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@fitb-greg fitb-greg released this 22 Oct 14:49
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What's new in 0.3.0

The first batch of what VDMX and MadMapper have that Phosphor didn't.

Playback

  • Random frames: a new play direction that jumps all over the clip (between its in and out points).
  • Black at end: with Loop off, a movie can go to black when it ends instead of holding its last frame.
  • Jump back / forward buttons in Playback, by a number of beats or seconds; MIDI, OSC and keys can press them.
  • 1:1 pixels: a layer can show its picture at its own size (no scaling), next to Fit, Fill and Stretch.
  • Reload a movie or picture after changing it in another app (media right-click, or the button in Playback).
  • Playback shows more about a file: frame rate, bit rate, pixel format, colour space, sound. Media tiles say how many layers and clips use each file.

Mixing

  • 13 more blend modes: Soft, Hard, Vivid, Linear and Pin Light, Hard Mix, Colour Burn and Dodge, Divide, Hue, Saturation, Colour, Luminosity.
  • Crossfader curves: both full in the middle (as before), smooth (no dip), straight, or a cut.

Outputs

  • Freeze an output to hold its picture while you change things behind it (also one mappable control for all).
  • Flip an output left-right or top-bottom (rear projection, upside-down projectors).
  • Delay an output by up to 10 frames, to line it up with a slower projector or LED processor.
  • Snapshot of one output, as the projector gets it.
  • Mapping Studio: Match the picture's shape squares a slice up to its picture's proportions.

Controllers

  • Endless knobs (relative MIDI) and a dead band for jittery faders.
  • More value effects on mappings: threshold (a fader as a switch), limit, repeat, jitter, fall (peak hold) and a drawn curve.
  • Soft takeover can glide the value to the fader instead of waiting, and the pickup distance can be set.
  • Several OSC ports, and wildcard OSC addresses on mappings (/deck/*/level, /btn/[1-4]).
  • Copy and paste a control's mappings (and a slider's motion) onto another control.
  • Each mapping in the list has a button that shows its control (selects its layer and opens the panel).

Elsewhere

  • Notes panel, saved with the project.
  • Search in the layer source menu; hide effects and sources you never use from the lists.
  • More imported shaders convert: functions that take a picture, textureLod, and shaders with a variable named u.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

Install

Mac (Apple silicon): download Phosphor-mac.zip, unzip, drag Phosphor to Applications. First launch: macOS says it can't verify Phosphor (not notarized yet): click Done, then System Settings › Privacy & Security › scroll down › Open Anyway, once.

Windows 10/11 (preview): download Phosphor-windows.zip, unzip anywhere, run Phosphor.exe. Windows warns once because the app isn't signed: More info, Run anyway.

After that, Phosphor updates itself (Help › Check for Updates…).

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