Changelog

Every release, in order.

Pulled live from GitHub Releases on our repo. Refreshed at most once an hour. Latest first.

Recent desktop highlights

the headline changes per build, newest first

v1.1.0 — Managed Cloud AI + simple plans — no API keys to bring

July 11, 2026

TaleCut now runs the AI for you. Scripts, images, voiceover and video all generate from one built-in credit balance — no more creating an OpenRouter or Anthropic account or pasting API keys. Sign in and start making videos.
Plans replace the one-time license: start free, then pick a monthly or annual plan (Starter, Pro, Studio or Scale). Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance, and you can top up anytime — your plan credits and any credits you buy spend from the same balance.
Local GPU rendering stays 100% free and offline — credits cover only the steps that call an AI model. Optional Cloud Video still bills by credits as before, and your finished videos never leave your machine until you upload them.
Windows: Microsoft Store (recommended — Microsoft-verified, no SmartScreen, auto-updates) or the direct .exe. macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel). Direct builds are unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.99 — Cloud Video quality-hardening

July 9, 2026

Grok first-frame generation for Cloud Video: both Economy and Premium now start each clip from a sharp, aspect-matched first frame, for cleaner and more on-subject motion.
Cleaner clips: the image prompt behind that first frame is sanitized so stray “title card / captions / credits” wording can't get painted into the opening frame, and the video prompt is length-clamped so the motion direction is never silently cut off.
Honest, measured quality hardening — not a claim of perfection: first-frame provenance recorded per job (local-only), privacy-safe prompt logging on the cloud gateway (no raw prompts), and observe-only first-frame QA scaffolding. Verified end-to-end with real clips.
Windows: Microsoft Store (recommended) or direct .exe. macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel). Direct builds are unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.98 — Steadier sign-in + cleaner Cloud Video

July 9, 2026

Cloud Video clips come out cleaner: removed a prompt guardrail that could ironically cause garbled on-screen text, and Premium clips render faster and more consistently.
Honest time estimates: the “time remaining” on a Cloud Video generation now reflects real measured speeds instead of under-promising.
Sign-in that stays signed in: a dead-refresh-token edge case that could log you out or show “cloud rejected” now clears itself narrowly — only on a confirmed-dead session, never on a momentary network blip.
Windows: Microsoft Store (recommended) or direct .exe. macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel). Direct builds are unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.97 — Cloud Video motion + faster Premium

July 9, 2026

Your storyboard's per-scene motion now reaches the Cloud Video model: the camera and subject movement the brain plans for each scene actually drives the generated clip, instead of a generic pan.
Premium Cloud Video is faster and the in-app time estimate matches reality (a stale estimate showed ~21 min for work that takes ~7).
Auto-length clips: a Cloud Video clip follows the scene's narration length — the gateway splits a long scene into parts and returns one stitched clip — so you're not capped at short segments.
Windows: Microsoft Store (recommended) or direct .exe. macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel). Direct builds are unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.91 — TaleCut Cloud Video + the $15 Starter Bundle

July 8, 2026

TaleCut Cloud Video (new, recommended video engine): generate animated clips on TaleCut's own GPUs with no API key of your own, billed by credits — Economy (low-cost, up to 20s) and Premium (higher-detail, up to 40s, returned as one clip).
The $15 Starter Bundle: a one-time $15 unlocks the desktop app for life (no subscription) and includes 500 Cloud credits to start. Existing license buyers keep everything — local + bring-your-own-key access is unchanged.
Bring-your-own-key OpenRouter / Grok video stays as the Advanced fallback and never uses credits, and local rendering is still free on your own GPU — no cloud render farm, ever.
Windows: the Microsoft Store is now the recommended install (Microsoft-verified, no SmartScreen, auto-updates); the direct .exe remains available. macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) unsigned.

v1.0.89 — Stay on the latest build

July 5, 2026

Out-of-date installs now get a clear “time to update” prompt, so no one is stuck on an old build that's missing the latest fixes. Your license carries over automatically — nothing to re-buy or re-link.
A maintenance release on top of v1.0.88. As always, the byte-identical render guarantee held — your existing projects render exactly the same.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.88 — Your license, verified — with offline grace

