue in full screen mode.
  • Improved performance of large media libraries in media browser.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts Cmd-Less and Cmd-Greater for zooming key frames.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.2.0 (Jan 14, 2011)

  • Fixed localization bugs.
  • Fixed problem with crash recovery.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.1.7 (Dec 18, 2010)

  • Added ability to insert video clips into the timeline.
  • Added ability to resize the height of tracks in the timeline.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0.7 Beta (Oct 27, 2010)

  • Improved reliabilty of video clips.
  • Various other reliability improvements.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0.6 Beta (Oct 23, 2010)

  • Fixed problem launching under Mac OS 10.4.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0.4 Beta (Oct 19, 2010)

  • Added localizations for Spanish.
  • Fixed minor issue to allow new files to be loaded in older versions.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0.3 Beta (Oct 16, 2010)

  • Added more localizations for French, Italian, Japanese, and Swedish.
  • Added sections to integrated help about video clips and track resizing.
  • Fixed bugs in labeling and photo organizer related to video clips.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0.1 Beta (Oct 2, 2010)

  • Added support for resizing track height in timeline.
  • Fixed bug in video clip support that would cause some clips not to load.
  • Fixed bug in automatic update mechanism.

New in Photo to Movie 4.7.0.0 Beta (Oct 1, 2010)

  • BETA VERSION.
  • Added support for video clips.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.1.0 (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Music browser improvements: searching and preview.
  • Improved support for newer iLife Sound Effects (using .caf file format).
  • Changed YouTube upload limit to 15 minutes (to match YouTube site limits).
  • Added text field to volume control for audio and allow up to 400% increase.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0.12 (Jul 30, 2010)

  • Continuing reliability improvements.
  • Fixed bug rendering to paths with non-latin1 characters in path.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0.11 (Jul 27, 2010)

  • Continuing reliability improvements.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0.9 (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Reliability improvements for rendering.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0.7 (Jul 19, 2010)

  • Minor reliability improvements and bug fixes.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0.6 (Jul 15, 2010)

  • Minor reliability improvements and bug fixes.
  • Updated localizations and documentation.

New in Photo to Movie 4.6.0.5 (Jul 11, 2010)

  • Improved media browser speed and reliability.
  • Fixed a couple of potential crashes.

New in Photo to Movie 4.5.4 (May 6, 2010)

  • Added support for text shadows on titles.
  • Added Swedish localizations.
  • Improved timeline performance.
  • Improved stability and problem reporting mechanism.
  • Improved previous version file loading (title fonts/styles).
  • Fixed bug when using media files with in their file names.
  • Fixed bug after double clicking on key frames.
  • Fixed bug when redrawing audio waveforms.
  • Fixed bug in expanding file folders.
  • Fixed bug in reverse key frames command.
  • Fixed bug when opening .ptm41 files in Open Dialog.
  • Fixed bug when rendering files with photos containing non-English letters in path.
  • Fixed bug with rendering title effects.
  • Fixed bug after undoing title or audio dragging.
  • Fixed several title editing/drawing bugs.
  • Fixed bug where timeline zoom slider would return to left when editing document.
  • Fixed bug when entering title and audio time values with colons.
  • Fixed problem when audio had negative start time.

New in Photo to Movie 4.5.2 (Apr 12, 2010)

  • Added Cut transition to avoid setting transition duration to 0.0.
  • Added Transition... button when editing blank images.
  • Added keyboard shortcut for Add Key Frame.
  • Added another option for rendering for AppleTV.
  • Improved responsiveness of media browser.
  • Improved loading of old document files.
  • Fixed several bugs in media browser.
  • Fixed several crash bugs (Thanks to anyone who reported crashes).
  • Fixed 2nd dock icon when rendering movie on Mac OS.
  • Fixed Font and Color panels so they don't lose their connection to text.
  • Fixed several keyboard handling errors (delete and spacebar).
  • Fixed connection of Ctrl-X to Edit > Cut on Windows.
  • Fixed problems entering fractional frame rates in Document Info.
  • Fixed several defaults when making a movie.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.7 (Oct 16, 2009)

  • Fixed more crashes in Snow Leopard, particularly with portrait oriented images.
  • Fixed minor problem with low-resolution preview during scrubbing portrait images.
  • Fixed media browser to work more consistently.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.6 (Oct 1, 2009)

  • Fixed occasional, but significant crash in Snow Leopard.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.5 (Jul 11, 2009)

