CutWire-Studios/Drift v0.8.0

Drift v0.8.0

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Drift goes 3D: a 3D preview mode with a scene camera, Gaussian splats and lights you can place in the view. It also brings local text-to-speech with voice cloning, PDF clips, audio effects built from pedals, an Outline effect, a rebuilt text engine and a much more usable Android app.

• 3D preview mode: a free 3D view with a camera gizmo, orbit and zoom controls and a Blender-style fly mode; 3D models sit in the scene as world-space layers
• Scene camera: add a camera track and pan, orbit and dolly every clip through it, with per-clip depth occlusion
• Gaussian splats: import SOG, streamed SOG and 3DGS PLY files
• 3D lighting: four point and spot lights editable in the 3D view, and depth-effect clips shown as a relief with draggable light gizmos
• Text to speech: generate speech and clone voices locally, with a voice library and voiceovers from subtitles
• PDF clips: place PDF pages on the timeline and scroll through them
• Audio effects made of pedals: filters, drive, reverb, convolution reverb, delay and more in series, parallel or frequency splits, with LFOs, envelope followers and step sequencers, and keyframable parameters
• Outline effect: strokes, dashes, gradient fills, shadows, glows and torn, burnt, stamp and other edge styles around any clip
• Text: edit text directly on the preview, system fonts and your own font files in the picker, colour emoji fonts, and new plain and bold styles
• Link unrelated clips so they move and trim together
• Import numbered image sequences as a single video clip
• Proxies are kept next to the source footage and relinked automatically
• Generated captions stay in sync when the clip's speed or direction changes
• Close Gap can move a track's first clip to the start, and deleting with ripple on closes the gap
• Projects open in the background behind a progress dialog
• Notifications show one at a time, with a history under a bell in the header
• Updates download only when you ask, are verified, and install in place on Windows, macOS and AppImage
• Android: tablets, DeX and ChromeOS open the desktop layout, made touch-friendly; choose the desktop or mobile layout on any device; a keyboard composer for text and subtitles
• macOS: an appearance-aware app icon and better native menu integration
• MCP: tools for text to speech, PDFs, the 3D view, the scene camera, effect presets and closing projects
• Fixes: undo for keyframe tangents, holds and bookmarks, panels no longer shrink on every launch, export reports why it failed, a project name is asked for on first save, AVI, MKV and WebM play in the macOS trim window, and fonts on Windows
• Translations: Bengali added; Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Vietnamese and many others updated

Thanks to @rangaNP for the macOS icon, menu and update work; to André Mota for linking clips; to Jose Miguel Navarro for Close Gap and the MCP project tools; to @NipunSGeeTH for linked keyframe coordinates; to Mehedi Hasan for Bengali; to Paweł Korobajło for Polish; to @coolvitto for Japanese; and to Nguyễn Lam for Vietnamese.

Installing

• AppImage (Linux, any distro): chmod +x Drift-*.AppImage && ./Drift-*.AppImage
• Windows installer: run Drift-Setup-*.exe
• Windows portable: extract Drift-Portable-*.zip anywhere and run drift.exe from
  the Drift folder inside it. Nothing is installed, but settings and addons are still
  stored per-user under %APPDATA%\Drift.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): open Drift-*-arm64.dmg and drag Drift to Applications. The
  app is signed ad-hoc rather than notarised, so the first launch needs right-click →
  Open, or xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Drift.app.
• Arch Linux: sudo pacman -U drift-*.pkg.tar.zst
• Flatpak: requires flatpak with the Flathub remote added (flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo), then flatpak install --user Drift-*.flatpak
• Android: install the APK for your ABI (arm64-v8a on virtually all phones; x86_64 for emulators). Sideload with adb install Drift-*-arm64-v8a.apk.

Fonts, stickers, speech models and GPU/CPU acceleration runtimes are not bundled — install
the ones you want from the Addon Manager in the app header.