Video Cut v0.3.0

Video Cut v0.3.0 🎬

An easy-to-use, fast, and lightweight video editor to cut and merge videos, add images with soundtracks, crop, and rotate clips on an intuitive timeline. Inspired by macOS QuickTime and Preview.

🚀 What's New in v0.3.0

• ⚡ Instant Crop & Rotate Dialog:
  • Modal presentation is now instantaneous (< 20 ms) upon clicking the button, presenting immediately with an animated loading spinner overlay while frames load progressively in the background.
  • Ultra-fast Cairo ARGB32 surface creation via direct NumPy buffer memory mapping, reducing surface creation latency from ~226 ms down to ~16 ms.
  • Dual-mode full-quality preview frame: captures the active player frame instantly via GdkPaintable without invoking FFmpeg when cursor is in segment, and directly loads source images for imported photo segments.
• 🖼️ Non-Blocking Asynchronous Image Import:
  • Image conversion and soundtrack muxing now execute in background worker threads.
  • Added a reusable ProgressModal with progress bar, spinner, status updates, and cancellation support.
  • Optimized high-quality image thumbnails on the timeline filmstrip.
• 📦 Flatpak & Flathub Support:
  • Added Flatpak manifest (io.github.thomaz.videocut.yaml) targeting GNOME 47/49 platform runtime.
  • Validated AppStream metadata (io.github.thomaz.videocut.metainfo.xml).
  • Added Flatpak single-file bundle build support (scripts/build_flatpak.sh) and standalone bundle packaging.
• 🛡️ Packaging & Snapcraft Refinements:
  • Explicitly configured 64-bit architectures (amd64, arm64) to prevent build failures on unsupported 32-bit armhf.
  • Excluded legacy DirectFB libraries (libdirect, libfusion, libvoodoo) from snap staging to eliminate executable stack security warnings (PROT_EXEC / GNU_STACK).
  • Added .snapcraftignore to exclude build artifacts and test caches during packaging.
• 🏗️ Code Architecture & Modernization:
  • Extracted modular ClipboardController from MainWindow for improved separation of concerns.
  • Added automated performance benchmark test suite (tests/test_benchmarks.py).
  • Full codebase standardization with strict Ruff linting and type annotations across all tests and modules.
• ℹ️ About Window & Documentation:
  • Added official GitHub repository website, community discussions link, copyright notices, and developer credits to the About dialog.
  • Updated documentation and screenshots for Crop & Rotate and Image Import.

📦 Download Packages

• 📦 Flatpak Bundle: VideoCut-0.3.0.flatpak (flatpak install --user VideoCut-0.3.0.flatpak)
• 📦 AppImage: VideoCut-0.3.0-x86_64.AppImage (Standalone portable Linux executable)
• 📦 Debian / Ubuntu: video-cut_0.3.0_all.deb (sudo apt install ./video-cut_0.3.0_all.deb)
• 📦 Source Archives: video-cut-0.3.0.tar.gz and video-cut-0.3.0.zip

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0