I’m really enjoying the new Grid feature and I also like the nice touch of the new modified look of the Filters menu.
But there is a setback in terms of the speed in how the timeline runs. I tested several movie files of around two hours long both in HD and SD. When I tried to zoom in the timeline to as close to max as possible there was first a much longer delay than before to the point where Shotcut actually had the loading symbol come up. Since I have noticed a slowdown when the Waveform is active I have shut that off and from that point on there is almost no slow down when I zoom in and out of the timeline and it improved workflow speed in general. I have posted about that before: https://forum.shotcut.org/t/is-it-possible-to-make-the-audio-waveform-less-taxing-in-shotcut/7167
But with this beta even with the Waveform off there is quite the slow down as if the Waveform was still on. In addition, when zoomed in very close the playhead stutters quite a lot as it moves across. This doesn’t seem to affect short video clips but on longer video clips as with whole movie files the problem manifests. I have noticed that the timeline has been updated so that when it is zoomed in the time stamps above it are more specific as per the zoom level. I am guessing that is the source of the new slowdown and stutter issues.
I was also going to post some other issues but TRA reported them among the other ones he posted. Regarding this one though:
could you please reconsider and fix it? Not only have I noticed it in this beta myself but I could swear that this has happened before. I do remember in the past using the Size and Position filter and noticing that a parameter would change even if I wasn’t trying to change that parameter. So if I was just changing the position of the video the size parameter would get altered a little and if I was changing the size of the video the position parameters would get altered. The degrees of the change might not seem so much but it does add an unnecessary step of having to go to the parameters and correct them every time you are using the Size and Position filter. It will get annoying having to do that every time when working with the Size and Position filter.