v22.10.25

This is a hot fix for release 22.10 to reverse "Performance improvement in Timeline for when there is opaque clip on a track above another clip," which caused a change in behavior considered a bug. See the 22.10.22 release for notes about the 22.10 release in general.

v22.10.22

This is primarily a bug fix release.

New Bugs in v22.09.23

• Fixed translations not updated.
• Fixed crash in Size, Position & Rotate filter when size approaches zero, for example when editing a size numeric field.
• Fixed bitrate in some Export presets such as VP8, VP9, D10, and XDCAM.
• Fixed Timeline > Lift and Delete not working with no clip selected.
• Fixed Transition > Properties resets the Invert and Softness options.

Old Bugs

• Fixed an incorrect timecode appears at 2 minutes in 24 or 23.98 fps.
• Fixed Timeline > Select Clip Above and Select Clip Below not working with no clip selected.
• Fixed incorrect resulting aspect ratio when changing Export > Video > Resolution and pixel aspect ratio is not square.
• Fixed Properties > Measure Video Quality on Windows.
• Fixed Fade Out Video filter not working after trimming the in point.
• Fixed updating an animation Properties > Duration after changed in Glaxnimate.
• Fixed ripple trim on the in point of a clip that is at the very beginning (00:00:00:00) of the Timeline.
• Fixed adjusting keyframes of the second clip when a trimming the in point of a transition.
• Fixed Keyframes UI when using Timeline > Trim Clip In menu-item/action/shortcut (not interactive trim).
• Fixed opening a MLT XML file with a % in its path or name.
• Fixed keyframes after an undo and redo upon making a transition while trimming the in point of a clip.

Improvements and Changes

• Finished the menu technology updates (marker context, rich text editor) that were mostly done in v22.09.23.
• Added icons for the 360 video filters.
• Performance improvement in Timeline for when there is opaque clip on a track above another clip.
• Disallow allow adding Filters to a device or live input since this is not working and could interfere with integrity of capture.
• Increased the maximum values in the Mask: Simple Shape > Horizontal and Vertical video filter.
• Changing Timeline > Zoom no longer pauses playback.

v22.10 BETA

This is primarily a bug fix release.

New Bugs in v22.09.23

• Fixed translations not updated.
• Fixed crash in Size, Position & Rotate filter when size approaches zero, for example when editing a size numeric field.
• Fixed bitrate in some Export presets such as VP8, VP9, D10, and XDCAM.
• Fixed Timeline > Lift and Delete not working with no clip selected.
• Fixed Transition > Properties resets the Invert and Softness options.

Old Bugs

• Fixed an incorrect timecode appears at 2 minutes in 24 or 23.98 fps.
• Fixed Timeline > Select Clip Above and Select Clip Below not working with no clip selected.
• Fixed incorrect resulting aspect ratio when changing Export > Video > Resolution and pixel aspect ratio is not square.
• Fixed Properties > Measure Video Quality on Windows.
• Fixed Fade Out Video filter not working after trimming the in point.
• Fixed updating an animation Properties > Duration after changed in Glaxnimate.
• Fixed ripple trim on the in point of a clip that is at the very beginning (00:00:00:00) of the Timeline.
• Fixed adjusting keyframes of the second clip when a trimming the in point of a transition.
• Fixed Keyframes UI when using Timeline > Trim Clip In menu-item/action/shortcut (not interactive trim).

Improvements and Changes

• Finished the menu technology updates (marker context, rich text editor) that were mostly done in v22.09.23.
• Added icons for the 360 video filters.
• Performance improvement in Timeline for when there is opaque clip on a track above another clip.
• Disallow allow adding Filters to a device or live input since this is not working and could interfere with integrity of capture.
• Increased the maximum values in the Mask: Simple Shape > Horizontal and Vertical video filter.
• Changing Timeline > Zoom no longer pauses playback.

