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v0.12.0Latest releaseAugust 29, 2026

Real shipped work · Versioned releases · Curated for humans

Latest Release

A safer way to ship — with the editor ready to explain itself

August closed with editor improvements, a safer Mac install path, and website/beta funnel updates. v0.12.0 is the changelog source — not launch-ready.

v0.12.0

August 29, 2026

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New

Desktop workspace access checks

The local app checks access before opening a workspace, so a desktop session is not implicitly open.

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Mac
Mac release channel work
Signing and packaging order now preserves the nested components Apple expects during notarization.
Improved
A clearer path through macOS installation warnings
When macOS blocks an unfamiliar downloaded app, the Mac app now explains the safe next step in context instead of leaving you to guess which system setting or Finder action is needed.
Reliability
More resilient support for Intel Macs
The bundled media-tool configuration no longer causes the local server to fail when an Intel-only ffprobe is present, keeping configuration and duration checks available across supported Mac environments.

August 2026

2 releases

August ended with stronger product boundaries and clearer signals around what VelaClip is doing. Not launch-ready.

v0.12.0August 29, 2026Major update Copy link

A safer way to ship — with the editor ready to explain itself

August closed with editor improvements, a safer Mac install path, and website/beta funnel updates. v0.12.0 is the changelog source — not launch-ready.

New
Desktop workspace access checks
The local app checks access before opening a workspace, so a desktop session is not implicitly open.
Mac
Mac release channel work
Signing and packaging order now preserves the nested components Apple expects during notarization.
Improved
A clearer path through macOS installation warnings
When macOS blocks an unfamiliar downloaded app, the Mac app now explains the safe next step in context instead of leaving you to guess which system setting or Finder action is needed.
Reliability
More resilient support for Intel Macs
The bundled media-tool configuration no longer causes the local server to fail when an Intel-only ffprobe is present, keeping configuration and duration checks available across supported Mac environments.
Improved
Clearer AI and agent status signals
Thinking-orb indicators now appear across the editor’s AI surfaces, giving you a visible sense of when VelaClip is working, waiting, or ready for your next decision.
Improved
A more tangible look at the workflow
The marketing site now uses interactive app previews, a tighter workflow navigator, and staged section reveals to show how sermon moments move from source video to finished content.
New
Beta interest and referrals are ready to connect
The site can now capture beta roadmap interest, connect content-kit signups to the CRM, and support a referral loop with productized rewards for early church teams.
Foundation
A clearer public reference for VelaClip
VelaClip now publishes a concise, AI-readable product reference alongside the human-facing site, making the product’s workflow, privacy model, and capabilities easier for tools and partners to understand accurately.

v0.11.0August 17, 2026Major update Copy link

The editor gets more intentional — and the product gets safer to trust

The August 17 update brought more intelligence to clip discovery and reframing, made edits safer under real-world concurrency, and tightened the boundary between a church workspace, its account, and the cloud services that support it.

Improved
Better sermon moments, with more ministry context
Candidate scoring now considers narrative shape and ministry-specific moment types, while story-arc detection can surface complete micro-stories instead of isolated sentences. Scripture references that cannot be verified are flagged for review rather than silently presented as confirmed.
New
Reframing that follows the speaker more naturally
Active-speaker reframing can lock onto a subject, filter low-confidence detections, and respect manual override pins, producing steadier vertical compositions without forcing the same crop on every clip.
New
Scene-aware editing and snapping
Shot and scene detection now creates shared snap targets for the editor, so boundaries can line up with meaningful visual changes while preview time stays synchronized with the actual timeline.
Reliability
Edit plans that stay consistent under competing saves
Canonical edit plans and revision boundaries are now protected against stale or overlapping writes. The editor can preserve the latest valid revision instead of allowing an older save to quietly overwrite newer work.
Reliability
A stronger safety net around renders
The local pipeline gained stricter input and configuration checks, bounded media work, atomic final writes, safer cache and token handling, audio/video synchronization fixes, and clearer progress and failure reporting.
Privacy
Cloud requests stay inside the right church workspace
Cloud APIs now verify membership-derived workspace and role context, hash desktop tokens, standardize errors, and roll back seat claims safely when activation races or entitlement checks fail.
Improved
Settings and profile work are easier to manage
Settings received a wider layout and clearer section navigation, while profile changes now report success only after persistence and queue CRM synchronization from the saved record.
New
VelaClip understands more about your church
Onboarding can capture denomination and attendance, and the account flow can carry fuller contact and church context into the church’s CRM record for more relevant beta support.

July 2026

2 releases

July continued with real timeline editing, faster long projects, and a Mac build that can distribute, update, and activate licenses reliably.

v0.10.0July 13, 2026Major update Copy link

A timeline you can reshuffle — and a Mac app ready to keep up

This week VelaClip became much more practical for real sermon projects: you can split, move and reorder clips with durable undo, long timelines stay snappy, background processing recovers more cleanly, and the Mac app can update itself while licensing works the way it should.

