Changelog

0.10.0 · 2026-11-11

Your assistant now keeps the recipes it works out: it starts from the last values that worked, checks its own samples, and tells you in one sentence what it did.
Say what is wrong when a result is delivered and the recipe remembers it; standards you set stay per project.
Three built-in recipes: green screen and white background to transparent ProRes 4444, and a film look.
GIF and PDF files can be added to a project; any PDF page becomes a still.
PostLumina needs a sign-in: a new account starts a 14-day trial with everything included.
When a trial or a subscription ends, jobs already running finish, Undo keeps working and your jobs, outputs and recipes stay readable; new work waits until you buy.
Your assistant can cancel, resume or retry the jobs an assistant started.
Recipes come first when the assistant looks for a way to do something, and a dead end now points to the tool or recipe that fits.
The assistant is told in one sentence why PostLumina cannot run, with the link to buy.
Usage data, when on, includes your requests and your corrections.
A Record recipes automatically switch in Settings, on by default.
PostLumina is now signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized: open the DMG, drag it to Applications and open it.

0.9.0 · 2026-11-04

Sign in to PostLumina to start a 14-day Pro trial.
Pro licences are checked on this machine and refreshed about once a day; offline, PostLumina keeps working for weeks.
When “Help improve PostLumina” is on, the usage records you can see under Settings are now actually sent, about once a day.
A new version shows up as a card with a download link; nothing installs itself.
Pasting a licence key still works for pilots without an account.
The assistant is told in one sentence when a job can't run without a licence.
Privacy policy and terms are at postlumina.com.

0.8.0 · 2026-10-22

PostLumina now carries everything it needs: its own ffmpeg, Python and speech engine ship inside the app. Nothing to install with Homebrew, and every one of the 42 tools works on a fresh Mac.
The app is signed as a whole but not yet notarized, so macOS asks once: open it, click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. The Install.md next to the app walks through it; no terminal needed.
Chinese, Japanese and Korean captions render on any Mac: Noto Sans CJK SC ships with the app, next to DejaVu Sans.
A speech model download that is interrupted picks up where it stopped, and PostLumina checks the free space before it starts.
Settings → Let the assistant hear lets you choose the speech model: small (default) or large-v3-turbo (q5_0); switching downloads the other one.
Settings → Health check says where each tool comes from (bundled with PostLumina), and Settings → Open-source licences lists every licence, the build manifest and where to get the source code.
The first open can take a few seconds while macOS scans the 0.5 GB app; later opens are immediate.
Requirements: a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) on macOS 13 or later. Intel Macs are not supported.

0.7.0 · 2026-10-20

Your assistant asks less: copying, renaming and moving files happens at once and can be undone in Jobs. Only moving files to the Trash still waits for your yes, and a draft nobody confirms closes after 7 days.
Outputs can go anywhere inside your project folder, for example site/public/audio, and Media still marks them as outputs. Nothing is ever overwritten.
QC judges more fairly: loudness off a platform’s target is a warning PostLumina can fix, your own target counts when you name one, animation drawn on twos is no longer called a frame-rate conversion, and “Not a problem” on a row keeps it quiet for that file, as measured.
A recipe is suggested only when you use the same method a second time. If your assistant says no, that lasts for its conversation only; the card stays for you to decide.
When PostLumina is closed, your assistant opens it in the background as soon as it needs it.
Errors say what really happened, and long measurements get two minutes and a plain “still measuring” instead of starting over.
Your assistant can record outside work that wrote a folder, a temporary file (shown as Not kept) or used a web address, and it can name a job or file by the first 8 characters of its id.
New for your assistant: a speech measurement for a voice track (pace, pauses, pitch, loudness, noise floor), listening that marks the lines it is unsure of, and up to three follow-up steps on a job’s outputs, such as loudness after an audio clean-up.
An output made again from the same file the same way marks the earlier one as “Older version” on Media; nothing is moved or deleted.

0.6.0 · 2026-10-17

Say “QC these videos” and PostLumina checks them before you deliver: damaged frames, black or frozen picture, loudness, format, subtitles. Each file comes back as ready, fixable by PostLumina, or needs you — with the time, a picture and what to do — and a report is saved in PostLumina Output/QC.
What PostLumina can fix, it fixes with one yes — loudness, format, interlacing, black bars inside the picture — into new copies in PostLumina Output/QC fixes, and checks them again. Your originals are never overwritten.
Listening samples: before you change a recording’s loudness or sound, hear ten seconds of it — the original and the result side by side, with its loudness, peak and clipping, and what the whole file will come to.
A video you export with a platform template (YouTube, Reels, TikTok…) is checked for that platform when it is done; the job page shows the result.
A check that does not pass is now reported as the findings it is, not as a damaged file.
Video tools are updated to ffmpeg-skill 2.10.3.
Smaller fixes: a video with no sound is no longer turned into an empty audio file (the plan says why), the listening setting names listening as well as watching, and toast messages clean up after themselves.

