> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.memorystring.app/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.memorystring.app/more/roadmap.md). # Roadmap What's new in MemoryString 1.2.6, plus what comes next. MemoryString **1.2.6** closes the app when you close the window, opens MCP Settings as a sheet, adds quieter crash reporting you can turn off, and fixes Music Follows Show, Fit Show to Music, and title-font browsing. **1.2.5** kept **Long story short** length steady after **Fit Show to Music**. **1.2.4** brought **Fit Show to Music**, **Titles**, **Peek**, and **Studio** fonts. ## What's new **1.2.6** * Closing the main window (red button or **⌘W**) quits the app. Untitled work with content asks **Save** / **Don't Save** / **Cancel** first. * **MemoryString → Settings…** (**⌘,**) opens MCP Server as a sheet on the main window (Close or Escape dismisses it, including after the sheet finishes closing). There is no separate Settings window. * Anonymous crash reports can go to the makers automatically so rare Mac crashes get fixed faster. On by default. Turn off anytime with **MemoryString → Share Crash Reports**. Reports do not include your photos, music, or project filenames. * Turning **Music Follows Show** back on refills a short music bed so the song covers the show again. * **Fit Show to Music** keeps group timing when it stretches the show to a longer song. * Opening or closing a **Studio** title font menu previews that face on the stage. The choice sticks only when you click a name. **1.2.5** * **Long story short** keeps the same longest length after **Fit Show to Music**, unless you moved **Energy** yourself. * A rebuild starts clean: hand-set slide lengths, transitions, and lens choices clear. Look, energy, rotation, captions, music, titles, cover, and muted videos stay. * On a full-body photo, the person sits beside the card so the place stays in the blur. * Changing Look updates the card border while you scrub. * On an empty project, Escape closes the **Add photos & videos** menu. * **Reset Titles to Defaults** says what it restores, and clears the opening background and closing words. **1.2.4** (since the **1.2.2** App Store build) * **Fit Show to Music** covers the whole film, including the end card, and turns **Music Follows Show** off. * **Titles** holds the opening card and optional **closing words** on the end card. * **Music Follows Show** keeps the soundtrack with the Look. Turn it off to keep your playlist when you change Looks. * **Peek** inspects a parked Outtake. **Studio** font menus list every font on this Mac. * Scenic and person+pet backdrops keep the place and both subjects in the blur. * **Add** / Import stay grey during Long story short, Stringing it together, and while a saved show opens. * Someone lying down stays as shot. Rotate turns the backdrop with the card. * Paste and Photos drag no longer stick the loader. Grain and hex flare sit on the photo while you scrub. Long shows stream music. **1.2.2** * A big **Long story short** import no longer sits stuck after **Importing M of N** or **Finding focus M of N**. * **Library** Show menu → **Videos** can **Mute Noisy Videos**, **Mute All Videos**, and **Unmute All Videos**. Wind and hiss go quiet; talking, music, and sharp hits stay. Opening a show re-checks. * On a group photo, the blurred backdrop shows the people in the photo, not the empty room. * Same 63 bundled songs, about 36 MB smaller. **1.2.1** * **Long story short** goes up to **30** minutes, still capped at what the photos can fill. The finished movie lands within about 10 seconds of the minute you pick. Closing and opening the project keeps that order and that length. **1.2.0** * The intro is full bleed and follows the show’s stage. **Intensity** follows Stage Intensity until you pin it. The wash eases into the first slide. **Allow Access** is the one Photos button. * A new show is **Clean** on the **Light** stage. **Cinematic** stays on **Dark**. **Clean** and **Crisp** use a grayscale backdrop. **Polaroid** and **Golden Hour** stay in color. * The backdrop covers the stage and is never mirrored. A face that would hide behind the card zooms into the open side. **Backdrop Seat** is gone. * **Long story short** finds each face (**Finding focus M of N…**) and deals groups across the finished show, the same way **Shuffle** does. * Dragging photos from **Outtakes** back to **Takes** finds that focus without freezing the window. * You can check every group kind. **Auto** still picks a short list from the length of the show, and never more than three. **1.1.3**, since the **1.1.2** App Store build. * **Motion → Transitions.** Checked boxes are the kinds this show uses. **How many** and **Auto** set how many single-slide transitions and group kinds, and the list grows with the show. **Shuffle** keeps kinds you checked. Each change re-cuts the show. * **Photo series.