This update focuses on faster editing and more direct creative control: new crop tools, preview drag-and-drop, clip disabling, smoother dense timelines, and a cleaner editor UI.
Here's what's new:
- Crop Images and Videos: Crop media non-destructively from the editor
- Disable Clips: Temporarily turn clips off without deleting them
- Faster Timeline: Drag, zoom, trim, and select clips more smoothly in large projects
- Cleaner Editor: More compact controls, better media browsing, shader backgrounds as individual clips, and preview drop upload
Crop images and videos
Image and video clips can now be cropped directly inside the editor.
Cropping is non-destructive, so your original uploaded file stays unchanged. You can adjust the visible area, keep experimenting, and render the final result without creating extra copies of the same media.
For video clips, the crop tool uses a preview frame from the selected video so it's easier to line up the shot before you render.
Disable clips
Clips can now be disabled from the timeline.
Disabled clips stay in your project but are excluded from preview, render output, and audio processing. This makes it easier to test alternate versions, compare layers, or temporarily remove an element without losing its timing and settings.
Use Shift+E to toggle selected clips.
Better timeline performance
Dense projects should feel much smoother now.
We improved timeline zooming, clip dragging, trimming, selection, and marquee selection so larger projects stay responsive while you work. Drop previews also line up more reliably when timelines are scrolled or have many tracks.
A few specific fixes are included here too:
- Selected adjacent clips no longer overlap when trimming either edge
- Dragging clips back to the original track now previews the drop in the right place
- Scrolled timelines now show drop previews on the correct virtualized track
Re-designed editor controls
The editor UI has been tightened up across the main control bar, inspector, media library, and element library.
The inspector is more compact and can be expanded wider when you need more room for detailed controls. File upload fields are quieter, media and shader pickers are easier to scan, and the editor library now has cleaner tabs, searchable element tiles, grouped effects, and timeline-matched colors.
The Import tab is now called Media, with clearer labels for uploaded files and stock sources. Media browsing also supports persistent grid and list views.
Shader backgrounds are now individual clips
Each shader is now added as its own clip from a visual browser, instead of changing the shader type inside an existing clip.
This fits the video editor workflow better: changing a shader used to reset that shader's settings and remove its keyframes anyway, so picking a new shader now creates a new timeline clip with its own controls.
More creative controls
This update also adds or improves several clip controls:
- Background clips now have an Opacity control
- 3D objects now share a consistent Opacity control
- 3D videos now support adjustable rounded corners from Appearance controls
- Shader keyframes now show the correct parameter names
- Double-clicking in the preview can select deeper overlapping layers, including shader, video sphere, and solid color backgrounds
Fixes and polish
A lot of small fixes landed alongside the larger editor improvements:
- Copying selected text in the editor no longer copies the selected clip instead
- Undo now works correctly after changing a shader clip
- Template customization shows clearer required-field messages
- Audio file fields no longer show broken image previews
- Projects started from templates open with an empty Library instead of showing template internals
- Editor transform controls stay crisp when visual effects are active
- Selection boxes and resize handles fit visual clips more accurately
- Noise effects stay in sync with the video timeline
- The desktop app starts correctly in packaged builds and download links resolve to the latest version more reliably
We also refreshed dashboard template browsing with curated collections, tag search, smoother scrolling, and automatic loading as you browse.
