Changelog

📦 New

• Remotion Video Composition Node — drop a "Compose Video" node, wire in any combination of generated images, videos, and audio, and render a finished branded MP4. Built on @remotion/lambda with distributed rendering across ~30 parallel Lambda workers. A 20-second 1080p video renders in ~80s. Live progress bar, render state persists across reloads, and a sidebar tab shows your full render history.
• Seedance 2.0 — ByteDance's new flagship video model, currently the highest-quality cinematic generator on FAL. Both endpoints supported: image-to-video ($0.30/s) with director-level camera controls (dolly, pan, tracking shots), and reference-to-video ($0.18/s) with multi-image tagging (@image1, @image2) for character consistency.
• Flux LoRA Family — five new image models added: Flux LoRA (text-to-image with custom LoRAs from CivitAI/HuggingFace), Flux LoRA i2i, Flux Kontext LoRA i2i (multi-ref editing), Flux 2 LoRA Edit (multi-ref + LoRA combined). Use these to lock in custom styles like "90s anime," brand looks, or trained character LoRAs.
• Seedream V5 Lite Edit — reference-based image editing with strong style adherence. The best alternative to Nano Banana when you need to combine character references with style direction.
• ElevenLabs Voice Picker — searchable voice browser with audio preview. Type to search across the full 1000+ voice library (not just hardcoded presets), hit play to preview, click to select. Replaces the old generic dropdown.
• Render History — every Remotion render is now saved to your account. New "Renders" tab in the editor sidebar shows resolution, duration, timestamp, and a direct download link for every video you've ever made.

🧠 Improved

• Auto-Duration Credit Settlement — for variable-duration models like Seedance, we now pre-charge the maximum and refund the difference after FAL returns the actual duration. Saves users 30-50% credits on shorter generations.
• Distributed Rendering Architecture — switched from single-Lambda serial rendering to @remotion/lambda parallel chunks. Solves the previous "render times out at 5 min" issue and unlocks longer videos.
• Frame-Accurate Video Component — adopted @remotion/media's new Video component (2026 best practice). Frame extraction on the server, buffered playback in the browser preview. No more black first frames in rendered output.
• Render State Persistence — start a render, close the tab, reload the page, reopen the editor — the progress bar picks up exactly where you left off. Same FAL-style pattern used elsewhere in the platform.

🔄 Changed

• Fixed double-credit settlement race between webhook and poll routes — users were occasionally getting refunds twice on the same job.
• Remotion node aspect ratio now matches the actual scene graph dimensions instead of being hardcoded to 9:16 (was letterboxing 16:9 videos).
• Killed autoplay-with-audio on canvas video previews — they now show the first frame and require a click to play.
• Pricing fixes: Kling 3.0 Standard pricing was stale from February (now correct), Seedance/PixVerse use proper "seconds" unit, weekly cron now does safe price-only updates instead of destroying the registry.

📦 New

• Compositor Text Layers — add text directly onto your compositions with full control over font family, size, weight, color, alignment, letter spacing, line height, and opacity. Supports Google Fonts, drag positioning, and pixel-perfect preview. Similar to Ideogram's text layers but built for workflow automation.
• Workflow API (/run endpoint) — turn any visual workflow into a REST API. GET /run describes inputs, POST /run executes with just the values you want to override. Poll for results. Build visually, call programmatically.
• Video Intelligence Analyzer — paste any TikTok URL and get a complete scene-by-scene breakdown. Extracts frames via scene detection (with smart fixed-interval fallback), transcribes audio, then runs Claude Vision on every frame for visual composition, content strategy, and recreation instructions.
• Magic Link Sign-In — email-based passwordless authentication alongside Google OAuth.

🧠 Improved

• Execution Engine Refactor — the execute route was reduced from 3,792 to 2,432 lines. Six modules extracted (node execution, iterator helpers, FAL polling, input resolution, workflow updates). Single completion authority via __executeInProgress flag eliminates poll/resumer race conditions.
• Iterator Deferred Resolution — workflows with dynamic frame counts (frame extractor → iterator) now correctly discover item counts at runtime. Scene detection auto-retries with fixed interval when fewer than 5 scenes detected.
• Published App Frame Thumbnails — frame extractor output is now included in execution results, so published apps show correct frame thumbnails instead of stale editor data.

🔄 Changed

• 6 new integration tests covering published app iterator pipeline — bare key lookup, data.result extraction, scene detection fallback, upstream result sync.

📦 New

• AI Chat Agent — an in-canvas assistant that can build, modify, and explain your workflows through natural conversation. Ask it to add nodes, change models, or troubleshoot — it has full context of your canvas and tools.
• Streaming Workflow Generator — describe a workflow in plain English and watch nodes appear on the canvas one by one as the AI generates them. Includes real-time thinking feedback so you can see the reasoning behind each decision.
• Content Moderation — automatic NSFW filtering runs before AI execution, catching inappropriate prompts before they reach the model. Image uploads in the editor are also scanned.
• Sidebar Collapse — toggle the node sidebar with Cmd+B. Hover the collapsed bar to reveal edge handles. State persists across sessions via localStorage.

🧠 Improved

• Smarter Edge Handles — handles now validate against hydrated port IDs and enforce proper in-/out- prefixes, reducing broken connections.
• Rate Limiting — bumped to 120 requests/hour after observing power users hitting the previous 60/hour cap.