July 4, 2026

Your paid access is now verified reliably against your account, with a built-in offline grace window: keep working for up to 12 hours between checks, so a short trip off Wi-Fi never interrupts you while your license stays tied to your account.
Sign-in is steadier across restarts, and the account gate no longer trips on a slow or momentary connection.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.87 — Hardened top to bottom: your money, your uploads, your data

July 4, 2026

Cost control that actually holds: your Profit-Mode spend cap now enforces on image, voice, and thumbnail generation (it could previously be exceeded), and cancelling an AI-video job immediately stops the spend instead of finishing and billing every remaining clip.
Your uploads stay private: an upload you scheduled as private or unlisted is no longer silently published to the world, and the same finished video can't be posted to YouTube twice.
Your keys and data stay yours: your AI API key is now sent only to the AI provider (never to a download URL it hands back), backups are taken as a consistent database snapshot that can't be corrupt, and the auto-update feed and sign-in were hardened against SSRF/CSRF.
Fewer things break: large YouTube uploads no longer fail near the end (the access token refreshes mid-upload), crashed AI-video jobs recover on restart instead of getting stuck, and cloud sync reconnects on its own after a Wi-Fi drop. Dozens of fixes from a deep internal audit, each covered by an automated test; the byte-identical render guarantee held throughout.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.86 — Deep-audit blocker fixes: renders, cost, cloud sync, security

July 3, 2026

Renders you can trust: layered / keyframe scenes that used to come out solid black now render correctly, and mixing video formats in one project no longer produces a corrupt file — the two ways a video could silently fail while still reporting success.
Paid work isn't wasted: a completed AI-video clip is no longer thrown away and replaced with a still image, and a hiccup mid-generation no longer double-charges you.
Cloud sync + entitlement: deletes now propagate across your devices (no more 'zombie' rows reappearing), and paid access can no longer be granted from the client — it is enforced on the server.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.85 — Storyboards carry the whole script

July 3, 2026

The storyboard can no longer shrink your video. If the AI summarises your script instead of cutting it word-for-word (a real 1,698-word script came back as 24 scenes totalling ~430 words — a 2-minute video from an 11-minute script), TaleCut now detects the shortfall and re-cuts the narration deterministically from your actual script at sentence boundaries. The AI's scene count and image prompts are kept; the words are always yours, complete, in order.
Scene durations now always derive from the real narration (150 words per minute), so the storyboard's total runtime matches the script's length — on the manual Storyboard page and in the guided director alike.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.84 — Scripts hit their length + real YouTube titles

July 3, 2026

A 15-minute video now gets a 15-minute script. Length is a hard requirement in the generator, and a new length-guarantee loop keeps the same model writing seamless continuations until the word target is met — a 15-min target means ~2,250 words, not the ~350 a single pass could return (which produced a 2-minute video).
Ideas now come with real YouTube titles: Title Case, payoff-driven, and the duration can never leak into the title again (no more “night sky surrender — 15 min”). A server-side sanitizer guarantees clean titles no matter which model you use — the duration lives in the idea's length field where it belongs.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.83 — See what's failing + a brain that learns your visuals

July 2, 2026

New Known-issues panel in Diagnostics: recent warnings and errors from your machine's local log, grouped by event with counts and the latest detail — so you can see exactly which subsystems need attention instead of problems hiding in a log file. Local-only; nothing leaves your computer.
The channel brain grew a visual memory: when a thumbnail wins for real — you apply an A/B comparison winner, or a rotation finalizes with a measured CTR lift — the winning composition (angle + prompt) is remembered and automatically applied to future thumbnail and image prompt generations. Each channel's visuals converge on what its audience demonstrably clicks.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.82 — One brain, one key: OpenRouter-only + your money, your choice + smooth motion

