CutWire-Studios/Drift v0.4.0

Drift v0.4.0

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GPU decoding and encoding on every platform, effect and text presets you can reuse across projects, and a fix for NVIDIA on Wayland.

• Fixed the black preview on NVIDIA under Wayland — Drift now runs as a native Wayland app instead of falling back to X11
• Video decoding for the preview now uses the GPU on Windows and macOS too, not only Linux, and you can pick the backend from the preview toolbar
• Export can encode on the GPU with NVENC, Quick Sync, AMF, VAAPI or VideoToolbox
• Copy an effect or a whole effect stack between clips, and save your own presets
• Save the look of a title as a text style and reuse or share it
• The subtitle editor follows the playhead, and titles can contain colour emoji
• Save a project as readable JSON and open one back again
• Close a gap on a track, or split just one clip instead of every clip under the playhead
• Window size and panel proportions are remembered between sessions
• A bug button in the header collects the details needed for a good bug report
• Large media imports are faster and use far less memory

Thanks to @CathodeAnode for the NVIDIA Wayland fix and the media-library performance work, and to @jmn8718 for close gap and per-clip split.

Installing

• AppImage (Linux, any distro): chmod +x Drift-*.AppImage && ./Drift-*.AppImage
• Windows installer: run Drift-Setup-*.exe
• Windows portable: extract Drift-Portable-*.zip anywhere and run drift.exe from
  the Drift folder inside it. Nothing is installed, but settings and addons are still
  stored per-user under %APPDATA%\Drift.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): open Drift-*-arm64.dmg and drag Drift to Applications. The
  app is signed ad-hoc rather than notarised, so the first launch needs right-click →
  Open, or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Drift.app.
• Arch Linux: sudo pacman -U drift-*.pkg.tar.zst
• Flatpak: requires flatpak with the Flathub remote added (flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo), then flatpak install --user Drift-*.flatpak

Fonts, stickers, speech models and GPU/CPU acceleration runtimes are not bundled — install
the ones you want from the Addon Manager in the app header.