🪟 Windows and Window Cloning
We have added the ability to save a Window and clone a window to a new folder. The purpose of these features are to provide a way of sharing the entire window arrangement in the folder for distribution and ease of use purposes.
The Windows list in the content sidebar now includes the folders. When Command N is pressed to create a new window, a window icon will appear in the focus folder of this list. The window can be named by long clicking on the name in the list or by right clicking on the name in the title bar and choosing the Rename Window option.
The color of the window title bar can set by right clicking on the name in the window title bar and choosing the Colour option. This colour will be reflected in the icon in the Windows list.
The second feature built on top of this is the Clone Window to New Folder. This feature is found by right clicking on the window name in the window title bar and choosing Clone 'Window Name' To A New Folder.
Window cloning to a new folder will create a new folder in the chosen location and then copy the window, its arrangement and all open content into the new folder.
These are absolutely amazing features, but will require some investigation to figure out how it fits in your distribution workflows.
Watch to learn more, screencast run time is 04:03 minutes.
🏋️♀️ Workflow Actions
Workflow actions added to Clip, Qualifier, and None buttons. Workflow actions stitch together different Angles features into a sequence.
- Clip > Note > Composer
- Clip > Composer > Note
- Clip > Composer
The active clip with the clip cursor over it will be pasted into the last composer selected. In between the copy and paste, a note editor will popup, prompting to input a note for both the clip in the timeline and the composer.
The active clip with the clip cursor over it will be pasted into the last composer selected. After the clip is pasted into the timeline, the note editor will appear to input a note into only the clip in the composer.
The active clip with the clip cursor over it will be pasted into the last composer selected.
Watch to learn more, screencast run time is 07:30 minutes.
To enhance the use of this feature, we added 'Remember MarkUp Mode'. When this option is selected, the markup will open in the last mode which was engaged between launches of Angles. This option can be found by by right clicking on the MarkUp mode icon in the MarkUp toolbar.
We suggest using 'Remember MarkUp Mode' with a pre-arranged window. So, when the window is opened, this mode will already be engaged; one less step to do.
📤 Share Timelines, Composers and MarkUp
A new option in the Timeline, Composer and Markup toolbar called Share. The Share option uses the macOS Sharing Extension panel so you can easily airdrop, email or message content directly from Angles. The files are zipped up and attached to the sharing extension.
There are two global preference options to sharing: 'Share Zipped' or 'Share Without Zipping'. These options can be found by right clicking on the Share icon in the toolbars. If you are sharing via AirDrop, use the 'Share Without Zipping' option, so the recipient does not have to unzip. When sending via email, it is probably best to zip the files, so they don't get rejected or corrupted by an email server.
Watch to learn more, screencast run time is 02:21 minutes.
Along with this new feature, we added a Copy Composer To Desktop which creates a composer package on the desktop with a shiny new icon. This is not to be confused with a Standalone Composer Archive, this option only copies the composer data including the images and dropped in movies, NOT the collections linked to the clips.
A composer file can be added into Angles by creating a new composer then dragging and dropping the file on top. This will merge clips into the open composer too if you are dropping it into an existing one.
🍒🍨 Improvements
Files can be dragged and dropped into empty panes directly.
Watch to learn more, screencast run time is 04:25 minutes.
New timeline, composer and markup file icons.
The Attribute Editor table was created for attributes, not qualifiers. But, some friends like using this table and wanted to add qualifiers to a clip too. 💡 So, we enhanced the Attribute Editor by adding a feature to create a new qualifier based on an existing one.
Right click on an attribute row name and choose ‘Insert Empty Duplicate Qualifier’, a duplicate attribute row is created with a new qualifer that can be edited.
The Attribute Editor updates as selected clips are played. If you double click on a row name, the attribute editor will show all the contents of the clip being played.
'Slip Selected Clips' triggers the JSON Export to update.
Tabbing from clip to clip synchronizes playheads for all linked timelines.
Dragging the playhead right in an unlinked timeline increases the available timeline times. Holding down Option increases the speed of this process.
Pause Movies option added to Up / Down Note clip buttons.
Split clip and annotate features available for movies dropped into the composer.
Network file loading enhancements.
Rectangular clip selection added to the timeline as default. Hold down Command, then click and drag to select clips. To use old select lasso tool, hold down Option Command.
Control Space Bar in a note editor will play or pause the video, allowing you view video while inputting text.
🐞 Fix
Tab and Shift Tab shorcuts to bounce along clips in a composer stop working in certain situations.