April monthly tars and pkgs are now available at the usual place on the website: https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/tars https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/pkgs We installed both the Mint 19.3 package and the new Ubuntu 20 package to make sure Cin came up. Both Arch and Tweed (Tumbleweed) distros were updated yesterday before the build. And if you have not already seen, the *beginning of the Spanish translation of the manual by Sergio*: https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_Manual_Spanish.pdf (I did not get the update from Andrea and the fixes from Sergio in the English manual yet but will try to get that updated by the end of today.) *Newly added Ubuntu 20* is available with only minimal testing. Ubuntu 19 static tar is available this month yet but will be retired next month unless the demand is still there. *Fedora 32 was newly added* also. --------------------------------- *Text copy of releasenotes.pdf (also on website*) ------------------------- Cinelerra-GG (Version Infinity) Release Notes for 04/01/2020-04/30/2020 for builds Thanks to *RafaMar* for a lot of work testing this month, reporting bugs, providing instructive youtube videos and tutorials, plus more Spanish translations. A partially translated Spanish version of the Manual is being gradually worked by *Sergio*. This is very much appreciated. It is at: https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_Manual_Spanish.pdf 1. Four *potential performance modifications* have been made to speed up some places, to include: 1) Speed improvements for *line drawing* using Bresenham’s line algorithm implemented now in (motivated by LFOM forum notes). 2) Performance enhancements on the time line for *video/audio re-draws* has been implemented. 3) *Threading on loads* so that Audio and Video can be loaded using multiple cpu-s. Previously the video load to the timeline would have to complete before the audio would start loading. 4) *Hardware acceleration using vdpau* for files of type yuvj420p were reverting to software decoding on the load due to rejection by ffmpeg. Another ffmpeg patch (patchA) was added to allow this type (used by GoPro cameras) to be decoded successfully on GPU graphics cards that support CONSTRAINED_BASELINE (*Ig0r in the forum pursued this* to a fix). 2. *Videoscope *additional improvements to ease use in Compositor and Viewer and as a plugin. - Smoothed vectorscope so no longer uses fast pixmap but instead software (Sam aesthetics suggestion). - Added VectorWheel overlay options – none, All, Hue, IQ (with I for skin tones and Q for grass?), and user generated allowance by adding to CinPath/plugins/scopes as a png file (Andrea and IgorBeg provided initial quality graticules). - Modifications were made to layout to improve looks & usage (as recommended by IgorBeg/Sam). - Switched the Hue and Saturation values from the top line to a popup instead. - Added a “*Refresh on Stop*” button so that the scopes are only updated when you actually stop the play. This makes it play at full speed (Sam suggestion). Works only for Compositor/Viewer. 3. A *long standing serious bug* which has been undetected for years is resolved (thanks to RafaMar analysis of exact steps to reproduce.) For details refer to BT #71, note 3228 +. 4. *Usability Improvements:* Switched from png to 90% jpg for *ShapeWipe transitions* to save binary file size for the monthly builds in order to lessen amount of time to download. Writing software to perform the jpeg translation was necessary to do so. This also makes additional 17 shapes available (RafaMar). If user needs to use a png version of a ShapeWipe instead, the manual states how to do so. Added to *BoxBlur *plugin, a way to define a rectangular area for blurring just that spot (Andrea). *Drag box ungrab for plugins* like Title will now automatically turn on the Drag and turn off the Drag owned by any other plugin (RafaMar suggestion). *Collect and Paste effects *options are now available as well as saving a stack to the Clip folder (Sam suggestion BT #84). MMB on a track to see. More work is to be done to complete this next month. Updated Spanish translation and tips (by RafaMar). 5. *Bugs/Issues fixed:* Problem of Title plugin with long lines or using png with the menu has been fixed (Rafa reported). Camera and Projector “expand X,Y,Z ranges” have been fixed and changed to work a little differently but more work needs to be completed (Andrea reported problems). Button bars on Compositor and Viewer are now more aesthetically correct and the “meters” icon has been moved to the end for a better placement of a non-edit option (Olaf and IgorBeg notes). Some problems with BoxBlur to include edge case segv have been fixed (IgorBeg). Scaling problems for xinerama case of a screen that is 2560x1080 will now work correctly (RafaMar user reported). Fixed booby lock problem in ChromaKey plugin. Negative value vdpau/vaapi hardware fallback fix. *With vaapi enabled, some png’s and jpg’s would not default to loading with software*. Most of these will now do so (*LFOM report *in the forum). A bug has been fixed in theora configure.ac (as provided by Andrew). Bug in using the next keyframe with the shortcut of “k” was not working if effects not at the beginning but is now fixed (RafaMar found). Color Wheel Hue up/down toggle needed to be float as was not working quite right. Removed “commercials” linking due to lack of use and in particular for the monthly builds which will speed up the process. If building your own, you can put it back in. Added requirement to “build prepare” script for Python. This was found necessary for Ubuntu 20. Fixed capture device needed for Recording operations. This was a dropped line. Colorpicker Hue correction has been made in 2 different places (GG found one and IgorBeg). Correct alignment for Cakewalk and different themes for BoxBlur contributed by programmer.