Release notes

Everything new in Episodo — generation quality, reliability, the editor and the cast system. Newest first.

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  1. QualityLatest

    Captions that actually post, and sharper video direction

    Every finished episode now gets a caption and hashtags, and the instructions behind each clip were rebuilt from scratch.

    • Captions and hashtags now save every time

      Finished episodes were quietly ending up with no caption and no hashtags. The caption was being written correctly and then thrown away over a formatting detail, so nothing ever reached the preview page. Fixed, and every existing episode was backfilled.

    • Captions sound like your show again

      Captions were being written without the show's tone or name attached, which made them read generically no matter which series they came from. They now carry the show's actual voice, and can use up to three emoji when they fit the moment.

    • Rebuilt the instructions behind every clip

      The brief sent to the video model now follows one fixed structure — who is on screen, what must not change, what happens, how the camera behaves, who speaks, and what the audio carries. Tighter and more specific, which means fewer wrong-speaker and drifting-character clips.

    • Shot framing accounts for your cast size

      A close-up was being chosen for scenes that had four people in them. Shot framing is now reconciled with how many characters actually have to fit in the frame.

    Also fixed

    • A silent scene no longer tells the video model to animate someone speaking.
    • Scene descriptions can no longer be cut short by a long show style or character description.
    • Hashtags are de-duplicated and capped at eight.
  2. Reliability

    Fewer stuck episodes

    Automatic fallbacks when a generation provider fails, faster detection of stalled renders, and quicker refunds.

    • Automatic provider fallback for images and video

      If the image or video provider fails or degrades mid-episode, generation now switches to a second provider instead of failing the take. Image fallback runs on Gemini 3 Pro Image.

    • Stalled renders are caught much sooner

      A render that was accepted but never reported back used to sit for 90 minutes before anything noticed. A job that has gone quiet is now checked directly against the provider and released early, so credits come back faster.

    • Resuming an episode picks up where it stopped

      Resume now understands the scriptwriting stage, and checks whether a render is genuinely still running before abandoning it — so resuming no longer redoes work you already paid for.

    • Smoother scene-to-scene continuity

      Removed the frame-chaining step, which had been carrying visual artifacts from one clip into the next. Scene layout is now planned for the whole episode in one pass, which is both more consistent and faster.

    Also fixed

    • Capped how many clips render at once, with backoff on retries, so large episodes stop overwhelming the queue.
    • Scriptwriting failures are now recorded instead of being silently swallowed.
  3. Quality

    Pro-level hooks, and a serious generation fix

    Every episode now opens on a real hook at 0:00, and a silent failure that had been breaking script generation was found and fixed.

    • Every episode opens on a hook

      The first frame now lands mid-moment with someone already talking — no establishing shot, no silence. The writer picks from thirteen different hook techniques, so consecutive episodes in a series don't all open the same way.

    • Fixed script and character generation breaking silently

      A model change had quietly broken script and character generation: requests were being spent on internal reasoning and returning nothing usable, and the retry path was being bypassed entirely. All three causes are fixed, and every generation request now goes through one hardened path.

    • All 300 built-in episodes rewritten

      Every episode across the ten built-in shows was rewritten from a 22-minute broadcast summary into a single-throughline premise sized for a 60–120 second video. Handed less to compress, the writer stops summarising and starts telling the story.

    Also fixed

    • One speaker per clip is now enforced, which stops overlapping and garbled voices.
    • A character whose portrait failed to generate is now reported instead of dropped from the scene.
  4. Editor

    Edit your episodes in the browser

    A full video editor for finished episodes — trim, reorder, add captions and effects, then export without leaving the page.

    • A real timeline, not a settings panel

      Drag to trim, reorder or delete clips with snapping and a real-time preview, with undo and redo throughout. Multi-select, copy and paste, and keyboard shortcuts all work the way you would expect, including on touch.

    • Captions, transitions and effects

      Add captions, cross-fades, fades to black and colour effects, plus text, graphics and stickers. Clips can be sped up, slowed down or reversed.

    • Export straight from the browser

      Your edit renders locally and uploads directly to storage, so large exports no longer fail partway through.

  5. Cast

    Built-in shows have a real cast

    Each built-in show now ships with its own official cast, and every character keeps the right face and the right voice across an episode.

    • Official casts for built-in shows

      Every built-in show now has a fixed cast you can generate in one step, extend with extra characters, or customise slot by slot.

    • The right face with the right voice

      Dialogue, voice and appearance are now tied to a specific character rather than matched on name, so a line can no longer be delivered by the wrong character — or in the wrong voice.

    • Dogs and Cats as cast styles

      Two new cast styles, both rendered as proper animated characters rather than restyled humans.

    Also fixed

    • Fixed a timing issue that reverted characters to their previous portraits partway through a recast.
    • Fixed "Cast the show" doing nothing when a roster had already been generated.
    • Established relationships between characters are now respected by the script editor.