Shotcut Files

New

• Added Playlist > menu > Add Selected to Slideshow slideshow generator!
• Added Settings > Proxy for videos and images. See the documentation
• Added bigsh0t 360॰ video filters:
• 360: Equirectangular Mask
• 360: Equirectangular to Rectilinear
• 360: Hemispherical to Equirectangular
• 360: Rectilinear to Equirectangular
• 360: Stabilize
• 360: Transform
• 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 F1.
• 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 ; to toggle a keyframe at the playhead position.
• Added keyboard shortcut F2 to rename a clip.
• Added keyboard shortcut F3 to search in Recent.
• Added keyboard shortcut F11 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

• Renamed Timeline > Master to Output.
• Stop selecting Output (formerly Master) by default when opening a project.
• 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 Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Return on macOS).
• Changed the keyboard shortcut to open the web page of keyboard shorcuts to ?.
• 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.
• Changed Playlist > Sort > By Name to be case insensitive.
• Improved the performance of image sequences.
• Significantly improved the performance of the automatic image padding.
• Show a project's current Video Mode as selected in the Settings menu when opened.
• Added a timecode tooltip to the mouse pointer when over the player, Timeline, or Keyframes scrub bars.
• Filter VUIs (video user interfaces) are now disabled when the filter is disabled.

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 Backspace or Delete 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.
• Fixed keyframes for the Level parameter of the Opacity filter.
• Fixed drop-framed timecode for 59.94 fps to follow a strict cadence.
• Fixed the Reduce Noise: Smart Blur and Reduce Noise: Wavelet video filters to not overwrite the alpha channel.
• Fixed the image quality (interpolation) of a Size and Position or Rotate and Scale filter inside of a transition.
• Fixed loading image sequences when the sequence number in the file name does not start with 1.
• Fixed a crash when using JACK audio and File > Open Other.
• Fixed Export > Video not updated when open clip-only project.