Changelog

New

• 12 transitions: Cover, Reveal, Iris, Box, Split, Diamond, Checkerboard, Blinds, Wave Wipe, Glitch, Ripple and Heart. Click any dot in the CUTS lane to pick one. Shuffle uses them too; Heart has its own chip, which is off until you tick it.
• Messages: the new bell at the top shows news from us, like new tutorial videos. A red badge means something new. Delete any message with the ×.

Fixed

• On smaller windows the right end of the top toolbar, including Render, was cut off. It now moves to a second line.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

New

• 16 pattern overlays: Diamonds, Rain, Twinkle, Warp, Petals, Zebra, Weave, Orbs, Contours, Bricks, Confetti, Whirl, Rosette, Scales, Tiles and Lasers.
• 14 effects: Vivid, Night, Ink, Warm, Cool, Cine, Emboss, Duo, Bleach, Punch, Sharpen, Swap, Xpro and Thermal. They're in the Effects panel, and Shuffle can use them too; their chips are off until you tick them.
• Count my renders: a new switch in Settings, Privacy. When a render ends, the app counts whether it finished, its length, quality and how long it took, never file names, so we can see how well rendering works. Turn it off any time. In Europe it's off unless you turn it on.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

New

• 13 transitions: Dip to White, Fade Through Grey, Blur Dissolve, Soft Wipe, Diagonal Wipe, Circle Open, Circle Close, Barn Door, Slide Up, Slide Down, Squeeze, Slices and Wind. Click a dot in the CUTS lane to pick one.
• Shuffle now uses every transition in the menu, including Spiral. New Shuffle chips (Dip White, Shapes, Soft and Streaks) let you choose which kinds it picks.
• 7 effects: Hue (cycles colour over the song), Mono, Sepia, Fade, Poster, Solarize and Bars (letterbox). They're in the Effects panel, and Shuffle can use them too; their chips are off until you tick them.
• 12 pattern overlays: Checker, Dots, Stripes, Tunnel, Starburst, Ripple, Hexagons, Chevrons, Radar, Bubbles, Scanlines and Blobs.
• 50 Hydra presets: 16 Digital, 16 Analog and 18 Clip FX. Clip FX presets have a Tint slider, so your clip can keep its own colours.
• Join the Discord from the ? menu.

Fixes

• Windows: the clip preview could fail with "The filename or extension is too long" when previewing many clips with effects or transitions. It now works, and if a preview can't be made, the preview box says why.
• Shuffle recipes and sessions saved before a pattern existed now include that pattern, as its checkbox already showed.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

Fixes

• Windows: loading a song could still fail with "DLL load failed while importing soxr_ext" on 1.0.48 and 1.0.49. The app now ships the complete set of Windows system files it needs, so songs load on every PC.

Changes

• The Grow effect has been removed from the Effects panel. It only ever appeared in the live preview and was missing from rendered videos.
• If you've turned on "Send anonymous usage stats", the app now records which features you use (for example Hydra, effects and the right-click menu), never your files or what you type. It's still off unless you turn it on.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

New

• Pause and Cancel while rendering. The two buttons next to the progress bar pause the render (your computer is free until you resume) or cancel it and delete the unfinished video.

Fixes

• Rendering a selection could produce a video with up to an hour of black at the end, then appear stuck at 97%. Renders now end exactly where the selection ends.
• Windows: closing the app now also stops any render still running in the background.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

Fixes

• Windows: loading a song failed with "DLL load failed while importing soxr_ext" on most PCs (versions 1.0.43 to 1.0.47). Songs load normally again.

Changes

• In Europe (including the UK and Switzerland), automatic error reports and the daily user count are now off unless you turn them on. The first-run notice asks you.
• Delete Account now shows how many unused tokens you'd lose before you confirm.
• Creating an account now links both the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

Changes

• Report a Problem no longer attaches your last render log unless you tick the box, and a View log link shows exactly what would be sent.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

Changes

• All token purchases are final and non-refundable. The Buy Tokens window now asks you to tick a box confirming this before you can buy. See musicvideowizard.com/terms.

Fixes

• The token counts and prices on the Buy Tokens cards are easy to read in Dark mode.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

New

• Section Pacing: when you mark song sections, Shuffle cuts faster in the chorus and slower in the intro, breakdown and outro. Turn it off in the Shuffle menu.
• Song sections are easier to label: drawing a section opens a picker with a big button for each section type, and clicking a section opens it again.

Changes

• The Parchment theme is softer and less bright.

Fixes

• The app no longer flashes the Parchment colours for a moment when it opens.
• Clicking a song section no longer nudges it or gets ignored.

Windows users still on 1.0.42 or earlier

• Download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one, once. Your projects and settings are kept. Updates arrive automatically after that.

Windows users: please install this version by hand once

• Automatic updates never worked on Windows before 1.0.43. If you're on Windows and haven't installed 1.0.43 or later yourself, download this version from musicvideowizard.com/download and install it over your current one. Your projects and settings are kept.
• From 1.0.43 on, Windows updates arrive automatically like they do on Mac.

Fixes

• If an update can't be downloaded or installed, the update card now says so, with Try again and Download from website buttons. Before, it quietly disappeared.
• Update problems are now written to a log file, so they can be tracked down.

New

• Custom watermark: Render → Add Watermark now lets you pick your own image instead of the MVW logo. Your choice is remembered for next time.
• A short first-run guide walks you through Load Audio → Load Clips → Pool → Shuffle.
• Settings → Updates → Check for Updates.
• New song sections: Pre-chorus, Solo and Breakdown, each with its own colour and feel.
• Pattern Overlay colour picker in Shuffle: keep it random or choose a hue.

