Handoff v0.5.0

What's new, as a short video: Handoff-0.5.0-whats-new.mp4 below.

New: your organisation's look on every export

Settings → Branding makes guides look like your own documents: an accent colour, text colours, the click marker's colour, fonts for headings and text (four built in, or import your own), a logo, your organisation's name ("Recorded 3 Nov by Acme Ltd") and a footer line, with a live preview, warnings for hard-to-read colours and a sample PDF.

• Save as many brands as you need, one per client for example. The ticked one is used for every export; the Brand menu next to Export picks another for one export.
• It reaches the web page, PDF and Word file, the Markdown and Notion import, the screenshots' click marker, procedures, handover packs, the guide-check report, the video overview, and the Follow window (the guide's logo and accent). Handoff's own window keeps its look.
• Share a brand with your team as a .handoff-brand file; brand files in the shared library folder are offered in everyone's Settings.

The video overview, improved

• Choose its length: Short (the steps always done, about 45 seconds), Standard (about a minute) or Full (every step), with an estimate before it is made; Change length makes it again with the same captions.
• Step titles of up to seven words are now the captions as they are; the local model only shortens longer ones. A test on real guides showed the model's rewrites of short titles were worse than the titles.
• Apple's on-device model now writes captions: it closed its JSON with the wrong bracket, so every caption fell back to the title. Handoff now mends that, which also protects guide steps it writes.
• The caption editor's fields were squeezed in the shared library and hidden behind the action bar on the Review screen; Edit captions now opens on the first caption.
• Tested making real videos on Windows and Linux in CI, at every length.

Also

• The window's margins are even on Macs that show scroll bars.
• The Linux .deb and .rpm are back: the bundled video encoder is now handoff-ffmpeg, so it no longer clashes with a system ffmpeg.
• A branded web page stays readable in dark mode.
• Just after the menu bar menu has been used, macOS holds Control-Option-N back from Handoff for a moment: the note window still opens and asks for a click in the box, and that click now goes straight to the box.

Installers

macOS, Apple silicon	Handoff_0.5.0_aarch64.dmg: signed and notarised by Apple. Tested end to end.
macOS, Intel	Handoff_0.5.0_x64.dmg: signed and notarised by Apple.
Windows	Preview: built and unit-tested (including making videos), not yet tried by hand.
Linux	Preview: .deb, .rpm and AppImage, built and unit-tested (including making videos), not yet tried by hand.

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