ffDiaporama

The addition of TAG and chapters. Lossless rendering. More supported formats (FLAC files, videos with U8 soundtrack of old cameras, etc.). Correction of sound problems (no more saturation or hatchings during transitions). Various ergonomic improvements (copy/paste between several ffDiaporama instances, drag and drop improvements, etc.). Improvements in performance: the rendering speed has almost doubled in some cases.

This stable version contains numerous bugfixes and improvements to images smoothing, sheet style, and extended drag and drop, and German and Greek localizations.

Improvements in the quality of videos produced by the addition of image smoothing. Improvements in the performance of video rendering. Introduction of style sheets. Reorganization and redesign of dialogs to simplify the understanding and handling of the software. The addition of new keyboard and mouse shortcuts. The addition of numerous new options, in particular for the video rendering and configuration of the software. Introduction of a memory management system based on LuLo to allow it to work on small configurations. Many bugfixes.

After nine months of development, fifteen alpha versions, and four beta versions, ffDiaporama is finally released in a stable version 1.0. This first stable version is totally translated into four languages (interface, documentation, and Web site): English, French, Spanish, and Italian. It includes 142 transitions and 56 profiles of video generation covering the majority of available devices (smartphones, players of all kinds, Web, etc.). Packages are available for Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUZE.

For this fourth beta, a particular effort was made towards the internationalization with the addition of Spanish and Italian translations. A the same time, many bugs was fixed.