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Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 4.1.1 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - Updated builds: a small maintenance release rebuilt on new runners with updated FFmpeg dependencies and stronger packaging checks. - GPU exports: added AMD AMF and HEVC NVENC/QSV presets, sharper GPU badges on high-DPI displays, and validated GPU alternatives before falling back to CPU encoding. Export targets and badges now follow the actual encoder. - Reliability fixes: improved saving on Windows and network shares, handled concurrent text-thumbnail updates, restored Qt6 event compatibility, and fixed long macOS agent socket paths. - Packaging and credits: corrected bundled runtime and resource handling across platforms and refreshed supporter credits. - Library dependency: this release uses libopenshot 1.1.1, including Mac VideoToolbox export crash fix.

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/4.1.1

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 4.1.0 --exact

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Highlights & Features - Native text editing: Add and style text directly in the video preview, with no external editor required. - Auto-Optimize: Automatically prepare demanding 4K+ footage for high-performance editing while preserving original media for export. - CLI automation: Build, edit, animate, and export videos with the command-line interface, scripts, or AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex. Work headlessly or hand control back to the human editor in the UI, with thumbnail strips, waveform data, and timeline previews for context. - Smarter exports: Check format and codec settings before exporting, with clearer choices, progress, and results. - More keyboard control: Navigate, select, trim, and edit with improved shortcuts, marker navigation, and keyframe controls. - Linux ARM64: Install native builds from the daily PPA and edge Snap channel. - Faster previews and timelines: More responsive transforms, improved thumbnails and waveforms, and better playback and seeking. - Reliability and compatibility: Safer project saving, recording fixes, FFmpeg 7.1 packaging, and updated interface translations in 25 languages. Requires libopenshot 1.1.0 or newer.

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/4.1.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 4.0.1 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - Upgraded Razor tool with source-frame previews, snapping, removal shading, and ripple cuts that close gaps on the same track. - Improved timeline navigation with persistent clip titles and effect controls, clearer zoom-slider handles, and more consistent thumbnails. - Faster color and keyframe editing, more responsive trim previews, and smoother live transform adjustments. - Fixed macOS startup failures caused by missing library dependencies on systems without Homebrew. - Improved stability, undo/redo history, project saving, asset handling, and compatibility with older project layouts. - Restored native file dialogs and improved Inkscape and Blender workflows, including access for editors installed as Snaps. - Added non-interrupting announcement banners. Dismissed update notices stay hidden until the next release. - Introduced official Linux Snap support with automatic updates and desktop menu integration. - Improved recording workflows, Linux webcam discovery, and Windows recording-file handling. - Refreshed interface and documentation translations in 25 languages, with clearer tooltips and improved video-editing terminology.

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/4.0.1

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 4.0.0 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - New Color View with color wheels, curves, LUT controls, presets, and live video scopes - New Recording View for screen, webcam, microphone, and system-audio capture - Redesigned native Qt timeline with smoother zooming, editable timecode, and improved keyframe controls - New clip menus and creative presets for motion, camera moves, color, film looks, lighting, and audio - Local AI model downloads and workflows for Object Mask and Object Detection - Improved Qt 6, PySide6, Wayland, high-DPI, and modern Linux compatibility - Updated export presets, documentation, translations, and hundreds of usability and stability fixes openshot-qt Changelog (Version: 4.0.0) - a653b03 2026-08-26 Jonathan Thomas Fix Windows window recording selection on mixed DPI displays HEAD, origin/release-20260725 - d4d1655 2026-08-25 Jonathan Thomas Document Windows high-DPI recording cursor issue - 74047bb 2026-08-22 Jonathan Thomas Fix Windows recording region selection - 12aa1f0 2026-08-17 Jonathan Thomas Verify PipeWire is not a core AppImage dependency - be04ab6 2026-08-15 Jonathan Thomas Fix standalone MSIX preparation mode - 49c3946 2026-08-15 Jonathan Thomas Separate MSIX packaging from EXE signing - b1be158 2026-08-15 Jonathan Thomas Declare translated languages in Store MSIX - 5948d6d 2026-08-14 Jonathan Thomas Update curated translations for 4.0.0 - 32328af 2026-08-14 Jonathan Thomas Updating translation POT with a few last minute changes. - 81b358e 2026-08-14…

