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In my experience, Movavi really stands out for its straightforward and intuitive approach to video editing, which was a big relief after years of navigating Adobe's more complex interface. Personally, I've found that Movavi's ability to easily edit and enhance MP4 videos is a huge plus. Adding transitions, titles, and filters is a breeze and really elevates the quality of my projects. The features I've appreciated the most are the video stabilization and the sound equalization options. They've been crucial in polishing my videos to a professional standard. This switch was mainly influenced by an article I found about the 11 Best Free MP4 Editors in 2023. It provided a great overview and helped me in choosing Movavi. Here's the link for your reference and to explore more: https://www.movavi.com/learning-portal/best-free-mp4-editors.html.

3 years later… By now, I would expect Quicklook to preview all pages of an Affinity document, as it does by default with .pdf, .docx, xlsx and video or audio, for example. Oddly, this QL plugins collection seems to be quit in 2021: https://www.quicklookplugins.com/ … while this github project is a request only: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/issues/1260

Just popping this up as another vote for the need for this feature. Is there any API for Affinity Photo's Batch system that could allow for development of this? This has been a critical feature to me in the photo app from that big "A" company that I really can't do without. Like OlaHaldor above, I use this for lower thirds graphics for video production all the time. Allow a spreadsheet of names, titles, even colors/graphic import images to be swapped for long lists of people to easily generated quickly. Also, I used to run a youth sports photography company that would shoot portrait photos of hundreds of kids per weekend. The ability to use CSV Data Merge allowed for the rapid creation highly profitable, personalized print products like "Trading Cards", Personalized "Memory Mates", Posters and more that could all have team-color & logo themes and personalization including name, position, stats, etc. With CSV Data Sets, hundreds of these highly personalized product images could be generated in minutes from a template and spreadsheet, with each file having a profit margins of $10-$50 per file. Would love any input on if there could be a way for a code-savvy user to develop something if this isn't high enough of a priority to get attention from the primary developers.

Make thumbs be adjustable and use the now preview space for more information about the files. Like Eagle.cool did in it's program,see video: 2023-05-26 14-58-27.mp4

If I’m in the Resource Manager, and I have more than one image selected, the preview and information only relates to the first image I selected, which could be confusing. Would it be better to have no preview and information for multiply-selected images? Or, at least add the filename to the information so that the user has more chance of knowing that it’s a preview and information for just one image. Note: If I use menu “Select → Select Object → Images” and then go to the Resource manager, there is information on one file but no preview. See attached video – select images first showing no preview, then making different selections in the manager showing that only the ‘first’ selected has preview/information. I did a forum search for resource manager preview but couldn’t find anything about this specifically (it was not a comprehensive search). 2023-05-26 13-25-22.mp4

I would also like to be able to use the paintbrush in Affinity Photo where I can set the outline of the brush invisible in the preferences! Why? Because I want to make screen captures that will serve as brush transitions, moving masks, etc. to use in my video compositions. Hopefully you will consider this, to install anyway.

Video Editor with 3d Element plugin so i can create 3d logos and special effects thats needed the name of the plugin is called Video copilot 3d element by Andrew i hate adobe they charge a monthly charge and thats why i don't use them anymore.

Agree.. even the Nvidia renting hardware thing will accompany this. I mean.. even someone from GW2 told me that they play from a dual core 4 GB DDR2 SSD Laptop with some low video card with 1920x1080 resolution, using only internet cable that is in sync with his Nvidia's account, and he's doing all the gaming and using apps from the browser.. But like in some previous posts I specified.. it's still better to have a local OS, have working apps locally, otherwise on blackout and internet down, nothing will work. Only those with generators can still work on their PC for a couple of minutes of hours. Now I got to that part of the forum topic where even Patrick Connor starts to see the "handcuffs" where they can't control anymore.. W12 here we come (in virtual box) In Linux and Mac is same thing anyway.. installing through the Software Center (or whatever Mac has) and goes into a default partition. But at least you can have control over it from both sides (Dev company & users)

Just got it but had seen the video earlier. November 9th?

