Version 2.9.0
This release has the following changes:
Translations
- Updated fr_FR translation from Thierry Journet.
- Updated uk_UA and ru_RU translations from Igor Voytovich.
- Updated nl_NL translation from Rob van Nieuwkerk.
- Updated cs_CZ translation from Tomáš Begeni.
- Updated de_DE translation from Carsten Kurz.
- Updated pt_BR translation from Max M. Fuhlendorf.
New features / improvements
- Support for a wider range of audio file types including MP3.
- Reduce CPU usage for the preview.
- Large speed-up to operations involving reading DCPs (especially audio).
- Recognise
.ass files as well as .ssa.
- Add labels to audio streams in the audio map (#849).
- Add preference for the default number of DCP channels (#897).
- Add free-text notes field to cinemas and screens.
- Request confirmation before resetting preferences (#867).
- Use CPL title for KDM AnnotationTexts.
- Add tooltips over content channel names in the audio mapping view (#888).
- Re-add option to save DKDMs to a file.
- Keep audio plot and video waveform dialogues always on top (#756, #820, #909).
- Add Cancel button to custom colour conversion dialogue (#880).
- Provide option to abort more operations that require films to be saved (#847).
- Add hint on high audio levels (#822).
- Remove seconds from KDM time period specification (#819).
- Use up-to-date version of FFmpeg.
- Change some uses of the word ‘frame’ to ‘sample’ when talking about audio (#814).
- Add speculative Rec 1886/2020 presets.
- Basic guessing of audio mapping from filenames (#393).
- Add button to move a piece of content to the start of a reel (#798).
- Allow changes to subtitle line spacing.
- Clicks on timecode/frame number open dialogues to allow precise setting of preview position.
- Shift/control/shift+control clicks make nudge buttons nudge further.
- Experimental Centos 5 packages.
Bug fixes
- Fix strange colour fringing on subtitles when burning them into existing DCP content (#752).
- Various fixes to text subtitles muxed into video files.
- Fix failure to parse SSA subtitles in some cases.
- Fix incorrect date when using copy-as-name (#869).
- Fix height of content properties dialogue (#884).
- Fix recently broken storage of video frame rate (#883).
- Fix progress updates when making a VF using new audio.
- Disallow referencing of Interop DCPs in SMPTE films, and vice versa (#804).
- Fix missing words in properties windows (#874).
- Ignore more hidden files when looking in image folders.
- Fix creation of 2D DCPs from 3D sources.
- Handle import of 3D DCPs better in a few ways (#806).
- Fix various bugs in Interop subtitle time parsing.
- Build a Windows XP version with OpenJPEG 1.5.x to work around mysterious speed loss.
- Various fixes to vertical positioning of subtitles.
- Take y scale into account when deciding subtitle line spacing.
- Fix thinkos with marked_up() rendering of bold/italic/underline.
- Make our own DirPicker wider in the new file dialog (#902).
- Correctly display configured italic / bold fonts in the subtitle font selector.
- Fix strange crashes at the start of encoding in some cases.
- Fix failure to underline subtitles.
- Fix crash on loading still images on some Linux builds.
- Fix crash when analysing audio of large-channel-count files.
- Increase frequency of progress updates on long jobs (#900).
- Improve progress reporting when doing image/sound digests.
Thanks to Thierry Journet, Carsten Kurz, Igor Voytovich, Rob van Nieuwkerk, Tomáš Begeni, Max M. Fuhlendorf and Xenophon the Vampire.
We have added six new supporters since 2.8.0: thanks to Tomislav Stojanović, Paul Carey, Pascal Nussbaum, Robert Legato, Petter Trønsdal and Kino
Völkerfreundschaft.
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