What’s New

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Follow new features, improvements, fixes and Mac app releases for VelaClip — organized by month and version, curated from real shipped work.

v0.9.0Latest releaseJune 24, 2026
Real shipped work · Versioned releases · Curated for humans
Latest Release

Search your videos by meaning

A major release focused on finding the right moment fast, then reframing it with a steadier, more intentional camera.

New

Search your videos by meaning

Type what you remember — like “where the pastor talks about forgiveness” — and jump directly to the matching moment. Runs fully on your Mac.

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velaclip · moment search
Search  ·  “where the pastor talks about forgiveness”
00:14:22…let us forgive one another as He forgave us…
00:28:07…forgiveness isn't approval, it's release…
00:41:53…and the freedom that comes with letting go…
  • Improved
    More natural speaker tracking

    Vertical reframing now anticipates movement and holds steady when the speaker stops, producing smoother, more intentional framing.

  • Reliability
    Automatic quality checks before you see the clip

    VelaClip now inspects rendered clips for caption readability, framing, audio, hooks and dead air, then repairs weak results before review.

  • New
    Edit Styles

    Save the caption look, hook treatment and pacing your team likes, and apply the same style to every new sermon in one click.

June 2026

2 releases

June was focused on smarter local editing and a more polished Mac experience.

v0.9.0June 24, 2026Major update Copy link

Search your videos by meaning

A major release focused on finding the right moment fast, then reframing it with a steadier, more intentional camera.

  • New

    Search your videos by meaning

    Type what you remember — like “where the pastor talks about forgiveness” — and jump directly to the matching moment. Runs fully on your Mac.

  • Improved

    More natural speaker tracking

    Vertical reframing now anticipates movement and holds steady when the speaker stops, producing smoother, more intentional framing.

  • Reliability

    Automatic quality checks before you see the clip

    VelaClip now inspects rendered clips for caption readability, framing, audio, hooks and dead air, then repairs weak results before review.

  • New

    Edit Styles

    Save the caption look, hook treatment and pacing your team likes, and apply the same style to every new sermon in one click.

v0.8.2June 4, 2026 Copy link

Steadier renders, clearer captions

Polish across the render pipeline and a friendlier settings screen.

  • Improved

    A friendlier Settings screen

    Grouped by task, with plain-language descriptions for every option. New users can find models, folders and export presets without a walkthrough.

  • Improved

    Resizable editor timeline

    Drag the timeline taller when you need precision on a tight cut, or collapse it when you are reviewing hooks.

  • Reliability

    Resumable jobs after a crash

    If the app quits mid-render, the next launch picks up exactly where it stopped instead of starting the batch over.

May 2026

1 release

May introduced the motion and colour foundation that the rest of the summer builds on.

v0.8.0May 20, 2026Major update Copy link

Motion that learns your church’s style

A calmer, more cinematic look out of the box — and a Mac app that quietly keeps itself up to date.

  • New

    AI motion director

    Assigns intentional pans, holds and pushes to each clip based on what the speaker is doing, instead of reframing every second.

  • New

    Living house style

    The more clips your team keeps or skips, the closer new drafts get to the framing, pacing and hook style your church already prefers.

  • Improved

    Cinematic auto-grade

    A restrained colour pass that lifts sanctuary footage without turning it teal-and-orange.

  • Mac

    Automatic Mac app updates

    VelaClip now checks for signed releases in the background and installs them on relaunch. No more digging through Downloads for a new .app.

April 2026

2 releases
v0.7.1April 30, 2026 Copy link

Better speech, cleaner backgrounds

Local intelligence improvements aimed at sermon audio and framing.

  • New

    Speaker background removal

    Isolate the pastor from a busy sanctuary background for vertical clips, without a green screen and without a cloud round-trip.

  • Improved

    Local AI enhance

    A one-click pass that reduces noise, sharpens the speaker and rebalances audio, running entirely on your Mac.

  • New

    Translated subtitle export

    Export burned-in subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, French and Korean alongside the original English track.

v0.7.0April 8, 2026 Copy link

A quieter, more predictable editor

Foundational work on the command core and undo model that later releases build on.

  • Improved

    Command-core with full undo/redo

    Every edit, hook change and reframe goes through one command layer, so undo actually undoes what you just did — even across sessions.

  • Improved

    Editor fits any screen

    The timeline, preview and clip list now scale to laptop screens without hiding controls behind scroll.

  • Privacy

    One-click diagnostics

    Generate a scrubbed diagnostic bundle for support without ever leaving the Mac app.

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