- Copy & paste of text layers no longer leads to both layers containing the same text, if one of them is edited afterwards. - Fixed a memory leak when sharing a slideshow that contains video layers. - Mask opacity is now correctly applied to layers that use an image mask. - FotoMagico no longer crashes when deleting all points in a travel route and then leaving the Map Assistant. - Fixed a couple of incorrect Italian translations in the user interface. - The 'Add Text' and 'Insert Map' toolbar buttons work again when running the app with Spanish or Italian user interface. - Line breaks in multi-line slide notes are now preserved when printing the slideshow script or using the teleprompter in the FotoMagico Remote app. - Saving a slideshow immediately after dragging around layers in the Storyboard is now more robust. - If the media browser is empty due to name or rating filters being active, a warning and a reset button is now displayed. - If you have a single layer selected, the opacity animation speed curves will now show the current time while scrubbing in the Storyboard. This is useful for fine tuning opacity and animation curves. - Pressing the O-key while scrubbing, will insert a new point in the opacity curve the selected layer (if a single layer is selected). - Moving all points in a opacity or animation speed curve is now done by pressing the Caps Lock key instead of the Shift key. Pressing the Shift key now constrains a dragged point to vertical movement.

- FotoMagico 6.8.1 is compatible with macOS 26 Tahoe. - Added Spanish and Italian translations to the FotoMagico UI. This translation was created automatically with the help of AI. While it might not be perfect, it is a first step. For our native speaker users out there, you can help us to improve on this first step. If you spot obvious mistakes or have suggestions for improvement, please send feedback with screenshots to support@boinx.com. - Dragging photos or videos from the Photos app window to a FotoMagico slideshow now works as expected. If the media files are still in the cloud, a download progress will be shown, so that import can be canceled. - Click on the left or right ends of the Stage jogwheels to decrement or increment the zoom and rotation values by small steps. - Press the option/alt key while using the Stage jogwheels to zoom or rotate with more precision. Pressing the control key at the same time disables snapping, which is useful for straightening a crooked horizon on landscape photos. - When collapsing a chapter in the Storyboard, the chapter duration is now displayed at the bottom. - When scrubbing in the Storyboard or Timeline, the correct timecode will now displayed immediately, instead of just after moving the mouse for the first time. - Improved performance of opening and manipulating extremely large slideshow documents. - Selecting the input microphone in the Narration Assistant now works again. - While editing map route head icons, the Stage now displays the correct icon on the left and right side, if the head icon changes along the route. - Missing map route head icons are now repaired when opening a slideshow document again. - Copy/pasting layers from one slideshow document to another is now more robust. - Pressing the ESC key during slideshow authoring or when an assistant is open no longer starts fullscreen playback. However this change now requires that the play button on a Logitech remote clicker might have to be pressed twice.

- Map layers now offer the flexibility of multiple styles and icons for a single travel route. In the Map Assistant right-click on a route point to change the style from this point onward. - Improved reliability and performance in the Map Assistant. - Narration tracks are no longer listed in audio credits. - Fixed a crash at app launch time. - Internal stability improvements.

- The map assistant now limits the size of maps to what macOS can actually render. That way any travel routes always match the underlying rendered map. - Smooth zooming with the + and - buttons in the map assistant now works again. - When applying default animation to image layers, alternating between zoom in and out is now more deterministic, always guaranteeing the same results. - Duplicate chapters now only get removed when dragging snippets from the media browser to the Storyboard. When dragging slides within the Storyboard, all chapters are preserved as is. - Ducking of audio tracks now works correctly when slides are set to continue type "Interactive". -Previews of video tracks should no longer show wrong colors on Intel Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia. - Scrubbing of HDR video tracks shot on iPhone now works again. - The "Match Slide Durations to Audio" context menu command now considers audio in and out points to calculate slide duration correctly. - The media browser now displays thumbnails for new image file formats like JPEG XL (jxl) correctly. - Internal stability improvements.

- Text layers with a background effect (e.g. speech bubble) are now rendered correctly when a mask is applied. - Audio volume with envelopes or ducking is now more consistent between live playback and exported movie files. - Sorting in the media browser is now persistent across application launches. - The media browser is now more robust when media folders are hosted on cloud based storage like iCloud Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, etc. - Improved stability and error reporting for Lightroom Classic in the media browser. - Improved internal error reporting.

