yt_clipper v3.7.0-beta.3.9.0-alpha.10 [2020.08.14]

Markup Changes

• Revamp internal cropping system.
  • Manipulating crops should now always maintain the correct constraints. The mechanism for this has changed.
    • Most notably, when zoompan is enabled all crop points will maintain the same aspect ratio.
    • When resizing a crop point in pan-only mode or reshaping (changing aspect ratio) in zoompan mode, all other crop points will now be resized and panned as necessary to match.
  • Aspect-ratio-locked resizing (from a corner) and drawing is now smoother.
• Add Shift modifier for center-out resizing and drawing of crops with the mouse.
  • Note that this can be combined with aspect-ratio locking.
• Fix seeking video to current video time causing video buffering spinner to show on YouTube.
  • This may have caused imprecise crop aspect ratios being reported.
• Fix unable to draw and resize global new marker crop in some cases.
• Fix shortcuts table and frame capturer zip progress not working.
• Fix editing crop input field could improperly apply constraints.
• Stabilize build process to support most browsers since 2019 rather than the most recent ~4 browser versions.
• Remove vertical-fill drawing of crops (Shift+X).

Clipper Changes

• Add warning for unknown arguments provided to clipper script.
• Add handling of mixed input video file extensions in merge helper script.
• Add clarification of required format of start and end time inputs to fast_trim helper script.
• (Mac) Add merge and fast_trim helper scripts.
• Fix crop panning and zooming jitter.
• Fix removing useful frames when using -rdf or minterp due to low mpdecimate thresholds.
• (Win) Fix output filename included extra . before extension in fast_trim helper script.
• (Mac) Fix yt_clipper_preview helper script crashing due to syntax error.
• (Mac) Fix helper scripts could mangle backslashes when reading user input.
• Tweak automatic encode settings.
• Remove gfycat anonymous uploading feature (--gfycat).
• Rename yt_clipper_merge and yt_clipper_fast_trim helper scripts to simply merge and fast_trim.
• Update ffmpeg dependency to latest nightly version (20200814-a762fd2).

Markup v0.0.89 + Clipper v3.6.4 [2020.07.29]

Clipper Changes

• Note that this release is directly on top of v3.6.3.
• Use with v0.0.89 or higher of the markup script.
• Update youtube-dl dependency to 2020.07.28 to fix extractor errors when trying to download YouTube videos.

Markup v0.0.89 + Clipper v3.6.3 [2020.06.21]

Clipper Changes

• Update youtube-dl dependency to 2020.06.16.1 to fix extractor errors when trying to download YouTube videos.
• Disable youtube-dl caching to avoid http 403 errors from stale signatures.
• Update ffmpeg dependency to latest mainline version (4.2.3).

Markup v0.0.89 + Clipper v3.6.2 [2020.01.23]

Clipper Changes

• Update youtube-dl dependency to 2020.01.24 to fix extractor errors when trying to download YouTube videos.
• Update ffmpeg dependency to latest nightly version (20200121-fc6fde2) which includes an update to libvpx (1.8.2).

Markup v0.0.89 + Clipper v3.6.1 [2019.10.25]

Markup Changes

• Fix imprecise marker timing due to imprecise FPS information by skipping frame time estimation.
• Fix moving currently selected end marker when deactivating hotkeys.
• Fix vertical alignment of rotated video preview thumbnail.
• Fix fade preview causing crop overlay to disappear.

Clipper Changes

• Add yt_clipper_auto_interpolate helper scripts for motion interpolating output video to 60 fps.
• Fix crash on printing help with --help or -h or using the yt_clipper_options helper scripts.
• Fix Very Weak denoise preset causing crash.
• Fix strongest video stabilization preset producing unpredictable results due to an excessively high smoothing value.
• Update ffmpeg dependency to latest stable version (4.2.1).
• Update youtube-dl dependency to 2019.10.22.