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@davidkodar davidkodar released this 11 Nov 06:33
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0.3.5 was built but not published: playing and opening a large project on it showed the problems below. 0.3.6 has all of 0.3.5's changes (listed further down) and these fixes.

Playback and opening

  • Playback no longer stutters at a cut to a title card or another clip over a gap: the sound keeps running instead of restarting.
  • Opening a project with many files no longer holds the window or playback while each file is read. A project of 93 files opens in a fraction of a second instead of about three.
  • Opening a project whose thumbnails are not made yet no longer takes several gigabytes of memory for a few seconds: thumbnails are made a few at a time.
  • On Play, the picture, the clock and the sound start together, and Klipp keeps responding while the first frame of a long or slowed clip is decoded.
  • The playhead no longer jumps back after a short pause in playback.

Also in this release, from 0.3.5

This release comes from extensive testing of effects, titles, compositing, keyframes, sound and the Colour page, on Arch and on other distributions and desktops. Below are the fixes that came out of it.

Editing and keyframes

  • Moving a key in the Dope Sheet, splitting a clip and many other key edits are one undo step each, and undo names what it undoes.
  • A clip's keys move with it when its speed changes.
  • Copied keys paste onto the properties they were copied from.
  • The viewer's transform box and the Effects tab's Transform card follow a clip's keys at the playhead.
  • Add, set, switch, reorder and remove an effect on every selected clip at once, and turn all of a clip's effects off and on with one switch.
  • A typed number is taken once, when you leave the field, and Klipp says when it is outside the field's range.

Titles

  • Readability protection decides light or dark text once per title, from the letters that meet the picture, so stroked titles and titles beside a dark block stay readable.
  • Wrapped and tracked lines stay inside the picture and inside their box, and a title layer's box sits around its text in any alignment.
  • Pasting a style onto a title keeps the title's place and fit.
  • A new title goes on a free text track rather than over another title.

Compositing and masks

  • A mask made in a clip's node graph shows its shape and handles in the viewer, and can be dragged, keyed and tracked. On a moved or scaled clip the outline sits on the picture it cuts.
  • Chroma Key weighs brightness as well as colour, warns when its key colour takes greys with it, and has an eyedropper for the key colour.
  • Surface tracking says why a track stopped, and measures a surface correction instead of taking it as certain.

Colour

  • The Colour page's chart reading, shot matching, Qualifier, Colour Warper, curves and window mattes were checked by a colourist walk and an audit, and a number of their results and controls were corrected.
  • Colour tools leave the playhead where it is.

Sound

  • A linked picture's level keys play and export where the picture puts them on J and L cuts.
  • Auto Duck ducks under every voice track, keeps the music down across short gaps in the speech, and never listens to a muted voice.
  • A clip with no sound says so in the Audio tab and the audio effects audition.
  • Bus effects are set in the mixer, and a track's level can be typed into its readout.

Desktop and hardware

  • Files dragged from a file manager onto Klipp are imported on Wayland (GNOME, KDE, Hyprland), as they were on X11.
  • A narrow window folds the side panels and the menu titles instead of drawing them over the viewers.
  • A fresh install starts in the dark theme with your desktop's accent colour. Following the desktop's dark or light is a separate switch in Preferences → Appearance. The light theme has been brought to readable contrast.
  • On machines without an NVIDIA or AMD driver, Klipp no longer tries their hardware encoders first, and an HDR clip's preview keeps its tone mapping.
  • Installed fonts are listed by their own names, so a title or an imported project asking for "DejaVu Sans" finds it. Old names still work.
  • The .klipp project type is defined for file managers, and klipp <project>/project.json opens the project.

Known issues

  • Klipp has not yet been tested end to end on AMD or Intel GPUs.
  • The input colour space is set on the Edit page only, not the Colour page. The film print LUTs don't say what kind of picture they expect.
  • 10-bit and 12-bit HEVC 4:4:4 files decode with the wrong colour matrix.
  • 8K HEVC at about 2.7 Gbit/s drops frames on playback, and AV1 at 3.4 Gbit/s doesn't play, without saying why.
  • ALEXA MXF files carry no colour tags Klipp can read: set Log C by hand.

Install

  • Coming from an earlier version on x86_64: About → Check for updates installs 0.3.6, checked against the release's signature.
  • Or download the package for your machine, SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.minisig, check them and install:
sudo pacman -S --needed minisign
minisign -Vm SHA256SUMS -P RWTo4I7A4g6VVGz6+mMUh6yQBtX+bdtyftItQmb1Kxf/rtUrNeGAXBvM
sha256sum -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS
sudo pacman -U ./klipp-0.3.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst     # x86_64
sudo pacman -U ./klipp-0.3.6-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz     # aarch64 (Arch Linux ARM, Asahi)

The minisign line must end with Trusted comment: klipp 0.3.6.

Checksums

SHA256SUMS is signed with the release key above (SHA256SUMS.minisig, key id 54950EE2C08EE0E8):

d201b4edf4e40c9e4f5b5bb00b8945248fd02dfc9ffb48e5fcb0384786bf3fa6  klipp-0.3.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
f1299a8a1adbe486888541c89544f40ae8ec69e10ed86d6f17a08b6da7c2adbf  klipp-0.3.6-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
ada29c3ad6a9f6b280f5f520e51c70629554cab2af84b6337142cd87146ff761  klipp-0.3.6-source.tar.gz
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