Version 6.8.4 - February 2026

• For layers that are completeley invisible because the layer itself and it's mask do not overlap anymore, it is now easier to click and manipulate that layer. Simply select it beforehand in the Storyboard, then click inside the white selection frame in the Stage and drag the layer as desired, even if you do cannot see the layer contents (because they are still masked).
• Map layers can now draw an unlimited number of locations and route waypoints. The previous limit of 32 has been removed.
• You can now add a text layer in an empty document or if the playhead is at the end of the slideshow without first adding a blank slide.
• Dragging control points in opacity, animation speed, or effect strength curves is now more reliable.
• Adding or removing points in curves with pressed command key is more robust.
• Double clicking on a curve to edit points numerically in the popover is now more reliable.
• When using multi-slide snippets with pre-defined animations (e.g. titles or splitscreens), the AI animation feature no longer messes up the pre-defined snippet animations.
• Filtering snippets in the media browser by name now works reliably for both Categories and Downloads sections.
• Dragging cursors in timeline mode for adjusting slide durations and transition durations are now more accurate.
• Dragging slide durations in timeline view is now more reliable when using cut transitions.
• Shortening the duration of the last slide in timeline view no longer causes the timeline to scroll uncontrollably.

Version 6.8.3 - January 2026

• Editing values in various text fields with units now works correctly again.
• Excessive or invalid layer zoom values no longer causes FotoMagico to crash when selecting the layer.
• Background removal effect on image layers now works again without having to also enable mask effect.
• Background removal effect on vertically oriented images (e.g. vertical iPhone photos) now works correctly.
• The AI point of interest indicator is now positioned correctly on vertically oriented images (e.g. vertical iPhone photos).
• The settings window now has a checkbox that lets you show/hide the AI point of interest indicator on image layers.

Version 6.8.2 - December 2025

• 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.

Version 6.8.1 - October 2025

• 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.

Version 6.8 - June 2025

• 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.

Version 6.7.8 - April 2025

• 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 guarranteeing 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.

Version 6.7.7 - March 2025

• 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 stabilty and error reporting for Lightroom Classic in the media browser.
• Improved internal error reporting.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.7.6 - February 2025

• 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.

Version 6.7.5 - December 2024

• 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.

Version 6.7.4 - November 2024

• Fixed a bug that was using enormous amounts of memory when looping or jumping interactively during slideshow playback.
• Audio tracks are now more reliably started at the correct time, when interactively jumping around in a slideshow.
• Loading old legacy files is more robust now. This should avoid crashes when trying to open old slideshow files.
• Fixed a failure to share a slideshow that contains video layers with a 0s slide duration.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.7.3 - September 2024

• 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.

Version 6.7.2 - September 2024

• Added a master volume slider to the %E2%80%A6 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.

Version 6.7.1 - September 2024

• 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, fullscreen playback, or sharing a slideshow.
• Storyboard thumbnails for HEIC image files on macOS Sequoia are now created correctly.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.7 - August 2024

• 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.
• 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.

Version 6.6 - May 2024

• 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.

Version 6.5.8 - March 2024

• Added new option to suppress watermark rendering on a per-slide basis.
• Fixed incorrect build number order of 6.5.7 beta and release versions.
• Fixed incorrect French and German UI translations.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.5.7 - March 2024

• 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.

Version 6.5.6 - February 2024

• 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.

Version 6.5.5 - February 2024

• Added a new interactive "Getting Started" tutorial. Access it from the Help menu. Available on macOS 12 and newer.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.5.4 - January 2024

• 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.

Version 6.5.2 - October 2023

• FotoMagico 6.5.2 is compatible with macOS 14 Sonoma.
• Editing text layers works again on macOS Sonoma.
• Fixed several layout glitches of controls in the Options sidebar on macOS Sonoma.
• When pressing the control key while dragging an audio marker in the Audiomarker 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.
• Improved importing of metadata information from audio tracks.
• Added more metadata to audio Get Info popover.
• Any audio preview that was playing in the media browser is now stopped before slideshow playback is started.
• Fixed edge case problems with audio track when dragging slides in the Storyboard.
• Internal stability improvements.

