The film above was cut in Phosphene. Every shot, the voices, the music bed, the end card over the sky - all of it local, on one Mac.
That is the release. The timeline used to be a strip at the bottom of the storyboard. Now it is its own tab, for every engine.
THE EDITOR
Drag anything you have generated onto a timeline: trim it, move it, split it, watch it back, render one file. A media pool holds this sequence, your other sequences, every generation, your images, and anything you upload.
SOUND IS A LANE
Every clip's audio sits under it as a waveform. Unlink it, slide it under the previous shot, link it back - and you hear the character before you see them. That is a J-cut, and the preview plays it now instead of pretending.
Fades on picture and on sound: drag the top corner of any block, or type the seconds. Levels with keyframes: hover a sound strip's line, click, drag. Fades and points are one curve, so "fade in to a quiet bed" is one thing and not two controls fighting.
AN OVERLAY TRACK
A second video lane above the picture, for transparent PNGs - end cards, logos, lower thirds. Alpha is kept in the preview, the render and the export. And if your AI-made card arrives sitting on a baked black rectangle, it gets keyed automatically, because every image model does that and nobody should have to open Photoshop over it.
AN EXIT
Export for Premiere / Resolve / After Effects: a real project folder, media relinked, dialogue and music as separate stems, muted tracks disabled rather than deleted. Phosphene is not trying to be the only tool you own. It is trying to be the one the shots come from.
THE STORYBOARD LEARNED CONTINUITY
Describe the film, get the shots - but it draws a floor plan first now. Who stands where, which side the light comes from. So a reverse angle flips the sun instead of teleporting your actor to a different house. It also measures how long a line takes to say, so dialogue stops being cut off mid-sentence.
SPEED
Hailuo H3 with a 4-step turbo distill: a 10-second shot, with generated dialogue and sound, in about 11 minutes on Apple Silicon. Quality x Length replaced the fixed tier menu, and your RAM picks the model - 48 GB Macs are invited now.
AND THE UNGLAMOROUS HALF
Things that were quietly broken and now are not:
- A black frame flashed between some cuts. They were gaps a fraction of a frame wide: invisible, unclickable, impossible to fix by hand.
- Transparent PNGs were flattened onto black on the way to the screen, because the thumbnailer saved JPEG, and JPEG has no alpha.
- The renderer applied a mix the preview never played - the music bed was attenuated and ducked under the dialogue by numbers nobody could see. The mix lives in the document now, and the preview and the render agree.
- A J-cut could be saved and then never recovered: saving allowed overlapping sound, recovery refused it. The safety net failed only when you needed it.
- Two tabs saving at once could both succeed, and one arrangement vanished.
- The Save button occasionally became 1554 pixels wide.
Weights and install are unchanged from 4.5.0 - this is code only. Hit Update in Pinokio and it is yours.
Still buggy in places. Also renders films now.