July 2, 2026

One-click Connect OpenRouter: sign in on openrouter.ai and every AI role (text, image, video, voice) is keyed instantly — no more pasting four keys. All your usage shows in one OpenRouter dashboard.
The separate direct-Anthropic (Claude) provider was removed entirely — OpenRouter serves every Claude model, so one key powers the whole brain. A leftover Anthropic key is cleaned from your keychain automatically, and saved “Claude” preferences keep working via OpenRouter with zero action.
New channel brain memory: the top evidence-backed learnings from each Improve analysis are remembered per channel and silently applied to every future script, storyboard and metadata generation — the more videos you analyze, the sharper the next one gets.
A Mode can never silently put you on a paid provider again. If your channel is set to free Pollinations or Edge-TTS, Max-Quality mode keeps it free — paid image/voice/video providers are reached ONLY through your explicit pick or an explicitly-saved paid channel default. (Previously, Quality mode overrode your free choice and billed premium models without asking.)
The hidden image-to-video init frame is now ALWAYS generated with the free provider. It's invisible to you, so it never spends your money — under any mode, cap on or off.
Brain failover got a cost ceiling: when a cheap model rate-limits or fails, the fallback can only be a same-price, cheaper, or free model — never a silent jump to premium-priced models.
Ken Burns shimmer fixed: motion filters now supersample 2× before the zoom (the same proven fix Shorts always had), so rendered scenes glide smoothly instead of vibrating.
More fake-timeout fixes: YouTube package generation, quality review, Shorts metadata/hooks/thumbnails, channel branding and the safety check no longer show a false “timed out” error while they finish in the background.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.81 — No more fake timeouts on long AI generations

July 2, 2026

Big AI operations — storyboards with 20+ scenes, full scripts, motion suggestions for all scenes, upgrade-all-prompts, thumbnail batches, retention analysis, Shorts repurposing, Hook Lab, Improve, the Channel Assistant and Director plans — previously hit a flat 2-minute timeout and showed “This took too long and timed out” while the generation actually finished fine in the background (the result appeared on the next refresh).
Each of these now has a proper multi-minute timeout, so the app stays in its loading state and delivers the result instead of a false error.
Cleaned up stale “mock provider” notes in the Storyboard, Ideas and Analytics dialogs (the mock system was removed long ago).
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.80 — AI-motion scenes actually render with their clips

July 2, 2026

Fixed a race in the guided “make a video” director: it started the render the instant AI-video clips were queued, so the “AI motion” scenes you selected (and paid for) at the cost gate almost always rendered as static images while the clips finished uselessly in the background. The director now waits for every clip before rendering.
Fail-open: if a clip times out or fails, the build still completes using the scene's still image — a build never dies waiting.
The build's cost now includes the real AI-video spend (it previously showed $0 for the clips).
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.79 — Accurate AI Bill, smoother AI video, fresher internals

July 2, 2026

Your AI Bill is now complete: every image and voice generation is recorded (they previously logged nothing, so the in-app total under-reported real spend and the Profit-Mode cost cap under-enforced on media).
Profit Mode can't be bypassed anymore: the hidden image-to-video init frame switches to the free image provider when the cap is on, and its cost shows on the video job.
Chained AI clips no longer come out in slow motion — duration fitting caps slow-down at 1.15× and trims large overshoots instead of stretching.
A clip that fails mid-chain no longer wastes the clips you already paid for — the video completes with what was generated; clip timeouts are retried.
Clear errors: “brain not configured” now says exactly that (with what to do) instead of an opaque Internal Error, and invalid AI-Mode values are rejected instead of silently degrading to Balanced.
All backend + desktop dependencies refreshed (0 known vulnerabilities). Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.78 — Captions that work + a real Shorts upgrade

June 26, 2026

Captions fixed: “Generate timing” is now instant and reliable — it previously ran a heavy speech model that took minutes per scene and timed out, so every scene showed “0/24, failed”. And the caption style you pick in the preview now matches exactly what gets burned into the video (real fonts + animation), for long videos and Shorts.
Shorts are now a real clip, not one static image: each Short is built from a fast-cut sequence of fresh 9:16 images (about one every 5 seconds), gently animated, with the parent video’s caption style and your channel’s background music mixed in automatically.
One-click matching Short thumbnail: regenerate your video’s thumbnail design in vertical 9:16 with the Short’s title burned on — so your Short looks like the video it came from, optimized for the Shorts feed.
Punchier publish details: Short titles, descriptions and hashtags are now tuned for maximum impressions (curiosity-gap titles, search-friendly first line, broad + niche hashtag mix).
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.77 — Accurate AI billing + cheaper, better AI video

