- Drop markers are points, not bars. Each one carried the reel's length as its duration, which drew a bar running from the drop to well past the end of the reel — a span that described nothing and read as though it showed where the reel started and stopped.
- The plan buttons show the price, and what the longer plans save per month.
- The version is now findable. The bottom right of the window opens a panel with the exact build identifier — the thing worth quoting when something goes wrong.
// Changelog.
What changed, and when.
Every build, newest first. The version is in the title bar of the application and on the disk image, so you can always tell which one you are looking at.
- Licensing. Sign in with your email address and a licence key. No password: the key is the credential.
- It works offline for seven days at a time. The application checks in when it can and keeps running when it cannot, which is what a venue with no signal requires.
- Two Macs per licence, and a self-service reset on the sign-in screen for when one of them is sold or replaced — once every 30 days.
- Three days free on your Mac, no card.
- Paying happens on Stripe's own page, in your browser. Promotion codes work there. There is no card form anywhere in this application.
- Your licence key arrives by email when you sign up.
- The interface was rebuilt around the pipeline. Seven tabs became a rail: the steps run in order, each one shows whether it has run, and a step that cannot run yet is dimmed and says why.
- A project that had been moved wrote to where it used to be. Copy an event folder to another drive, run a module, and the results went back to the original — silently, because from inside the application the save had succeeded. Fixed.
- What the sync could not vouch for is now visible in the application, not only in the log.
- The progress bar appears for every module, not just one.
- A clip could land half a musical bar out and be presented as settled. Half a bar is the worst kind of sync error: it lands back on the grid, survives every plausibility check, sounds nearly right, and puts the drop a beat early. Fixed.
- The sync now survives into the reel. A cut could be 40 ms off the audio underneath it — on the cut that lands on the drop — because the same instant was rounded twice by different routes.
- A camera cannot film two clips at once, and now the tool checks. Where the layout says otherwise, both clips are marked — nothing can say which of the two moved.
- A clip the mixer recording does not cover is no longer presented as settled. Two-second clips, and anything shot before the recorder started or after it stopped.
- The condition of the board recording is reported before anything starts — clipping, or a level so low that raising it would lift its own noise into what you can hear.
- Every clip of a small camera is checked, not a sample.
- Clips the main method cannot place are now asked about directly, by a second method, and the two have to agree.
- Ambient audio is placed where it measures rather than where it was assumed to be.
- Short clips get placed. Clips of a few seconds, which nothing could align before.
- One undated file no longer costs a camera its sync.
- A marker you place yourself is cut on the beat. The tempo is measured around it, so a hand-placed drop gets a proper reel window.
- A reel can have its own length, set per drop.
- A module that was interrupted says so when you come back.
- Reel length is adjustable from inside the application.
- Reels can take their sound from the processed mix or the ambience, not only the raw board feed — which matters when the feed is the thing that was distorted.
- Every module reports how long it took, and an optional sound when it finishes.
Earlier builds were private, and are listed for completeness.
- Markers land on the drops they name.
- Where the mixer recording sits on the timeline is measured rather than assumed.
- Drop times can be checked against Resolve.
- Fixed a crash during drop detection on Apple Silicon.
- Drop detection no longer needs gigabytes of memory.
- Read Sync from Timeline. Align the material yourself — by hand or in another tool — and the application takes your alignment and carries on.
- A log you can reach, and Report a problem in the footer.
- Disk image fixes.
- First packaged build.
Questions: [email protected].
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