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QC-3.4.52

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🚀 Quran Caption v3.4.52 — Major Export Rewrite, Styling & Workflow Improvements

This update brings a major rewrite of the export pipeline, along with many improvements to styling, subtitle editing, project organization, and overall usability.

🔥 Major Highlight — Export Rewrite

The export script has been fully reworked.

What changed

  • Export no longer consumes all the RAM of the PC

  • New batch size system to control memory usage:

    • higher batch size = more RAM usage
    • lower batch size = less RAM usage

  • Export is now faster, more stable, and much more efficient

This is one of the biggest export improvements made so far.

🎬 Export Improvements

  • Added export without background in advanced export settings
    → useful if you want to edit the video background later in another editing software
    → also supports semi-transparent backgrounds

  • Added timed visibility for Surah Name / Reciter Name global overlays
    → you can now choose when they appear and disappear
    → useful for videos with an intro

  • Fixed subtitle fade transitions darkening between transitions

  • Increased audio bitrate during export to reduce quality loss

  • Fixed a bug where subtitle layout from a stale render could restore opacity too early before max-height / anti-collision was complete
    → this could sometimes cause temporary overlap on an exported frame

  • Fixed a bug where adding a custom text shortcut could create an invalid clip
    → custom text now always creates a minimum 3-second clip at subtitle end boundary

  • Fixed a macOS issue where non-system fonts were not rendered in exported videos
    → thanks to brother @nawzadamiri

  • Fixed a problem where the Surah name could briefly change during subtitle transitions in exported video when using a custom text

🎨 Styling & Visual Improvements

  • Added a new style for custom text: width is now customizable
    → useful to force line breaks more easily

  • Added style presets directly inside the software
    → you can now save and reuse presets without manually importing/exporting JSON files

  • Added a toggleable alignment grid in the preview
    → the grid can also appear automatically while dragging elements
    → makes centering much easier

  • Changed the default value of “above overlay” for custom images to true

  • Tajweed mushaf type is now forced to render in black
    → other colors are not properly supported by the exporter for this mushaf type
    → if you use it, you should place a fully white background behind the Arabic text

🌍 Translation & Arabic Styling

  • Added a Reset All Styles button for:

    • translations
    • Arabic text

  • Added per-word color styling for translation words

  • Added the ability to bold, italicize, underline, or color individual Arabic words in verses
    → available from the Translations tab, inside the style section

  • Optimized the AI prompt used for translation styling

  • Fixed a bug where translation styles could reset by themselves

  • Fixed a regression where a space was added after every em-dash in translations on the video

  • Fixed an issue where changing predefined subtitle translation text could throw an error

✍️ Subtitle Editor & Workflow Improvements

  • Changed word selection behavior in the Subtitles tab:

    • clicking an already-selected word now keeps the start cursor
    • only the end of the selection changes
    • clicking the current end word resets the start cursor to the end cursor

  • Added the ability to drag the mouse over Arabic words in the Subtitles tab for easier selection

  • Added ArrowUp / ArrowDown subtitle navigation in:

    • Video
    • Style
    • Export
      → same behavior as previous/next navigation in the video playbar

  • Fixed a bug where silence subtitles could not be edited as Quran

  • Fixed an odd audio playback error when moving the cursor in the timeline

🖥️ UI & Small Screen Improvements

  • Added a scrollbar to the left panel in Subtitles Editor for small screens

  • Added an openable drawer in the Translations tab
    → small-screen users can now access the Arabic and translation style panels more easily

  • Fixed a problem in the reciter rename modal where the icon did not load

  • Translated player errors into English and added a guard to prevent them from being spammed

🗂️ Project Organization

  • Added a project explorer tree on the home page with folders by:

    • reciter
    • type
    • year

  • Added drag-and-drop project organization

💬 Support & Community

  • Replaced the weekly support prompt with a contextual post-export donation panel
  • Added support tracking tied to that new panel