- Pressing the Shift key while moving a layer or mask in the Stage restricts movement to the horizontal or vertical axis. - The hotkey to move a mask and layer together has been changed from Shift to Caps Lock. - The OK button in the Edit Geometry dialog is now the default button and reacts to pressing the Enter/Return key. - Music in the royalty free section of the media browser can now be previewed again. - When right clicking folders or albums in the media browser, they are now selected before showing the context menu. - Lightroom Classic support in the media browser is now more robust, if you have multiple catalogs that were created by different versions of Lightroom Classic. - After adding or removing folders or collections in Lightroom Classic, selecting 'Reload' from the context menu in the media browser is now more reliable. - Login now works again the in-app purchase UI of the app store version of FotoMagico. - EULA and privacy links in the in-app purchase UI of the app store version now lead to the correct web sites. - Internal stability improvements.

- PDF files can now be imported as image layers again. - Login to Boinx Connect now provides a nicer user experience. - Improved keyboard navigation in the media browser with arrow left/right keys. If the selection reaches the end of a row, it will now wrap around to the next row. - When working in the media browser, pressing the spacebar now toggles QuickLook. When working in the Storyboard, the spacebar key continues to start/stop preview playback. - Displaying image thumbnails in the media browser is now more robust. Missing thumbnails are now hopefully no longer happening. - The media browser now works again for Adobe Lightroom Classic 13.3 and newer. - QuickLook of video files from the Photos app now works in the media browser. - When dragging a video file from the Lightroom Classic section of the media browser to the Storyboard, this will no longer show a preview size alert. This alert is only relevant for image files. - Loading slideshow documents with corrupted data is now more robust and able to self-repair in many cases. - Fixed a bug that caused occasional alerts that the document was modified by another application when trying to save. - When the automatic "Analyze" feature in the Audio Markers Assistant fails to find any markers in the audio, the user is now prompted to switch to manual marker creation. - Fixed incorrect EULA links. - Internal stability improvements.

- Fixed incorrect colors of video layers while editing a slideshow. - If FotoMagico wasn't granted access rights to the Photos library, the media browser will now display a warning and tells the user to go fix the problem in System Settings. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added a master volume slider to the … popup menu in the FotoMagico Remote app. - In past versions of FotoMagico the zoom range value for rendering map layers was stored in the application preferences. If you had to go back and edit an existing map layer later, you may have ended up with different layer sizes if the zoom range value was changed in the meantime. This could lead to various glitches, like animations no longer working as intended. To avoid this problem, the zoom range value is now stored with the map layer in the slideshow document file. - Apple has changed the rendering style of map layers in macOS. For this reason, if you have to edit and re-render an existing map layer in your slideshow, you should re-render all map layers in the slideshow to retain a consistent look. - Newly created map layers no longer get the default animation as defined in the Animation Assistant, but get an animation based on the zoom range value in the Map Assistant. - Fullscreen playback now displays a progress wheel while playback preparation is in progress. - Fullscreen playback cannot be started multiple times anymore. - Internal stability improvements.

