What's New in Slate

We rebuilt our cropping tool on web from the ground up. We've replaced the windowed crop with an on canvas alternative so you can stay in-flow, and see exactly how your crop will look in context of the layout. We still offer all the handy preset crop aspect ratios wrapped up in a more intuitive experience that we know you're going to love.

While you're out enjoying the Summer, we're in the trenches, making your Slate editing experience more buttery and less buggy. Here's what's good in the latest batch of updates:

✨ New:

• Multi-Select Bulk Editing: Select multiple assets and apply bulk edits, dramatically speeding up your workflow.

• Multi-select copy and paste: Copy and paste multiple selected clips across timeline or projects, streamlining your editing process.

• Add your own audio: add audio files from your computer to your projects.

• Lasso selection for clips: Quick-select multiple clips by dragging across them in the timeline. Plus, Cmd + A combination selects all assets.

• Easier Cuts: Now you can hit the "S" (split) shortcut to cut at the location of the pl;ayhead even when no clip is selected. Works for single and multiple clips when stacked.

✅ Improved:

• Snapping in timeline: A vertical guide now appears when snapping assets in the timeline, making alignment clearer and improving editing precision.

• Updated Interface: Refreshed the expand/collapse UI and adjusted volume control spacing for a cleaner and more consistent layout.

• Media Drawer now Uploads: The Media Drawer transforms into Uploads, now supporting audio file uploads.

🔧 Fixed:

• Resolved an issue where adding audio through the "Add To Project" button could result in an error, ensuring smoother audio imports.

• Fixed a timeline layout issue that occurred when uploading multiple videos simultaneously.

• Resolved inconsistency between timeline and context menu for Denoise visibility when Frame Focus is disabled.

This Summer we're on a mission to make Slate your favorite video editor, starting with nailing the basics. In our first release, we've got a number of fixes, improvements and new shiny tools for your edits.

✨ New

• New timeline interface: A fresh interface focussed on editing and interacting with clips

• Timeline Toolbar: surfaces the most important actions based on your current clip selection

• Multi Select Clip: Select and move multiple clips at once, less clicks and fewer grey hairs per edit.

• Insert Clip: Add a clip between two others right in the timeline: keeps your workflow flowing

• Remove Gaps: zap every unwanted gap in your edit

• Add LinkedIn SafeZone to WCS: Create with confidence for LinkedIn's unique specifications

🚀 Improved

• Overlays: previews of Overlays have been updated for visual clarity

• Templates: Layers in templates now include layer names.

• Implement 3:4 Aspect Ratio: supporting Instagram's new format

• Zooming: we've improved zooming in the canvas

• Clip length: we removed the arbitrary minimum of 0.2s for clips

• More safe zones: added safe zones for for custom size canvases and standard with 9:16, 1:1 aspect ratios

• Better feedback when uploading video: The "Missing Media" notification was unhelpful, so we improved it to offer clearer feedback during your upload process

🔧 Fixed

• Noise Removal: we fixed an issue where denoise would not work if it had been cancelled previously and we now prevent multiple audio uploads.

• Missing Captions: Clips generated in Shortcuts would sometimes be missing captions once loaded.

• Captions follow clip trimming: previously when a clip with captions was extended captions for the newly extended part would not appear. Now they do.

• Captions lost off canvas: previously captions could be dropped outside the bounds of a canvas and disappear. Now they wont go off canvas

• Clip length being lost: some reported that the duration of non-video clips would disappear after a page refresh, or when opening a project

• Custom Aspect Ratios: previously custom dimensions would not always reflect in the canvas. Now they do.

Last month Instagram rolled out support for 3:4 aspect ratio content in feed. For some time already you've been able to export content in the new format on Web and Mobile and now we're proud to announce that Slate fully supports 3:4 aspect ratio brand assets too:

Assets supporting 3:4 Aspect Ratio

• Overlays

• Templates

• Intro's & outro's

• Backgrounds

We've added a Scrubber to the Canvas edit view, so you can seek through your video, and check your layouts without opening the timeline.

Text is the backbone of social content. It guides, it persuades, it connects. Now you can do more with text in Slate on mobile.

• Highlights: Box and inline effects to make your message pop



• Shadows: Choose from drop shadow, glow, or retro effects



• Outline: Add definition with adjustable borders



• Color opacity: Fine-tune transparency for subtle branded touches



• Case switching: Toggle between upper and lowercase instantly



• Letter spacing: Adjust tracking for improved readability

Update to the latest version, do something silly. Then undo it. This is the future we were promised.

Now on Android – one tap Background Removal for Graphics and Images. Easily eliminate the backgrounds from your photos or graphics, leaving only the main subject.

Unleash your creativity with Caption Translations. Expand your video content to a global audience with multilingual captions.

Transform your long-form videos into stunning social media shorts effortlessly with Slate’s Shortcuts feature. This AI-powered tool highlights the best moments, delivering polished, ready-to-share clips that dazzle your audience.

Creator Control at Its Finest:

Enjoy full editability with no flattened clips or burned-in captions - perfect for crafting a unique brand story.

Smart Moment Detection:

Easily surface key highlights using moments, tags, or timestamps, ensuring your content shines.

