OpenShot video editor online 1.4.3 in OffiDocs

OffiDocs continues with the evolution of its platform with new updates. We have updated the OpenShot video editor online version to 1.4.3 over CentOS 7.5, which is the framework that supports a lot of OffiDocs applications. Click in the following button to use this new version:

OpenShot video editor online 1.4.3 in OffiDocs

 

The previous version was the 1.2.3 so if we review the OpenShot 1.4.0 release notes we note that the new features we have included in our OpenShot online video editor are:

• Timeline improvements (middle mouse dragging on the canvas)
• More stable video & audio effects engine
• Powerful color correction and adjustments
• Many new & exciting video & audio effects
• 15 new video profiles & updated descriptions
• New 3D animations
• New transitions
• Many enhancements to the project files tree
• Improved internationalization & translations
• Removed use of the «melt» command line (depending on your MLT version)
• Thumbnail improvements (clip thumbnails update based on IN/OUT, file thumbnails regenerate if missing)
• Improved title editing
• New keyboard shortcuts
• Improved color accuracy with 3D animated title color pickers
• TONS of bug fixes and speed improvements!
• Works best with MLT 0.7.4+, but is still compatible with older versions

But additionally, we have also incorporated the features of version 1.4.3 for our OpenShot online video editor:

• Improved Timeline Snapping for Transitions (no more manual adjustment of every transition)
• Improved Drag & Drop features (Vertical Constraints, Improved Gap Removal, New Keyboard Shortcuts, and more)
• New 3D Animations (Realistic Earth, Exploding Text, Dissolving Text, and more)
• 10+ New Effects (Sharpness, Vignette, Lens Correction, and more)
• Apply Effects to Tracks (and Multiple Clips at the same time)
• Adjust Speed of Animated Titles (utilizing time remapping, for interpolated smooth animations)
• New Transitions (6 bars, boxes)
• New Dark Theme
• Improved Translations
• Updated Documentation
• Updated Dependencies (Now requires Blender 2.62+)
• Tons of Bug Fixes

 

See our video about how to use our new OpenShot online video editor:

LibreOffice Online 6.1.1.2 for OffiDocs

OffiDocs has updated the LibreOffice online version to the latest one, which is the framework that supports a lot of OffiDocs applications. Click in the following button to use this new version:

OffiDocs has updated the LibreOffice online version to the latest one, which is the framework that supports a lot of OffiDocs applications. The new one that we do use is LibreOffice online 6.1.1.2. It means that we have incorportated a lot of enhancements for our users. The most important are:

General enhancements

• Responsive design of the document iframe.
• Render all the glyphs in the character dialog on the server.
• Notify the clients about server non-availability and recycling after that.
• Improve performance by avoiding compression of PNG compression of un-changed tiles, and by avoiding sending PNG’s that are already at the client side
• New Insert Special Characters dialog.
• New file types that can be edited were added or improved, including PDF and HTML
• Find & replace dialog
• Automatic detection of links in the comments.
• Spell checking support in all Writer, Calc and Impress
• Status bar indicates the current language.
• Improved key and mouse events handling in order to avoid possible freezes.

LibreOffice Writer enhancements

• Native comment rendering, with animations.
• Optional rendering of non-printing characters.
• Change-tracking.
• Following dialogs enriching user’s editing experience:
  • Find & Replace
  • Edit Style
  • Hyperlink Dialog
  • Special Character Dialog
  • Index Entry
  • Character
  • Paragraph
  • Bullets & Numbering
  • Table properties dialog
  • Spelling & Grammar dialog
  • Word Count dialog
  • Change tracking management
  • Insert header and footer
  • Column formatting

 

LibreOffice Calc enhancements:

• Increased amount of rows available in the Online Calc to 10.000.
• Basic editing of charts.
• Various dialogs were exposed :
  • Ability to add autofilter
  • Ability to filter items via autofilter popup
  • Format Cell Dialog is available
  • Sorting functionality
  • Support for hidden tabs in Calc
  • Support for chart data series editing
  • Data validation

 

LibreOffice Impress enhancements:

• The following object and shape dialogs are added:
  • Position & Size.
  • Line dialog.
  • Area dialog.