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/4.0.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.5.1 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - Optimize Video adds built-in proxy editing for smoother playback and previews - Improved timeline zooming with smoother navigation and better centered zoom behavior - Multi-selection trimming makes resizing and re-timing aligned clips easier - Enhanced ComfyUI tools add depth, lines, and reference image workflows - User Interface Scale makes OpenShot easier to use on different displays

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.5.1

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.5.0 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - New default timeline: The new QWidget timeline is now the default, with much smoother zooming, scrolling, dragging, trimming, snapping, and multi-clip editing, especially on larger projects. - New keyframe panel and major timeline polish: The keyframe panel is now part of the default editing experience, with smoother dragging, better selection behavior, improved snapping, high-DPI thumbnails, live trim feedback, and many workflow refinements. - Smaller export file-sizes: Export presets were improved for smaller files and better quality, Blender GPU rendering is now enabled by default for Animated Titles, and hardware decoding checks are more reliable and user-friendly. - Experimental ComfyUI integration for advanced AI workflows: OpenShot 3.5 adds a major first pass at ComfyUI integration, including generation workflows, tracking and segmentation tools, custom JSON workflows, progress reporting, and better remote-server handling. - Improved stability, testing: This release includes expanded unit tests, new UI and replay-based testing tools, better missing-file dialogs, improved autosave and packaging reliability, smoother project loading, and a long list of bug fixes across the app.

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.5.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.4.0 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - New Crop workflow with interactive crop handles + crop context menu (keeps crop/transform behavior in sync) - New Timing mode toggle for quick drag-to-retime editing (plus better real-time preview during retime) - Draggable keyframes (timeline drag + improved keyframe panel) with better snapping/precision to the FPS grid - Big upgrades to the Experimental QWidget Timeline (faster scrolling/zooming, improved snapping, markers, thumbnails, waveforms, fewer freezes) - Multi-selection editing across clips/effects (property dock + transform handles + safer undo/redo) - Faster exports with VideoCacheThread integration + smarter bitrate for “All Formats” - New/expanded effects & creative tools: LUT Color Map, Lens Flare, Sharpen, Outline, Spherical/360 tools (plus updated docs/icons) - Improved import/export interoperability (Final Cut Pro XML + EDL updates, better keyframe support, more standards-aligned timecode) - AppImage + distro compatibility improvements (Ubuntu/Snap/Flatpak handling, Arch/Manjaro fixes, Blender 5.0 animated title compatibility) - Updated translations & credits (many new/updated languages, refreshed supporters/donor lists, faster credits/about filtering)

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.4.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.3.0 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - New Default Theme: "Cosmic Dusk" brings a modern and stylish look to OpenShot. - Comprehensive Ripple Editing Improvements: - Playhead Alignment: The playhead now aligns automatically after ripple slice operations, keeping your edits precise. - Ripple Slice Enhancements: Ripple slicing supports multi-selection across different layers, allowing simultaneous slicing and realignment. - Ripple Delete Optimization: Deleting clips with ripple now adjusts the timeline seamlessly, preventing gaps and maintaining synchronization. - Ripple Select: Added Alt+Click for ripple selection, allowing users to select all items to the right of the clicked position, making timeline adjustments faster and more intuitive. - Keyboard Shortcut for Ripple Delete: Introduced Shift+Delete for quick ripple deletion, streamlining the editing process. - Focus Improvements: UI focus stays consistent on the timeline after ripple operations, ensuring uninterrupted workflow. - Recovery Menu: Restore previous project versions with a streamlined recovery menu, including timestamps for easy navigation. - Wayland-Compatible Color Picker: New color picker supports Wayland, ensuring compatibility with modern Linux systems. - Tutorial Dock Enhancements: Enhanced design and navigation with left/right arrows and word-wrap for wide translations. - Updated About Dialog: Redesigned layout with Cosmic Dusk theme alignment, word-wrap support, and a "Copy Version Info" option. - Zoom Slider…

