MoviePrint

ADDED
• Ability to export and import shot based MoviePrints
Now it is possible, after having run shot detection, to export the MoviePrint as a JSON/PNG file and import/restore it at a later time while keeping the shot information.
• More MoviePrint output sizes
• Ability to save frames directly from the player view by using the Save frame button or the S key
• Ability to add timecode to naming scheme

FIXED
• Issue where MoviePrint would not start, when the movie file couldn’t be found
• Issue where timeline view printing could result in an error
• Issue where progress bar behaves incorrect when Save all MoviePrints is clicked and include individual thumbs is checked
• Issue where sorting by occurrences did not work, after filtering on unique faces
Issue where changing the threshold when filtering for unique faces would not work immediately
• Issue where hidden thumbs, when visible while Saving a MoviePrint, were saved as regular thumbs
• Crash when only changing the aspect ratio and trying to save a thumb or MoviePrint
• Issue where when hide thumb and add thumbs in-between the scroll position when zoomed in always jumps to top left position
• Issue where aspect ratio and cropping was not applied on import
• Issue where a custom aspect ratio was not applied when saving thumbs
• Issue on windows where font in header in a saved MoviePrint would show a serif font

CHANGED
• Behaviour when filtering thumbs – Automatic default sorting has been removed

KNOWN ISSUE
• The largest MoviePrint output size 16348 x … can in some cases result in an empty MoviePrint. In this case please use the next smaller size.

ADDED
Face based MoviePrint
Scan movies for faces and create faces based MoviePrints
Apply and combine filters on faces based MoviePrints as well as showing face data such as
• Amount of faces in frame
• Age
• Occurrence of face
• Face size
• Gender
• Unique faces

Create a new MoviePrint with all occurrences of a unique face
• A face is considered unique, if it is different from another face by a certain amount. Change the amount and experiment to find the perfect value.

Sort thumbs
• for faces based MoviePrints
• Face size
• Face count in image
• Occurrence of a face
• Confidence value of a face
• for all MoviePrints
• Frame number
• Reverse order

Ability to transform movies using rotation, cropping and aspect ratio
• Added transform preview
• Added cropping presets
• Added aspect ratio presets

Ability to zoom in and out of grid view – also with keyboard shortcuts

Ability to change jpg quality when saving a MoviePrint

Ability to choose format (jpg/png) and jpg quality when saving a thumb

More guide layout formats

Option to quickly optimise grid layout (column count) when the MoviePrint is very high/wide

IMPROVED
• Website and moved to new domain - https://www.movieprint.org/
• Naming of MoviePrints on expand, MoviePrints now get named after shot or sequence
• Settings menu got cleaned up
• Undo steps are no longer stored in the persistent database
• Small performance improvement when dealing with many thumbs
• Error reporting of worker windows into the main window

FIXED
• MacOS Catalina preventing MoviePrint from opening. Added Apple notarization for MoviePrint
• Bug where importing a PNG could not read the set columnCount
• Bug when duplicating a shot based MoviePrint missing shot data
• Bug when scrubbing first or last thumb one could not scrub to start or end of movie

CHANGED
• MoviePrint now requires a CPU with AVX support - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#CPUs_with_AVX
• Updated urls to use the new website movieprint.org
• Updated electron and packages to the latest version
• Replaced credits window with link to online credits
• Remove redundant options from file menu dropdown

ADDED
• Ability to change individual MoviePrint names in Movie list
• Set custom naming schemes for
• Name of MoviePrint
• Name of thumb when saving a single thumb
• Name of thumbs when including individual thumbs
• Option in Settings menu to open the output location after saving a MoviePrint
• Option in file list menu to open file location
• Option in Save MoviePrint menu to open the output location
• Ability to style frame info
• Position, scale, margin, font color, background color
• Ability to set MoviePrint background color
• Shot detection method “Histogram”
• This method is slower, but can improve detection in some cases
• It converts the pixel to HSV color space, creates a histogram and compares the difference of the histograms of each frame
• Max possible output size option for extra wide/high aspect ratios (16384px in width/height)

FIXED
• When scrubbing first or last thumb one could not scrub to start or end of movie
• Issue where some shots where detected one frame too short
• Fix issue that MoviePrint does not get properly generated when adding a shot detection based MoviePrint (aescripts Support Ticket #1049557)
• Fix cropped MoviePrint images when output size was too large

Temporary workaround for macOS Catalina users
https://github.com/fakob/MoviePrint_v004/wiki/Known-issues#macos-cant-open-movieprint-on-macos-catalina

FIXED
* Missing overflow menu on MoviePrint items in movie list
* Issue where recapture frames would throw an error when incomplete MoviePrints were present