Inkscape online version 0.92

OffiDocs has updated the Inkscape online version to 0.92 from the previous one, 0.47, so our Inkscape online includes much more functionality. Click in the following button to use this new version:

OffiDocs has updated the Inkscape online version to 0.92 from the previous one, 0.47 so our Inkscape online includes much more functionality.

In concrete, Inkscape 0.92 has added new interesting and useful features like the following:

– Mesh Gradients are now supported.  It means the control points for an object’s fill are in a grid («mesh»), and individual control points can be given different values. This provides a lot more artistic control over the appearance of the fill and can make it much easier to achieve photorealistic coloring and shading in Inkscape illustrations.

– Many SVG2 and CSS3 properties are now supported (e.g. paint-order, mix-blend-mode). For example:

* It is now possible to take advantage of OpenType tables to select alternative glyphs from a font.

* Support for vertical text layout has been improved.

* Converting text to a path will save the text in the ‘aria-label’ attribute.

* Line spacing in Inkscape now follows the CSS standard for the ‘line-height’ property.

– The new Object dialog allows to select, label, hide and lock any object in the drawing from a dialog that lists them all

– Selection sets make it possible to ‘group’ objects together. The new Selection Sets dialog (in the main menu: Objects > Selection Sets) makes housekeeping and organization of your Inkscape files much easier. It enables you to select multiple objects as you would normally, then save that selection, give it a name, and recall it later as needed, rather than having to manually select everything again.regardless of document structure

– Several new path effects have been added, among them Envelope/Perspective, Lattice Deformation, Mirror and Rotate Copies. These effects allow you to deform a path using four control points that Inkscape provides around the object. Envelope stretches and squashes the shape on a flat plane as you modify the control points; Perspective maps the object to match the perspective of the plane created by your manipulation of the control points. The Live Path Effects (LPEs) system is a powerful, non-destructive tool for applying live and interactive effects on the vector paths you draw in Inkscape. The effects can be composed together in any order you choose for a wide range of possibilities. Inkscape 0.92 has introduced a large family of LPEs; let’s take a look at several of them. For example:

* The lattice LPE allows you greater creative control than the four points of the Envelope LPE via a grid of deformation control points.

* The Rotate Copies and Mirror Symmetry LPEs take the goodness of the Tiled Clones feature of Inkscape and make it less clunky and confusing as well as allow for the interactive adjustment of the resulting compositions. The Rotate Copies LPE is similar to the Mirror Symmetry LPE; rather than creating mirror-image copies, it creates multiple copies rotated around a point, and you can customize the various parameters of this rotation to create cool effects.

– There are several new extensions (e.g. a seamless pattern extension) and a new filter (colorblindness simulation) included in the release, many old extensions have been updated or got new features

– Spray tool and measure tool received a set of nifty new features

– BSplines (and more) are available for the Pen tool. B-splines («Basis Splines») are another new-to-Inkscape pen tool mode that is an alternative to traditional bezier paths. One of the main differences between B-spline paths and bezier paths is that B-spline paths are one continuous path with multiple control points; bezier paths are compositions of multiple individual and connected line segments.

– Checkerboard background can be used to more easily see object transparencies

The following video shows how to use the new Inkscape online version 0.92 integrated that can be run from our platform:

 

 

Refer to the Inkscape website for further information about Inkscape 0.92.

Gimp online version 2.8

OffiDocs has updated the GIMP 2.8 online version to 2.8 from the previous one, 2.6, so our GIMP online includes much more functionality. Click in the following button to use this new version:

OffiDocs has updated the GIMP online version to 2.8 from the previous one, 2.6 so our GIMP online includes much more functionality.

