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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The version is the project() line of CMakeLists.txt and nowhere else:
CMake writes it, with the text of CHANGELOG.md, into a generated
core/version.hpp, so the number and the release notes the binary shows
are the ones it was built from. effector --version (-V) prints it, and
the header-bar menu gains a section with Changelog, a window laying the
Markdown out as headings and bullets, and About Effector.
The core tests hold the newest changelog entry to the current version,
so a bump cannot go in without its notes. Releases are tagged vX.Y.Z;
this is 0.5.0, and the changelog reconstructs 0.1.0-0.4.0 from the
history.
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