Reference/Release Notes/4.1/VFX
< Reference | Release Notes | 4.1
VFX & Video
Compositor
- The Keying Screen node was changed to use a Gaussian Radial Basis Function Interpolation, which produces smoother temporally stable keying screens. The node now also have smoothness parameter.
- The Kuwahara node now allows variable sizing by providing a Size input.
Sequencer
- Video Sequencer got many performance optimizations across the board:
- Timeline user interface repaints 3x-4x faster for complex timelines. (df16f4931e)
- Effects: Glow is 6x-10x faster (fc64f48682), Wipe is 6x-20x faster (06370b5fd6), Gamma Cross is 4x faster (9cbc96194e), Gaussian Blur is 1.5x faster (5cac8e2bb4).
- Various parts of image transformation (1e0bf33b00), movie frame reading and writing (422dd9404f, 4ef5d9f60f), color management (f3ce0645e4) and audio resampling (986f493812) were sped up.
- Luma Waveform display calculation is 8x-15x faster (93ca2788ff).
- Audio waveforms are now displayed by default (1be8b51b11), and got a display option to show upper half of the waveform only (a95dd8438d).
- Sequencer Scopes got visual look improvements (PR #116798):
