3DCombine - What's New



	Version 5.0 Alpha - August 2007 This is a complete re-write of 3DCombine in Gtk/C++. The alpha may be provided on request. Estimated release date, early 2008. New to Version 4.2.5 - June 2006 Improved depthmap extraction tool. Extract video depthmaps from stereo videos. Improved speed. Batch 2D->3D for images. Improved 2D->3D automatic video conversion. Improved depthmap tool. Improved dephmap processing. New to Version 4.0.5 - February 2005 Completely re-wrote display routines for stability. Completely re-wrote video playback routines for stability. All video playback options now work with all playback methods. Fast bypass modes for certain configurations. New anaglyph repair function. Works with standard red filtered left eye image, or full colour left eye image. Works with video or stills. 9 tile output for all 2D->3D display modes. New slideshow viewer. Improved Wizard. New 2D->3D video routines. Picture information. Display configuration wizard. Automatically selects valid display modes from your computer configuration. Zoom In/Out by clicking on images. All input/output formats should now be available with all functions. Complete vertical interlacing support for barrier displays. Improved depth map creator. Fixed 'lock' function when zooming. Improved display speed and lowered memory requirements. Lots of other minor improvements. New to Version 3.4.1 - September 2004 Fixed bug in manual 2D->3D video conversion. New to Version 3.4 - July 2004 New Wizard for several functions. Improved 2D->3D picture conversion with several quality improvements and new options. 2D->3D video conversion is now much faster and has additional quality options. Added support for saving new file formats including PSD and PNG. New to Version 3.2 - October 2003 Added support for displaying pictures, slideshows and videos in page flipping mode using NVidia stereo drivers. The stereo drivers must be enabled (with or without hotkey). Added 9-tile output for 2D->3D conversion. Vastly accelerated 2D->3D automatic video conversion. New depth map creator. New to Version 3.0 - Febuary 2003 Added new functions for aligning images. Added support for playing interlaced video files, input and ouput. New to Version 2.9 - January 2003 Added new 2D->3D Automatic video conversion Added a button to perform multiple alignment functions at once New to Version 2.8.2 - September 2002 Added automatic 2D->3D video conversion with three different modes Improved the production of colour anaglyphs New to Version 2.8 - July 2002 Completely re-wrote the video processing routines. All known bugs have now been fixed Improved interlaced viewing routine so the left/right eye alignment is fixed Added support for several new modes for eDimensional glasses including video playback Added ability to playback uncompressed audio streams in AVI files Video routines can now retrieve the playback rate directly from the video file Page-flipping routine is improved Added some automatic 2D->3D image conversion routines Added manual 2D->3D conversion routines, requires a depth map Added drawing program for creating depth maps Added a routine for 2D->3D video conversion, requires a video depth map Added a routine for creating video depth maps from keyframe depth maps and video motion analysis Split ELSA Video Viewer off from main program - is now freeware. Fixed several miscellaneous bugs. Added AviSynth support for non-AVI video file playback (e.g. MPEG). No sound with these formats though. Added VirtualDub frameserver support. Frameserved MPEG files have audio. New to Version 2.7 - April 2002 Added 'Lock' function to scroll both left and right windows at the same time Added a Hot-Key and menu option for NVidia external viewer The last JPG quality setting is now remembered Pressing 'D' during a slideshow removes the selected picture from it Support for Yellow/Blue anaglyphs A few changes to the video editing tool New to Version 2.6.9 - March 2002 Improved the layout of the video playback function. VCF files are now autoloaded if they have the same root filename as the AVI files and are in the same directory. Added chapters support to video playback function. New to Version 2.6.8 - January 2002 Added the ability to combine two 2D videos to create a 3D one without converting to an image sequence first. Fixed a bug in the video editing function that stopped anything but interlaced files from being edited. New to Version 2.6.7 - December 2001 Improved JPEG functions. Support for many new file formats including TIFF and PSP. Improved JPS support. Support for full-screen interlaced viewing. Support for E-Dimensional glasses. Support for loading vertically interlaced images. Much improved video editing function Inverse Telecine Faster Removed memory leaks Ability to not display frames while encoding. Much improved video playback function Support for colour anaglyph output. Added sound support Improved frame-rate timing. Faster OpenGL support New to Version 2.6.0 - September 2001 Slideshow functions have been added for most viewing options. Quickview can now be displayed fullscreen. The external NVidia 3D picture viewer, which comes with the new NVidia drivers, is now supported. 3DCombine can now print. New to Version 2.5.3 - August 2001 Faster and uses resources more efficiently Fixed the problem with using images above a certain size Zooming in or out is now possible Added corner arrows to make it easier to select the extreme corners of images Added an option to disable the UNDO function to speed the program up and lower memory usage. New to Version 2.5.2 - August 2001 Fixed a bug in Greyscale Anaglyph production Added OpenGL 3D video playback Improved OpenGL picture viewer - speed and quality 40x speed increase in interlaced functions Added Mono Anaglyph video playback with realtime conversion Added Sync-Doubled video playback New to Version 2.5.0 - July 2001 Automatically fine tune vertical alignment. Fixed a bug that caused 3DCombine to crash when minimised. Support for Eye3D external viewer Lots of new batch adjust functions. Prefix option when combining/adjusting images. Hot keys. Video encoding/decoding now supports JPG files. Processing can now be done directly on video file. Save sets of filters for future use. Choose order in which filters are applied. Support for OpenGL quadbuffered stereo. Support for Sync-Doubled viewing. Support for Page-flipping with Nvidia 3D drivers under windows 9x. Several GUI redesigns. New effects function to apply a large number of effects to improve the quality of your images. Fixed a bug when working with very large images - though there are still some to fix. New to Version 2.4.2 - October 2000 Fixed a bug where the splash screen didn't always disappear. Fixed a bug which caused the batch function to crash if cancel was pressed. Improved the video playback interface. New to Version 2.4.1 - August 2000 Added missing sysinfo.ocx. Fixed Revelator viewer to remove palette corruption in left eye. New to Version 2.4 - August 2000 Load now remembers the last used directory Added a crop function Added the option to rotate both images halfway into alignment instead of one all the way. Added a status bar and the option to remove the popup messages when selecting co-ordinates. Added a deskew function The toolbar now wraps if it is too long. When splitting an AVI, you can now name the pictures so they display in order in windows explorer. Added an auto-crop function to remove the black triangles that appear after a rotation function. When viewing videos with the revelator you can now change format without restarting. Viewing images using the revelator glasses is now less resource intenstive, quicker, and more robust. When viewing images with the revelator in the 3D image viewer, Page Up and Page Down, now change the picture being displayed. New to Version 2.3 - July 2000 Fixed H3D support (make sure you select that the picture is cross-eyed). Added support for 3D Images in above/below format. Added AVI video file encoding and decoding Added 3D video playback for Revelator glasses. [Note: It appears that this may not work reliably on everybodys' machines. If it doesn't work for you try setting your screen resolution to the highest that works with the Revelators (and at least 16bit colour) and run 3DCombine on a freshly rebooted machine.] New to Version 2.2.1 - July 2000 Stopped windowed Revelator viewer from crashing and made it scale pictures automatically if they were too large for the screen. New to Version 2.2 - July 2000 Internal 3D Revelator support. Display high resolution and/or windowed 3D Images with your revelator glasses. Faster Many new functions including Gamma adjustment Drag and Drop from Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer