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-Cinelerra-GG Infinity continuously merged/enriched from the
-  original Heroine Virtual of Adam Williams which does not
-  support many modern formats, and now contains CV mods
-  provided over prior years from the Community Version.
 Email cin@lists.cinelerra-gg.org 4 help.
 For usage help, refer to the following:
-  https://cinelerra-cv.org/docs/cinelerra_cv_manual_en.html
-  https://cinelerra-gg.org/downloads/Features.pdf
+  https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/CinelerraGG_Manual.pdf
   http://g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/basics.html
-Cinfinity icons selected in Preferences Sam (CC BY 3.0,
-  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
-Neophyte theme selected in Preferences by Olaf Wolff (CC BY 4.0,
-  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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-January 2019 New Features of note:
-  Capability for Shuttle usage has been added.
-  Drag Handle management includes Slide and Edge too.
-  Updated x264 (now includes 10-bit and 8-bit) and x265.
-  Undo stack can now be dumped into the terminal windows.
-  23 more plugins have reset buttons included.
+2021 March New Features of note:
+  AppImage is the method of dibrusging new releases;
+   Newer distros use: CinGG-20210331-x86_64.AppImage 
+   Older distros use: CinGG-20210331-x86_64-older_distros.AppImage
+  There are 2 new plugins: Posterize and Timelapse Helper.
+.
+2021 1st Quarter New Features of note:
+  The manual can now be used in HTML format besides PDF.
+  Autosave backups optional feature in Preferences.
+  Additional FFmpeg video/audio render formats available.
+  Aspect ratio and Interlace improvements are in.
+  Batch Render menu now has hidden feature to prevent mistakes.
+  Openjpeg upgraded from 2.3.1 to 2.4.0.
+.
+2020 New Features of note:
+  Drag select and deselect edits was added on the timeline.
+  Tile mixers allows for designating a rectangular area.
+  Motion plugin improvements by SGE for better results.
+  Faster transition playing with cache + drag capable.
+  Bump Autos new feature; especially useful for speed.
+  Language preference now in Settings->Preferences.
+  Added drag speed highlighting for easier usage of auto.
+  Option and shortcut to select multiple edits.
+  Align Timecodes for various timecodes/stamps is available.
+  Subtitles can be generated in either SRT, SUB, or uDVD form.
+  Mix masters make it easy to use multicam mode on timeline.
+  Ganging modes added for DAW-like editing of channels.
+  Rotate plugin has been modernized and improved.
+  Audio track height button added, separate from video height.
+  New patchbay toggle to vary individual vertical track height.
+  Potential Performance improvements added.
+  New way of creating and using a stack of Effects.
+  Additional ShapeWipe transitions are now available.
+  BoxBlur plugin allows forjust blurring an area.
+  Videoscope is now on the Compositor and Viewer.
+  Several new Shape Wipe transitions are included.
+  New ColorSpace plugin to convert color space/range.
+  Updated 17 thirdparty libraries to keep up to date.
+  Rewrote and replaced OGG/Theora/Vorbis file codec.
+  PulseAudio option is now built in as audio choice.
+  Updated reference Manual using LaTeX now complete.
+  File by Reference capability now available.
+.
+2019 New Features of note:
+  Edit EDLs feature added for easily editing nested EDLs.
+  OTA TV support for Happauge 1657 Dual USB device recording.
+  Audio improvements added for playback/speed/sampling.
+  Spanish, Russian, French, and German translations updated.
+  Transcode 1:1 added to convert to a different format.
+  Compositor zoom using the wheel & panning is available.
+  Scaling for any size monitor now available in Preferences.
+  Improved and new transitions and plugins to include:
+    Tracer, Crop & Position, Compressor Multi, Alpha, Foreground.
+  Libraries updated for FFmpeg, libvpx, x264, x265, and Dav1d.
+  Major improvements for Masking in the Compositor.
+  Camera and Projector menu and usage improvements added.
+  Hardware acceleration capabilities added to include:
+    nvenc for nvidia boards, vdapu and vaapi hardware, + cuda.
+  Additional options for Preview mode in Resources window.
+  Named layouts for easier identification purposes.
+  Capability for ShuttlePro/Xpress usage has been added.
+  Insert Mixers for multiple cameras general improvements added.
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 2018 New Features of note:
   Inter-View mode / Identifying Source Targets added.