3.66.1

• Everything from v3.65.0 (pre-release)
• Upgraded FFmpeg to 8.0
• Upgraded Electron to 38 - note: they dropped support for macOS 11 ‼️
• Drastically improve performance of FFmpeg-assisted playback for non-natively supported codecs/formats.
• Improve UI performance and increase max segments to 1000 #2473
• Add new file name template variables: CUT_DURATION, CUT_FROM_NUM, CUT_TO_NUM #2486
• New SEG_LABEL array in cut+merge mode #2428
• Toggle tracks by expression #2435 #1465 #371
• Cut also externally added tracks #896
• Allow setting timeline zero offset to current cursor time #2512 - this effectively also means allowing a negative time offset (new action makeCursorTimeZero)
• New keyboard actions:
  • toggleDarkMode: Toggle dark mode
  • toggleStripCurrentFilter: Toggle tracks using current filter
  • toggleStripAll: Keep or discard all tracks
  • toggleStripSubtitle: Keep or discard subtitle tracks
  • toggleStripVideo: Keep or discard video tracks
• Allow importing CSV with 2 columns #2412
• CSV export/import tags as extra columns #2507
• Show number in batch list #2357
• Improve dark mode #1969
• Transfer labels when inverting segments #2362
• Improve creating segments flexibility: these functions now apply to the current segment. If not run without any segment, they will apply to whole timeline (like before). This allows things like running a binary search, see #2427. Applies to the following functions: "Create num segments", "Create fixed duration segments", "Create random segments"
  Allow drag dropping files to batch list #2400 and tracks panel
• Add new display format "total seconds" #254
• Show markers also in inverse mode #2408
• Implement basic OTIO importer #2441 #1340
• Allow utf8 letters when not in sanitize mode #889 #2482
• Allow spaces in file name, even if sanitize is enabled #2498
• Indicate when we are on a keyframe (approximately) #2155
• Select segment under cursor when playing back current segments #2456
• Allow reading all keyframes (action: readAllKeyframes and menu item from file or current segment) #2490 #563
• Don't fill chapter gaps for matroska (it seems to support gaps)
• Experimental lossy encoding mode #372 e.g. --lossy-mode "{ videoEncoder: 'libx264' }"
• Support DJI Air 3 GPS from SRT (GPS map)
• When detecting segments, will now auto delete the currently selected segment #2427
• Many more bugfixes and improvements

3.65.0

Note: this version has some bugs related to playback/preview and rotation doesn't work. I'm waiting for Electron to possibly solve these issues before releasing a new version. In the meantime you can test with latest nightly build.

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New features 🔥

• 🆕 Markers: Segments that don't have any end time are now considered "markers". They are rendered differently, and are excluded from exports. Markers can be useful for bookmarking locations on the timeline and all markers can be batch exported as screenshots. More ideas for marker features are welcome!
• 🔈 Play multiple audio tracks simultaneously (with FFmpeg-assisted playback) #256 #936
• ✅ Remember segment selected/deselected state inside .llc file #1329 #885 #371
• 💿 Split timeline by byte size #1219
• Modify segments by JavaScript expression #2128 #2305
• Black/scene/silence detect
  • Remember dialog parameters (for current LosslessCut launch) #371 #2257
  • Allow selecting which audio/video track to use (current preview track) #2354
  • Streaming segment detection #2325
• New shortcuts #2289
  • shift+alt+up Jump & seek to previous segment
  • shift+alt+down Jump & seek to next segment
  • shift+alt+pageup Jump & seek to first segment
  • shift+alt+pagedown Jump & seek to last segment
• New action selectSegmentsAtCursor #1284 #254 (comment)
• Improve waveform rendering #260
  • Make it faster and render around current time
  • Allow loading full waveform overview
  • Allow customising bottom waveform height
• New file name template variables FILE_EXPORT_COUNT and EXPORT_COUNT #2296
• Upgrade to electron v35 (drops support for macOS 10)
• Upgrade to ffmpeg v7.1

More changes

• Show loading indicator for mini waveform #260
• change SEG_NUM and SEG_NUM_INT variables: they will now correspond to the original index of the segment as shown in the number on the segment list. new variables SELECTED_SEG_NUM and SELECTED_SEG_NUM_INT can be used for previous behavior (where the numbering is based on the segment's number in the list of selected segments).
• All segments will now have a start time defined - llc project file version bumped to v2 (to migrate missing start times). Missing end time now means that the segment is a marker (previously it meant extend to end of timeline).
• minor change: most operations will no longer take place if no segments selected #2335
• Make "combine overlapping segments" also combine adjecent segments #2340
• export confirm: allow adjusting all end frames too #2256
• allow disabling remember window position closes #2240
• don't create detected segments twice in mode 2, fixes #2236
• improve segment list buttons
• log more ffmpeg commands to cli
• make playback rate indicator pop (when changing) - customer thought it was hard to see currently
• implement CMX3600 EDL import #1340
• import PBF as markers #993
• fix webp on mac #1671
• fix broken loop selected segments
• Also: Removed old csv project auto import
• Allow extracting markers as images
• improve loader 🌈
• fix time input placeholder #2346
• Bugfixes and improvements 😉

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