Changelog
Shipped, fixed, and improved
Every 1VideoTool release, straight from the release notes that ship with the product.
SHIPPED · v0.12.0
Footage editing and the timeline, with installers that build
New
- A timeline you can edit. The Timeline tab now has video, audio and title tracks with a live preview. Drag, trim and split clips, scrub or step through frames, and use snapping and undo/redo to refine the cut.
- Make the cut your own. Import pictures, video and audio, add titles, adjust their size, colour and position, and set the canvas background. Rename, lock, hide or mute tracks, fit the timeline or expand the editor, save the cut with the production, and export it as an MP4.
- A calm screen-demo look. Screen recordings get a dedicated 16:9 recipe that eases in on the parts of the interface that change, with a light music bed and no flashes or shakes.
Improved
- Travel edits follow the trip. The travel diary recipe uses capture dates to order photos and video moments, adds gentle photo moves and dissolves, and keeps its music lighter under the recordings' own sound.
- Footage fills the chosen frame. Recipe crops use measured subject tracks, salient regions or faces, and overlays keep clear of faces.
- Saved timeline cuts keep their timing. Generated scene media can refresh without replacing your manual cut. Video trims, title timing and track audio settings carry through to the exported MP4.
Fixed
- Fixed the Windows build selecting Git Bash's linker instead of the Microsoft linker, including while building the browser engines.
- Fixed release checks rejecting valid macOS updater archives and added recovery for missing platform installer downloads on existing releases.
- Fixed short, noisy exports exceeding the bitrate ceiling through a large opening burst. Export duration now controls that buffer, and cached renders refresh when encoder policy changes.
SHIPPED · v0.11.0
Edit your own footage from the transcript, on a timeline you can cut
New
- A timeline you can edit. The Timeline tab now has video, audio and title tracks with a live preview. Drag, trim and split clips, scrub or step through frames, and use snapping and undo/redo to refine the cut.
- Make the cut your own. Import pictures, video and audio, add titles, adjust their size, colour and position, and set the canvas background. Rename, lock, hide or mute tracks, fit the timeline or expand the editor, save the cut with the production, and export it as an MP4.
- A calm screen-demo look. Screen recordings get a dedicated 16:9 recipe that eases in on the parts of the interface that change, with a light music bed and no flashes or shakes.
Improved
- Travel edits follow the trip. The travel diary recipe uses capture dates to order photos and video moments, adds gentle photo moves and dissolves, and keeps its music lighter under the recordings' own sound.
- Footage fills the chosen frame. Recipe crops use measured subject tracks, salient regions or faces, and overlays keep clear of faces.
- Saved timeline cuts keep their timing. Generated scene media can refresh without replacing your manual cut. Video trims, title timing and track audio settings carry through to the exported MP4.
Fixed
- Fixed edited images, videos and same-named palettes showing stale pixels in Ink previews.
- Fixed clips, masks, effects and group opacity around live video or Ink layers losing their context during Composition rendering.
- Fixed caption selection order disagreeing with the visible overlay order, and reject invalid export ranges before touching the output.
New
- Use your own generation APIs in a directed video. Turn on Generation APIs, choose a provider for voice, stills and motion, set a spend cap, and let the harness generate the media alongside its local render. Runway, fal.ai and Gemini are available for pictures and motion; ElevenLabs handles narration.
- Choose providers in the prompt. Requests such as “Use Gemini for images and Runway for motion” or “Use fal PixVerse for clips” select the matching lanes while the API switch is on. English and Vietnamese requests work, and explicit instructions such as “do not use fal” turn that lane off.
- More hosted models. fal.ai adds FLUX Schnell stills plus Wan 2.5 and PixVerse 4.5 motion. Runway uses Gen-4.5 for text-to-video and offers a text-capable image default. Gemini adds Veo 3.1 Fast alongside Gemini image generation.
Improved
- Spend stays under your control. The composer shows estimated use and available provider balance when it can be read. Every hosted call is checked against the run cap, logged with its provider and model, and listed in the delivery notes.
- Cloud failures have a useful fallback. A failed, exhausted or quota-limited lane can continue locally or stop at a review gate, according to the run setting. One provider failure no longer loses the rest of the production.
- Better looking scenes by default. Layout, colour, scale, subject placement and visual variety are checked more strictly, with dedicated construction tools for characters, sets, props and shot composition.
Fixed
- Fixed fal.ai queue results failing for models with nested API paths by using the status and response URLs returned by fal.ai.
- Fixed Gemini video quota and operation errors being mistaken for successful generations, and corrected supported video durations and reference-video budget estimates.
- Fixed Vietnamese ElevenLabs requests selecting an incompatible model or silently falling back to an English voice.
