Shotcut: v21.01.29 Release

Release date:
January 29, 2021
Previous version:
v21.01.16 (released January 16, 2021)
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218 Diff Delta
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Release Notes Published

  • Fixed image skewed with odd width when using certain combinations of filters and transitions (broken in v20.11).
  • Fixed being unable to pick transparent black in filters with color pickers (broken in v20.11).
  • Fixed some tooltips in Timeline, Filters, & Keyframes not showing on multi-monitor systems (broken in v20.10).
  • Fixed Zoom in Scale, Position & Rotate does not always default and undo at 100% (broken in v20.10).
  • Fixed crash with files having more than 32 multiplexed streams.
  • Fixed quality-based VBR encoding with the VP8 Export > WebM preset.
  • Fixed leading zeros for seconds in Timer video filter with MM:SS.SSS or SS.SSS formats.
  • Fixed support for explicit fractional high DPI (e.g. --QT_DISPLAY_SCALE 1.5).
  • Fixed bad text formatting when File > Open a plain text file in Text: Rich filter.
  • Fixed drag-n-drop from Playlist when a project (MLT XML clip) is in Source player.
  • Fixed using the numeric keypad for some shortcuts.
  • Fixed selecting the same filter Preset again.
  • Fixed Export File does not check for missing files.
  • Upgraded Qt to version 5.15.2 for Linux & Windows and 5.12.10 for macOS.
  • Improved the playback speeds of fast forward and rewind.
  • Changed Playlist to not automatically start playback when add to playlist of empty project.
  • Finished converting Timeline, Filters, & Keyframes to Qt Quick Controls 2 API.
  • Changed keyframe interpolation Discrete to Hold.
  • Improved multi-threaded performance of video track blending and video filters:
    • Alpha Channel: View
    • Chroma Key: Advanced
    • Chroma Key: Simple
    • Elastic Scale
    • Key Spill: Advanced
    • Key Spill: Simple
    • Levels
    • Mask: Apply
    • Noise: Keyframes
    • Posterize
    • Saturation
    • Unpremultiply
    • White Balance
  • Added support for AV1 decoding and encoding.
  • Added Color space and Color transfer to Properties > Video.
  • Added an Advanced mode to the Convert to Edit-friendly dialog with:
    • Added Deinterlace option (bwdif) that outputs one frame for each field.
    • Added Override frame rate and Frame rate conversion with Blend and Motion Compensation options.
    • Added Convert to BT.709 colorspace that provides HDR-to-SDR tonemapping.
    • Added detection of a HDR transfer function (ITU-R BT.2020 or SMPTE ST2084) to automatically show Convert dialog.
  • Added Use Higher Performance Waveforms to Timeline and Keyframes menus (default on).
  • Added a red outline around the thumnbail of the currently opened Playlist item.
  • Added video filter Reduce Noise: Quantization.
  • Changed the default option in the Convert to Edit-friendly dialog to MP4 and reduce its output size (crf).