v22.09.23

• Added limited support for reading WebP Animation.
• Show audio-clips without album art as a checkboard for transparent instead of white.
• Added the GPS Graphic video filter (see its presets).
• Added the gopro2gpx utility to let you export a GPX file from a GoPro video using Properties > menu > Export GPX. This saves the .gpx in the same folder as the video file with the same name but different exension.
• Added Fisheye video filter (see its presets).
• Deprecate and hide the Lens Correction video filter since it is low quality (no interpolation) and now there is Fisheye.
• Added snapping to the playhead to Keyframes.
• Added Help > Actions and Shortcuts:
  • Provides a unified action search and shortcut editor.
  • Replaces the old Keyboard Shortcuts... item in the Help menu and takes its keyboard shortcut ?.
  • / is also a default shortcut, and either shortcut can be changed.
  • Searches both action name and shortcut.
  • Press Return/Enter within search to move focus to the list of actions.
  • Press Return/Enter on a selected action to trigger it and close the dialog.
  • Shift, Ctrl, or Alt + Return/Enter on a selected action to trigger it and NOT close the dialog.
  • Double-click an action to trigger it but NOT close the dialog.
  • The dialog is not modal so you can leave it open and to the side while working.
  • Press Esc when the dialog has focus to close it.
  • Press F2 when an action is selected to edit its first shortcut.
  • Single-click a selected shortcut to enter edit mouse using the mouse. This means you typically need two single clicks: one to select, the second to enter into edit mode.
  • You can Tab out of edit mode to navigate focus to the apply button and press Space to trigger the apply. It is intentional that you cannot assign Tab as a keyboard shortcut to an action.
  • There are some keyboard buttons such as J/K/L that are reserved and cannot be used in a shortcut. You will see an error message when you try to apply it.
  • You can define up to 2 shortcuts per action! You may want to leave the default as well as add your preferred shortcut.
  • A big portion of the UI had to be rewritten to support this. As a result:
    • All panel (hamburger) menus are consistently on the left/first.
    • Panel-specific Options sub-menus were moved to Settings main menu.
    • The keyboard shortcut to switch the player between Source and Project is now P.
    • Various hidden or under-exposed actions now have a menu item somewhere including a new Player main menu.
    • Many translations will be lost.
    • The default shortcuts to change the current track now require Ctrl+Alt in addition to cursor up and down.
• Improved support for custom video transitions:
  • There is a folder now in the App Data Directory named transitions where you can store these.
  • All files in the transitions folder are listed in transition Properties, the Mask: From File video filter, and the Slideshow Generator dialog.
  • Added a favorite button in transition Properties and Mask: From File that copies your chosen custom file to the transitions folder.
  • Added a quick preview to transition properties.
• Added the ability to drag-scroll/pan using the middle mouse button (press mouse wheel) to Timeline, Keyframes, and the player when zoomed in.
• Improved the Filters picker:
  • Added translatable keywords to facilitate search. For example, "transform" includes Size, Position & Rotate.
  • Added the English filter name in an untranslatable manner to the keywords so people using a translation can more more easily find things based on proliferic English advice.
  • Added support for a small animated icon.
• Added the alpha Operation, Reverse, and Invert parameters to the Mask: Draw video filter.
• Added Settings > Reset... to reset all settings including hidden ones.
• Fixed Move Track Up or Move Track Down breaks the order of blending/compositing.
• Fixed opening files with a % in their path or name.
• Fixed sometimes a date does not appear in Playlist.
• Fixed Old Film: Scratches video filter not working (broke in version 22.04).
• Fixed Stabilize video filter uses invalid analysis data after pasted.
• Fixed File > Open MLT XML as Clip... changes the current Video Mode.
• Fixed audio artifacts introduced after splitting a clip that has been converted or reversed using the better/large/DNxHR option.
• Fixed Text: Rich filter's toolbar may not reflect the current text color.
• Upgraded FFmpeg to v5.1.0
• Upgraded dav1d AV1 decoder v1.0
• Upgraded AOM AV1 encoder to v3.4.0
• Upgraded libvpx VP8/9 encoder to v1.12.0
• Upgraded VMAF to v2.3.1
• Upgraded Glaxnimate to v0.5.1

