Shotcut: v20.06.05 Release

Fixes

• Fixed Open Other > Audio/Video Device on Windows with special characters in name.
• Fixed changing Properties > Audio > Track sometimes does not work.
• Improved A/V synchronization on speed-changed clips with Pitch Compensation or using the Pitch audio filter.
• Fixed changing Crop: Source video filter, Right parameter on an image with odd width skews the image.
• Fixed audio pops and clicks in a few places.
• Improve A/V synchronization when resampling audio rate is required.
• Fixed incorrect color when using Export > Codec > libx264rgb.
• Fixed the clip name after using Properties > Convert or Reverse.
• Fixed showing the waveform after undo Detach Audio.
• Fixed Audio Tone in Timeline loses focus after change in Properties.
• Fixed moving clip sometimes does not adjust background duration.
• Fixed Filters, Timeline, and Keyframes responding to touch screen.
• Fixed a crash when you use Timeline > Append, Insert, or Overwrite after choosing File > Close or File > New.
• Fixed <kbd>Backspace</kbd> or <kbd>Delete</kbd> key in input fields sometimes delete timeline clip.
• Fixed Timeline > Select All incorrectly includes clips on locked tracks.
• Fixed track filter out points are changed after reopening a project.
• Fixed the default timeline height is too short.
• Fixed Properties > Convert ruins filters on clips that were never selected.
• Fixed a crash when using Crop: Source > Center bias.
• Fixed seeking to the out point in the Source player when you click to seek after the out point.
• Fixed setting in > out or out < in in the Source player not reliably updating a playlist clip.
• Fixed saving projects with relative paths.

New

• Added Playlist > menu > Add Selected to Slideshow slideshow generator!
• Added Settings > Proxy for videos and images. See the documentation
• Added Open Other > Blip Flash generator.
• Added 2 new Export presets: Slide Deck (H.264) and Slide Deck (HEVC).
• Added a Background color parameter to the Rotate and Scale and Size and Position video filters.
• Added Help > Topics with keyboard shortcut <kbd>F1</kbd>.
• Added the ability to drag-n-drop from external file manager (Explorer, Finder) directly to Timeline.
• Added Merge with next clip to the timeline clip context menu. This only works for clips that are from the same source and contiguous. This is not clip grouping.
• Added returning to the original file if you Reverse a reversed clip.
• Added Settings > Synchronization... to calibrate the Shotcut player. This works while something is currently playing to help you calibrate using a known good clip.
• Added millisecond Format options to the Timer video filter.
• Added Add a keyframe button to the Keyframes panel for all parameters (previously it was missing on some paramters).
• Added the Reduce Noise: Wavelet video filter.
• Added a context menu (right-click) to the Recent panel with a Remove action.
• Added keyboard shortcut <kbd>;</kbd> to toggle a keyframe at the playhead position.
• Added keyboard shortcut <kbd>F2</kbd> to rename a clip.
• Added keyboard shortcut <kbd>F3</kbd> to search in Recent.
• Added keyboard shortcut <kbd>F11</kbd> to toggle fullscreen.
• Added View > Enter Full Screen on Windows, but simply maximizes due to issues with popup (dialog) windows not appearing on top.
• Added the UI files for the bigsh0t 360 video filters.
• Added progress dialogs in several places where time consuming activities occur that otherwise block the user interface.

Changes

• Removed Settings > External Monitor > DVEO VidPort.
• Export now sets color primaries automatically based on the Video Mode colorspace.
• Use Qt's internal image orientation detection instead of libexif.
• Upgraded Mesa software OpenGL in Windows build to version 19.2.7.
• Upgraded SDL audio output library in Windows build to version 2.0.12.
• The keyboard shortcut to open a playlist item is changed to <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> (<kbd>Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>Return</kbd> on macOS).
• Changed the keyboard shortcut to open the web page of keyboard shorcuts to <kbd>?</kbd>.
• Change the timeline toolbar icon for Timeline > Split to something more clear and obvious.
• Timeline no longer shows thumbnails for video when the track height is at its lowest.
• The Timeline toolbar button to toggle Scrub while dragging is now saved to settings.
• Export > Video > Deinterlacer is no longer disabled when Scan mode is Interlaced (Anything that causes a change to the vertical resolution of an interlaced source is automatically deinterlaced.)
• Deprecated the following video filters. These will be removed in the next version.
  • Rutt-Etra-Izer
  • Swirl
  • Text: 3D
  • Text: HTML
• Added a Detect button to the Use hardware encoder > Configure dialog.
• Memory is now released when you choose File > New, File > Close, or Export File. (Previously it would keep most of it for reuse.)
• Improved constant quality rate control mode for Intel Quick Sync Video.