June 25, 2026

Accurate cost tracking: the in-app AI Bill now shows the real model for each AI clip (not a generic “stub”) and OpenRouter’s actual billed cost, so it matches your provider invoice.
Smarter, cheaper AI video: when a scene has no image, the app now auto-generates a high-quality init frame in the background and animates THAT (image-to-video) instead of having the video model imagine the whole scene — better, on-model clips with far fewer expensive regenerations.
Background music now auto-attaches from the channel when a render doesn’t specify a track (it was being silently dropped).
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.76 — Smooth clips + images: no audio bleed, captions burned

June 25, 2026

Fixed mixing AI clips with images: a clip shorter than its narration no longer lets the previous scene's voiceover bleed into the next scene. Every scene is now frame-exact (audio and video the same length), so playback stays perfectly aligned.
Captions are now burned on scenes that use a clip and/or image (the Flexible Render Studio path previously dropped subtitles).
Visuals page: a scene covered by an AI clip no longer asks you to also generate an image — selecting either one is enough — and a finished clip appears in the selection bar instantly (no tab-switch needed).
Voice model picker now filters out music/audio-gen models that the speech endpoint rejects. Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds — still unsigned (SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected).

v1.0.75 — Model defaults + a no-surprise-charge fix

June 25, 2026

New default brain model: Z.ai GLM 5.2 via OpenRouter (1M-token context, strong reasoning, low cost) for scripts, ideas, hooks and other writing — you can still pick any model per job or per channel.
Fixed: explicitly choosing a free model on the Script page no longer silently falls over to a paid model if the free one is rate-limited — a free pick now stays free (or fails honestly), never a surprise charge.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.74 — One AI model system — pick any model, per job

June 25, 2026

Unified model selection across every role (script, image, video, voice): a clear priority order — your per-job pick → the active Mode (Max Quality / Cost / Speed / Balanced) → the channel default → provider default. Modes now steer image, video and voice too, not just text.
Manually pick any model from a live OpenRouter catalog for images, video clips and voice — the lists refresh automatically every 24 hours, with a one-click refresh and per-channel defaults.
Channel consistency: a channel's brand voice (tone, audience, narrator persona) and brand bible are now woven into script and storyboard generation, so every video stays on-brand.
Cleaner status: the bottom-right backend/cloud indicator is a compact button that no longer overlaps the page. Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds — still unsigned (SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected).

v1.0.73 — Security & code-quality hardening

June 25, 2026

Security: a DNS-rebinding guard on the local backend, a stricter Content-Security-Policy, and all known dependency vulnerabilities cleared — plus a locked dependency set and a single Python toolchain version so every build is reproducible.
Reliability fixes found while making the code fully type-safe: the YouTube-disconnect confirmation, the Profit-Mode cap message, and the AI Director's “resume” link now read their server responses correctly (a few error messages could previously come through blank or mislabeled).
Under the hood: the whole desktop codebase is now type-safe (zero `any`, enforced in CI) and the large API client was split into focused modules — no behavior change, just a steadier base for future releases.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.72 — Startup + YouTube connect fixes

June 21, 2026

Fixed a “backend didn’t start” error some users saw on the first launch right after an update — the health check now allows up to 90s (a freshly-installed build can be slow while antivirus scans it) instead of giving up at 30s.
Connect YouTube needs zero credentials again: token refresh, account health, and upload now use the built-in verified Google client as a fallback, so you’re no longer wrongly asked to paste an OAuth client ID / secret.
Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.71 — Security hardening + reliability

June 21, 2026

The app window now runs in the Chromium sandbox and external links are restricted to http(s) with an off-origin navigation guard — defense-in-depth on top of the existing context isolation.
Fixed a Windows logging crash: the backend now forces UTF-8 console output, so non-ASCII characters in logs no longer spam errors mid-run.
Quality: the full test suite is green (backend 1950, render ship-blocker 74/74, desktop 347), with new CI gates running the desktop suite and a dependency audit on every change.
Windows + macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) builds. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.70 — Desktop hardening + cloud-sync fix

June 19, 2026

Cloud sync fixed end-to-end — sessions now load correctly (a keychain encoding bug had left the sync daemon idle) and the upload queue no longer wedges, so your channels, scripts and renders reach the web dashboard.
Window fits the screen on first launch, the status popover opens upward, and bulk voiceover / visuals / captions progress now survives navigating between pages (and can't double-start).
Connect YouTube needs zero setup (built-in Google client), a free AI model stays free, Shorts and the Word-Pop / Bounce captions render correctly, and the thumbnail engine gains a per-variant re-roll.
Reliability: crashed renders no longer show a phantom “running” job, calmer error handling, and a branded launch splash. Still unsigned — SmartScreen / Gatekeeper prompts expected.

