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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?

The request for a Affinity Motion/Video application has come up a number of times in the forums, and has generally received the same response from Serif "…we currently has no plans to develop a motion graphics/video application". There are some companies who are actively trying to provide a real alternative to After Effects, such as https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/ which might be worth a look.

"Extensive" ?? MoviePlus has hardly registered on most video editor's radar, just a low end amateur product development stopped almost a decade ago. Proper video editing software would be a ridiculously difficult market to break into when products such as Resolve or Avid Media composer are free. A DAM is just a glorified database, Lightroom just uses SQLite. One of the market leaders for photo DAMs, iMatch, is just made and developed by one person. It wouldn't be difficult to recruit a couple of specialist programmers to pull it together if Serif don't have capable people in-house already.

I was gonna say just Davinci Resolve, as it has a mass following everywhere.... and counts on a mac version. But yep, the 300$ version adds 4k and 120 fps instead of 60fps, as a pair of important differences with the free version. With the free version, I believe you can get until UHD, 3,840 x 2,160 res. The free lightworks version (also available in mac) neither support 4k. Have you tried Openshot video editor? I haven't. But if you do not wish to put in this 300$ (I'd totally go with Davinci Resolve Studio) you might want to try this free, open source one. Seems it allows 4k, but demanding a fine machine for that, not any typical low end for the office one (well, that's never a good fit for editing in 4k, with any software !) For video editing, if the editor does support multiple threading, well, then as many cores/threads, the better. Some do focus instead in GPU rendering. Then for those you need to focus in a better video card. No knowledge about what options are in these mentioned above. I've been since always a Premiere user, then Sony Vegas as was what my latest company purchased, that besides super basic editors in other companies, and/or just Blender included video editor. Indeed, I don't know how I did not know about this Openshot, when I am a total blender fan and intensive user (probably as I use to just render everything direct from blender, and very occasional use of the Blender video editor, then composited outside in any of the Windows editors) but seems the 3D titling, and stuff, if you need 3D stuff, is done by having Blender installed (installing it is super easy, dunno if it forces you to handle blender(that's a bit more complex to learn)) Anyway, as it is free, and there's a mac version, you might want to try it. If wasn't for the 4k need, you'd have several very good available for the mac (imo among best options, the Davinci) But this open source one has no limits, is just a matter ot seing how you can handle it, but as with all open source, please give it a veeery patient try, as you might miss a jewel due to some quite different UI or some incomplete area, but being the tool worth it in general. That was my approach with Blender, and it has paid (literally) quite well, that patience. Again, haven't tried this one. The screen and feature set do look good.... (that it allows 4k I found it in the Q/A users supported system, not in the description, typical thing in open source... u gotta dig more than usual, hehe. ) https://www.openshot.org/features/ And yet another option, Hitfilm Express. https://fxhome.com/express Seems it also counts on Mac version. And as Davinci free, it suports 4k but UHD only (the smaller "4k" (not really) resolution). It does seems easy to get up to speed....Some stuff is achievable with addons -dunno if paid- but is fine to me to pay for some specific feature needed, IF needed.... Their pro version, and seems there's a pattern here, lol, is also 300 bucks. So , there yo have it... go open source with Openshot and Blender(what my passion would tell me to do) , or save some bucks and buy Davinci resolve (what my brain would tell me to do... but it still would want me to use for this Blender... so, who knows if my brain is ok at all.... ) And you have as well Avidemux, a good old friend also in Windows, but that's quite more limited in capabilities, imo, unless you are mainly cutting, mounting and exporting. Thing is, the open source one (Openshot) looks good, and easy to learn.. But again, have not tried Hope it helps some way. Edit: Stupid hint/anecdote of the day : I made certain pro game intro, for a commercial game, which was quite of the like of both developers and the powers that be (The Distributors/Emperors/Kings/Eldars) with....drums.... CyberLink PowerDirector ! And YEARS ago....like 12 years ago, lol. No point of comparison even with the most basic cr4p of today, which is much better. One can make videos with everything that has certain min specs, that's my point...And actually, that one was pretty fine for some basic editing, already back in the day. Dunno what are you after, the kind of tasks, I mean.