Smart Edit

Removes pauses, repeats, and irrelevant content for a focused clip, while Basic Edit simply trims the start and end without cutting anything inside.

With timeline you can arrange the timing and sequencing of video clips, text and other layers. In this first version we've focussed on arrangement and sequencing so you can start creating more engaging social video. We're just getting started so watch the forthcoming releases for improvements.

You can upload and publish Intro and Outro sequences in more aspect ratios:

• 9:16 Vertical

• 1:1 Square

• 16:9 Landscape

• 4:5 Portrait

Instagram has shifted from its iconic 1:1 square grid (1080 x 1080 px) to a taller 3:4 format for grid previews. As a result you may have noticed your content looking unflatteringly cropped in the grid view. To ensure your captions and watermarks dont get the cut we've updated our Safezones to include more comprehensive grid lines.

With Presets you can use consistent styling across all your video captions. Once you've dialed in a look you like, hit save and the caption Preset will be available for your future projects.

We've also introduced two new formatting improvements. Remove the punctuation in your captions with one click, for easier reading. You can also now keep captions visible during long periods of silence between phrases.

This quality of life update goes out to all our Template users who have struggled with missing fonts, incompatable fonts – or just wanted to use a font specifically for a Slate Template. Those days are over, because you can now replace fonts in your upladed PSD Templates.

Templates make editing visuall complex content on the go a breeze. And now it just got, uh, brezier with several important updates.

Swappable Layers: PSD templates with swappable layers make it easy to make dynamic edits to your templates by swapping out logos, graphics or any visual with a tap. Unlocked Layers: Template layers can be unlocked making it possible to move and resize layers in templates.

You're probably thinking "C'mon Slate, undo is *barely* a feature." But you'd be suprised just how convincing we can be through the use of graphics and clever word-play.

Discover the magic that is Undo™

When you make a mistake or change your mind about a design decision, hit Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z and revert to your previous edit. That's right, unlike life and fashion in the 80's, in Slate no mistake is irreversible; no error of judgement, irredemable.

Just Ctrl+Z to go back in time and fix any mistake. Just one step back? No. Five? You're lowballing. Undo in Slate is Limitless, theoretically speaking.

Now to the not so good news. There are many hundreds of potentially undoable things in Slate, so if you may notice something is not, uh, "undoing" – let us know and we'll be sure to add it.

Finally you can leverage the title and logo video sequences that your video teams have created in Slate. With Intros and Outros you can maintain consistency across your video Social content.

Use Intro's as title screens and Outro's for animated logos, credits or calls-to-action. Many of our customers have been looking forward to putting Intro's and Outro's to use for Content Sponsorships – to ensure partnership content is always to spec and to brief.

Like all assets in Slate Intro's and Outro's can be managed from Brandhub, assigned to Collections and used for content creation on both iOS and Web.

Cropping is a critical tool for content creation – and we're happy to say that it's finally available to all Creators on the Web. With our first iteration you're able to crop video and images using a variety of popular aspect ratios, with more options like custom manual cropping coming soon.

Timeline on iOS continues to get better with support for images. Now creators can include images and video to their posts, or create video content using only images.

Images added to the timeline behave like video clips. You can change the duration of the image clip and use it in conjucntion with other Slate asset types like filters, sound and backgrounds

The Sprout Social integration marks a significant milestone as our very first Publishing integration. Sprout Premium customers can publish or schedule content directly from the Slate Web Editor to Sprout Social. Brand andministrators can also publish any content created across their team from the Content Hub. Support for publishing directly from iOS will be coming soon

Safe Zones is an innovative feature that provides users with the ability to preview their content in advance, ensuring that it appears exactly as intended when shared on various social platforms. This feature helps users to make necessary adjustments beforehand, thereby enhancing the overall quality and effectiveness of their posts. By offering a glimpse of the final look, Safe Zones empowers users to create more engaging and visually appealing content, tailored to fit the unique specifications and aesthetics of each social platform.

With Caption support in timeline, fine tuning your captions to picture is faster and more intuitive. In the timeline, captions now appear as a series clips, just like video, making it possible to dial in the timings of ever word.

For teams relying on imported PSD templates to drive their Slate content creation experience, your workflow has just gotten a massive speed boost. With Swappable layers, your templates can now cater for multiple scenarios, states or styles in a single file.

When importing templates admins, can now set layers or groups of layers (folders) as swappable and specify which layers can be swapped. We've also greatly improved the template uploading experience for admins with more controls over layer-level editng permissions.

Removing the background noise allows users to eliminate unnecessary sounds and noises that might otherwise interfere with their listening experience. By utilizing advanced noise reduction technology, users are able to fine-tune and adjust the level of noise reduction to ensure that the audio remains clear and maintains a natural sound quality. This customization ensures that users can enjoy their audio content without any distracting background disturbances.

Share your content to Content Hub from the iOS app, allowing you to share not only with social media platforms but also with your account team members. This ensures that your valuable content reaches a wider audience, including those within your professional network and social circles.

Allows all Slate users to view and access content that has been generated not only by themselves but also by other Slate users within their account. This feature ensures that users can collaboratively engage with and benefit from a wider range of information and resources created within the Slate platform.