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New Features

• Monitor players: Monitor panels can now work as video players for media items, drop a media file from the Media panel or your file explorer onto a Monitor panel and it becomes a standalone player for that file, independent of the timeline.

  Drop a specific stream to play just that stream. Close a player from the X on its tab to get the timeline view back, and "Pause all monitor players" is available as a command.

• Fonts as project media: import .ttf, .otf, and .ttc font files through the Media panel, the Import Font button, or by dropping them in from your file explorer.

  Imported fonts show up in the Media panel with their faces, can be inspected in the Inspector (file, faces, face index), selected in the font picker, and are saved with the project.

• JKL shuttle controls: L plays forward and J plays backward. Tap the same key again to step the speed up by the configurable factor (default 2x, up to 32x), tap the opposite key to step it back down, and K stops. Hold J or L for half a second and the speed ramps up continuously for as long as you hold it, then drops back when you release. Hold K and tap J or L to step single frames, with auto-repeat.
• Backwards playback: the timeline now supports playback in reverse at any shuttle speed.
• Reverse clips: right click a clip and tick Reverse to play it backwards in place. Also available as the "Reverse clip(s)" command.
• Audio stretch playback settings: a new Settings option picks how audio is stretched during sped-up or slowed-down playback. Spectral keeps pitch and suits music, Speech is a dedicated stretcher tuned for voice, and Varispeed pitches audio up and down like tape.
• The audio Amplitude effect is now renamed to Intrinsics and gains per-clip VariSpeed toggles, so individual clips can opt into tape-style pitch shifting or a pitch preserving playback.
• Transform effect gains a base zoom: a Base Zoom percentage with a Base Zoom Target point, applied on top of the base scale, both keyframeable.
• New Media panel: Now a sortable table with Name, Duration, Status, Type, Date Modified, and Path columns, a search box, box selection, Ctrl and Shift multi-selection, and Select all (Ctrl+A while the panel is focused).
• Selective gather: right click a selection in the Media panel and choose Gather media to copy just those files into the project folder.

Improvements

• Frame stepping moved to period and comma (next and previous frame), now that speed control lives on J/K/L.
• The Inspector shows which decoder, hardware or software, was last used to play a media file.
• Media analysis (waveforms, Überblick strips, frame indexes) is deferred until a file is actually placed on the timeline, so importing a large batch no longer kicks off work for files you have not used yet.
• Audio scrubbing plays a shorter burst sized to a project frame when scrubbing while playing.
• Speech audio stretcher quality improved.
• The first keyframe in a channel now sets the exact initial value behind it unaffected by the smoothing window.
• Direct3D 11: Blick now logs the available DXGI adapters and which one Blick and FFmpeg each pick, to help diagnose GPU selection issues.
• The multiwave waveform shader draws clipping more clearly.

Bugfixes

• Project frame rate is rounded up when derived from media rather than down.
• Text fields show proper placeholder text that no longer interferes with the cursor.
• Fix keyframes not scaling with clip time when a clip is rate stretched.
• Fix pressing play while dragging the playhead fighting the scrub.
• Fix the Monitor flickering when the project resolution changes.
• Fix the UI showing a stale composition texture on Metal.
• Fix the minimap frame lag during animation.
• Fix a layout miscalculation when the layouter runs on a UI subtree.
• Fix a race where a system font scan could drop a font being imported at the same time.
• Fix not being able to select a system font after importing and removing that same font.
• Fix imported fonts not restoring into the font picker when reopening a project.
• Fix "Inspect source media" being unavailable for text clips.
• Multiple minor visual and stability fixes.