Head for the cinelerra-gg.org website and click on Download to get to the latest builds. Thanks to everyone for input, requests, bug reports, and especially testing to ensure Cinelerra stays relevant. The "Open EDL" feature already came in handy - usage pdf file at: https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/editing_edl.pdf and the addition of anti-aliasing/rotation/scaling to the Sketcher plugin is very nice. See the releasenotes.pdf or text list of changes with lots of bug fixes is below. ------------------------------------------------------------- Cinelerra-GG (Version Infinity) Release Notes for 12/01/2019-12/31/2019 for builds 1. *Init Glyphs* finally fixed – at least 99%. This affects large computers when in highly threaded mode and many, many cpus. For example, a computer with 2 Epyc chips running Cinelerra-GG. You would see a specific character like the ascii character “b” displayed, usually as “||” instead, when running for every occurrence of the letter “b” until Cinelerra restarted. And on the restart possibly a different character would be incorrectly displayed. Problem originates outside of Cinelerra but a “fix” is now included here and will become more important in the future as users upgrade to more cpu-s. LOCALE changes for other languages will be necessary to include characters not in english. 2. The rest of the *HV 7.2* modifications (that fit in and are usable) have been incorporated to include: - *Compressor Multi* for multibands plugin has been added. The Smooth Only option was debugged so that it produced sound and a decision was made to add a Gain and Reset button feature at the same time since it was being worked anyway. - Compressor plugin had major modifications along with more pot dial options, VU meters, and a graphic display. Cinelerra_factory changes applied also for some automatic presets for plugin. This too has had the Smooth Only option fixed and buttons for Gain and Reset added. - Reverb plugin ported containing a large amount of changes to include addition of levels, a graphic, pots and a full band pass filter. (The previous 3 plugins were modified to allow for theme related refinements.) - Spectogram /Synthesizer plugins were ported as they had a couple of more items/improvements. - A *dashed center line* is now displayed on the Audio timeline when in non-rectify mode. - Plugin synchronization fixes were merged in. - Changed methodology of truncated text ellipses and modified “align edits” methodology. - Refresh frame tweak included. - Converted the 7.2 Background plugin to a *new Foreground plugin *for simple usage of a color. - Sound Level plugin reworked to handle fragments. - Added Depth variable to plugin.C program. 3. *Hardware accelerators improvement* is now fixed (found problem as Pierre reported in BT #346). This affects Preferences hardware settings of vdpau, vaapi, and cuda. There may be slight gains in decoding speed as a result. 4. *Usability Improvements:* In the Render menu, the filename will automatically have the “.mov” extension added instead of “.pro” when pro is chosen for the ffmpeg format for Quicktime tyype files (Olaf reported). Added 13 new audio and 2 new video ffmpeg formats as supplied by Olaf (see Mantis BT # 351). *New Alpha plugin* for the simple case of changing the video alpha value from 0 which is completely transparent to 1 with no transparency at all. * In Mixers*, minor changes (issues reported by dankinselman): - If in Settings->Edit effects, is enabled, the plugins will be copied/pasted to the master track. Also, labels and keyframes will follow if enabled. This behavior is different than in the past where they were not. This change also affects when you create a clip – the plugins, labels, keyframes will now be included. This seems to be more correct and you can always turn off Edit effects/labels/keyframes if the behavior is undesirable. - If close a Mixer window and delete its associated tracks, they will now stay deleted. - Mixer windows and patchbay labels are correctly renumbered after deleting mixers. The *German translations* have been updated by Olaf. Check BT #353 for usage hints. The *Sketcher plugin* has been improved to allow for 2 additional anti-aliasing options to make curves and lines less staircase-looking. Options are off, on, and double (IgorB request). In addition Scaling and Rotation capabilities have been added, layout changes made, and Help moved to a checkbox to hide it when not needed. *Edit EDL capability *has been added. This makes it possible to edit clips, nested clips, and xml files in your current project by stacking and unstacking current EDL states. This is documented on the website under Download, File Storage as *editing_edl.pdf*. Track canvas draw for colored titles and background colors is now *fastpath* so is at least 4x faster. 5. *TV recording *changes for over the air digital television changes: - Hauppauge 1657 Dual USB device has been tested to work with minor program changes. A possible equivalent European over the air TV might be Hauppauge European Dual Tuner for DVB_T/T2/C Digital TV. But this has not been tested and the channel configuration may require Cinelerra program changes and you may need to install TV firmware for your Operating System. - The Record menu allows for automatically adding deinterlacing choice of None, Even, or Odd. 6. *Bugs/Issues Fixed:* Updated the ffmpeg git version to include patches for bluray creation (working with Andrew). Minor updates to the 3 README.x files in the download area of the website + updated Arch install instructions on the website to correct and clarify (reported by v4t). Audioscope plugin rework for cleanup and improvements. Ubiquitous cleanup done in several routines. Colorpicker which was a widget, is now a gadget. Paremetric plugin has improved audio play positioning. The Apply button in the Load Menus when a selection is available was not getting updated. Fixed. In the Fedora O/S, the cinelerra window icons in the window manager were not always correct but this has been mostly addressed now. Bug fix for init_colors in bcmodels to clear alpha is now in. Transcode fixes applied & more testing led to other possible cases that needed to be handled BT 350. Plugins info and shortcuts.html have small updates added. Operating System distro and version number are now included in the dump output. Minor compositor Zoom change in how it operates when not in Auto mode (BT #344). Tracer plugin minor layout changes (reported by Sam in old BT #210). Colorpicker gadget/grab fixes and Compositor Eyedropper minor bugs/tweaks fixes. Fixed potential infinite loop due to silence not being played. One button type did not allow for name changing but now it is fixed to do so. The Render Effect menu now resizes correctly for the ffmpeg file type field (Ugin reported). Fixed locking labels/plugins/kfs from moving when appending new tracks load (Lukas BT #354). Nesting video where audio was deleted and then played in viewer had a SEGV is now fixed. Under certain conditions, if you use the P proxy shortcut on the timeline to get back to non-proxy mode, it would not do so (but workaround was to use the menu). This has been fixed to work correctly (discovered by dankinselman). A fix for the vicon drawing rare SEGV race conditions is now in. The beepers in various spots to indicate a render has finished has been consolidated in mwindow. Minor valgrind cleanup has been done.