Fixed issue with rendering interlaced video in Complete mode.
Optimizations to code.
Version 1.6.5
14 April 2020
Plugin
New MotionBend Assistant to help with plugin installation and licensing.
Build for macOS Catalina.
Version 1.6.4
24 December 2018
Stand-Alone
Fixed a bug preventing import of some video formats
Version 1.6.3
16 November 2018
Stand-Alone
Fixed a bug preventing writing of certain video formats
Fixed a bug in the Batch Processor that stopped jobs being removed or enabled/disabled
Version 1.6.2
18 October 2018
Stand-Alone and Plugin
Improved performance through more use of multithreading
Improved event detection in motion priority mode
Stand-Alone
Fixed issue with ProRes 4444 video
Fixed a bug concerning anamorphic video
Fixed a bug when deleting motion events
Fixed a bug when loading an older format project after working on a newer format project
Version 1.6.1
29 January 2018
Stand-Alone and Plugin
New Rotation Dampening option to reduce the amount of unwanted rotation in the Z axis
Improved speed, particularly by making better use of multicore CPUs, for both analysis of motion and rendering video
Additional tuning for motion analysis
Stand-Alone
The Motion Events table has been moved to a separate window, accessible via the Correction menu
Motion event detection mode has been moved to the Events section of the main window and is stored per project
Subtitle detection has been moved to the Motion Analysis section of the main window and is stored per project
Added Select Analyzed to select frames dialog
Added shortcuts for jumping to the start and end of the selected range of frames: ⌘⇧[ and ⌘⇧]
Close Project can now be used from the menu to clear the video, even if no project has been opened or saved
Fixed a problem saving saving meta data after importing some video formats
Fixed some issues that could occur when cancelling analysis
Fixed a bug when saving a project, if user quit and decided to save at last minute
Fixed a bug where loading a project from the recent files menu failed if the project had been loaded by dropping onto the MotionBend window
Fixed a bug where some video from cameras with rotation sensor could be shown corrupted when using cache playback mode
Fixed a bug where some video could be shown with incorrect stabilization after exiting cache playback mode
Fixed a bug where the Batch Processor would not write FCPX XML
Version 1.6
25 September 2017
Stand-Alone
Combined Stand-Alone and Plugin first release
When using MotionBend without a licence key, rendered video is watermarked. Restrictions on
loading and saving projects, and using the Batch Processor have now been removed
New feature: edit parameters of video composed of still image files - enabling the use of
anamorphic dimensions, interlaced images and removal of unrelated images
Timecodes of video composed of still images files will now start from 00:00 instead of using the frame number to infer the start timecode
Some extra metadata was added to the project file to support sharing projects with MotionBend Plugin
Fixed a bug where the Select Analyzed menu option was disabled after loading a project
Fixed an issue where the initial velocity of an event that had been changed to Linear would get a
bad value if the event before it had bad motion
Fixed an issue where adding a new foreground region could interact with previously added regions
New option to enable/disable detection of burnt in captions for motion analysis (see Preferences, Motion tab)
Fixed a bug where portrait thumbnails were shown clipped in the import dialog
If you want to trim a video clip then you should do it before analysis
Trimming the end time of a clip is possible after analysis if the end is not extended
If you must trim after analysis, right click the clip on the timeline and then make it a compound clip.
It will not be possible to change any parameters for MotionBend on the clip after making it compound
MotionBend can be applied to a multicam clip in two ways:
Drop MotionBend onto the multicam clip, it will apply to the clip that is the current view for the
duration of the cut
For more flexibility, open the multicam clip to show all the views and drop MotionBend onto the views
that need stabilization
Projects from MotionBend Stand-Alone must have been created by version 1.6 or loaded into 1.6 and saved
before being imported by the plugin
MotionBend Stand-Alone
Version 1.5
30 March 2017
Motion analysis is now considerably faster and a single pass process
Measures to remove/reduce affect of burnt in captions on motion analysis
Increased user interface responsiveness when analysing motion
Several optimizations implemented to increase the speed of MotionBend
Jump to a specific frame in the preview: click on preview timecode and the type in the new timecode
Support for rotated video
All timecodes in the user interface support drop frame timecodes
Project Browser (from Open Project menu):
The home directory is now displayed by the username
Projects without a thumbnail image will now be shown with the MotionBend default project icon
The output directory chosen in the Batch Processor is now listed with the short cuts
Other GUI changes:
Save dialog redesigned and now handles export options for completion matte
Menu option "Recent Files" now renamed "Open Recent" and only shows recent files on available disks
When the mouse is over the frame selection bar, the timecode for the location will be displayed
Batch Processor settings have been reorganized
If all video frames have been analyzed then the analysis actions are disabled until the motion has been cleared
After motion events have been detected, the event detect button is disabled until events have been cleared
Added support for reading raw YUV, Y4M, RGB, BGR, RGBA and BGRA video files
Improved detection of interlacing on some file types
New function to clear all temporary data and files (See Preferences/Storage)
Fixed a bug that could cause bad motion analysis and rendering of high bit interlaced video
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when analysing video with non-standard dimensions
Fixed a bug when using cached playback, caching could ignore the selected range of frames; the selected range of frames cannot be changed until cache mode is exited
Fixed a bug when choosing a new thumbnail for a project
Version 1.4.6
26 September 2016
Added cinema view mode to preview
Added a button for full screen playback to the preview controls
Video files that have been opened are now also stored in the Recent Files history menu