v1.0.69 — Cross-platform release builds + stability

June 17, 2026

Rolling Windows + macOS release packaging on top of v1.0.65 — automated macOS CI builds (v1.0.66, v1.0.68, v1.0.69) keep both platforms on the same version.
Maintenance and stability updates; the live GitHub Releases list below always has the exact latest build and its assets.

v1.0.65 — Sync + IPC correctness, new web pages

June 14, 2026

Cloud-sync correctness fixes and Electron IPC fixes for a more reliable desktop session.
New marketing pages — a Solutions SEO cluster and the dedicated pricing page — plus CI hardening for steadier releases.

v1.0.64 — $1 paywall app-gate + email & support

June 13, 2026

The $1 license is now enforced in-app with a fail-open gate — it never traps a signed-in user, and only shows the paywall on a confirmed-unpaid account.
New email system (Resend): payment receipt, welcome, and support-ticket acknowledgement/notification, plus a /support ticket center on the website.
Bundles the v1.0.63 stacked fixes — Jamendo music client, toast z-index above drawers, status-beacon glow, and AI-config handling.

v1.0.62 — AI Router gets a control panel — pick your mode, see your spend

June 10, 2026

New AI Router screen: choose how models are picked — Max Quality, Balanced, Cost Saver, or Speed — and optionally pin a specific model for any single job.
New AI Analytics dashboard: cost-by-model chart, model reliability, failover rate, and spend-by-task, so you can see exactly where your AI budget goes.
The smart routing engine added in v1.0.61 is now fully steerable from inside the app instead of running silently on its default.

v1.0.61 — AI Router v2 — smarter model selection with deep failover

June 10, 2026

Every brain feature now routes through a single AI engine that picks the best model for each task — cheap models for quick jobs, stronger models where quality matters — across your Anthropic and OpenRouter keys.
N-deep failover: if a provider errors, hits a budget cap, or a model is blocked by a guardrail, the router automatically reroutes to the next-best candidate instead of failing.
A live model registry keeps the candidate list current from OpenRouter, with a bundled offline snapshot so model selection still works without a network round-trip.

v1.0.60 — Works on Anthropic OR OpenRouter — with failover

June 6, 2026

Every AI feature now works on whichever brain key you have. AI Motion Suggestions and AI music no longer require an Anthropic key — they use your OpenRouter key too.
Brain failover: if you set both keys, Claude is primary and the app automatically falls back to OpenRouter (or vice-versa) when one provider errors or your account blocks a model.
Clearer errors: when OpenRouter blocks a model (guardrail / data policy), the app tells you exactly that and how to fix it — for scripts and image/voice/video. Image generation also retries once on a transient error.

v1.0.59 — Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) is the new brain default

June 6, 2026

Script writing — and every text step — on the OpenRouter path now defaults to Anthropic's top model, Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast), for the highest-quality output.
It's a paid model, so your OpenRouter key needs credits and a data policy that allows the Anthropic provider. Prefer free or cheaper? Pick any model per-generation via Provider → OpenRouter → “Use a custom model id…”.

v1.0.58 — Analytics channel summary + key management

June 6, 2026

Analytics now shows an overall Channel summary — subscribers, lifetime views and total videos — for every connected channel, including channels whose videos all pre-date TaleCut.
Settings → AI: a stuck API key left over from an older version now deletes cleanly, plus a new “Delete all keys” button wipes every stored key at once.
Script page polish — the script content sits above the production checklist, and the Delete/Save bar no longer floats over the page while scrolling. (The account-delete error on the website is fixed too.)

v1.0.57 — Captions in the pipeline + sturdier updater

June 6, 2026

Captions are now a first-class pipeline step with their own sidebar entry and landing page; the guided flow runs Visuals → Captions → Compose.
Caption timing is generated per scene with live progress, so a long video no longer gets stuck with “untimed” captions.
The updater logs and retries its launch check, the database-clean action gives clear toasts, and Diagnostics gains a full “Erase all data” factory-reset.

