ffWorks 3.0.0

What's new in this version:

- Now 100% native Apple Silicon

Added:
- Dropzone feature - process source to several targets in one go
- Merged Subtitle wizard with video/audio passthru wizard.
- Droplets are now created as Universal (Intel and Apple Silicon).
- Optimised for the latest FFmpeg versions.
- support for Homebrew and MacPorts FFmpeg versions (via FFmpeg Manager)
- AV1 codec support for WEBM containers
- ALAC codec support for MP4 containers
- support for Videotoolbox Prores (hardware accelerated encoding)
- support for Cineform HD for MOV and AVI containers
- support for WEBP containers
- TrueHD audio codec support for MP4 and MKV containers
- support for JPEG2000 in MXF containers
- support for PRORES in MXF containers
- support for DNxHR in MXF containers
- support for PCM 64bit
- support for PCM 8bit
- support for WAV 8bit
- support for AV1 (both AOM-AV1 and SVT-AV1 encoders
- FLAC audio codec support for MP4 containers
- .mka file extension support
- support for webvtt subtitles in webm containers
- support for exporting to uncompressed TIFF format
- support for exporting to TIFF 16bit format
- support for JPEG-LS codec for MOV and MKV containers
- support for DTS audio in MPEGPS and MPEG containers
- support for PCM_DVD (24bit) audio in MPEGPS and MPEG containers
- support for CRF with AV1 video codec
- support for HEVC in .m2ts (AVCHD) containers
- lossless option for HEVC
- option ‘Dolby Vision Profile’ (x265)
- toolbar buttons in the FFmpeg Terminal log window
- toolbar buttons in the Information window
- toolbar search field control to filter information
- left toolbar for Advanced options for easier navigation
- advanced AV1 option in the Advanced selecto
- Preferences option 'Create Thumbnail'
- Preferences option 'Width' and 'Height' for thumbnail size
- 'Encode to same folder as source' (Droplets)
- Sony PS5 preset
- iPhone 13 preset
- Nintendo Switch preset
- H265 HDR to SDR [.mp4] preset
- Now asks if you want to remove all batch list entries when using the 'Delete All' toolbar button.
- Now displays FPS value when encoding.
- Faster creating trimming preview images.
- option 'FFmpeg SHA/MD5 Check' (FFmpeg Manager)
- option 'Cineform HD Type'
- Webp option 'Enable Lossless Mode'
- Webp option 'Compression Level'
- Webp option 'Configuration preset'
- Webp option 'Enable Loop'
- feature 'Check Integrity'
- option 'Error Detect'
- VideoToolBox option 'Compression quality for the alpha' for HEVC hardware accelerated encoding
- VideoToolbox option 'Profile'. Baseline (H264 only),Main,Main10 (H265 only),High (H264 only),Extended (H264 only),Auto (Prores only),422 Proxy (Prores only),422 LT (Prores only),422 (Prores only),422 HQ (Prores only),4444 (Prores only),XQ (Prores only
- Changed toolbar buttons for FFmpeg info, Watch Folder and Create Droplets.
- ‘bt470’, ‘bt470bg’ and ’smpte240m’ values to the Color Matrix video filter
- V360 video filter to convert 360 movies
- feature exporting images using scene select
- feature to create thumbnail from destination file
- toolbar button Dropzone/Batch view selecto
- Now shows one, bigger, trimming preview image.
- preference option 'Auto switch to Batch view when using Drop Zone'
- button to show Check Integrity window
- option to create chapters for each file part (creating .iso
- choice for "dB" or "%" when using Volume audio filter
- 'Enable row based multi-threading' option
- 'Disable Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter' option
- 'Disable Intra Block Copy Prediction Mode' option
- 'Disable Global Motion for Block Prediction' option
- 'Usage' option
- 'Amount of noise to be removed' option
- 'Denoise block size' option
- 'Datarate Undershoot' option
- 'Datarate Overshoot' option
- 'Disable Frame Parallel decodability features' option
- 'GOP min. Bitrate' option
- 'GOP max. Bitrate' option
- 'CPU Used' option
- EBU R128 audio filter
- option 'Target LUFS value'
- Loudness Normalization audio filter
- 'Loudness Mode' option
- 'Loudness Target' option
- 'Loudness Range Target' option
- 'Loudness Maximum True peak' option
- 'Normalise by linearly scaling the source audio' option
- 'Treat mono input files as 'dual mono' option
- 'measured_I' option
- 'measured_LRA' option
- 'measured_TP' option
- 'measured_thresh' option
- 'offset' option
- audio filter 'Declick'
- option 'Window size'
- option 'Window overlap'
- option 'Autoregression order'
- option 'Threshold'
- option 'Burst fusion'
- option 'Method'
- audio filter 'Exciter'
- option 'Input Level'
- option 'Output Level'
- option 'Amount of harmonics added'
- option 'Amount of newly created harmonics'
- option 'Octave of newly created harmonics'
- option 'Lower frequency limit'
- option 'Upper frequency limit'
- video filter 'MPDecimate'
- option 'Max.frames to e dropped'
- option 'Hi threshold'
- option 'Lo threshold'
- option 'Frac threshold'
- option 'Fix timestamps for smooth playback'
- editable BoxBlur filter
- video filter 'Block-Matching Denoiser'
- option 'Denoising strength'
- option 'Local Patch Size'
- option 'Sliding step for processing blocks'
- option 'Max. number of similar blocks'
- option 'Radius block matching'
- option 'Step between two locations'
- option 'Threshold error'
- option 'Thresholding for hard thresholding'
- option 'Filtering estimation mode'
- option 'Use 2nd stream for block matching'
- option 'Use AV Encoder' (AOM-AV1 or SVT-AV1
- option 'Hierarchical prediction levels
- option 'Look ahead distance'
- option 'Encoding preset'
- option 'Operating point tier'
- option 'Bit rate control mode'
- option 'Log2 of number of tile columns'
- option 'Log2 of number of tile rows'
- option 'Scene change detection'
- 'Enable Row Based Multi-threading' AV1 option
- 'Disable Global Motion for Block Prediction' AV1 option
- 'Disable Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter' AV1 option
- 'Disable Intra Block Copy Prediction Mode' AV1 option
- 'Disable Frame Parallel Decodability Features' AV1 option
- 'Usage' AV1 option
- 'Amount of noise to be removed' AV1 option
- 'Denoise block size' AV1 option
- 'Datarate undershoot' AV1 option
- 'Datarate overshoot' AV1 option
- 'GOP min bitrate' AV1 option
- 'GOP max bitrate' AV1 option
- 'Quality/Speed ratio modifier' AV1 option
- 'Threshold on blocks to be skipped' AV1 option
- 'Frame drop threshold' AV1 option
- 'Tune' AV1 option
- 'Enable rectangular partitions' AV1 option
- 'Enable 1:4/4:1 partitions' AV1 option
- 'Enable ab shape partitions' AV1 option
- 'Enable angle delta intra prediction' AV1 option
- 'Enable chroma predicted from luma intra prediction' AV1 option
- 'Enable filter intra predictor' AV1 option
- 'Enable intra edge filter' AV1 option
- 'Enable smooth intra prediction mode' AV1 option
- 'Enable paeth predictor in intra prediction' AV1 option
- 'Enable palette prediction mode' AV1 option
- 'Enable 64-pt transform' AV1 option
- the possibility to scroll text (Draw Text video filter
- option 'Enable scrolling'
- option 'Scroll Speed'
- v360 filter
- 'Input Format' option
- 'Output Format' option
- 'Interpolation method' option
- 'Input stereo format' option
- 'Output stereo format' option
- 'Yaw' option
- 'Pitch' option
- 'Roll' option
- 'Rotation order' option
- 'Flip the output video horizontally' option
- 'Flip the output video vertically' option
- 'Flip the output video depth' option
- 'Input video is transposed' option
- 'Output video is transposed' option
- 'Build mask in alpha plane' option
- option 'DTS profile'
- option 'Copy MOV Metadata Tags'
- Updated using the Delogo video filter.
- 'write_bext' option (WAV)
- Zscale video filter
- option 'Zscale Video size'
- option 'Zscale Dither type'
- option 'Zscale Resize filter type type'
- option 'Zscale Color Range type'
- option 'Zscale Color Primaries type'
- option 'Zscale Transfer Characteristics type'
- option 'Zscale Colorspace Matrix type'
- option 'Zscale Input Color Range type'
- option 'Zscale Input Color Primaries type'
- option 'Zscale Input Transfer Characteristics type'
- option 'Zscale Input Colorspace Matrix type'
- option 'Zscale Output Chroma Location type'
- option 'Zscale Input Chroma location type'
- several LUT files (for LUT 3D video filter)
- x264 option 'AVC-Intra class'
- option 'Set Input TS Scale'
- 'EBU 3213-E' to color primaries
- + and - buttons to add and remove FFmpeg files in the FFmpeg Manager
- Add new menu item 'Start' with key-short CMD+E
- Add new menu item 'Start Selected' with key-short CONTROL+E
- Add new menu item 'Start and Edit Selected' with key-short CONTROL+OPTION+E

