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- A sound when a download or export finishes, whether Craftora is in front or not. Windows
notifications from Craftora are silent now, so you hear only this sound. - Settings → Preferences: turn the finish sound on or off, and choose whether files imported
from this PC go straight onto the timeline or wait under In this project. - Time left for exports in the queue, worked out from how fast it's going.
- Filters, Effects and Transitions tabs on the right, each tile showing Craftora's cat doing
it. Drag one onto the timeline (or click it to put it at the playhead):- Filters (14 colour looks) and effects (fade in, fade out, flash, blur, mirror) become
blocks on a track above: dropped on a clip (or a piece of a split clip), one covers exactly
that clip; dropped on an empty spot, stretch it over the part you want. It changes every
picture under it, not text. The export draws exactly what the preview shows. - Slow motion, Speed up, Reverse: drop one on a clip (or a piece of a split clip) and it
changes. - Smooth slow-mo: half speed with new in-between frames made in the export (motion
interpolation), instead of each frame shown twice. It exports much more slowly than the other
effects (several seconds per second of slowed video), so split out just the part to slow first. - Transitions: click the + where two clips meet (after a split, say), then pick one; or
drop one on that join. A join with a transition shows a tick. - With a clip selected, clicking a tile puts it on that clip.
- Filters (14 colour looks) and effects (fade in, fade out, flash, blur, mirror) become
- Right-click a clip: Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete, Edit (Freeze frame, Reverse, Mirror, Rotate,
Crop), Export this clip, Replace clip, Open file location. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V work too. - Rotate a picture a quarter turn at a time (also in Edit).
- Cover on the main track: the project's picture, from the frame at the playhead or a
picture on your PC. Exported videos have it built in as their cover. - Every track works the same: any track takes videos, pictures, sound, text and effects, and
clips can be dragged onto any track. A new edit starts with one track; + Track adds one at
the top. Sound files get their own track under the main one, text goes above it. Every track
has the same lock, hide and mute buttons and a ⋯ menu (track height, waveform size, magnet,
remove). Hide hides a track's pictures, text and effects (its sound still plays); mute
silences it. Video clips show frames along them, with their name, length and sound wave. - The assistant works without an API key when you already have an AI on this PC. The
Assistant tab lists what it finds: the AI programs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and
Antigravity (each uses its own sign-in), and local AI servers such as Ollama and LM Studio. Or
type the address of any other AI server on this PC. Craftora runs AI programs in an empty
folder with their file and command tools blocked. They're slower than a key (about 10 to 35
seconds per reply). Switch between them and your API keys from the list at the top.
Changed
- Tracks start with the magnet off: clips move freely on every track, the main track too, and
filters, effects and pictures can go on any of them. Turn the magnet on in a track's ⋯ menu
(dropping a transition turns it on for that track). - The playhead goes anywhere on the timeline, past the last clip and on an empty timeline.
- Files imported from this PC wait under In this project instead of going onto the timeline:
drag them in or press their +. Fetched links still go straight onto the timeline. (Settings →
Preferences brings the old way back.) - Smooth slow-mo exports 2–3× faster: each smooth clip is made in up to 4 pieces at once (fewer
when memory is short), then joined frame-exactly. Reversed smooth clips, and frame rates that
don't divide evenly (24 fps exported at 30), still take the slower one-pass way. - The queue drop-down is smaller, and its progress line no longer wraps.
- Reverse is an effect only: drag Effects → Reverse onto a clip (the Edit panel's Reverse tick
box is gone). Right-click ▸ Edit ▸ Reverse still turns it off again. - Edit and Export are separate tabs on the right (they were one, Edit & export): Edit has the
selected clip's settings, Export the export settings and Add to queue (Ctrl+Enter still works
from anywhere). - The left sidebar and the right panel can be resized: drag their inner edge (a line shows
when you point at it). Craftora remembers the widths, and the middle always keeps room for the
preview (a narrow timeline shows its tools as icons). File details in the sidebar and panel tabs
stay on one line instead of wrapping. - The timeline looks like a familiar editor's: video clips are teal, with their name and
length on a bar along the top, frames in the middle and the sound wave along the bottom. The
main track is taller, with Cover at the right of its buttons and a line above it; tracks sit in
the middle of the timeline when there are only a few. The ruler has small ticks between its
times. Effect blocks are now blue. - Text is always drawn over pictures in exports, as the preview shows it, whatever track
it's on. - Settings → Links lists each website with when it was last used (opened in Craftora's
window, or fetched from with its login). The box for typing a website to open is gone; when a
link needs a login, Fetch still offers to open its page. Sign out of all stays. - Exporting an edited video that uses links first downloads each link whole (a Download for
editing in the Queue; the export says "Waiting for its video to download"), then exports from
the file. After it, the editor plays the downloaded file instead of streaming the link. - Fetch shows what a link holds before adding it: its picture, title, website, who posted it,
length, what's in it, qualities, size, captions and what happens when it's added, with a
website check (VirusTotal key) and Cancel. Nothing is added or downloaded until you click
Add to project. - Settings no longer has "New projects export as": every project starts as Video (MP4); pick
Audio only in Export when you want sound. - A video's picture can be changed: click its picture under In this project (left) and pick
an image on your PC. It shows there, on the project and in History, and stays after the video
is downloaded for editing (which used to swap in a frame of the video). - Downloads can be deleted from the Downloads page (the file goes to the Recycle Bin), not
only hidden. - Craftora opens maximized. Restore still gives the usual window.