Question. About "Construction snapping" of the node tool, which is the meaning you intended for "construction"? 1. structure 2. drawing In a tutorial video, you translate it as "structure" in Japanese. (構造) https://affinity.serif.com/ja-jp/tutorials/designer/desktop/video/301797512/ On the context bar of Affinity, you translate it as "drawing" in Japanese. (作図) https://affinity.help/designer/ja.lproj/index.html?page=pages/DesignAids/constructionSnapping.html?title=カーブの作図スナップ So it's not consistent. I want to confirm the meaning you intended.

Lots of video editing options out there, would not hold my breath for Serif to jump into a completely new field of video editing while they are still working and developing Publisher, Designer, and Photo.

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.

Hi guys, first off, let me start by saying you guys are really doing a great deal of work with the affinity suites... Super great products, I bet you don't need anyone telling. So, I've got an idea which I'm sure has come to your minds but would like to know what the plans are, or something if it's ok to share. I watched an interview video on YouTube talking about affinity products with the CEO (not sure). But one of the things he talked about when asked questions about creating a video editing software and sorts, he said not sure for now, since current affinity products were designed on a certain type of platform that doesn't support videos and animations yet, which yeah I understand. Actually for me, I think affinity shouldn't really invest into video software since there are a lot of options already there, and building a brand new platform would take a lot. This topic is about a website design software. Something that (just like publisher) is designed for creating websites just like the now discontinued Adobe Muse but with modern looks and touches like Adobe XD and Webflow. It would be super awesome to have a software that is offline based and powerful to completely create stunning professional websites without coding, I think that would really be another big hit for Serif. Since publisher is possible, I think making a website software soon and fast wouldn't really be as challenging as building a video app. I believe the platform or code room is there (don't really know the terminology for that). Designer has some great responsive tools that is used for website layout and mock-up, and publisher has tools for managing page linking and all that good stuff, I think it would really be awesome to have a software that tackles this. Just like Designer with many of its features built in, I think a website design software that has all the useful features for creating professional featured built in would mean a lot to a lot of us (hoping a lot of us wants this too). Adobe Muse was a great app, is still is but discontinued and depended so much on widgets and add-ons. Building a web design software that tackles this to a huge extent would be awesome. Again, I believe affinity already have the database and platform to create this software and would be super happy to see this hopefully in 2020. Thanks guys and again, great apps so far... Incredible team.

I work in the video game industry and have been using Photoshop for over 20 years. 2 years ago I switched to the affinity suite to do UI for games. I need a full set of tools to do what I used to do with only Photoshop: vector, photo editing, mockup, icons, etc... Affinity Designer is very versatile, but I only need two tools exclusive to Photo and Publisher, namely the Flood Selection Tool and the Text Frame. It's a bit silly to use 3 software for only two missing tools. For now, I have no choice if I really want to get rid of Photoshop for my work.

I'm seeing the same exact behaviour in Photoshop (see video below). Maybe i'm misunderstanding/missing something? Can you record a video of what you are doing in Photoshop? frame_stroke_photoshop.mp4

Timelapse is ... looking for the right word ... nice, but would be even nicer it the name of the current or following action could be (optionally) displayed in the video (top or bottom I don't mind). Right now the video is jumping from action to action and the viewer is perhaps not able to imagine what action was taken. The possibility of adding notes to history steps comes to my mind, but would it be useful?

There seem to be no forum here to post bugs of this forum, so by lack of another forum I had to post it here. Last months it happens about 90% of the time the forum doesn't allow to Submit a topic / react to a post because of this error on the forum: Most of the time this error means that a data object, for example received from the backend, isn't in the right format or a json stream is not valid JSON. Also Promises should always have a `catch()` to catch errors, which obviously are missing here. I'm surprised this still isn't fixed. It's pretty annoying to not being able to post on the forum after taking the time to write a post, most of the time with video too. It would be helpful if somebody of Serif or it's external forum supplier could finally dive into this issue and fix this. A forum doesn't make much sense if posting is impossible 90% of the time. Thanks in advance!

