The July 31 builds are now available. I am happy to report that MantisBT issue #2 for masking is finally DONE! If you have any problems with it, please just open a new ticket. It looks like the probability of ever finishing 277 issues is zero. Debian 10 package is now available since it was officially released July 7th (did not get Olivier's recommended build fixes in yet though). MantisBT issue #237 is still being worked on Compositor background color / canvas color. Release notes included below as well as at: https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/releasenotes.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cinelerra-GG (Version Infinity) Release Notes for 07/01/2019-07/31/2019 for builds *Special Thanks* this month (of course, the usual thanks to all involved!): Andrea/Andrey are converting the manual to Latex and the long Plugins chapter is now complete. Pierre has updated the French wikipedia for Cinelerra-GG at: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinelerra IgorB has created all of the numerous Masking icon pngs/svgs for each of the themes. Sam has updated and improved the website even more – pretty much doing this on an ongoing basis. MatN has researched/tested the potential viability of using flatpak or appimage packages for distributing Cinelerra-GG to other Linux or Windows distros. See BT #261 for details. 1. Prof2, a *Profiler* that shows where a program is using up time has been checked into GIT. It can be used to determine if Cinelerra or other programs are using too much cpu in any routine. 2. *Upgraded ffmpeg* from 4.1 to 4.1.4. 3. *Masking improvements* are now complete and temporarily documented at: https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/Mask_changes.pdf There are now 6 more buttons in the Mask Points section for Point, Curve, or All of Linear or Smooth to automatically smooth or un-smooth parts of the mask which saves some tedious work. Cloning and Preset Shapes are now available. You can Load, Save, or Delete Preset shapes such as a Circle, Oval, Square, or Triangle and Save/Load/Delete your own on any video track. Center and Normalize buttons have been added to “center” a mask and “normalize” the size based on the scale of the video track. The Enable buttons can now be used to enable/disable particular masks so that they are not subject to any All or Gang functions. This is in effect for Feather, Fade, Translate, Scale, and Rotate. Masking rotate and scale, because they used the wheel, were not included in the keyframe generation but now that has been fixed. Updated shortcuts.html to include mask editing key equivalences from the Help information. Addition of X/Y scaling in 1 direction so that now you have scaling in both directions (default) simultaneously as well as just scaling in the X direction or the Y direction. This also applies tp Translate so that you can move a small distance in one direction without impacting the other. Now when you enable only Boundary you can see the boundaries of all present masks at that point without having to put a gradient behind it to see. You can move a mask precisely through use of the textbox in Mask Point section or the tumblers. 4. *Usability Improvements* An additional Settings→Preferences, Interface tab of “Timeline Rectify Audio” provides a choice to use this format to have the waveform cut on the zero line, making it easier to note silent areas. Spanning Keyframes now has its own toggle so that selections will no longer automatically change. An alternative shortcut for Ctrl-m drag/drop editing is the Backspace key. Added Compositor background color choice via Settings→Preferences, Appearance (in work still). 5. *Bugs/Issues Fixed* An OpenGL fix for make_shader segment count is now in. Thanks to reports from DeJay/Andrea. A mod has been made to the colorpicker that affects the Title, Gradient, and Sketcher plugins to hopefully avoid strange hesitancy behavior. Fixed tooltip for “Use HW Device” in Settings, the Performance tab. Increased data box size for modes in the Descratch plugin. Switched to using the default theme text color instead of white for Show Overlays, Hard Edges icon. FFmpeg filters, loudnorm and dynanorm, had invalid setup so were removed from usage. In the Viewer, the audio waveform disappeared when playing but this is now fixed. Fixed outer color setup for yuv in the gradient plugin In the Sketcher plugin, a fix was added for last_xy update in the sketcher grab_event.