  • Fixed occasional crash in OpenGL transition rendering.
  • Fixed support for NEF RAW images and some other uncommon image formats.
  • Fixed problem when dragging titles with in/out effect set to Move.
  • Updated media browser to fix minor bugs.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.4 (Apr 9, 2009)

  • Added option to show or open rendered file in Finder after rendering for QuickTime files.
  • Fixed bug with timeline updates when making certain changes to key frames.
  • Fixed bug where the 'missing image' indicator would not always be properly drawn.
  • Fixed UI drawing bug in Make Movie dialog.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.3 (Feb 7, 2009)

  • Added ability to replace a photo or audio by right clicking on the item in the timeline.
  • Fixed bug where rendering would sometimes render at wrong frame rate (15fps rather than 29.97fps for instance).
  • Fixed bug where Fit Photos to Audio would sometimes choose wrong audio duration.
  • Fixed bug with image distorted when background color set to 100% transparent.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.2 (Dec 26, 2008)

  • Improved sorting intelligence when dragging in photos to prevent sorting ordered sets of photos from iPhoto and Aperture.
  • Fixed bug where several transitions would render incorrectly on some machines.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.1 (Nov 15, 2008)

  • Fixed title text justification problems.
  • Fixed problem where image flickered between high and low resolution resulting in bad performance when switching between photos in timeline.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.0 (Oct 28, 2008)

  • Added new title effects such as move, scale, typewriter, and more.
  • Added new menu command Audio > Fit Photos to Audio (Cmd-F).
  • Added command to gather all media into a single folder.
  • Added ability to specify movie sizes with aspect ratios other than standard 4:3 or widescreen 16:9.
  • Added menu items to quickly move to next and previous photo (under Photo menu).
  • Added contextual menus for photos and music to open and reveal originals in the Finder.
  • Added ability to drop folders of photos or music into document from Finder.
  • Speed-ups and memory footprint improvements, especially in thumbnail generation.
  • Improved copy and paste to include transitions, makes copying entire documents easier.
  • Improved default title behavior (selection, timing, etc.).
  • Improved stability of media browser.
  • Photos and other media is now sorted alphabetically when being added to document.
  • Cosmetic improvements to transition menu.
  • Cosmetic improvements to scrubber time display for international users.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.0 Beta 14 (Oct 27, 2008)

  • Included some localizations and fixed a bug rendering Japanese text in titles.

New in Photo to Movie 4.2.0 Beta 10 (Oct 9, 2008)

  • Title Effects: A new title rendering system has been added along with the ability to add title effects. Before only fade in and fade out were available. Now you can choose to animate your titles into and out of the movie. The current in and out effects include Fade, Move, Scale, and Typewriter. Give them all a try by selecting a title in the timeline, clicking on the effect tab, choose either Effect In or Effect Out, and setting the desired Effect. Then play the title in the timeline.
  • Gather Media: You can have Photo to Movie copy your photo and audio files to a common folder for archiving. Use the menu item File > Gather Media... You'll be asked to choose a folder and once all the files are copied you'll be asked to save your modified Photo to Movie document that includes references to the media files in their new locations.
  • Alternate Aspect Ratios: You can now render movies at aspect ratios other then 4:3 or 16:9. Most users will not need to do this, but if you do, set your aspect ratio in Document Info to 'Same as Movie Size'. Then set the Movie Size on the right. Your key frames and final movie will have the aspect ratio width:height.
  • Fit to audio: Menu item Audio > Fit Photos to Audio (Shift-Cmd-F). This instantly stretches or shrinks your photo track to match the duration of your audio track.
  • Quickly move between photos: Cmd-[ and Cmd-] to move selection to the previous and next photos.
  • Contextual menus: Right click on a photo in the timeline to open it in an external editor or reveal it in the Finder.
  • Performance: We know that the Preview and Full Screen performance is less than stellar in recent versions of Photo to Movie. We're working hard to remedy this situation and this new version partially addresses this issue by making thumbnail processing more seamless and taking less CPU time and using optimized OpenGL more frequently than CoreImage. Please let us know how things are working on your particular machine!
  • Stability: Photo to Movie 4.1 and 4.2 both include a crash reporter that sends crash reports directly to our servers. If either of these versions crash on you, please re-launch the software and submit the crash report. We examine each crash report carefully to figure out what went wrong. The Crash Reporter has led to numerous fixes in the last few months that have dramatically reduced the number of crashes.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.7 (Sep 17, 2008)