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.3.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.2.1 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - UI/UX Improvements - Prevent freezes on Windows: switch video preview widget background color to use stylesheet and palette. - Fixed background theme color on the preview/split clip dialog. - Theme and Window Management - Refactored ThemeManager for improved thread safety and to fix Windows launch freezes. - Delay showing the main window until all themes are fully applied. - Restored geometry and window state twice to ensure proper functionality. - Limited setContentsMargins to specific widgets to fix issues when changing themes. - Prevented empty context menus from appearing on the property table view. - Sentry Bug Fixes - Addressed multiple Sentry issues including: - list index out of range errors. - pop index out of range on Add to Timeline dialog. - Attribute and Type errors in various components. - Implemented fixes for Sentry issues: - OPENSHOT-4D, OPENSHOT-YG, OPENSHOT-F2, OPENSHOT-5P6T, OPENSHOT-182J, OPENSHOT-22QG, OPENSHOT-1P, OPENSHOT-11T, and OPENSHOT-1V7C. - Deploy Script Enhancements - Updated deploy script to allow for partial deployments based on repo changes. - Support and Documentation - Updated supporters.json and donation files. - Updated translations for the next release. - Added a disclaimer and updated docs for the location of old/previous versions of OpenShot installers. openshot-qt Changelog (Version: 3.2.1) - 637beec9 2024-07-10 Jonathan Thomas Updating deploy script to allow for partial deployments (i.e. if only some of…

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.2.1

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.2.0 --exact

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Highlights & Features: - Large Theme & User Experience refactor (Added new Retro & Cosmic Dusk theme) - Improved Timeline Snapping and behaviors - New Remove Gap feature (to remove unwanted gaps between clips) - Improved Split Clip and Preview dialog functionality - New Playhead and Marker icons (for all themes) - Support for Blender 4.1, and improved Blender animations - Use friendly name on timeline (i.e. when split clip or updating file names) - Improved Undo / Redo functionality (better transaction support, more stable) - Improved high DPI display support - Improved Tracker / Object Detection effects (more features, more stable) - Improved Parent property (for use with Tracker / Object Detection effects) - Improved Property Editor functionality - Improved font handling in Title editor (for AppImage) - Added new Not Found thumbnail image for missing or corrupt files - Updated scale x and y limits in property dialog (to prevent crashes due to large numbers) - Updated Help Menu Icons with new Discord option - Fixed top Sentry.io & Codacy issues - Fixed many keyboard bindings which did not work - Improvements to AppImage for better compatibility with modern distros - Added Windows Manifest to improve High DPI support on Windows - Moved Save Current Frame to file menu (no more button) - Adding Shear X and Shear Y to Copy menu and Copy All Keyframes menu - Fixed Mac OS notarization errors (build server) - Updated Translations & Supporters - Huge update to User Guide…

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.2.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.1.1 --exact

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- Bumping version to 3.1.1, min libopenshot dependency to 0.3.2 - Prevent freeze on launch (in Windows - when your sample-rate in OpenShot does not match the host OS sample-rate) - Fix duplicate Profile name bug (causing an issue when exporting and re-opening a project with specific profile names) - Adding Profile search button to Preferences (for easier filtering and searching for a default profile) - Protect timeline (webview) from receiving lots of unneeded messages from libopenshot - Large refactor for Tracker and Object Detection effects (allow property editing, prevent crashes, allow parent property to work) - Refactor of Parent property (simpler, a single 'None' option, thumbnail images) - Improved caching logic around Property Editor (better performance while adjusting clip properties) - Many small code refactors and fixes to prevent noisy errors (reported by Sentry.io) - Updated language translations - Updated credits and donors - Removed old GitHub Action builder for Ubuntu 18.04, and tweaked GitHub CI build scripts - 5416a16b 2023-04-20 Jonathan Thomas Adding back in "layers", "markers" to webview changes - since we accidentally filtered them out. HEAD, origin/release-20230417 - 1ee5f7b3 2023-04-19 Jonathan Thomas Allow "duration" to be sent to the webview, to allow auto-increase project duration / auto resize the timeline - 0979288d 2023-04-18 Jonathan Thomas Protect setWindowTitle from being called by a different thread (preview_thread - if sample_rate is…

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.1.1

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.1.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 3.0.0 --exact

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/3.0.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 2.6.1 --exact

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/2.6.1

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/2.6.0

Pin this version: winget install --id OpenShot.OpenShot --version 2.5.1 --exact

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Manifest: manifests/o/OpenShot/OpenShot/2.5.1

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