v0.9.x
2026-08
Milestone
Multiple video engines + open MCP access
Added
- Choose your video engine: MiniMax H3 and Alibaba WAN 3.0 join Seedance, selectable per drama
- Resolution tiers and per-second pricing follow the engine you pick — you see the rate before you order
- Open MCP access: drive the whole pipeline from Claude, Cursor, Feishu Aily, Tencent WorkBuddy and other AI tools
- Frame pinning: pin a frame you are happy with and later automated passes will not overwrite it
- Handoff package: download the raw shots and colour data and carry on in your own editor
- System announcements: maintenance and upgrade notices delivered straight to the client
Fixed
- Dialogue coverage check catches shots that cut before the line finishes
- Consistency check: after you change a setting, it scans which storyboard text has gone stale
- Same-shot first/last frame face-identity scan, plus cross-group continuity audit
- Image generation trips a breaker during vendor outages instead of burning credits
- Out of credits now stops immediately instead of repeatedly failing and charging
v0.9.x
2026-07
Milestone
Cloud SaaS + Creator Ecosystem
Added
- Web full-flow launched: generate, composite, and export from your browser — no install required
- Account + credits top-up with pay-as-you-go billing (WeChat Pay / Alipay / bank card, overseas USD)
- Creator Marketplace launched (market.starreel.ai): clients post requests, creators accept orders
- Drama Localization product launched (translator.starreel.ai): remove hardcoded Chinese subtitles + add English subtitles
- Improved multilingual voiceover, subtitles, and original-audio modes
- Professional export for editing projects: SRT / separated WAV tracks / FCPXML / EDL
- macOS client continuous updates with in-app auto-upgrade
v0.3.0
2026-05-22
Milestone
Accounts + Cloud Credit Billing
Added
- Email sign-up + login gateway, trial credits granted on registration
- One-account-one-device policy; new device login auto-signs out previous device + email notification
- Cloud credits top-up + pay-as-you-go billing (no subscriptions)
- macOS Keychain secure storage for refresh token
- JWT RS256 auth + refresh token rotation + reuse-attack detection
- Word-level timestamp karaoke subtitles (MiniMax TTS subtitle_enable)
- Dark business theme UI overhaul (deep blue-purple + gold accent)
- New logo (purple-cyan clapperboard + play triangle)
Fixed
- Tauri webview intercepted target="_blank", registration/tutorial links now open in the system browser
- Revamped all leftover light panels in the episode workbench
- Fixed residual references to chatfire.site
v0.2.4
2026-05-22
Minor
Dark UI Overhaul + New Logo
Added
- Replaced with user-provided purple-cyan clapperboard logo
- Left navigation rail now shows user avatar + credits display
Fixed
- episode workbench light panels (.studio-topbar / .sidebar / .main) revamped to dark
- Fixed subtitle sync entering the left sidebar production group
v0.2.0
2026-05-22
Milestone
Timeline IR + Subtitle Sync
Added
- Timeline JSON IR: a serializable edit project — re-edit without regenerating
- ASS karaoke subtitles (word-level timestamps) + burn-in
- FFmpeg renderer abstraction layer, VideoToolbox hardware encoding
- Local BGM library (data/bgm/) + automatic mood tag matching
- EBU R128 loudnorm two-pass audio normalization
- xfade transitions (default 0.25s)
- Portrait preview component for phone-shell form factor
- POST /episodes/:id/re-render endpoint
- Automatic cover frame extraction to thumbnail_url
- BGM music library directory + manifest format
Architecture Changes
- storyboards table added karaoke_timings / bgm_url / transition_* columns
- episodes table added timeline_json / encode_preset / thumbnail_url columns
Roadmap
Windows client, ComfyUI local inference, client core open-sourcing, and other items are in planning; schedule will follow updates on this page.
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