New
- Four more styles that look like themselves. Each has its own scene type, built around what makes the style recognisable: Corporate flat: product UI cards take the lead, with one tidy icon set, a single highlight colour and a cursor that clicks through settings, checklists and network diagrams. No more grey placeholder panes. Isometric: a small isometric factory assembles itself block by block, and a conveyor carries work from station to station while the camera glides around it. Storytime: painted picture-book pages with soft, textured edges, a character that drifts gently into place, held pages and real page turns. Paper cutout: every piece is cut paper, with torn edges, paper texture, soft shadows between layers, visible pin joints and a stop-motion rhythm.
- Shaped reveals. Photos and product details can reveal through a torn, circular or rounded shape with a soft feathered edge, instead of a plain rectangle.
- Depth in any scene. A scene can be built from depth layers: when the camera pans or pushes in, far layers move less than near ones. This works on its own, without the beat camera bump.
Improved
- Steady numbers. Counters and chart numbers use fixed-width digits, so they don't jiggle sideways while they count.
- The reviewer sees the whole whiteboard. Along with the stills, the reviewer now gets a map of the entire board and the camera's path. It can judge whether the video really is one board the camera moves across, instead of guessing from single frames.
- More styles fully supported. Torn and feathered edges, paper texture, soft layer shadows, stop-motion jitter, page turns, device frames and isometric blocks are now built in, so the styles that rely on them draw their full look.
Fixed
- Fixed drawn scenes appearing offset when a video also used glass or blur effects.
SHIPPED · v0.8.0
Say what you want and get the right look, in pictures not slides
New
- Say what you want, get the right look. Type a plain request and 1VideoTool picks the format and one of 30 styles for you: whiteboard, kinetic type, pixel game, paper cutout, scratchboard, glass keynote, isometric and more. It reads English and Vietnamese, uses the files you attach, and never picks a style it can't build. The home page shows the choice before you start, and you can always change it.
- Videos with pictures, not slides. Every scene now has to show something, not just put words on screen. The director plans what each scene shows before writing the narration, and draws it: a loaf of bread, a Wi-Fi router, a yeast cell, a character. It draws from more than 5,000 line drawings and the built-in props, stroke by stroke, with a drawing hand. A video that is mostly text on a background is sent back instead of delivered.
- Styles that look like themselves. Five new scene types, each built around its style: Whiteboard: one big board the camera pans across, real marker handwriting, and a hand that draws. Scratchboard: white lines scratched out of black. Kinetic type: letter-by-letter entrances and full-frame colour wipes. Pixel game: real pixel art with a pixel font, a HUD and chiptune. Glass keynote: a dark stage, frosted glass panels and your product's UI tilting into place.
Improved
- Every style follows its full guide. Palettes, frame rates and per-style checks now reach the drawings and the final video, and 24 more fonts are bundled for the styles that use them.
- Checks that judge the picture. Each delivery reports how much of every scene is picture rather than text, flags scenes that stand still, and checks each style's signature look scene by scene. The reviewer has to back every verdict with what it saw.
- Silent narration is caught. If you asked for a voiceover and the video has no audible voice, it does not pass.
Fixed
- Fixed a crash when a prompt contained Vietnamese text right after a hashtag, such as "#đêmnhạc".
- Fixed "3D printer" in a prompt making a 3D film. Asking for 3D now needs to mean the look.
- Fixed lengths like "1.5 min" or "30 giây" being misread, and "3 surprising facts" being taken as a 3-second video.
New
- Scenes that react. In a 2D scene, one thing can now respond to another the moment it happens: a street light turns green on the exact frame a character walks past it, a badge lights up when the hero crosses the middle of the frame. Named moments ("the light lands") can start other moves and get their own sound.
- One scene flows into the next. A whole Ink scene — set, character, props and its own camera — can fill a segment, and the next scene picks up where it left off: across a match cut or the new bloom and bloom shift transitions (a colour floods the frame from the hero and recedes into the next scene), the character stays in the same place, at the same size, facing the same way. If it would jump, the check says which scene to move and by how much.
- Characters defined once, cast everywhere. Define a character once — its colours, proportions, views, expressions and poses — and cast it into any number of shots. It looks the same in every one, and new acting moves (walk, sit, reach, wave, laugh, react, point, hold) wind up and settle on their own. A character that looks like a well-known one needs you to confirm you have the rights.
Improved
- Faster re-renders. Only the scenes you changed render again; previews render at a lower resolution and the final export at full quality once you approve.
- Faster 3D previews. The first 3D preview frame appears in about three seconds, and an interrupted render resumes where it stopped.
- Smoother motion. Every easing curve works in both the 2D engines, camera push-ins feel constant instead of slowing down, and groups can cascade from the centre, the edges, a point, at random or as a wave.
Fixed
- Fixed Ink Studio's timeline showing a different ease curve than the rendered video for ease in, ease out and ease in-out — the curves now match what you get.
- Fixed floating characters passing the ground check when they cast a shadow — the check now measures the character, not its shadow.
- Fixed imported pictures with repeated layer names losing layers — each layer keeps its own name.