0.5.0 · 2026-10-15

Audio files now work as jobs: cut a recording, denoise it, match its loudness, remove its silence, or save it as M4A, MP3, WAV or FLAC — and a video can give just its sound.
Your assistant can listen: ask what a recording or a video says and its new listen tool answers with the words and when they were said, with no pictures — a Voice Memo becomes text. Turn on “Let the assistant hear” in Settings.
Audio in the app and in recipes: filter Media by Audio, press New job, pick a tool and a Format — and keep the method as a recipe that runs on other recordings.
Music files with cover art are no longer mistaken for videos, and .opus and .caf files are recognised.
A file you name that cannot be used is now explained in plain words — for example a recording given to a tool that needs a picture — instead of being skipped without a word.
A recording inside the Voice Memos app's own library cannot be used where it is: drag it to the Desktop or the project folder first, then use that file.

0.4.1 · 2026-10-14

Your assistant can now work on any file — PostLumina's own outputs, files it hasn't scanned yet, even files elsewhere on your Mac — and every edit, check or file change is recorded.
Media shows outputs and files from outside the project with a badge and a filter — and “Add files…” brings in any file on your Mac, so a recipe can run on it in the app too.
Correct exports are no longer failed and deleted by the final check: loudness normalisation could make the audio read up to a tenth of a second long. The check now compares the picture — its length, or where it ends — and still fails a file that was really cut short.
Files moved or deleted outside PostLumina (for example in Finder) can be recorded under Jobs.
A recipe keeps the method, never one clip's content — its subtitle file, chapters, word timings or replacement audio — and a caption recipe used on a clip without its own subtitles says so plainly before it runs.
Proxies are now encoded on your Mac's GPU by default — several times faster, files about twice as large. Turn off hw under Advanced for a smaller file.
Work your assistant did with another tool (ImageMagick, SoX, sips…) can be kept as a recipe too — its card shows the whole command, asks you to read it before you run it, and warns of anything risky — in red when it may be dangerous. A method that changes the system or deletes its own input is never kept.
A job you said yes to in the conversation now shows how long after the draft your yes came.

0.4.0 · 2026-10-13

Say yes in the conversation: renaming, moving, copying, or sending files to the Trash, and very large batches, no longer have to be confirmed in the app — and Undo for file changes stays in “Needs you” for a day.
Updated video tools (ffmpeg-skill 2.8): more exact cuts on phone footage, word-by-word captions, a GPU encoding switch, and more.
When your assistant watches a clip, the times it tells you are now exact to the frame.
A project set to “Confirm first” keeps everything an assistant proposes waiting for you in the app.
A batch your assistant marked for review, or one that puts a file's text into the video, still waits for you in the app.
Saved recipes that set crf now use quality — the same setting under its new name.
Watching a short stretch of a clip, or a moment past its end, now gets a clear answer instead of an error.

0.3.2 · 2026-10-12

Restarting is rarely needed: conversations opened before an update keep working, and PostLumina speaks up only when one is really missing something.
When a conversation does need reopening, PostLumina names it — where it runs, when it started, what it was doing — and says how.
Codex now sees every PostLumina tool, including planning and running jobs.
Settings → Health check lists one row per conversation, in an order that stays put; click one to open it in Sessions.
“Got it” really quiets the reminder — it comes back only for a new conversation that needs reopening.
The New project window explains the assistant note in one line — usually you don't need it.
When your assistant starts working in another project, the app follows it — and Switch back is one click away.
Codex now renames, moves and deletes files in a project folder through PostLumina too, so the change shows up in Jobs and can be undone.

0.3.1 · 2026-10-09

After an update, PostLumina names the assistant to restart and how — and the note clears once you've restarted it.
“Needs you” is a short, quiet list. Drafts you already had done another way close by themselves.
PostLumina now opens on Sessions, where your conversations are.
Several drafts of the same kind from one conversation share one row; drafts older than a day fold into one line.
Your assistant mentions an update once in the conversation, and can withdraw its own drafts that are no longer needed.
Recipe offers show the run from the project you're in, and a second change to the same recipe joins the same offer.
Settings → Health check lists each assistant connection, when it was last active and why it needs a restart.