** Photos from the same shoot stay in one group. A group does not mix two shoots. * **Long story short.** The Duration sheet leaves the show alone until **Create**. The offer is the nearest minute that show can fill. While it looks, it says **Checking M of N photos…**. A series stays one group. Near-duplicates are not side by side. * **Keep Best** flags the same moment in the same framing. A different pose stays. * **Photos import** moves through **Importing M of N** faster. * **Pinned groups** stay when you delete, move, or change a transition. **Ungroup** keeps the mix on the other slides. * A show that ends on a group fades into the end card. * New shows start **Stage Intensity** at **50%** on Dark and **80%** on Light. * Scrub still follows after an edit. * **Go to Start** (|◀) sits beside **Timeline**. It jumps the playhead to **0:00** and scrolls a zoomed filmstrip back to the start. Same as **⌥⌘←**. It lights up when you hover it. * After **Long story short**, groups sit with the usual gap between them, not back to back. **Perspective Pair** can be turned off like any other group kind. A two-shot series does not have to be a pair. **Auto** may still pick Pair as one of the kinds. ## This release ### **Fit Show to Music** **Fit Show to Music** moves **Energy** so the song covers the whole film, including the end card, and fades across the credit. It turns **Music Follows Show** off. Your own tracks stay. See [Music](/build-your-movie/music.md#length). ### **Titles and closing words** Inspector → **Titles** holds the **opening card** and optional **closing words**. Closing words sit on the existing end card, above **Created with MemoryString**. They stay off until you turn them on. See [Titles and captions](/build-your-movie/intro-captions.md). ### **Music Follows Show** On by default. After the first photos or videos land, MemoryString adds a bundled track from the current **Look**. A successful **Fit Show to Music** turns **Music Follows Show** off. See [Music](/build-your-movie/music.md#music-follows-show). ### **Peek** Double-click an Outtake, or right-click → **Peek**, to look at a parked shot over the preview. It does not join the show or move the playhead. See [Library](/build-your-movie/library.md#outtakes). ### **Studio fonts** Captions, the opening title, and closing words can use any font installed on this Mac. **System** stays first, then A–Z. Each name is drawn in that type. See [Titles and captions](/build-your-movie/intro-captions.md#fonts-studio). ## Earlier releases ### **1.1** **Long story short** and richer **captions**. Group lengths are easier to set, and Help moved to this site. **Long story short.** Build a shareable movie from a big pile of photos and videos. Pick a length from 1 to 30 minutes (default 3), capped at what the photos can fill. The best shots go on the show, spread across the whole trip. Videos are trimmed. The rest stay in **Outtakes**. Nothing is deleted. An import of more than 150 photos and videos offers it first. See [Long story short](/build-your-movie/long-story-short.md). **Caption Details.** Choose what automatic captions say: landmark, city, country, and date. Dates come short, long, or as numbers, with or without the weekday. Captions can be written in another language. One **Size** for every slide, and captions rise in by default. See [Titles and captions](/build-your-movie/intro-captions.md#caption-details-studio). **Also in 1.1:** **Set Duration** on a group sets the whole group, the same as dragging its edge. **Esc** deselects. A live show clock in the title bar. **Help** opens this site. Lens effects show on fewer photos by default (**How often** 50%). A calmer default pace. ### **1.0** **Photos import**, **Outtakes**, and **Auto Trim**. Also a compact export dialog, screensaver export, timeline multi-select, rebuilt Timing and Rotate & Flip menus, video duration on library thumbs, and an update notice in the footer and app menu. ## Coming next In this order. ### **Auto Enhance** Optional gentle exposure and clarity on photos already in the show. It is not a second Look system. Off by default. Your **Look** still defines the movie. ### **Motion pins** **Studio.** Pin direction on one slide or group. Enter from the left or right, filmstrip travel left or right (or up or down when vertical). Right-click the timeline item. Everyday shows stay automatic. ### **Beat-sync** Cuts and transitions follow the beat of the song. Strength follows your **Energy** slider. **Studio** mode. **Fit Show to Music** sets length first. Respects any motion pins you set. ### **Motion presets** Save a motion style you reuse across shows, which moves are on, direction defaults, what you never want (for example never ribbon). 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