Videos in your language, and reels that render many times faster

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• 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.

• See what's new before you update. The update dialog shows the new version, its date and its release notes, screenshots included, with one button that downloads, verifies and restarts. It opens on its own for a new version, and you can skip a version you don't want.

• Reels render many times faster. The composition renderer now paints frames on every CPU core at once and draws segment backgrounds and vignettes from pixels decoded once per render instead of re-decoding an embedded PNG on every frame; video layers stream through one decoder instead of spawning ffmpeg per frame. Output pixels are unchanged. The 60-second explainer golden went from about 3 to more than 50 frames a second on a 14-core Mac; set ONEVIDEOTOOL_RENDER_THREADS to cap the workers on machines where fewer cores render faster.

• The director draws with Ink and places sound. Format runs and chat turns now hand the directing agent the Ink engine and the Sound Studio: it writes ink-<slug>.json scenes (cartoon people, anime characters, animals, props) that the app renders into stills or clips and binds into the composition like any figure, and a sound.json of cues on the format's beats (Studio recipes or bundled effects, bed levels, stops) that join the mix. Lint problems come back to the agent in the same repair loop as reel checks.

• Kung fu, performed. Agents can now direct the 3D panda with named moves — a salute and bow, fighting stances, punches, kicks, jumps, a flying kick, tai chi, victory poses, and everyday acting like waving, shrugging or laughing — and it walks where it's told with its feet planted. Strikes wind up and follow through, landings squash, the belly, ears and sash swing, and its face acts along.

• A feature-film look for 3D shots. New 3D shots render sculpted, soft-furred characters with glossy eyes under a warm key and a bright rim light. Final renders add real fur strands and motion blur, so they take longer than drafts; the flat low-poly look is still available per shot.

• 3D shots frame characters at their real size. Layout, the Director preview and the render all use a character's declared height (the panda stands about 1.8 m), so the shot you approve is framed the way it renders.

• Runs recover on their own. A run left working when you switch to another production picks up again when you reopen it. A breakdown that produced no shots, or a cut with nothing rendered, now steps back to redo that work on Continue instead of failing the same way every time. Switching to Yolo or to another CLI while a step runs is no longer undone when that step finishes.

• Fixed: reels whose scenes use a video backdrop, such as the Kinetic Essay template's background video, failed validation instead of rendering.