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0.2.8

0.2.8 is the current release of Solar Sailer. This is the first changelog entry, so instead of listing changes it describes what the app does today. Later releases will list what changed since the entry before them.

Solar Sailer is a Windows desktop editor from Proko. It takes hours of raw takes and gets you to a rough cut you can finish somewhere else.

What Solar Sailer does today​

  • Import your footage into a media bin. Thumbnails, waveforms and audio previews are generated in the background while you keep working.
  • Sync multiple cameras and audio recorders by matching their waveforms across the whole recording, not just the first few minutes. When two files do not overlap, the sync refuses the match and tells you why instead of placing clips wrong.
  • Transcribe your audio with word-level timing. The transcript is an object on the timeline, so editing the words edits the cut.
  • Find retakes. Repeated attempts at the same line are grouped so you can keep the one you want.
  • Clear out silence and filler words in one pass, with fades at the seams so the splices do not click.
  • Cut the dead stretches. One pass finds where nothing moves, another finds where you are not looking at the camera.
  • Rough Cut pass. An AI model rates every sentence and applies the cuts, including cuts inside a sentence.
  • Face tracking and camera selection across a multicam session. Camera picks are applied by switching clips off rather than deleting them, so they are reversible.
  • Edit by hand on a multitrack timeline. Video and audio tracks, trims, splits, slips, markers, in and out points, clip volume, and position, scale, rotation, opacity and crop per clip.
  • Ask the built-in AI assistant in plain English. It runs the same commands your keyboard and mouse do, so Ctrl+Z undoes anything it does.
  • Extend the app. Write your own Process-menu tool as one Python file plus a manifest (see the Plugin Development Guide), or drive the editor from an outside script over local HTTP (see Scripting Solar Sailer).
  • Hand off to Premiere Pro. Import an existing Premiere sequence as XML, with cuts, disabled clips, volume, transforms, linked audio and video, and markers intact. Export your rough cut back out the same way.

What it does not do yet​

  • No final render. Solar Sailer stops at the rough cut and hands the sequence to Premiere.
  • No DaVinci Resolve import or export yet. Premiere Pro XML is the format that works today.
  • No Mac build yet. Windows only for now.
  • No effects or transitions. That system is not built.
  • You bring your own AI provider keys and pay the providers directly. A built-in option is planned. See the FAQ for details.