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Shotcut for Mac

Shotcut 21.01.29

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Shotcut 21.01.29.


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What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- image skewed with odd width when using certain combinations of filters and transitions (broken in v20.11)
- being unable to pick transparent black in filters with color pickers (broken in v20.11)
- some tooltips in Timeline, Filters, & Keyframes not showing on multi-monitor systems (broken in v20.10)
- Zoom in Scale, Position & Rotate does not always default and undo at 100% (broken in v20.10)
- crash with files having more than 32 multiplexed streams
- quality-based VBR encoding with the VP8 Export > WebM preset
- leading zeros for seconds in Timer video filter with MM:SS.SSS or SS.SSS formats
- support for explicit fractional high DPI (e.g. --QT_DISPLAY_SCALE 1.5)
- bad text formatting when File > Open a plain text file in Text: Rich filter
- drag-n-drop from Playlist when a project (MLT XML clip) is in Source player
- using the numeric keypad for some shortcuts
- selecting the same filter Preset again
- Export File does not check for missing files

- Upgraded Qt to version 5.15.2 for Linux & Windows and 5.12.10 for macOS
- Improved the playback speeds of fast forward and rewind
- Changed Playlist to not automatically start playback when add to playlist of empty project
- Finished converting Timeline, Filters, & Keyframes to Qt Quick Controls 2 API
- Changed keyframe interpolation Discrete to Hold

Improved multi-threaded performance of video track blending and video filters:
- Alpha Channel: View
- Chroma Key: Advanced
- Chroma Key: Simple
- Elastic Scale
- Key Spill: Advanced
- Key Spill: Simple
- Levels
- Mask: Apply
- Noise: Keyframes
- Posterize
- Saturation
- Unpremultiply
- White Balance

Added:
- Use Higher Performance Waveforms to Timeline and Keyframes menus (default on)
- a red outline around the thumnbail of the currently opened Playlist item
- video filter Reduce Noise: Quantization
- support for AV1 decoding and encoding
- Color space and Color transfer to Properties > Video

an Advanced mode to the Convert to Edit-friendly dialog with:
- Deinterlace option (bwdif) that outputs one frame for each field
- Override frame rate and Frame rate conversion with Blend and Motion Compensation options
- Convert to BT.709 colorspace that provides HDR-to-SDR tonemapping
- detection of a HDR transfer function (ITU-R BT.2020 or SMPTE ST2084) to automatically show Convert dialog