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ProductΒ·April 12, 2026Β·6 min read

Audio sync, 16-second clips, and what we're shipping this quarter

The biggest release since launch. Synchronised ambient audio on every render, longer clips, a dedicated Studio render lane, and three smaller wins that nobody asked for but everyone will notice.

VideoGenAI Team
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!TL;DR
β†’Synchronised ambient audio on every render β€” muteable, but on by default.
β†’Max clip length: 12s β†’ 16s on every tier.
β†’Studio-tier dedicated lane β€” 38s average render time at peak.
β†’Three quality-of-life wins shipped alongside.

Short, focused release this week. Three headline things and a handful of quality-of-life touches that nobody asked for but everyone who uses the product daily will immediately notice.

1. Synchronised audio on every render

Every clip now ships with ambient sound matched to the scene:

βœ“Room tone for interiors
βœ“Wind and water for exteriors
βœ“Motor / mechanical noise for action
βœ“Subtle foley on hero-shot motion (footsteps, fabric)

It's muteable if you don't want it. If you *do* want it, you've just saved yourself a Foley pass.

β˜…Pro tip

Turn "audio" off in the render panel if you're cutting the clip into a bigger edit with its own score β€” the ambient layer will usually fight your sound design.

2. Max clip length 12s β†’ 16s

Most of our renders are ad spots and social cuts, but 16s gives room for a two-beat intro / punchline that 12s was clipping. All tiers get it β€” the extra 4 seconds don't cost extra tokens beyond the standard second-per-token rate.

16s
New cap
Up from 12s
+0 tokens
Extra charge
Standard rate applies
+33%
Runway for two-beat structure
Intro + punchline now fits

3. Studio-tier dedicated GPU lane

Studio and above now get isolated capacity. Average render time on that lane is ~38 seconds per 720p clip, even under peak load.

Tier
Queue at peak
Dedicated GPU
Spark
Shared
No
Boost
Shared, priority
No
Pro
Shared, priority
No
Studio
Dedicated
Yes
Infinite
Dedicated + 1st in queue
Yes

If you're running an agency pipeline, that's the difference between waiting in a queue and shipping to a client the same hour.

And three smaller wins

βœ“Win

Prompt history is searchable. Three months of prompts, full-text search, filter by tag. It's a small feature; it's also the one we use internally constantly.

βœ“Win

"Re-render with variation" keeps the same prompt but swaps the seed, so your four alternates come back in one batch instead of four manual retries.

βœ“Win

Clip export presets β€” IG 9:16, YT 16:9, TikTok safe-area mask β€” baked in. No more "oh right, I need to re-crop this."

One quote we keep hearing

β€œ
It's not that any single thing is revolutionary. It's that every single thing that was annoying is now fixed. This is what product work is supposed to feel like.
β€” A customer email from Tuesday

What's next quarter

Short preview: native audio mixing timeline, prompt-to-prompt morphs, and a proper client-collaboration mode with view-only sharing links. No fixed ship dates yet β€” we're still sizing them.

Log in, re-render last week's clips, listen with sound on. Tell us what still feels annoying β€” we read everything, fix most of it.

See the release on your own prompts

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