MemoriesOnTV

Version 4.1.0

14 Jul 08

MemoriesOnTV:

Integrated YouTube upload.
Integrated Picasa import. You can now export to MemoriesOnTV from Picasa.
Fixed audio mixing bug that causes missing mixed audio in rare cases.
Workaround Vista bug that causes annoying beep on list item selection, when Windows sound scheme is modified.

Version 4.0.4

14 Mar 08

MemoriesOnTV:

Fixed an issue with customizing album thumbnails for those cases where track menus are not created.
Project size estimation was way off when a video file larger than 4GB is imported. Fixed it.
Miscellaneous fixes to support language packs, especially that for the Italian pack.

Version 4.0.3

22 Jan 08

MemoriesOnTV:

Importing from multi-album projects didn't work. Fixed.
The trim and fading states for audio file attached to individual slides wasn't saved. Fixed.
Restored the ability to minimize progress window during video generation.

Version 4.0.2

31 Dec 07

MemoriesOnTV:

"Detect face and pan to each one" hangs on some European Windows, due to it not using DOT as the decimal character. Fixed.
Face detection in EFFECTS panel crashes on some WinXP setup. Fixed.

Version 4.0.1

18 Dec 07

MemoriesOnTV:

Timeline view is corrupted when window resizes. Fixed.
EVALUATION COPY watermark isn't removed when cache video generation is enabled. Fixed.
Auto-Sync of slides with music now takes into consideration the selected video clips.
"Avoid cropping face" setting in EFFECTS panel is not shown when window size is big. Fixed.
Timeline view behaves slowly in some instances. Fixed.
On older archived projects, the menu backgrounds are incorrectly mapped, causing the Preview to show a black screen. Fixed.

Version 4.0.0

10 Dec 07

MemoriesOnTV:

Added the creation of Motion Menus.
Ability to mask and overlay photos and video clips with shapes and borders.
Face detection capability in panning/zooming.
Rendering of shadows.
Updated burn driver to support more devices and 64-bit Windows.
Support extension of ClipShows (able to add more photos).
Support for WMA audio files.
Normalization of audio tracks within an album.
Cached video generation.
Subtitle previewing.
Flash player improvements for web output(fullscreen support).
Optimization for new CPUs.
Ability to export multiple albums (web + mpg/avi).
Drag & Drop: Added SHIFT drop in IMPORT to drop pictures into desired position.
Text outline improvements.

Version 3.1.8

17 Jan 07

MemoriesOnTV:

Grayscale JPEG images can crash the optimized JPEG decoder when they are imported. This is now fixed for good.
Accented characters in EXIF description isn't shown correctly. Fixed.
Tweaks for Italian translation.

Version 3.1.7

24 Nov 06

MemoriesOnTV:

Fixed a bug which caused VCD/SVCD generation to crash when menu bottons were out of bounds.

Common Bug Fixes:

Fixed an audio bug involving silence in the background music.
Removed an EXIF reading code that caused crashes when pictures taken by some cameras (particularly Olympus ones) were used.

Version 3.1.6

6 Nov 06

MemoriesOnTV:

PTV files doesn't launch MemoriesOnTV when double-clicked.

MemoriesOnWeb:

Preference settings are persistent now.

Common Bug Fixes:

Fixed an EXIF crashing bug that affects some pictures from certain Canon digital cameras.
Music resampling crashes the program in some circumstances. Fixed it.

Version 3.1.5

26 Oct 06

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a rounding-off error in the resampling code that caused audio to become silent in some show segments.
Some DirectShow filters were reporting erroneous timing and frame information, causing video clips to not show up. Fixed.
Fixed a bug that prevents silence duration from being edited, and music auto-trim to fail on non-English Windows.

Enhancements:

On startup, automatically checks to see if there is a newer version availale for download.

Version 3.1.4

5 Oct 06

Bug Fixes:

Slideshow with subtitles take a long time to generate, due to the incorrect way in which the subtitle encoder was hooked up. This is now fixed.
TMpgEnc custom template files were prompted with a file dialog with the wrong file extension. Fixed.

Enhancements:

Archived project ZIP files now respect the original files casing, instead of renaming all files to lowercase.

Version 3.1.3

28 Sep 06

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug that caused a runaway thumbnail thread under some circumstances, which slowed the video generation to a crawl.
TMPGEnc was crashing on some setup. Fixed this.
Fixed a bug which caused auto-enhancing to crash on some pictures.
EXIF information is read correctly now.

Enhancements:

The names of the transitions can be localized now.

Version 3.1.2

20 Sep 06

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a crashing bug that caused the Disc Menu to crash when it was activated at a certain resolution.
ClipShow Editor stopped working after stock picture positions were swapped. Fixed as well.
Combo-box value wasn't reset in the Picture/Video Settings window under some circumstances.

Enhancements:

Program reverts back to using DirectShow filters installed on the system for Mpeg files with unsupported audio formats.

