Opening a project of ninety 17 MP photos got Effector killed by the
kernel's OOM killer: 4.6 GB of decoded RGB on a machine with 3.6 GB free,
and no core dump to show for it. Bulk allocations are now sized first and
refused with an OutOfMemoryError past three quarters of the free memory
(MemAvailable, or less under a cgroup memory.max). loadImages sizes the
batch from the file headers and refuses it before decoding anything, and
holds the decodes in flight to what is left; renderChain and renderFrames
refuse a canvas at 24 bytes a pixel, plus any picture a Path param loads.
The interface keeps a refused batch's paths, so saving the project never
drops them. Version 0.6.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A project can now be a clip: Setup has a Video switch with a length, a
frame rate and presets that set the canvas too (Instagram story, reel and
feed video, TikTok / YouTube Short, Square loop, Full HD clip). The preview
renders the whole clip, shrunk to a memory budget, and loops it with
play/pause and a scale; Save As... renders it again at full size and pipes
the frames into ffmpeg as .mp4, .mov, .mkv, .webm or .gif, with a progress
window that can cancel. --duration, --fps and --video-preset do the same
from the command line.
Effects learn about time through FrameTime and Effect::renderFrame, which
falls back to render, so nothing that holds still changes. Channel split
now sways, shakes and rolls a tracking bar down the picture in a video; its
motion params are marked forVideo() and hidden in a still project, and a
still renders byte for byte as before. renderFrames starts every frame
from the same seed and renders the still stages ahead of the first moving
one only once. The version moves to 0.6.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An E split into its colour channels, with two slices slipped sideways,
replaces the generic applications-graphics icon in the desktop entry and
About Effector, with a one-colour symbolic version for panels. Both are
installed into the hicolor theme; a build run straight from the build tree
falls back to the copy in the sources. The version moves to 0.5.3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LICENSE holds the text, the README and About Effector state it, and the
Arch package declares it. The version moves to 0.5.2 for the release.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
packaging/arch/PKGBUILD builds the tagged release from this repository
and installs it with pacman; the version test keeps its pkgver in step
with CMakeLists.txt. A desktop entry puts the interface in the app menu.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
