Release Notes – Futura Time Lapse

Release date: March the 31st, 2025 

• New features:
  • User can now also create a video with the non-aligned images

• Improvements of existing rules and features:
  • Better algorithm to suppress some little jittering remaining after the alignment
  • Faster preparation of the time lapse
  • Process moves automatically to the next step when the cropping is done
  • The app can now align images with major shifts between them

• Bugs fixed:
  • If a video file already existed with the same name, the application was freezing.
  • If the use was selecting only the video 16:9, the app was freezing.
  • Fixed a bug during the creation of videos of cropped images

Release date: March the 10th, 2025

This is a major release proposing a totally new experience, and several new important features.

• New features:
  • Alignment methods extended to 2 translations only, 2 translations + 1 rotation, or 2 translations and 3 rotations
  • User can now generate a video right after the alignment, the cropping and a cropping to 16:9
  • Futura Tine Lapse defines a recommended method for the alignment of images
  • New UI
  • User can now choose which parts of the image will be the reference for aligning the others
  • Improved alignment algorithm for several corner cases
  • JPG and Jpeg files are also recognised (only JPG files were detected so far)
  • Bell is ringing when alignment and cropping tasks are completed 

Release date: April the 23rd, 2024

• New features:
  • Can align JPG files generated by LRT
  • Images can be cropped after the alignment to remove the black margins

• Improvements of existing rules and features:
  • Fixed corner cases where static patches where too close to each others (same fix as in Futura Photo)

Version 2.0.1
Release date: February the 5th, 2024

• Improvements of existing rules and features:
  • Time Lapse alignment improved for some corner cases

• Bugs fixed:
  • Some Time Lapse alignment were not going through in some corner cases

Version 2.0
Release date: January the 17th, 2024

The release has been mostly focused at improving the algorithm to improve the alignment of time lapse members.

• New features:
  • Files aligned and Files not aligned are sent to dedicated folders

• Improvements of existing rules and features:
  • New algorithm to align images together
  • Images are no more cropped

• Bugs fixed:
  • Some bugs related to the license key in some corner cases have been fixed

Version 1.0.1

Release date: March the 27th, 2023

• Bugs fixed:
  • Fix a bug when upgrading the license for a corner case

Version 1.0.0

Release date: November the 30th, 2022 

• 3 Clicks-only alignment: source, destination folders + validation (start button)
• Automatic detection of "static" parts of the time lapse
• Automatic alignment of images
• Automatic crop of the aligned images
• Aligned and Cropped image copied to destination folder