- The preview can be made bigger or smaller: drag the bar between the preview and the
timeline (or focus it and press ↑/↓). Craftora remembers the size. - Every download is checked before Craftora keeps it (Download for editing, and exports cut
straight from a link): it must really be a video or sound file, and your PC's antivirus
(Microsoft Defender or the one you installed) scans it, as browsers do. A file that fails is
deleted and the Queue says why. - Websites in the sign-in window can't start other programs on your PC (meeting apps, app
store links, Windows tools…), not even from an ad inside the page; before, Windows asked
"Open …?" and one click started it.
Fixed
- Website checks use only your own VirusTotal key (Settings → Links); no key is built into
Craftora. - Downloads listed Windows' hidden files (desktop.ini, which can't be deleted there); hidden and
system files are left out now. - Clicking the empty space above or below the tracks didn't move the playhead (only the ruler
and the tracks did); now a click or drag anywhere on the timeline does. - The track lines on the left didn't meet the lines across the timeline (they were half a
scrollbar lower). - Slow motion, Speed up or Reverse on a picture now says pictures have no speed.
- The + on a join couldn't be clicked right after a split: the playhead stands exactly there
after splitting and took the click. The + is now on top. - Light glass: clip names on the timeline were hard to read (white on pale teal).
- Glass themes: the Queue's list was see-through, with the video showing sharply behind it.
- Editing felt slow, worst on fast screens: during playback the editor stopped and restarted
two of its listeners on every frame (hundreds of calls a second to the app's back end). It now
draws about twice as many frames a second. - A slow file from this PC said "Still loading from the website…": it now says Loading…; the
website wording is kept for links. - The playhead couldn't be dragged past the edge of the timeline: the timeline now scrolls
along, as it does when dragging a clip's edge. Its pin is bigger and easier to grab. - Exports with a Mirror effect block failed ("Invalid argument"): FFmpeg refused the way the
flip was limited to the block's time. - Some videos from a website had no picture while others from the same site did: Craftora
only tried the website's largest picture, which isn't there for every video (YouTube's, for
one), and gave up after one try. It now tries the video's other pictures in turn, and once
more after a dropped connection. - Fetching sometimes failed on a website that usually works: a moment's network trouble (a
timeout, a dropped connection, the site's server failing for a moment) now gets one more try. - An export deleted in File Explorer stayed in Exports and on Home: Craftora now drops it
when it starts or when you switch back to it (not for an unplugged drive: those stay listed).
The Downloads page reads its folder again then too. - Pausing an export from a link started its download over: the link's download is now a
Download for editing, which goes on from where it was. - Hovering a project or a History row whose video is a link didn't play it (only files on
this PC did): it now plays the link's light 480p stream, after a few seconds the first time. - Broken pictures on the timeline for some files from your PC (ones whose sound the preview
can't play as is, such as AC3): the clip's picture turned into a broken image once Craftora's
preview copy was ready. - A black flash where clips meet in the preview (after a split, a slow-motion part, or any
cut): the next clip only started looking for its first frame when its turn came. It now waits
on that frame beforehand. - Sound files showed a broken picture on their timeline clip and a black box under In this
project: they show a music note now. - Dropping a video on the text track did nothing: it now lands on a video track.
- The Duplicate button's icon was squashed to a sliver in Edit & export.
- Hints in link, file name and key boxes were in the code font; they now match the rest of
the app (what you type there stays in the code font).
Download
Get Craftora_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. Installed copies update themselves.
The installer isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say the publisher is unknown. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
Bundled software
- FFmpeg (GPL v3):
ffmpeg version n9.0.2-47-gb204e94e90-20261104 Copyright (c) 2000-2026 the FFmpeg developers. Its source code and build scripts are attached to this release. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md. - yt-dlp (Unlicense).
- Deno (MIT), which yt-dlp uses for YouTube, and whisper.cpp (MIT), which makes captions from the sound.