New in FotoMagico 4

Timeline

adds a Timeline view to the existing Storyboard view. While Storyboard view is more suited to add and arrange slides, the Timeline view is better when you need to fine-tune the timing of your slideshow.
For more information, see Working with the Storyboard/Timeline and Adjusting Timing in the Timeline.

Audio Waveforms and Audio Markers

Syncing audio with the audio in your slideshow has become much easier with the addition of the audio waveform display. Authoring of audio markers, a feature that has existed for a long time in FotoMagico has also become much easier to use, now that editing them has been moved to the Timeline.
For more information, see Adjusting Timing in the Timeline.

Multiple Layers

Multiple layers of images, movies, or titles now lets you create effects that weren’t possible before. Each layer can be animated independently. For example: image slides with multiple titles which are faded and animated independently, picture-in-picture effects, movies on top of image layers, or pseudo 3D effects.
For more information, see Working with Layers.

Collapsible Tracks

The Storyboard/Timeline lets you collapse audio or visual (images, titles, movies) tracks to save vertical screen real-estate, which is especially convenient for small Notebook screens. When visual tracks are collapsed, you can hover the mouse over a collapsed stack of slides, to automatically expand that stack. This is a quick and convenient way to see all layers, while still conserving vertical screen real-estate.
For more information, see Working with the Storyboard/Timeline.

Inline Authoring Help

Both the Storyboard and the Timeline offer inline help by displaying popover alerts for common authoring errors. These alerts also offer simple one-click solutions to these problems.
For more information, see Working with the Storyboard/Timeline.

Custom Audio Fade-ins and Fade-outs

In previous version of Fotomagico audio fades were dependant on the chosen visual transition between slides. The new version gives you the option to change fade-ins or fade-outs by dragging the left or right edges of audio in the Timeline view to change fade-in or fade-out offsets, in addition to adjusting volume.
For more information, see Adjusting Timing in the Timeline.

Many User Interface Improvements

Fotomagico 4 offers many small improvements to the user interface, including an improved menu layout. This should help to make your authoring workflow more productive.

New in FotoMagico 4.1

Share to Vimeo

On OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) FotoMagico now supports sharing to Vimeo in addition to YouTube.

Share as ProRes Video

If you have Final Cut installed on your computer, sharing a slideshow as a high quality ProRes video is now also supported. This enables you to import to ProRes video into Final Cut for further editing.

New in FotoMagico 4.2

Masks

FotoMagico now lets you add a mask to any layer (image, movie, or title). This lets you achieve interesting effects that were not possible before. Examples are animated picture in picture effects, animated splitscreen effects, animated travel routes, and much more.

Layer Opacity

Any layer can now be made transparent by reducing its opacity, thus revealing the layers below. This is especially useful for titles, but also let't you achieve interesting new effects with images or movies.

Auto Save

FotoMagico 4.2 now supports Auto Save. The user no longer has to preiodically choose the Save command to guard against loss of work in case of failure. In addition saving is now dramatically faster, which is a huge improvement if you are authoring large slideshows. Auto saving can be turned on in the preferences window, if you prefer the traditional (manual) saving mechanism.

New in FotoMagico 4.3

More Reliable Media File Handling

To improve the reliability of FotoMagico with the OS X sandbox environment, the fms file format was rewritten internally. Missing media files that troubled users in prior versions no longer occur, and any fms files that were damaged in previous versions can now be repaired with an assistant that helps to find the original media files.

New in FotoMagico 4.4

64 Bit Support

FotoMagico has been rewritten to support 64bit. This helps to build larger slideshows and make FotoMagico faster in some situations.

Better Video Playback

FotoMagico now uses the new AVFoundation technology instead of the old QuickTime technology to play video files. This ensure that video files are played more reliably and without stutters. Since AVfoundation doesn't support every codec that QuickTime used to support, legacy video files will have to be converted into a more modern format. FotoMagico will alert you should it encounter a legacy video file, and will offer to convert for you.

Faster Sharing

FotoMagico also uses the new AVFoundation technology instead of QuickTime to share (export) slideshows in a variety of formats. Sharing has become faster in the process, but again, legacy codecs are not available in AVFoundation.