New
Timeline editing with durable undo
Split, delete, move and reorder clips on the timeline with an edit history that is stored with the project — not only in the current browser session. Preview playback and final renders follow the same ordering you see in the editor.
Performance
Faster editing on long, heavily cut projects
Instead of mounting every clip, waveform and filmstrip at once, VelaClip only renders what is near the visible portion of the timeline. Selected and actively dragged clips stay available even when they scroll out of view, which cuts lag and memory use on sermons with many cuts.
Reliability
Background processing that recovers instead of starting over
Repeated submissions attach to an existing job rather than spawning duplicates. Failed stages record what went wrong and whether a retry is safe, completed work is preserved, and transient network errors retry while hard validation failures stop early.
Fixed
Fewer false “already activated” license errors
Some activations were wrongly treated as seat-limit violations when a network request was blocked. The Mac app now sends a clear identity, shows seat-limit messaging only for the real seat-limit response, and reports more accurate licensing errors.
Mac
Automatic Mac updates
VelaClip can check for over-the-air macOS updates and surface them in Settings, so you can stay current without hunting down a new installer each release.
Mac
Installers that Gatekeeper accepts
The build pipeline now re-signs the app after packaging runtimes and frameworks, fixing “application is damaged” errors on download. Apple Silicon DMG builds are produced automatically for releases.
Improved
A clearer first-run license screen
The activation screen now uses the official VelaClip brand lockup, and desktop licensing connects to the real production activation service with the current one-computer seat model.
Foundation
Licenses tied to your real plan
Desktop activation now validates against website-managed license and billing records, including activated devices and Stripe-synchronized subscription tiers, instead of treating every request as the same plan.

v0.9.1July 6, 2026 Copy link

Laying the groundwork for a smarter editor

On July 6, 2026, this release was almost entirely under the hood. It did not change how VelaClip looked or felt to use. It set up two things later editing features would build on.

Foundation
One shared way of describing an edit
Cuts, captions, hooks, reframing, motion, audio, branding and export choices are moving toward a single, versioned plan instead of being scattered across separate parts of the editor. You won't see this directly. It's what makes future features safer to build and less likely to conflict with each other.
Foundation
One shared system for local AI
VelaClip now has one place that keeps track of which local AI models and hardware capabilities are available on your Mac, so different AI features can share the same fallback logic instead of each guessing on its own.

June 2026

3 releases

In June 2026, VelaClip moved from prototype toward a tool churches could use with real sermon content. This is a dated changelog entry, not the current public product.

v0.9.0June 29, 2026Major update Copy link

An editor that remembers your work, and starts to develop taste

In late June 2026, VelaClip stopped feeling like a prototype: edits survived a reload, camera work felt more intentional, and the app began learning each church's preferences instead of applying one fixed look.

Improved
Your edits now save automatically
Changes to a clip are persisted as you work, so editing no longer depends on rendering first. A short debounce keeps saves quiet while protecting your progress.
Improved
A more predictable editing workflow
Clip changes, timeline state and saved plans were tightened so the editor is less likely to show one version of an edit while another version is stored underneath.
New
Motion that responds to the moment
VelaClip can assign pans, holds and pushes based on what is happening in a clip instead of constantly moving the frame for the sake of movement.
Improved
More natural speaker tracking
Reframing can anticipate movement, follow a moving speaker and settle when they stop, creating steadier vertical footage that feels more like a camera operator and less like a face tracker.
New
Edit Styles
Apply a consistent creative direction across clips, including caption energy, pacing, cuts, transitions, motion and other editing choices.
New
A living house style
VelaClip can use patterns from the clips your team keeps, changes or skips to increasingly bias future drafts toward the style your church prefers.
Improved
Clearer, more expressive captions
Caption tooling expanded with stronger templates, emphasis behavior and animated treatments designed for short form vertical video.
New
An automatic quality pass before you ever see a clip
After a clip renders, VelaClip re-inspects the actual file for issues — weak audio, an overly loud music bed, a caption that doesn't fit — and quietly re-renders with a fix before you review it.

v0.8.0June 22, 2026 Copy link

Cleaner sound, safer under the hood

This week's work focused on the parts of VelaClip you don't see directly: the audio a clip carries, the background a speaker sits in front of, and how safely the local app talks to itself.

Improved
Better speech cleanup
Audio processing grew beyond basic transcription with tools for reducing noise, improving difficult sermon recordings and producing more consistent final loudness.
New
Cleaner speaker backgrounds
VelaClip can isolate a speaker from a distracting sanctuary or stage background for vertical content, with local processing and no green screen required.
New
Crash-safe processing
If a render is interrupted mid-batch, VelaClip picks up where it left off instead of starting over, and a one-click diagnostics export makes it easier to get support.
New
Pre-flight quality checks
Before you render, VelaClip flags common issues — a clip that runs long, captions that overflow, a face cropped out of frame — so you can fix them before they become a finished, unusable clip.
Reliability
Safer local app communication
The local API gained stronger request, origin and host protections so the Mac app can stay local without treating every process on the machine as trusted.

v0.7.0June 15, 2026Major update Copy link

VelaClip begins: from sermon to editable clips

The first working version of VelaClip turned a long form sermon into a local editing workflow, bringing the video in, creating a transcript, finding usable moments and letting you shape the final clips yourself.

New
Import sermons from YouTube or your Mac
Bring in an existing sermon from YouTube or start with a local video file, without rebuilding your workflow around a new platform.
New
Automatic local transcription
VelaClip turns sermon audio into a timestamped transcript that stays connected to the source video, giving you a faster starting point for finding and editing moments.
New
Find candidate moments faster
Instead of scrubbing through an entire service from beginning to end, VelaClip can surface potential clips from the transcript for you to review.
New
Edit before you export
Review clip boundaries, adjust the words and moments you want to keep, and manually shape the final result before rendering.
Privacy
Built local first
Core sermon processing was designed around work happening on your Mac, keeping private ministry footage closer to the church that owns it.