WildScale 1.3.0

WildScale now runs on Windows and on Intel Macs. This release adds a styled installer, a monitor for the service and a Low latency mode for older computers.

Download

Windows: download WildScaleSetup-1.3.0.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins in 26.5.2 and later, or Window > Extensions in 25.0 to 26.5.1.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Mac: quit Premiere Pro with Cmd+Q, then download WildScale-1.3.0-mac-x86_64.pkg below and open it. It asks for your administrator password. Start Premiere Pro and open the panel from Window > Extensions.

The package is not notarized by Apple yet, so macOS may refuse to open it. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

New

• Mac version: the panel, the analysis service and the installer now run on Intel Macs.
• WildScale Monitor: a film strip in the Windows system tray or the Mac menu bar. It is dim while the service sleeps, solid when it is awake, and rolls while a job runs. Click it to start or stop the service or open the last error.
• Low latency: the lightest mode in Settings. It checks the fewest frames, skips the motion scan and uses two processor threads, so Premiere stays responsive. In one test on a 2014 MacBook Pro it finished about 40% sooner than Balanced.
• Styled installer: Setup now shows what it installs and how to read the monitor.

Fixed

• Windows: a second copy of the launcher can no longer share the port with the first.

Known limits

• This release has not had a full Rescale run in Premiere Pro on either system. Please report anything that looks wrong.
• The Low latency timing comes from the Mac test and has not been measured on Windows.
• Low latency can miss short titles and animated changes inside a clip, so check the result.
• On Windows, the percentage shows when you point at the monitor icon.
• The Mac version was tested with Premiere Pro 26.0 on macOS 15 on one Intel MacBook Pro. Apple silicon Macs are not tested.
• On a Mac, FFmpeg is not included. Without it, a built-in decoder finds the cuts, and each clip is framed as a whole. With Homebrew, run brew install ffmpeg.
• Text detection runs on the processor on a Mac.

Requirements

• Windows: Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 or later, on Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
• Mac: Adobe Premiere Pro 26.0, on macOS 13 or later with an Intel processor

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.2.0

This release brings together everything since 1.1.0: automatic canvas fixes, rules per reference, the Mr.Rescale preset and support for every Premiere Pro from 25.0.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.2.0.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins in 26.5.2 and later, or Window > Extensions in 25.0 to 26.5.1.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Highlights

• Mr.Rescale: a learned preset with 260 framed shots, selected by default. Your references always come first.
• Black bars: WildScale measures bars inside your footage and adds a Crop effect, only on the sides that have them.
• Split screens: the crop stays off the seam. Show both sides with blur, or follow the person's side.
• Rules per reference: each reference decides which graphics may show, and whether it may zoom out to clear them.
• Reference list: click a reference to jump to its clip. The list is saved with the sequence.
• Mark editing: move and resize marks with handles, nudge them with the arrow keys, or type exact pixel values.
• Learning from hand edits: clips you move by hand are learned on the next Rescale.
• Own cut detection: it needs no FFmpeg, shows progress and can be stopped. Premiere's detection only runs when you tick it.
• Premiere Pro 25.0 and later: every version is now covered, including 26.0 to 26.5.1.

Fixed

• Titles, graphics and nested sequences no longer stop Rescale. They stay as they are, and the report counts them.
• Service errors now say what went wrong, and the last one is kept in last-error.txt in %LOCALAPPDATA%\WildScale.
• Videos behind a mount point Windows does not trust no longer stop Rescale with WinError 448.
• Setup stops the WildScale service first, so updating no longer fails with DeleteFile failed; code 5.

Good to know

• Your first Rescale after this update analyzes every clip again.
• In 25.0 to 26.5.1 you cannot color single clips, and clips of another resolution stay as they are.
• Graphics rules cover titles, text and text-heavy pages. For a logo or a picture without text, use Must hide or Must show.
• Bars must be black. Gray or blurred side panels are not found yet.
• This release has not had a full Rescale run in Premiere Pro. Please report anything that looks wrong.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 or later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.9

This update stops a system check from blocking Rescale, and service errors now say what went wrong.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.9.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins in 26.5.2 and later, or Window > Extensions in 25.0 to 26.5.1.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

New

• Mr.Rescale: a learned preset with 260 framed shots, selected by default. Your references always come first.

Fixed

• Rescale no longer stops if the system check fails on a locked-down machine or on unusual graphics card names.
• Rescale no longer stops if your marks cannot be saved for later. They still work for that run.
• Rescale no longer stops with WinError 448 when a video sits behind a mount point Windows does not trust. Motion scanning is skipped for that file.
• Setup now stops the WildScale service first, so updating no longer fails with DeleteFile failed; code 5.
• Titles, graphics and nested sequences no longer stop Rescale. These clips stay as they are, and the report counts them.
• Premiere Pro 25.0 to 26.5.1: clips of another resolution no longer stop Rescale. The most common resolution is used, and the rest stay as they are.
• Internal Server Error is replaced by the real reason, such as the failing step and the error.

Good to know

• WildScale keeps the last service error in last-error.txt in %LOCALAPPDATA%\WildScale. Please attach it when you report a problem.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 or later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.8

Cut selected clips now always uses WildScale's own detection.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.8.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins in 26.5.2 and later, or Window > Extensions in 25.0 to 26.5.1.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Changed

• Premiere's Scene Edit Detection no longer opens by itself. It only runs when you tick Use Premiere's own detection instead.
• When detection cannot run, the status text says why: the service is off, a file cannot be read, or the clip has no video file.
• When no cuts are found, the status text shows how many frames and seconds were read, so you can see if only part of a clip was selected.
• Scene Edit Detection on an uncut clip in Rescale now uses WildScale's own detection too.

