Visuals.fm Release Notes – 4.18.2026

New: Lyrics & Captions Editor

We rebuilt the lyrics and captions editor from the ground up. You can now precisely align timing with a visual waveform, edit in a distraction-free full-screen view, and bring your own caption files.

New full-screen editing view that focuses your workspace for drafting and syncing
Waveform timeline with every word shown as a draggable pill positioned at its exact timestamp
Drag pill edges to adjust start or end timing, or drag the middle to shift a word
Click any word to preview that segment and open a timing editor popover with mini timeline and play controls
Time ruler synced with the waveform and pills
Transport controls for skip to start or end, skip ±15 seconds, and play or pause
Zoom with scroll wheel, slider, or keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+= / Cmd+−)
Works for songs, videos, and transcripts
Find and replace to correct multiple words in bulk
Edit speaker names for multi-speaker content
Upload your own SRT, VTT, or JSON caption files to override AI-generated captions
Revert to the original AI transcription even after closing and reopening
Clickable retry if source sync fails

New: Expandable Prompt Editor

In the Images, Motion Videos, and Show Posters flows, you can now expand the prompt box for more editing space.

Click the expand icon in the sidebar prompt box to open it in a full-screen modal window
Draft and edit longer prompts without being constrained by the sidebar width

New: Lyric Video Settings

More control over how lyrics appear in your lyric videos.

Toggle to enable or disable lyrics before generating
Choose between static lyrics or word-by-word animations

Improved: Smoother Video Playback

Videos across the app now stream adaptively instead of downloading full files, which is a meaningful upgrade on slow or flaky connections.

Adaptive streaming automatically drops to lower quality when your connection slows, keeping playback smooth instead of stalling
Applied across the library grid, explore feed, motion video creator, shared asset modal, and asset pickers

Improved: Media Library

Browsing and navigation in your library got a meaningful upgrade.

All your images and videos now appear in the library
Videos autoplay as you browse so you can preview content without clicking
Cleaned up the actions bar that appears on hover, with instant load
Explore and Canvas flows also got navigation and UX updates

Improved: Crossfade Transitions for Lyric Videos

When you select multiple assets for a lyric video, visualizer, or multi-scene video, clips now crossfade smoothly. This fixes the previous behavior where scenes would fade out to black before fading into the next scene.

Smooth crossfade transitions between image and video clips
Fixed the fade-to-black issue between scenes so transitions flow directly from one clip to the next
Ken Burns motion no longer glitches, which works great for images and slideshows
Videos no longer loop by default, and the final clip trims to fit total duration

Improved: Sidebar Prompt & Settings

The sidebar no longer overwrites your prompt. Your creative text stays exactly as you wrote it.

Settings (genre, mood, style, colors, decade, toggles, venue, dates) appear as removable tags below the prompt box
Song selection no longer auto-triggers the magic sequence. You click "Generate Prompt from Song" explicitly, with confirmation if you have existing content
Magic sequence is significantly faster with undo and cancel support
Artist and song names are excluded from video prompts to prevent copyright flags from generation models
For Motion Videos, model selection, quality, and duration controls are now positioned closer to the prompt box so you can configure key settings without scrolling
Warning modal before switching songs so you know your prompt and settings will be cleared first