v1.92 - dev preview 2

Changes (v1.92)

• Blur is now a GUI application. Right now the design is a placeholder. I have created a separate exe for the cli, blur-cli.exe. This has the same functionality as before.

• Support for unicode characters (videos with cyrillic, chinese characters, etc in their filepath will now work)
• Improved render times again by switching frame blending library

v1.9 - dev preview

Changes

• Reworked plugins (improved render times)
• Added global config (#16) - add a .blur-config.cfg in your blur.exe folder to be used as the default config. Adding an extra .blur-config.cfg next to input videos still works to override the global config.
• Added options
  • Video container
  • Interpolation mask
  • New interpolation preset 'default'
  • Option for custom interpolation strings
• Added the ability to set interpolated fps to a multiplier - e.g. 5x
• Added the option to add blur to path when installing (#11)
• Fixed some path errors

v1.8

Changes

• Added 'deduplicate' option to remove duplicate frames. This will generate new interpolated frames to take the place of any duplicate frames, increasing the overall smoothness of the output video.
• Added '-p/-nopreview' option to CLI
• Fixed issue with CLI parsing input paths

v1.71

Changes

• Added optional RIFE plugins to the installer
• Removed numpy dependency

v1.7

Changes

• Added option to change interpolation program (added RIFE)
• Added option to add custom ffmpeg output settings

To use RIFE you'll need to install the required plugins yourself for now. They are:
rife - https://github.com/HolyWu/vs-rife/blob/master/README.md#Dependencies
rife-ncnn - vsrepo.py install rife

If you installed using the installer, the commands should be
rife - pip install -t "C:\Program Files (x86)\blur\lib\vapoursynth" torch==1.9.0+cu111 torchvision==0.10.0+cu111 torchaudio===0.9.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html vsrife
rife-ncnn "C:\Program Files (x86)\blur\lib\vapoursynth\python.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\blur\lib\vapoursynth\vsrepo.py" install rife

v1.6

Changes

• Fixed command-line mode and path bugs
• Made proper installer

v1.5

Changes

• Greatly sped up rendering for high fps input videos
• Fixed audio desync (probably, let me know if there's still issues)
• Added frameserver support
• Added option to shift audio pitch with output timescale

v1.4

Changes

• Added the option to change the blur weighting. Available options are:
  • equal
  • gaussian
  • gaussian_sym
  • pyramid
  • pyramid_sym
  • custom weights
  • custom function

v1.3

Changes

• New frame blending plugin, no more limitations on blur amount
• Brightness/contrast/saturation options
• Better detailed filenames
• Fixed output audio format
• Fixed error on inputs with no audio track
• Fixed preview not showing proper output

v1.2

Changes

• Switched to VapourSynth, which means:

  • Faster rendering
  • No more freezing
  • Removed need for cpu cores and input fps in config

• Simplified config format

• Option for multiple config paths in command-line mode

• Bug fixes