Render Watch v0.1.0-beta

This is the first release of Render Watch!

Render Watch is an open source professional video transcoder for Linux.

Render Watch can be used to convert video files from one format to another in order to meet format specifications for devices, streaming, local playback, etc. Render Watch can also be used as a video compression tool so that you can make a lossy version of your video projects or make compressed backups of your videos.

Features in this release include:

1. Queue based encoding
2. Support for x264, x265, vp9, and nvenc h264 & h265 video codecs
3. Support for aac and opus audio codecs
4. Support for video and audio stream copy
5. Trim videos
6. Crop and pad videos
   • Auto-crop videos
7. Benchmarking current settings
8. Parallel task encoding
   • Using batches
   • Using chunks
9. Encode folders
   • Root level only
   • Recursively
   • Watch folder
10. Preview while encoding
11. Pause and stop tasks in queue
12. Choose number of concurrent tasks to accommodate CPU core count
13. Choose number of concurrent tasks to run using NVENC
    • Automatic detection