Suggestion for the View tool Pan(Context bar) = スクロール パン usually means "bread", except for people in the video/film industry. So スクロール might be better for most people.

I've always been somewhat confused by the New Document dialog and the existing presets; Print, Press Ready, Photo, Web, Devices, and Architectural. Generally, I understand what each of these do (although the differences between print and press ready aren't exactly clear) but I would love to see document for art & illustration documents. Adobe has a few of these (along with Film & Video presets) which are really handy for illustration work. Yes, I could create and manage my own presets, but it would be nice to have an existing category both for convenience, and for visibility. There's something about seeing a category such as 'Architectural' or 'Photo' that implies that these application (and these presets) were designed for these purposes. As it stands, illustration often feels like the red-headed step-child within these apps when compared to Procreate, Clip Studio, Fresco, etc. despite the Affinity apps being very capable illustration tools (brush management not withstanding).

Alt + Click sets the transform origin anchorpoint at any place clicked. You can see it in the video.

+1 On this. I've worked in the video game industry and versioning was something that I got used to and really really find it useful. Changing file names causes problems especially when linking/placing files within files within files etc. As for keeping different version we would use SVN for the artists in the video game studio. It seemed to work fine, but the repository got bloated fast. It wasn't a problem since we designed the servers to scale, but for a small guy like me, a solution like that be overkill or just too much to manage. I'll have to check out that Adobe one to see what it's like, but versioning really does come in handy.

What Linux API calls? Years ago I looked into X trying to convert my Windows software to it, and was only frustrated because there was no official API. There is a zillion of third party systems that are so complicated that trying to figure them out would be a waste of my time, so nowadays I just write libraries of video effects (but no one seems to know they even exist) but without any GUI except for Windows.

As far as I understand a LUT is more like a 'look' one can apply to an image. What I am seeking is a recacluation or even reduction of an image to a certain set amount of defined colors - I come from Photoshop and there was the option of creating an indexed color palette from eg self-determined colors and the one could apply this indexed color range to any image. Since I quit using PS I cannot make screenshots or a vid of what I mean in detail. Thank you very much for the explanation and video 🙏 That helped me understand the swatches panel a bit more, now I can create own color palettes and even extract the colors from an image. Still I don't get the difference between the program-, document- and systempalette. That is all the same if applied to a singe document or as a modus operandi for batch editing and as a global preference. Still I would need to apply the created color palette to an image rather than from an image, there seems to be no option alike --- therefore the suggestion for implementing this option (or maybe there is actually a workaround?!)

A really like the Affinity products and there are many opportunities to expand what we can do with it and one of those improvements is to be able to use native files on video edition software like Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve. For example, it will be great if we can enable or disable certain layers based on the timeline, showing a transition between keyframes. Another approach could be to have an extra persona to animate the file between keyframes, with the possibility to export the file in different movie formats or as an animated gifs.

as I wrote in February, I am really missing a decent browser (aka DAM?) I do only still photography so video and animation are irrelevant, That is my selffish attitude as I recognize a small company is by neccity limited in what they do. For the price, Affinity is by far the best thing around!!!

If that is supported it means that once Affinity works properly through stuff like Proton and/or Wine, it is then possible to paint with high precision tablet input, which is a necessity for high quality art. Considering how much progress Valve have been making with SteamOS and Proton, it is probably just a matter of time before Linux is able to run all the software I require to work. This video shows the potential of SteamOS. Once Valve officially releases a downloadable desktop version along with proper Nvidia driver support (another hurdle that Nvidia has started to fix with the help of open source drivers being in the works), I will give Linux and Proton a go to see if I can get it to work with my workflow. As it looks like right now, Windows 10 likely will be my last Windows OS considering how utterly atrocious Windows 11 is both from a user experience standpoint and from a security standpoint. The push for ads in their OSes is something I will not tolerate in any paid for retail product.