I also think it’s not (yet) a logical next step. To me a DAM (asset manager) would be more logical and personally desired 😁 though I answer actually to suggest some free and amazing video editors Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform (win, mac, linux) video editor https://shotcut.org/ DaVinci Resolve is the world's only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ DaVinci Resolve is completely free, truly remarkable and you’ll find many Adobe converters on YouTube. Also for iPad InShot and LumaFusion the latter which I haven’t tried yet personally and is the only paid app here. Cheers

There are plenty of video editing options out there, I always get the impression people just want this from Serif because they want more inexpensive apps. For page layout and vector editing the field is not all that big in terms of options and alternatives to Adobe who sit king. For video editing you have a whole host of options for multi os's and a variety of prices. Because we have Publisher, Designer, and Photo it does not mean they are done. There is a long road ahead for this software and much room for improvement and refinement. I would much rather Serif focus on these 3 apps and making them the best they can be rather than branching out and spreading themselves thing because people want more inexpensive software.

Some good points you made there ( in the post I hadn't read as cross posting happened, not the one you posted just above...geez, this goes too fast....). Sadly, very tight on time right now, and am afraid wont be able to post more till tomorrow at very late hour.... If you are managing/owning a commercial studio (in whatever the field(s)) you are probably aware of all the following, but there's always some bit each of us aren't aware of, so, here I go.... : - Animation: I have a HUGE post with links and stuff about it. Well, actually quite more than one. There are so many apps under the 300 bucks line, which are, equal if not better than the old Flash (Animate) that I don't see a need to get yet another one, but instead, master, or make your employees master, the one, or the ones that integrates best in your workflows and client needs. ( Toon Boom, Cacani, Moho, Animation paper (PAP), Opentonz, etc, etc, etc. For games, maybe more sth like Spine). Toonboon is the king and gets pricey, but there's a variety of product levels and prices, tho. Like in most of these brands. - Video editing: Davinci Resolve not only counts on a solid video editor (very solid), it gives you a totally free version with reduced -yet large- resolution allowed in export, and some other limits not stopping even serious indies to make hi quality work. It has also included a compositing solution (Fusion, can get apart, too) that you could use for kind of the functionality of A. After Effects. Then you have Hitfilm ( also quite capable free version available), perhaps in a lower level (video editing and effects, too). Besides that, for typical simpler commercial videos not so FX heavy, less advanced, rarely will go wrong with Sony Vegas. All these are ~300 (or cheaper) bucks solutions, permanent purchase license. Pretty affordable. There are a long bunch of other affordable tools out there for video editing, even some good ones in the free land. - Audio: I have needed to clean audio, make basic loops, generate game sounds, etc, as u know it ends up happening in every small game studio when you are used for everything, from testing, to audio, translations, etc. For my definitely non-pro needs there (but my files ended in pro products, lol), Audacity always was enough. But there are other free or cheap options like Acoustica or Ardour. If doing something pro, you need to go to the big guys, of course. (but mostly, count on some one really pro person in sound FX, music, etc) There is a literal ton of tools for practically everything. By using a lot of these, I have realized how is not so true that Adobe and Autodesk have the best possible thing ever for this or that field: I mean, for every freaking field, out of the main two/three apps. They totally got it with PS, AI, After Effects (but there are also valid alternatives, IMO, for all those. Specific circumstances will define if one needs Adobe or not (compatibility with clients in native formats, certain feature, etc), Premiere (but same). And some more. But for example, back in the time, the UV mapper included (and even some third party expensive set of plugins) in 3DS Max ( the UVW Window) was NO WAY close to the depth and flexibility found in a sort of individual, one man band developer tool called Unwrap 3D (know it and exchanged mails with the author since Lithunwrap times, the precursor freebie). of course, times change, Max evolved a lot, but this still happens with so many things. Even more when you need very specific tasks in your workflow. There's always a tool absolutely shining over anything else, included behemoths top dogs from large companies. I'm expanding here because you say you have interest on alternatives (ie, you commented interest on Corel, which makes a great work in the area of color separation for printing, to give an example of its huge advantages, and Photopaint is a great helper for an Illustrator finishing works -ie, supports CMYK (not that common, to be supported) there where Corel Painter never did- Still, IMO is no competition for Affinity due to pricing. Specially in an studio needing several seats ) , and so, I guess it might be of interest, but also, to make my point (arguable, I know) that as time passes, it is increasingly clear that there's now so much variety and competition, that the entire HUGE suite concept (instead of at least a smaller, more theme related and compact "suite" of 3/4 estelar tools) made more sense in the 90s, not so much anymore, where all market workflows has over complicated, tasks are way more deep. Just look at the uber crazy complexity of a single workflow in Allegoritmic Substance Painter or Designer. There's quite a whole complex world in its own embedded there in just two apps. This is no 1995 anymore (for both better and worse). Also, discourages going for it the so well tied the market is by Adobe and Autodesk. IMO, would not be a clever move. But imo the clever path is how Serif is doing, focusing on making a master piece out of each of the 3 most fundamental type of tools for the larger market, 2D. Is more wall of text of my 2c, though.