Important: If you are updating from version 6.4.x or 6.5, please download the app manually from https://fotomagico.com because the update process from these versions is broken.

Version 6.5.1 - September 2023

• 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.

Important: If you are updating from version 6.4.x, please download the app manually from https://fotomagico.com because the update process from these versions is broken.

Version 6.5 - September 2023

• 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.

Important: If you are updating from version 6.4.1 or 6.4.2, please download the app manually from https://fotomagico.com because the update process from these versions is broken.

Version 6.4.3 - June 2023

• 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.

Version 6.4.2 - June 2023

• 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.

Version 6.4.1 - May 2023

• 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.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.4 - March 2023

• Added AI based background removal effect for image layers that contain persons.
• 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 effect 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.

Version 6.3.3 - January 2023

• 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 Assitant when using custom maps.
• Tweaked some German menu translations.
• Fixed a crash on macOS Catalina when using map head icons.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.3.2 - December 2022

• 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.

Version 6.3.1 - December 2022

• 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 now longer crashes the application.
• Internal stabilty improvements.

Version 6.3 - December 2022

• FotoMagico 6.3 is compatible with macOS Ventura.
• Introducing route head icons for animated routes on map layers.
• Introducing custom map layers with user-loadable images.
• Added new styling options for route waypoints in map layers.
• Added the option to reduce opacity of a travel route for certain sections to achieve special effects like occlusion (e.g. by buildings on a 3D map or custom map images).
• Added the option to endlessly loop a chapter. This is useful for an intro chapter, while the audience is being seated, or a credits chapter when everybody is leaving again.
• Introducing playback variants for a slideshow. Using different playback variants for each chapter, you can create long and short versions within a single slideshow document, e.g. a full show and a short trailer.
• %E2%80%9CSave Snippet%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D now offers the option to save only the selected slides, instead of the whole slideshow.
• Starting playback close to the end of very long slideshows is now more robust and no longer leads to the slideshow getting stuck.
• Using snippets with locked layers now works correctly when inserting into a slideshow with a different stage format.
• Rendered slide previews are now more accurate (depicting the correct time).
• Toolbar buttons (and other controls) are no longer disabled after sharing a slideshow.
• The animated setting of slides is now correctly remembered when creating new slides.
• Downloading your FotoMagico license from Boinx Connect is now more reliable.
• Internal stabilty improvements.

Version 6.2.3 - October 2022

• Pressing the right arrow key during playback now works correctly again, no longer causing incorrect rendering of upcoming slides.
• Matching slide durations to audio now works correctly.

Version 6.2.2 - September 2022

• Introduced a new more robust version of the playback engine that is less prone to occasional stuttering.
• Fixed a bug that caused occasional hangs or black frames during slideshow playback in the vicinity of slides that are set to continue "Interactive".
• Jumping to the next slide with the right-arrow key no longer skips any slides, if a sequence is synced to music with audio markers.
• Jumping ahead beyond the start of an audio track now works correctly.
• Smart groups for text layers now work correctly.
• Text placeholders are now reliably replaced when inserting text snippets into a slideshow.
• Text placeholders for Settings metadata no longer show up empty if the corresponding info is missing in the Slideshow Settings.
• Opening multiple slideshow documents at once is now compatible with Stage Manager on macOS Ventura.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.2.1 - August 2022

• Fixed a bug where the new media browser was rendered unusable when running on macOS Catalina or macOS Big Sur.
• Fixed several incorrect icons in the new media browser when running on macOS Catalina.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.2 - August 2022

