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PilotCut

Release Notes

PilotCut changelog

0.5.0

Latest

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.