In concrete, GIMP 2.8 has added new interesting and useful features like the following:

1. Enhancements to the User Interface

• New single window mode so that all the GIMP dialogs appear inside one big window with the image centered inside. This single window mode could be enabled or disabled all the time,.
• New file save workflow to work with xcf formats but it is also possible to export an image in another format, jpg or png.
• New image bar that allows to switch between open images using a tab bar that has thumbnails of the pictures.
• New arrangement options so that users can work with two screens, one for dialogs and the other one for images.
• New resources like Gradients, Pattern, Brushes, and Palettes that can be filtered and found via tags.
• A new “Lock Pixels” option to avoid undesired painting on layers.
• In the multi-window mode, users can close the Toolbox without exiting GIMP.

2. Tools, Filters and Plug-ins

• Cage Transform to create custom bending of a selection just moving control points.
• Cage Transform enhanced to make possible changing the attributes of only a char.
• The text tool has been improved.
• The default Quick Mask color is now configurable.
• A PDF exporter has been implemented.

Added plug-ins for loading JPEG2000 images, OpenRaster (.ora) import and export, RGB565, …

The following video shows how to use the new GIMP online version 2.8 integrated that can be run from our platform:

Refer to the GIMP website for further information about GIMP 2.8

OffiDocs apps upgraded to CentOS 7

As part of our commitment to enhance our OffiDocs services we have just included Web push notifications in our website. This is going to be our main communication channel with our end users because you know that according to our Terms of Service  we do not collect any personal data, neither phones, nor emails, … so we have opted for this communication channel, which is anonymous.

We do recommend all of users to subscribe to our Web Push notification channel because important news are coming affecting to all of our Web online desktop applications. We have been working during the last 3 months in order to prepare our framework in order to update our applications to the newest versions. This has been a demand from a lot of users so we have dedicated a lot of efforts in order to prepare our platforms for that.

During the coming months you will note that app by app all the Linux apps will be upgraded to the last version available. And everything will run over CentOS 7. Subscribe to our web push notifications to keep updated.

Do not hesitate to contact us for further information at info@offilive.com

How to include a navigation bar in your website with the OffiDocs apps

OffiDocs allows any website to incorporate all the OffiDocs using a menu navigation bar.

You can include in your website direct access to all the OffiDocs apps. It is a menu navigation bar developed with an HTML code to be imported in your website.  It is available in GitHub https://github.com/officeonlinesystems/offidocsmenuapps

 

This is a navigation bar that can be included in any WebSite to use all the OffiDocs apps. The OffiDocs applications included are:

• OpenOffice Writer online
• OpenOffice Calc online
• OpenOffice Impress online
• PDF editor online online
• Gimp image editor online
• Inkscape vector editor online
• OpenOffice Draw online
• Audacity audio editor online
• Avidemux video editor online
• LMMS music creator online
• Openshot video editor online
• Sweep audio editor online
• Dia diagram editor online
• Eclipse IDE program online
• Geany IDE program online
• Planner project plan online
• Telegram web online
• OffiLive free email
• Chess online
• Four in a row online

This navigation appear as shown in the following pictures:

 

 

 

 

To use this navigation bar you only need to include the HTML code of the offidocsmenubar.html file.

You can also opt to create direct links to use each application, but change the username to your own instead of using demo01:

• https://www.offidocs.com/create-gimp.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-openofficewriter.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-openofficecalc.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-openofficeimpress.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-openofficeimpress.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-pdfedit.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-openshot.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-sweep.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-inkscape.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-audacity.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-avidemux.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-lmms.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-dia.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-eclipse.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-geany.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-projectlibre.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-messagegram.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-openofficedraw.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-chess.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/create-fourinrow.html?username=demo01
• https://www.offidocs.com/SOGo/

OffiDocs & RedcoolMedia movie and video editors online

OffiDocs video editors online and OffiDocs movie editors online have been integrated with the video and movie editors from RedcoolMedia.  Our Chrome extensions and Firefox addons for Videos and Movies have incorporated their  RedcoolMedia counterparts

The OffiDocs extensions enhanced are:

* OpenShot online – video editor online.

* Avidemux video editor online.