  • Important bug fix when using documents with hundreds of photos.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.6 (Aug 15, 2008)

  • Improved stability when license key window automatically appears during launch.
  • Improved stability when closing windows.
  • Improved stability for certain audio timing during playback.
  • Improved stability for media browser.
  • Improved stability when calculating audio waveforms.
  • Fixed bug in media browser where initial selection would not display images.
  • Changed title editing to keep center constant rather then lower left corner.
  • Added easier way to add/remove custom folders to media browser by Cmd- (or right-) clicking in window.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.5 (Aug 2, 2008)

  • Added support for Adobe Lightroom 2.x libraries in media browser.
  • Improved stability during thumbnail calculation on various graphics cards.
  • Improved stability of Adobe Lightroom libraries in media browser.
  • Improved crash reporting mechanism for improved feedback to developers.
  • Fixed minor bug when unchecking title fade-in/out checkboxes.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.4 (Jul 1, 2008)

  • Improved responsiveness while clicking on images in the timeline.
  • Improved handling of rendering errors during transitions.
  • Fixed more memory issues.
  • Fixed potential rendering crash during thumbnail calculation.
  • Fixed level meter on voice recorder in Intel machines.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.2 (Jun 11, 2008)

  • Added Color Drop transition, available with Extended Transition Plug-in.
  • Added button in motion path inspector to edit associated transitions.
  • Improved performance and memory footprint while previewing and rendering.
  • Improved performance while scrubbing through large slide shows while thumbnails are loading.
  • Improved timeline drawing to make overlapping titles and audio more apparent.
  • Improved cross fade transition rendering performance on non-Quartz Extreme video cards.
  • Improved pan angle control for QTVR so that it can accept values outside of 0-360 degree range, allowing full circular panning.
  • Changed search for missing images to avoid mounting unmounted volumes.
  • Changed QuickTime High Definition rendering formats to use AAC rather than LPCM.
  • Fixed problem loading transitions from older files where all transitions would load as cross dissolve.
  • Fixed problem displaying full resolution image when loading many images in timeline.
  • Fixed problem where real time preview would flicker black if thumbnail images were loading simultaneously.
  • Fixed progress indicator during multi-pass rendering so that it displays overall progress rather pass progress.
  • Fixed several problems in media browser: searching, folder views, and more.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.1 (Apr 19, 2008)

  • Fixed problem loading PICT files.
  • Fixed problem when photo updated outside of application.
  • Added support for new style license keys.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1.0 (Apr 2, 2008)

  • Numerous new transitions include page curl, mosaic, and more.
  • Support for multiple audio and title tracks.
  • Resizable timeline section of main window.
  • Improved rendering capabilities.
  • New media browser (including Aperture).
  • Preferences for default timing preferences.
  • Added automatic updating via the Sparkle framework.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1 Beta 19 (Mar 24, 2008)

  • Fixed another QTVR problem (debugging code causing crash, now removed).
  • Fixed reversed gradient wipe transition when running on Mac OS X 10.5.
  • Work around for significant memory leak in Core Image in Mac OS X 10.5 until it is fixed by Apple.
  • Fixed bug where pasting or dragging existing motion paths into new document would fail.
  • Fixed bug where low resolution version of image would appear when using to-beginning and to-end buttons.
  • Fixed bug introduced in last hit testing change for selecting key frames by clicking on their frames.
  • Fixed bug where grid snapping would incorrectly apply to changes made to key frames via arrow keys.
  • Fixed bug so that key frame panel and recorder panel reappear after full screen preview.
  • Improved reliability of page curl transition.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1 Beta 17 (Mar 9, 2008)

  • Fixed bug so that replacing photos outside of application is now tracked properly.
  • Fixed bug so that adding new audio doesn't create a new track unless necessary.
  • Fixed bug where QTVR movies would not work at all. Now they work, but slowly.
  • Fixed bug in QTVR movies with constraints.
  • Fixed bug loading transitions from Photo to Movie 2.5 documents.
  • Improved hit testing to make it easier to select multiple key frames.
  • Improved audio reliability.
  • Nearly final localizations including French and Dutch.
  • Nearly final Help files.

New in Photo to Movie 4.1 Beta 16 (Feb 25, 2008)

  • Numerous new transitions.
  • Multiple audio and title tracks.
  • Resizable timeline section of main window.
  • Improved rendering capabilities.
  • New media browser (including Aperture).
  • Preferences for default timing preferences.
  • Added automatic updating via the Sparkle framework.