What shipped, and when
Only things you can actually use. Work that is still behind a flag does not appear here until it is genuinely available.
- New
Clip a stream while it is still live
Paste a link to a Twitch or YouTube stream that is currently broadcasting, pick a range from what is already reachable in the recording, and clip it without waiting for the VOD to be published. Useful when a moment happens two hours into a stream and you want it now.
- New
Public data deletion instructions
A page explaining exactly how to delete your account and the data held against it, what gets removed and how long it takes.
- Improved
The 15-minute minimum charge is stated up front
Jobs have a 15-minute minimum charge, so a short video costs 15 minutes of your allowance. That was true before but was not visible until after the fact. The dashboard now says so before you generate.
- Fixed
Long YouTube videos stopped failing to download
YouTube had begun serving degraded, quality-limited responses to automated downloads, which made long videos fail or come back at the wrong resolution. Downloads now handle that response and fall back correctly, so long uploads work again.
- New
Source trimming, with the price attached
A slider on the dashboard lets you select just the span of a long video you actually want clipped. You are charged for the selected span rather than the whole recording, and the price updates as you drag it, so a four-hour VOD no longer costs four hours of allowance to get one clip out of.
- Fixed
Checkout tells you when the card form fails to load
If Stripe's card form was blocked by a content blocker, a corporate proxy or a flaky mobile connection, the pay button simply did nothing and looked like an ordinary dead button. It now detects that the form never loaded and says so, rather than leaving you clicking.
- Fixed
Clips that would not play now recover on their own
Playback links could silently expire while a clip was open, leaving a player that looked fine and did nothing. The player now checks the link itself rather than trusting the video element, and refreshes it when it has gone stale.
- Improved
Billing moved to exact minutes
Charging used to round up to 15-minute blocks, which meant a 16-minute video cost twice what a 14-minute one did. It is now the exact duration rounded up to the next minute, with a 15-minute floor. A 42-minute video costs 42 minutes rather than 45.
- New
Top-up minutes without changing plan
Creator and Studio subscribers who run out of minutes mid-month can buy more at their plan's rate instead of upgrading to a tier they do not want.
Questions about any of this? The help centre covers the details.