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@Comett1225 Comett1225 released this 07 Nov 19:30
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AbsentMotion 5.0.0

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  • Latest (AbsentMotion-5.0.0-foss.apk): Android 13 and newer. Every feature.
  • Compatible (AbsentMotion-5.0.0-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-5.0.0-compatible-32bit.apk): phones with a 32-bit system, such as many Android Go phones. Same features as Compatible.
  • Chromebooks with Intel or AMD (AbsentMotion-5.0.0-foss-x86_64.apk, or AbsentMotion-5.0.0-compatible-x86_64.apk on Android 9 to 12).
  • Mac (AbsentMotion-5.0.0-macos-arm64.dmg for Apple silicon, AbsentMotion-5.0.0-macos-x64.dmg for Intel): macOS 11 and newer.
  • Windows (AbsentMotion-5.0.0-windows-x64.msi): 64-bit Windows 10 and 11.
  • Linux (.deb, .AppImage or .tar.gz, for arm64 or x86_64): Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or newer.

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

The biggest update yet: AbsentMotion on your computer, real 3D with lights, colour palettes, Adobe Animate import and eight new languages. AbsentMotion isn't perfect yet, so if something breaks or doesn't look right, please tell us through GitHub Issues, our Google Form or Discord!

No more Play build. There is no -play.apk any more. If you have the Play build, just update: it moves to the foss build by itself, and your projects and settings stay.

First start on a computer. The Mac and Windows apps are not signed by Apple or Microsoft, so the first time the system warns you. On a Mac, open System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. On Windows, if your browser says the file isn't commonly downloaded, keep it, then click More info and Run anyway. The README has the steps.

New features

  • AbsentMotion on your computer. Meaning WINDOWS, MAC and LINUX users! Remember, AbsentMotion is not competing with Davinci or Adobe AE, it's only an alternative to having something close to AlightMotion on PC!
  • Chromebooks with Intel or AMD chips - get their own version, and the in-app update picks it.
  • Depth order - with a camera, 3D layers sit in front of and behind each other. The camera can tilt and orbit.
  • Light layers - Ambient, Directional and Point lights shade 3D models, 3D Scatter and 3D Fracture.
  • Sort by piece - shards, scatter pieces, model faces and particles sort one by one, so objects fly through each other.
  • Colour palettes - in every colour picker: make one from a picture or a palette file, then sort, lock and export it.
  • Adobe Animate import - open .fla files from Flash CS5 on. Shapes, symbols, tweens, masks and sounds come over.
  • Text Shake - letters shake on their own: Shake, Jitter, Wave, Circle or Wobble, or only some letters at a time.
  • Text Blips - types the text out with a blip for each letter. Eight voices, heard in the preview and the export.
  • ASCII - turns any layer into text art made of letters and symbols, with six presets.
  • Edit Group - open a group to change the layers inside; the top bar leads back. Ungroup puts the layers back.
  • Group Re-timing - the gear of an open group can Freeze, Stretch, Loop or Repeat & Stretch it.
  • Trim, Extract Audio, Make a GIF - three new tools in the Tools tab.
  • Tablet layouts - big tablets get panels beside the preview and a taller timeline, in portrait and landscape.
  • Preview renders ahead - while you pause, frames around the playhead get ready. A thin green line on the ruler shows them.
  • Eight new languages - Korean, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), French, German, Italian, Polish and Ukrainian, help pages included.

