v0.4.0

Full Changelog: v0.3.1...v0.4.0

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🚀 What’s new in v0.4.0

• ✨ Preview mode via --preview CLI flag
• 🎞️ GIF and MP4 rendering with frame-fade filters
• 🧪 22 tests covering config, render flow, warnings, failure handling
• 📦 Clean ZIP packaging with README, LICENSE, SUPPORT, examples
• 🧼 Handles macOS .DS_Store and ZIP edge cases
• 💚 FFmpeg warnings parsed into structured RenderReport
• 🪼 [GUI preview tool](https://github.com/madspaaskesen/aether-renderer-gui) now available for early use
• 🐧 Cross-platform binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows

v0.3.1

📦 Aether Renderer Core v0.3.1

✨ New Features

• --preview [N]: Render a single preview frame from your input sequence.

  • Example: --preview renders the middle frame
  • Example: --preview 42 renders frame 42
  • Output saved as a .png

• --open: Automatically open the output file after render

  • Works with full video render only (--preview + --open is gracefully ignored)

🛠 Improvements

• Preview and open logic are now decoupled from RenderConfig
• Terminal-friendly UX: helpful messages, no surprises
• Full README.md and crates.io documentation updates

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✨ Built with care, tested with benchmarks, and designed for clarity.
Thanks to Codex for inspiring the --open feature 💛

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What's Changed

• Add preview frame extraction by @madspaaskesen in #50

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.3.1

v0.3.0

[0.3.0] – 2024-06-11

✨ Changed

• Removed: --app-output CLI flag. Output paths must now be fully specified via --output.
• Improved: Logging is now silent by default. Use --verbose to see frame extraction and render progress.
• Cleaner structure: Internal render logic respects minimal CLI output expectations.

🔁 Behavior Changes

• Frame extraction and render steps no longer print by default
• Final video export confirmation remains visible
• Output directory responsibility now belongs fully to the caller

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Frames	Total Time (s)	Output Size (MB)	Avg Time/Frame (ms)
1	1.17	0.00	1173.9
10	0.91	0.00	91.0
100	1.79	0.01	17.9
1000	13.13	0.13	13.1
10000	112.07	1.28	11.2

✨ Even at 10,000 frames, the renderer maintains ~11ms per frame performance — demonstrating excellent scalability, stability, and I/O handling.

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This version completes the core redesign, preparing for tighter GUI and library integrations.

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.3.0

v0.2.2

What's Changed

• Add --app-output flag to control output folder by @madspaaskesen in #45
• Add flag to toggle ffmpeg verbosity by @madspaaskesen in #46

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

v0.2.1

🕊️ Aether Renderer Core – v0.2.1 released!

Aether Renderer is a minimal and sacred media compiler for image sequences — with smart CLI, glob support, and gentle rendering feedback. Built for creative developers, motion artists, and toolmakers who care about detail and clarity.

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✨ What’s New in v0.2.1

• 🎛️ Hybrid CLI config support
  Use either --config render.json or direct CLI input like --input and --output, or mix them freely.

• 🌿 Glob + pattern support
  Match files via *.png, scene_*.png, or frame_%04d.png — auto-detected and ffmpeg-validated.

• 🌀 Live rendering spinner
  Enabled via --verbose, you now get a calming terminal spinner with elapsed time while ffmpeg works its magic.

• 🧪 Better error messages & fallback
  Clear output when ffmpeg isn’t found, or if no frames match your pattern. CLI validation added.

• 📄 Updated README with examples and config formats

• 🪼 Gople spirit awakening (early concept)
  A gentle jellyfish spirit may soon accompany your renders… 🫧

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🛠 Example usage

aether-renderer-core --input frames.zip --output video.webm --file-pattern '*.png' --fps 30 --verbose

or:

aether-renderer-core --config render.json

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Made with care and spirit by @madspaaskesen
Powered by 🧡 Rust, FFmpeg, and Sacred AI

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

What's Changed

• adding lib.rs for lib interface.

• Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by @madspaaskesen in #23
• Refactor to library-based rendering by @madspaaskesen in #34

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.2.0

v0.1.9

What's Changed

• Create CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by @madspaaskesen in #23
• Staging -> Main by @madspaaskesen in #24

Full Changelog: v0.1.8...v0.1.9

v0.1.8

New features added:

✅ Bitrate / CRF control
✅ CLI preview (e.g. --preview)

What's Changed

• Add bitrate and CRF flags by @madspaaskesen in #20
• Add preview flag by @madspaaskesen in #21

Full Changelog: v0.1.7...v0.1.8

v0.1.7

What's Changed

• Add MP4 export support by @madspaaskesen in #18
• Improve CLI error handling by @madspaaskesen in #19

Full Changelog: v0.1.6...v0.1.7

v0.1.7-test3

Full Changelog: v0.1.7-test2...v0.1.7-test3