This release includes lots of new features, originating from GSoC
internships, from University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Soft-261 class
Spring 2020 and from individual contributors.
* A plugin system allows extending the Pitivi functionality medium-term, targeted for teams of editors.
* A developer console plugin allows interacting with the project in a Python console.
* Custom UI replaces the automatically generated UI for a handful of effects.
* Easy Ken-Burns effect.
* The new Greeter perspective replaces the Welcome wizard dialog and allows a slick selection of a recently opened project.
* When being resized, the Viewer shows the percent of the actual widget size in relation to the project video size.
* The Viewer size snaps at 50% when being resized.
* Scaled proxies if optimized media is too much for your machine.
* Timeline markers.
* Support for nested timelines by importing entire XGES files as a clip.
* The Effects Library has been redesigned to allow quick access to effects.
* Ability to favorite effects in the Effects Library.
* Improved workflow for adding effects.
* The refreshed clip effects UI allows working on multiple effects at a time.
* Refactored Media Library using same logic for different view modes.
* Refactored Render Dialog UI to avoid overwhelming people. Tell us what you think about it.
* Restoring the editing state when reopening a project.
* Safe areas visualization in the Viewer.
* Easy alignment for video clips.
* Composition guidelines in the Viewer.
* Solid color clips.
* Ability to mute or hide an entire layer.
* Interactive intro so newcomers get familiar with the names of the UI elements.
* The action search is a shortcut to everything possible in the timeline, if you can find it. Press "/".
* New keyboard shortcuts for pros.