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SiandClaude Opus 5.5 385617781e Make video projects, with a moving channel split as the first video effect 
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>
2026-09-26 11:22:01 +02:00

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Changelog

Every release of Effector, newest first. The version lives in one place, the project() line of CMakeLists.txt, and each release is a vX.Y.Z tag on the commit that made it. The interface shows this file under Changelog in its menu.

[0.6.0] - 2026-09-26

Added

  • Video projects: switch Video on under Setup and give the clip a length and a frame rate, or pick a preset that sets the canvas too: Instagram story, Instagram reel, Instagram feed video, TikTok / YouTube Short, Square loop and Full HD clip. The preview renders the clip and loops it, with play/pause and a scale to look at any one frame.
  • Save As… writes a video project as .mp4, .mov, .mkv, .webm or .gif through ffmpeg, with a progress window that can cancel it.
  • Channel split moves in a video: its channels sway, shake from frame to frame and a tracking bar rolls down the picture, like an old tape on a tube. The new Wobble, Jitter and Tracking bar settings show only in a video, and a still renders exactly as before.
  • --duration, --fps and --video-preset render a video from the command line.
  • A Vertical Full HD canvas format, 1080 × 1920.

[0.5.3] - 2026-09-26

Added

  • Effector has its own icon, an E split into its colour channels, in the app menu, the dock and About Effector; a one-colour version goes with it for panels.

[0.5.2] - 2026-09-26

Changed

  • Effector is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later; the LICENSE file holds the text, and About Effector says so.

[0.5.1] - 2026-09-26

Added

  • An Arch Linux PKGBUILD in packaging/arch: makepkg -si there builds and installs the tagged release with pacman.
  • A desktop entry, so an installed Effector shows up in the app menu.

[0.5.0] - 2026-09-26

Added

  • A version number: effector --version prints it, and About Effector in the menu shows it.
  • This changelog, readable from the interface under Changelog in the menu.
  • Open Recent in the project menu, listing the projects opened or saved here.
  • An optional shadow or glow under the image overlay, with an offset, size, spread, colour and opacity.
  • Reordering the chain by dragging a row.

Fixed

  • The params' scrollbar no longer covers the spin buttons.

[0.4.0] - 2026-09-23

Added

  • Eight chaotic effects: slit shift, channel split, pixel sort, corruption, shatter, warp, bit crush and feedback. None needs sources, so any of them can lead a chain.
  • The sidebar split into Chain and Setup tabs.
  • A rotation for the text effect's placement.
  • Text stages labelled in the chain list with their words.

Changed

  • The preview stays centred however long the status line gets.
  • The status line stays short, with the full chain and setup in its tooltip.
  • The chain/params split fits the chain's rows until it is dragged; a double-click on the handle fits it again.
  • The mouse wheel scrolls past spin buttons that do not have the focus.

[0.3.0] - 2026-09-19

Added

  • Named styles: several text stages can share one font and colour, and editing the style moves every stage that follows it.
  • Switching a chain stage off without taking it apart, in the interface and with --disable NAME on the command line.

Changed

  • The interface opens on an empty chain, and shows the sources only when the chain uses them.

[0.2.0] - 2026-09-18

Added

  • Effect chains: stages cascade, each handed the previous one's output, built in the sidebar or with repeated -e.
  • Blur, film grain, black and white, image overlay, text and tiles effects.
  • Projects saved and opened as plain JSON.
  • Standard web and print canvas formats (--format, --dpi).
  • Effects declare whether they need source images, so a chain led by blur renders with none loaded.

Changed

  • The chain comes first in the sidebar.

Fixed

  • The canvas size is checked before it is narrowed to an int.
  • Projects are written and read in the C locale, and keep the seed whole.

[0.1.0] - 2026-09-18

Added

  • The C++20 port of the Python prototype: a GTK 4 interface and a headless command line over pluggable effects, starting with scanlines.
  • Source images load in the background, with a progress window and Cancel.
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