Changelog
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1.5.0
- Add visualizer customization options (thanks, everyone)
- Increase video rendering speed by up to 2.5x
- Fix file explorer sometimes opening in the background
- Fix export progress popup sometimes opening on the wrong screen
- Update hint about IG Reels maximum audio length
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Handclaps 1.5.0: Visualizer options & faster export
1.4.0
- Add the ability to customize the font in your beat videos (thanks, everyone)
- Add the ability to select from a number of font presets or use your own custom fonts
- Adjust Handclaps to automatically remember your video design choices
- Improve how Handclaps deals with non-Latin text
- Improve the appearance of the application on high dpi monitors
- Update the max. audio length hints (TikTok increased their max. video length to 10 minutes)
- Fix jerky touchpad scrolling on macOS 12 Monterey
- Fix a bug on macOS where closing the “About” dialog sometimes caused the main window to turn white
- Bump the minimum required macOS version to 10.14
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Handclaps 1.4.0: Customize your beat video font
1.3.1
- Stay up to date with Handclaps through in-app update notifications
- Simplified Instagram video format selection
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Handclaps 1.3.1: Update notifications
1.3.0
- Improve the visualizer to be more fluid, reactive and balanced (thanks, psychedelya)
- Refine the visualizer to react equally well to the bass and the trebles (thanks, LAYER, YS Please and Chris Porter)
- Tune the visualizer to react better to quiet beats and quiet parts of beats (thanks, Oli Aveline)
- Increase how much movement the visualizer shows in general
- Fix a Windows audio bug where a scratch noise appeared in some beat videos (thanks, Funk Seoul Brother, Moldee Beats, yp chill, Mason Storm and DONE)
- Fix a bug where Handclaps would look pixelated on high-resolution Macs
- Add support for macOS 12 Monterey
- Optimize Handclaps to start more quickly
- Save disk space on macOS by reducing the application size by 62%
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Handclaps 1.3.0: Visualizer improvements
1.2.1
- Improve audio quality of Instagram videos
- Reduce impact of Instagram's audio processing on videos made with Handclaps
- Reorder Instagram TV formats in the video format picker
- Simplify the Windows download structure
- Add in-app instructions on how to install updates (thanks, SlipperyHaze and Funk Seoul Brother)
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Handclaps 1.2.1: Instagram audio quality improvements
1.2.0
- Make the video format picker easier to use (thanks, Fury Beats, Jim and Funk Seoul Brother)
- Add support for more post types: Instagram TV + landscape Instagram posts
- Add support for AIFF and MP3 audio files (thanks, Chris Porter and YS Please)
- Add support for Windows 11
- Update hint about IG Reels maximum audio length
- Fix font rendering bug (thanks, Moldee Beats)
- Introduce subtle design changes
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Handclaps 1.2.0: Making video creation even easier
1.1.1
- Add support for macOS! 🎉 (thanks, Live Large Beats and Chris Porter)
- Fix bug that could cause videos to not include the background image
- Fix bug where encoding could hang due to a malformatted audio file (thanks, Kaitlyn)
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Handclaps now also on Mac
1.1.0
- Add support for vertical video (Instagram Stories, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, TikTok) (thanks, Funk Seoul Brother)
- Make file selection more convenient by opening file pickers at the locations of the last picked beat / image files (thanks, Funk Seoul Brother)
- Warn if picked images have low resolutions
- Redesign video type toggle
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Handclaps 1.1.0: Vertical video and other changes
1.0.0
- 🎉 Handclaps is out of beta! 🎉
- Add End User License Agreement
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Release of Handclaps 1.0.0
0.4.4 Beta
- Fix video creation failure when the title included certain characters (thanks, YS Please)
0.4.3 Beta
- Make it clearer where to find / obtain your license key
0.4.2 Beta
- Fix bug that could cause video generation to fail (thanks, Funk Seoul Brother)
- Fix bug that could cause videos to not include the background image
- Fix bugs around window positioning
0.4.1 Beta
- Fix layout bugs (thanks, Mark)
0.4.0 Alpha
- Complete application redesign
- Reduce duration of silence at the end of YouTube videos (thanks, M.Extraño)
- Improve scaling on high dpi monitors
0.3.1 Alpha
- Switch Instagram videos to square format (thanks, WaZabi and Arul Sharma)
- Change app name and icon (thanks, psychedelya)
0.3.0 Alpha
- Add Instagram video support
- Reduce font sizes of long video titles
- Add license key system
0.2.2 Alpha
- Make music visualization look better on phones
- Make frequency spectrum more balanced (thanks, psychedelya)
- Handle transparency in background images properly (thanks, WaZabi)