IMPROVED
* Updated documentation – https://movieprint.fakob.com/movieprint-help
* Clearer usage of Expand (Create a new MoviePrint using In- and Outpoints of the clicked thumb)
* Performance improvement when running shot detection of longer movies
* Clearer open/close buttons for Movie list and Settings menu
* Timeline handling in Player view
* Clearer exit from Player view
* Scrubbing of thumb now possible both through click as well as click+drag

FIXED
* Bug where Edit cropping was broken
* A couple of small bugs

FIXED
* Hover controls over a thumb disappearing after click
* Hover controls over a thumb rendering in the wrong place
* Algorithm to calculate scene list out of frame scan data

IMPROVED
* Updated documentation – https://movieprint.fakob.com/movieprint-help
* Clearer usage of Expand (Create a new MoviePrint using In- and Outpoints of the clicked thumb)
* Performance improvement when running shot detection of longer movies
* Clearer open/close buttons for Movie list and Settings menu
* Timeline handling in Player view
* Clearer exit from Player view
* Scrubbing of thumb now possible both through click as well as click+drag

FIXED
* Bug where Edit cropping was broken
* A couple of small bugs

Fixing transparency rendering for PNGs

ADDED
* Option to check for a new version of MoviePrint
* Option to cancel shot detection when running it for the first time
* Toolbar which exposes the most needed options in one click
* Add a shot detection based MoviePrint
* Add an interval based MoviePrint (with 2×2 – 6×6 presets)
* Switch between Grid and Timeline view
* Switch between Standard view and Player view
* Switch between Thumb and Cut view
* Zoom options
* Show header and frame info
* More options can still be found to the left in the Movie list or to the right in the Settings menu

IMPROVED
* Integration and reliability of feedback form
*Tooltips and toast messages
*More reasonable default column count for shot detected movies

FIXED
* Known issue resulting in a white screen on Windows when Microsofts Visual C++ Redistributables are not installed
* A couple of small bugs

Added
* Player view with a horizontal multi frame view and HTML5 video player overlay
For shot based movies:
Cutting and merging of shots
Changing chosen thumb of shot
Switching between timeline and grid view
Easy navigation in and between shots
For interval based movies:
Changing and adding thumbs
Easy navigation between thumbs

* Shortcuts
* Ability to crop the movie
* experimental support for more than 20x20 grid

Added
* Support for editing multiple MoviePrints per movie
* Adding, duplicating and removing MoviePrints
* Switching between grid view and timeline view
* Replacing a movie
* Adding and removing movies from the list
* Expand a scene/thumb to dive further into a movie
* Hide scenes in timeline view, similar to hide thumbs in grid view
* Export a MoviePrint to later restore it via Import MoviePrint
* Embed data when saving a MoviePrint (PNG only) to later restore it via Import MoviePrint
* Import MoviePrint
* Clear movie list

Improved
* Handling of thumb images, which should result in a performance improvement
* Movie list look
* No more limitation when the settings menu is open

Only windows version updated!
Fixed output path 'same as movie file' option

Now compatible with macOS and Windows!

Complete rewrite with a couple of new features, like:
• Insert, move and hide individual thumbs
• Player view etc.
for details see Description

No more warnings when starting for the first time. MoviePrint is now officially code signed!
Added option to not overwrite MoviePrints

Initial Release

This version works on Apple Silicon machines

ADDED
• Ability to export and import shot based MoviePrints
Now it is possible, after having run shot detection, to export the MoviePrint as a JSON/PNG file and import/restore it at a later time while keeping the shot information.
• More MoviePrint output sizes
• Ability to save frames directly from the player view by using the Save frame button or the S key
• Ability to add timecode to naming scheme

FIXED
• Issue where MoviePrint would not start, when the movie file couldn’t be found
• Issue where timeline view printing could result in an error
• Issue where progress bar behaves incorrect when Save all MoviePrints is clicked and include individual thumbs is checked
• Issue where sorting by occurrences did not work, after filtering on unique faces
Issue where changing the threshold when filtering for unique faces would not work immediately
• Issue where hidden thumbs, when visible while Saving a MoviePrint, were saved as regular thumbs
• Crash when only changing the aspect ratio and trying to save a thumb or MoviePrint
• Issue where when hide thumb and add thumbs in-between the scroll position when zoomed in always jumps to top left position
• Issue where aspect ratio and cropping was not applied on import
• Issue where a custom aspect ratio was not applied when saving thumbs
• Issue on windows where font in header in a saved MoviePrint would show a serif font

CHANGED
• Behaviour when filtering thumbs – Automatic default sorting has been removed

KNOWN ISSUE
• The largest MoviePrint output size 16348 x … can in some cases result in an empty MoviePrint. In this case please use the next smaller size.