AbsentMotion 4.4.0

AbsentMotion 4.4.0

Three versions: download the one for your phone (Settings > About phone > Android version)

• Latest (AbsentMotion-4.4.0-foss.apk / AbsentMotion-4.4.0-play.apk): Android 13 and newer. Every feature.
• Compatible (AbsentMotion-4.4.0-compatible.apk): Android 8 to 12. Some features are left out: Optical flow High, AI Smooth, AI Enhance and AI background removal 2.0.
• Compatible 32-bit (AbsentMotion-4.4.0-compatible-32bit.apk): phones with a 32-bit system, such as many Android Go phones. Same features as Compatible.

Not sure which one? The download page picks it for you.

The last 4.x update: a Tools tab with Compress and a Video Downloader, speed curves, Reverse, Screenshot, Particles, effects that follow the beat, 3D Scatter, 3D Fracture and Video Feedback, help with pictures, and three new languages.

Downloads: -foss.apk has no Google libraries and removes backgrounds offline. -play.apk adds Google ML Kit background removal (the Play version ends in 5.0). -compatible.apk and -compatible-32bit.apk are Compatible versions of foss. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

New features

• Tools tab - a new tab on the home screen for tools that need no project.
• Compress - makes videos and pictures smaller: Low, Medium, High, Custom or a Discord size. You see the size first, then watch the result (full screen, before and after) before you save.
• Video Downloader - paste a link from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and more. The title, picture and real qualities show up straight away; save video and sound, video only or sound only. It needs a one-time 25 MB add-on.
• Speed curves - pick Montage, Hero, Bullet, Jump Cut, Flash In or Flash Out, or drag the points yourself. Nothing on the timeline jumps while you drag.
• New Speed panel - a scrolling ruler from 0.05x to 100x, with an animal that changes from a snail to a cheetah.
• Reverse - plays a video clip backwards, sound too, with the time left while it works. Tap it again to go back.
• Particles - snow, sparks, confetti, bubbles, hearts, petals, dust, or your own layer flying out with gravity, wind and swirl.
• Beat effects - nine effects that hit on the beat: zoom, shake, flash, blur, glow, RGB split, pulse, rotate and glitch. Use Mark Beats first.
• Liquid Glass - a new effect that turns a shape into clear, rounded glass, like a phone button: it bends what is behind it at the rim, with frost and rainbow edges.
• Screenshot - saves the frame of a video or GIF under the playhead as a picture, at full size and without effects. It goes to your gallery and into the project; delete the new layer within 10 seconds and the picture is removed again.
• Video Feedback - the endless zoom of a camera pointed at its own screen. Move, scale or turn the layer to steer the tunnel.
• 3D Scatter - turns a layer into a grid of little cubes, spheres or squares that you can spin, twist and scatter in 3D.
• 3D Fracture - breaks a layer into glass shards that fly apart in 3D.
• Updated background remover - AI background removal 2.0 has a newly trained model with cleaner edges on real photos and fewer holes in drawings. The change isn't huge sadly, but it's a small improvement on the last version. I will retrain it for 5.0 to make it better than it is now.

More new features (10)

• 9 new transitions - wipes in four directions, clock wipe, glow, swirl, pixelate and noise dissolve.
• Taper on lines and shapes - Stroke Taper now thins the Stroke of lines and shapes to a point, not only freehand drawings.
• Particles in 3D - particles can fly toward and away from the camera and follow the layer's 3D rotation.
• All selected clips at once - add an effect, an animation or a preset, paste a style or remove the sound on every selected clip, and put a transition on every cut between them (handy for auto captions).
• Caption outline - choose how thick the outline of auto captions is and its color, and pick any color for the text.
• Choose what to keep - tap the person or thing to keep when removing a background, then adjust Softness and Grow / Shrink.
• Pre-render - renders ahead so heavy projects play smoothly.
• Help with pictures - the help shows the real screens with the buttons circled.
• Three new languages - Spanish (Spain), Urdu and Japanese.
• Alight Motion compatibility list - see which Alight effects come across exactly, which change and which do not yet.

Improvements (23)

• Auto captions start on time.
• Crop works on shapes, text, drawings and groups too.
• The tools sit on two pages you swipe; Crop, AI, Auto Captions and Reverse are on the second.
• The Opacity tile is just called Opacity.
• Effect and border headers are darker so they stand out.
• The trim button you cannot use hides; Speed and Volume stay where they are.
• The transition button sits right above the +.
• Dither patterns are picked from pictures of each pattern.
• Pixel Size and Tile Size move slower when you drag them.
• Push, Zoom and Spin transitions have motion blur.
• The volume icon on a clip is bigger.
• Templates > View all says when there is nothing there yet.
• Import problem form on GitHub: send the project that imports wrong.
• Japanese text animates word by word.
• Old projects slower than 0.05x are shortened to the same footage instead of freezing for hours.
• The downloader asks for a restart when it needs one, and falls back to the previous version if an update fails.
• If a phone draws pictures wrong with Vulkan, the app switches to OpenGL by itself (it checks once with a small test picture).
• Big buttons in Tools wrap to two lines on small screens instead of cutting the text off.
• Cancel stops an export straight away, without asking first.
• Move & Transform opens on Basic Controls by default.
• About has working links to the GitHub page and the website.
• Importing an SVG shows that it is working.
• The old background-removal model is deleted after the update, freeing about 65 MB; the new one downloads the first time you use it.

Bug fixes (15)

• Bug - the Opacity panel was cut off at the bottom.
• Bug - speed could go almost to 0x and stretch a clip to hours.
• Bug - speed keyframes moved and jumped while you edited them (replaced by speed curves).
• Bug - auto captions could be up to a second early or late.
• Bug - a very high speed could make a short clip disappear.
• Bug - particles on a turning layer turned with it instead of keeping their path.
• Bug - compressing a huge picture could close the app.
• Bug - a Bengali label had a stray word in it.
• Bug - adding an effect to only sound clips did nothing without saying why.
• Bug - on some older phones (such as the Galaxy S3 Neo) video clips showed black.
• Bug - picking an effect while typing a search pushed the screen up so only half of it showed.
• Bug - searching glow put Dark Glow and Edge Glow before Glow; exact matches now come first.
• Bug - big or detailed SVG files could take minutes to import, so they seemed not to work (now up to 100 times faster).
• Bug - the screen went black for a moment after choosing a language on the first start (Android 12 and older).
• Bug - pictures saved by the Video Downloader could keep their old date and land on an old day in the gallery.

Licence change in 5.0

AbsentMotion 5.0 and every update after it will be released under the GPL-3.0 licence. 4.4 and all earlier versions stay under Apache-2.0.

Particles idea from TrueMotion (https://github.com/Mushroom65/TrueMotion), Apache-2.0; AbsentMotion's version is its own code.