New
- Added Playlist > menu > Add Selected to Slideshow slideshow generator!
- Added Settings > Proxy for videos and images. See the documentation
- Added bigsh0t 360॰ video filters:
- 360: Equirectangular Mask
- 360: Equirectangular to Rectilinear
- 360: Hemispherical to Equirectangular
- 360: Rectilinear to Equirectangular
- 360: Stabilize
- 360: Transform
- Added Open Other > Blip Flash generator.
- Added 2 new Export presets: Slide Deck (H.264) and Slide Deck (HEVC).
- Added a Background color parameter to the Rotate and Scale and Size and Position video filters.
- Added Help > Topics with keyboard shortcut F1.
- Added the ability to drag-n-drop from external file manager (Explorer, Finder) directly to Timeline.
- Added Merge with next clip to the timeline clip context menu. This only works for clips that are from the same source and contiguous. This is not clip grouping.
- Added returning to the original file if you Reverse a reversed clip.
- Added Settings > Synchronization... to calibrate the Shotcut player. This works while something is currently playing to help you calibrate using a known good clip.
- Added millisecond Format options to the Timer video filter.
- Added Add a keyframe button to the Keyframes panel for all parameters (previously it was missing on some paramters).
- Added the Reduce Noise: Wavelet video filter.
- Added a context menu (right-click) to the Recent panel with a Remove action.
- Added keyboard shortcut ; to toggle a keyframe at the playhead position.
- Added keyboard shortcut F2 to rename a clip.
- Added keyboard shortcut F3 to search in Recent.
- Added keyboard shortcut F11 to toggle fullscreen.
- Added View > Enter Full Screen on Windows, but simply maximizes due to issues with popup (dialog) windows not appearing on top.
- Added the UI files for the
bigsh0t360 video filters. - Added progress dialogs in several places where time consuming activities occur that otherwise block the user interface.
Changes
- Renamed Timeline > Master to Output.
- Stop selecting Output (formerly Master) by default when opening a project.
- Removed Settings > External Monitor > DVEO VidPort.
- Export now sets color primaries automatically based on the Video Mode colorspace.
- Use Qt's internal image orientation detection instead of libexif.
- Upgraded Mesa software OpenGL in Windows build to version 19.2.7.
- Upgraded SDL audio output library in Windows build to version 2.0.12.
- The keyboard shortcut to open a playlist item is changed to Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Return on macOS).
- Changed the keyboard shortcut to open the web page of keyboard shorcuts to ?.
- Change the timeline toolbar icon for Timeline > Split to something more clear and obvious.
- Timeline no longer shows thumbnails for video when the track height is at its lowest.
- The Timeline toolbar button to toggle Scrub while dragging is now saved to settings.
- Export > Video > Deinterlacer is no longer disabled when Scan mode is Interlaced (Anything that causes a change to the vertical resolution of an interlaced source is automatically deinterlaced.)
- Deprecated the following video filters. These will be removed in the next version.
- Rutt-Etra-Izer
- Swirl
- Text: 3D
- Text: HTML
- Added a Detect button to the Use hardware encoder > Configure dialog.
- Memory is now released when you choose File > New, File > Close, or Export File. (Previously it would keep most of it for reuse.)
- Improved constant quality rate control mode for Intel Quick Sync Video.
- Changed Playlist > Sort > By Name to be case insensitive.
- Improved the performance of image sequences.
- Significantly improved the performance of the automatic image padding.
- Show a project's current Video Mode as selected in the Settings menu when opened.
- Added a timecode tooltip to the mouse pointer when over the player, Timeline, or Keyframes scrub bars.
- Filter VUIs (video user interfaces) are now disabled when the filter is disabled.
Fixes
- Fixed Open Other > Audio/Video Device on Windows with special characters in name.
- Fixed changing Properties > Audio > Track sometimes does not work.
- Improved A/V synchronization on speed-changed clips with Pitch Compensation or using the Pitch audio filter.
- Fixed changing Crop: Source video filter, Right parameter on an image with odd width skews the image.
- Fixed audio pops and clicks in a few places.
- Improve A/V synchronization when resampling audio rate is required.
- Fixed incorrect color when using Export > Codec > libx264rgb.
- Fixed the clip name after using Properties > Convert or Reverse.
- Fixed showing the waveform after undo Detach Audio.
- Fixed Audio Tone in Timeline loses focus after change in Properties.
- Fixed moving clip sometimes does not adjust background duration.
- Fixed Filters, Timeline, and Keyframes responding to touch screen.
- Fixed a crash when you use Timeline > Append, Insert, or Overwrite after choosing File > Close or File > New.
- Fixed Backspace or Delete key in input fields sometimes delete timeline clip.
- Fixed Timeline > Select All incorrectly includes clips on locked tracks.
- Fixed track filter out points are changed after reopening a project.
- Fixed the default timeline height is too short.
- Fixed Properties > Convert ruins filters on clips that were never selected.
- Fixed a crash when using Crop: Source > Center bias.
- Fixed seeking to the out point in the Source player when you click to seek after the out point.
- Fixed setting in > out or out < in in the Source player not reliably updating a playlist clip.
- Fixed saving projects with relative paths.
- Fixed keyframes for the Level parameter of the Opacity filter.
- Fixed drop-framed timecode for 59.94 fps to follow a strict cadence.
- Fixed the Reduce Noise: Smart Blur and Reduce Noise: Wavelet video filters to not overwrite the alpha channel.
- Fixed the image quality (interpolation) of a Size and Position or Rotate and Scale filter inside of a transition.
- Fixed loading image sequences when the sequence number in the file name does not start with 1.
- Fixed a crash when using JACK audio and File > Open Other.
- Fixed Export > Video not updated when open clip-only project.