VLPremiere Pro 0.11.83 for Apple silicon Macs (macOS 14 or later). Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. It also includes everything in 0.11.76.
New:
- Three sets of assembled shorts: The menu under the lengths in the Shorts panel now offers Assembled: Tight Edit (one topic with side remarks taken out; a removal a listener would notice comes back), Across the Film (places far apart on one subject, kept only where the join can be followed), AI Bridge Lines (the same, with a linking sentence where the jump needs one) and All Sets. One Story works as before. Each short shows its set beside its title. These need an AI, and the results vary from run to run, so please judge each short before you create it.
- Bridge lines are yours to approve: Each linking sentence shows in its short's row. Edit it if it says more than your film does, then press Approve and Speak: it is said in your narrator's voice from Voiceover Studio, at the level of the voice around it. A line is never in a short before you approve it, and Create Short refuses a short with a line still waiting. An AI line can add a claim your film doesn't make, so read each one.
- Explanation cards: A small ? beside options whose name doesn't explain itself opens a short card: what it does, what to use it for and what to keep in mind. You'll find them in Shorts (with a list of the 7 ways shorts are found), Export, Languages, AI Edit, Automatic Video, caption styles and Voiceover. The YouTube advice in them is general guidance.
- Progress for Create All: Create All and Create and Export All now show a strip with each step, a bar, how many shorts are done and a Stop button. Bridge Lines shorts with unapproved lines are skipped, and the status says how many wait.
Improved:
- Shorts follow the language you are watching: In a film with several languages, a short takes its captions and cards from the language being watched, not from the original voice.
- Cuts sit on the voice's real pauses: Each cut in a short moves onto the actual pause in the voice, so a sentence is no longer clipped or the end of the last one heard at the start. Where no pause is found, the cut stays where it was. The Start and End buttons in a short's row still use the transcript's times.
- Shorts that make sense: With an AI, each short is finished one at a time with its true length, every join is judged on its own, and the first and last sentences are chosen for the subject. A short can now be one continuous stretch, and an ending may be up to 20 % under your shortest length rather than run into the next subject. A short can still run a few seconds past your longest length.
- Cards in the vertical frame: Cards, titles and shapes in a short use their vertical layout instead of being enlarged and cropped.
- Voiceover Studio: Narration now gets natural phrasing and pauses, long sentences are no longer split at commas, numbers are read in the script's language for the word check, words cut off at the end are retaken, and there are more stress choices. Dubs keep their old timing. The engine's problem log is now in ~/Library/Logs/VLPremier Pro.
- Settings › AI Services: Now lists every feature that uses the AI and says that an online service receives the text.
Fixed:
- Black picture at a join: A caption could hold on past its part and leave black picture at the join. Captions now end with the short.
- The shorts preview: Now opens at 0:00, and its controls no longer stay dimmed when it opens.
- Sentences split by a stray full stop: In a transcript are joined before shorts are found.
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