OpenVids 0.5.1

OpenVids 0.5.1 — project tabs, # project mentions, design systems and voiceover.

The features of the 0.5.1 betas are now part of the stable version and are on for everyone. If you installed a beta, this release replaces it; you can turn "Get beta versions" off in Settings › General › Updates.

Project tabs

• Several projects open at once in one window, each in its own tab with its own editor server and agent. The tab strip sits under the title bar; Cmd+W closes a tab, Ctrl+Tab switches, the Projects tab is always first.
• Closing a tab that is rendering or running an agent turn asks first. Renders from all tabs share the render queue and run one at a time. Opening a project that is already open switches to its tab; a soft limit asks before the 7th tab.
• Every project tab has a Fork button next to its close button: the fork is made in the background with progress and Cancel on the Projects page, then opens in a new tab.

Attach other projects with #

• Type # in the chat composer to attach another project: pick the project, then the parts the agent may use (renders, music, other audio, images, video, story, or all).
• The agent sees what those parts contain and copies only the files it uses into assets/from//, with their license records. Projects or parts not attached in that chat stay out of reach.

Design systems

• A design system is a saved style — colours, fonts, type scale, transitions and motion rules — kept in your library and shown as a page you can preview.
• Create one from a brief, from the current project, from a video, from a website or from another project (Projects page › Design systems › Create, the design button in the editor toolbar, or ask in the chat). Fonts are downloaded with it, so renders never need the network.
• Attaching a system copies it into the project's design/ folder; it does not repaint existing compositions. When the library has a newer version, the project shows "Update design system" and changes only when you click it.

Voiceover

• Ask in the chat for a narration: the agent opens a voice setup card, you pick and tune a voice while listening to a sample of your own script, then the agent writes the lines, plays the first one in the chat, and generates the rest after "Continue". The lines land on the timeline in a Voiceover audio group, and the music is ducked under them.
• Providers, each with your own key (Settings › Voice, in the editor and on the Projects page): Google Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, and your own OpenAI-compatible server (its address is set on the Projects page only). Keys stay on this computer in an owner-only file and are never shown again. OpenVids ships no shared key; the lines you generate are sent to the provider you chose.
• Every paid run asks first with the number of lines, length and estimated cost; identical requests come from a local cache and are never paid twice.
• Voiceover tab and clip inspector: edit a line's text, switch between takes without paying again, Regenerate, add lines to the timeline, carve the music under the voice, and add captions from the voiceover (the words of your script, timed by the recording).
• Story Mode: a chapter can carry a narration text; Build Story places each chapter's voice at its start, and narrated chapters get their captions from the voice.
• Gemini was tested with live accounts; the OpenAI, OpenRouter and ElevenLabs connectors follow their documentation and have not been run against live accounts yet. Please report problems with Help › Report a Problem.

Changes

• Opening a project always opens it in a tab; Show All Projects and the Projects button in the editor switch to the Projects tab and leave your projects open.