2024.4v1

Viewer

New animation workflow with Motion paths in viewport and editable retiming curve in the Retime Graph.

New Motion Path tool in the viewport to easily interact with keyframes of multiple paths

New Overview Tree: quickly navigate through generators and modifiers of your Composition, all while in the viewport. Can be displayed with the C shortcut when in the viewer
New Project Tree: quickly navigate between Compositions in your project. Can be displayed with the ALT + C shortcut when in the viewer

New Viewer embedded Properties Panel: Useful to show properties of the selected element right whithin the viewer as a semi transparent overlay. Combined with the Overview Tree, this allows a powerful immersive fullscreen viewport workspace. Can be displayed with the B shortcut when in the viewer
New buttons to go down/up in the Composition hierarchy, associated to the Page UP/DOWN shortcuts
Transform Tool: Add layer selection based on a rectangle
New Nudge options with keyboard Alt + arrow keys to easily move elements
New Background caching: Whenever you are not manipulating or rendering anything, Autograph will start caching surrounding frames in the timeline work areas. This can be enabled with a button in the top right toolbar
Add indicators when rendering or when background caching is active
Add button to freeze image in viewport: Press CTRL+P to activate/deactivate. This is useful to compare two distinct viewers
Move the mini-timeline to be part of the UI instead of an overlay and add a time scroller for ease of use

Copy/Paste of parameters between project items: useful to remember interpretation rules between media items

Quick menu access: Press Q any where when a layer is selected to show the modifiers menu bar. Press SHIFT+Q to add a new layer.
Python API is now open to Creator version, except automated Renders API
The interface has been cleaned up
Global Performance and stability improvements
Number editors now have built-in calculator functionnality: You can type +5 for example to add 5 to the current value (and +-5 to subtract 5). Works also with / * - % . In addition arbitrary Javascript expressions can be used, such as Math.PI
Preferences: Add Default Layer Color options to customize the default layers appearance

Add Orient Along Path option to the Transform section to automatically rotate the element along the normal of the trajectory defined by the animated position.
New right click options on Layers
Motion blur settings: change quality mode with 2 distinct modes: user defined Sample Count or Adaptive based on speed with Quality being treated as a multiplier on the calculated value.
New Invert Mask option to avoid having to set an Invert Modifier on the Mask

New Transition generator and User created Transitions
New Pixel Analyzer modifier
New Add Noise modifier to complement the existing Noise generators. New Follow Normals option to the 2D version.
Audio Analyzer: change the way the result is calculated so that all frequencies are taken into account, regardless of their weight. This makes it much more controllable and intuitive.

Expression Generator API: add index to the KeyFrame class and 2 new methods to the Param class: getKeyFrameCount(dimension) and getKeyFrameIndex(time, dimension)
Text: Add new interpolation and easing modes to Range selectors. Also add Line based range selector

Switch: new dissolve mode to progressively switch between sources when the source index is floating point
Instancer: Add centered option to instance transform. Add lifetime options to optimize performances of the instancer. Performances have been increased compared to previous versions.

Linux installers now come with .rpm and .deb package that properly install needed dependencies. Installation instructions have been updated.
Update USD to 24.03