What's Changed Fixed a crash when drag-n-drop video suggesting conversion when Settings > Timeline > Automatically Add Tracks is on (broke in v26.9). Fixed Timeline interactions slow when something is using Windows UI Automation (broke in v26.9). Fixed copy and paste of multiple clips including dissolve video transitions (broke in v26.9). Fixed audio playback might sound scratchy (broke in v26.9).…
Fixed Mask: Draw (Glaxnimate) filter, Operation > Subtract for 8-bit processing mode (broke in version 25.12). Fixed using Size, Position & Rotate with Mask: Apply filters (broke in version 25.12). Improved audio quality by removing a conversion to 16-bit integer and keeping the pipeline in 32-bit float. Fixed LV2 external audio plugins not loading on Windows (unless LV2_PATH environment var set e…
What's Changed See a nicely formatted page on the web site. Fixed security flaws in upgrade and Whisper downloads (failed HTTPS was retried over HTTP, certificate errors could be ignored, and a downloaded file could be used without a trusted digest). Fixed Mask: Draw (Glaxnimate) filter, Operation > Subtract for 8-bit processing mode (broke in version 25.12). Fixed using Size, Position & Rotate wi…
Elements 🔥 Added Elements panel to the File > New and View menus and the Generate buttons. This is a very slim (22MB) stock asset library: emoji stickers, sounds, overlay transitions, animated text, graphics. The content licenses are royalty free, including commercial, and do not require attribution: Emojis: Open Font License 1.1 Sounds: The Sonniss #GameAudioGDC Bundle Licensing Agreement Text, T…
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What's Changed Fixed corrupt color in dissolve transitions with Settings > Processing Mode > Linear 10-bit CPU. Fixed the new Reduce Noise: Audio (RNNoise) when the export audio sample rate is not 48000 Hz. Fixed off-by-one frame errors in subtitle bar in Timeline and Subtitle Burn In video filter. Fixed all builds missing support for VST2 and LV2 audio plugins. Now install and try Valhalla Superm…
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External Monitor with a System Display Three years ago, when we upgraded our UI library to a major new version, we lost support for using an additional system display as an external monitor. Many people were disappointed to lose that feature. Now, after a major change to the video plumbing, it is back! The External Monitor submenu is moved from Settings to the top of the Player menu. It is incompa…
Fixed Player > External Monitor > DeckLink (and related such as UltraStudio) HDMI/SDI may deadlock. Upgraded libspatialaudio to 0.4.0+. Fixed export with libopus audio codec warns about frame_duration. Added initial basic support for OpenFX plugins (filters) with a UI for NTSC-rc. Limited compatibility: not available, seems to do nothing, or makes the video black. No support for plugins that opera…
What's Changed Timeline Improvements Added symmetric resize of a timeline transition using its trim handles. Added drag-n-drop from Recent to Timeline. Improved Timeline and Keyframes zoom to be less erratic and more focused. Reduced memory usage for timeline waveforms. Changed Timeline > Set Current Track Above and Set Current Track Below to use the bare Up and Down keys. Speech to Text Added Vul…
This fixes a problem with popup windows used for buttons with menus on Wayland.
Fixed intermittent audio waveform sync/blank (broke in v26.2) Stopped bundling Glaxnimate, which recently released version 0.6.0 (except the Linux Flatpak) Added launching Glaxnimate from the Microsoft Store (free) on Windows if available Fixed incorrect last frame in (Glaxnimate) animations Fixed Font style other than weight and italics/oblique in the font dialog Fixed Ctrl+Down can make the wron…
Fixes Fixed crash when adding long video to Timeline with Qt 6.10.1 (broke in v26.1). Fixed black or green bottom bar on Windows with HEVC video source and Settings > Preview Scaling > Use Hardware Decoder plus preview scaling (broke in v26.1). Restored Generate to the main toolbar with View > Show Text Under Icons (changed in v26.1). Fixed crash in the RGB Shift video filter (broke in v25.12). Fi…
Fixed black or green bottom bar on Windows with HEVC video and Settings > Preview Scaling > Use Hardware Decoder plus preview scaling (broke in v26.1). Fixed crash when adding very long video to Timeline with Qt 6.10.1 (broke in v26.1). Fixed crash in the RGB Shift video filter (broke in v25.12). Fixed crash on various enabled Playlist actions with nothing selected: GoTo Move Up Move Down Add Sele…
Hardware Video Decoding! "What took so long?" you might ask. A good way to manage it across all operating systems and GPU vendor APIs. We have a FAQ topic about this. Management comes in the forms of operating system abstraction APIs, hardware scaling, and a threshold limiter. Settings > Preview Scaling > Use Hardware Decoder Enabled by default, except with NVIDIA on Linux. Uses VA-API on Linux, M…
Fixed Brightness filter with a reduced level is different when there is clip with transparency above it (broke in v25.12). Fixed a crash in the scrub-bar on a very long playlist. Fixed app not responding while enqueuing very many proxy jobs. Fixed Previous/Next in Subtitles may be unreadable on some themes and OS. Changed bulk proxy generation (when you switch Settings > Proxy > Use Proxy ON) to u…
This version hot-fixes problems found in 25.12.30: Fixed nesting MLT XML stopped working. Fixed Screen Recording missing on Linux and macOS. Fixed Stabilize video filter on macOS. See the 25.12 release notes Full Changelog: v25.12.30...v25.12.31