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They offer now links to the following functionality:

* The RedcoolMedia Movie maker video editor.

* A File manager to handle your files online.

* Our free email @offilive.com service.

These three additional features features appear as shown in the following figure:

 

MovieStudio is an extension to make movies, record videos, edit videos, modify them using another videos you can import. MovieStudio also allows to add audios, images, and texts into your movies and videos.  Its main features are:

* Support MP4 videos, WEBM videos, MP3 audio files , GIF images, PNG images, JPG images and TEXT files or content.

* Record any video and import them in your project:

– MovieStudio provides a button that capture videos from your camera. The video recorded are imported in your Gallery along with other objects that can be used to make your movie.

– After importing your recorded video in your Gallery, drag your video from the Media Gallery to the timeline. Drag it to Layer 0 or any other layer.

– Refer to the following section in order to know what to do with any of your video.

* Add and modify MP4 or WEBM videos included in your project:

– You can import videos from the Internet by pasting in the link, or uploading a local video. Once you have found a MP4 or WEBM video you like, copy the link by right-clicking on the  Video link and selecting Copy Link Address from the context menu. Then paste the link into your VideoStudio project and click on Get Media.

– Drag your video from the Media Gallery to the timeline. Drag it to Layer 0 or any other layer. Once you have dragged your video to the timeline, you will enter in an editor from which you can extend the video time or shorten it, you can turn the video portion of your clip off; and you can do the same thing with the audio, as well as turn the volume down.

– You assemble your project in layers. Layers with lower numbers appear above layers with a higher number. So layer one appears on top of layer two.

* Add any MP3 audio file in your project taking into account that adding MP3 audio files is similar to adding video files:

– Once the MP3 audio files are imported you can drag your audio from the Media Gallery to the timeline from which an editor is open.

– The audio editor allows to extend the audio time or shorten it, and select only a portion of your audio if you would like.

* Include texts into your movie. In the Events tab there is an option to add some text to your video. MovieStudio provides an editor for this text integration. It allows to change the time when your text starts and ends, move it around on the canvas, and change the way it transitions on and off the page. It also allows to change the font and color.

* Include images into your movie or video. In the Events tab there is an option to add some images to your video. The formats supported are PNG, JPG and GIF. MovieStudio provides an editor for this images integration. It allows to change the time when your image appears in your video.

* Create your MP4 movie or video file. In the Project tab there is a button to create a MP4 file with your composition of videos, audios, images and texts. This MP4 creation uses the open source software FFMPEG.

 

A video showing how this integration works:

OffiDocs & RedcoolMedia image editors online and photo editors online

OffiDocs image editors online and OffiDocs photo editors online have been integrated with the image and photo editors from RedcoolMedia.  Our Chrome extensions and Firefox addons for Photo and Images have incorporated their  RedcoolMedia counterparts. The OffiDocs extensions enhanced are:

* Gimp online – image editor and paint tool.

* Inkscape editor for draws and graphics.

* XPaint image editor and painter.

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They offer now links to the following functionality:

* The RedcoolMedia Photo editor PhotoStudio for images.

* The RedcoolMedia Image editor PaintMagick for photos.

* A File manager to handle your files online.

* Our free email @offilive.com service.

 These four additional features features appear as shown in the following figure:

PhotoStudio is a photo editor to modify any image, use your camera to take pictures, import them, and edit any kind of images and graphics. It provides a flexible area with a multitude of photo editing features, effects and filters. Its main features are:

– Take pictures from your PC or laptop camera.

– Import pictures to modify them.

– Filters, which determine the atmosphere of pictures and help convey the right message for your creative.

– Custom filters, that can be created by anyone using LUTs (Lookup Tables) from popular apps like Photoshop, GIMP or Lightroom.

– Overlays, which can be used to create neat lighting effects such as lens flare, bokeh or light leaks. It can also be used to furnish pictures with textures like crumpled paper or plaster.

– Adjustments like brightness, contrast or clarity so that users can tune their images and graphics to produce stunning creatives.

