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Premation 0.8.2

Sound, brought up to the level of the rest of the app. The audio engine was already strong — multi-voice playback, varispeed, silence removal, ducking, beat detection — but almost none of it had a front door. This release builds the front door, and closes the gap to After Effects 26.3 on audio.

An Audio panel that actually mixes

  • Ctrl+4 opens a real mixer: a VU meter with clipping indicators and peak hold, and two faders that change the selected layer's level and pan — not just another meter to look at.
  • Units in decibels or percent, and an adjustable slider minimum.

Levels and pan you can keyframe

  • An audio layer's Level now has a stopwatch in the inspector, like every other property. Layers made before this keep the exact loudness they had.
  • Pan is new, per layer, and keyframeable — panning used to mean applying the Stereo Mixer effect.
  • Fade In and Fade Out, one click each, written as ordinary keyframes you can reshape afterwards. They leave an existing duck alone.

Four new audio effects

Matching After Effects 26.3:

  • Compressor — threshold, ratio, knee, attack, release, makeup gain and an output limiter.
  • Distortion — six characters (soft clip, hard clip, two saturations, tube, fuzz) plus a bitcrusher.
  • De-esser — tames harsh "s" sounds, with a Sibilance Only mode for finding the right frequency.
  • Noise Gate — pulls a layer down wherever it is quieter than a threshold: room tone between phrases, hiss under a take.

Existing effects got deeper too: Parametric EQ now has three bands, Tone plays five notes and white noise, Flange & Chorus has real multiple voices, Reverb gained Diffusion and Brightness, and Modulator separates vibrato from tremolo.

Audio visualizers that can follow a path

  • Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform can run along a mask path or around a circle — the spectrum ring around a logo is finally possible.
  • Both also gained side options, softness, hue interpolation and an adjustable analysis window; the Waveform adds Displayed Samples and Mono/Left/Right.
  • The Audio Waveform effect had never drawn anything at all. It does now.

Working with sound in the timeline

  • A speaker switch on every layer, beside the eye. Alt-click a solo switch to solo just that layer.
  • L shows a layer's audio levels; LL shows its waveform, on the same time axis as the keyframes above it. (L previously did nothing.)
  • Audio-only preview: Numpad . plays the sound from the playhead in real time without drawing the picture, so a long composition auditions at true speed. Numpad * drops a marker while it plays — tap along to the music.
  • Preferences ▸ Audio: choose which device previews play through, and trade latency for stability on a busy machine.

Also in this release

Composition navigation and Pre-compose, the Layer viewer, the mini-flowchart, and fixes to mask keyframe timing, motion-blur frame rounding and projected shadows.

Full list in CHANGELOG.md.

Installing

Windows: this build is not signed. SmartScreen will show "Windows protected your PC" — choose More info > Run anyway.

macOS: this build is not signed or notarized. macOS will refuse to open it on first launch. Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, find the blocked app, and choose Open Anyway. Control-clicking the app does NOT work on macOS Sequoia or later.

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