v0.7.0

Features

• Reel Companion: a menu bar app that shows what each run is doing (#89)
• A capture keeps out apps that start in the middle of a take (#87)
• A run says what it is doing, as JSON lines, while it does it (#86)
• A line with markers is voiced whole, each marker found at its pause (#88)
• An attached app ripples where another reel clicked it (#83)
• reel render says what it is doing as it goes (#82)

Fixes

• A step already said is no deadlock: a track that hasn't looked yet isn't stuck (#91)
• Click ripples show on light windows (#84)
• Tracks are drawn together no wider than the outputs keep (#81)
• Attach sees an app as it opens, not once the reel that opened it is done (#80)

Docs

• The README says reel records code and the command line, and tracks (#79)
• Landing: the showcase as the hero, and Reels together (#85)

Maintenance

• The release ships Reel Companion beside reel (#90)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.

v0.6.0

Features

• A reel of tracks can be a scene in a sequence (#70)
• Set Cursor off leaves the cursor out of the video (#72)

Fixes

• Wait for's timing test measures against the channel, not the clock (#78)
• A /regex/ is one token, so " as " inside it is not a step name (#69)
• Scenes are joined no wider than the outputs keep (#75)
• An unframed web take is the page alone, with square corners (#74)
• Speed and Hide in a track are refused: they are the director's (#71)
• Joining scenes keeps their colours: no Core Animation without titles (#77)
• Follow's timing test allows a slow machine (#76)
• Open of a new #fragment on the same page scrolls instead of waiting for a load (#73)
• A code screen's Wait for counts the wait once (#68)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.

v0.5.0

Features

• Directing: the director's moves over a reel of tracks (#66)
• Attach: a track recording an app something else opens (#64)
• Follow: a code screen marks the line of the reel it shows as that reel runs (#62)
• Tracks: several subjects recorded at once in one reel, drawn together (#61)
• Code screens record in two passes; reel scripts are coloured (#60)
• Reels together: named steps, and one reel waiting for another's (#59)
• Docs look like the landing page (#67)

Fixes

• The landing logo draws its play button again (#65)
• A code screen in real time is never behind real time (#63)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.

v0.4.0

Features

• Code screens: Morph, one version of a file turning into the next (#57)
• Code screens: Diff, two versions of a file as one (#55)
• Code screens: moving between files with transitions, Split, Peek and Link (#54)
• Scenes: Include joins reels into one video (#52)
• Terminal screens: Screen terminal records a real shell in a terminal of reel's own (#51)
• Code screens: Screen code walks through source in an editor of reel's own (#50)
• Named voices: a second speaker with Set Voice <name> and Say@<name> (#45)
• Build and lint with mise's Swift 6.4.1, not the Command Line Tools' (#42)
• Intro and Outro without a title: a background video on its own (#32)

Fixes

• Terminal test: measure a quiet wait from the output, not from the wait (#56)
• Terminal waits look past the command line after a return (#53)
• Chromium: wait for each resize to land, and check the last one (#48)
• Click: the cursor settles before it presses (#46)
• Assembler: the instruction spans the composition to the tick (#44)
• RenderTests renders losslessly, as reel does, so it passes on macOS 27 (#43)
• voicebox: speak with the engine the profile names (#39)
• Chromium never asks for the keychain: --use-mock-keychain (#38)
• WebKit keeps nothing between takes, as Chromium doesn't (#37)
• Type "…\n" presses return: \n and \t in quoted text are newline and tab (#34)
• Presets join : continuation lines too (#33)

Docs

• Web demo on Wikimedia Commons, with sound, on the landing page (#49)
• Hero demo about reel: two voices, the drums muted and brought back (#47)
• Landing: a GIF preview in every feature card (#41)
• Site and docs: AI voices, your own intro videos, skipping the setup, one reel for every outlet (#40)
• Website, docs and the designed brand: a landing page, docs-builder docs, a new README (#35)

Maintenance

• Release: test as CI does, one at a time and with a limit (#58)
• Call them reels: the noun everywhere a person reads it (#36)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.

v0.3.0

Breaking

• Scripts are .reel files now: rename demo.tape to demo.reel. Any other extension is refused (#21, #26).

Features

• Conditions: values that differ by profile or Output type, in one line (#24)
• Presets, // paths and Profile blocks: share settings and define profiles once (#23)
• Profiles: render every Output for github, social, feed and more, fitted under their sizes (#22)
• Control how outputs are compressed: Set Quality, Codec, VideoWidth and GifColors (#20)

Fixes

• Count the source's frames in the frame-rate test instead of assuming 30 (#27)
• Never crash or hang when the encoder refuses a setting or the writer fails (#28)
• Leave no .sb- file next to the last movie a render writes (#25)

Maintenance

• Remove an unused closure the Set refactor left in the parse loop (#31)

• CI: run the tests one at a time (#30)

• CI: print each test as it starts and ends, so a hang names itself (#29)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.

v0.2.0

Features

• Demos: reel records its own, starting with the Musicbox hero (#19)
• Frame recordings: Output@16:9, @1:1, @9:16, @wxh, Set Background, Set Padding (#16)

Fixes

• Recording an app: wait for its Accessibility tree, and keep a resized window on its display (#18)
• A bundle id may end in .app: a path is what has a slash (#17)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.

v0.1.0

• release-drafter: read pull requests, which a private repository needs for the draft (#15)
• Release pipeline: signed, notarized reel-arm64.zip and a Homebrew cask (#14)
• A tape starts with Launch or Open; settings for the other kind are refused (#13)
• WebKit by default for web tapes; Set Browser chooses, or refuses (#12)
• reel doctor reports the browser web tapes use (#11)
• Web pages: Open <url>, driven over DevTools, with a drawn cursor (#10)
• Intro and outro: title cards over a colour, image or video, with transitions (#9)
• Ease zooms: Zoom@<easing>,<duration>, Set ZoomEasing and Set ZoomDuration (#8)
• Zoom, speed and trim: Zoom (locked on an element), Speed, Hide and Show (#7)
• Narrate demos: Say, Say@over, [markers], voices, ducking and subtitles (#6)
• Fix CI on main after the GIF merge (#5)
• Write GIFs: Output demo.gif (#4)
• Draw captions, key badges and click ripples over the take (#3)
• Drive the app from the tape: click, type, keys, scroll, wait (#2)
• Record an app's window with its sound from a tape (#1)

Install: brew install --cask mpdreamz/tap/reel, then reel doctor.