- Create droplet window is now a sheet window.
- Rewritten code to compile FFmpeg command line.
- Now verifies if the installed FFmpeg has support for x265 10bit and 12bit.
- Now verifies if hardware has support for hardware accelerated encoding.
- Now verifies if the installed FFmpeg is ARM or Intel build.
- Removing a FFmpeg file in the FFmpeg manager, now also removes the actually FFmpeg file.
- Changed Hard Subtitles' to 'Hardburn Subtitles’.
- Now plays a sound when encoding is finished by default.

Improved:
- handling more than 1 one audio stream
- importing and scanning files (up to 50% faster)
- handling large amount of batch files
- copying streams from VOB to MKV container
- FFmpeg diagnostics feature
- H265 Main Profile 10bit HDR preset
- encoding to movies with fps 59,9
- handling Fonts in Drawtext video filter
- FFmpeg install manager
- value sliders
- compiling FFmpeg commandline for hardware accelerated encoding
- OGG support (now uses libvorbis by default when available)
- FFmpeg search feature
- saving user presets
- Wachfolder feature
- trimming handling (especially when copy/paste settings)
- preview feature (faster and simplified)

Fixed:
- issue setting the FOURCC value when switching video codecs
- issue when encoding to HEVC with hardware encoding acceleration (macOS Monterey)
- issue alignment of small batch view when running macOS 11 or higher
- issue setting up the audio Merge filter
- issue changing the mouse pointer when using the trim ends
- issue settings the correct keyint and GOP size
- issue adding -vsync option
- issue using MPEG2VIDEO in .m2ts (AVCHD) containers