The end of the alpha!

Welcome to the last stage of the GoZen alpha! The 0.4.* releases will be the last alpha releases and during this I’ll be implementing the last big features which I had planned, and it’ll also be the time for some heavy bug fixing. Starting from version 0.5 we’ll be going into the beta phase. During the beta stage, stability will become the main focus together with implementing the most requested features by the community. GoZen is nearly there, a few more months and by the end of this year we might have our first full release! :D

Changelog

Full Changelog: https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/compare/v0.3-alpha…v0.4.0-alpha

Added

• RPM build;
• DEB build;
• GIF playback;
• De-interlacing support;
• SAR support (non-square pixels);
• Rotation by default (for videos with rotation tag);
• On quit dialog when unsaved changes are present;
• Error when trying to add +3 hour 23 minutes videos (2GB array limitation audio);
• Support for Forward+ (but compatibility mode is faster in most cases);
• Local clip video instancing;
• Option to save screenshots (and add to project);
• Timeline bar with timestamps;
• Delete key functionality to File tree items;
• Clip fading;
• Libary autoload (for managing UID’s);

Fixed

• Light theme having unreadable menu buttons;
• “About GoZen” popup is now a “popup”;
• Some translation strings;
• Pure Linux build crash on startup;
• File panel popup not showing;
• Seeking video would skip 1 frame;
• Thumbnailer sizing not working well for non 9:16 aspect ratio;
• Deleting files;

Improved

• Windows workflow takes less time;
• Better indication for screen buttons;
• Cut down Workflow build time by 60%;
• Locale getter on first launch;
• Better cleanup for faster closing of GoZen;
• Thumbnailer now uses cache folder;

Localization

Added

• Turkish - by therabug;
• Polish - by SzczurekYT
• Hindi - by Anubhav-Mondal

Updated

• French - by TheRealSlander
• Chinese (Traditional) - by aappaapp;

New Contributors

• @Anubhav-Mondal made their first contribution in https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/pull/152
• @therabug made their first contribution in https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/pull/160

0.4-alpha roadmap

https://github.com/VoylinsGamedevJourney/gozen/issues/139

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: sha256:2c8a22f95e6f2ffd75912105ee5b54443030faed8578bcb9740593694d6854be
• AppImage: sha256:bd3cdfce3cd0fd108be230b2042260d98153e8159ed5b9fb521a74990c1aafbe
• DEB package: sha256:ba4b62ce5fd5b66debec78d40b087fff632e0bd676b6fbfd06d2d60ba7635648
• RPM package: sha256:cbdf1e9b0e3ecb9a2575ac18f2ce1ad84e6ef74accd0019775af07795ff44e7e
• Windows: sha256:6f254ba8211b8a3cbe3449fa6560256020e3b3463679fed683b57bdfa389b89c