Have a look at Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve (free of charge) or DaVinci Resolve Studio (€ 319) postprocessing video editor. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/en/products/davinciresolve/

Yes, I posted the same video at "Affinity Support and Questions".

At present the smart shape adjustment point handles (coloured red-orange) all look the same, which can cause some problems when trying to describe to someone else which one to use. For example, the Double Star Tool has two adjustment point handles, one which starts further from the centre than the other. However, it’s possible to move the one which was nearer to the centre to be further from the centre than the other one. This can lead to situations such as: “Drag the outside handle further in than the inside handle.” “Okay.” “Now <do some other adjustments>.” “Okay”. “Now drag the outside handle a bit further out.” “By ‘outside handle’ do you mean the handle which you called the outside handle earlier which is now the inside handle, or do you mean the handle which is now further out than the one you earlier called the outside handle?” “Err...” If they were given different shapes – triangle, square, pentagon, etc. – it would be easier to describe/differentiate each handle in the help, in the forums, in the documentation, and in videos (where someone is only listening to the speech, maybe because they don’t have enough screen-space to have the application and the video on-screen at the same time). Or maybe someone has a better solution. I scanned the 300+ results of a search for “shape handle” (without the quotes) but couldn’t find anything relevant.

I saw this video. Subtitles are available, there is a button on the right side of the toolbar that runs along the lower edge. I remember the days when I could do things like that, though I never did that particular thing, using Borland Turbo Pascal. But I did do colour graphics of the Mandelbrot set. Could Serif please consider producing Affinity Pascal please, perhaps based upon Borland Turbo Pascal? The thing is, there was, maybe still is, a free download, but something to do with timing that I don't understand means that it did not run on a computer from some years ago when I tried it. If, either based on Borland Turbo Pascal, or some other Pascal, Serif produced Affinity Pascal as an easy to use programming environment that will run properly on a present day Windows 10 system, then that could be used to produce art as well as having other uses too. Serif has some very clever and knowledgable programmers on its staff so maybe the fixing of the timing issue would not be that big a task. Of course, Serif would get proper licensing to do this, and could then sell it as a downloadable program. To readers other than Serif staff, if you would like Affinity Pascal to be produced, please post and say so. William

