Natron 2.2 released

(Updated) The binary files for Natron 2.2 are available for download.

New features in the cross-platform open source compositing software include:

• OpenGL rendering is enabled by default for interactive editing in plugins that support it (but still disabled for background rendering)
• Roto & RotoPaint: ellipses and circles are more accurate
• When a plugin is not available with the right major version, use the smallest major version above for better compatibility (before that change, the highest major version was returned)
• Natron can now be launched in 32-bits mode on MacOS
• Documentation is now licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, and external contributions are welcome
• Organize nodes documentation

Plugins

• The plugins that were made available as beta features in the 2.1 releases are now considered stable:
  • DenoiseSharpen: new wavelet-based denoising plugin
  • EdgeBlur: Blur the image where there are edges in the alpha/matte channel.
  • EdgeDetect: Perform edge detection by computing the image gradient magnitude.
  • EdgeExtend: Fill a matte (i.e. a non-opaque color image with an alpha channel) by extending the edges of the matte.
  • ErodeBlur: Erode or dilate a mask by smoothing.
  • HueCorrect: Apply hue-dependent color adjustments using lookup curves.
  • HueKeyer: Compute a key depending on hue value.
  • KeyMix: Copies A to B only where Mask is non-zero.
  • Log2Lin: Convert from/to the logarithmic space used by Cineon files.
  • PIK: A per-pixel color difference keyer that uses a mix operation instead of a max operation to combine the non-backing screen channels.
  • PIKColor: Generate a clean plate from each frame for keying with PIK.
  • PLogLin: Convert between linear and log representations using the Josh Pines log conversion.
  • Quantize: Reduce the number of color levels with posterization or dithering
  • SeExprSimple: new simple expression plugin with one expression per channel
  • Sharpen & Soften: new plugins.
  • SlitScan: Per-pixel retiming.
• Shadertoy: support IDate, add presets
• Transform & CornerPin: additional “Amount” parameter to control the amount of transform to apply.
• STMap, IDistort, LensDistortion, Transform, CornerPin: reduce supersampling to avoid artifacts
• LensDistortion: add STMap output mode, add undistort output, add PFBarrel and 3DEqualizer distortions model, add proper region of definition support.

Plus bug fixes. More on GitHub and Natron’s website. (Note: the binary files of the 2.2 version are not yet available for download, they should show up soon)