Change log for Resolume 2.41

Fixed bugs

- Deck loading problems: Users reported problems when loading decks, we improved the deck loading, clearing and saving routines and made them more monkey proof.
- Decks not moveable in list. Decks can be moved only when not already opened by in one of the deck slots.
- Applying screensetup when capture devices are connected often crashed Resolume.
- DVD max didn't work correctly. DVD max would make the whole screen flash.
- Bypassed layers still show up when using advanced screen setup.
- Filebrowser Preview and Thumbnail problem: When the preview function is enabled in the filebrowser and the view is set to thumbnails the thumbnails sometimes appeared distorted.
- Resolume often gave error messages on shutdown: We improved the shutdown process so it's more solid and at the same time we managed to speed it up.
- In/out-points were not saved when set by midi controller
- BPM tempo jumped to 500 when tapping while paused.
- Direction toggle in BPM mode didn't work with Midi shortcuts.
- When a channel is set to beatsync (bpm) for the first time it automatically plays backwards.
- Not all .bmp or .gif files loaded correctly.
- Because of an error in preview files .mov files were opened by the Avi object and crashed the render thread. Preview files didn't include the file extension and created problems when there were files with the exact same date and name but with different extensions.
- Remove or disable effect button on layer popup didn't allways show.
- When an effect was removed the clip preview wasn't updated directly.
- Effect categories buggy. While entering a new effect category the sometimes the color of another would change.
- Effect 'Delay Randomrect' third parameter wasn't showing proper value.

Improvements

- Redetect mid devices. We added a little button in the preferences window which will rescan the midi devices connected to your computer. This is convenient when you connect a Midi device after having started up Resolume.
- The HueScale effect has changed. We added parameters for Contrast, Saturation and brightness.
- Midi shortcuts for playback of BPM controlled clips were missing. We changed the existing ones you use for normal playback so that they work in BPM mode as well.

 

Change log for Resolume 2.4 final

New features

- Added new overlay mode called Alpha Luma
- Midi start/stop configuration
- Hold down the 'Ctrl' key when using bpm up/down controls and you will be able to jump by 4 beats at the time instead of only 1
- Removed continue/start_over in effects

Fixed bugs

- midi clock pause doesn't work
- problem loading some pictures
- bpm is not calculated for clips in decks made with older versions of resolume
- a bpm bounced clip flashes at the end of the bounce when the beats count is 4
- masks are upside down
- flash playback is stumbling
- bpm opacity min-max doesn't work when using midi clock
- some footage files in the demo decks do not play
- file browser shows size 0x0 for pictures when in thumbnail mode
- slide open wipe has a bug, only one side actually slides
- 'lo rez' wipe doesn't work correctly with static footage
- big pictures sometimes fail to load
- feedback buffer on fx on channel isn't cleared on channel switch
- interface gets very slow and interrupts playback
- right clicking a channel with an effect resets the params if they are animated
- when triggering a channel with an animated effect the param's animation should be reset
- amount of beats in bpm mode is limited to 64 beats
- Select Bpm, then set direction to backward. Select the clip to play on a layer: it plays forward.
- bypassing effect slot with the mouse/midi controller doesn't work properly
- bpm bounce mode on opacity layer sometimes flashes, layer1 is shortly shown instead of layer 2 and vice versa
- BPM midi/key shortcuts
- decks tab: "new section" and moving decks to "new section" (category)
- setting the step value of a midi controller in the preferences window has no effect when using the little arrow keys

 

Change log for Resolume 2.4 beta

New features

- Bpm playback (sync to internal BPM tempo or Midi clock)
- Support for DMX protocol, ArtNet en Enttec USB
- Flash To DMX (send dmx from flash through resolume)
- Feedback option on effects

Major improvements

- We made some major speed improvements, so the overall performance has been given a big boost.
- Audio responsiveness has been greatly improved.
- Playback speed of quicktime has been improved
- Freeframe internal parameter range has been changed, range was just too inaccurate. Especially when animating parameters this is a good improvement. Animation will be more fluent and accurate.