v1.0.56 — In-app auto-update

June 6, 2026

An Update button now lives in the top bar; the app checks for updates on launch and every few hours.
On Windows a new release downloads in the background and prompts “Relaunch to update.” macOS shows an update-available prompt with a download link (in-place Mac auto-update is gated on code-signing).

v1.0.55 — AV1 / H.265 codec tier + animated captions

June 5, 2026

The adaptive render core auto-prefers AV1 / H.265 when your machine can encode them at quality (with the libx264 floor as a guarantee) — noticeably smaller files at the same quality.
New optional animated-captions step burns word-synced subtitles in 5 styles (Karaoke, Word Pop, Typewriter, Fade-Up, Bounce), aligned fully offline by a bundled Whisper model — no cloud, no key.

v1.0.54 — Encoder picker + multi-clip per scene

June 5, 2026

Manual encoder picker in Render Diagnostics — auto-best stays the default, but click “Use” on any verified encoder to override (or “Auto (fastest)” to reset). The choice persists across hardware re-probes and drives renders directly.
Multiple selectable clips per scene — each is its own card in the Asset Strip (Clip 1 / 2 / 3) with a per-clip delete and a segment-count label, and clips weight the proportional split by their true duration.
“Regenerate” is now “Generate another clip” — it appends a new take and keeps the old one instead of replacing it.

v1.0.53 — Adaptive Rendering Engine

June 5, 2026

A device-adaptive engine that detects your GPU (NVIDIA / Intel / AMD), CPU, RAM and ffmpeg hwaccels, then benchmarks and auto-selects the fastest stable encoder — NVENC → QSV → AMF → CPU, with a guaranteed libx264 floor.
Real 1-frame validation renders mark each encoder verified or failed, so a machine that only claims to support an encoder never gets one that breaks mid-render.
Render-time fail-open: if a GPU encode misbehaves, it falls back to the byte-identical libx264 command — a render never fails because of your GPU. New GET /render/diagnostics + a Render Diagnostics panel show what each device detected and selected.

v1.0.52 — Flexible Render Studio

June 5, 2026

A per-scene asset studio on the Visuals page: every generated clip is a playable mini-preview, and you check or uncheck the image and each clip per scene.
Mix images and clips across scenes, sequence multiple clips within one scene, and drag to reorder — the selected assets are fit proportionally to each scene’s narration.
Fully additive — untouched scenes render exactly as before, with a “Reset to auto” escape hatch.

v1.0.51 — Render audio continuity

June 4, 2026

Fixed narration + background music dropping out in the final render (especially after a clip scene) by pinning identical audio params on every scene-clip branch, so the concatenation keeps one continuous voiceover + music track.
Speed-ramped scenes now keep their audio time-stretched in sync instead of silently dropping it.

v1.0.50 — OpenRouter voice + video hotfixes

June 4, 2026

Switched the voice model to a working Grok voice (voices Eve / Ara / Rex / Sal / Leo) after the previous model 400’d.
AI video clip downloads now poll until the signed URLs appear (OpenRouter is eventually-consistent) and the job poll budget was raised to ~15 minutes.

v1.0.49 — AI provider redesign → OpenRouter

June 4, 2026

Replaced the multi-provider AI plumbing with a single unified OpenRouter client driving text, image, video and voice — with role-based API keys and a role-card Settings UI to paste each.
Added a guided “make a video” director that runs the whole pipeline end-to-end for new users, plus a per-scene AI-video cost guard under Profit Mode.

v1.0.48 — AI-clip download validation

June 4, 2026

AI video clip downloads now validate the bytes are a real video before saving, so an unreadable clip can no longer slip through and fail the render.

Published releases

pulled live from GitHub Releases

TubeForge AI Studio v1.2.1

July 16, 2026

Continuity Director + Cloud Video directed generation are now ON BY DEFAULT.

•Directed scenes (Video Bible planning, per-shot first frames, seamless multi-shot stitching) are the standard Cloud Video path — no setup needed.
•Automatic safe fallback to the classic pipeline when directed generation is unavailable.
•Explicit opt-out available via TUBEFORGE_CONTINUITY_DIRECTOR=off / TUBEFORGE_MANIFEST_V2=0.

Windows x64. macOS 1.2.1 dmgs follow shortly; macOS 1.2.0 remains fully compatible.

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