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v25.03

This version includes a lot fixes including related to addition of new features in previous version as well as many quality-of-life enhancements.

New Stuff
Added Text style preset to Subtitles > Generate Text on Timeline.
Added Copy Current and Copy All to Filters.
Added the project Video Mode to the window title.
Added Vertical and Horizontal parameters to the No Sync video filter.
Added Toggle Filter Overlay to the Player menu.
Added 360: Cap Top & Bottom and 360: Equirectangular Wrap video filters.
Added a Not In a Bin smart bin to Playlist.
Added using the Ctrl (command on macOS) to constrain moving position to vertical
or horizontonal axis in all filters that use the rectangle visual control.
Added #rgba, #yuv, #gpu, and #10bit tags to keywords in Filters for search.
Added an icon to Timeline clips to indicate when it has filters.
Added "ITU-R BT.2020" to Video Mode > Custom > Add and Output > Properties.
Improvements
Reduced the range of Gamma and Gain in the Color Grading filter.
Glaxnimate no longer launches automatically after Open Other > Animation > Add to Timeline. Now, you need to click Properties > Edit. This addresses the video background in Glaxnimate.
Upgraded dependencies:
Whisper.cpp 1.7.4
bigsh0t 2.7
Fixes
Fixed opening a project can be slow or make app unresponsive if Settings > Playlist > View mode is Icons (broke in v25.01).
Fixed double-clicking a Playlist item that is in a Bin may open wrong clip.
Fixed handling for Windows shortcuts and macOS aliases in Files.
Fixed automatic pause--such as when adding a filter--does not update the player's play button state (broke in v25.01).
Fixed a crash on multiple Timeline undo and redo operations.
Fixed a crash bug after Undo and Redo after moving clips in Timeline.
Fixed the Size, Position & Rotate filter's visual control with non-square pixels.
Fixed trimming twice ruins zoom keyframes in Size, Position & Rotate filter.
Block adding a new job that writes to the same file as a pending or running job.
Fixed Paste filters is not adding an Undo item to History.
Fixed the Amount keyframes button always disabled in the 360: Equirectangular to Stereogaphic video filter.
Fixed key repeat for the previous/next shortcuts in Player menu.
Fixed Export > Reframe causes Video > Scan mode to be interlaced even when it shows progressive.
Fixed trim handles on Timeline clip when it is very short.
Fixed Timeline > Split followed by multiple undo and redo may affect attached filters.
Fixed playhead in Keyframes incorrect after switching filters.

Wide Format Support
Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
Supports popular image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
No import required - native timeline editing
Frame-accurate seeking for many formats
Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
Webcam capture
Audio capture
Support for 4K resolutions
Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
Color, noise, and counter generators
EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export
Export single frame as image or video as image sequence
Audio Features
Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
Volume control
Audio filters:
Balance, Bass & Treble, Band Pass, Compressor, Copy Channel, Delay, Downmix, Expander, Gain, High Pass, Limiter, Low Pass, Normlize: One Pass, Normalize: Two Pass, Notch, Pan, Reverb, Swap Channels
Audio mixing across all tracks
Fade in and out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions easily by overlapping shots on the same track of the timeline
JACK transport sync
Tone generator


Video Effects
Video compositing across video tracks
HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
Deinterlacing
Auto-rotate
Fade in/out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
Video wipe transitions:
bar, barn door, box, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image
Track compositing/blending modes:
Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Hard Light, Soft Light, Difference, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Color, HSL Luminosity.
Video Filters:
Alpha Channel: Adjust, Alpha Channel: View, Blur, Brightness, Chroma Key: Advanced, Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Crop, Diffusion, Glow, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple, Lens Correction, 3D LUT, Mirror, Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor, Opacity, Rotate, Rutt-Etra-Izer, Saturation, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Stabilize, Text, Vignette, Wave, White Balance
Speed effect for audio/video clips


Editing Features
Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
Easy-to-use cut, copy, and paste operations
Append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete editing on the timeline
3-point editing
Hide, mute, and lock track controls
Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms
Unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
Create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML projects (with auto-save)
Save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
Load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
Drag-n-drop files from file manager
Scrubbing and transport control


Cross Platform & Codec Independent
Cross platform support: available on Windows, Linux, and macOS (OS X)
Codec independent so does not rely on system codecs
Can run as a portable app from external drive
UI translations: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Italian, Occitan, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukranian (not all 100%, but you can help
Batch encoding with job control
Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg
Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
Video quality measurement (PSNR and SSIM)
Perform integrity check of an audio/video file
View detailed information about an audio/video file
Display and Monitoring
External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor
External monitoring on an extra system display/monitor
UI themes/skins: native-OS look and custom dark and light
Control video zoom in the player: fit viewable area (default), 50%, original (100%), and 200%
Flexible UI through dock-able panels
Detailed media properties panel
Recent files panel with search
Thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions


Hardware Support
Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
Leap Motion for jog/shuttle control
Webcam capture
Audio capture to system audio card
Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, and Windows DirectShow devices
Multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
DeckLink SDI keyer output
OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component