Version 3.1.1

4 Sep 06

Bug Fixes:

"Unspecified Error" when importing JPEG files with bad EXIF date. Fixed.
Memory is leaking during preview & video generation. This causes "Out of Memory" errors or crashes for bigger project. Fixed.
Auto-Enhance & Brightness/Contrast controls aren't behaving correctly. In some cases, Auto-Enhance will lead to a crash as well. Fixed.
"Create Slides from ClipShow" button causes freezes on some setup. Fixed.
Copy/Paste of music files from different albums is broken. Fixed.

Version 3.1.0

30 Aug 06

Bug Fixes:

Coloration artifact in Blur Effect fixed.
Flashing/jittery edges during panning/zooming.
Crashed when very small pictures (smaller than 96x96) are imported.
QuickTime scrubbing errors and stuttering issues (QuickTime 7).
Wrong fonts being displayed in captions.
Menu shows wrong album label when albums are removed.
Music/Video duration incorrectly shown when longer than 1 hour.
Inconsistent settings in Multi-Picture Slide window when pictures are removed.

Enhancements:

Added ClipShow support. Allows creation of slides from pre-built slide sequences. Pro edition allows saving of existing slides to a ClipShow file for future re-use.
Hook up with TMpgEnc Plus (Pro edition only).
Text caption support for non-Roman languages added.
Shows the picture display duration in the "Pictures/Video Settings" window's timeline slider.
Audio fading for individual songs added.
Change default text caption timing to picture display duration.
Added "Reset Picture Effects" to the right-click menu for slides.
Added button to "Replace Image".
EXIF date is now used in the main view and text/subtitle panel. EXIF image description field is also added to text/subtitle panels.
Thumbnails in main window is properly rotated. Presence of audio and text captions are also indicated in the thumbnail view.
Added vertical scrolling effect to text captions. This is useful for showing end credits.
New "Add Pause" button in Pan/Zoom control to increase the ease of adding key frame pauses.
For multi-picture slides, you can now change the total duration without proportionately shifting the individual key frame timings.

Version 3.0.3

13 May 06

Bug Fixes:

Crash when WMF (Windows Meta File) images are imported.
Track Menu PREV/NEXT button links to the wrong menu page when there are preceding albums. Users encountering this should press RESET button in the DISC MENU panel in version 3.0.3 to fix their menu.
When an existing multi-pictures slide is edited, and the process is cancelled, the state of the multi-pictures slide still retains the cancelled changes.
Change in custom watermark images isn't reflected immediately in the Timeline preview.
Menu crashes when text slide thumbnail is resized to a very small size.
When a track ends with a CPU intensive transition (eg. Polygon), the next track(s) may be skipped during a PLAY ALL preview.
SAMPLE IMAGES in multi-pictures slide can be double-clicked. This shouldn't be the case.
In the TEXT caption tab, EDIT and DEL buttons are not disabled when there's no text caption.
Mask based transition effects show a off-by-one row at the top.
Timeline/Detail view doesn't show correct image properties after doing a RANDOMIZE slide order.

Enhancements:

Removed restriction on merging single slide into a video clip. This can be useful to create certain visual effects.
Removed PRO menu items from HOME edition. They're annoying (sorry :P).

Version 3.0.2

20 Apr 06

Bug Fixes:

Background audio isn't fading out correctly when there's overlapping slide audio (eg. when you have 2 consecutive video slides with audio). Fixed.
Thumbnail selection does a rectangular area select, instead of selecting a continuous sequence of photos like in the newer Windows Explorer. Fixed.
Timeline scrolls to slide-1 after making changes, when the first selected slide is off screen. This causes great pain for when editing. Fixed.
The showing of TV Safe region isn't persistent, and should be turned off when the TEXT tab is not activated. Fixed.

Enhancements:

Music panel now shows the audio file full path as a tooltip.
"Start selected music and slide" now adds a silence in front, when the first music file is selected.
The full path of images/videos are now shown in the Picture/Video settings window.
Added ability to apply text style only to all slides for captions.
Added M4V file extension to the list of imported videos handled by Quicktime. M4V seems to be a popular (but non-standard) alternative way of naming MP4 files.

Version 3.0.1

6 Apr 06

Bug Fixes:

Archive Project ZIP file is corrupted when it exceeds 2Gb. 64-bit ZIP format is now used when size exceeds 2Gb.
NOTE: You need Winzip 9 and above OR the freeware 7-Zip to open ZIP files > 2Gb.
Background Audio Fade not respecting PREFERENCE setting. Fixed.
Native Burn driver doesn't erase DVD-RW correctly. Fixed
User isn't prompted to search for missing files while doing album imports. Fixed
In some cases, the 1st music file REPEATS instead of advancing to the next music file (sampling rate dependent).
Effects customization in EFFECTS panel is not respected when applied to slides. Fixed.
In Audio Manual Trimming window, if the end point is moved to the end of the audio, trimming is not done. Fixed.
Text captions timing cannot be edited correctly if decimal point is not PERIOD character in locale. Fixed.
Video slide GENERAL tab only shows duration of up to 59 minutes. It now shows the HOUR field when video exceeds 1 hour.
User receives "TODO2: DlgAudioTrim: error loading" instead of a valid error message.
With EffectDissolve.dll installed, last effect is DISSOLVE instead of FADE when 2.2 project is read into 3.0.