Gain compensation (for completion mode) is now always enabled and the option is no longer displayed
Manually save a project
Jobs in the Batch Processor can be set disabled and then re-enabled for processing in a different batch later
Delete jobs in the Batch Processor using the keyboard
The style of the user interface has been modified; including a new image for the cache playback mode button
The MotionBend icon has been updated
The format of project files has changed; old project files will be automatically updated to the new format
If you try to render a video to a file that already exists and is locked by another process, MotionBend will try to identify that process for you
Fixed bugs in the video player when operating in full screen mode including:
Fixed a bug in the navigation bar when viewing a sequence of image files
Fixed a bug that could cause a black image to be shown when exiting full screen mode
Fixed a bug that could interfere with the display of the controls in full screen mode when using a second monitor
Fixed a bug that may have affected checking for new versions
The minimum requirement for MotionBend has been changed to MacOS X 10.9
Version 1.4.5
25 April 2016
New full screen playback mode
New progress dialog when saving large projects
Some improvements to speed for analysis and renderering
Fixed an issue where anamorphic dimensions would not be properly detected for some formats
Fixed an issue that could cause a crash in the Project Browser
Version 1.4.4
11 December 2015
Drag and drop project files onto the preview area in the main window to load them
Drag and drop project files onto the Batch Processing window to analyze and render them
If you move a video file and want to fix a project that uses it, you can set the new location of the
video in Project Properties
Clicking on the Clear button in Tracks and Motion will no longer clear the video selection
The frame selection bar has been modified so that when using the Set Start and Set End functions,
the selected range is modified in a more logical way
The Input tab on the main window has now been renamed Analysis and the clip Information renamed Source
Improved notifications (Notification Center)
After analysis, show the name of the video or project in the notification
New optional notification after rendering
More details have been added to Batch Processor logging
New feature: save the Batch Processor log to a file
Manually checking software updates:
The dialog will now show the update version that was previously found if "Remind me later" had been clicked
The "last updated time" is immediately updated after checking
In Evaluation mode
The main window title is now "MotionBend Evaluation"
If you leave the batch processor with unprocessed jobs there will be a warning that they will be deleted;
jobs are only saved with the full version of MotionBend (this is not new behavior, previously there was
simply no warning)
More details have been added to the error messages given when video files cannot be loaded, the extra information will also be passed to the Batch Processor log
Fixed a bug that could affect motion smoothing for particularly shaky motion
Fixed handling of video from still images so that only sequences of consecutively numbered image files will be considered
to belong to a clip
Fixed an issue that made motion graphs use a different scale on Retina displays compared to standard displays
Fixed an issue that could cause projects to be larger than necessary
Version 1.4.3
3 August 2015
Motion smoothly transitions to and from processed motion when rendering a section of video
The range of analyzed frames are now indicated in the frame selection bar
The motion graph now highlights the motion event the mouse pointer is above, for feedback to the user
A graphic is now shown in the preview area to show the user that drag and drop is possible
(can be disabled in Preferences)
Fixed a problem where SSDs or fast hard drives could display a blank image after loading a new video
Fixed a bug that stopped the project thumbnail from being updated
Fixed a bug where selecting the first vertical motion event would not set the current frame to the start of the event when that option is enabled
Support for MacOS X 10.7 Lion will no longer be tested
Version 1.4.2
4 March 2015
New feature: Select interlacing when a video is loaded (option to override automatic detection)
New feature: Click on the frame selection bar to set the current frame
New dialog to show progress of an imported video (loaded via third party frameworks)
Show a default thumbnail in the Batch Processor while waiting for thumbnails to be generated
Improved handling of imported videos resulting in faster loading if the video is used more than once
Speed of motion estimation improved for multiple threads
Fixed a bug that could cause the preview to show the wrong corrected motion after batch processing then loading a new video
Fixed a bug that could cause text to be clipped by a few pixels in some widgets
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when loading longer videos
Version 1.4.1
4 December 2014
Retina displays now supported
New feature: Check for Updates
Updated help pages
Enabled loading of 4K XAVC video
Fixed a bug that could stop the preview from showing corrected motion after loading a project
Fixed a bug where the project properties were not always updated when loading a new project
Version 1.4
2 October 2014
The current zoom value is now shown in the Active Area box on the Rendering tab
Added menu options and keyboard shortcuts to set the selected range of frames, ⌘[ and ⌘]
Added keyboard shortcuts for adding motion events to H and V axes - ⌘U and ⌘J; also
the Batch Processor can now be opened by ⌘B
MotionBend's QuickTime helper subprocess was rewritten as an XPC service
Handling of video files should be a little faster
If the XPC service is accidentally killed by the user, Launch Services will automatically restart it
On some machines the old helper subprocess could result in an annoying bouncing dock icon
Support for reading from more file formats:
AVCHD MTS and M2TS files
MXF container
WMV files
DV files
HEVC bitstreams and HEVC in MP4 container
Now able to read a wider range of codecs under an AVI container
Fixed a problem when using XAVC-S codec
Support for BT.2020 color spaces, where appropriate
Fixed editing of foreground regions, when multiple regions are selected
Optionally add a postfix to the filename for videos process by the Batch Processor