What's New in Visuals
This is the release where the Visuals Agent stopped being a helper on the side and became the way you build.
You describe the video you want. The Visuals Agent builds the flow for you on the visual canvas, picks the cards, wires them up, and asks you about anything it still needs. The canvas also learned to finish the job, so the whole video comes together right there, not just the clips that go into it.
Almost all of this work was still behind closed doors at the time, with a small group of accounts. It is the groundwork for the visual canvas and the Agent opening up to everyone the week after.
Describe what you want, and the Agent builds it (Alpha preview)
This was in alpha preview at the time, available to a small group. It's open to everyone now.
Building a flow by hand means knowing which card to add, in what order, and what to plug into what. That is a lot to hold in your head before you have made anything.
So the Visuals Agent moved to the front:
A floating Agent panel that sits over the visual canvas, so you can talk to it and watch the flow get built at the same time.
An Agent and Run toggle in the box you type into. Same box, two jobs: talk to the Agent, or run what is on the canvas.
Attachments. Hand the Agent a file to work from instead of describing it.
It asks instead of guessing. If the Agent is missing something it needs, it asks you right there in the chat, and waits for your answer.
Chats you can come back to. Close the panel, come back later, and pick up the same conversation where you left it.
Put the finished video together on the canvas
The visual canvas was good at making clips. It could not turn them into a video. You made your pieces, then went somewhere else to assemble them.
Two new cards close that gap: Compose Video and Render. Between them you can build the finished thing without leaving the canvas.
A live preview in the card. Watch the cut as you build it, with real thumbnails for each piece instead of grey boxes.
Everything set in place. The settings live on the card, so you are not bouncing to another screen and back.
Per-clip timings. Decide how long each piece stays on screen.
Fill styles. One short video can cover a whole song, instead of running out partway through.
Text overlays. Put words over the video.
All 7 aspect ratios. Whatever shape the release needs.
When the video is composed it is saved to My Library, and it comes back on the canvas as something you can keep building with.
The Visuals Agent knows about these cards too. It can set them up and reorder them itself, so "put these in this order and make it fit the track" is a thing you can ask for rather than click through.
Every preset, one click into a card
Adding a card now opens the full preset library rather than a short list. Style presets, image presets and video presets are all there to start from.
The Visuals Agent draws on the same libraries. Ask it for a look and it can reach for a preset instead of inventing one from scratch.
Steadier, faster, and it works on a phone
The visual canvas works on a phone. You can open a flow, look at it and work on it from the device in your pocket.
The rest is the unglamorous kind of fix:
A long Agent build used to stop dead after 5 minutes, however much was left to do. It now runs as long as it needs.
A run that got killed partway through used to spin forever with no way out. It can be picked back up instead.
Duplicating a card now keeps its connections, and they land on the right inputs.
Opening a large flow is much faster.
A bug report from the alpha group also cleared out 8 smaller problems:
The preset library misbehaved. Previews got hidden behind other things, and picking a model closed the whole library instead of just choosing the model.
Right-clicking a card did not open its menu on a phone.
One video model was being handed a clip length it does not support, and quietly rounding it up. It now gets a length it can actually make.
Cards the Agent added could land on top of each other. They lay out properly now.
Lyric videos built by hand started with captions switched off, which is not what anyone wants from a lyric video.
Captions and looping in the compose preview did not match what you would get. They do now.
The frame you picked out of a video was forgotten when you refreshed the page. It sticks.
Also fixed
Photos taken on a phone no longer show up sideways. Before, a photo shot in portrait could come back turned on its side, and there was nothing you could do about it. Now the orientation your camera recorded is respected everywhere images get processed, so the photo looks the way you took it.
Video previews can be scrubbed. Dragging to a point in a preview used to do nothing. Seeking works properly now.
Exported file names keep their accents. Names with accents and non-English characters used to get stripped down on export. They come out intact.