Interface Gallery

We have just completed a set of interface screenshots and posted them up on flickr. We will also be using this gallery to put up a history of the interface; from early prototyping, through version one to the current release.

Back to work

After a well earned break the development team are now excited to be back to the project. First up is a small point release, 3.0.3 to fix a few bugs and usability niggles, and then we are on with two bigger updates 3.1, then 3.2, which add some powerful new features, including full Finder behavior.

My favorite new feature in 3.2 is the media filter which enables files to be found via combinations of criteria, ie: DV files that are less than 20 minutes that are un-tagged, or mono sorenson video files at 320x240, MPEG2 files over 2GB etc etc (I think you get the idea) When combined with the content filter, this will provide some incredible functionality.

After 3.2 we will fix the Notate window (which has been a little neglected of late) then move on to our full Leopard transition, leaving Tiger behind, but bringing in core-animation, a dynamic clip library, background encoding...etc....

Look for the next update to be here early in the new year.

Perian 1.1.1

Great to see that the 'swiss army knife' Quicktime plug-in Perian has been updated to 1.1.1

The previous version 1.1.0 had a few bugs that could crash Quicktime, particularly with some Flash Video files, and this caused us some trouble with Frameline's initial database scan which could crash when it encountered one of these files.

This problem prompted us to put up a dialogue at start-up to encourage users to deactivate Perian before continuing with installation. Pleased to report that with Perian 1.1.1, this is no longer an issue, so if you read this before first install (and are up to date) just click continue. In the next service release of Frameline (3.0.3) we will update the Perian warning dialogue accordingly.

Frameline 47 Version 3 released

Very happy to announce that the third version of Frameline 47 has now gone live!

A big thank you to all the development team who have worked so hard for the last year on this release, and are now heading off for a well earned break.

Enjoy : )

Countdown on...

Pleased to announce that we have completed final testing of the 'release candidate' and are now set to release with a great final build. Frameline 47 Version 3 should be going live early next week.