Cinecred Changelog

What's new in Cinecred 1.5.0

• Additions:
• Videos and image sequences can now be inserted analogously to pictures.
• As audio is not supported, an EDL or CSV of the embedded videos can be exported to help with aligning the audio in an external tool.
• Greatly extended spine positioning:
• Card spines can now be freely positioned horizontally and vertically.
• A generalization of Parallel called Hook allows to freely arrange spines in relation to each other.
• A Google Sheet may now be used as the credits table.
• New projects may now omit the sample credits or the credits file altogether.
• Users can now set up custom overlays that show a cropped aspect ratio, custom horizontal or vertical lines, or a custom image.
• Vertical gaps in the credits spreadsheet may now be specified in pixels.
• Grid cells, flow cells, and heads and tails can now be sized manually.
• Added more fine-grained controls for vertical head and tail justification.
• Added an alternative timecode format for fractional FPS that, in each second, simply enumerates only those frames present in that second.
• Added a dedicated coloring option for hiding helper layers.
• The opacity setting in the color picker now has a slider and supports the 0-100 range often found in specs.
• Added the option to specify a layer's offset in polar coordinates.
• Added support for reading TGA image files.
• Added a translation to Simplified Chinese.
• Fixes:
• The template spreadsheet now uses text cells instead of data-dependent cells, which prevents the spreadsheet editor from trying to interpret the data.
• Squaring cells no longer fails when matching the width/height across blocks.
• Embedded pictures are now perfectly aligned at pixel boundaries.
• SVGs without width and height attributes now default to the size of their view box instead of vanishing.
• Exported SVGs now retain the original resolution of embedded pictures.
• Exported image sequences now use full range, as is expected by most software.
• Exported interlaced video with bottom field first display order is now correctly marked as having the top field coded first.
• Rendering a video with a non-ASCII filename no longer crashes on Windows.
• The video preview now renders in the background without blocking the UI.
• Improved stability by letting Cinecred use up to 75% of the installed memory.
• Unused memory is now released earlier, reducing off-peak memory consumption.
• Most I/O errors are now caught and gracefully handled.
• Crash reports now include more context and ask users to state what they did.
• Installation of the RPM package no longer fails due to a /usr/bin conflict.
• UI Fixes:
• When the credits or styling is erroneous, the last fine version is now shown, and all error messages are collected in the log table.
• Instead of hanging, a waiting screen is now displayed during project creation.
• The movable dividers are no longer sometimes strangely positioned.
• In the delivery dialog, the scroll speed indicator now correctly decreases instead of increases when activating the frame rate multiplier.
• Prompts now always appear on the monitor where they contextually belong to.
• The video controls and crash window are now correctly sized on 4K monitors.
• On Gnome, the application name is no longer some cryptic text.
• Compatibility Notes:
• On cards, subsequent spines are no longer automatically placed beneath each other; use the new spine positioning options instead.