v22.09 BETA

What's New and Improved

• Improved support for TGA image but still not with compression.
• Added support for reading WebP Animation.
• Show audio-clips without album art as a checkboard for transparent instead of white.
• Added the GPS Graphic video filter (see its presets).
• Added the gopro2gpx utility to let you export a GPX file from a GoPro video using Properties > menu > Export GPX. This saves the .gpx in the same folder as the video file with the same name but different exension.
• Added Fisheye video filter (see its presets).
• Fixed opening files with a % in their path or name.
• Added snapping to the playhead to Keyframes.
• Added Help > Actions and Shortcuts:
  • Provides a unified action search and shortcut editor.
  • Replaces the old Keyboard Shortcuts... item in the Help menu and takes its keyboard shortcut ?.
  • Searches both action name and shortcut.
  • Press Enter within search to move focus to the list of actions.
  • Press Return/Enter on a selected action to trigger it and close the dialog.
  • Shift, Ctrl, or Alt + Return/Enter on a selected action to trigger it and NOT close the dialog.
  • Double-click an action to trigger it but NOT close the dialog.
  • The dialog is modal so you can leave it open and to the side while working.
  • Press Esc when the dialog has focus to close it.
  • Press F2 when an action is selected to edit its first shortcut.
  • You can Tab out of edit mode to navigate focus to the apply button and press Space to trigger the apply. It is intentional that you cannot assign Tab as a keyboard shortcut to an action.
  • There are some keyboard buttons such as J/K/L that are reserved and cannot be used in a shortcut. You will see an error message when you try to apply it.
  • You can define up to 2 shortcuts per action! You may want to leave the default as well as add your preferred shortcut.
  • A big portion of the UI had to be rewritten to support this. As a result:
    • All panel (hamburger) menus are consistently on the left/first.
    • Panel-specific Options sub-menus were moved to Settings main menu.
    • The keyboard shortcut to switch the player between Source and Project is now P.
    • Various hidden or under-exposed actions now have a menu item somewhere including a new Player main menu.
    • Many translations will be lost.
• Improved support for custom video transitions:
  • There is a folder now in the App Data Directory named transitions where you can store these.
  • All files in the transitions folder are listed in transition Properties, the Mask: From File video filter, and the Slideshow Generator dialog.
  • Added a favorite button in transition Properties and Mask: From File that copies your chosen custom file to the transitions folder.
  • Added a quick preview to transition properties.
• Added the ability to drag-scroll/pan using the middle mouse button (press mouse wheel) to Timeline, Keyframes, and the player when zoomed in.
• Improved the Filters picker:
  • Added translatable keywords to facilitate search. For example, "transform" includes Size, Position & Rotate.
  • Added the English filter name in an untranslatable manner to the keywords so people using a translation can more more easily find things based on proliferic English advice.
  • Added support for a small animated icon. (This is a work-in-progress; only a handful so far, more but not all to be included in the release.)
• Added the alpha Operation, Reverse, and Invert parameters to the Mask: Draw video filter.
• Added Settings > Reset... to reset all settings including hidden ones.
• Upgraded FFmpeg to v5.1.0
• Upgraded AOM AV1 encoder to v3.4.0
• Upgraded libvpx VP8/9 encoder to v1.12.0
• Upgraded VMAF to v2.3.1

New Contributors

• @hypov8 made their first contribution in #1284
• @Biswa96 made their first contribution in #1309

Full Changelog: v22.06.23...v22.09.01

v22.06.23

• Added Edit... to Timeline > Output > Properties.
• Added Timeline > menu > More > Align To Reference Track to synchronize clips based on similar audio.
  See its documentation.
• Added support for reading Lottie and rawr JSON animation formats.
• Added Open Other > Animation.
• Added a Mask: Draw (Glaxnimate) video filter.
• Added Glaxnimate vector animation tool with a video preview of Shotcut. See demo video https://youtu.be/CDBCqhmbA4Y
  Known issues:
  • Preview on macOS may stop working due to out-of-resources until reboot.
  • Some Lottie animations make export fail. The one that I have a problem with shows warnings upon opening in Glaxnimate.
  • See also Glaxnimate's bug tracker
• Added support for Keyframes to the following audio filters:
  • Low Pass
  • High Pass
  • Reverb
• Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+A to select all clips on the current track.
  (option+command+A on macOS)
• Added an options dialog to File > Export > Markers as Chapters to exclude colors or include range markers.
• Added support for fractional display scale (125%, 150%, 175%) on Windows.
• Fixed Text: Rich does not export the same as preview on system with fractional display scale on Windows.
• Fixed Record Audio and Open Other > Audio/Video Device crashing on macOS due to insufficient entitlements.
• Fixed Time Remap > Image mode > Blend not working.
• Fixed a crash combining two Size, Position & Rotate filters with a mask filter on a square video mode.
• Fixed a possible crash with an odd width video.
• Fixed dragging a clip leftward beyond other clips with Timeline > Ripple turned on.
• Fixed changing the color of a color clip resets a custom name.
• Fixed changing Properties > Speed drops a Crop: Source filter if added.
• Fixed prompting for a duration and possibly a crash when dragging non-seekable files to Playlist.
• Fixed filters on a clip are removed when Undo after a change to Properties.
• Fixed File > Export > Markers as Chapters incorrect text encoding resulting in corrupt unicode characters.
• Fixed video track blending may be broken after moving a track.
• Fixed repairing a project with Settings > Proxy > Use Proxy on saves proxy file paths into repaired project file.
• Fixed Ripple Markers not working with ripple trimming.
• Fixed trimming a clip on timeline may change the length of a neighboring clip.
• Converted the build system from qmake to CMake (qmake is removed).
• The minimum glibc version for the Linux portable, AppImage, and Snap is now 64-bit glibc version 2.31:
  Mint 20+, Ubuntu/Pop!_OS 20.04+, Debian 11+, Fedora 32+, Manjaro 20+, MX Linux 21+

v22.06 RELEASE CANDIDATE

This is all notable changes since the last release, not the beta.

