What's Changed
Timeline Improvements
- Added symmetric resize of a timeline transition using its trim handles.
- Added drag-n-drop from Recent to Timeline.
- Improved Timeline and Keyframes zoom to be less erratic and more focused.
- Reduced memory usage for timeline waveforms.
- Changed Timeline > Set Current Track Above and Set Current Track Below to use the bare Up and Down keys.
Speech to Text
- Added Vulkan GPU support to Speech to Text on Windows and Linux.
- Added a Use GPU checkbox to the Speech to Text dialog.
Other New Features
- Added Export > Metadata including Cover art.
- Added a Typewriter group of options to the Burn In Subtitle filter.
- Added job progress and status on the taskbar or dock icon where supported.
- Added Properties > LUT file for video clips, primarily for the Linear 10-bit processing mode.
- Added aspect ratio grid options to the player grid button:
- 1:1 Frame
- 16:9 Frame
- 4:3 Frame
- 9:16 Frame
- Added 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets.
- Added launching Glaxnimate from the Microsoft Store on Windows if available.
Changes
- Stopped bundling Glaxnimate except in the Linux Flatpak.
- Changed audio transition to a constant power crossfade.
- Changed multi-select for Subtitles to use the Shift key.
- Changed Properties timeline duration to be editable.
- Changed opening an image to not start playback.
- Changed Export to default to 10-bit HEVC export in the 10-bit processing modes.
- Changed Timeline > Record Audio to use FLAC instead of Opus for improved quality and tool compatibility.
- Reorganized the Video Mode menu with new categories:
- Social Media
- Other
- Legacy
- Reduced the thickness of the panel splitters and made them brighter.
Fixes
- Fixed intermittent audio waveform sync or blank waveforms (broke in v26.2).
- Fixed incorrect last frame in Glaxnimate animations.
- Fixed Font style other than weight and italics/oblique in the font dialog.
- Fixed accepting file names with special characters in Playlist > Add Files.
- Fixed markers disappearing after undo moving clips.
- Fixed hourly backup not working when saving frequently.
- Fixed opening a project starts the player at the second frame.
- Fixed seeking with keyboard in Timeline sometimes not working.
- Fixed Settings > Time Format not immediately updating the Timeline and Keyframes rulers.
- Fixed Timeline > Copy, Cut, Paste, and Overwrite breaking grouped clips.
- Fixed keyframes after undoing a trim in.
- Fixed changing Properties > Duration dropping time filters.
- Fixed Edit Marker duration and Ripple Markers off by one frame.
- Fixed the Nervous video filter doing a 2 frame fade-in from black.
- Fixed undo history for lock, mute, and hide track.
- Fixed button menus not opening reliably on Wayland on Linux.
- Fixed a possible crash during voice preview in the Text to Speech dialog.
Upgrades
- Upgraded FFmpeg to version 8.1.
- Upgraded x265 to version 4.1.
- Upgraded whisper.cpp to version 1.8.3.
- Upgraded MLT to version 7.38.0.
- Upgraded Qt to version 6.10.3 on Linux.
New Contributors
- @qwe854896 made their first contribution in #1818
Full Changelog: v26.2.26...v26.4.30