V28: Burn Subtitles, Modern Editors, and Total Activity Control
Burn subtitles in. Stop anything mid-flight. See every file's status in a batch. V28 is here.
Twenty-eight releases. Twenty-eight consecutive Fridays. V28 ships a burn-subtitles-into-video action right from the file context menu, so any video plus any caption file becomes a single video with the captions baked in. A universal Stop button on every activity card means you can cancel any running operation -- batch, conversion, export -- without hunting for the right dialog. Organize gets per-folder chips and workspace-root cross-folder selection so you can sweep a whole tree in one pass. Batch operations now show a per-file done, skipped, or failed chip so you always know exactly which files made it through. The preview three-dot menu has a new Copy Content item with keep-open and add-to-JSON modes -- pile content from many files into a single JSON without leaving the preview. Edit and move actions now check OS read-only permissions before they let you start, so you don't lose work to a permission denied at the end. The text, code, JSON, and markdown editors have been rebuilt on CodeMirror 6 for snappier typing, cleaner search, and better large-file handling. Long videos play more smoothly, the video editor is steadier, DOCX header and footer rendering is much better, and a long list of small Windows and shortcut fixes round it out.
What's New in V28
Burn Subtitles into Video
Right-click a video, point to a caption file, and Diwadi bakes the subtitles directly into the picture. The output plays anywhere -- no separate sidecar file, no missing-subs surprises in players that don't load them automatically.
Rebuilt Text, Code, JSON, and Markdown Editors
The four core editors have been rebuilt on CodeMirror 6 -- the same foundation used by modern IDEs. You get snappier typing, smoother large-file handling, cleaner search, and a much better experience editing JSON and markdown side by side with everything else.
Universal Stop and Per-File Status
Every activity card now has a Stop button -- one click cancels any running operation, no matter which dialog it came from. Batch operations also show per-file done, skipped, and failed chips so you can see exactly how every file in the run was handled.
Smarter Organize and Copy Content
Organize now has per-folder chips and a workspace-root mode that lets you select files across folders in one pass. The preview three-dot menu picks up a Copy Content item that can keep open between files and append into a running JSON -- great for collecting snippets from many files without breaking flow.
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The Numbers
28 releases. 28 weeks. Burn subtitles. Modern editors. Total activity control. Smarter Organize.
Twenty-Eight Weeks of Shipping
V1 on Oct 31. V28 today. Twenty-eight consecutive releases. Building in public, shipping every Friday.
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Major Features
- Burn-subtitles-into-video action in the file context menu
- Universal Stop button on every activity card
- Per-folder chips and workspace-root cross-folder selection in Organize
- Per-file done, skipped, and failed chips for batch operations
- Copy Content menu item in previews with keep-open and add-to-JSON modes
- OS read-only permission probing to gate edit and move actions before they start
- Spinner ring on the activity-panel toggle while work is in flight
- Text, code, JSON, and markdown editors rebuilt on CodeMirror 6
Technical Improvements
- Improved long-video playback responsiveness and stabilized video editor operations
- Centralized activity completion toasts for consistent messaging across the app
Fixed
- Fixed spacing in video preview controls
- Fixed DOCX header and footer modal width so long content stays visible
- Fixed DOCX header and footer formatting to survive edit-save round-trips
- Fixed DOCX rendering of header and footer fields, tab stops, and paragraph borders
- Fixed editor to honor DOCX column widths from the underlying table grid
- Fixed new-folder and split-down keyboard shortcuts to be reachable on Windows
- Fixed activity completion toast titles to shorten long file paths
- Fixed activity panel to always open on open-activity-panel events