Creator Tools — What's New in the Last 4 Weeks
It's been a busy month for the Creator Tools. Three brand-new tools joined the lineup, the multi-track Studio Mixer learned how to record, and the Credits Roll Generator got a top-to-bottom overhaul. Here's everything worth knowing, tool by tool.
🎚️ Studio Mixer — now a real recording studio
The browser multi-track editor got the biggest update of them all. It's no longer just for cutting and arranging — you can now record straight into it.
- Live recording — pick any input device, monitor yourself while you play, and record directly onto a track.
- Automatic track arming and a cleaner recording settings panel.
- Latency compensation — dial in a manual offset so recorded takes line up perfectly with the rest of your project.
- Live recording visualization — the timeline grows and follows the playhead as you record.
- Per-track pan — place each track anywhere in the stereo field.
- Ducking — automatically lower the music under a voice-over, now controlled from a single global setting.
- Clip normalization — even out loudness on any clip for cleaner playback.
- Master volume control for the whole mix.
- Marquee multi-select — drag a box to grab several clips at once and edit them together.
- Drag-and-drop ghost preview — see exactly where a clip will land before you drop it.
- Middle-mouse drag-to-pan across the timeline, smoother zoom with sensible limits, better scrolling and time display.
- Clip nudging for frame-accurate positioning.
- Smarter autosave that only writes what actually changed, plus faster waveform rendering on trimmed clips.
🎬 Credits Roll Generator — a full overhaul
The tool for building scrolling film credits was rebuilt around a much more flexible playback engine and a friendlier editor.
- Two playback modes — classic vertical scroll or a slide/fade presentation, switchable at any time.
- Slide easing options, including a new "drift" easing with an adjustable drift distance.
- Focus-pull blur during fade transitions, with adjustable strength, for a cinematic depth effect.
- Configurable cross-fade / transition durations.
- Undo / redo with snapshot-based history.
- Welcome modal on launch — start fresh or reload a saved project.
- Categorized section types with thumbnail previews in a new centered insert dialog.
- Click-to-focus on any section card in the preview, plus hover highlighting and mouse-wheel scrubbing to move through the roll.
- Sections now start collapsed to keep the editor compact.
- Global UI scaling so the interface and fonts stay comfortable on any screen.
- Simplified transport: one Play/Pause toggle plus a dedicated Stop button.
📐 Room Planner — brand new
A new 2D floor-plan tool for sketching out spaces.
- Draw rooms, then place and manage objects (doors, windows, furniture) and export the result.
- Smart-guide snapping aligns objects to each other automatically.
- Vertex selection and snapping for precise wall drawing.
- Real wall thickness rendered from outward wall normals and polygon offsetting.
- Automatic region detection recognizes enclosed rooms.
🖼️ Image Converter & Compressor — brand new
Convert and compress images entirely in your browser — nothing gets uploaded.
- Batch processing with support for multiple formats (e.g. PNG → JPG / WebP).
- Watermark feature with adjustable settings, and a toggle to turn it on or off.
📝 Markdown Editor — brand new
A clean, distraction-free Markdown workspace.
- Live side-by-side preview powered by the Toast UI editor.
- Export to PDF and HTML, with dedicated print styles for a clean light-theme printout.
- Quick open, copy, and clear actions.
🎨 Image & Design Studio — precision alignment
The layer-based design tool got much easier to lay out cleanly.
- Smart guides and magnetic snapping for aligning layers to each other and to the canvas.
- Anchored resizing for image and text layers, so a fixed corner or edge stays put while you scale.
- Guide-line feedback while resizing.
- The whole interface is now available in every supported language.
🎧 3D Audio Maker — refinements
- Cleaner, faster keyframe marker selection in the automation view.
- A gentle pulsing animation now draws your eye to the file-upload area when you first arrive.
🎞️ Video & Audio Converter — now multilingual
The in-browser format converter is now fully translated across all supported languages.
Also worth noting
- Every Creator Tool is now in the sitemap, so the tools are far easier to find via search engines.
- The Creator Tools overview got quick card actions to launch a tool or jump to its details.
That's the roundup. As always, every tool runs right in your browser, free to use — go make something.