3.64.0

This release fixes a crash in 3.63.0 for FFmpeg-assisted playback #2197

Also some other fixes and usability improvements:

• translations
• improve error msg when unknown error #2232
• always render all thumbnails, but abort processes when params change #2229
• warn about adjusting fps and cutting at the same time #2190
• fix output timestamp bug #2210
• warn if file name is too long for concat/merge #2200
• always show template warnings #2211
• warn when falling back to default template #2188
• fix bug #2176

3.63.0

⚠️ Update: This release has a bug where "ffmpeg assisted playback" is broken. Please use an older version or nightly build.

• Allow customising output file name using a template when merging too #2108
• URL download feature #1486
• implent customisable wheel modifiers #1884
  • alt (customisable) + wheel: seek 1 frame
  • shift (customisable) + wheel: seek keyframe
• Allow revealing config path in File Explorer/Finder
• Allow drag-drop working dir #2147
• Allow auto-reassign duplicate keybinding #2154
• Allow selecting track also when there's only one: this allows the user to enable ffmpeg assisted playback when audio track is not supported #2144
• Two black/silent detect modes: Mode 1: start/stop segments at the center of each black/silent section. Mode 2: bounding the black/silent sections
• Improve seek speed (wait for seeked event)
• Fix seek timeline indicator jerkiness bug
• Make timeline time transparent when hovering it with mouse #2177
• Re-encode FLAC when cutting #1809
• GPS map: Support more DJI devices #2072
• Reduce flickering #2083
• Make it more explicit when changing mp4 to mov and show a notification #1075
• Check if output file is writable before exporting (if it exists) so we can inform user
• Escape last ffmpeg command properly on windows and escape quote on linux #2151
• Don't show keyframes when packed too close together
• Convert all non webvtt to webvtt when exporting to webm #2179
• Allow enabling/disabling preservation of metadata and chapters #2176 #1027
• Prevent alt button from opening menu when alt is bound in some keybinding #2180
• Make toasts wider
• Always show playback rate
• Don't use toasts for fatal errors
• Improve Settings page
• Give segment list a scroll bar
• Improve subtitle rendering
• Log more ffmpeg commands
• Translation update
• Bug fixes and improvements

3.62.0

• 💬 Allow JavaScript expressions for output name templates #1846 & fix broken select segments by expression #2059
• 🗺️ Support rendering GPS map (experimental and only supports DJI embedded subtitle) #2072
• ⏱️ Allow relative timeline seek text input https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/discussions/2056
• 💯 Task bar progress #1511
• 🔔 OS notifications #1510
• 🌚 Improve dark mode #1969
• ⌨️ Keyboard shortcut for Mute #2032
• 👨‍💻 Allow passing arguments to API actions #2087
• Show LosslessCut last in app title (show most interesting stuff first)
• Upgrade electron to v31
• Don't auto hide complete notification #2048
• convert pcm_dvd https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/discussions/2092

3.61.1

This release fixes some critical bugs in 3.61.0.

Also:

• allow selecting segments by JavaScript expression
• allow custom smart cut bitrate
• allow converting subtitle to segments
• add action: Focus segment at cursor
• append also smart cut to last commands log

3.61.0

Update: this version has multiple bugs. Use next release instead.

• 📺 Use MediaSource for unsupported formats, this should improve playback speed for unsupported formats/codecs and will play audio as well
• 🎛️ Video/audio track switching #256
• 🔤 export/import segments as SRT #1340 (from 3.60.0)
• 📁 allow drag-dropping directories to open all files recursively
• Add cutlist import option
• add option to shift cut start frames
• implement custom config dir arg #1956
• new keyboard actions:
  • Jump to first & last segment
  • "copy thumbnails" #1628 (from 3.60.0)
  • tags (from 3.60.0)
  • Open previous file batchOpenPreviousFile
  • Open next filebatchOpenNextFile
• add libsvtav1 support #1825
• improve preview playback (allow resuming from current position) #1584
• allow precise setting value adjustments #1859
• fix description of wheel shortcut #1883
• improve rendering performance #1881
• render waveform when zoomed out, improve waveform #260
• consistent duration format #1960
• allow zoom in/out UI #691 (comment)
• allow copy/paste segment tags #1964
• auto select goto timecode #1988
• add clear working dir button in settings too
• in-house the file-uri implementation, fixes #1941
• improve "about dialog" #1537 #1882
• show title in "open" dialog #1954
• reduce the risk of overwriting source files
• retry EPERM (windows antivirus) - fixes #1704
• UI improvements and fixes
• UI performance improvements

