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Download OpenShot 2.4.3

Highlights:

• Masks and transitions can now be modified at any time, and can now use an image or video! This utilizes the grayscale of each frame and converts it into a mask, and can be used to create some really amazing effects.
• Threading improvements help prevent crashing around effects (including masks and transitions), and improve performance on many systems.
• Save frame button for quickly saving the current preview frame
• Huge improvement to language translations (Thanks to Frank Dana - ferdnyc)

Contributing:

We love to meet new enthusiastic members of the community! If you love video editing and want to help improve OpenShot, please send me an email: jonathan@openshot.org. No programming skills are needed, as we are looking for anyone who has time to volunteer. We are looking for contributors who can help us with managing bug reports, triaging bugs, identifying improvements, programming in C, C++, Python, or JavaScript, improving translations, marketing, or any other skill you can offer. Or, if you would rather be less involved, please consider making a donation and have your name included in our credits!

Full list of features and bug fixes below:

openshot-qt:

• Bumping version to 2.4.3 (libopenshot dependency to 0.2.2)
• Animated Masks: New "reader" property type, initially used by the Mask effect to change the image/video used by transitions and the Mask effect
• Disable OMP thread concurrency during Export, to make exports as safe as possible
• Nudge clips when holding SHIFT + Left or Right arrow (Richard Alloway - N3WWN)
• Add Save Current Frame button (Richard Alloway - N3WWN)
• New translation & language infrastructure and logic (better logic for determining current language) (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Fixed split keep both sides (right side position was incorrect)
• Application icon updates (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Zoom fixes (lots of issues relating to zooming fixed)
• Undo/Redo fixes (fixing and preventing giant .osp project files)
• New tutorial system, better child window management (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Travis CI Integration
• Improve Title filename duplication naming/counting (DerGenaue)
• Use track names in "Add To Timeline" window (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Improve waveform display rendering (DerGenaue)
• Fix audio wave not rendered after completion (DylanC)
• Add instagram and twitter presets (DylanC)
• Add AppStream metadata to setup.py (Peter Eszlari)
• Timeline JavaScript Bug Fixes (DylanC)
• Timeline cleanup and performance, upgrade Angular.js (DylanC)
• Removing libdrm.so.2 from AppImage
• Add src/language path to Mac DMG builder (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Add language override on command line using --lang (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Add explanatory text for --list-lang (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Some fixes for the timeline debugger (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Update edit-clear icon in Humanity (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Correct variable name typo to initialize properly (DylanC)
• Convert all nonessential logs to .debug() (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Remove unused effects filters (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Add "Ask a Question" template (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Preventing libopenshot version check on unittests
• More framerates for YouTube HD and Vimeo HD presets (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Convert (most) files with DOS line-endings to Unix (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Remove debug.js from index.html (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Square the PNG icon file (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• App metadata updates for easier packaging (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Move Slice All shortcuts to correct menu (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• launch-linux.sh: Don't set QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 (Frank Dana - ferdnyc)
• Updating default project type to 720p 30 FPS, and sample rate 44100
• Fix retention of export path (Richard Alloway - N3WWN)
• Fixing GitLab to no longer run CI for tags, and fixing version # for daily and release builds
• Add "release-candidate" to filename for daily RC builds, so they don't look so official on the website
• Misc Typos and text fixes (luzpaz)
• Updating contributors and supporters (Thank You!)
• Updating translations

libopenshot-audio:

• Bumping version to 0.1.7 (SO: still 6)
• Travis CI integration

libopenshot:

• Bumping version to 0.2.2 (SO: 16)
• FFmpeg 3 & 4 support
• Fixed crash with masks and transitions
• Fixed many bugs around FPS and video length calculation (especially for MP3 and streaming WEBM formats)
• Protecting samples_per_frame calculation to keep from crashing on undetected FPS
• OpenMP schedule change (added stability)
• Limiting threads for both FFmpeg and OpenMP (attempting to find a good balance of parallel performance, while not spawning too many threads). Sometimes more is not always better.
• Travis CI integration
• Fix install paths for headers and effects (Jeff Shillitto - jeffski)
• Fix bug with FFmpeg > 3.2 flushing frames (Jeff Shillitto - jeffski)
• Adding "reader" property for Mask effect, to allow the user to adjust the image or video used by the mask effect.
• Fixing bitrate calculation (to be in bytes instead of bits)
• Adding in FPS detection for files which don't have valid FPS. In those cases (streaming files for example), we iterate through all packets, and average the # of frames, duration, bit rate, etc... Not ideal, but a better fallback.