What's Changed Timeline Improvements

• Added symmetric resize of a timeline transition using its trim handles.
• Added drag-n-drop from Recent to Timeline.
• Improved Timeline and Keyframes zoom to be less erratic and more focused.
• Reduced memory usage for timeline waveforms.
• Changed Timeline > Set Current Track Above and Set Current Track Below to use the bare Up and Down keys. Speech to Text
• Added Vulkan GPU support to Speech to Text on Windows and Linux.
• Added a Use GPU checkbox to the Speech to Text dialog. Other New Features
• Added Export > Metadata including Cover art.
• Added a Typewriter group of options to the Burn In Subtitle filter.
• Added job progress and status on the taskbar or dock icon where supported.
• Added Properties > LUT file for video clips, primarily for the Linear 10-bit processing mode.
• Added aspect ratio grid options to the player grid button:
  • 1:1 Frame
  • 16:9 Frame
  • 4:3 Frame
  • 9:16 Frame
• Added 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets.
• Added launching Glaxnimate from the Microsoft Store on Windows if available. Changes
• Stopped bundling Glaxnimate except in the Linux Flatpak.
• Changed audio transition to a constant power crossfade.
• Changed multi-select for Subtitles to use the Shift key.
• Changed Properties timeline duration to be editable.
• Changed opening an image to not start playback.
• Changed Export to default to 10-bit HEVC export in the 10-bit processing modes.
• Changed Timeline > Record Audio to use FLAC instead of Opus for improved quality and tool compatibility.
• Reorganized the Video Mode menu with new categories:
  • Social Media
  • Other
  • Legacy
• Reduced the thickness of the panel splitters and made them brighter. Fixes
• Fixed intermittent audio waveform sync or blank waveforms (broke in v26.2).
• Fixed incorrect last frame in Glaxnimate animations.
• Fixed Font style other than weight and italics/oblique in the font dialog.
• Fixed accepting file names with special characters in Playlist > Add Files.
• Fixed markers disappearing after undo moving clips.
• Fixed hourly backup not working when saving frequently.
• Fixed opening a project starts the player at the second frame.
• Fixed seeking with keyboard in Timeline sometimes not working.
• Fixed Settings > Time Format not immediately updating the Timeline and Keyframes rulers.
• Fixed Timeline > Copy, Cut, Paste, and Overwrite breaking grouped clips.
• Fixed keyframes after undoing a trim in.
• Fixed changing Properties > Duration dropping time filters.
• Fixed Edit Marker duration and Ripple Markers off by one frame.
• Fixed the Nervous video filter doing a 2 frame fade-in from black.
• Fixed undo history for lock, mute, and hide track.
• Fixed button menus not opening reliably on Wayland on Linux.
• Fixed a possible crash during voice preview in the Text to Speech dialog. Upgrades
• Upgraded FFmpeg to version 8.1.
• Upgraded x265 to version 4.1.
• Upgraded whisper.cpp to version 1.8.3.
• Upgraded MLT to version 7.38.0.
• Upgraded Qt to version 6.10.3 on Linux. New Contributors
• @qwe854896 made their first contribution in https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/pull/1818 Full Changelog: https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/compare/v26.2.26...v26.4.30