• The new media browser is now enabled by default. You can still revert to the old media browser in the Preferences window if desired.
• The modern media browser now supports Lightroom CC in addition to Lightroom Classic.
• The modern media browser offers downloading of royalty free images or videos from Unsplash.com and Pexels.com.
• The modern media browser can be opened in a separate window that can be dragged to a second screen. That way the sidebar can always display the Options.
• The modern media browser now lists music snippets in the Audio tab instead of the Snippets tab.
• The Storyboard now provides authoring alerts for slides set to "continue at audio marker", if audio markers are missing.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.1.6 - August 2022

• The search UI for Unsplash and Pexels in the new media browser has been overhauled to be more intuitive. Search field and filtering is now inline with the Unsplash or Pexels source.
• Music.app in new media browser now supports audio files that are stored outside the user's "Music" folder, e.g. on an external disk. If read access rights are not available, the user is alerted to grant access rights to the folder containing the audio files.
• The new media browser no longer crashes with playlists containing duplicate songs.
• Changing a transition via the context menu in the Storyboard now applies to the whole selection, instead of just the clicked transition.
• Using the "Duplicate" command in the File menu now works correctly.
• Fixed several issues when using Stage Manager on macOS Ventura.
• Got rid of some memory leaks after closing a slideshow document.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.1.5 - July 2022

• Sections in the new media browser can now be collapsed/expanded.
• The new media browser can now sort media files by use count.
• You can now drag & drop folders from the Finder to the new media browser to add this folder.
• The new media browser should now be able to load libraries from older versions for Adobe Lightroom Classic.
• Fixed issues in Snippets section of the new media browser.
• Adding a text layer to a slide now updates the Stage area correctly again.
• Fixed some UI issues in the new media browser when running on macOS Catalina or Big Sur.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.1.4 - July 2022

• The image size alert in the Storyboard now has a button to scale down all images that are larger than necessary at once.
• Added "Playback Diagnostics" window to track down playback issues or performance problems.
• Added support for PowerPoint compatible remote clickers (e.g. Logitech) for controlling the slideshow while on stage.
• Keyboard short for various functions now work correctly again, when the new media browser is enabled.
• Any background loading activity by the new media browser is now suspended during slideshow playback.
• Across the board performance improvements during slideshow authoring.
• Improved document loading performance.
• "Save As..." and "Save & Compact" are more robust now.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.1.3 - June 2022

• DRM protected files can no longer be dragged into the slideshow, because macOS doesn't support playback of protected files anymore.
• Updated some snippets in the Intros and Credits folders.
• Improved login for Adobe Lightroom CC in the new media browser (beta).
• Added support for Adobe Lightroom Classic in the new media browser (beta).
• Improved stability for browsing Apple Music in the new media browser (beta).
• Snippet previews (QuickLook) in the media browser are now more reliable.
• Looped audio now plays correctly, no longer applying the volume fade-in every time the audio is looped.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.1.2 - May 2022

• The preferences window now contains a section to enable a new media browser (which is still in beta testing).
• Text layer alignment (left, center, right) now works correctly on Macs with an M1 processor.
• Printing a slideshow script no longer crashes and now prints neutral text colors correctly.
• When creating a new slideshow, the previous slideshow title isn't reused anymore.
• Fixed crashing issues in the media browser.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.1 - March 2022

• Added printing of slideshow script, contact sheet, and shot list (for story snippets).
• Added new transtions "Defocus" and "Barn Door".
• Added a QR-Code to the Subscription window, so that the user can manually transfer an existing license to an iPad, should the regular installation fail for any reason.
• Fixed a memory leak during slideshow playback, that could lead to sluggish behavior in long running shows.
• Fixed an internal issue where Quicklook thumbnails where sometimes omitted when saving a slideshow.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0.6 - February 2022

