A new Font param type (ParamSpec::makeFont) is a font family as the
machine names it. The interface shows it as a family-only
FontDialogButton; the command line and the project file treat it as a
plain string, as they did the Text param it replaces, so existing
projects and --font-family keep working. A family the machine lacks is
kept as written. Bumps the version to 0.8.1.
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Tile swap lays tiles cut from the photographs over the canvas as Tiles
does, in a grid, in bricks or scattered, and swaps each one for another
cut at a moment of its own, so the mosaic keeps changing piece by piece.
The layout stays put for the whole clip; what a tile shows depends only
on the tile and how many times it has swapped, counted round the clip, so
it holds still between swaps and the clip loops without a jump. On the
command line it is -e tileswap with --tileswap-rate and the rest.
VideoEffect learns a second kind: an effect that answers needsSources()
writes compose() instead of animate(), and the base then takes no crop,
only the one seed, so it sees the photographs when it leads the chain and
the stage before it otherwise. Transforms render exactly as before. The
tile cutting and painting move out of tiles.cpp into tile_plan.hpp for
both effects to share; Tiles renders byte for byte as before. Version
0.8.0.
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Effect::video() says which kind an effect is. The Add effect menu lists the
two kinds in sections of their own, each scrolling on its own, and offers
video effects only in a video project; a video stage carries a film icon in
the chain and, in a still, is dimmed and skipped like a stage switched off.
enabledStages takes whether the render is a video and is the one place that
leaves video stages out of a still. --help groups the video effects under a
heading of their own, --list-effects marks them, and a video effect given
for a still is skipped with a warning.
VideoEffect is the base every video effect builds on, and keeps the rules a
moving stage has to follow: it takes one value from the shared rng, the same
on every frame, and hands the effect steady and per-frame generators and
loop-rounded time through a Moment, so a subclass writes only animate().
VHS tracking is the first, and the one to copy: the colour planes sway and
shake and a tracking bar rolls down the picture.
That motion moves out of channel split, which is an image effect again and
renders stills exactly as before; forVideo() goes with it. Version 0.7.0.
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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.
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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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