ronak-create/FableCut v1.17.0

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Added

• Silence removal. The inspector's Silence section on an audio or
  video clip (or right-click → Find silences) listens to the take and
  marks every pause on the timeline; Cut extracts them on the targeted
  tracks in one undo step. Set how quiet counts as silence, the shortest
  pause to cut, and how much quiet to keep beside each phrase so words
  aren't clipped. Cuts land on whole frames, linked stems stay in step and
  locked tracks (a music bed) keep running. Agents use the new
  fablecut_silence tool: it reports the pauses, and with cut:true cuts
  them in one revision after keeping a version of the project.
• Transcripts and text-based editing. The new Transcript tab beside
  the Inspector turns the speech on the timeline into words with times. It
  runs Whisper in the browser: the model (77 MB, or 250 MB for the more
  accurate one) downloads once, and the audio never leaves your machine.
  Click a word to go there, select words and press Delete to cut them with
  the pause after them, or find a phrase and cut every place it is said, in
  one undo step. Transcripts are kept per file in analysis/transcripts/.
  Agents use the new fablecut_transcribe tool: it reads the timeline's words
  as timed lines, finds phrases, and with cut:true cuts them in one revision
  after keeping a version of the project.
• Captions. The Transcript tab's Add captions makes captions from
  the transcript, timed word by word, in four styles: subtitle, karaoke,
  highlight (the word being said in colour) and word pop. They are sized for
  the canvas, break at pauses and sentences, and land on their own lane above
  the edit. SRT and VTT download them, and Import… places a subtitle
  file's captions. Text clips gain wordTimes, which word-pop, word-slide,
  karaoke and the new highlight animation follow, and highlightColor.
  Agents use the new fablecut_captions tool.
• Apple Silicon VideoToolbox export profiles videotoolbox-h264 and
  videotoolbox-hevc. Enables hardware-accelerated H.264 and HEVC encode on
  Apple Silicon. Also registers h264_videotoolbox and hevc_videotoolbox in
  the delivery presets encoder list. Needs macOS on Apple Silicon and an ffmpeg
  built with videotoolbox. (thanks @bradvatne, #128)

Changed

• Each level of the editor's layout has its own tone: the app background,
  panel bodies, the header bars and toolbars on top of each panel, and the
  controls, darkest at the back, so the structure reads at a glance. The
  timeline's lanes sit in a darker well under their track headers and ruler,
  and Inspector sections are soft cards.

Contributors

Thanks to @bradvatne for the Apple Silicon VideoToolbox export profiles (#128).