Made a video of running Affinity Photo on my Fedora Workstation 36 thru Bottles AffinityPhotoFedora.mp4 Sorry for lower quality just installed OBS Studio Flatpak and run the auto-configuration wizard at start.

That helped out tremendously. The canvas is buggy, flickering when you drag, pan, and zoom, and occasionally it'll stop drawing portions of your image (which you can get back with a quick pan), but it's actually functional. I opened up an old image, threw a couple of quick adjustment layers on it, then opened a new canvas, dragged the tab over a slot, then ran a paintbrush over it. Didn't notice any lag or hiccups beyond the canvas issues. So you CAN edit in it, even if the experience is sorta janky at the moment. Edit: Here's a quick little video showing off some real basic functionality.

Hi Raff, You can use Affinity Photo to develop your RAW images The following video should show how to do this. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/331997643/ Thanks C

Hi @Remy Konings, can I ask how you envision using 'live collaboration' within the Affinity suite? I imagine any collaborative features would need to be cross-platform, as I'm unsure if the Apple 'live collaboration' API has any Windows support available or planned. I can completely see it being useful for async collaborative tasks such as comments, reviews, edits, approvals, sync/share (assets, fonts, etc). but I struggle to see how having multiple people working on the same document at the same time would be useful. While Figma, Miro, Google Docs, etc all have real-time collaborative editing features, they tend to largely be utilized in meetings, often either through their own meeting facilities (ie: Google Meet) or via providing embedding (via an extension) to other environments (ie. Figma -> Google Meet). This works best with web/electron-based software as the rendering via web-tech is already built. In order for Serif to embed their documents into existing web-based workflows they would likely have to recreate much of their native rendering engine in web tech—a not insignificant task I imagine (also see Sketch). Of course, they could add their own screen sharing, video/audio conferencing, messaging, etc into their native apps, but most orgs have already established their collaboration workflows around existing tools (Google Docs/Meet, Office/Teams, Slack, Canva, Creative Cloud, etc) so creating yet another collaboration platform seems like a risky proposition. To me, finding ways to tie into what is folks are already using seems like a smarter/easier way forward in terms of collaboration.

On one hand, nVidia has a large market, although it dropped during COVID times. Would this "tiny" Linux community be a changer? As user, I don't own ATI video cards, nor use Intel's (I have two CPU's with them, but they look "washed"). I've never had issues to use the proprietary drivers as I have no ideology regarding that. Discussing with users over time, regardless the OS, they've preferred Ryzen + nVidia card for performance. Valve does a very good job, but still, I've met big expensive games that have issues on nVidia cards. Perhaps the goal is to cover that market too. Now, energy costs may force people to move to GPU integrated in CPU solutions. Open sourced drivers can't change that. nVidia had to create LHR cards so gamer can have access to them, so I am not concerned about the sells. Well, some software creators need you services. Or you can help us understand them too, especially when they meter us heavily even when we pay a lot for their licenses, willing to know what we eat or dream outside their products domains. And doing that all the time by consuming our resources, on our power, our money. I'm just curious. Why some software company treat us like children and push features that are impossible to disable/drop or come back again and again if we remove them, things that may embarrass us in front of our customers, like starting Xbox streaming during business meetings out of the blue? Would you do that for us, please?

Luminar 4 has the photo library features. I have used older versions from before that was added and had mostly abandoned it because I was not too thrilled with the quality of the results it produced; I had various other programs by then which all did much better. Here is the page for Luminar 4: https://skylum.com/luminar-4 If you scroll down under the header "Browse beautifully. Without importing" there is a video which demonstrates the library feature. I'm not sure how Luminar AI fits in and am not really paying much attention to that product line any more, but if I am looking at the page correctly it looks like Luminar Neo is slated to replace AI and 4 at some point in the future and is currently in beta testing? The company's other major product, Aurora HDR, is an awesome HDR photo app (which I rarely have a need for but am glad to have in my toolbox for the occasion when I do), but I don't particularly recommend Luminar at this point - YMMV.