Pkgs and tars for the end of the month build are ready for use. We tested both the static tar and the system package on Mint 19 this time. You can download them at: https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/ In addition the complete releasenotes.pdf are in that directory. And now, presenting the Work-In-Progress (WIP) LaTex manual, which is incomplete but which includes the new Masking operations and all of the formatting enhancements that Andrea/Andrey have provided. https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_manual_WIP.pdf It is literally a work of art that they have created with all of the editing and formatting and being done in LaTex will make it much easier to keep it up to date. This month's release notes are included below but here is some personal commentary. - I ran a test on rendering/encoding to VP8 and VP9 on a small file and did not see any speed improvement with libvpx, but really it was a very small file. - FFmpeg upgrade to 4.2 has a couple of new filters and I do not understand a report of yuv420p10 issue. - Dav1d inclusion was a big problem for the older system builds. First, meson had to be at or above version 47 and only 5 out of 18 build systems were. Consequently, GG ended up eliminating the "meson" requirement and substituting the standard "make" instead. Then the "nasm" assembler on some of the older systems was not able to compile Dav1d so they had to be switched out for a working version. More information on this later. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cinelerra-GG (Version Infinity) *Release Notes for 08/01/2019-08/31/2019* for builds 1. *Upgraded ffmpeg* from 4.1.4 to 4.2 (*Andrew notification* of official release). 2. O/S distros on developer’s build systems have had upgrades applied. 3. *Libvpx has been upgraded* from 1.8.0 to 1.8.1. Per their release notes “various changes to improve encoder rate control, quality and speed for practically every use case” (*Deim notification* of release *).4. **Dav1d *is being used in place of libAOM for decode only in ffmpeg, providing purported *s*ignificant speedups of 2-5 times for AV1 media. Encode is only available using libAOM so will still be slow (Mantis BugTracker #*BT 214*). 5. *Usability Improvements:* Mask feathering algorithm has been improved by using an algorithm more close to the original based on a user request (*User direct reques*t). And Feathering which was limited to 100 pixels now allows for a much larger range by clicking on the button on either end and sliding at least 12 pixels past that point which increases it by a small percentage each time allowing you to move the slider past 100 (*User direct request*). Significant work was done on Feathering by the developer to improve performance and to ensure that using OpenGL as well as the X11 driver, produced the same (or almost the same results). A Batch Render warning is now shown to the user when the position is at the end of the media ( *Deim suggestion*). The release in GIT will have a “git tag” added for the “version update” (Mantis BugTracker #288). 6. *Bugs/Issues fixed:* The Compositor “Click2Play” button is now easily accessible again (Mantis BugTracker #*BT 237*). Fixed Render Progress booby (Andrew reported this bug). Configure.ac Warn and Guicast Gettid patches (from ferdnyc) were applied (#*BT 289 and 290*).