This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇
VEED: A free, AI video editor for auto-generating subtitles, removing backgrounds, animating text and effects, and more.
FrameZero: Sketch, animate, and share — a whiteboard video editor for explainer videos and tutorials.
Lawn: A simple video review platform for creative teams (Frame.io alternative).
UIHut: A design resource marketplace with 26,000+ assets (UI kits, templates, icons, and illustrations for Figma and Webflow).
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TOP STORY
💬 VEED releases “Dynamic Subtitles”
This week, VEED released "Dynamic Subtitles," a new AI-powered captioning feature that automatically highlights key words in your video's transcript with animated effects — creating those viral-style captions where words pop, scale, and stand out as the speaker talks.
The feature uses AI to analyze your transcript and identify the most impactful words to emphasize, eliminating the hours of manual keyframing typically required to achieve this effect.
With Dynamic Subtitles, you can now:
Choose from preset animation styles: Select from styles like Handwritten, Whisper, Fusion, Glide, and Pulse (each with different text animations and effects).
Auto-highlight key words: AI identifies and emphasizes the most important words in each subtitle section, with the option to manually toggle emphasis on or off for any word.
Customize styling: Adjust font, size, colors, and animation effects to match your brand, then burn the captions directly into your video for export.
Works on any video: Apply dynamic captions to both recorded footage and AI-generated videos, ready for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
The feature is available on free and paid VEED plans, though a paid plan is required for watermark-free exports.
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ANIMATION
🎬 Canva acquires “Calvary”
This week, Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry, a UK-based 2D motion graphics platform built by animators for animators.
Cavalry offers a faster, more intuitive alternative to Adobe After Effects for 2D animation work, and teams at Amazon, Google, Netflix, and OpenAI already use it.
Canva also acquired MangoAI, which will be integrated into Canva Grow, the company's marketing intelligence tool available on Business plans at $250 per person per year.
These are Canva's fourth and fifth acquisitions in two years, following Affinity and Leonardo in 2024 and MagicBrief in 2025. Cavalry will continue to operate independently while its technology is incorporated into the broader Canva platform.
MangoAI is a stealth startup founded by former Netflix data scientists that uses reinforcement learning (a type of AI that learns by testing different approaches and observing what works) to automatically improve video ad performance over time.
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MUSIC
🎵 Google acquires “Producer.ai”
This week, Google announced the acquisition of ProducerAI, an AI-powered music creation platform formerly known as Riffusion.
The startup and its full team are joining Google Labs, Google's division for experimental AI-powered products, and Google DeepMind.
ProducerAI is a browser-based tool that lets users create and refine music through a conversational AI agent — rather than generating a single result from a prompt, it's designed around an iterative back-and-forth, similar to working with a real producer in a studio.
With ProducerAI, you can:
Generate full tracks from text prompts: Describe what you want (e.g., "make me an Afrobeats track with a Gengetone rap") and refine the bass, flow, and lyrics through conversation until it sounds right.
Create custom instruments with "Spaces": Use natural language to design entirely new instruments and effects in the browser, from a simple keyboard to a node-based modular audio patching environment.
Produce album art and music videos: Generate visuals alongside your music using Google's image and video generation models.
Create tracks up to three minutes long: A significant upgrade from ProducerAI's earlier short-clip limitations, making it more practical for full-length production.
The acquisition comes just one week after Google launched Lyria 3 in its Gemini chatbot app, and positions ProducerAI as a direct competitor to platforms like Suno and Udio in the growing AI music generation space.
Producer.ai is live in 200+ countries and territories with a generous free tier to start your creative journey (and no more waitlist!).
OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
Adobe released “Quick Cut” in Adobe Firefly’s video editor, allowing creators to instantly turn uploaded or generated footage into a structured first cut.
Figma released “Codex to Figma,” allowing you to generate Figma Design files from Codex using the Figma MCP server.
Figma improved the template picker in Figma Buzz.
Google Whisk and ImageFX will now integrate with Google Flow.
Google Opal now has Memory, Dynamic Routing, and an Interactive Chat.
Pomelli by Google Labs launched in India.
Gamma is now available in Claude, allowing you to generate Gamma presentations directly in your Claude chat.
Gamma is now in the Superhuman Agent Store.
Figma FigJam is now available in Notion as a pre-configured MCP integration.
Figma added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
Figma now allows you to share files, projects, and teams with an entire workspace.
Figma Governance+ org admins can now turn on AI hosting controls so AI traffic stays within Figma’s AWS environment.
Notion added native Image Generation right inside Notion.
Replit released “Replit Pro,” a new, $100/month plan.
Replit Animation is now powered by Google Gemini 3.1 Pro, which excels at SVG animations.
LottieFiles released “Motion Tokens,” allowing you to bind your animation properties to real data.
Runway released a new “Character Renderer” app, allowing you to turn simple sketches into fully rendered 3D characters.
Runway added support for Kling 3.0, now available in Runway Workflows and Tool Mode.
Reve released “Reve v1.5,” its latest image model, now with 4K resolution.
Paper released “Paper Desktop,” a canvas for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex.
Jitter released “Jitter for Figma Draw,” allowing you to import your Figma Draw designs into Jitter in a click and start animating them right away.
Leonardo.Ai released “Universal Upscaler,” allowing you to enhance image quality and generate product-ready assets.
Webflow released its new “Real-time Collaboration” feature to all users.
Webflow released “Custom Prompts” in Optimize, allowing you steer AI copy suggestions by audience, tone, and intent.
Webflow released faster, safer content editing features, including: quick edit access via ?update, editing inside interactive elements, role experience previews, and clearer global component editing.
Webflow now allows you to edit unbound text, links, and images inside components.
Webflow now allows you to push updates from a source library to multiple sites bulk, with no manual acceptance required.
Midjourney added Moodboards and Personalization to Niji v7.
Restream revamped the Clips page, now with: animated previews, virality scores, transcripts, favorites, and one-click multi-posting.
StreamYard AI Clips now generate 3x faster.
Replit released new Agent modes in Replit: Lite, Economy, Power, and Turbo.
HeyGen Avatar Agent, allowing you to turn blogs, scripts, or topics into avatar-delivered videos in minutes.
Amplitude released “Amplitude MCP for Lovable,” a connector that lets Lovable agents query Amplitude behavioral analytics, generate product insights in plain language, and set up in-app A/B tests directly inside Lovable.
Runway added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
Descript now allows you to upload any file and reuse it across projects, with the Media Library.
Descript added support for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Google Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Descript added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
Freepik released 3 new Audio Nodes in Freepik Spaces, allowing you to generate voiceovers, loopable sound effects, and AI-generated music.
Freepik added support for Seedream 5.0 Lite.
Freepik added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
v0 added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
KREA AI added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
KREA AI added support for Seedream 5.0 Lite.
Invideo added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
Lovable added support for GPT-5.3-Codex.
LTX Studio added support for Kling 3.0 Pro.
Tella now allows you issue Linear tickets, directly from a screen recording.
Rive released Editor 0.8.4342, which includes: single file invites, expanded view model instance support in Scripting, UI updates, and optimizations to AI prompts.
Rive released rendering updates to Editor and Runtimes: interleaved gradient noise dithering added to reduce banding, vector Feathering GPU optimizations, and large feather radius test scene benchmarks.
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