- FotoMagico 6.7.1 is compatible with macOS 15 Sequoia. - Pressing the option key while inserting a music snippet into the Storyboard/Timeline now toggles the behaviour defined in the Settings window, whether slide durations are adjusted to audio markers or not. - Fixed a bug where sharing a slideshow with TV, iPad, or iPhone presets would sometimes produce incorrect results if custom sharing was used previously. - Special characters like German umlauts (and others) are now correctly displayed in the Chapters menu of the FotoMagico Remote iOS app. - Eliminated a potential crash when performing a full save or fullscreen playback. - Storyboard thumbnails for HEIC image files on macOS Sequoia are now created correctly. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added support for the new iPhone Remote app. You can also use Android phones or tablets by scanning the alternative QR Code in the Settings window. - When the slideshow pauses during playback at the end of a slide that is set to "Continue Interactive", the forward button now pulses with a yellow highlight to indicate that user action is required. - Using images that are wider than 16384 pixels no longer causes a crash. - Avoided possible rendering glitches when the transition duration of a slide matches its slide duration. - Eliminated a crash when opening the downloads window. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added AI image analysis for better automatic pan & zoom animations. Obviously you can still manually fine-tune animations if you want. - Redesigned the Animation Assistant to work with the new AI features. - Improved progress feedback when adding or deleting slides in the Storyboard. - Eliminated a crash when trying to undo typing while editing text layers. - The "Match Slide Duration to Audio" and "Match Slide Durations to Markers" now work correctly again, both from the Main menu and from the context menu in the Storyboard. - Cancelling downloads of cloud based media files from the media browser is now handled correctly. - Dragging media files from a folder in the media browser to the Storyboard no longer causes the media browser to be reloaded. In the past this reloading caused the media browser to lose its scroll position. - When renaming a folder (that was added to the media browser) in the Finder, the folder name is correctly updated in the media browser. Dragging media files from this renamed folder in the media browser to the Storyboard now works correctly. - When deleting a folder (that was added to the media browser) in the Finder, the folder is marked as missing in the media browser. The user can then either try to locate the folder in the Finder, or remove it from the media browser. - Eliminated occasional crashes related to the media browser. - The online help has been reworked and is now auto-translated to multiple languages. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added Shared Albums to Photos.app in the media browser. - The Audio Marker Assistant now has an interactive tutorial. Access it via the help button in the lower left corner. - The Audio Marker Assistant now lets you add an inactive marker by pressing the N key. Pressing the M key continues to add an active marker. - The audio waveform in the Audio marker Assistant has been slightly changed to be more useful. It now displays slide indexes for each active marker, so that you can find corresponding slides in the Storyboard. - Dragging royalty free music (with audio markers) to the Storyboard is now more reliable, producing identical results, regardless whether you first add the images and then the music, or the other way round. - When adding royalty free music (with audio markers) to existing slides, the transition durations are now modified in a way that they match the beat of the music. - Hopefully fixed occasional crashes when using the recently introduced deflickering option for animated image layers. - Installing a FotoMagico license by clicking on the link you received in the email from Fastspring is now more reliable if the original purchase was some time ago. - The Shuffle transition now renders correctly when sharing the slideshow as a QuickTime movie file. - Internal stability improvements.

- The Audiomarker Assistant now permanently shows the scrollbar below the audio waveform while music is playing. This provides better visual feedback how far along you are in a song. - When closing a document window while a slideshow is playing, playback is now automatically stopped. - Fixed occasional crashes when using the new deflickering feature for image layers, that was introduced in 6.5.4. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added a new interactive "Getting Started" tutorial, which can be accessed from the Help menu. Available on macOS 12 and newer. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added new layer options to reduce moire flickering for pan & zoom animations of very high resolution image or map layers. - Fixed occasional crashes when scrolling or zooming in the Audio Marker Assistant. - Internal stability improvements.

- FotoMagico 6.5.2 is compatible with macOS 14 Sonoma. - Fixed: Editing text layers works again on macOS Sonoma. - Fixed several layout glitches of controls in the Options sidebar on macOS Sonoma. - New: When pressing the control key while dragging an audio marker in the Audio Marker Assistant, you can now move all markers to the right of the clicked marker. This is useful, if a song does have a steady beat, but contains an irregular pause and the beat commences after the pause but is no longer in sync with the following markers. - Changed: Improved importing of metadata information from audio tracks. - Changed: Added more metadata to audio Get Info popover. - Fixed: Any audio preview that was playing in the media browser is now stopped before slideshow playback is started. - Fixed edge case problems with audio tracks when dragging slides in the Storyboard. - Internal stability improvements.

- Fixed undo-related crashes when dragging items in the Storyboard on macOS Catalina. - Fixed playback hiccups after pausing and continuing live playback. - Internal stability improvements.

