At the usual place, are tars and pkgs. We specifically tested the package install on Mint 19.3 with no obvious problems but there is a limit of what we can do. Arch and Tumbleweed were updated yesterday. https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/pkgs/ https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/tars/ https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_Manual.pdf https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/releasenotes.pdf Next month we will no longer provide Centos 7 and if Ubuntu 20 comes out on April 23, then will add that instead of Ubuntu 19 static tar. If no objections, we are going to take the Shape Wipe video transitions and switch them from png to jpg because they make the tars/pkgs files bigger thus slowing down the downloads. Then we can add back some of the ones we eliminated to save on size. We think the saving out weighs the quality of jpeg. A text copy of the release notes is below. ------------------------------------------------------ Cinelerra-GG (Version Infinity) Release Notes for 03/01/2020-03/31/2020 for builds Thanks to *Olaf and Andrea* - Improvements to formatting for making the Manual easier to read and more professional looking were done by Olaf. Creating new images of better quality and consistency were done by Andrea. Plus corrections and some clarifications were added by them and others. Thanks to *Andrew* – Providing patches, alerting us of new versions available, and much early testing. 1. *OpenExr* has been upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.4.1 (Andrew notification and assistance). 2. *OpenCV* upgrade for more recent distros from 3.4.1 to 4.2. Older O/S still at 3.4.1 +(Andrew patch). 3. A major *change to ID based references for plugins *to resolve a code flaw in copying was made. 4. *Usability Improvements*: To make it easy for moving to the *next/previous auto *like fade or speed, added Alt-a/Ctrl-a shortcuts and in keeping with keyframes, Alt-Shift-A and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-A (Deim31 noted). Slider bars have been added to the *Projector and Camera *compositor menus for ease of use along with tumblers to change the range. All inter-related components are updated accordingly such as the zoom bar ranges and the auto xyz lines (Dan feature request). Another minor change to the *shortcut for “Delete last track” *from the lower case letter “d” to Ctrl- Shift-D and finally to just Ctrl-d to make it less dangerous but at the same time still not too hard to get to (IgorB suggestion for refinement). Several *new ShapeWipe transitions* created by Rafa + others available to load locally. The tips file and po file for *Spanish* were improved once again by RafaMar. *Videoscope* changes (there will be a couple of more changes next month): Added capability via an icon on the Compositor and Viewer windows to easily start up the scope (BT #71 of Andrea and more recent Dan email). Changes include the following: Replaced menu buttons with a “Scopes” pulldown which is easier to understand. Added a “Smooth” button for the purpose of aesthetics for not showing black line missing data. Scope values show up without having to play first when enabled or when the window is resized. Slider bars with reset button to modify the value for the Waveform and Vectorscope displays. Additional choice for the waveform of “Waveform ply” added. Note that it may run better with X11 as the video driver instead of OpenGl. *Mixer window* changes: - added a “Tile mixers” option easily accessible in the window which was previously only available in the Window→Mixers pulldown. - “Zoom” has been hooked up (Dan email report). - there is now a “Playable” option for each window to save cpu usage time (Dan request). *Zoom... *in the Compositor, Viewer, and Mixer windows has been renamed to Resize Window. The compositor button bar has had “Generate Keyframes...” and “Keyframe Spanning” buttons removed to make room for the Videoscope button. Patches for render options have been worked by Andrew to include: EXR - choices of B44, B44A, DWAA, DWAB PNG - now has added choices in the render video wrench to include Compression level 0-9 and Depth of either 8 or 16 bits. TIFF - new choices of LZW, LZWMA, Deflate. Tiff now allows for future webp use. New plugin “boxblur” to blur horizontal, vertical, and with power. Very fast; based on ffmpeg’s. 5. *Bugs/Issues fixed:* Format /muxer render new button was fixed as it was not retaining settings correctly. Fix for deadlock in Compositor when double click on the indicator bar and trying to drag after that + another deadlock fixed when using [ and ] and labels (Andrew noted and worked to reproduce). Vaapi software fallback fix added so that when non-supported models, like 66, are not supported, the software will automatically be in use instead (Jacek BT #383). A few tweaks for BSD builds, bld_prepare script added libtool, shortcuts.html and plugin.opts. Reverted h264_nvenc and h265_nvenc vaapi render options file back to medium as high was illegal. A problem with keyfame paste track tabbing when trying to go to previous keyframe has been fixed. Transition “Length” popup close session hang is now corrected. Created image2 for ffmpeg streams when rendering such as in the case of webp (Rafa reported). Fixed moving edits with plugins to retain status on/off status (Dan noted). Transitions losing their setups when Generate keyframes while tweaking is set is fixed (Rafa found). Bug in Shape Wipe jumping when going from Black to White has been fixed (Rafa analyzed). *OpenEDL problem of saving within a layer so that is propagated up if quit in non-zero layer* (Dan). Fixed bug in scale.C – autoaspect instead of audioaspect (Andrew found). Mixer zoom refactoring and cleanup done. DVD creation was limited to 100 sections but now goes up to 1000. Home/End keys in some cases had to be hit twice to perform that function while playing – now fixed. Crash when loading Exr sequence after files are deleted now gives a warning (Andrew found). Aspect ratio in Compositor was fixed when do a split screen view (IgorBeg noted). Bad clamps were fixed in the plugins, Color3way and Videoscope. *Improvement to bluray script added (Sandhill Crane BT#398*). More recommendations provided but not yet analyzed and tested. Build script tweaks for cross platform - a couple of days worth of testing all of the builds to prevent surprises (reflects a lot of Andrew’s work/testing). Includes lv2 fixes from Andrew. Added blur_box as a template (in conjunction with need for Videoscpe) as it will be useful elsewhere. Fix for cursor over button bar in the Compositor accidentally playing when Click to Play enabled. Segv problem fixed for load server bug that has been in a long time and hard to believe not noticed. On the scope window, calculate size of media and how many cpus exist to determine how many threads to use; i.e. “load client throttle”.