• Due to popular demand the random transition feature is back!
• Dragging audio markers in the Audio Marker Assistant no longer causes the app to stall on M1 Macs.
• The audio credits text token now picks up songs in all three audio tracks instead of just the first track.
• The new Blend Mode effect is no longer turned on by default.
• Added missing German & French translations in Connect menu.
• Keyboard shortcuts for several menu items were changed because their previous shortcut keys were only available on external extended keyboards (but not on MacBooks).
• When deleting a slide with short audio, the audio no longer gets left over in the Storyboard.
• The animation of the FotoMagico intro snippet no longer gets messed up when being combined with a music snippet (that contains audio markers).
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0.5 - January 2022

• Added "Blend Mode" effect. This rarely used effect can be used to achieve interesting creative effects for text layers placed on top of image or video layers.
• Replacing image layers in complex splitscreen snippets that use smart groups no longer results in weird zoom jumps. For existing slideshows that still exhibit this bug, simply drop in the images again to fix the problem.
• When applying effects to a layer in a smart group, the effects are now synced to all other layers in the same smart group.
• Fixed a bug where Storyboard thumbnails were sometimes too bright when applying layer effects.
• Experimental changes to hopefully fix black exports on some customer Macs.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0.4 - December 2021

• The Audio Marker Assistant now has an "Analyze" button to automatically create audio markers for music with a steady beat.
• Added strength curves to mask and border effects. That way the opacity can be animated over time.
• User-created snippets from FotoMagico 5 can now be imported into FotoMagico 6. If any snippets from FotoMagico 5 are found, you will automatically be asked whether you want to import them when launching FotoMagico.
• Searching in the Map Assistant has been improved. It now finds more places and displays all search results in a dropdown menu.
• The behavior of the zoom range slider in the Map Assistant has been changed to be more intuitive.
• The teleprompter now shows thumbnails of upcoming slides and has a better preparation progress bar.
• Colors of non-sRGB image files are now displayed correctly.
• Rendering of text layers that contain emoji characters is now more robust.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0.3 - November 2021

• The color picker style can now be selected in the preferences window, or with the context menu by right-clicking on a color picker.
• The RGB and HSL color sliders now work correctly for text colors.
• The audio waveform for looped audio tracks is now displayed correctly in the Timeline view.
• The authoring alert popover informing about excessive image file sizes is now automatically closed when clicking on the "Scale Down" button.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0.2 - November 2021

• Color pickers now offer a grid view of color patches by default. The previous color picker styles are still available and can be used when needed.
• Improved opacity, animation speed, or effect strength curve editing:
• In addition to dragging curve points, line segments can now also be dragged (vertically).
• Numeric editing of curve points in the popover window can now be done in seconds, if only a single curve is selected.
• Right-clicking a curve point shows a context menu to delete the point.
• Deleting curve points via command-clicking is now more reliable.
• Single channel grayscale, CMYK, or LAB image files can now be used.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0.1 - November 2021

• Added quick fix buttons to various inline authoring alerts the Storyboard.
• When opening a slideshow document on macOS 12 Monterey, the document is no longer immediately marked as modified.
• When opening or saving a slideshow document with missing media files a warning is now displayed.
• Save & Compact is now more reliable. It no longer fails if a slide is missing some media files.
• Playback of looped audio is now more precise.
• Audio markers for looped audio tracks are now correctly displayed in Timeline view.
• Fixed incorrect behavior after replacing media files of layers or audio tracks.
• Slide previews for map layers are now rendered correctly.
• Slide previews are now a bit more detailed.
• Internal stability improvements.

Version 6.0 - November 2021

• Map layers with animated travel routes provide new possibilities for travel slideshows.
• Visual effects for image, video, text, and map layers bring new creative options to spice up your slideshows.
• Downloadable content like slideshows snippets, demo slideshows, and tutorials.
• The new pan & zoom fix point indicator helps to create perfect Ken Burns style animations more quickly.
• Use a single subscription on all your Macs and iPad devices.
• The user interface has been streamlined to look familiar on Mac and iPad devices.
• Rewritten from scratch with modern technologies including Swift, SwiftUI, CoreAnimation, and high performance Metal rendering.