This article presents Kinovea 0.8.27 (download page), and describes the new features and improvements over 0.8.26. This version is mainly focused on usability improvements around drawings and measurements.
Designing custom tools is not an easy task so a special rendering mode was added to show the various components of the custom tool as it is being worked on. This is a global option and can be changed under menu Options > Preferences > Drawings > General > Custom tools debug mode.
The precision cursors have been improved and moving an existing drawing now uses the precision cursor instead of the opaque “closed hand” cursor as in previous versions.
The circle tool is “perspective aware” so it will display correctly (as a rotated ellipse of the correct size) when the perspective grid calibration method is used.
The Mosaic compositing system introduced in version 0.8.25 was simplified and renamed “Delay mode”. It now only supports the most important use cases of live delay, live slow motion and the quadrants view. The slow motion mode is now showing a countdown to the reset of the live stream for when the delay buffer will need to catch up to real time.
Mirroring the image is now supported in the capture screen via the menu Image > Mirror. Note that this is implemented at the display level only. It will not have any impact on frames recorded using the “Camera” mode of recording which takes frames directly from the camera and save them as-is (see Options > Preferences > Capture > Recording).