• Added Edit... to Timeline > Output > Properties.
• Added Timeline > menu > More > Align To Reference Track to synchronize clips based on similar audio.
  See its documentation.
• Added support for reading Lottie and rawr JSON animation formats.
• Added Open Other > Animation.
• Added a Mask: Draw (Glaxnimate) video filter.
• Added Glaxnimate vector animation tool with a video preview of Shotcut. See demo video https://youtu.be/CDBCqhmbA4Y
  Known issues:
  • Preview on macOS may stop working due to out-of-resources until reboot.
  • Some Lottie animations make export fail. The one that I have a problem with shows warnings upon opening in Glaxnimate.
  • Glaxnimate python not working in AppImage and currently require some external dependencies on Linux and macOS.
  • See also Glaxnimate's bug tracker
• Added support for Keyframes to the following audio filters:
  • Low Pass
  • High Pass
  • Reverb
• Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+A to select all clips on the current track.
  (option+command+A on macOS)
• Added an options dialog to File > Export > Markers as Chapters to exclude colors or include range markers.
• Added support for fractional display scale (125%, 150%, 175%) on Windows.
• Fixed Text: Rich does not export the same as preview on system with fractional display scale on Windows.
• Fixed Record Audio and Open Other > Audio/Video Device crashing on macOS due to insufficient entitlements.
• Fixed Time Remap > Image mode > Blend not working.
• Fixed a crash combining two Size, Position & Rotate filters with a mask filter on a square video mode.
• Fixed a possible crash with an odd width video.
• Fixed dragging a clip leftward beyond other clips with Timeline > Ripple turned on.
• Fixed changing the color of a color clip resets a custom name.
• Fixed changing Properties > Speed drops a Crop: Source filter if added.
• Fixed prompting for a duration and possibly a crash when dragging non-seekable files to Playlist.
• Fixed filters on a clip are removed when Undo after a change to Properties.
• Fixed File > Export > Markers as Chapters incorrect text encoding resulting in corrupt unicode characters.
• Fixed video track blending may be broken after moving a track.
• Fixed repairing a project with Settings > Proxy > Use Proxy on saves proxy file paths into repaired project file.
• Fixed Ripple Markers not working with ripple trimming.
• Converted the build system from qmake to CMake (qmake is removed).

v22.06 BETA

• Added Edit... to Timeline > Output > Properties.
• Added Timeline > menu > More > Align To Reference Track to synchronize clips based on similar audio.
  See its documentation.
• Added support for reading Lottie and rawr JSON animation formats.
• Added Open Other > Animation.
• Added a Mask: Rotoscope (Glaxnimate) video filter.
• Added Glaxnimate vector animation tool with a video preview of Shotcut. See demo video https://youtu.be/CDBCqhmbA4Y
  Known issues:
  • On Windows, after Open Other > Animation > OK Shotcut crashes upon launching Glaxnimate (fixed for release candidate).
  • The frame rate of animations is not preserved and runs at the Shotcut frame rate (fixed for release candidate).
  • Extending the duration in Shotcut Properties to longer than the animation is supposed to make it loop (fixed for release candidate).
  • The text tool in Glaxnimate for Windows crashes (fixed for release candidate).
  • See Glaxnimate's bug tracker
  • Preview on macOS may stop working due to out-of-resources until reboot.
  • Some Lottie animations make export fail. The one that I have a problem with shows warnings upon opening in Glaxnimate.
  • Glaxnimate preview has incorrect Shotcut time/sync if the first frame of the animation is not 0 (fixed for release candidate).
  • Glaxnimate python not working in AppImage and currently require some external dependencies on Linux and macOS.
• Added support for Keyframes to the following audio filters:
  • Low Pass
  • High Pass
  • Reverb
• Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+A to select all clips on the current track. (option+command+A on macOS)
• Fixed Record Audio and Open Other > Audio/Video Device crashing on macOS due to insufficient entitlements.
• Fixed Time Remap > Image mode > Blend not working.
• Fixed a crash combining two Size, Position & Rotate filters with a mask filter on a square video mode.
• Fixed a possible crash with an odd width video.
• Fixed dragging a clip leftward beyond other clips with Timeline > Ripple turned on.
• Fixed changing the color of a color clip resets a custom name.
• Fixed changing Properties > Speed drops a Crop: Source filter if added.
• Converted the build system from qmake to CMake (qmake is removed).

