v0.1.3

ClipCat 0.1.3 fixes the AI editor on the Claude API, lets a project hold several music tracks, adds Play from the beginning, and makes every change one undo step. If you have 0.1.2, ClipCat updates itself.

Once 0.1.3 saves a project, 0.1.2 can't open it, because a project's music is now a list of tracks.

AI editor

• Claude API runs work again. Every Suggest an edit run was refused with a 400. (#64)
• An old failure no longer stays on screen after a newer run worked. This is why OpenAI and OpenRouter looked broken when they had finished. (#64)
• A failure names the job, the AI and the model, on screen, in the log and in the project's history. Before, every failure was logged as Claude. A finished run says what it came to. (#64)
• OpenAI and OpenRouter ask once more when the connection drops mid-request, and the error says why it dropped. (#64)
• OpenRouter lists only models that read images and use tools. A saved model that's no longer listed has to be picked again, and runs don't use it meanwhile. (#64)

Music

• A project can have several music tracks. One plays under the whole video, and others go on the words you pick, by hand or by the AI editor. Old projects open with their one track. (#64)
• Exports no longer hang on music. (#64)

Editing

• Play from the beginning: a transport button, Enter, and a Playback menu item jump to the first kept moment and play. Enter still does its own job in boxes, menus and dialogs. (#65)
• Every change is one undo step: word fixes, captions, speed, shape, framing, chapters, the write-up, the thumbnail, music, and removing media or music. One slider drag is one step. (#65)
• Exported captions are the same size as in the preview, so they export bigger than before. Boxed word-by-word captions are one clean box. (#64)
• Blurred bars are smooth in the preview, and titles ending in a full stop no longer give ..mp4. (#64)

Settings and look

• Settings has one AI models page holding the AI editor and the coding agents. The coding agents part keeps Things to ask and a link to the full guide. (#64)
• The tool tabs have their tape-strip look back, and the transcript's action row uses arrows instead of a scrollbar. (#64)
• Help search puts the exact phrase first. (#64)

Imports

• Videos dragged in from Photos are copied into the project, because macOS deletes the file Photos hands over. Older projects with such a video export from the preview copy. (#64)

Builds

• Apple Silicon builds run on macOS 15, because GitHub retires its macOS 14 machines on November 2. (#64)

What's Changed

• Release 0.1.3: fix the Claude API and stale AI errors, merge AI settings, add multi-track music, Play from the beginning and full Undo by @dqships in #64

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

v0.1.2

ClipCat 0.1.2 adds an AI editor page in Settings with OpenAI and OpenRouter, help pages, a fuller menu bar, a reworked Settings window, more coding agents, and more control over thumbnails, captions and the transcript. If you have 0.1.1, ClipCat updates itself.

Editing

• The preview has ClipCat's own playback controls. (#45)
• Retype a word the transcript got wrong. (#50)
• A switch hides cuts from the transcript and the strip, so you can read what's left. (#51)
• A wide video can fill the sides of a vertical clip with a blurred copy of itself. (#52)
• Rename projects, open a project menu, keep the tool tab you were on, pick caption colours, and see the history of edits you accepted or turned down. (#49)

Thumbnails

• The thumbnail takes the video's shape, and you can move and resize its text. (#47)
• The exported video carries the thumbnail as its cover art. (#46)
• Thumbnail text has eight more colours, picked from a menu. (#54, #56)

Transcription

• Transcription settings: pick the language and the speech model for new projects. The list of languages is published in the help pages. (#48)

Help and menus

• Help pages for every part of the app, in a Help window and a Help menu, and on the site at /docs. (#53, #55)
• The menu bar has File, Edit, View and Playback menus. (#58)

AI editor

• Settings has an AI editor page, first in the list. Pick the AI that suggests edits, its model, and your keys. Claude Code and Codex run on your plan, with the same install and update line as on Coding agents. (#63)
• Bring your own OpenAI or OpenRouter key, as well as a Claude API key. Each key is checked once, then kept encrypted on your computer. The model list comes from that key. (#63)
• The Edit tab keeps the Use picker and shows which model runs. AI settings opens the page, or Set up when the AI can't run yet. (#63)

Settings and coding agents

• Settings is split into pages: Coding agents, Transcription, Updates and Troubleshooting. The list on the left says where each one stands. Check for Updates opens it on Updates. (#60)
• Connect ClipCat to Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, LM Studio and Gemini CLI, as well as Claude Code, Codex and the Claude desktop app. Gemini CLI installs and updates from Settings. For any other MCP app, Settings shows the setup to copy. (#59)

Builds

• Vercel skips preview builds on agent branches and on changes that don't touch the site. (#57)
• A Mac build stops as soon as signing fails, and the staple check is retried until Apple's ticket shows up. (#62)

