v3.6.0 — Quality × Length, the Native tier, and a UI that only shows what your engine can do

Pick quality and length separately

Hailuo H3 renders used to come from a fixed menu of six presets, which quietly made most combinations impossible — the best canvas could only ever produce 5-second clips. Now there are two axes:

Quality — Draft 640×384 · Standard 768×448 · High 1024×576 (true 16:9) · Native 1344×768
Length — 3s · 5s · 10s · 15s

Every cell is renderable. High at 10s and Native at any length were previously inexpressible.

The estimates are computed, not looked up. A cost model fitted to real renders on an M4 Max prices each combination, and the two top canvases carry measured end-to-end Turbo numbers. Sample, with the Turbo adapter installed:

	5s	10s
High 1024×576 (16:9)	~8-9 min	~17 min
Native 1344×768	~20 min	~38 min

The engine picker is where it belongs

It moved out of the middle of the Video form into the top right, as a segmented control with its own mark per engine, separated from the status pills by a hairline — choice on one side, state on the other. It renders from an engine registry, so adding a third engine is one table entry rather than a UI rewrite.

Every control now belongs to an engine

The H3 surface was advertising things H3 cannot do. Gone when H3 is active: Character, FFLF, Keyframes, Extend, Remix, the character strips, Enhance (it rewrites prompts in LTX's style and destroys H3's dialogue tags) and Avoid (H3 is guidance-distilled — there is no negative prompt, so the field did nothing). In its place, a line explaining the in-prompt approach that does work.

Also fixed:

• Load Params restores the engine and its settings, not just geometry — loading an LTX clip while H3 was open used to leave LTX dimensions under an H3 tier strip. It now confirms visibly instead of succeeding in silence.
• Speed prints two comparable absolute times (Standard 8 min / Turbo 4 min) instead of a sampler description next to a tilde that read as a minus sign.
• Export is called Upscale, Steps is back on the surface where you can find it, and Turbo is the default when the adapter is installed.
• A true 16:9 canvas exports to 720p and 1080p as a pure scale — no letterbox bars — and every tier states its aspect out loud.

Install no longer loops forever

If an install failed, Phosphene retried it automatically, forever, showing shell restarts instead of the error. It now stops after a failed attempt, says what broke, and offers Reset. This has been present in every release since v2.0.0 — thanks to @natxou for the screenshot that made it findable.

Also: the header badge has claimed "3.0" on every release since 3.0. It reads the actual version now.

Update via Pinokio.