- Improved Comic effect rendering algorithm, with better quality and faster rendering. Newly created layers will automatically use the new algorithm (Version 2), while existing layers will keep the old algorithm (Version 1) to avoid unintended changes. You can switch to the new rendering algorithm manually by selecting "Version 2" from the action popup menu in the Comic Effect inspector. - Added the new Page Curl transition in the 3D category. - Video layers can now have playback offset from the start of a slide. Checkout the Options subgroup in the sidebar. - Video layers now support looped playback. The checkbox to enable looping is also in the Options subgroup in the sidebar. - Added custom magnetic guides to make repetitive layout tasks in the Stage easier. Guides can be edited in the Slideshow Settings. - Pressing the shift key while dragging a curve point in the sidebar inspectors (e.g. Opacity) now moves the whole curve horizontally. - Selecting a layer in a collapsed chapter now selects the whole chapter. - If all slides in a chapter are selected, then dragging those slides moves the whole chapter. - When dragging a slide at a chapter start, then chapter will be moved to the next non-selected slide, to avoid confusing situations. - Rendering speech bubbles in text layers is now more robust, with nicer rendering and avoiding occasional crashes. - Improved performance when editing layers in the Stage with multiple effects applied. - Improved rendering of snippet placeholder layers. - Avoid crashing when using unsupported audio sampling rates with AAC codec when sharing slideshow with "Custom". - Internal stability improvements.

- Software Update should work correctly again. - Various operations that relied on image or video size to calculate correct layout, were broken in 6.4.2. These issues have been fixed. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added a "Reveal in Slideshow" command for used media files in the media browser. - Audio volume in shared slideshows is no longer affected by the setting of the master volume slider. - Automatic scrolling when getting close to the left or right edges of the Storyboard now works better. - Matching slide durations to audio now works correctly, even if some slides are locked and cannot not be modified. - The media browser is now correctly updated when folders are renamed in the Finder. - Thumbnail loading in the media browser is now more robust. Missing thumbnails are reloaded when scrolling the browser. - The audio browser now also displays the green use count badges, like the image or video browser does. - Audio track duration warnings in the Timeline are now more precise. - Video layers with vertical video (e.g. from cell phones) now behave correctly when adding a mask. - Potential stuttering during playback of video layers has been fixed. - Previews for slides with video layers are now rendered correctly. - Cursors in the Timeline are displayed correctly again when running on macOS Ventura. - Added a checkbox to Settings that let's you start fullscreen playback from the beginning of the slideshow, instead of the current playhead position. - Route head icons of a map layer are now displayed in the correct location, even if a route segment is customized. - Added a Restore Purchases button in the App Store version of FotoMagico to fix cases of missing license files. - Purchasing a subscription in the App Store version of FotoMagico now works again. - Use count badges in the modern media browser now work for Lightroom Classic. - Internal stability improvements.

- Added AI based background removal effect for image layers. - Added support for image masks, in addition to rectangular and oval masks. - The Sharing Assistant now offers the option to export the whole slideshow, just the selected slides, or a specific chapter. - Changing the length of an audio track (by dragging its left or right edge) will now only adjust the continue type of the slides above, if the audio track contains audio markers that are actually being used. That way unwanted side effects are avoided. - Audio ducking now produces correct results for shared slideshows. - Resizing the Storyboard height by dragging the toolbar vertically is now more reliable. - Internal stability improvements.

- Selecting a range of images in the new media browser is now possible by clicking on the first image and then shift-clicking on the last image. - When sharing a slideshow with ProRes or Custom, automatic flicker reduction can now be disabled. Flicker reduction may cause reduced image sharpness in some situations. - Fixed incorrect rendering of the Barn Door transition when sharing a slideshow. - Fixed some UI issues in the Map Assistant when using custom maps. - Tweaked some German menu translations. - Fixed a crash on macOS Catalina when using map head icons. - Internal stability improvements.

- Replacing placeholder images in snippets with smart groups (e.g. many in the Splitscreens section) now works correctly and no longer messes up the animation. - Dragging around layers that belong to a smart group no longer breaks the smart group. This bug caused some Splitscreen snippets to misbehave after being manually modified. - Searching for locations (e.g. cities) in the Map Assistant now also works on macOS 10.15 Catalina. - Looped chapters that contain only a single slide now work correctly. Animations are reset to the beginning when looping around. - Audio with locked timing in a looped chapter now gets reset to the start when looping around. - Internal stability improvements.

- Playback variants now work correctly. - The last used slide duration and animation setting is now used when creating new slides. - When creating new map layers the default value of slide animation (enabled or disabled) is now respected. - Eliminated a crash when saving an empty slideshow document. - A corrupted undo history no longer crashes the application. - Internal stability improvements.