ENGINE · 04 · CHANGELOG

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SEP 10, 2026

Set up a video from one prompt

→Describe your video at the top of New video and Cue fills in the source, brief, title, format, target length, and generation tier for review.
→Your playlist supplies the Look, voice, and brand defaults. Everything remains editable, and generating the setup does not create or render a video.

SEP 06, 2026

AI video news - a public destination for the daily briefing

→/news lists every published edition and /news/{date} renders one, with each story linking out to the publication that reported it.
→The stream was re-aimed at the model set we rank on /best-ai. Queries are built from the tracked model, vendor, platform and policy terms rather than the broad technology, entertainment and business news buckets it used to sweep.
→Attribution is joined back to the fetched article by index and never read from the editor model, so a rewritten story cannot be filed under a publication that did not write it. A pick that cannot be traced to a source is dropped.
→An edition is published only when curation finishes with at least three stories that clear the relevance bar. Thin editions stay out of the page, the feeds and the sitemap alike.
→RSS at /feeds/news.rss and JSON Feed 1.1 at /feeds/news.json, in the same envelopes the channel and playlist feeds use.

AUG 04, 2026

Song to character music video

→Upload a song on the new "From a song" card in the video chooser: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, or FLAC up to 100 MB.
→Lyrics are transcribed and time-aligned to the vocal. Paste the lyrics yourself and we force-align the text instead of guessing at sung vocals, which gives noticeably tighter cuts.
→One shot per lyric line, with instrumental intros, solos, and outros subdivided on the track's own energy peaks.
→Your Characters and your Look drive the visuals; stills and motion clips follow the existing motion-clip percentage. No lip sync in v1.
→The uploaded song is the entire audio bus: no narration, no ducking, no looping. A rights acknowledgement is required at upload: publishing a render of someone else's recording to YouTube will draw a Content ID claim.

JUN 04, 2026

Creator Library v1 - Characters, custom Looks, and the Mine pattern

→Characters: new first-class element type. Build a recurring presenter once - references, voice, personality, base appearance - and cast them across every video and every channel.
→Custom Looks: fork any catalog Look or build from scratch; per-user authoring lives under the Mine tab on `/app/looks`.
→Voices Mine: Library = Voices now ships a Catalog | Mine tab pair; ElevenLabs voice clones surface as cards alongside the curated catalog.
→Render pipeline integration: a `cast` block sits next to `look` in project.json; the image prompt composes character + Look + scene so identity stays consistent across aesthetics.
→Image and Video LoRA training: per-character premium rails on Studio and Portfolio. Train once, lock identity, switch a per-render dial between Ref and LoRA.
→Four new guides on `/guides`: Build your first character, Author a custom Look, Train a character LoRA, and Ref vs LoRA picking.

MAY 20, 2026

Portfolio operator suite - the channel-of-channels wave

→Topic Queue: bulk-import, source-grounded scripts, idea → research → produced pipeline across every channel in a portfolio.
→Source Packs: primary + secondary citations attached to claim-heavy topics. The script generator quotes your sources, not hallucinations.
→Companion Articles: every video auto-publishes a matching SEO page with transcript, chapters, FAQ schema, VideoObject JSON-LD.
→YouTube Compliance Mode: private-first uploads, audit-readiness, API quota tracker. Pre-positions you for the API audit.
→Comment Inbox: read comments across every connected channel; Cue drafts replies; you approve. Never automated.
→Series Archetype landings: six niches with starter topic packs - How Things Work, Business Breakdowns, AI Operator Playbooks, History Visualized, Travel, Finca / Property / Lifestyle.
→Niche Scorer and YouTube Audit: two free public tools that funnel into the Portfolio plan.

MAY 15, 2026

Marketing surfaces - solutions, case study, free tools

→/solutions hub with nine industry playbooks (creators, SaaS, news, e-commerce, education, agencies, local business, developers, portfolio operators).
→/case-studies/fincabout - long-form portfolio operator case study.
→/best-ai - head-to-head AI model rankings across six categories.
→/tools index expanded to 27 free creator utilities.

MAY 08, 2026

Shorts workbench + multi-platform publishing

→Auto-detected 9:16 clips from long-form uploads - approve, edit, push to TikTok / Reels / Shorts.
→Per-channel publishing destinations with OAuth - YouTube + TikTok + Instagram.
→F2 free-form text overlays + F3 per-cue color grade + F10 auto-duck on music tracks.

APR 30, 2026

Cue + slash commands + per-section "Ask Cue"

→/tighten, /broll, /rewrite, /shot-list, /lock, /voice - six verbs that do the work.
→Per-section button on every editor block - Cue answers in the context of that exact slice of the cut.
→Mood-board, narrative arc, B-roll prompt generation routed through Cue.

APR 22, 2026

Frame-accurate captions + voice clones

→Whisper-based caption pipeline with editable cue list per video.
→ElevenLabs voice cloning on Creator plan and up.
→SRT / VTT export plus burned-in caption styles.

APR 10, 2026

Templates v1 - 35 cinematic channel formats

→/templates catalog with poster-SVG previews and per-template landings.
→Brief-in / library-out pipeline for repeat publishing cadence.
→Per-template recommended voice, music mood, render cost estimate.

MAR 28, 2026

Foundations - auth, billing, render pipeline

→Google auth, Stripe billing, plan tiers, per-key API access.
→Remotion render pipeline with queued retries and progress updates.
→Filmwiki seeded with 249 film terms across six taxonomies.

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