The biggest update so far!

After nearly 2 months, there’s finally a new release! Big thanks to the localization team and to the much needed PR of @ManpreetXSingh to get rendering working correctly on both Linux and Windows with his PR https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/pull/136 ! This update includes many new features, but also some much needed fixes so GoZen actually becomes more usable as a video editor.

Changelog

Added

• Update notification system;
• Sponsor segment on start screen on startup;
• Image files from clipboard support;
• Render screen; (instead of popup)
• Extra debug information;
• File panel got replaced with a file tree;
• Added a render manager; (Autoload)
• Support dropping folders in GoZen;
• Support for marker skipping; (Markers coming in a next update)
• Color objects can now be created/used;
• Undo/Redo for file interactions;
• Extra Undo/Redo for timeline interactions;
• Clip snapping;
• Auto save for projects;
• Thumbnails:
  • Video;
  • Audio;
  • Color objects;
• Encoder/Decoders:
  • Container format: ogg;
  • libx264;
  • libx264rgb;
  • libx265;
  • libsvtav1;
  • libaom-av1;
  • libvpx-vp9;
  • libvpx-vpx (vp8);
  • libmp3lame;
  • libvorbis;
  • libopus;
• Localization:
  • Localization support got added (PO file system);
  • English (Source) - by Voylin;
  • Chinese (Traditional) - by aappaapp;
  • Dutch - by Voylin;
  • Spanish - by Dekotale;
  • French - by Slander, #Guigui;
  • German - by flipdp;
  • Japanese - by Voylin;
  • Urdu - by AdilDevStuff;
• Loading screens:
  • Loading screen when opening projects;
  • New project creation progress overlay;
  • File loading progress overlay;

Fixed

• Rendering/Encoding:
  • Rendered video not having correct image;
  • Rendering for Windows;
  • Rendering for certain Linux distro’s;
  • Last frames not being flushed to video file when rendering;
• Clips:
  • Clips can overlap each other on the timeline (Cutting issue);
  • Clip frame displaying after end of clip;
  • Clip cutting with selected clips;
  • Resizing clips not behaving as expected;
• Thumbnails are always generated, if exist or not;
• Videos not loading correctly and replacing previously added videos;
• Timeline zooming;
• Translations in command bar;
• File dropping having issues;
• Timeline behaviour;
• Audio encoding fix;
• Audio playback fix;
• Splash screen fix;

Improved

• Render debug info;
• File loading;
• Clip cutting now works with selected clips;
• Change submodules from ssh to https;
• New build system; - https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/pull/136
• Menu bar;
• Toolbox is now static; (instead of Autoload)
• Class renaming of GDE GoZen for improved compatibility with plugins and custom modules;
• Render profiles got updated with better settings;
• Audio encoding became faster;
• Video rendering became much faster;
• Dark/Light theme got improved to fit the new UI;
• Settings and Project Settings menu got a big update (both style + functionality);
• CI Build system got improved;
• Tons of UI tweaks;

Removed

• Metadata settings for rendering videos; Metadata settings got removed but may re-appear in the later development of GoZen.

Shortcuts

The editor is very shortcut based right now. Here’s a small list of the available shortcuts:

• Ctrl+K = Cutting clips;
• Ctrl+Enter = Opening the rendering menu;
• / = Opening the command bar;

Double click empty spaces in the timeline to remove them.

Debug shortcuts

• Ctrl+click on clip = Printing debug info in the terminal; For debugging you can now print some clip info by using Ctrl+click on selected clip to get debug info printed in terminal. This is useful in certain cases for developing.

Got stuck? Found a bug? Want a feature?

GoZen is still in Alpha and is therefore still missing a lot of functionality and features. Have any feature requests or found a bug? Let us know through following channels:

• GitHub issues: https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/issues
• GoZen subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoZen/
• Discord server: discord.gg/BdbUf7VKYC

SHA256

• Linux: sha256:eafd7c8db78310cb49851dbb37f4b67c36bce5764d607ee7d5c5f992feb3f803
• AppImage: sha256:0443927244ec7bedf9069bd3d747082e8bc98e49898b0abfdf05a12e5757a798
• Windows: sha256:0c3eea6bc7c44505eaa0770fae40dbac5324fb06e69d4f4137b562cfd6dcab72