Changelog

Release notes

Every build of Velox Editor, newest first, grouped by what changed.

Beta 1.1LatestCurrent release

Track groups for timeline organization, multi-select for batch operations, customizable keyboard shortcuts, a system font picker, and export fixes.

Track Groups

  • Track groups: organize tracks into collapsible groups for cleaner timeline management

Multi-Select

  • Multi-select: select multiple clips at once for batch operations

Remappable Keybinds

  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts: remap keybinds to your preference

System Font Picker

  • System font picker: browse and use fonts installed on your system directly in the editor

Export Fixes

  • Fixed text exports when a zoom transition is applied
  • Fixed font rendering on export
  • Fixed font underline not rendering correctly on export
Beta 1.0Previous

Scriptable clips, GPU-accelerated export, auto subtitles, effect keyframing, a font manager, and a large batch of export and editor fixes.

Scriptable Clips

  • Scriptable Clips: clips can now be scripted for advanced automation workflows

GPU Accelerated Export

  • GPU-accelerated encoding: auto-detects and uses hardware encoders (VideoToolbox on macOS, NVENC on NVIDIA, VA-API on Linux, QSV on Intel, AMF on AMD) with automatic fallback to CPU
  • Export time display now shows formatted time (e.g. 1:23) for exports past 60 seconds

Cross-Platform Builds

  • Windows fixes: resolved command line window popup on launch; fixed color filter rendering on Windows builds
  • macOS fixes: fixed CI builds with correct deployment target for whisper-rs; FFmpeg sidecar now resolves correctly on macOS
  • Platform-agnostic FFmpeg warning message
  • CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions for automated builds

Auto Subtitles

  • Auto subtitle generation: Whisper-based speech-to-text transcription for automatic subtitle creation

Effect Keyframing

  • Effect keyframes: keyframe animation now applies to effects (color filters, transforms) and works through the exporter
  • Keyframe editor bezier handles fixed and visible again

Font System

  • Font management: new font manager modal for browsing and selecting fonts
  • Font rendering improvements: fixed italics rendering, updated font renderer for export accuracy

Transitions & Editing

  • Transition length adjustments: manually control the duration of transitions between clips
  • Fixed drag-and-drop bugs for in-between clip transitions
  • Replaced mute icon with hide icon on non-audio tracks
  • Updated clip snapping behavior and scrubber length

Color Correction

  • Color filters: temperature, tint, brightness, contrast, saturation, highlights, and shadows with live preview in editor

Core Export Engine

  • Switched rendering system for improved reliability
  • Fixed alpha smearing in exports
  • Fixed animated scaling issues (black background artifact)
  • Fixed video exports when using JPEG images
  • Fixed invisible clips on export when audio was split
  • Fixed crop export issues alongside bezier curve editing improvements
  • Fixed video aspect ratio rendering

Editor UX

  • Source media deletion: delete imported media via right-click context menu
  • Detach audio: separate audio from video clips
  • Updated add track popup to render above track stack (z-order fix)
  • Updated transform handle scaling to match actual media scale
  • Removed transform handles from text clips (not applicable)
  • Fixed favicon warning and accessibility (a11y) warnings
  • Timeline ruler scrubber bug fixed

UI & Branding

  • Updated application logo and icon
AlphaPrevious

The first release, establishing the core editor: a multi-track timeline, transforms and keyframes, chroma key, transitions, motion tracking, and export.

Initial Release

  • Multi-track timeline (video, audio, image, text tracks) with drag-and-drop
  • Media import via ffprobe with auto-transcoding of incompatible pixel formats
  • Real-time playback with frame-accurate seeking and keyboard shortcuts
  • Transform controls: position, scale, rotation, opacity with per-property keyframe animation and cubic-bezier easing
  • Chroma key (green/blue screen) with similarity, smoothness, and spill suppression
  • Non-destructive per-edge crop
  • Transitions: fade, slide, zoom, wipe with directional control
  • Visual cubic-bezier fade editor for fade-in/fade-out curves
  • Text/titles with font family, bold/italic/underline, alignment, bounding box
  • Motion tracking via SSD template matching for position keyframes
  • Export to MP4, WebM, MOV with configurable resolution, frame rate, and bitrate
  • Full undo/redo project state history
  • Keyboard shortcuts for tool switching and playback
  • Project save/open with autosave recovery