v22.04.25

• Fixed Open Other > Audio/Video Device and Timeline > Record Audio not working on macOS.
• Fixed Open Other > Color Bars not appearing on macOS.
• Fixed Filters > Paste filters for some filters (broke in v22.03.30):
  • Normalize: Two Pass
  • Chroma Key: Simple
  • Crop: Source
  • Mask: Apply
  • Time Remap
• Fixed Export > Color range > Full if resolution or frame rate were changed.
• Fixed Export > Codec > Rate contol > Quality-based VBR with videotoolbox_hevc on macOS.
• Fixed changing Export > Format does not suggest a file name extension.
• Fixed keyframes for Corner Pin video filter.
• Fixed keyframes for Rotate parameter of the Size, Position & Rotate video filter after trimming the clip.
• Fixed Size, Position & Rotate video filter UI incorrect for non-square pixels.
• Fixed running Analyze more than once in Normalize: Two Pass audio filter.
• Added Detected Loudness and Normalization Gain status fields to Normalize: Two Pass audio filter.

v22.03.30

Fixes

• Fixed converting full color range 10-bit video to limited MPEG range.
• Fixed very choppy playback with certain weird or unreduced-fraction framerates.
• Fixed Video Mode > Automatic when using a webcam/video-device input.
• Fixed Position and Size in Crop: Rectangle video filter may become read-only.
• Fixed Gradient video filter when a color alpha value is not fully opaque.
• Fixed marker duration may change when dragging to change its starting time.
• Fixed Size, Position & Rotate > Zoom may change when changing the player zoom level.
• Fixed accidentally changing an unmodified clip-only project by opening a new media file.
• Fixed changing Properties > Speed may overwrite and does not honor Ripple mode.
• Fixed a transition may show "INVALID" after you undo removing it.
• Fixed Presets for the Equalizer: 3-Band audio filter not working.
• Fixed Blur: Box filter creates darker edges.
• Fixed Reduce Noise: Quantization video filter overwrites alpha chnanel.
• Fixed Properties > Audio > Sync not showing change after reloading properties (broke in v22.01).

Changes

• Restored the Use Higher Performance Waveforms option in the Timeline menu.
• Changed melt command line tool to no longer be locale-sensitive by default.
• Changed Q in Equalizer: Parametric to Bandwidth in octaves.
• Changed background capture jobs to use a high process priority.
• Changed Paste Filters to not paste a clip-only filter onto a track.
• Changed Paste Filters to not paste a filter that can only be added once.
• Removed Timeline > Copy Timeline to Source (use Markers instead).
• Stop showing the Convert to Edit-Friendly dialog when opening a HLG HDR video.
• Upgraded libraries:
  • FFmpeg 5.0
  • MLT 7.6.0
  • frei0r 1.8.0
  • Rubberband 2.0.2
  • VMAF 2.3.0
  • Qt 5.15.2 for Intel macOS - macOS 10.14 is now the minimum macOS version.
• Improved A/V synchronization in Properties > Reverse.
• Improved webcam/video-device capture on macOS.
• Improved the accuracy of View > Scopes > Audio Peak Meter.
• Improved speed of Old Film: Projector video filter.

New

• Added Export > Advanced > Video > Color range.
• Added multi-threading for all implicit video scaling including Settings > Preview Scaling.
• Added multi-threading to some video filters:
  • Blur: Box
  • Blur: Gaussian
  • Color Grading
  • Invert Colors
  • Mask: From File
  • Old Film: Grain
  • Old Film: Scratches
  • Old Film: Technocolor
  • Reflect
  • Sepia
  • Sketch
  • Spot Remover
  • Threshold
  • Vignette
  • Wave
• Added track reordering by drag-n-drop a track header and the Timeline menu:
  • Move Track Up: Alt+Shift+Up (shift+option+up on macOS)
  • Move Track Down: Alt+shift+Down (shift+option+down on macOS)
• Added View > Notes panel with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+3 (shift+command+3 on macOS).
• Added Convert to Edit-friendly when opening a HDV video file.
• Added a Record Audio button to the Timeline toolbar:
  • It chooses an audio device based on either first found or last used in Audio/Video Device.
  • It uses the current track if it is audio and not empty at the playhead and beyond.
    Otherwise, it adds an audio track.
  • It does not prompt for a save file name when a project folder has been established.
• Added audio filter Stereo Enhancer.
• Added tooltips to Timeline clips.
• Added Markers > menu > Add Markers Around Selected Clips with keyboard shortcut Alt+M (option+M on macOS).
• Added an option to the Windows installer to register the .mlt filename extension to open with Shotcut.