Changes

• Dark theme is now the default, and the light theme is easier on the eyes.
• The song structure lane sits under the Main/B-Roll rows and is easier to spot.
• Clearer Zoom/Height controls, a bigger timeline scrollbar, and an orange ring around locked clips.
• Shuffle gives patterns more variety (angle and position).
• "Vibe" is now called "Vibe Filter".

Fixes

• Setting a clip's role to Main now moves its segments to the Main row.
• Pool role buttons no longer disappear with 30+ clips.
• Long intros with no beats are now split into shorter cuts.
• Dragging the timeline scrollbar during playback no longer snaps back.
• Freq Split's Wow and Color controls now do something visible.
• Datamosh no longer casts green or magenta, and fractals vary from cut to cut.
• Triangle/X kaleidoscope no longer shows black corners.
• Sweep now starts from its entry edge.

Updates you can see

• When a new version is available, a small card in the bottom-right corner now shows it downloading, with a percentage. Before, the download happened silently in the background.
• Once it's ready, click Restart now to update straight away, or Later to install it the next time you quit.
• If you're in the middle of a render, the card waits and asks you to restart after the render has finished.

Fixes

• The **⚙ Settings** button now closes its menu when you click it again (it used to reopen it).
• **Vibes:** click the highlighted vibe again to turn it off. Switching from one vibe to another now replaces the first vibe's effects instead of stacking them. Effects you set yourself are kept.
• **Hydra:** if your computer can't run the visual generator (it needs WebGL graphics support, which some virtual machines and very old graphics drivers don't have), the preview now says so, and Bake no longer adds an empty clip to your clip pool.

Daily active count

• The app now sends an anonymous "this app was used today" count once a day, so we know how many people use Music Video Wizard, with and without an account. It uses its own random ID and contains only the day, the app version, your operating system and whether you're signed in. No account details, files or IP address are stored with it.
• **It's on by default.** You can turn it off any time in **Settings → Privacy → Count me as an active user**.

Other changes

• The Receipts window labels balance corrections as **Adjustment**.

AI clips

• New, current AI models: **Quick** (MiniMax H3 Max Turbo), **Standard** (Kling 2.6 Pro), **Cinematic** (Kling 3.0 Pro) and **Premium** (Google Gemini Omni Flash). Standard, Cinematic and Premium make 1080p clips.
• Every model now offers both 5- and 10-second clips.
• New token prices: Quick 10 / 20, Standard 18 / 35, Cinematic 28 / 56, Premium 40 / 80 tokens (5 s / 10 s).
• The Generate window always shows the current price, and you're never charged more than the price it shows.
• Earlier versions of the app need this update to generate AI clips.

Accounts

• **Forgot password?** in the sign-in window emails you a link to choose a new password.
• New accounts confirm their email address. If you try to sign in before confirming, the sign-in window offers **Resend confirmation email**.
• The **Continue with Google** button has been removed.

Other changes

• Receipts and the open-source license notices now list support@musicvideowizard.com as the contact address.

Receipts

• Every token purchase, AI clip, refund and reversal now gets a numbered receipt. Open them from your account button → **🧾 Receipts…**, and save any of them as a PDF.
• When you buy tokens, the receipt is saved automatically as a PDF in **Documents/Music Video Wizard/Receipts**, and a green bar offers **Show in Folder**.

Rendering

• FFmpeg is now included in the Mac and Windows installers. In 1.0.38, rendering failed with "FFmpeg not found" unless FFmpeg was already installed on the computer.
• Renders with more than 40 clips, with or without effects, no longer fail on Windows.
• The Apple VideoToolbox setting is no longer shown on Windows, where it doesn't apply.

Hydra

• The **Generate** mode is now called **Digital**, next to **Analog** and **Clip FX**.

Other changes

• Errors now appear in a full-width banner with **Copy** and **Dismiss** buttons.
• Problem and error reports now include basic computer details (operating system and version, processor, memory) to help with troubleshooting. See the privacy policy for details.

AI clips

• The clip generator now shows the model each tier actually uses: Wan 2.1 (Quick), Hailuo Video-01 Live (Standard), Kling v1.6 (Cinematic) and Veo 3 (Premium).
• Hailuo and Veo 3 always make clips of one fixed length, so they now have a single price and no 5s/10s choice.

Timeline editing

• Drag a clip anywhere on the timeline. When you drop it, it trims or removes whatever it lands on, on either row. Clips it passes over are left alone.
• Drag a clip's edge to make it longer. It slides under its neighbours while you drag, and they are trimmed when you let go.
• Deleting a clip leaves a gap instead of shifting everything after it.
• While you drag, clips snap to beat markers and to the edges of other clips. Hold Shift to turn snapping off.
• The playhead snaps to beat markers when you click or drag near one. Hold Shift to place it freely.
• Paste now goes on whichever side of the clip under the playhead is closer, instead of always before it.

Effects and transitions

• New Spiral transition, a "No Transition" option, and a spin direction for Radial and Spiral.
• Pattern overlays can be rotated and moved, and their colours now match the colour picker.
• Ghost and Grow now react to the song in the live preview.
• A datamosh cut no longer blurs the rest of the video.

App

• Dark and Light themes, alongside the original Parchment look (Settings).
• New app icon. The optional watermark now includes the logo.
• Privacy settings: choose whether to send error reports and usage stats, and delete your account from the account menu.