Minor Improvements

- Resolume Freeframe plugins can be in different subdirectories, all subdirectories below the plugins folder are scanned (1 level deep) and placed in different categories.
- Resolume Freeframe plugins now all support processframecopy and support 32 bit mode (so they can be used in Freechain or Wax for instance).
- Speed of Masks and Transitions is improved.
- We changed some interface controls so that they behave better. We changed the following controls: up-down controls, fps control on the effect parameters
- Resolume will still run when another application is active. So output will continue when switching to other applications.
- added midi-shift, use it to set resolume in shift mode
- added midi-ctrl, use it to set resolume in ctrl mode (set effect on active clip/layer)
- right click on rgb buttons of a layer or effect to select that color channel specifically and deselect the others
- capture driver list can be refreshed to be able to access camera's that have been connected after having started up resolume.
- reduced flickering in some interface elements which are updated frequently
- the ESCAPE key brings you back to the screen setup when the interface screen is set to full screen.
- new... button for midi settings file, creates a blank new setting file.
- new... button for dmx settings file, creates a blank new dmx settings file.
- playback of pictures is set to a default of 15 instead of 25
- Alt+Drag fx, you can press Alt at any time during the drag. Alt sets opacity to zero and disables feedback
- Resolumes' settings are saved in the users' My documents folder. we did this so that users without administrator rights still can use resolume. Resolumes' settings are now saved in the users' ~/my documents/resolume/ folder. You do still need administrator rights to install Resolume.
- the first time that resolume is started the demo decks are copied to the decks folder of the user. Those deck files will be loaded on startup.
- you can enable logging in resolume by starting up resolume with the log param example: c:\program files\resolume 2.4\resolume.exe debug log
- we improved the method for spotting vidnet servers (computers running resolume) on the local network
- added midi and key shortcuts to cycle through decks (next deck, previous deck)
- when right clicking an effect param it will be reset to it's default state.

Fixed bugs

- some midi controller functions didn't work with endless controllers. Fixed as many as we could find
- the set in-point and set-outpoint functions now also work with endless controllers.
- text speed could get to zero, divide by zero error occurred. So flash movies could stop playing.
- Freeframe mixer plugins, the list of mixer plugins could exceed the boundaries of the screen. we fixed it by adding a scrollbar to the lists, the scrollbar only appears when necessary
- the effect layer up/down and layer up/down seemed to be mixed up, is fixed.
- when triggering an effect by midi the opacity was not loaded correctly, it always set to full. Now it takes the value configured by the user.
- Sometimes the order of capture devices happened to be mixed up, so when saving a capture-device in a deck it would sometimes appear as another capture device the next time.
- plugins with the same pluginuniqueid got into conflict, parameters were merged when this occurred. Now when a plugin is found with a id which already exists it is skipped as well as it's parameters.
- move up/down effect key shortcuts work again, 1024 version
- flash clips weren't always removed from a layer correctly (still playing in the background) when it was cleared or replaced by another clip. Now it is replaced by the 'empty.swf' file, to properly clean up flash.
- mpeg files sometimes failed to load, when the browser preview was on you couldn't load the .mpeg files in the deck. is fixed
- update fx parameters is more fluent.
- levon wrote: on the top layer.. put any free frame source effect. then from the browser drag a different source plugin to the same clip... overwriting it. it will freeze the out put to the original plugin, and you have to restart to fix it, this is fixed
- 'delay film' freeframe plugin had memory leak, was not cleaned up properly
- right click an opacity to reset it's value to default didn't always work correctly when order of layers was changed (move layer up or down).
- saving of decks is now only possible when resolume is not loading files or decks at the background. Before it was possible to save a deck before while resolume was still loading files, this could cause errors.
- resolume flash playback has been changed, when resolume's timelinemode is set to flash (flash controls playback); Each time a flash file is loaded the flashcontrol on the background is recreated to prevent caching problems. Control is not recreated when timelinemode is set to 'resolume'.
- screensetup in trial mode could failed the second or third time. Is fixed.
- multifullscreen mode is improved. Before when the interface and second screen were set to fullscreen the focus could be lost (by clicking on the screens) so that the output would stop. That is fixed.
- repaint of sliders for fx has been improved to minimize flickering.

