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The last maintenance release of the 20.12 series is out with the usual batch of usability and bug fixes. The highlights include lots of polishing of the Subtitling Tool and adding a spell checking feature. The Titler also got a fair amount of usability improvements most notably fixing the invisible text cursor. Fixes were also made to the chroma key color picker and various clip selection issues. The Windows version received fixes to resetting the config file and finding downloaded title templates and lumas.

Full log

  • Remove some debug output. Commit.
  • Fix various selection issues. Commit.
  • Fix recursive search broken on cancel. Commit. Fixes bug #433773
  • Change shortcut for Loop Zone to avoid conflict with windows system. Commit.
  • Comment out recent lost timeline focus that made things worse. Commit.
  • Improve focus handling when switching to fullscreen monitor. Commit.
  • Do not allow keyframe edit if keyframes are hidden. Commit.
  • Ensure we use an UTF-8 encoding for markers. Commit. See bug #433615
  • Don’t mark document modified when opening a project file with guides. Commit. See bug #433615
  • Fix animated param view when keyframes are hidden. Commit.
  • Make timeline tracks separator slightly more visible. Commit.
  • When focusing the app, ensure we have the correct timeline item under mouse referenced. Commit.
  • Apply !171 (typewriter effect in latest MLT, only for title clips…). Commit.
  • Titler: update tab order. Commit. Fixes bug #433590
  • Keyframes: Shift+drag now allows selecting last keyframe, fix corruption / crash on group keyframe move. Commit.
  • Transcode job: don’t silently overwrite exported files. Commit. Fixes bug #433623
  • Don’t enforce profile width multiple of 8. Commit.
  • Profile width in MLT can be a multiple of 2, not 8. Commit.
  • Don’t rebuild existing audio thumbs for playlist on project opening, display playlist audio thumbs in clip monitor. Commit.
  • Fix subtitle selection by keyboard shortcut. Commit.
  • Subtitle edit: switch to KTextEdit so we get spell check. Commit.
  • Automatically highlight text for editing when adding a subtitle. Commit.
  • FIx possible crash on subtitle resize, and allow cutting unselected subtitle. Commit.
  • Allow keyboard grab of subtitles. Commit.
  • Do not allow zero for values of a project profile (framrate, framesize,…). Commit. Fixes bug #432016
  • Remove “Create Region” menu item (not re-implemented yet) #82. Commit.
  • Titler: show correct outline color on first use. Commit.
  • Fix color picker corruption. Commit.
  • Hide keyframe mode for rotoscoping (only linear supported). Commit.
  • Subtitles: fix crash on “select clip” shortcut. Commit.
  • Fix reset config on windows #931. Commit.
  • Expanded track tag width only if >10 audio OR video tracks, not sum of. Commit.
  • Fix downloaded template titles and lumas not found on Windows. Commit.
  • Keep title text item editable if even if it is empty. Commit.
  • Fix invisible text cursor in title editor #165 and other minor tweaks. Commit. Fixes bug #403941. Fixes bug #407497
  • Fix subtitle text not updated on go to next/prev and related crash. Commit.