ffDiaporama

ffDiaporama is an open source and cross-platform application that allows users to create home movies using both video and image files. It is compatible with the GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Offers over 140 transitions

Key features include title creation, real time previews, image filtering, Ken Burns effect, as well as over 140 transitions. It is capable of importing GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP, PBM, PGM, TIFF, XPM and XBM image file formats. The video import functionality supports the MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, M4V and MKV file formats. In addition, it supports a wide range of forms with composite background or gradients, as well as various filtering effects.

Add graphical filters to video and images

The application allows users to reframe images, cut video clips, add text and notes to photos, animations or sequences, create animated images using Ken Burns, zoom, rotate or move effects. It’s also possible to correct luminosity, gamma, contrast and color of image and video files during animations, as well as to add background sounds. Another interesting feature is the ability to add graphical filters to both video and image files, including dust removal, black and white conversion, as well as equalization of colors.

Supports Full HD videos

Supported video formats include anything between QVGA (320×240) and Full HD (1920×1080). Furthermore, supported aspect ratios include the 4:3, 16:9 and 2.35:1 (cinema) formats. Under the hood, we can report that the application is actually a fork of the Videoporama software rewritten entirely from scratch in the Qt programming language. Both Qt4 and Qt5 toolkits are supported at this time.

Supported distributions of Linux

When talking about availability, we can mention that the developers provide official support for the openSUSE 13.1, openSUSE 12.3, Fedora 20, Fedora 19, as well as various Ubuntu operating systems. The application’s sources can be grabbed from Launchpad via the Bazaar version control system.

What is new in this release:

• Fixed a bug on sounds when there is more than one video on a slide
• Fixed a bug on exporting soundtracks (generated export file without sound)
• Fixed interactive areas editing in edit slides and edit image dialogs to make the blocks movement and blocks resizing fluid (removing redundant display)
• Fixed a bug in calculating the duration of slides when adjust duration on sound

What is new in version 2.2 (20140510 Snapshot):

• Increases the gap between the ref-frames in rendered video to reduce flicker (from 4 to 2 per second)
• Operates the preview player and the player of the video editing dialog even if there is no music track
• Fixed a crash when click in the time bar and the project is empty
• Four new translations

What is new in version 2.2 (20140503 Snapshot):

• This new version includes a major change: the replacement of the SDL library to its equivalent QT (QtMultimedia for QT5 version and qtmobility for QT4 version).
• This replacement can resolve once and for all the problems of audio/video synchronization
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed a display bug in the timeline (the display for audio video could leave the frame when the sound was on auto)
• Fixed audio/video synchronization problems (through QTMultimedia)
• Reduced the gap between the ref-frames in rendered videos (pass from 1 every 10 seconds to 4 per seconds)
• New features:
• Adds a button to control the volume for the preview player

What is new in version 2.2 (20140402 Snapshot):

• It contains a new "master volume" feature which allow to keep constant sound volume during the project and several bug fixes.

What is new in version 2.1:

• Geolocation projects:
• It is now possible to geotag projects globally or by chapter
• Google Maps maps can be added in the titles and in the slides
• New dynamic variables are added on geolocation
• Improved music track:
• From now, the options for pause and volume are available from the first slide on which are positioned music tracks
• Drag & drop is improved to allow movement "using mouse" of music tracks from one slide to another
• Improved rendering:
• Adding "variable bitrate" mode for encoding which reduces quite dramatically the size of videos produced for projects containing mostly pictures
• Adding a hundred new models of equipment (phones and tablets)
• Improved quality of transitions:
• Nearly half of the LUMA transitions have been redone (a quarter of the total transitions) to reduce noise (inelegant pixels) on projects in HD... and above all, numerous bug fixes.

What is new in version 2.1 Devel 2014.0121:

• The ffDiaporama package is now cut in 2 parts
• A package build script is now proposed for Fedora and openSUSE users

What is new in version 2.1 Devel 2014.0114:

• This new version includes critical bug fixes and some improvements on the music track

What is new in version 2.1 Devel 2014.01.11:

• Half of LUMAs have been reviewed in order to improve their quality
• Several bugs concerning the use of maps in title templates and the use of videos were corrected
• As well as better use of proxy to access the Internet
• This release also includes new translations and some additions to the WIKI.

What is new in version 2.1 Devel 2014.01.03:

• This new devel version fixes several problems specific to Windows when using the multimedia browser and some issues with the new GMap object.
• This release also includes new translations and some additions to the WIKI.

Requirements:

• Qt