3.60.0

store only release (bigger github release coming soon)

• implement export/import segments as SRT #1340
• add keyboard shortcut for tags
• implement "copy thumbnails" keyboard action #1628

3.59.1

🎄🎄🎄🎅🤶🏾🧑🏼‍🎄 Christmas Release 🎄🧑🏼‍🎄🤶🏾🎅🎄🎄

• 📺 Ho ho ho! New full screen video mode #543
• 🎹 Make sure that all actions are key bindable. From now on all menu actions will also be keyboard bindable (and available thru HTTP API).
• Added the following actions:
  • ➕ Convert to supported format
  • ➕ Create segments from keyframes
  • ➕ Detect black scenes
  • ➕ Detect silent scenes
  • ➕ Detect scene changes
  • ➕ Edit tracks / metadata tags
  • ➕ Open
  • ➕ Start times as YouTube Chapters
  • ➕ Report an error
  • ➕ Toggle show waveform
  • ➕ Toggle show thumbnails
  • ➕ Toggle show keyframes
  • ➕ Include more tracks from other file
• 🏎️ Reduce number of clicks in "open new file" menu (no more radio buttons)
• 🏷️ Improve segment tags editor #1766
• ⏰ Add support for timestamp csv import #1755 and make time parsing more flexible
• 🔢 Read fps from audio files too #1754
• 🔤 Auto-convert between subtitle codecs (webvtt, srt, ass) #418
• Move "Segments" to its own root menu
• Add "split segment" to menu
• Update MacOS icon 💅 to make it more Apple-y 🍎
• Fix logic when sanitizing output file: disallow slashes on windows, check for file name ending with a space or a dot
• Fix "Show Item In Folder" on macos #1762
• Fix Smart cut: multiply estimated bitrate by 8 (fixes low quality issue for smart cut, bit vs byte typo 🤦‍♂️) #1778 #126
• Minor improvements and fixes

😌 Merry Xmas and happy holidays 😌

PS we're almost there!!

3.59.0

Update: this release had a critical bug for first time users. Please see 3.59.1 instead

3.58.0

• feature: Keyboard action programmatic control via CLI 🚀
• feature: HTTP API #980 #868 🚀
• feature: lossless speedup/slowdown #1712
• feature: select segments by tag
• feature: Allow customising merged file name #938 #916 #96 #1691
• feature: allow setting min padding for output file name #1690
• feature: visualize segment tags in seg list
• feature: allow deleting supporting files only, without closing file #1703
• feature: VIDEO_TS folder support
• add "quit" keyboard shortcut
• add closeCurrentFile action
• bump electron to 27
• add setting for export confirm in settings page
• translation updates
• move overwrite existing button #1688
• fix webp image export #1693 and fix quaility param for webp
• fix broken black/silence detection #1705
• fix development setup
• improve "Resulting file names" - make it show the actual resulting file names (if error) #1732
• fixes and improvements

3.56.0

Improvements and features

• duplicate segment function
• keyboard shortcuts search function #1646
• DV Analyzer import #1664
• allow user to reload current file on command #1674
• customizable timestamp transfer #1017
• extract multiple segments to images #1672
• allow customizing per-stream bitstream filters #1680
• reorganize settings screen
• always show total frame count in timeline #1677
• add webp to image capture formats #1671 (only works with html5)
• if overwrite option is disabled, skip existing files #1655
• add more output format categories #1539
• ffmpeg v6 and newest electron

Fixes:

• fix track screen appearing behind export confirm #1540
• fix "hide all notifications" bug #1541
• fix timestamp issue and improve clicking variables
• increase smart cut bitrate by 20% #126
• Clarify mov faststart #1654
• output file template improvements
• notify about enable full waveform #260
• seg num padding fixes #1446
• don't select segment when double clicking #1612
• don't auto-close dialog on timer if there are warnings #1658
• add context menu to input fields #1217
• many small fixes