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Impress 8.3.1 is released
06 October 2023
We are very happy to announce a New Release of Impress!
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What’s New since 8.3.1.6
- Regarding annotation aesthetics:
- Fill options: solid, highlight, blur, pixelate, deform, grey, invert.
- Fill settings: opacity, blur size, pixelate tile size.
![](https://ucarecdn.com/7a049c52-731a-47a0-8f0e-d94df09b4687/-/format/auto/-/quality/smart/annotation-fill-highlight.png)
- Regarding annotation usage:
- High lighting with background layer fill options.
- Manual tracking of moving object and persons (using interpolation between set key frames)
- Different methods of setting annotation key frames:
- Implicit key frame setting when you move a annotation (see gif below).
- Explicit via key frame navigation control above time line.
- Explicit via annotation motion-context-menu. (see screenshot below).
- Key frame navigation control.
- Z-order (layer control of multiple shapes)
![](https://ucarecdn.com/e2164e06-1426-493e-aee6-58a439c08f2b/-/format/auto/-/quality/smart/annotationmanualkeyframetracking-cropped.png)
![](https://ucarecdn.com/7500b742-a85a-4ca5-9c98-c7fbcbfaa61d/annotation-motion-bird-setting-keypoints-gif-v1-speed2-loop2.gif)
![](https://ucarecdn.com/c7fe1b1b-7e03-47bf-9d2c-093185109a44/annotation-motion-circle-annotation-around-bird-gif-v1-speed2-loop2.gif)
- Media file management
- Export index file to JSON or XLSX/Excel.
- Export meta data file to XLSX/Excel.
- CUDA-framework update to 12.2.2 537.13
![](https://ucarecdn.com/528819d7-44d7-4493-bb0b-b5007df2ca59/-/format/auto/-/quality/smart/saveexifmetadata.png)
What's Improved
- Status-bar
- Number of available input engines is displayed.
- Total number of i-frames is displayed if applicable
- Annotation border can be set to zero if needed (for highlighting)
- Zone-splitter between Mediabin and Tools panel allows you to change its space division.
- Icons for each filter
- For those whom it may concern: to allow for easy recognition, for every filter an icon was created.
![](https://ucarecdn.com/99ad1458-7660-4303-b51b-3798cb9c3a5b/-/format/auto/-/quality/smart/introducingfiltericons.png)
What is fixed
- Removing Curves filter signal clipping for the CUDA implementation.