Software update: Shotcut 23.07.09 beta

Shotcut is a comprehensive open source and cross-platform video editing program for Windows, Linux and macOS. It uses FFmpeg and therefore has support for the most common audio and video formats. The files are not imported, but are edited in their original format. It can handle different tracks and a mix of formats and resolutions can be used within a project. In version 23.07.09 of Shotcut, which is offered as beta, we mainly find bug fixes.

Shotcut 23.07.09 beta

This version continues to fix recent regressions as well as address some long standing known problems.

• Fixed crash on startup on older Windows 10 computers that do not have Direct3D 11 (broke in v23.05).
• Added Track Auto Fade and Track Seam audio filters. These filters address an old problem where clicks and pops may be heard in export when switching between clips due to discontinuities in the audio stream. A recommended technique was to add a 2 frame Fade Audio Out and Fade Audio in filters on clips. Track Auto Fade automatics that. Track Seam works on a similar level but rather attempts to do a smoothing between outgoing and incoming samples around edit points. Both of these new filters may ONLY be added to individual tracks—audio or video.
• Fixed shift-drag-drop from Windows Explorer to Playlist deletes the files! This is an old bug, and Shotcut is not deleting the files. But it accepts a move drop action for the purpose of reordering playlist items. However, doing so with a list of filenames makes Windows assume the receiving application did something appropriate with thes file and then… delete them on behalf of the app just to be sure?!? Smooth move. (Another Windows file manager Directory Opus does not exhibit this bad behavior.)
• Fixed another very old bug on Windows where sound does not follow the default output device, for example plugging headphones, until you restart the app. Please note that if you are using Settings > Audio Channels > 6 (5.1), after the default sound output changes, you will likely experience distortion in the audio playback until you restart the app.
• Added the –SDL_AUDIODRIVER command line option for Windows and Linux.
• Fixed Timeline scrubbing and skimming accelerate too much (broke in v23.06).
• Fixed Stabilize analysis jobs not working on a speed-adjusted timeline clip (broke in v23.05).
• Fixed the visibility of the cursor in the Text: Rich filter’s editor (broke in v23.05).
• Fixed the up and down cursor keys not working in some numeric fields (broke in v23.05).
• Fixed seeking on the new Speed: Forward Only and Speed: Forward & Reverse filters.
• Fixed appending to Playlist from clipboard with nothing yet opened in the Source player.
• Fixed UI in macOS shows white blocks on startup.
• Fixed the Export > Audio > Quality range for the aac codec.
• Updated Qt libraries to version 6.4.3.
• Updated libebur128 to version 1.2.6.
• Updated rubberband library to version 3.2.1.