
Pixelmator Pro 3.2 With Video Support Now Available
Posted December 6, 2022 at 3:03pm by iClarified · 1747 views
Pixelmator Pro 3.2 introduces some incredible new ways to create designs with full support for video layers, adds support for popular video formats, includes all-new video and social media templates, brings major improvements to Motion document support, and more.
New Features
• With full support for video layers, you can now edit videos and create stunning video designs with all the same tools you use to edit images.
• Use the new on-canvas controls to easily control video playback, set video start and end frames, select poster frames, and more.
• Work with a number of popular video formats, including MP4, QuickTime Movie, and even moving image formats such as animated GIFs and PNGs.
• Quickly create eye-catching designs with cinematic social media story templates and 4K movie title templates.
Video Layers Support
• Video layers in Pixelmator Pro work just like any other layers — you can mask or crop them, add effects, change colors, and more.
• Find useful information about video length in the video layer description.
• Work with videos with transparency, compressed using HEVC or Apple ProRes 4444 codecs.
• Import Live Photos from the Photos browser and edit them as photos or videos.
• Use quick video editing settings in the video layer shortcut menu, and the menu bar, or use handy, on-canvas controls.
• Easily start and stop video playback, mute, and unmute audio.
• You can also press the Space bar on your keyboard to play all layers, or Option + Space to play only the selected layers.
• With additional video editing settings, adjust the length of the video, scrub through individual frames, or select a poster frame.
• For compositions with multiple video layers, use Advanced Settings to delay, loop videos, or choose the behavior of the first and last video frames.
• Use playback delay to specify when each of the videos in a composition will start to play.
• Keep your videos playing on repeat with Loop or Bounce effects.
• Enjoy top video playback performance and a smooth, real-time video editing experience, powered by AVFoundation.
• On devices with Apple silicon, harness the power of M1 and M2 chips to edit and export videos of up to 8K resolution.
• Optimize videos for export with options for adjusting video size, quality, and frame rate.
• When exporting to QuickTime Movie format, make the most of additional video compression formats, including HEVC and Apple ProRes.
• Enjoy automatic video color management thanks to ColorSync integration.
• Use Quick Export to quickly export videos to MP4 file format.
• Export original, unedited videos from Pixelmator Pro by choosing Format > Video > Export Unmodified Video.
• Automate video import, editing, and export with AppleScript and Shortcuts apps.
Motion Support Improvements
• Enjoy support for video layers and many other improvements when exporting to Motion.
• Motion projects will now keep the custom fonts included in Pixelmator Pro documents.
• Basic vector clipping masks are now supported.
• Color adjustments and effects layers are now supported.
• Grain, Vignette, Black and White, and Gradient Map adjustments and effects will now be replaced with equivalent filters in Motion.
• RAW layers will now open as bitmap layers in Motion.
• To emulate nondestructive gradient and color fills from Pixelmator Pro, shapes will be used in Motion instead.
• Fill and Gradient Fill styles now open as Fill filters in Motion.
• Positioning of layers with complex transforms has been improved.
Other Improvements and Fixes
• You can now show or hide layer handles by choosing View > Layer and Selection Handles from the View menu.
• Arabic texts would sometimes be displayed incorrectly. Fixed.
• In some situations, Pixelmator Pro would stop responding when upscaling images using Super Resolution. Fixed.
You can purchase Pixelmator Pro from the App Store for $19.99.
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