1.5.0

The script stops being a block of text and becomes something you can mark up. Colour and emphasis on any stretch, a search bar that replaces and paints in the same click, presets that save a whole look, and chapters that number and colour themselves.

System	File
Windows 10/11	Valendo-1.5.0-setup.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Valendo-1.5.0-arm64.dmg

Windows: run the installer. SmartScreen warns about an unrecognised publisher — More info → Run anyway.

macOS: drag to Applications, then run this once, before the first launch and again for every version you download:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Valendo.app

Without it macOS says the app is damaged. It is not — that is the message for a downloaded app it cannot verify with Apple, because this one is not notarised.

New

• Marks: colour, bold, italic and underline on any stretch of the script. Select, pick a colour, and the words carry it in the editor, in your preview, on Broadcast and on the network page. The mark is anchored to the block and the word offset inside it, not to a position in the file — so it survives typing above it, renaming a chapter, or reordering tabs. Typing inside a marked word extends the mark; typing right before it stays outside; deleting the word takes the mark with it. In the editor bold is painted, not re-set: a real bold would change the glyph widths, and the editor is a transparent textarea aligned character by character over a coloured layer. On the glass, where nothing has to line up, bold is bold.
• The recent-colour wheel. The four dots beside the picker are the last four colours you used, not four the app chose. Left to right into the next empty slot, then back to the first — a colour you use again costs nothing and moves nothing. Empty slots are drawn white, which is also what "remove colour" leaves behind. The picker now shows the colour of what is currently selected instead of always opening on the same swatch.
• Find and replace, Ctrl+F. The bar is built as a sentence read top to bottom: find this · change these things (replace, paint, or both) · apply. Two checkboxes say what is at stake and one place acts. With both ticked, the replacement lands and the colour falls on the new word — the natural chain (find, replace, paint what went in) was the one thing the first design made impossible, because the colour row painted what the search found, and after replacing, the search found nothing.
• SPEECH. With paint-all, the switch decides whether the sweep goes over stretches already coloured by a presenter. Off by default: a presenter's colour is a system someone on set has learned to read, and a sweep that undoes it in one click without asking is the kind you discover on air.
• The arrow that lifts REPLACE into FIND. It cuts, so the replace field ends empty — leaving the word there would arm a "replace BUZINA with BUZINA" that does nothing and looks like it did.
• CHAPTER gets an ALL. Marks every line whose whole text equals the selection. Deliberately restrictive: a word in the middle of a line never becomes a title by accident. The menu says how many it will take before you press it, and greys out when there are none. One undo step for the whole sweep.
• Presets. Save a whole look — text, reading, output — and put it on another tab. Rename, colour, star and delete them; the starred one is what a new tab opens wearing.

Fixed

• The blank lines you skipped now reach Broadcast. Skipping two or three lines in the editor showed one on the presenter's screen. The gap existed where you write and vanished where it is for — and spacing one subject from another is layout, not leftover typing. The cause sat at the very bottom of the model: the parser split paragraphs on \n{2,} and threw the separator away, so three blank lines and one had been the same data all along. Expect one consequence: every extra blank line now weighs on the ruler, so a widely spaced script estimates slightly longer than it did in 1.4.1.
• A coloured chapter stayed amber on Broadcast. The branch that draws a chapter line ignored marks entirely — the app showed one thing to whoever edits and another to whoever reads. Colouring any part of a title now colours the whole title (a chapter is a label, not a sentence with parts), and the 60% veil steps aside: whoever asked for that colour did not ask for 60% of it.
• Double-clicking the Edition/Broadcast divider now returns to the middle — the real middle. It sent 0.7 hard-coded while the default was 0.46, so the "back to normal" gesture led somewhere that was never normal. Both are now the same constant, and the constant is 0.5.
• When the Edition panel narrows, the dots give way, not the text. "83 words · 0:54" was breaking into two squeezed lines while the colour dots stayed whole — the order of importance inverted. Measuring changed the design: the full header wants 594px and the panel has 553 at the default size. It never fitted, and the wrapping text was the symptom.
• The Abrir Valendo.bat shortcut calls the local electron binary instead of npx, and is written with CRLF, which is what cmd.exe actually reads.

Changed

• Chapters are numbered in the left column, and the ## leaves it. Repeated titles are the rule in a running order — four "COMMERCIAL BREAK" truncated at the same point were the same button four times. The number takes the ##'s place rather than sitting beside it: ## was identical on every line and was eating exactly the width that made titles clip.
• "Remove the mark" is now "Remove colour", in all six languages and in all three places it appears. The button always removed the colour — "the mark" suggested it also cleared bold and underline, which it never touched.
• Quick help for the whole search bar and the colour picker. Seventeen controls had none. The picker's existing entry was describing a design that no longer exists — four fixed colours that the recent wheel replaced.
• The colour dots came out of their sunken well in the header; the thin black ring around each one, which keeps a pale yellow from merging into the header grey, is now visible.
• A failed action no longer takes the app down with it.

Documentation · site

The README, the site and the wiki still describe 1.4.1 — they do not know about presets, search or marks yet, and are being updated separately.

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later. Both installers redistribute a GPL build of ffmpeg 6.1.1 — Windows by gyan.dev, macOS compiled by this project's CI (build script). Source at ffmpeg.org, tag n6.1.1.