VidCutter 6.0.0 is Release, Install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint (AppImage & Snap)

VidCutter is now available as a flatpak at Flathub and is the most reliable option for Linux. All dependencies come bundled with it, including the very latest stable releases of mpv, FFmpeg, MediaInfo and associated codec libraries. Most linux distribution sofware centres like Plasma Discover and GNOME/Ubuntu Software are able to be expanded to also support searching and installing flatpaks from Flathub too. Unlike other packaged versions of VidCutter, the flatpak is purpose-built from the ground up with all dependencies built from source and containing only what the app requires resulting in a noticeably smaller total package file size.

The flatpak is also an exclusive early release of upcoming version 6 which should be released across all platforms and usual channels towards the end of May so checkout the flatpak if you want an earlier peak.

VidCutter 6.0.0 Changelog :

* MAJOR FEATURE: video filters menu option added to app menu accessed via
right-click or the bottom-right menu button. the first filter available
is BLACKDETECT which automatically creates clips in your clip index based
around black scene changes that are detected. selecting the filter once
a media file has been loaded will prompt for a black scene minimum
duration in seconds, allowing you to tweak the black frame sensitivity to
reduce or increase the amount of scenes detected. this is mainly useful for
skipping commercials (e.g. comskip) or auto-detecting scene transitions.
more filters will be added in future updates.

* MAJOR FEATURE: automatic chapters created per clip in your list. enabled by
default and can be toggled via Settings -> General and a new toggle button
in the left hand side group of the UI buttons.

* MAJOR FEATURE: chapter names can be edited from their default set values
via new edit chapter option when right-clicking on a clip in your list. all
clip will default to "Chapter " as their default text which is what
a media center or half-decent player will display in menu and you are
able to skip directly to each clip point using standard previous/next buttons
(if they are set in their default state, obviously)

* External media file joins (when wanting to just join a set of files using the
the ADD button under the Video Index) are fixed; the last version broke
this once timeline progressbars were added. Progress for external joins
is displayed in progressbars overlaying associated clips directly in the
Clip Index which replaces timeline progressbar functionality when all clips
are external (i.e. not loaded via Open Media thus not associated with a
project)

* Added new "Enable use of PBOs" setting under the Video category for use of
pixel buffer objects when rendering OpenGL video. Used for noticeable
performance improvements when working with huge/4K media files.

* Fixed a bug caused when removing a clip with a start time but no end time
from your index.

* OSD (on-screen display) text defined for all user actions + standardised
OSD case and wording/format.

* Main clip list's scrolling mode changed to per pixel for smoother
vertical scrolling and no snapping of clips as they are scrolled into
view.

* snap + Flatpak manifests completed w/ app now available from respective
stores and repos (i.e snapcraft.io + flathub.org). These builds come
prepacked with the very latest releases of FFmpeg, libmpv, MediaInfo as
well as the UI libraries for Qt5 and PyQt5.

* Fixed clip index heading not extending to full width of list when it
becomes scrollable when more than 4 clips are added to the index.

* LINUX: all icons, desktop, mime-type, appstream related files has have
been renamed to domain based app-id (com.ozmartians.VidCutter) as per
freedesktop specs. updates made to support this across the vast array of
deploy/build scripts. makes things much more tidy and less error prone in
AppImage, Flatpak and Snap package build scripts.

* UI improvements to media stream dialog; most consistent across differing
desktop sizes and stream configurations

* Flatpak: Qt 5.11 + dependency updates + NVIDIA h/w decoding fixes

Install VidCutter 6.0.0 on Ubuntu (18.04/18.10) and Linux Mint System (PPA) :

To install VidCutter 6.0.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, Linux Lite 4.2, Deepin 5.7, Linux Mint 19.1, Elementary OS 5 'Juno', Linux Lite 4.2 stable and other Ubuntu derivative systems using (AppImage & Snap), open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

$ snap install vidcutter

After installation is finished, open on menu ubuntu dashboard :

Install VidCutter 6.0.0 Using AppImage :

Opent terminal and Download app image :

$ wget https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter-appimage/releases/download/6.0.0/VidCutter-6.0.0-x64.AppImage

$ sudo chmod +x VidCutter-6.0.0-x64.AppImage

Run AppImage :

$ ./VidCutter-6.0.0-x64.AppImage

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.