Desktop

  • Mac - runs on Macs with Apple silicon and on Macs with Intel chips.
  • Windows - an installer with Start menu and desktop shortcuts.
  • Linux - for arm64 and x86_64, as a .deb, an AppImage or a .tar.gz with an install script.
  • Made for mouse and keyboard - a media library, an inspector, right-click menus and keyboard shortcuts.
  • Window bar - in the app's colours, with the system's window buttons and a File, Edit, View, Playback, Help menu.
  • Mouse timeline - drag clips to move, trim and reorder them with snapping, and select with a click, Shift or a box.
  • Shortcuts - Space plays, Alt+Left and Alt+Right jump between bookmarks, comma and period nudge the selected clips.
  • Drag and drop - drop media or palette files onto the window.
  • Media per project - each project keeps its own media and linked folders. Pin to all projects shows a folder everywhere.
  • Level meter - one meter for the whole project. With nothing selected, the Inspector shows the project and its layers.
  • Help window - effect help opens in its own window inside the app.
  • Export in the background - keep working while a video exports.
  • The phone's tools too - AI captions, background removal, noise reduction, Text to Speech, 3D models, motion tracking and the webcam.
  • Open with - project files open from Finder, Explorer or your file manager.
  • In-app updates - new versions are offered inside the app.
More new features (22)
  • Repeat per copy - Linear, Radial, Grid and Along Path repeats: a delay per copy, and random position, rotation, scale and opacity.
  • Font Weight - animate how thick the letters are, with variable fonts (imported ones too).
  • Parenting Helper - lock or weigh how a child follows its parent's scale and rotation, or roll it like a wheel.
  • Scale Assist - extra scale on X, Y or both, or a squash and stretch.
  • Alight Motion imports - Parenting Helper, Scale Assist and the 3D orientation of layers now come over.
  • Alight Motion presets - keep more effect settings. Edge Glow, Fractal Warp, Chroma Key, Soft Glow and Electric Edges look closer.
  • Deep Glow, HSL and Drop Shadow - three new effects.
  • 3D layer - a tile that lets a flat layer join the depth order.
  • Stretch Timing - make selected clips longer or shorter together. Animations stretch, and videos play slower or faster to fit.
  • Several clips at once - stretch the ends of all selected clips together, and split them all at the playhead.
  • Clipping arrow - a clipped layer shows a small hooked arrow pointing down to the layer it is clipped to.
  • Effect swipes - swipe an effect left to delete it, and swipe inside a category for the next or previous one.
  • Recent and Favorite - swipe the effects library grid, or hold the two small icons and slide, to switch.
  • Puppet Pin - smooth curling, Position, Bend and Stiff pins, mesh settings and Sway.
  • Preset pictures - the Presets button on an open effect shows every preset with a picture.
  • Favourite presets - star a preset and it shows first in the Favorite strip.
  • Mark Beats tile - audio layers have Mark Beats right in their tools.
  • 90 and 120 fps - projects can now run at 90 or 120 frames per second.
  • Saved sizes - keep your custom sizes in New Project and in the project settings.
  • Join Discord - a Discord button on the About page, and links in Settings and the Tools tab.
  • Copy and Report - crash and error screens can copy the details or report them on GitHub, Discord or the bug form.
  • Stereo levels - the level line under the play bar shows left and right. Sideways tablets show a level meter too.
Improvements (16)
  • Copy Background - the Adjustment Layer has a new name and an Other category. Searching "adjustment layer" still finds it.
  • Effects library - presets left the grid: search a preset's name to find its effect. New lists the 5.x effects.
  • Gradient dots - while you edit a gradient, dragging on the canvas moves the nearest dot, not the layer.
  • Effect grip - a short tap opens the effect; hold the grip to move it.
  • Effect cards - an opening card moves to the top and the others slide away. Closing puts it back.
  • Effect headers - effect and border headers are lighter.
  • Electric Edges - works like Alight Motion's: Thickness makes a glowing band and a keyframed Seed crackles. Older projects keep their look.
  • Safer start - if the app closes while the graphics start, the next start uses the other one (OpenGL or Vulkan).
  • Older Mali and PowerVR phones - start with OpenGL, which is safer on them.
  • Samsung updates - if Auto Blocker may be stopping an update, the app says so and how to get past it.
  • Help on tablets - opens in a wide panel with the pictures beside the text.
  • Tablet home and tools - projects, templates and tools show as a grid. Tool screens get two columns sideways.
  • Small tablets - sheets such as the colour picker open as a card in the middle.
  • Chromebooks - the app first opens in a large window.
  • No more Play build - Play installs move to the foss build when they update, and keep their projects and settings.
  • New licence - AbsentMotion 5.0 and later are GPL-3.0. 4.4 and earlier stay Apache-2.0.
Performance (5)
  • Editing with videos - phones and tablets no longer wait for the video on each step. The exact frame follows.
  • After a restart - effects stutter less the first time, because phones and tablets keep their prepared graphics.
  • Prepared frames - a change to one layer only throws away the frames of that layer and the layers tied to it.
  • Glow - layers with Glow and other effects after it draw faster.
  • Text - animated text draws faster, and projects with many fonts use less memory.
Bug fixes (11)
  • Canvas edge - no more thin light line along the edge of the canvas.
  • Puppet Pin - no longer cuts off parts pulled in from outside the canvas, also with Glow.
  • Full Blur preview - no longer risks freezing weaker tablets.
  • Parenting - linking or unlinking a parent no longer adds keyframes. The layer keeps its animation and stays in place.
  • Edit Points - dragging a rounded corner, such as the House roof, moves the point instead of bending the curve.
  • Keyframe diamonds - show at the right times after the project's frame rate changes.
  • Smooth - smoothing a trimmed clip with speed keyframes no longer changes its timing.
  • Reduce Noise - no longer moves the sound earlier when a file's sound starts late or has gaps.
  • Start the tutorial again - no longer leaves an extra practice project behind each time.
  • Favorite strip - scrolls to every favourite effect, not only the first ten.
  • Chromebooks - Home, Settings, Export and About no longer sit under the window's title bar.

Licence

AbsentMotion 5.0 and every later version are released under the GPL-3.0 licence. 4.4 and all earlier versions stay under Apache-2.0.

Downloads: SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums. The desktop apps include FFmpeg; its source, with the scripts that built it, is in the Source-FFmpeg-5.0.0-...tar files at the bottom of this list: -macos.tar for the Mac apps and -windows-linux-part1.tar and -part2.tar for Windows and Linux. You don't need them to use the app.

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