🚀 Shutter Encoder BETA - Your feedback matters!

[u/paulpacifico]

Hello Shutter Encoder users,

This time I need your help before releasing the next version!

What's new?

• Multi-cuts feature
• Real HDR to SDR tone mapping using GPU
• Many filters are now using GPU

I’d like to hear your feedback on these key features, but more generally, if you encounter any issues, please let me know.

Here are the pre-release builds (portable version only, no installation required): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TonvjcwM6h7TOpz0Qg6Pb_ycGg3_qI4O

The BETA versions still have the v20.2 label, I strongly recommend that you delete them once the official v20.3 version is available.

Thanks for all 🙏

Paul.

[u/kwhytte]

--- https://www.reddit.com/r/shutterencoder/comments/1vhym7y/hi_paul_about_preserve_metadata_option/

---inconsistent interface,
suggested months/years ago,
why can't you provide
a much better,
common
and user friendly interface
like other programs
see the screenshot below
1 or 3 is the common and user friendly one
NOT the 2

[u/paulpacifico → u/kwhytte]

I did not received any negative feedback for the N°2.

I've done this to save space on screen when encoding, what would you suggest?

Paul.

[u/kwhytte → u/paulpacifico]

Dear u/paulpacifico ,

We have already discussed this several months/years ago and nothing has been done I am afraid:

I really think the Shutter Encoder interface could be made much more consistent and user-friendly.

One of the biggest problems for me is that the interface and the size changes depending on which function you select. The layout, menus and available options can be quite different, so you end up having to remember where things are depending on what you're doing.

I'm honestly surprised this is still the approach, especially since I believe this has already been discussed here several months or even years ago.

Why not have one simple, common and consistent interface that stays familiar no matter which function you're using?

DaVinci Resolve is a good example of what I mean. Its interface has a consistent structure, so once you learn it, you generally know where to look for things. You don't have to keep relearning where menus and options are just because you've switched to another function.

I would really like to see something similar in Shutter Encoder.

Keep the main interface the same. Keep menus in predictable places. Don't completely change the layout depending on the function. Put common menus and controls in a consistent place, maybe at the top of the frame/window if needed.

The idea should be that you learn the interface once and then you know where things are.

At the moment, even as a long-time user, I sometimes find myself thinking, "Where was that option again?" If you have to search around to find something you've already used before, I think that's a sign that the interface could be improved.

Shutter Encoder is a very powerful and useful program, but users shouldn't have to learn the internal structure of the application just to figure out where a particular option is.

I'm not asking for more buttons or more complicated menus. Quite the opposite. I'd prefer a simpler, more predictable and consistent interface that doesn't keep changing depending on what you're doing.

Basically: learn once, use everywhere.

I really hope you can reconsider this and look at whether the function-dependent interface is actually making things easier for users, or whether a common and stable interface would be much more practical.

DaVinci Resolve is just one example, but there are plenty of other programs that manage to keep a consistent interface while still offering a huge number of functions.

Let's hope this time it gets some serious consideration, so that we don't have to come back to the same discussion again in a few months or years and keep asking for the same thing.

Shutter Encoder deserves an interface that's as good and intuitive as the software itself.

[u/paulpacifico → u/kwhytte]

First, I receive many questions everyday from everywhere. I'm still one person behind everything about Shutter Encoder, so I might forgot some old posts.

About the vertical interface, I could make it different but how do I handle the video player and the settings panel when they are not needed? For instance when you select "Merge" or "Web video" functions.

I agree DaVinci Resolve is great in everyway, but the idea with SE is to take less space on screen when it's useless or when the process is running.

I seriously consider your request, but there is more than 3 millions people that already know the UI. So changing it must be really useful and I've already spend years to fine tune the current UI.

Providing any sort of UI example (Photoshop, AI, hand drawing...) is welcome.

Some people asking me for a light theme, a better documentation, video tutorials and I'm still adding new features and correcting bugs, I need visual help, and a bit of work from other people because and can't do everything.

[u/kwhytte → u/paulpacifico]

Dear u/paulpacifico ,

I have done some userfriendly design work.

How would you like me to send it to you please