What's New in Visuals
Picking clips used to be a guessing game. You chose from a grid of thumbnails, dropped them in, and only found out afterwards whether the order was right.
Now you see, preview, and reorder your clips before they ever touch the timeline. And using footage you already own in a lyric video stopped costing you credits.
Pick your clips before they land
This is in every media panel in the video editor.
Before, you added clips one at a time. Each one landed wherever it landed, and if the order was wrong you fixed it on the timeline afterwards.
Now:
Select several clips at once. Tick the ones you want instead of adding them one by one.
Preview them first. Play a clip in the panel to check it's the one you meant before it goes anywhere.
Put them in order. Drag them into the order you want while they're still in the panel.
Add them where you are. They drop into the timeline at the playhead, in the order you set, in one go.
So the arranging happens before the clips hit the timeline, not after.
See your clip order while you build a lyric video
Same idea, earlier in the process.
While you're still picking assets for a lyric video, you can now see the order your clips are in and drag them around to change it. You don't have to build the video to find out how it flows.
Your own clips are free in lyric videos
Using footage you already own used to cost credits. That never made much sense, so we changed it.
Your own clips are now free in lyric videos. Reframing is still charged, and only when it actually runs. If a clip doesn't need reframing, you don't pay for it.
To be clear about what changed: this is about the clips you bring yourself. Nothing else about what a lyric video costs is different.
Swap a clip in a template without rebuilding
Templates are a fast way to start. The problem was the clips inside them. Putting your own footage in meant taking the template apart.
Now you open a template, click the clip you want to change, and swap your own footage straight in. No rebuilding.
Replace Selected. Pick several clips at once and swap them all in one move.
Use full length. If a clip was trimmed and you want the whole thing back, one click restores it to its original length. Changed your mind? Undo puts it back.
Your captions stay put. Swapping media keeps the captions lined up with what you swapped in, so you're not re-timing text after every change.
On the visual canvas (Alpha preview)
This was in alpha preview at the time, available to a small group. It's open to everyone now.
Runs check credits before they start. A run that can't finish says so up front, instead of getting partway through and stopping.
Restricted models are blocked at the run button. If an organization has turned a model off, the visual canvas says so at the point of clicking run, rather than failing halfway through.
The asset panel loads the whole library. It used to show only the first slice of it. It also keeps loading properly after a filter change.
Also fixed
Downloads give you a real video file. Downloading a video sometimes handed back a streaming playlist file, which doesn't open in anything. Now you get the video.
Pages load faster and stop jumping around. Things settle into place as they load instead of shifting under your cursor.
A clear button on search. The template and project search boxes in the video editor now have an X to empty them.
Plus assorted polish across the video editor.