What’s new in Kinovea 2024.1#

Kinovea 2024.1 was published in August 2024.

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feature Big pointers are image-based pointers that can be used for presentation purposes. They can be accessed from the menus under Options ‣ Pointer
enhancement The Kinogram mode now supports moving tiles in time and changing label color and font size.
enhancement The active video mode is now shown in the infobar and a toast message appears when changing mode.

feature New Background layer that sits between the video and drawings, with color and opacity control.
enhancement For custom fading, the maximum duration of the opaque state and fading ramps has been increased.
enhancement Rectangle and Circle now have a Filled option.
enhancement Support for changing the font size of mini labels on Trajectory objects.
enhancement Support for transparent background on Label drawings.
enhancement Added more display options to Grid drawings:
- Toggles: show grid, show vertical line, show horizontal line
- Setting the number of rows and columns separately
enhancement The Marker drawing now has an option to be rendered as a single dot.
enhancement When moving Marker and Grid the mouse cursor is now hidden.
fix Copy-pasting a drawing to a different time was not working.
fix End caps on Trajectory objects were wrong.
fix Mini labels of Trajectory objects weren’t updated correctly after a change in the side panel.
fix Marker drawings were drawn aliased to the image pixel grid.
fix Pencil drawings with a single point were invisible and could not be deleted.

feature New Counter tool to measure repetitions and cadence. Counts can be added with a click or a keyboard shortcut.
feature New Lens calibration video mode to calculate lens distortion parameters.
enhancement New functions related to Lens calibration in the Tools menu
- Import a lens calibration file
- Pick an existing calibration file
- Reset the lens calibration
feature New Calibration validation dialog, with 3D camera position and control points. To evaluate the accuracy of the lens and spatial calibration with known reference points.
enhancement Calibration by Grid now supports additional options:
- An extra offset applied to coordinates.
- Setting the number of decimal places to use for display.
- Flipping axes and changing reference corner.
- The dialog shows the average pixel size in world units.
enhancement The Coordinate system now has an option to reset its alignment to the calibration object.
removed The Distance grid tool was removed as all its functionality was integrated into the grid tool.

feature New Camera motion estimation mode that calculates the motion of the camera (rotation and zoom).
- Trajectories have their points rendered stabilized against the camera motion.
- Non tracked drawings are stabilized against the camera motion.

enhancement Comments are now included in the JSON export.
fix The Markdown export was broken for files with keyframes out of the selection.
fix perf The side-by-side export was very slow.

lang New locales: Croatian, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian.
fix Importing drawing style presets coming from a different version was broken.
fix When opening a file the file explorer and shortcuts tab weren’t synchronized correctly.