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PilotCut changelog

0.8.0

Latest

New Features

  • Podcast grade voice enhancement that brings studio clarity to voice recordings with a single click
  • Smart voice ducking enabled by default to automatically lower background music when you speak
  • Personal wallpaper library to save and reuse favorite backgrounds across all your projects
  • Automatic typing speed up that fast forwards long typing segments to keep videos snappy
  • Smart subtitle line breaking and formatting for clean on screen captions
  • Fluid spring driven timeline zoom for natural navigation with trackpad pinch and scroll
  • Dock and Menu Bar display options in General Settings to customize your workspace

Improvements

  • Streamlined export dialog with an always visible sharing dropdown and instant format presets
  • Enhanced interactive liquid glass hover animations across toolbar controls and the Recording Hub
  • Support for attaching files and using quick tool commands in the AI assistant panel
  • Instant project previews in Finder and Quick Look without opening the app
  • Cleaner and more compact timeline ruler markings for frame accurate editing
  • External SRT subtitle files can now be imported directly into project captions

Bug Fixes

  • Smoother clip rendering while navigating and zooming along the timeline
  • Recording button now displays a clear readiness indicator before capture starts
  • Improved export stability and faster video encoding across all resolutions
  • Fixed toolbar buttons occasionally requiring multiple clicks during fast interactions
  • Smoother cursor tracking and hover glow that follows pointer movements seamlessly

0.7.0

New Features

  • Multi language audio tracks with per language audio files and subtitle sidecar export
  • Selectable screen recording frame rates at 30, 60, and 120+ fps for high refresh displays
  • Higher quality camera recording with clearer bitrate and camera frame rate controls
  • AI transition gap fill that generates smooth visual transitions across empty timeline gaps
  • AI Enhancement panel with guided skin smoothing for on camera talent
  • Frosted glass chat sidebar for a cleaner agent conversation panel
  • Dynamic HEIC wallpaper export with selectable looks
  • Hover reveal transition badges and clearer loudness waveforms on the timeline
  • Animated agent activity floating HUD transitions
  • Cursor tracking liquid glass hover styling across the editor and Recording Hub

Improvements

  • Every media import now lands in the shared asset library so project media stays in one place
  • Studio Master audio enhancement stays opt in under Always v4 instead of being selected by Auto
  • Refreshed vector icons and borderless inspector chrome for a cleaner editing surface
  • Software update reminders animate with brand motifs and stay centered on the active display
  • App chrome typography is flattened to semibold without uppercase section headers
  • Selecting a single video clip or camera layout opens the matching inspector immediately
  • Export warns you to close HyperFrames Studio and re-render animated visuals before continuing

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed recordings that fail mid take so playable captured video can still open as a project
  • Fixed screen capture stutter so recordings keep a steadier frame cadence
  • Fixed timeline header box artifacts when hovering track groups
  • Fixed app freezes caused by unbounded waits on the main thread, including faster large project opens
  • Fixed Claude Code sign in failures with clearer login steps in the chat panel
  • Fixed false audio enhancement failures when a source simply has no speech
  • Fixed AI Enhancement rail tab selection and percent point slider display

0.6.4

New Features

  • Export now offers to re-render draft animated visuals at full quality first, with per-visual choices and progress you can send to the background

Improvements

  • Draft re-renders are several times faster on multi-core Macs and report the real render stage instead of a bare percentage
  • The "source changed" flag on an animated visual now compares file contents, so a reformat or a checkout no longer asks for a pointless re-render
  • Old renders are cleaned up automatically, keeping the two newest plus anything the timeline still uses

0.6.3

New Features

  • Open the animation project behind a layout visual in an in-app HyperFrames editor, seeked to the playhead
  • Re-render an animated visual straight from the Layout inspector, with a fast draft mode and full-quality option

Improvements

  • Layout inspector flags an animated visual whose source changed since it was last rendered
  • Closing the HyperFrames editor releases its preview server instead of leaving it running

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a crash in the Mockup Motion picker when a keyframe selection went stale
  • Fixed marker edit popover layout and presentation

