{"id":48461,"date":"2025-03-21T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48461"},"modified":"2025-03-21T08:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:14:53","slug":"blender-4-4-rendering-h265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/blender-4-4-rendering-h265\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 4.4 Released with Rendering Support for H.265\/HEVC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blender, the popular free open-source 3D computer graphics software, announced new 4.4 release few days ago.<\/p>\n

The new release added many exciting new features, improved performances, and fixed over 700 issues.<\/p>\n

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Blender 4.4 adds support for rendering videos using the H.265\/HEVC codec, which supports resolutions up to 8192\u00d74320. And during rendering, user can set a color depth of 10 or 12 bits for supported codecs.<\/p>\n

Video Sequencer in the released introduced edit mode support for text strips in preview. It also allows to align multi-line text strips to left, right, or center. And many operations such as float\/HDR content preview, Curves, Hue Correct, White Balance modifiers, and sequencer effects are much faster than before.<\/p>\n

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text strips edit in preview<\/p><\/div>\n

For animation workflows, the release introduced new Action Slots feature, allowing multiple data-blocks share a single Action. For 3D modeling, there’s new option in the Select by Trait operator to select pole count. And, Sculpt mode got a new Plane brush type.<\/p>\n

The window decorations now follow the theme colors on Windows 11 and macOS. On macOS, you can now preview blend file contents in a thumbnail in Finder, App Expos\u00e9 and Spotlight.<\/p>\n

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Other changes include CPU compositor rewritten that provides significant improvements in performance, revamped Glare node with new control options, as well as:<\/p>\n