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Product updates, field guides, and field notes, each with links to docs and the tools they describe. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.
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ReadField guide · July 26, 2026
A privacy-first workflow for everyday files
A reusable file-handling routine for photos, documents, audio, video, archives, and study material.
- Classify before opening
- Keep processing boundaries visible
- Control copies and cleanup
Field notes · Field notes
ReadField guide · July 26, 2026
Choosing the right Novus tool for the job: a practical decision guide
A calm way to choose among the Novus apps without memorizing product names, features, or format lists.
- Decide from the output
- Match the processing boundary
- Build the shortest tool chain
Field notes · Field notes
ReadField guide · July 25, 2026
Why Playwright ships its own Chromium instead of using your Chrome
What the bundled Chromium build actually is, how it differs from branded Chrome, and why GPU-accelerated features are the hardest thing to put under test.
- Pinned builds
- Chromium ≠ Chrome
- Headless GPU limits
Novus Stream Solutions · Stack & engineering
ReadProduct highlight · July 25, 2026 · updated August 1, 2026
Novus Examples grows up: 401 video fixtures, 480 templates, and OBS-compatible scenes
What changed in the sample-file library this week, why video needed a rebuild rather than a top-up, and the one manual step an OBS scene collection cannot avoid.
- Video 70 → 401
- Templates 180 → 480
- OBS-compatible scenes
Novus Examples · Novus Examples
ReadField guide · July 24, 2026 · updated August 1, 2026
A field guide to the ten Sonic Weaver engines
An opinionated tour of all ten engines and their sixty modes: what each looks like, the music it suits, and when to reach for it.
- Ten engines, six modes each
- Matched to energy, not genre
- Depth lives inside specific modes
Sonic Weaver · Sonic Weaver
ReadField guide · July 23, 2026
Building a game in the open
Why we shipped a playable arcade soccer build before it was finished, and how the ship, play, feedback, tune loop shapes what Novus Striker becomes.
- Playable today, honest about what is still in development
- Ship, play, feedback, tune on a tight loop
- Runs in the browser: no launcher, no store, no install
Novus Striker · Novus Striker
ReadField guide · July 23, 2026
The test files that break your app, on purpose
The most useful test files are the ones built to fail on purpose, and generating them to spec is what makes those failures reproducible.
- Zero-byte, corrupt, oversized
- Generated to spec, reproducible
- Harden converters and upload flows
Novus Examples · Novus Examples
ReadField guide · July 23, 2026
Why we render 4K in your browser, and why there is no export quota
The export button is where most free video tools reveal their business model. Here is why ours has no watermark, no quota, and no server bill behind it.
- Encode runs on your device
- No watermark, no export quota
- MP4 H.264 / WebM VP9 up to 4K
Sonic Weaver · Sonic Weaver
ReadField guide · July 22, 2026 · updated August 1, 2026
The Character Motion engine: turning words into performance
A focused tour of the Character Motion engine and its six typographic and character-driven modes.
- Typographic and figural modes
- Six modes, one engine
- Depth lives in 3D Performer
Sonic Weaver · Sonic Weaver
ReadField guide · July 22, 2026 · updated August 1, 2026
From one track to vertical shorts, Canvas loops, and lyric videos
A single Sonic Weaver project, reframed into a 9:16 short, a seamless Spotify Canvas loop, and a lyric video with on-device captions.
- One project, reframed not rebuilt
- 9:16 short + Spotify Canvas loop
- On-device lyric captions
Sonic Weaver · Sonic Weaver
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