– Transform effects like cropping, flipping and rotation operations.

– Allow to quickly add text to any picture or creative. The corresponding font library can easily be exchanged, reduced, or expanded.

– Provide Stickers.

– Brush, which is optimized for touch screen interaction and supports different brush strokes that can be edited in terms of thickness and color.

– Download or share the pictures modified.

PaintMagick is an image editor for photos and draws with advanced drawing features, effects and filters. It allows to create and edit images directly in the web browser. You can create images, paste from clipboard (ctrl+v) or upload from computer (using menu or drag & drop). Everything stays in your web browser.

Its main features are:

– Files: open images, directories, URL, drag and drop, save (PNG, JPG, BMP, WEBP, animated GIF, JSON (layers data), print.

– Edit: undo, cut, copy, paste, selection, paste from clipboard.

– Image: information, EXIF, trim, zoom, resize (Hermite resample, default resize), rotate, flip, color corrections (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, luminance), auto adjust colors, grid, histogram, negative.

– Layers: multiple layers system, differences, merge, flatten, Transparency support.

– Effects: Black and White, Blur (box, Gaussian, stack, zoom), Bulge/Pinch, Denoise, Desaturate, Dither, Dot Screen, Edge, Emboss, Enrich, Gamma, Grains, GrayScale, Heatmap, JPG Compression, Mosaic, Oil, Sepia, Sharpen, Solarize, Tilt Shift, Vignette, Vibrance, Vintage,

– Tools: pencil, brush, magic wand, erase, fill, color picker, letters, crop, blur, sharpen, desaturate, clone, borders, sprites, key-points, color to alpha, color zoom, replace color, restore alpha, content fill.

A video showing how this integration works:

Navigation menubar for OffiDocs apps

OffiDocs has developed a navigation menubar in order to start the most important OffiDocs apps online from a centralized menu. Navigation menu bar in order to access the most important OffiDocs applications once it has been open and it is running. It is available in all the OffiDocs Linux online apps.

This application menu is an horizontal navigation bar  as shown in the following picture:

Its design is web responsive in the sense that if necessary the OffiDocs menu navigation will provide a scrollbar to find the OffiDocs app that end user wants to execute.

The OffiDocs applications included are:

• OpenOffice Writer online
• OpenOffice Calc online
• OpenOffice Impress online
• PDF editor online online
• Gimp image editor online
• Inkscape vector editor online
• OpenOffice Draw online
• Audacity audio editor online
• Avidemux video editor online
• LMMS music creator online
• Openshot video editor online
• Sweep audio editor online
• Dia diagram editor online
• Eclipse IDE program online
• Geany IDE program online
• Planner project plan online
• Telegram web online
• OffiLive free email
• Chess online
• Four in a row online

All of these options mean that when you are running an application you can quickly open another one so it is a clear benefit to use the OffiDocs platform.

This OffiDocs menu navigation application bar is displayed at the bootom of the OffiDocs webpage:

A video showing how to use the  OffiDocs menu navigation application bar:

OffiDocs Group incorporates RedcoolMedia and DandroidMobile

OffiDocs platforms continues enhancing the end user experience with more applications. OffiDocs has signed an agreement with the RedcoolMedia and DandroidMobile platforms and their technology. Both platforms will be integrated in OffiDocs. This integration is the OffiDocs commitment to continue improving our free apps.

We are excited about these two acquisitions and all the opportunities that it gives to our end users:

• RedcoolMedia (https://www.redcoolmedia.net) is a very consolidated platform that provides web applications for productivity, video, audio, images and messaging. It is the perfect match to integrate a web app alternative to each OffiDocs web app.

• DandroidMobile (http://www.dandroidmobile.com) is a team that provides Android apps using VNC and RDP connections to a remote desktop where applications can be run. It is also perfect to improve the OffiDocs android apps.

OffiDocs is now the owner of RedcoolMedia https://www.redcoolmedia.net and DandroidMobile http://www.dandroidmobile.com