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VapourBox 0.9.11

Changes since 0.9.10.

Interface
Filter settings now expand in place. Tap a pass and its controls appear directly beneath it, right next to the filter they belong to, instead of in a separate panel below the list — tap again to collapse. The panels are resizable, so the preview and the pass list get whatever share of the window you want.
Every filter explains itself. Each one leads with a one-line summary and a More expander covering what it actually does and when you'd reach for it. All twelve built-in filters have one, so you no longer have to guess from a parameter name.
Choose where scratch files go. Settings General Temporary Files sends generated scripts, job config, preview frames and extracted DVD titles wherever you like, and puts them back to the system default. A DVD rip alone can need several gigabytes, which is a problem when system temp sits on a small or slow volume.
Report a bug without leaving the app. Settings General gains "Report a bug or give feedback", which opens the issue tracker, with About moved in beside it. The toolbar is left with just the controls that act on the current job.
New processing features
Chroma Denoise (CCD). A new pass built on the Camcorder Colour Denoise filter, for the blotchy colour noise on VHS captures and old camcorder footage. It never touches luma, so it can be pushed far harder than a general denoiser before the picture starts to soften. (#50)
Halo, ring and ghost removal. Dehalo gains four methods — Fine Dehalo 2, Edge Cleaner, and Vinverse / Vinverse 2 for the vertical comb-and-ghost residue a deinterlacer leaves behind — plus the sensitivity, supersampling, mask-limit, contra-sharpening and edge-processing controls that were previously unreachable. (#50)
White balance. Temperature (warm/cool) and Tint (green/magenta), alongside the existing brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and levels. (#50)
MCDegrainSharp denoising. Didée's motion-compensated degrain, which sharpens where the motion match is confident and softens where it isn't. Also written MDegrainSharpen. (#50)
Aspect ratio control. Square up anamorphic pixels, force a display aspect for a source whose flag is wrong, or letterbox to an exact target size. (#50)
Edge-directed upscaling controls. Full neuron, neighbourhood, quality and prescreener settings for NNEDI3 and EEDI3, plus seven resampling kernels with per-kernel tuning. (#50)
Wider source support. 4:1:1 (NTSC DV), 4:1:0, 9/12/14-bit, RGB and grayscale sources all import now, and anything unrecognised is converted rather than rejected. (#50)
Higher-quality interlaced chroma, on request. Interlaced 4:2:0 stores chroma per field, so interpolating at 4:2:0 mixes the two fields together. The deinterlace pass can convert to 4:2:2 first, and separately run at 16-bit to avoid rounding accumulated across QTGMC's many internal steps. Both are off by default: the chroma option costs roughly 30% throughput (measured 35 24 fps) for a gain that is subtle on most material, so the trade-off is yours to make. (#49)
Fixes
QTGMC's Placebo and Very Slow presets no longer brighten the picture on Apple Silicon, and Draft no longer comes out nearly black. The cause was in fmtconv, not QTGMC: its non-SIMD integer scaler applied sign-conversion constants meant for the SSE2/AVX2 paths, so any resample below 16-bit returned a black plane on builds without x86 SIMD. That destroyed the Bob() call feeding QTGMC's noise pass — which only Placebo and Very Slow enable by default — and Draft's interpolation. Affected Apple Silicon and arm64 Linux; Windows and Intel Macs were never affected.
NTSC DV files could not be imported at all. Any source whose pixel format wasn't one of twelve recognised names failed the whole job — 4:1:1 DV, ProRes 4444, RGB, grayscale and hardware-decoder formats among them. (#50)
The EEDI3 upscale was never EEDI3. Selecting it silently performed a plain Spline36 resize. (#50)
NNEDI3 upscaling was misaligned. Every upscale was offset by a quarter of a source pixel on both axes, with chroma additionally misaligned against luma on 4:2:0. (#50)
Resizing dropped the pixel aspect ratio. An anamorphic source resized to a new width came out the wrong shape, with no error. (#50)
FineDehalo now uses its documented edge-mask thresholds. The Low/High Threshold controls (thmi/thma) defaulted to 50/100 — values belonging to a different pair of parameters — and were passed on every run, so FineDehalo never behaved as havsfunc documents. They now default to 80/128. Saved presets keep whatever they were saved with; only a newly enabled FineDehalo pass is affected. (#50)
AMD AMF encoders were reported as broken. The availability probe encoded a 64x64 frame, which AMF rejects outright because hardware encoders have minimum dimensions; it now probes at 512x512. AMF's ffmpeg arguments were also hardened against a crash under constant-quality mode. (#51)
Field order is derived once. SetFieldBased overrides QTGMC's own TFF argument, so deriving the two separately let autodetection silently override your field-order choice, and let the preview deinterlace differently from the final render. Both now come from one value. An unsupported ChromaEdi setting is also dropped rather than passed through, where it used to corrupt chroma badly. (#49)
The macOS title bar is no longer see-through. The window was configured with a transparent background, so nothing painted behind the native title bar and it rendered as floating text over whatever sat behind the window. Present since the Flutter migration; visible on macOS 26.
Stalled jobs fail instead of hanging forever. A wedged pipeline used to spin with no progress, no completion and no diagnostics; it now gives up and reports which stage stopped. (#50)
Dependency problems are reported when they happen. The installer checked that files existed, which a macOS-quarantined install satisfies perfectly — so it reported success and then failed much later with an opaque "signal 9". It now checks the dependencies actually run, and names the fix. (#50)
Numeric dropdowns (DeScratch modes, SpotLess pel) could throw when changed. (#50)

Features
QTGMC deinterlacing - Industry-standard deinterlacing with full parameter control
Multi-pass restoration pipeline - Denoise, sharpen, dehalo, deblock, deband
Real-time preview - Side-by-side before/after comparison
Timeline with zoom - Navigate and set in/out points for partial exports
Multiple output codecs - ProRes, FFV1, H.264, H.265
Preset system - Save and reuse your filter configurations


Use Cases
Convert interlaced video to progressive
Clean up noisy or soft footage
Archive DVDs with proper deinterlacing
Restore VHS captures


Platforms
macOS ARM64 (Apple Silicon)
Windows x64


Installation
Download the zip for your platform
Extract and run
Dependencies (~94 MB macOS, ~183 MB Windows) download automatically on first launch


Requirements
macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon) or Windows 10/11 (x64)
Internet connection for first launch