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Release Name: 0.9.13.5
Notes: Cut_assistant V0.9.13 (development) _________________________________________________________________________ This is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the command line utility asfbin.exe as well as for VirtualDub and AviDemux. Asfbin.exe is available at http://www.radioactivepages.com/english/asfbin.html The author of Cut_assistant.exe is in no way responsible for these 3rd party applications. _________________________________________________________________________ REQUIREMENTS: DirectShow installed (uses InfinitePinTee, VideoRenderer, SampleGrabber, NullRenderer). Codecs for the movie files to edit. For wmv-Files: asfbin.exe or asfcut.exe For Avi-Files: virtualdub.exe V.1.6.16. or Avidemux2.exe _________________________________________________________________________ Command Line Options: cut_assistant.exe [-open:<moviefile> [-cutlist:<cutlistfile>]] loads <moviefile> as movie and cutlistfile as cutlist on startup For further options see online help. _________________________________________________________________________ For version changelog see News.txt _________________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. THIS PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO HELP YOU EDITING FILES WHICH ARE NOT COPYRIGHTED. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO VIOLATE THE COPYRIGHT OF ANY THIRD PARTY. THE AUTHOR OF THIS PROGRAM IS IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS WHICH A USER OF THIS PROGRAM MAY COMMIT. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA _________________________________________________________________________ CREDITS JVCL/JCL portions are licensed from Project JEDI, and the source code can be obtained from http://jvcl.sourceforge.net/ , http://jcl.sourceforge.net/ Portions of this software are Copyright (c) 1993 - 2004, Chad Z. Hower (Kudzu) and the Indy Pit Crew - http://www.IndyProject.org/ This program contains DSPack source code that can be obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspack Using madExcept, copyright (C) 1999 - 2003 Mathias Rauen, www.madshi.net Using The Kryvich's Delphi Localizer, http://kryvich.googlepages.com/, (extended version)
Changes: New in 0.9.13.5 (development) - Do not use TopMost style for Check cut movie window. - Added handling of special keys on multimedia keyboards. - Improved error message in some places. - Fixed some issues in DSPack components. - Show "real" frame number in frames form. - Added new action xx framea around to open frames form around current position. - FR 1849353: Changed usage of term "crop" to "trim". - FR 1834206: Improved tab order and shortcuts in cutlist info and rate dialog. - Added localization of user interface. - Added ability to log all exceptions to cut_assistant.debug.log. New in 0.9.12.1 - Fixed codec detection for some Windows versions (e.g. Win98). - Sort codec list by description. - Fixed codec configuration bug, leading to program crash in certain situations. New in 0.9.12.0 - New stable version, based on 0.9.11.25 - Fixed close behaviour of filter info dialog. - Do not remove decouple cutlist when editing cutlist info, but after save when cutlist is changed. - Changed shortcuts for next/prev frames to F8/Shift-F8 due to conflicts with other control behaviour. New in 0.9.11.25 (development) - Fixed data not applied bug when editing cutlist properties. - Refresh GUI when author changes on saving. - Fixed possible exceptions in program when no movie is loaded (e.g. JumpTo-buttons). - Next/prev cut did not always work due to rounding errors. - Added some shortcuts to frames window: Page-Up => Prev frames, Page-Down => Next frames, Enter => Show main window, Escape => Hide form. - Added shortcuts to several commands in main window. - Several minor improvements. - Fixed Bug 1787080: Look&Feel for Windows (order of OK, Cancel buttons) New in 0.9.11.21 (development) - Fixed bug in directory check of configuration settings. - Improved error handling when (un)registering application in registry. - Show movie rate (fps) in main window. Changed recognition of movie rate. - Save frame duration and frame rate in cutlist (visible to user in info dialog). Use own values instead of movieinfo.frame_duration. - Ask user which frame rate to use, if frame rates differ too much. - Hide frames images when closing Movie. - Make next / prev frames work, if frame stepping is not supported (untested). - Improved comparison of intended and own CutApplication. - Improve speed of next / prev frames. - Fixed performance issues when showing Frames form: Lock update when grabbing sample, since VCL is not thread-safe. New in 0.9.11.17 (development) - Fixed error in handling of frames window size. - Fixed error in handling of preferred source filter. - Solve FR1752242: Added new movie type "HQ Avi File". - Tweaked default configuration settings. - Show movie type and associated cut application in main window. - Fixed tab order in settings dialog. - Sound when displaying frames window is controlled with setting "Auto-mute on seek". - Disable closing frames window while getting frames. New in 0.9.11.15 (development) - FR1750858: Window states (maximized, normal) are stored too. - Fixed display of frames count in menu items when frames count <> 12. - Auto-Mute sound while showing frames form. - Improved error handling in open file functions. - Fixed position of timeout edit in settings dialog, improved layout of many dialogs. - Try to fix problems on some systems with large fonts (please give feedback). - FR1750860: Added new user setting AutoMuteOnSeek (auto mute sound when seeking framewise). - Automatically show settings dialog on first start (when no settings are found). - Use /console-switch for virtualdub only when activated in options. - Show buttons in taskbar for frames and preview window. - Fixed missing codec configuration bug. - Solve FR1752242: Use separate codec settings for each cut application. - FR1750862: Preselect cutlist rating by user or author rating if present. - Implemented cancelling of Http requests. New in 0.9.11.3 (development) - FR1750858: Save window size and position (main, frames and preview). - Code cleanups - Use background thread and progress dialog for Http requests. - Progress dialog will show transfer status messages. - Progress dialog showing only, if transfer needs at least 500 msecs. - Added network timeout to settings dialog. - Fixed EConvertError when clicking on a blacklist entry (Thanks to all users sending bugreports!) New in 0.9.9.8 - new menu entries: Manual update check, Cut Assistant project page - Fixed access violation when getting update infos (Thanks to all users sending bugreports!). - Improved error handling when communicating with cutlist server (Thanks again). New in 0.9.9.6 - usage of madExcept (http://www.madshi.net/) to improve reporting bugs. - new About dialog. - Allow usage of relative paths in save directories (cutlist, movie). - Automatically show progress window of VirtualDub when cutting movie. - New functionality: Automatically close cutting window after some time (configurable). - Added Navigation submenu with all navigation actions (single, medium, big skip) - Standard cut mode is configurable in settings. - New actions for medium(2s) and big(20s) jumps in video. Skipped time duration of medium and big skip is configurable in settings. - Size and count of frames in frame window is now configurable. - FR1715458: Display frame in addition to time at timeline. - Show progress in DirectShow-filter checking (in settings dialog). - Show filter blacklist in settings dialog. - layout improvements in several dialogs. - misc minor bug fixes
