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The free edition's export mark — and an LGPL encoder.

• ADDExports carry a C-Suite Free mark — placed inside each platform's safe zone (bottom-right on landscape, bottom-left on portrait, clear of the caption band).
• CHGVideo export now uses an LGPL encoder — the free build is fully LGPL, no proprietary components.

The Beat Update — a tempo grid, snapping, and LFO sync.

• ADDBeat Grid — a visible beat / downbeat grid on the timeline: auto-detected BPM with ½ / 1 / 2× timebase, tap-tempo, and manual entry.
• ADDPhase nudge + Set Beat 1, beats-per-bar (2–12), and swing (straight → triplet).
• ADDTrim snaps to the grid — bar-perfect loops.
• ADDLFO sync-to-grid — effects lock to your track's tempo, with "Align phase → beat 1."
• FIXLFO beat-sync now works — the detected tempo finally reaches the LFO dialog (it never had).

Chop & Screw — screw, stretch-to-length, and beat-chop for Glaedr audio.

• ADDChop & Screw (Glaedr AUDIO panel) — shape a loaded track non-destructively; a processed copy feeds the mixer and export, the original is untouched. Runs on the bundled ffmpeg — no new dependencies, fully offline.
• ADDScrew — tape-slow (asetrate): pitch and tempo drop together, the authentic chopped-&-screwed sound (artifact-free). 0.50–1.00×, default 0.80.
• ADDStretch to length — fit a song to a duration by tempo, pitch preserved (atempo). Match Clip reads the loaded video's length; a colour-coded zone bar flags clean (0.7–1.5×) / caution / hard-limit.
• ADDChop — cut on the BPM beat grid and rearrange: 2×Bar, Stutter (×2–8), Repeat, Reverse, with a ½ / 1× / 2× timebase that locks the grid to the true beat.
• CHGAudio only — no image changes; every effect still renders byte-identically (34 effects).

Rutt-Etra Scanlines — a new analog video-synth effect.

• ADDRutt-Etra effect (Phase 4 · Textural) — the analog video-synth scan processor. Rebuilds the image as glowing horizontal scanlines that bulge toward you by local brightness, turning a flat photo into a 3D wireframe-relief "terrain" on black — the classic cyan-scanline-portrait look.
• ADDLine color three ways: Mono (pick any hex — cyan 00eaff by default), Source (keep the photo's colors), or Palette — reuses the v1.6 palette system and editor (CKURO ◈ by default), so the relief inherits every dither palette.
• ADDControls: line gap, displacement (internally clamped so lines never leave the frame), displace-by luminance / hue / saturation, invert, thickness, glow (neon bloom), horizontal / vertical orientation, background (black / source-dark / keep-source), and a subtle perspective rake.
• ADDPairs with Wave Warp — stack it in front for the wavy top edge; the warp is not baked in, so the two compose freely.
• CHGAdditive release — every existing recipe renders byte-identically; effect count 33 → 34.

The Dither Update, finished — the palette editor lands.

• ADDPalette editor. The Dither palette is now a full swatch editor: pick a built-in, import a .hex / .gpl / .txt, add / remove / lock swatches, shuffle the unlocked ones, and tune any color with HSV bars + a live preview. It replaces the palette dropdown.
• ADDTwo more retro palettes — NES and Apple II (Lospec-verified) — joining CKURO ◈, Game Boy DMG, PICO-8, Commodore 64, CGA, EGA, ZX Spectrum and Mac 1-bit.
• CHGThe palette editor is now the sole palette control — the old dropdown and the separate .hex field are retired (import lives inside the editor).

The Dither Update — palette dithering (the big one).

• ADDNew "Palette Ramp" color mode in Dither: dithers brightness at up to 32 levels and maps it through a color palette — the Ditherboy-style look.
• ADDBuilt-in palettes: CKURO ◈ (signature), Game Boy DMG, PICO-8, Commodore 64 (Pepto), CGA, EGA, ZX Spectrum, Mac 1-bit — plus Lospec .hex import (one color per line).
• ADDRamp Offset slides the palette along the brightness ramp for a deliberate color-glitch.
• ADDKnoll pattern dithering — a new arbitrary-palette method with the best color fidelity, rock-steady on video (the recommended color method for clips).
• ADDPalette-aware error diffusion — Floyd/Atkinson/Stucki/... diffuse toward the nearest palette color (luma-weighted), with serpentine (Diffusion Quality = Full) + Error Strength.
• ADDIGN — a new procedural ordered mask (Interleaved Gradient Noise), built for animation.
• ADDTemporal modes (video): Stable (calm, default), Drift (mask scrolls), Boil (per-frame reseed).
• CHGDither Levels now go up to 32 (was 8) for smoother gradients. Every existing dither recipe renders identically on its defaults.
• FIXThe blue-noise mask data is now bundled in the packaged app, so Blue Noise (True) works in the build.

