The GIMP Animation package, the popular addon suite to the GIMP Image Suite that adds in After-effects style features, has just released v2.6.0 to bring it inline with the GIMP2.6 suite.
Look after the break for the full list of new features in 2.6.0.
Here is a short overview whats new in GIMP-GAP-2.6.0:
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(compared to gimp-gap release 2.4.0)– Storyboard undo support
– Storyboard section support. complex scenes can be described within subsections
where each subsection can arrange multiple clips in multiple individual video tracks.– Storyboard clips support new deinterlace modes Odd First, Even First
– Player supports extracting audio track when playing clips
that refere to a videofile that has one or more audiotrack(s)
(the extracted audio can be used for audioplayback
if audiosupport is enabled and wavplay is installed)– Filtermacro processing now supports mapping to
persistent drawable id references.
This allows applying recorded filtermacros in another gimp session
in case the recorded last values buffer data contains references
to drawable ids.
such as the drawable for a bump map in the plug_in_bump_map,
or all the layers that were used to map on a quader in plug_in_map_object.The persistent references can refer to anim frames (series of numbered
images), multilayer images, or videofiles.Filtermacros can be applied with fixed or varying values
in Storyboard clips. For varying values 2 filtermacros
are required to provide from and to values. Iteration of
persistent drawable ids is supported in case both refer to the
same image, anim frame series or the same videofile.– video extract supports generating transparency via bluebox effect.
– the master video encoder dialog now stays open while the encoder
process is running and shows encoding progress (with Cancel option)– lossless frame extract and videocut for MJPEG encoded videoclips
is supported by the storyboard processor and in the
AVI1, FFMPEG and RAWFRAMES encoders (via dont recode flag)– frontends for old external video encoders and the old xanim based
frame extract plug-in are not bulit per default.– Modify Frames now supports creation of grayscale layer from
alpha channel, or layermask or mix of both– added wrapper for rotate any angle.
(provides support for animated apply in “filter all layers”
or in fltermacros for rotation effects in storyboard clips)– added wrapper for the resynthesizer
(provides support for animated apply of the 3rd party plug-in resynthesizer)– external libs for vidoe read and write access
were updated to ffmpeg-0.5 and libmpeg3-1.8– bugfixes and updates for the use with GIMP-2.6.x releases.(see ChangeLog for details)
