v2026.08.1

Released 2026-08-04.

Features

• Video Studio has the clip-editing tools you expect from an editor. A razor tool cuts clips where you click (hold Alt to cut every track at the playhead), and a right-click menu puts split, duplicate, close-gap, and delete on the clip itself. You can select several clips at once with a box, with Shift-click, or with Cmd+A, then drag them as a group with their spacing intact — one move, one undo. Clip edges, the playhead, and the start of the timeline snap as you drag, tracks can be locked so edits skip them, and copy/paste/duplicate work with the usual shortcuts. Deleting follows the standard split: Delete leaves the gap, Shift+Delete closes it.
• Name your video projects. Create a project with a title, rename it any time from the list or the editor toolbar, and see that name in the project list, the browser tab, and the default export filename instead of a uuid.
• Video Studio sets up speech-to-text on its own. One click in the settings dialog installs the transcription engine and its model — including on machines with no Python, which it fetches for itself without needing administrator rights or changes to your system. It then verifies the install by actually transcribing something rather than just checking that files exist, and shows progress and logs while it works.
• Subtitles are generated per clip, when you ask for them. Transcription is now something you trigger on a clip rather than a step that ran silently at the end of every import. Each transcript belongs to its source media, so it survives cutting, trimming, and importing more footage — importing a second clip no longer wipes the subtitles on the first — and captions land at the clip’s real position on the timeline instead of the start. Repositioning existing subtitles doesn’t re-run the engine.
• Media Home turns your scanned PDFs into readable volumes. Point it at scanned books and it converts them to CBZ, so they read properly in the app or on an e-ink reader. Conversion always starts from your click, and the original PDF is kept rather than replaced.
• Media Home runs on Windows minions. Its Kavita backend now starts, is supervised, and restarts after a crash on Windows the same way it does on Linux.
• Manage your library from inside Media Home. Rescan on demand (incremental or full), delete files and empty folders from storage, and remove a series without leaving the app.

Fixes

• Subtitle outlines in the preview match what gets exported. Thicker outlines used to break apart into a ring of ghosted copies on the canvas, and were drawn far heavier than the exported video — the preview now uses a real stroke at the correct scale. Exports were never affected. Text was also being burned at double size when rendering at proxy resolution.
• Projects you created but hadn’t edited yet stay in the list. They used to disappear when the app restarted.
• Splitting works where two clips overlap. Cutting at a point covered by more than one lane used to fail outright; it now splits every track at the playhead in one action, audio included.
• Undo covers subtitle edits. Text changes were outside the undo history, so moving a clip and its captions together and then undoing would restore only one of the two.
• Media Home indexes CBZ files again. A newer Kavita renamed the field that says which file types a library holds, which left comic archives silently unindexed. The library is now re-read after creation to confirm it will pick them up. A diagnostics view reports what the running Kavita actually supports, so a mismatched build is visible instead of failing quietly.
• PDFs open in Media Home. They’re shown in a built-in viewer, rather than going through an image path that returned nothing for every page.

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Includes @geekbeer/minion 4.36.0, Video Studio 0.36.3, and Media Home 0.16.3.