OpenShot 2.4.1 release highlights:
- Improved Image Quality : improved the image processing pipeline in OpenShot to create sharper images, by switching our image scaling algorithm, and most importantly, only scaling a frame once, as opposed to multiple times (which used to happen in certain scenarios). This results in a noticeably sharper image, and slightly better performance.
- Improved Playback Smoothness : The video preview capabilities in OpenShot have been improved to better handle higher framerate videos (50 fps, 60 fps, 120 fps). This results in a smoother playback experience, and less jittering and freezing with certain preview profiles.
- Improved Stability (especially for Windows) : This fixes many, many Windows issues, including audio files stopping early, sync/desync issues, videos stopping at 30 minutes (or at an earlier time), opening project files with non-English characters, and more. If you have had any issues on Windows, please give this new version a try.
OpenShot 2.4.1 release Changelog:
Libopenshot (full list of changes)
- More critical sections trying to prevent race conditions on high CPU core systems
- Additional critical sections around adding frame images
- Codec lookup by name in FFmpegWriter, which should solve a few issues (such as xvid support). Thanks Peter!
- Fixing regression with rotation origin. Things should always rotate around the center of an object (until I add in keyframable anchor points)
- Setting timebase on video stream in FFmpegWriter... a bit experimental
- Improving playback smoothness on high framerate videos, especially when the video frames need to jump forward to keep up with the audio.
- Removing throw statements from header files
- Reducing # of scale operations to 1 per layer on the timeline
- Fixing 16 thread limit on FFmpegReader
- Fixing a cast from long to int64_t
- Updating all "long int" frame number types to int64_t, so all 3 OSes will produce the same depth and precision on frame numbers. This is a big one!
- Removing variable bitrate support (for now), since it causes more problems than it solves.
- Fixing small regression with translation website URLs when using default/en_US
- Fixing small bug in Export dialog where profile and quality get blown away when changing format
- Ignoring history update messages, since libopenshot doesn't care about them
- Simplifying export progress, reducing # of signals being emitted
- Integrating current language into website URLs and simplifying a few translations (removing HTML tags)
- Removing unneeded UTF8 encode method, which caused certain project paths to fail when loading (solves crash on Windows trying to open non-English project file paths)
- Fixing a big race condition on initial launch of OpenShot, which causes certain JavaScript calls to fail (so default profiles, snapping mode, and few other things set on launch would fail sometimes)
- Adding keyboard shortcuts for toggling 'Transform' and 'Insert Keyframe'. This improves the animation work-flow, and no longer requires a bunch of mouse clicks / context menus for animations.
- Preventing overwriting an input file with the export dialog, and updating export progress on export window title
- Updating translations and contributor credits
Installation instructions:
In order to successfully install OpenShot on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the openshot-qt package:
| $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install openshot-qt |
Install via package if PPA is not up to date
- Download the Linux appimage file
- Right-click on the file and click properties.
- Click on Permissions tab and check the box to make it executable
- Then run the file as it does not require any installation
Optional, to remove OpenShot, do:
| $ sudo apt-get remove openshot-qt |
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