Release 2026.08.28
A 1AD joins the crew, and a week spent on the things that broke
5 new4 improved7 fixed
2026.08.28Aug 28, 2026ReleaseAug 28, 2026
A 1AD joins the crew, and a week spent on the things that broke
The first vertical slice of hired crew — a 1st AD with a catalogue of disciples behind it, castable from the marketplace and injected into the pipeline's personas. Around it, a week of the unglamorous half: runs that would not stop, a trail that lost deletions, and a database that answered 500 instead of trying again.
NewMarketplaceDisciples, stage one: a 1st AD role, the master catalogue behind it, the marketplace screen that casts one, and the persona it injects into the pipeline that runs.
NewProducerThe status report arrives in the morning without being asked — yesterday's work, digested, published to the crew room as dailies.
NewGalleryA tag on any take, and the crew's own shelf to file it on.
NewAnalyticsWho is using the studio, and how long they spend where — a screen for it, and the events under it.
NewCastingA character's state knows which scenes it holds for.
ImprovedShot generatorReferences travel as links rather than as bytes on the request, and the hero frame asks for 2K.
ImprovedGenerateThe Seedance prompt is written for the version it will actually run on.
ImprovedEditorWhat a shot already has, at a glance — before you open it.
ImprovedIntakeThe upload dropzone takes .txt screenplays, and the scene preview parses them the same way the breakdown will.
FixedGenerateA run that never answers can be stopped — and stops itself.
FixedPipelineA duplicate or failed run can start again under the same name, and a stale failure is cleared before it does.
FixedEditorThe Seedance prompt no longer leaks its own tokens into the text, the price badge stops colliding with the take, and telemetry flushes on a throttle.
FixedPlatformA read that lost its connection is tried again rather than answered as a 500; session writes are throttled and the pool's timeouts tuned.
FixedPipelineThe breakdown auto-starts once per production, not once per mount.
FixedPlatformA deletion — the one event the audit trail could not keep — is kept.
FixedPipelineA screenplay line without spaces still has a length.
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