Version 17.10 is now available for DOWNLOAD!
After upgrading FFmpeg to v3.2 in the previous release, we discovered a performance regression because multi-threaded was not working. That is fixed now.
One thing that came with the FFmpeg upgrade is NVENC, which is NVIDIA’s hardware-based H.264 and HEVC encoding for Linux and Windows. The quality is not as good as x264 and x265, but it might be faster for previewing an export or capture or just to play around with. To use it, you must have a NVIDIA GPU that supports it. You must choose “h264_nvenc” or “hevc_enc” from the Export > Video > Codec drop-down list - NOT the Format list. There are not presets provided. You can use the Export defaults or one of the H.264 or HEVC presets and change the codec. Just because it is listed does not mean it will work. The codec is listed without doing any capability test. If you right-click the Export job and choose View Log, then it may show some errors if it is not working. HEVC does not support B frames on most (all?) current devices and drivers. This version of Shotcut makes the Export > Codec rate control fields supply the correct options for NVENC.
Version 17.09 is now available for DOWNLOAD!
While this version contains the usual round-up of fixes and translation updates, it also contains some technology updates:
In addition, primarily for school/institution installations, we added the
ability to turn off the welcome message that suggests to check for an upgrade.
This works by either running the shotcut executable with the --noupgrade
command line option. Or, one can add the option “noupgrade” to the config file
or registry, under the General section with the value “true”.
This option also hides the Help > Upgrade… menu item.
Version 17.08 is now available for DOWNLOAD!
This version fixes some bugs and tweaks a few things as well:
Version 17.06 is now available for DOWNLOAD.
This version changes the maximum duration for a still image from 10 minutes to four hours. As with previous versions, if you need an image to appear longer, you can add the image more than once. In addition to some other bug fixes, this version fixes a broken Chinese translation and adds a Hungarian translation.
For a while now, we have provided information about how to setup a development environment on Windows to hack Shotcut. As part of that, we created a Windows SDK that bundles together most of Shotcut’s dependencies as well as special build of Qt 5 that still includes QtWebKit. These requirements still make development on Linux troublesome for new or casual contributors. So, we have added a Linux SDK as well with setup instructions for Qt Creator.
Lastly, I want to remind readers of the video instruction course by James Woo . Yeah, there are quite a few YouTube videos now including our own, but they are so-so. James’ series is clear, concise, comprehensive, and a good value. There are now over 40 tutorials for only $29!
Version 17.05 is now available for DOWNLOAD.
This version just fixes some bugs and updates translations. In particular, it fixes a long standing bug that, on Windows, files with non-Latin characters in the name or path can not be opened or saved.