Much of this release was based on contributions in the form of code, presets,
title templates, feedback, bug reports, and testing nightly builds or the beta.
Also, recently, we added a
Contribute
page to the Web site.
New Features
Added Center Playhead option to the Timeline and Keyframes menus.
Added Slow Zoom __, Hold __ presets to the Size and Position filter.
Added a Chroma Hold video filter.
Added a Swirl (HTML) video filter.
Added a simple Templates framework to the Overlay HTML filter (see
path Shotcut\share\shotcut\qml\filters\webvfx\templates to add your own)
with the following templates:
Blank HTML
Blue Middle Bar
Creative Commons Music
Blank with Web Animations
Simple Scroll
Fixes
Fixed launch crash on Linux by excluding libdrm libraries.
Fixed audio level changed by the Mask : From File filter.
Fixed Text filter may have glitches with Export > Parallel processing
(regression in v18.12.x).
Fixed missing file detected when Stabilize filter added without clicking
Analyze.
Fixed external monitoring on Linux screen.
Fixed unable to detect hardware encoders with spaces in the installation
folder path.
Fixed changing Speed can move a clip.
Fixed changing Speed has no effect when the system region and language
decimal separators are different.
Fixed filter duration not adjusted when trimming a transition.
Fixed ripple trim when clip has a transition.
Fixed removing a transition by trimming adds some frames.
Fixed aspect ratio for File > Export Frame with non-square pixel video.
Fixed handling relative paths to external resources in the Overlay HTML
editor.
Fixed a crash opening a project after removing the bottom video track.
Fixed the lossless/H.264 preset to be completely lossless.
Fixed dropping a file from a file manager whose name has special/extended
characters (e.g. [, ]).
Fixed the state of the enabled checkbox for the Overlay HTML filter and
when using a color picker.
Fixed distortion after changing the Keyframe Type of a keyframe for the
Scale parameter in the Rotate and Scale filter.
Fixed right-clicking a keyframe to open context menu may change its position.
Fixed distortion when a Mirror filter is placed before a Size and
Position or Rotate and Scale filter.
Fixed Levels filter in locales with comma for decimal point.
Changes and Improvements
Upgraded FFmpeg to v4.1
Improved Color Grading filter by letting all parameters go from -100% to 100%.
Added an automatic retry without Parallel processing when Export job fails.
Set the Save as type list on the Export File dialog on Windows when a
preset defines a filename extension.