matlegault/lumae-releases v0.6.2

Lumae 0.6.2

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The camera

• Film yourself with the screen. Choose a camera in the capture bar and Lumae records it alongside the screen, onto a lane of its own, drawn as a bubble over the finished picture. A take can also be filmed against a timeline that is already cut, for a piece to camera after the fact.
• The bubble is yours to shape, in Inspector › Camera: circle, squircle, square or widescreen, a size, a corner and how far in from it, a ring, a shadow, and mirroring. Drag it on the preview and it re-anchors to the corner it lands nearest, so the drag and the sliders are one setting seen two ways.
• A single take can depart from the video's bubble in one property and inherit the rest, with the same amber badges and the same way back up as a clip's look.
• You can see yourself while you film. A floating bubble sits on screen through the countdown and the recording, in the shape and the corner the video will use.
• The bubble holds still under a zoom and sits under the captions, so a camera move never drags your face off the picture and text along the bottom stays readable.

Sound

• The microphone is a recording of its own now. macOS mixed the voice and the app's own sound into a single track before they reached disk, so a voice recorded with the screen could never be levelled, ducked or faded apart from it. The microphone is captured separately and lands on the narration lane, where all of that is ordinary.
• With the camera on, the face and the voice are written to one file by one session, so lip sync is exact. They arrive as two items — a camera take and a narration segment — free to be trimmed apart.

For agents

• An agent can film a demo now, not only edit one. It points start_recording at a display, a window or a rectangle of one, works the app while it runs, and stops; the clip lands in a project ready to cut. The countdown and the floating HUD show whoever started it, and the microphone stays off unless it is asked for, so nobody's room ends up in a take they did not narrate.
• perform_gesture moves the pointer the way a hand does — eased travel, a beat before each press, uneven keystrokes — for the moments that are on camera, where timing cannot be added afterwards. It runs only while a recording runs and ends with the take, and it no longer holds every other call behind it, so the recording can still be polled and stopped while it moves.
• mark_moment names a beat as it happens, timed on the same clock the finished video is measured on, and stop_recording's trimToContent cuts the take down to what actually happened. Marks survive the cuts that remove them, reported with where their moment now falls.
• remove_range cuts a span out of the video and closes the gap in one call, keeping captions, narration and music in sync; several spans at once, each worked out against what the one before it left.
• transcribe returns every spoken word with its timing, on-device, and writes the captions only if you ask.
• import_media now takes a lane, so audio can land on narration as well as music, and an image becomes the video's background. list_projects says where a project actually is and which ones are open, and edit_project can answer with a short summary instead of the whole project.
• A recording, its trim and the edits after it come back one undo at a time, instead of a single undo taking the whole take with it.
• The camera lane is editable from here as well, take and bubble alike.

Around the app

• Renaming a project renames its folder. A project opened from Finder, or renamed to a different case of its own name, now takes the name directly instead of quietly staying put or parking itself beside where it was.
• The library no longer flickers. Project cards asked for posters four times larger than they can draw, which crowded the thumbnail cache once an editor had been open and left two cards trading places several times a second — and the app at about 25 % CPU sitting idle.
• Dragging carries everything selected across the free lanes, so a camera take and the narration beside it travel together, and Split cuts everything selected that can be cut at the playhead rather than disabling itself when more than one thing is picked.
• The MCP client picker in Settings fits its window.

Fixes

• A clipboard screenshot is taken at the instant you press the key. The shutter used to be a 350 ms window that the last thing on screen won, which showed most when you grabbed an area and carried straight on; it also reaches the clipboard about 150 ms sooner.
• Automatic zoom no longer zooms out and straight back in to an identical frame when two groups of clicks in the same corner clamp to the same centre.
• The invented cursor travel across a jump stays inside the picture; a move along an edge used to bow the pointer off the frame and back.
• A clip that a cut leaves too short at both ends is removed, the way it already was on one side, instead of failing the whole edit.
• import_media works from a sandboxed app again: the file is staged somewhere the helper is actually allowed to write.
• A frame that cannot be read is no longer explained as a still stretch of the recording when the real cause is a missing or damaged file.