New

• Marks in Preview and selection can now be moved and resized with handles, nudged with the arrow keys, or set to exact pixel values. You can also switch a mark between Must show and Must hide.

Good to know

• If the status says the service is not running, open WildScale Service from the Start menu and try again.
• This was checked with a stand-in for Premiere and with the test suite, not in a full Premiere run.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 or later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.7

WildScale now loads in Premiere Pro 26.0 to 26.5.1.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.7.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins in 26.5.2 and later, or Window > Extensions in 25.0 to 26.5.1.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Fixed

• Premiere Pro 26.0 to 26.5.1 had no WildScale panel. These versions now use the panel under Window > Extensions.

Good to know

• In 25.0 to 26.5.1 you cannot color single clips on the timeline.
• That panel was tested in Premiere Pro 25.0 and 26.5.2. It has not been run in 26.0 itself.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 or later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.6

This update gives the WildScale service and launcher their own icon.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.6.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins, or Window > Extensions in Premiere Pro 25.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Changed

• The launcher and the service now have the WildScale icon with a gear, so you can tell them apart in Windows.

Good to know

• The plugin works as it did in 1.1.5.
• Windows may keep showing an old icon for a while, because it stores icons in a cache.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 to 25.9, or 26.5.2 and later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.5

WildScale now finds the problems an editor would fix by hand: black bars, split screens and graphics cut off by the canvas.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.5.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins, or Window > Extensions in Premiere Pro 25.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

New

• Black bars: WildScale measures bars inside your footage and adds a Crop effect, only on the sides that have them.
• Split screens: the crop stays off the seam. Show both sides with blur, or follow the person's side.
• Rules per reference: each reference decides which graphics may show, and whether it may zoom out to clear them.
• Reference list: click a reference to jump to its clip. The list is saved with the sequence.
• Learning from hand edits: clips you move by hand are learned on the next Rescale, without pressing Learn.

Fixed

• A clip you choose as a reference now always follows your choice, even when it looks like another reference.
• Rescale no longer stops with Cannot read properties of null on clips Premiere has not finished placing.
• Premiere Pro 25: Rescale no longer stops with Clip not found when a copy lands a frame away.
• Premiere Pro 25: back blur copies no longer lay the sound of the whole file on the track below.

Good to know

• Your first Rescale after this update analyzes every clip again.
• Graphics rules cover titles, text and text-heavy pages. For a logo or a picture without text, use Must hide or Must show.
• Bars must be black. Gray or blurred side panels are not found yet.
• Crop has been checked on real footage for its measurements, but this release has not had a full run in Premiere Pro. Please report anything that looks wrong.
• Coloring clips lays them down again, which clears other effects. WildScale adds its Crop back after that.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 to 25.9, or 26.5.2 and later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.4

This update fixes clips that come back with no cuts on some graphics cards.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.4.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins, or Window > Extensions in Premiere Pro 25.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Fixed

• If the graphics card finds no cuts, WildScale reads the clip again on the processor before it gives up.
• Premiere's own detection now gets more time to finish on long clips.
• When no cuts are found, the status text says how many frames were read and which decoder read them.

Good to know

• Tested in Premiere Pro 25.0 on an 8-minute clip, with and without FFmpeg. Both runs made 268 cuts.
• A clip without cuts now takes longer, because it is read again.
• Motion detection still needs FFmpeg. Without it, each clip is framed as a whole.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 to 25.9, or 26.5.2 and later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.3

Cut detection no longer needs FFmpeg.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.3.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins, or Window > Extensions in Premiere Pro 25.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Fixed

• Cut selected clips now works on computers without FFmpeg. WildScale uses a decoder built into its service, on your graphics card when it can.
• If FFmpeg is installed but fails, the built-in decoder takes over.
• WildScale now finds FFmpeg in common install folders, even when the service has an older system PATH.
• Premiere Pro 25: a clip with a tiny speed difference is no longer skipped.
• Premiere Pro 25: if the razor makes no cuts, Premiere's own detection takes over.
• When Premiere's detection takes over, the status text says why.

Good to know

• The built-in decoder is slower than FFmpeg, and the panel shows its progress.
• Motion detection still needs FFmpeg. Without it, each clip is framed as a whole.
• The changes for Premiere Pro 25 are not fully tested yet.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 to 25.9, or 26.5.2 and later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.

WildScale 1.1.2

This update makes Cut selected clips reliable on a single clip.

Download

Download WildScaleSetup-1.1.2.exe below and run it. You do not need administrator rights. Restart Premiere Pro, then open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins, or Window > Extensions in Premiere Pro 25.

The installer has a self-signed signature from Drugela, so Windows may show a warning or an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Fixed

• Cut detection no longer looks frozen. The panel shows progress, and Stop ends the search for cuts.
• A decoder that hangs is closed after 30 seconds, and the next one takes over.
• Premiere's own Scene Edit Detection now starts by itself when WildScale's detection cannot run, fails, or finds no cuts. You no longer need to tick Use Premiere's own detection.
• A clip with no cuts now shows a clear message and stays whole.
• A selected clip with no readable media file no longer causes a service error.
• Premiere Pro 25: detection now uses the clips you selected, not every clip on V1.

Good to know

• When WildScale finds no cuts, the check by Premiere takes at least 20 seconds, and longer on long clips.
• Stop does not stop Premiere's detection or cutting that has already started.
• The changes for Premiere Pro 25 are not fully tested yet.

Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 to 25.9, or 26.5.2 and later
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
• FFmpeg on your system PATH for frame-exact cut detection

This is a pre-release. To report a problem, include the status text from the panel and email drugela.music@gmail.com.