0.36.0 — 2026-08-19

One voice, one performance, and the controls you could not find

The film stops speaking over itself, the Music tab opens on music, and four settings that already worked are finally reachable.

Features:

Choose the shape of your film: 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, picked before the storyboard is written. It used to be taken silently from your project canvas, so a square canvas produced a square film with nowhere to say otherwise. Every shot is framed for it, so changing it means redrafting — which is exactly what the brief box does.

Fixes:

Your film no longer speaks its lines twice. Casting a voice after recording your lines left some shots with a recording AND a take that says the same words — two performances layered on one line. Recording is now skipped where the take already speaks, and assembly drops the duplicate rather than stacking it.
Spoken lines sit under their own shot again. A line that ran longer than its shot stretched the picture, and every later line stayed where it was — so a whole film could drift out of sync behind one long read. On the tutorial film that was 3.11 seconds, enough for a line to start while the previous shot was still on screen. Assembly now re-times the lines to the cut.
The Music tab opens on music. It opened on Freesound, which is a sound-effects library — so the music section was full of sirens and heartbeats, with almost nothing over two minutes. Measured on the same search the tab runs: 5 of 20 results over two minutes before, 20 of 20 after. The catalogue was always there; the tab just started in the wrong place. Freesound is still one click away for effects.
A momentary provider hiccup no longer costs you a generation. The app gave up on the first failed status check — on work already created, already charged, and usually still rendering — and showed you the provider's own words for a fault you could do nothing about. It now tolerates a few before giving up.
You can get back to the brief and redraft. The only way in sat inside step one, which collapses and marks itself done the moment a storyboard exists — behind a tick that says there is nothing left to do there. It now shows on the step header, whether the step is open or not. It only reopens the brief; nothing is replaced until you press the button inside it.
A film whose lines are all recorded can still change its voice. Once nothing was left to record, the panel disappeared — and took the voice picker with it, so there was no way to pick a different voice and record again. The panel now stays, and offers to re-record instead of greying out. It says plainly that this charges again.
A clip you paid for can find its shot again. Clips whose shot link was lost mid-shoot finished, were charged, and were never attached — real footage sitting in your library with nothing pointing at it. Shots now carry that link themselves, and the ones already stranded have been reclaimed.
A refused character image says so, and says what was refused. The slot simply stayed empty, which against a one-at-a-time provider is indistinguishable from still waiting, and nothing said whether you had been charged. It now shows the reason and confirms the tokens came back. The old wording blamed your prompt; the check reads the picture as readily as the words and never says which, so it no longer guesses.
The assistant tab stops covering the labels beside it. It sits as a thin edge until you reach for it with the mouse or keyboard, then opens to full width.