SHIPPED · v0.6.0
Your coding CLI runs the studio, and every frame gets checked
New
- Your coding CLI is the whole studio. 1VideoTool now starts from the coding CLI you already use — Claude Code, Codex, Devin, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Grok and more. The first-run card finds the CLIs on your Mac, asks once for permission to let one build scenes and run Blender, and every picker defaults to it. Cloud generation (Gemini, Runway, fal) moves behind an Advanced generation switch in Settings, so nothing asks for a key unless you turn it on.
- Several videos at once. Director runs now work in their own productions side by side, and you can open, browse and edit other productions while they work — no more "a director run is working" when you switch.
- Videos that follow a design guide. Every directing agent now works from a built-in video design guide: one protagonist to follow, a clear structure that ends on its opening image, one look per film, real names and numbers, short on-screen text, transitions that grow out of the content and sound on every event. The agent writes its intent card, beat sheet and decisions into the video's plan, and the app checks them before anything renders.
New
- Generate in the background. Playground and Ink Studio generations run as background tasks, so you can start one, move to another workspace and find the result waiting. A badge in the title bar counts what is generating; open it to see each task's stage, frame count, elapsed time and a preview, cancel one, or jump back to the workspace it belongs to. Video generations report the provider's queue position and render progress as they go.
- 3D in the Playground. A new 3D tab renders a prompt through the local Blender pipeline with no production open — a still or a clip of up to ten seconds, in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:3, at previz, draft or final quality. The built-in scene builder writes the scene from the prompt, or a detected coding agent can once agent runs are allowed in Settings. The card shows the framing sketch as soon as the scene is blocked, then each frame as Blender renders it, and the result is filed in Assets.
- Ink pictures go to Assets and into videos. Pick finished Ink Studio pictures and save them to Assets — a PNG for a still, an MP4 when it moves — or pick them and choose Make a video to start a production with them as its assets. The picture redraws after every step while it is being made, and keeps drawing while you are in another workspace.
SHIPPED · v0.4.0
Full-screen playback, and the capybara joins the cast
New
- Watch full screen. Every video player — the finished cut, the cut up for review, takes in the Director and Generate, Playground results and Assets — has a Full screen button, and double-clicking the video does the same. Player mode fills the screen and picks up where the small player was: Space plays and pauses, the arrow keys seek and set the volume, M mutes, and Esc or F hands the position back to the small player.
- The capybara is a feature character. It is now built by the same data-driven character builder as the panda — a sculpted, skinned body on the biped rig with a long blunt muzzle, nostrils high on its tip, small ears set far back, calm deep-set eyes, a paler belly, dark webbed toes and two front teeth — so it acts out every move and expression in the library and grows fur at final quality. Eyes and lids can now be aimed in a character definition, so side-set eyes look outward instead of straight ahead.
- Sunlit 3D shots are lit from the front. The sun rig placed the sun and its sky fill behind the subject relative to the camera, so outdoor shots without a kit environment rendered as silhouettes. Both now sit in front, the sun on the key side.
SHIPPED · v0.3.0
Videos in your language, and reels that render many times faster
New
- Videos in your language. Ask for a video in Vietnamese, Japanese, Spanish or another language, and everything the audience hears and reads follows it. Narration uses a macOS voice that speaks the language; if none is installed, the run says so and shows where to add one. Lines are voiced several at a time, so narration is ready sooner.
- Watch the video take shape. Once the script is written, the run view shows each scene with a sample frame while the full video renders, and the final render has a progress bar with the time left. Technical detail sits behind a disclosure until you open it.
- Switch coding CLIs mid-run. Pick another CLI, model or permission tier in the Director header during a run and the run moves to it: a step already underway finishes where it started, and the next step, or Continue after a failure, runs on the new pick. MCP clients can do the same with run_set_agent.
SHIPPED · v0.2.1
1VideoTool Pro goes on sale
New
- 1VideoTool Pro is on sale. The Buy buttons in the upgrade dialog and in Settings → License & updates now open checkout for one, three or five devices ($29, $59 or $89, one payment, 12 months of updates). Paste the key you receive to unlock unlimited exports and director runs and the full output range.
SHIPPED · v0.2.0
Agents make videos over MCP, and a 3D panda built to act
New
- Agents can make videos over MCP. Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another MCP client in Settings → MCP access, and it can create a video from a brief, follow the director run, approve or send back each gate, and collect the finished files — while you watch it happen in the app. Each connection has its own token, permissions and expiry, and can be revoked at any time.
- A new 3D panda, built to act. The panda in the 3D route is now a fully rigged character, with markings, eyes and lids, and clothing. The scene compiler can have it perform named moves (walks, nods, waves, shrugs, talking, thinking and more) with planted feet, breathing, blinks, lip-sync, and follow-through on ears and clothing. More characters, and agents picking moves on their own, come in a later release.
- Review a voice take and steer the next one. In the Director, react to a spoken line with chips like "slower" or "longer pauses", and the next take is spoken with those settings. Every take of the line is kept to compare.
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