0.6.0

New Features

  • On-device speech transcription engine with automatic speaker detection and identification
  • Studio Master audio suite for offline noise reduction, speech isolation, de-reverb, and broadcast leveling
  • Claude Code integration as a native AI editing agent provider
  • Live Agent Activity HUD with real-time log inspection and multi-step revision undo
  • Photos-style magnetic snapping for precise video clip and screenshot cropping
  • Unobtrusive update reminders that let you install when ready or snooze for later

Improvements

  • Saved preview zoom and pan position across editing sessions for each project
  • Easier discovery and instant previews for overlay entrance animations
  • Imported video clips automatically adjust to match project canvas margins
  • Universal Apple Silicon and Intel macOS app support for maximum performance across hardware
  • Dedicated Audio inspector tab with background music, audio ducking, and click sound controls

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed timeline freezing when scrubbing through complex multi-track projects
  • Fixed clip splitting so cuts only apply to target tracks without splitting linked voiceover audio
  • Fixed update notification persistence when canceling or postponing software updates
  • Fixed floating Agent Activity HUD scoping so it stays attached strictly to the active editor window
  • Fixed background image selection in the screenshot editor using native file dialogs

0.5.0

New Features

  • Professional direct-manipulation canvas with visual snapping, object alignment guides, and canvas controls
  • Interactive caption editor for fine-tuning subtitles, timing, and highlight styling on screen
  • Built-in stock media library to search and preview royalty-free graphics and audio
  • Export video captions directly as standalone SRT and VTT subtitle files
  • Auto-adapting canvas aspect ratios based on imported main-track media

Improvements

  • Optimized native Apple Silicon rendering for faster preview playback and exports
  • Redesigned inspector chrome and content insets for a cleaner layout
  • Smarter multi-track audio grouping when importing external video clips

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed imported video audio track grouping and sync issues
  • Fixed inspector card layout alignment and spacing glitches

0.4.0

New Features

  • Background music inspector with playback speed controls and easy audio import
  • Full-system automation agent support for controlling editing workflows hands-free
  • Atomic timeline range cutting to quickly slice and trim multiple tracks at once
  • High-accuracy local speech transcription for fast offline captioning

Improvements

  • Speaker-safe transcript editing prevents accidental cuts to voiceover lines
  • Smoother playhead follow and auto-scrolling during transcript skimming

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed caption word sync drifting when moving or splitting phrase boundaries
  • Fixed timeline range cuts leaving orphan audio segments

0.3.8

New Features

  • Account-bound licensing system with seamless device activation and license management
  • Cloud asset delivery pipeline for fast media asset downloads and previews
  • Beta pricing controls and updated subscription preferences

Improvements

  • Unified canvas inspector and settings panel across all editing views
  • Richer download tracking and installer attribution metrics

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed licensing verification delays during offline application launch
  • Fixed canvas settings resetting when switching between project workspaces

0.3.0

New Features

  • Intuitive empty project onboarding with drop-to-create media workflows
  • Dedicated computer-use automation helper for AI agent video editing
  • Repositioned workspace interface tailored for agent-driven editing

Improvements

  • Faster workspace load times with background credential initialization
  • Privacy-friendly analytics for monitoring app performance and export health

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed workspace layout shifts when opening projects on smaller displays
  • Fixed audio stream sync when importing multi-channel video files

0.2.51

New Features

  • PilotCut update notices now open a lightweight release-notes view inside the Sparkle updater.
  • The web download flow now keeps the PilotCut appcast and release metadata aligned for direct Mac installs.

Improvements

  • Release-note links now stay on pilotcut.com instead of falling back to ScreenKite changelog pages.
  • Download tracking includes richer attribution context so release monitoring can distinguish direct, referral, and campaign installs.
  • The public changelog gives PilotCut releases a dedicated home outside the blog.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed PilotCut appcast defaults that could generate ScreenKite release-note URLs.
  • Improved reliability of release download notifications after a user starts a Mac download.

0.2

New Features

  • Introduced the PilotCut web surface for direct Mac downloads.
  • Added PilotCut blog content support backed by the shared blog data repository.

Improvements

  • Added a dedicated PilotCut logo and brand treatment across the auth and landing pages.
  • Improved the website download path so visitors reach the latest macOS build quickly.

Bug Fixes

  • Hardened local development content setup for the PilotCut blog data directory.
  • Removed ScreenKite-specific assumptions from PilotCut web content paths.