SermonClip history

Changelog

Recent releases and retrospective development milestones

Releases

Added silent update checks at launch and a manual “Check for Updates…” command.
Added guided DMG and Homebrew update paths, including cask trust and adoption instructions.
Added the official SermonClip Homebrew tap and cask for Apple Silicon installs and upgrades.
Updated repository, website, and updater references for the neatlee GitHub namespace.

Combined YouTube connection and description presets into one YouTube Settings panel.
Reworked the main sidebar into three larger, responsive sections with animated selection borders and subtle hover indicators.
Updated the sidebar, panel sizing, and related controls for the three-section app layout.

Added manual Client ID and Client Secret entry in YouTube Settings, with Google Desktop OAuth JSON import retained as an alternative.
Updated the setup documentation to describe both credential paths.

Removed the bundled Google OAuth configuration; users now import their own Desktop OAuth JSON in YouTube Settings.
Removed Stoney Creek-specific credential packaging from the generic build.

Automatically replaces changed protected bundled bumpers while preserving their IDs, names, defaults, and current selections.
Removed obsolete legacy naming and migration paths from the fresh deployment.
Updated bumper compatibility documentation and removed noisy test diagnostics.

Added delayed exact-track polling for YouTube subtitle uploads so temporary processing delays do not produce false failure notices.
Added background sermon and bumper loudness analysis with cached attenuation for bumper audio that is louder than the sermon. Quiet bumpers and sermon audio are never amplified or changed.
Updated the bundled Stoney Creek opening and closing bumper with the latest supplied SCB-Bumper.mp4.

Packaged the Stoney Creek internal Apple Silicon DMG for macOS Tahoe 26+.
Included the bundled Stoney Creek Google OAuth configuration and default bumper.
Added automatic migration when the bundled Google configuration changes, with stored authorization cleared and reconnect status shown.
Added private GitHub release packaging, version metadata, and a reproducible DMG build script.
Added the DMG Applications-folder shortcut and drag-to-install layout.

Standardized the SermonClip product name throughout the app and storage paths.
Added the internal Stoney Creek default opening and closing bumper and protected it from deletion.
Embedded light and dark sidebar logos and the app icon into the application bundle.
Added persistent user data migration for bumper libraries and description presets.
Added export-folder opening from the successful export notice, MP4-only and MP3-only export selection, and automatic MP4 requirements for YouTube uploads.

Added fast export that copies compatible source video without re-encoding.
Added source-derived adaptive H.264 bumper conversion and cached converted bumpers.
Preserved source resolution rather than upscaling lower-resolution recordings.
Added JPG bumpers with six-second display timing and correct MP3 omission.
Added export progress percentages, estimated time remaining, and shared export names for MP4, MP3, and SRT outputs.

Added Google OAuth sign-in using PKCE and secure macOS Keychain storage.
Added YouTube title, description, visibility, playlist, thumbnail, subtitle, and resumable upload controls.
Added reusable YouTube description presets and playlist refresh support.
Added upload diagnostics and improved handling of accepted YouTube uploads whose later API step fails.

Added local subtitle generation, benchmarking, and completion estimates.
Added generated-subtitle review, local SRT import, preserved source text and grouping, and automatic spoken-sample matching.
Added manual subtitle adjustment, half-second timing controls, subtitle preview, and automatic selection of the first detected sermon cue.

Replaced coarse video scrubbing with waveform-based playhead control.
Added play/pause controls, persistent playhead time, detail mode, draggable scrubbing, and shaded selected-range highlighting.
Added sermon start, end, and subtitle-start markers with caret indicators.
Added boundary adjustment controls, nearby-pause refinement, manual takeover, and clear boundary validation.

Added persistent opening and closing bumper libraries with defaults, MP4 and JPG support, thumbnails, renaming, deletion confirmation, and protected bundled assets.
Added correct bumper timing in exported subtitles and MP4, MP3, and SRT export paths.
Added export-name validation, success notices, export-folder opening, and first-launch export-directory selection.

Established the native Apple Silicon SwiftUI macOS application.
Added local MP4 and SRT selection, native playback, parsing, validation, timestamp handling, manual sermon boundaries, and the initial export pipeline.
Added project persistence, security-scoped file bookmarks, and initial automated test coverage.

Established the initial SermonClip prototype and project structure.
Proved the local-first workflow for a full service video, sermon selection, supplied subtitles, bumper insertion, and exported deliverables.