Isn't Apple Photos a replacement of iPhoto with several Aperture-like features? Plus the many additions from the switch? I can't see they abandoning an image management system, being one of the chores of a modern home system. In this particular case, I know I could migrate my iPhoto library to Photos. The Mac crunched metadata for weeks, but in the end I had a lot of additional metadata information (about places, faces, and searchable words). I’ve been working professionally with Logic Pro for decades, and use iMovie from time to time, after having used Final Cut Express and Premiere for my smallish video projects. I can't say that these software are second-rate ones, or have not been (even drastically) improving over time. Yes, reports of Logic to be soon dismissed have been repeated a lot in the forums, but as of now they seem to have been a bit exaggerated. Paolo

So, @Dan C, I followed your diagnosis and I formatted the computer then reinstalled Windows 11 pro. 🔴The problem is more serious, but also more reassuring. Of the 143 applications reinstalled, only the 6 Affinity programs have a problem. The Affinity Designer beta and Affinity Photo beta icons were normal after installation and turned white as soon as I registered the beta versions. The Affinity Publisher beta icon is not affected. The white icons returned to normal 3 days after this message was first written. Affinity Designer beta is however a bit blurred (see video). Normal Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher cannot register. Screen copy. The malfunction is only seen on the computer with Windows 11 pro. For the analysis to be relevant, I had proceeded the day before to the same formatting and reinstallation of another computer under Windows 10 containing 123 applications. This one had never encountered the above malfunctions. The Affinity problem did not appear on this Windows 10 pro computer. In case it is of any interest in resolving this malfunction, please note that I have changed my postal and e-mail details since my first purchases. affinity-enregistrement.mp4

I agree with Alfred's comments re the requested facility as inappropriate of the product to the Affinity range, and of a limited sales base expectation. I would however thank William for posting the video, which I find fascinating, but I think it would be more appropriately placed in the lounge or science sections of the other related forums as an interesting find.

HI, I'm new. This might have already been covered in a different thread. If so, I apologize. I love the Affinity apps/programs. It would be extremely beneficial for Affinity to create a visual effects and non-linear video editing app/program. There is a lot of crossover between PS and AE as far as capabilities goes. The main difference is one deals with still pictures, the other deals with a series of still pictures (video). I see no reason why Affinity Photo and whatever app gets created to fill this need shouldn't be the same. A lot of 3rd party add ons are also available for AE. I'd hope they'd also be compatible with this new program. Video Copilot's Optical Flares immediately coming to mind, along with Particular and some others. If Affinity could get an app that's priced between $50-150, they would probably shut the internet down due to the amount of purchases and downloads.

Noooooo, don't do it... please don't make a video editor. Keep focussed. Make your design/print/layout/photography apps the most awesome apps out there. You know what you're doing in those fields. Continue along your development path and own these fields. Video is a totally different beast, and I really doubt you could make something better than Final Cut Pro, anyway. Then what next? You'll have to add 3D modelling, motion graphics, color grading and sound editing to that video editor to be considered serious player in the video scene. Also, Affinity apps are professional-level apps. You can't go into video with a consumer, or even pro-sumer level application. If you do, it will water down the current line up of apps. If you think designers are critical about your software and its [currently missing] features, wait until you try win over the video editing industry. Have a look at the backlash Apple experienced when it launched Final Cut Pro X. It was missing a few features that I'd hardly considered critical, and yet they nearly lost the entire editing industry to Premier over night. They even had to return Final Cut Pro 7 to the app store to quell the anger. Only now, with v1.3, is FCPX finally clawing back its lost user base. I have both Premier and FCPX on my Mac. I love using FCPX, but I keep having to go back to Premier just because of one missing feature – it can't export an OMF any more. This means I can't send my project to an audio engineer for a final mix. This oversight is simply criminal and reduces FCPX to my "fun to own" list of software, and not a pro tool I use for paying clients. Don't be tempted to become Adobe and try shovel a tool for every industry onto your customers. Stick to what you're good at and continue to make it utterly brilliant. Thanks Affinity.

I don't think there is the best video editing software. The right tool or method is the best. I got inspiration from this RecoveryTool video editing guide and hope it will be effective for others.