OpenChatCut 0.1.6: Precise Controls and a More Reliable Editing Agent

OpenChatCut 0.1.6 is a precision and reliability release. It makes routine adjustments faster in the Inspector, gives the Agent clearer feedback after every edit, improves media inspection, and closes several project and export edge cases.

The result is not just a longer feature list. It is a calmer editing loop: inspect the project, make a bounded change, verify what moved, and undo cleanly when needed.

Precise Inspector controls

Transform and audio values in the Inspector now support four complementary ways to work:

• Click a value and type the exact number.
• Drag across the value to scrub quickly.
• Use the keyboard for small, repeatable adjustments.
• Reset an individual property with one action.

The controls remain aware of keyframed properties, and a continuous slider drag is grouped into one undo step instead of filling history with dozens of tiny changes. This makes the Inspector useful for both quick visual placement and exact delivery work.

A tighter Agent editing loop

The Agent now receives a compact description of what an editing tool actually changed. Created tracks, removed items, moved ranges, and ripple rules are returned directly, so the Agent does not need to reload the full timeline after every action.

This release also adds:

• undo_last_change, which routes an Agent-requested undo through the normal proposal and confirmation flow.
• Per-track gap reporting in read_project.
• Preservation of the partial assistant reply when generation is stopped.
• Better prompt-cache reuse by keeping the volatile timeline snapshot outside the stable prefix.

These changes reduce unnecessary reads while keeping the timeline—not the chat transcript—as the source of truth.

Better media inspection

Frame contact sheets now prefer moments where the picture visibly changes, then use even sampling to fill any remaining slots. A locked-off shot no longer produces a page of nearly identical frames when more informative moments are available.

Reference images retain their real MIME type, frame extraction failures are handled consistently, and semantic media search now deduplicates results per asset while dropping weak matches. Together, these fixes make visual comparison, color inspection, and media selection more dependable.

Safer project state

Several fixes protect work at the boundaries where editing sessions previously became fragile:

• Pending autosaves flush when leaving the editor.
• Media cleanup keeps uploads that are still referenced by a project.
• Out-of-range fades and keyframes are repaired when an older project loads.
• Clip edits stay within clip duration, source media, and cut boundaries.

The UI was also aligned across the shell, library, media pool, preview, chat, timeline, and Inspector, so spacing, controls, typography, and state feedback now feel like one editor.

Corrected FCPXML handoff

FCPXML exports now resolve uploaded media against the real media directory instead of emitting unusable root-level paths. Filenames with spaces or non-ASCII characters are encoded per path segment.

Transcript-edited audio is exported as one clip per kept segment, so words removed in OpenChatCut stay removed when the XML is opened in Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Video remains continuous through transcript word deletions.

Download 0.1.6

OpenChatCut 0.1.6 is available for:

• macOS on Apple silicon
• macOS on Intel
• Windows x64
• Linux x64 as an AppImage

Download OpenChatCut 0.1.6 or review the installers and SHA-256 checksums on GitHub Releases.