What's Changed

• Add ClipCat's own playback controls to the preview by @dqships in #45
• Give the thumbnail the video's shape, and let the text move and resize by @dqships in #47
• Rename projects, project menu, sticky tool tabs, caption colours, decision history by @dqships in #49
• Put the thumbnail in the exported video as its cover art by @dqships in #46
• Add a switch that hides cuts from the transcript and the strip by @dqships in #51
• Let a wide video fill the sides of a vertical clip with the clip blurred by @dqships in #52
• Let the user retype a misheard transcript word by @dqships in #50
• Add transcription settings and publish the language list by @dqships in #48
• Add help pages for every part of the app, served at /docs by @dqships in #53
• Give thumbnail text eight more colours, picked from swatches by @dqships in #54
• Add a Help window and a Help menu by @dqships in #55
• Skip Vercel previews on agent branches, and builds that don't touch the site by @dqships in #57
• Put thumbnail text colours back in a menu by @dqships in #56
• Fill in the menu bar: File, Edit, View and Playback by @dqships in #58
• Connect ClipCat to Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, LM Studio and Gemini CLI by @dqships in #59
• Split Settings into pages with a list that shows where each stands by @dqships in #60
• Bump the version to 0.1.2 and add its release notes by @dqships in #61
• Set up the AI editor in Settings, and add OpenAI and OpenRouter by @dqships in #63
• Fail the Mac build when signing fails, retry the staple check, and add #62/#63 to the 0.1.2 notes by @dqships in #62

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

v0.1.1

What's Changed

• Redesign the site in Next.js around the timeline by @dqships in #27
• Show only ClipCat and Applications in the Mac DMG window by @dqships in #28
• Explain how to use ClipCat from Claude and Codex by @dqships in #29
• Dock the transcript and controls left, right or below the preview by @dqships in #30
• Bring back the stock DMG background, keep the extra files hidden by @dqships in #34
• Make agent Connect ask first and prove the connection by @dqships in #36
• Rewrite the site copy in plain language by @dqships in #38
• Install and update the Claude Code and Codex CLIs from Settings (includes #31) by @dqships in #37
• Start ClipCat in the background for MCP agents by @dqships in #33
• Make the app's empty state and errors say what to do next by @dqships in #39
• Build and release ClipCat for Intel Macs by @dqships in #35
• Rename confusing tool labels and say why tools are unavailable by @dqships in #41
• Split the tools into Edit, Look, Publish and Export tabs by @dqships in #42
• Bump the version to 0.1.1 by @dqships in #40
• Point the site and the app's agent guide link at clipcat.followusai.com by @dqships in #43
• Keep retrying the Mac staple step for minutes, not seconds by @dqships in #44

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

What's Changed

• Add ClipCat logo, app icons and DESIGN.md by @dqships in #1
• Phase 0: Electron shell, typed IPC, token-only UI and bundled ffmpeg by @dqships in #2
• Milestone 1a: import, prep, transcription and silence detection by @dqships in #3
• Stop whisper dropping a sentence that comes before a long pause by @dqships in #4
• Milestone 1b: AI cut proposals with Claude Code by @dqships in #5
• Milestone 1c: transcript editor and preview by @dqships in #6
• Milestone 1d: captions and 16:9 / 9:16 export by @dqships in #7
• Milestone 2a: Codex as a second AI editor by @dqships in #8
• Milestone 2b: transcript corrections, dictionary and director requests by @dqships in #9
• Milestone 2c: long-video export, GPU encoders, cancel and speed by @dqships in #10
• Milestone 2d: Claude API with the user's own key by @dqships in #11
• Milestone 2e: Parakeet on Apple Silicon by @dqships in #12
• Milestone 3a: shorts as their own vertical projects by @dqships in #13
• Milestone 3b: the vertical crop follows the speaker by @dqships in #14
• Milestone 3c: punch-ins by @dqships in #15
• Milestone 4a: b-roll by @dqships in #16
• Milestone 4b: motion slides by @dqships in #17
• Milestone 4c: sound effects and music by @dqships in #18
• Milestone 5a: chapters, description and article by @dqships in #19
• Milestone 5b: thumbnail editor with subject cutout by @dqships in #20
• Milestone 5c: external MCP server and installer by @dqships in #21
• Milestone 5d: timeline export for Final Cut, Premiere and Resolve by @dqships in #22
• Phase 6: record camera, screen and voice takes into a project by @dqships in #23
• Phase 7: releases, auto-update, fuses and a diagnostics bundle by @dqships in #24
• Marketing site: seven server-rendered pages with Markdown for agents by @dqships in #25
• Fix what the whole-repo code review found by @dqships in #26

New Contributors

• @dqships made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dqships/video-editor/commits/v0.1.0