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.