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ChangelogOctober 28, 2026

The Rebuilt Brand Hub, Better Sound & A Redesigned Help CenterThis update puts chat at the centre of your workspace, rebuilds the Brand Hub around topic pages, sorts out sound that only played from one speaker, and gives Solid Help and Solid State a fresh design.Read article

Changelog

September 21, 2026Team Roles, Pick Who Is In the Ad & Translated Text OverlaysThis update names the three roles on your team so you can assign them yourself, lets a person filter decide who is allowed to appear in an ad, and carries the text you put on screen into a translation.ChangelogSeptember 14, 2026Filter by Face, Chat Review Comments & Caption DetectionThis update works out who is in your footage so you can filter by them, lets Chat work through your team's review comments, and flags which videos already have captions burned into the picture.

September 9, 2026AI Assistant Access, Canvas Cropping & Caption RevealsThis update connects Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants to your asset library, rebuilds how clips are sized and cropped on the canvas, and gives captions new reveals and styling.

Insights

The same caption drawn twice from the same style. Painted per word, the next word's outline and shadow cut a dark seam into the previous word's fill; painted per pass, the joins are clean.

August 12, 2026Why our captions renderer draws every word five timesPainting each word completely before moving to the next seems obviously right — until the strokes get wide and every word join grows a seam. The fix didn't touch a single paint function. It swapped two loops.

We wrap captions with the TeX algorithm — but the penalty is silence

August 3, 2026We wrap captions with the TeX algorithm — but the penalty is silenceGood captions don't break where the line runs out of room. They break where the speaker stops talking — and getting that right is an optimal line-breaking problem in disguise.

One photo, one +1 stop exposure push, wiped down the middle: on the left the push ran on the sRGB bytes and the sand, skin and blanket bleach out; on the right the same push ran in linear light and holds its colour.

July 12, 2026How we bring color-grading to social video in the browserWhy good color grading never touches the pixels you see — and how we run a cinema-grade pipeline live in a browser tab, then reproduce it exactly on export.

Other

How many ads should you actually be running?

August 14, 2026How many ads should you actually be running?The rules of thumb say one ad per $2,000–3,000 of spend. We went looking for the data behind that number, found a 578,750-ad dataset instead, and learned it isn't a constant at all.