What’s new in Kinovea 2023.1#

Release notes for Kinovea 2023.1, published in August 2023.

Player#

  • feature New Kinogram mode to replace the Overview function.

  • feature New Time grab interaction with Alt + Mouse left button drag on the video viewport.

  • enhancement The Magnifier can now Freeze its frame in time.

  • enhancement Image rotation is now supported for single image files in addition to videos.

  • enhancement Drawings visibility can now be toggled via a command.

  • enhancement Using a video mode no longer prevents the usage of the playback controls and drawings tools.

  • enhancement Video modes are no longer deactivated when changing the working zone.

  • fix Zooming in and out in the player was not centered on the mouse cursor.

  • fix The picture-in-picture area of the Magnifier was hiding drawings.

  • fix Undo/redo was broken in various places.

  • removed Reverse video mode.

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Annotations#

  • feature New side panel with key image comments.

  • feature Key images can now have custom colors.

  • feature A set of key images presets with names and colors can be bound to keyboard shortcuts.

  • enhancement Save and restore the working zone bounds as part of the annotation file.

  • enhancement Save and restore all video import options (aspect, rotation, demosaicing, deinterlacing).

  • enhancement Save key images even if they are outside the working zone.

  • enhancement Save video modes status and configuration.

  • enhancement When importing an annotation file into a different video the times are now aligned by the time origins.

  • enhancement Support drag and drop between the key image list and the timeline to change key image time.

  • enhancement Support moving a key image to the current time via its context menu.

  • enhancement Use color coding of key images in the timeline gutter.

  • enhancement Support undo/redo for moving drawings.

  • enhancement Render drawings under the magnifier source.

  • enhancement Support moving all numbers in a Number sequence at once using the SHIFT key.

  • enhancement The player screen now supports the Test grid.

  • enhancement Added new options to Trajectory objects.

  • enhancement Added new options to the Coordinate system.

  • fix When loading the same data file twice the keyframes and drawings could be duplicated.

  • fix Saving the scene with the Comments window open could miss saving the latest changes.

  • fix Key images timecode displayed on the thumbnail could be incorrect.

  • removed Built-in SVG files, known as Observational references.

  • removed Popup Comments window with key image comments, the functionality has been integrated in the side panel.

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Measurement#

  • feature New multi-time Stopwatch tool.

  • feature New Time segment tool.

  • feature New Distance grid tool.

  • fix Arrow objects did not take the arrow length into account for measurement.

  • fix The time in kinematics dialogs could be incorrect if the time origin and selection start didn’t match.

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Export#

  • feature Support for saving side-by-side image in a vertical layout.

  • feature New spreadsheet exporter to JSON.

  • feature New spreadsheet exporter to CSV.

  • feature New document exporter to Markdown.

  • feature New document exporter to ODT and DOCX via Pandoc.

  • enhancement Output to Microsoft Excel now uses Office Open XML XLSX instead of the old MS-XML format.

  • enhancement Output to LibreOffice Calc is now fully conformant with ODF 1.2 standard.

  • enhancement All times are now exported as numbers, textual timecodes are converted to seconds.

  • enhancement Support exporting positions, distances and angles from posture-based tools.

  • enhancement Support exporting computed positions (e.g: center of mass from Human model).

  • enhancement Support exporting time series from Trajectories and tracked drawings.

  • enhancement Support exporting the unit used for distances and times.

  • fix Dual export with superposition could result in broken files.

  • fix Angles on key images that hadn’t been visited were not exported correctly.

  • fix Angles in radians were not exported correctly.

  • removed Exporting spreadsheet data to XHTML.

  • removed Exporting Trajectory data to text files in Gnuplot format.

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Capture#

  • feature New Recording status bar for feedback from a distance.

  • feature Support for saving single snapshots from audio trigger.

  • enhancement The capture screen now supports the Polyline, Curve and Coordinate system objects.

  • enhancement Added new options to the Test grid for camera alignement: show horizontal axis, show vertical axis, show frame, show 3x3 grid.

  • enhancement Image aspect and image rotation are now saved in the capture KVA.

  • enhancement Added milliseconds to file naming patterns.

  • fix The top-down flag on mono and raw streams was not honored.

  • fix Recording of webcams could result in files with the wrong framerate.

General#

  • enhancement In the file explorer, support sorting files by name, date or size.

  • enhancement Support navigating back, forward and up in the file browser.

  • fix The folder browser dialog was causing UI issues when using high DPI scaling.

  • fix The position of the main splitters of the user interface were not saved and restored correctly.