Over 12 days in December, we shipped a new feature every day.

On day 2, we shipped Squircles, which give your webcam smooth rounded corners across all layouts.

Over 12 days in December, we shipped a new feature every day.

On day 1, we redesigned and rebuilt comments from the ground up. Threaded replies, timestamped comments, extra admin control for deleting viewer comments, and improved comment notifications and settings.

Create, save and reuse your own layouts. With Custom Layouts you can be more creative and make videos that are unique to you. Create, save, reuse, rename, update and delete your very own custom layouts.

Also in this update

• New backgrounds: A beautiful set of hazy, colourful blends and gradients by Will Neeteson
• Viewer referrals: When someone watches your video they can share it from the view page with a single click
• Tella YouTube channel: We're restarting the Tella YouTube channel with new tutorials and tips

• Custom Keyboard Shortcuts: Customise keyboard shortcuts in the Mac app.
• Fullscreen Window Support: Tella for macOS now works with fullscreen windows during presentations.
• UI Changes: Aspect Ratio and Edit options moved under Settings for a cleaner editor interface.
• Quick Link Sharing: Press L in the editor to instantly copy the share link.
• Setup Panel: New setup panel for configuring your recording setup.
• Download GIF: Download GIFs of your Tella videos instead of just copying to clipboard.

The next evolution of Layouts dramatically simplifies how you add and edit layouts. Adding a layout is now a single action: click-and-drag. What used to be three clicks and a lot of mousing around the screen has become a single click.

Also in this update

• New Auto Layout templates: A new category of Auto Layout templates for intros and outros
• Editor playback speed: Adjust playback speed during editing — useful for reviewing long recordings
• Command menu: A new command menu for quick access to editor actions
• Copy chapters for YouTube: Copy chapter markers in YouTube format for easy pasting into video descriptions

A big update to automatic zooms with a new algorithm, style presets, animation settings and more.

Features

• Style presets: Choose between subtle (less zooms, less movement) and intense (more zooms, more extreme movement)
• Animation control: Adjust the animation style for zooms and layout transitions — pick snappy for fast-paced or gentle for mellow
• Drag to add: Add a zoom exactly where you want it by hovering over the timeline and clicking and dragging
• Remember last configuration: When adding zooms one-by-one Tella remembers your last configuration
• RAW file downloads: Download the original, unedited video and audio files from your recordings

We've shipped improvements to zoom editing, increased processing capacity, and refined the interface design. The editor is now more stable with several bug fixes addressing timeline, transcription, and media handling issues.

Features

• Auto-zoom intensity preferences: Videos remember your preferred zoom intensity (Subtle, Moderate, or Energetic) across sessions, with click-based zooms automatically matching your selected style
• Copy/paste for zoom effects: Copy zoom effects between scenes using standard keyboard shortcuts, with intelligent handling of overlapping effects
• View page meta descriptions: Shared links now display descriptions in social media previews and search results for better discoverability

Bugfixes

• Zoom panel stability: Fixed crashes when no subject layer was selected - the panel now handles empty states properly
• Timeline scrollbar on Windows: Removed unwanted vertical scrollbar that was causing accidental scrolling disruptions
• Subtitle editor layering: Editor now displays above other UI elements instead of being hidden behind components
• Video seek accuracy: Playhead now maintains correct position when switching between trimming, clip editing, and other modes
• Audio waveform permissions: Fixed permission errors that prevented waveform generation for media files
• Text wrapping in transcripts: Words no longer break awkwardly mid-line in transcripts and story panels
• Sidebar title alignment: Corrected misaligned titles that were affecting interface consistency
• Fallback thumbnails: Videos display alternative thumbnails when primary versions fail to load

We've added keyboard shortcuts for faster editing and improved performance across the platform.

Features

• Faster editing with shortcuts: Use single keys like C for Cut, Z for Zoom, and B for Background to jump straight into tools.

Performance

• Faster social media shares: Previews and thumbnails generate more efficiently, so shared links load quicker.

Fixes & Improvements

• Clearer trial ending: Expired trial users now see a status message instead of being redirected away.
• Smarter AI chapters: Chapter titles now match your transcript's language automatically.

Studio Voice is like having an AI-powered sound engineer work on every video you make. It removes background noise, boosts volume, and enhances the quality. Record from almost anywhere — with any microphone — and never worry about bad audio.

Also in this update

• AI-generated video chapters: Video chapters make it easier to navigate your video. Create them by hand or generate them from the transcript using AI
• Viewer transcripts: Video transcripts are now shareable and accessible to viewers, making it easy to repurpose content
• View page redesign: The video view page has been redesigned with a wider layout and easier navigation

We've added the ability to create clips directly from transcript selections and introduced Thai language support. Account deletion is now available for all users, along with numerous performance improvements and fixes.

Features

• Create clips from transcript selections: Select any portion of your transcript and instantly create a new video clip from it. Highlight the text, right-click, and choose 'Copy to new video' to extract key moments or create shorter versions.
• Thai language support: Full support for Thai language detection, proper font display, and text handling that respects Thai's unique sentence structure for transcriptions.
• Account deletion: Permanently delete your account and all associated data from the Profile page.

Bugfixes

• Video player controls: Controls now correctly appear when the player is idle, fixing the issue where controls wouldn't show when expected.
• Tooltip performance: Tooltips appear faster and more reliably, fixing delays and failures to display.
• Invite referral system: The 'invite a friend' feature now sends referral invites correctly after a period of malfunction.
• Duplicate email handling: Clearer error messages when changing to an existing email, with helpful links to resolution articles.
• Large video conversion: Videos larger than 4K now maintain proper aspect ratios during conversion, fixing distortion in ultra-wide or tall videos.

Performance Improvements

• Video playback switching: Videos load more reliably when switching between clips or stories with improved content handling.
• Enhanced video viewer: Faster loading with duration displayed upfront and improved player interface adaptation.
• Video page optimization: Faster page loads with optimized chapter display and smoother transitions.