Dither upgrades, dot-crawl fix, steadier previews.

• ADDDither → "Blue Noise (True)" — a real void-and-cluster blue-noise mask: cleaner, more organic grain than the original Blue Noise (which is unchanged and still available).
• ADDDither → "Diffusion Quality: Full (serpentine)" — an optional higher-quality error-diffusion path (serpentine scan, full kernel) for Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, Stucki, JJN, Sierra and Burkes. "Fast" (the default) is unchanged.
• FIXVHS Chroma Bleed → Dot Crawl now actually shows. The fine alternating chroma buzz along edges was silently a no-op; it now appears, and in Glaedr it crawls across frames.
• FIXEVA scrub previews are stable. Scrubbing to the same frame twice now renders identically and matches the exported frame — a seed leak in the render pipeline is fixed.
• FIXPixel Sort at an angle keeps unsorted areas crisp. Only the sorted streaks are recomposited, so the rest of the image is no longer softened by the rotation.
• FIXWindow shrink no longer eats text. The window now has a minimum size, so labels stop phasing together or disappearing when it's made small.
• CHGFaster VHS tape-dropout and Codec Rot (datamosh) rendering — identical output, just quicker.
• CHGInternal: a golden-image regression harness now guards every effect against accidental change.

EVA export: live progress + instant cancel

• FIXEVA Export MP4 no longer appears frozen - the progress bar now updates continuously instead of sitting at 0% until the very end.
• FIXCancel during an EVA export now stops within about a second instead of hanging the app - workers check a shared cancel signal and bail mid-render.
• CHGEVA video export renders in many small chunks with the source image and audio shipped once per worker - identical output, lower memory, and a responsive progress bar / Cancel.

Faster exports — streamed straight to the encoder, no giant temp files.

• CHGFaster Glaedr export — frames stream straight into the encoder (landscape + 9:16 portrait in parallel) instead of writing huge lossless temp files and re-encoding. No multi-gigabyte intermediates, and the encode overlaps the render. NVENC when available, libx264 fallback; output is identical.

Fix: the Accurate preview now caps at ~30s and plays with sound.

• FIXAccurate preview no longer renders the whole clip — it caps at ~30s from the trim start (or the full trim if shorter).
• FIXAccurate preview now plays with sound — it muxes your full audio mix into the rendered clip and opens it in your system player.
• CHGThe < / > buttons now step the previewed frame on the canvas.

Fix: the LFO timeline now refreshes the moment you set or clear an LFO.

• FIXLFO timeline refresh — configuring or removing an LFO on a parameter (and linking/unlinking audio) now updates the LFO timeline and live preview immediately, instead of waiting for the next change.

Dual-audio mixing — keep the clip's audio, layer your own on top.

• ADDDual-audio mix (Glaedr) — keep the video's original audio and lay an imported track over it, with a two-channel mixer: ORIGINAL + IMPORTED, each a 0–150% fader and a mute.
• ADDImported fade in/out in the export dialog, to ease a music bed's entry and exit.
• ADDLoop toggle in the AUDIO panel that repeats a short track to fill the clip — the waveform tiles with seam markers so you see the repeats. Off by default.
• FIXA short imported track no longer truncates the exported video — the mix is pinned to the clip length.

Live playback, subject-aware glitch, GPU tracking.

• ADDGlaedr live playback — Fast proxy preview or a frame-perfect Accurate pass, looping with frame-step.
• ADDTracker-driven glitch — mask any layer to the subject, the inverse, or a target ID, with Expand.
• ADDThree new tracker skins (Corner Lock-On, Data Tag, Dot + Trail) plus scrolling IDs and trail styles.
• CHGAnalyze now runs detection on the GPU (onnxruntime + DirectML), ~5–10× faster, byte-identical.
• CHGTracker controls hidden in EVA for a cleaner per-mode UI.
• FIXGlaedr portrait export crash on unusual frame widths.

Fix EVA video export on fresh builds.

• FIXEVA → Export MP4 failed with “No module named moviepy.editor”; pinned moviepy < 2.0 to match the export code.

Object tracking comes to Glaedr.

• ADDObject Tracker — ANALYZE runs YOLOX + ByteTrack over the trim range, cached, on a background thread.
• ADDBox + Label and Targeting Reticle skins; themed label presets + custom tokens.
• ADDFree-text parameter field in Properties, reusable by any future effect.
• FIX8K export falls back to libx264 when frames exceed NVENC's 4096px width limit.

First public release — EVA + Glaedr, 32 effects, one shared spine.

• ADDEVA (still) and Glaedr (video) over a shared engine and UI; all 32 effects upgraded.
• ADDCKURO.ART look — live mode accent (EVA purple / Glaedr gold), Bebas + Share Tech Mono, scanline console.
• FIXAudio pickers accept FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG, Opus, WMA.