 

Change log for Resolume 2.3

 

New features

- we added a feedback source plugin, this plugin only works in resolume, not in other freeframe hosts
- we added some new effects and source plugins, a total of 34 homemade freeframe fx are available.
- implemented step value on endless controllers, that means that you can control how fast an endless increments or decrements.Especially handy when using endless controllers for framestepping.
- all midi controller functions have endless support, so it wil pick up change you might have made with your mouse or keyboard.
- frame step shortcuts are added, keys, midi note and frame stepper for endless controllers.
- load and save midi setups, in the preferences window on the midi general tab you can specify wich midi setup you want to use.
- Save different setups in xml files. This makes it easy to share and switch between midi setups.
- set up your decks wich you want to be loaded at startup, right click a deck tab to configure.
- last screen setup is saved, when starting resolume it will start in the last used setting, this works only when the number of connected display devices is the same as last time , otherwise resolume will use it's default settings.

Improvements

- added flash medium quality setting
- flash fps is read from the header so is now correct and not set to a default of 12
- flash text speed, now you are able to set it slower then 1 fps.
- we implemented an audio device selector, select the device wich you want to use for audio analysis
- when an effect has a freeframe plugin as mixer (wet dry mix effect), this will be saved, before it was not.
- settings are now stored in XML-format. so it's easier to share settings and better backward's compatible.
- screen setup has been dramatically improved, running multiple monitors fullscreen is now possible. Running output on multiple montors has never been easier
- resolume sets the active directory in the the file browser on the last used on startup
- added midi note shortcuts for in and out points ( set,move and reset in-out points active layer)
- added midi note shortcuts for global effect up/down
- added midi note shortcuts for layer audio settings
- use the delete key to clear midi shortcuts (notes and controllers) in the preferences window
- vidnet system has been partly redesigned and works much more reliable now.

Fixed bugs

- sometimes some capture devices failed to initialize, is fixed
- resolume crashes (dies) on certain machines when hitting the apply button in the screen-setup window, this has been fixed
- user param settings of freeframe fx in decks were not loaded correctly, only when right clicking a channel the saved values would be loaded
- right click on a effect param slider to restore it to it's default value, this was somehow disables in the last version, is active again
- Continue playmode en Bounce logical bug, http://www.resolume.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1618 is fixed
- recorded files in resolume gave problems when opened in other software like Premiere or After Effects. We discovered that the first recorded frame was empty and fixed that. Should work better now.
- backgroundcolor selector now ignores the white borders, before the color picker would pcik up it's white borders and thus was hard to select certain colors. The colorpickers behaviour is much better now.
- when switching to a channel that is paused it wouldn't show that clip directly, is fixed
- sometimes if you have more then eight drives not all will be shown, a maximum of eight drives was the limit,this number is increased to 20. If you have even more then 20 drives use the arrow keys to scroll down.
- some Bitmaps that people made for their own transitions and/or masks failed to open when starting resolume, this made resolume unusable, this has been fixed.
- if no audio device is present or if installed incrorrectly resolume will disable audio analysis. Before resolume did not initialise properly when no audio device was present.
- sometimes the interface sliders couldn't be moved fluently with the mouse, is fixed.
- when in screen setup the dropdownlist closed to quick to be able to work with it in a normal way. Was related with the slider bug listed above.
- recording resolution was not allways correct, it used the output
resolution as the dimensions for the avi header info instead of the process resolution, this is fixed.
- some gif files we received from a user crashed resolume, if a gif cannot be opened it will be ignored but won't crash the application.
- when clearing a midi note/controller shortcut, the note was cleared from the list but was still active untill you assigned it to another function. This has been fixed
- sometimes an effect called 'Flash variables' would pop up in the effects list, this should not happen, is fixed
- when assigning the midi note shortcuts: move up / down active layer the preferences window would close, is fixed
- the window for choosing the directory in wich to store the files created during recording was still in resolume 1.5 style. This has been redesigned.
- midi bypass active effect slot shortcut activated the last effect assigned to that slot, though not active it would show it's controls. This has been fixed.
- if you switched decks while recording was still on resolume got confused. Now it's save to switch in between decks while recording.
- some white previews bugs are fixed, we don't know if all problems with this are solved, we don't seem to have these problems anymore.
- mouse was visible on output window, cursor is now hidden.
- freeframe mixer fx (multi input) are now allways rendered even if the fx is full on or off. this way the developer of the plugin can choose what to do when an fx is set to 0 or 100 percent
- freeframe mixer fx blend value was wrong way up
- some resolume freeframe plugins didn't show their param values correctly, is fixed