Some of you possibly remember the old Ramen compositor. It was an open source project which unfortunately wasn’t very successful. The project was closed some months ago, but development went on and the compositor was rewritten. Important new features have been added and many errors have been fixed.
This is the new aspect of the application.
Some of the changes are clear from the screenshots, for example the tracker is new. I’ll post about other new features later.
I’m currently working to do an alpha release next week. For now, Linux 64 bits only.
64 bits Windows later. The new releases will be closed source.
Release 0.8.1 is out, with bug fixes, fixes in the linux package and some new features.
There are 3 new nodes: GenerateX, ColorX and LayerX, that use Disney’s SeExpr
to generate / color correct and composite images. DistortX will follow soon.
Also, there’s a new sample folder with some examples of how to use them.
You can even replace the splash screen by your own expression. Just copy the file ui/splash.se
in the package, edit it and copy it to $HOME/ramen1.0/ui.
Check SeExpr’s site for more info.
I bundled Python 2.7 in this release, but there’s not much you can do with it yet.
For now it’s more of an experiment to lean how to distribute python with an application.
And finally, I added a Move3D node. It’s still work in progress.
It has some cool things: it’s a real 3D transformation and it concatenates
with other (following) Move3D nodes in real 3d space.
On the other side, it doesn’t have on screen controls yet
and it’s usually difficult to see what’s going on and filtering quality is not
very high.
I plan on addressing the resampling quality issues in the next release.
And Synapse, when I last played with it a few months ago, is far from being usable on any kind of moving footage. Its a good start, though, and I hope both of these projects keep going.
Although, after Mango, I’m betting Blender will be the best, most promising open source compositing program available.
