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🚀 LibreCuts Beta (Sixth Release)

Welcome to the latest official beta build of LibreCuts free, open source, and built for limitless creativity.

⚠️ Note: This is the Sixth Beta Release (1.0-beta6). This release brings powerful new creative controls to the editor including keyframe animations, overlay masking, chroma keying, and canvas background customization alongside critical export stability fixes and rendering improvements. As always, please report any bugs or unexpected behavior you encounter.

✨ Major Improvements & Fixes

🎭 Overlay Masking

  • Added a new overlay masking feature.
  • Crop and shape overlay media to create complex compositions and custom layouts.

📍 Keyframe Animations

  • Introduced keyframe animation support for overlay layers.
  • Animate key parameters over time, currently supporting speed, position, and opacity adjustments for dynamic motion effects.

🎨 Canvas Background & Aspect Ratio Corrections

  • Added a new canvas background feature with flexible styling options.
  • Improved real-time aspect ratio corrections to make adapting videos for different screen formats much smoother.

🟢 Chroma Key for Overlays

  • Added chroma key (green screen) support for overlays.
  • Remove solid background colors from images and videos and graphics effortlessly.

👻 Overlay Opacity Controls

  • Added fine-tuned opacity controls for all overlay layers.
  • Adjust transparency levels to blend layers, add subtle watermarks, or create transparency effects.

🪞 Mirroring Controls

  • Added a mirror functionality for both the main video track and overlay elements.
  • Quickly flip video clips and overlay graphics horizontally or vertically.

🛠 Minor Improvements & Maintenance

✍️ Improved Text Overlays

  • Refactored the text overlay tool with expanded formatting options for better styling, layout control, and readability.

🖼️ Redesigned Empty Project State

  • Redesigned the empty project state UI for a cleaner and more intuitive initial workflow when creating a new project.

🔄 Rotation-Safe Exports

  • Fixed export crashes caused by screen orientation changes during rendering.

⚡ Speed Modifier & Aspect Ratio Rendering Fixes

  • Resolved bugs affecting the speed modifier logic.
  • Improved media frame scaling and aspect ratio rendering during previews and final exports.

🤝 Community Spotlight

A huge thank you to everyone who reported bugs, translated LibreCuts through Weblate, opened feature requests, and contributed valuable feedback. Every report and suggestion helps make LibreCuts faster, more stable, and more enjoyable for everyone.

🐛 Known Limitations

If a crash occurs during processing, LibreCuts will display a custom error dialog containing an authorization code to assist with troubleshooting.

LC-101 / LC-301

Heavy 4K timelines or extremely high-bitrate exports may still encounter memory limitations on devices with limited RAM or lower-end processors.

Timeline Scrolling Black Screen (#29)

On certain devices, aggressively scrolling through large timelines may still temporarily cause the preview surface to become black due to Android hardware decoder limitations.

This issue has been significantly improved through memory management refactoring, but a complete fix is still being worked on.

Preview Synchronization

The preview player prioritizes smooth real-time editing over perfect rendering accuracy.

During playback you may notice:

  • Minor audio desynchronization
  • Small frame drops
  • Brief stutters
  • Some transitions appearing as hard cuts
  • Overlay animations appearing less smooth than the final render

These limitations affect preview playback only. Exported videos remain fully rendered, frame-accurate, and correctly synchronized.

📖 Error Codes & Troubleshooting

Detailed explanations for error codes and troubleshooting steps are available in the GitHub Wiki:

https://github.com/tharunbirla/LibreCuts/wiki/Error-Codes-&-Troubleshooting

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