--- title: "Director 1.1, a Home for Styles & a Tool-First Dashboard - FLORA Update" description: "Director can now hit an end frame, follow a soundtrack, and stream in 1080p. Your trained styles get a real home in the Library — with folders, covers, and…" url: "https://flora.ai/updates/director-1-1-styles-library-tool-first-dashboard-2026-09-11" --- FLORA Weekly No. 081, September 11, 2026 # Director 1.1, a Home for Styles & a Tool-First Dashboard Director can now hit an end frame, follow a soundtrack, and stream in 1080p. Your trained styles get a real home in the Library — with folders, covers, and workspace sharing — and the dashboard is rebuilt around tools, with universal search and project folders. Plus one-tap edits on Generate, projects on your phone, and a big batch of canvas and collaboration upgrades. ## New ### Director 1.1 Open a session on a first frame and steer it toward an end frame, play to an audio clip, and add new keyframes or clips on any direction mid-stream. ### More Less Streams natively at 1080p (at 2× the credit rate), and sessions can now run up to 15 minutes. Recorded clips save as a flat MP4, so they open cleanly in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, and QuickTime. ### A tool-first dashboard The sidebar is regrouped around creating, your content, and Tools — where Fashion Studio, Bulk Generate, Pose, Realtime, and Editor Mode now live. ### More Less A universal search palette finds anything (project results show thumbnails and open in a new tab), and a unified Library page brings your assets together. Projects get their folders back, plus drag-and-drop, multi-select, right-click menus, and pinning. New project, New Technique, and Request a Technique are always one click away; the sidebar footer shows which workspace you're in, with pinned workspaces first in the switcher; and a new MCP entry links to setup guides for Claude, Cursor, and Codex. ### Remove background, Mark up, and Video on Generate Three new one-tap actions on any image result. ### More Less Remove background gives you a clean cutout, Mark up lets you draw a region or pick a detected object and describe the change, and Video adds the image as a reference and switches the composer to MiniMax H3 Max Turbo — now Generate's default video model. After your first result, a light nudge points out the tools you haven't tried yet. ### Node tags, a project inbox, and pinned comments A project-scoped notification bell lives on the canvas, and you can #-tag any node in a comment — clicking the tag selects and centers it. ### More Less Comment threads placed on a node now move with the node; drag one off to detach it. ### Color tags and downloads in Review Mode Color-tag generations as you review, filter the set by color, and download the filtered group as a zip without leaving Review Mode. ### More Less Review generations now brings in every history variant on a node, not only the one it's currently showing. ### Bria Ad Delayer Hand it a finished, flat ad and get it back as editable layers — background, product cutout, and copy — each landing as its own image on the canvas. ### More Less In the image-to-image picker at a flat $0.37 per request. ### Shift-drag to reroute wires in bulk Shift-drag from an output to move every connection leaving it to another output in one motion, or Shift-drag an input to move a node's whole incoming bundle. ### More Less Snaps to compatible handles or the node body. ### Drop to replace Press Replace on a node, then drag a same-kind node, a sidebar or history asset, or a file from your desktop straight onto it. No more download-and-reupload. ### Animation playback on 3D nodes Models that carry animation clips get Play/Pause, a clip picker, and Loop, right beside Photo, Video, and Sheet. ## Improved ### MiniMax H3 Max Turbo at 1080P Now offered alongside 480P and 768P for text-to-video and image-to-video. ### More Less H3 Max's aspect-ratio Auto option and prompt-expansion tiers (Disabled / Balanced / Quality) are labeled to match. ### Mention techniques with # in Fauna chat Type # to pick one of your techniques or a community technique and drop it into the conversation as a chip. ### Create shows its thinking Watch the model's latest thought as it works and expand the full trace, with less play-by-play between tool calls. ### More Less The + menu can attach a reference straight from your library, and Create now reconnects on its own if the stream drops. ### Smarter canvas placement Nodes that Fauna or Create add to a canvas no longer land on top of your existing work. ### Keyboard navigation in add-node search Up and Down to move through results, Enter to add — just like the model dropdown. ### Home feed scrolls infinitely No more Load more on Home and profile Images. ### More Less Verified creators are no longer capped at three posts per page. ### Fashion Studio, refocused Seven tools retired (Multi-Angle Shoot, 360 Model Video, Concept, Fabric Swap, Garment Swap, Model Maker, Photo Shoot) and the onboarding tour rebuilt around the eight that stay. ### More Less Projects that used a retired tool keep its tile, marked deprecated. ### API and MCP on the Free plan API keys and MCP access are now available to Free workspaces, with an install guide on an empty canvas. ### Anyone can add Slack Any workspace member can connect Slack from Settings — admin permission is no longer required. ### Batch Generate A Watch how it works link in the page header, and after importing four or more compatible assets you'll be offered a batch run. ### Fewer New badges The model picker's New badge now lasts 14 days instead of 30, and stale badges are gone from the Integrations tab and Export node. ## API & MCP ### Batch generation from MCP Start a batch of generations in one call with flora_create_generations, and read the whole batch back with flora_list_generations by run ID. ### More Less Hosts that support MCP Apps render it as a live board. ### Share a project by link from the API Three REST endpoints (and client.projects.sharing in the SDK) with the same permissions and link semantics as the canvas Share tab, plus matching MCP tools: flora_share_project, flora_get_project_sharing, and flora_update_project_sharing. ### 3D generation over MCP Model3d runs end-to-end with text metadata, preview images, and a GLB download link. ### Sourced generations and member lists POST /generate accepts reference_node_ids so API generations stay wired to their sources, and GET /workspaces/{id}/members lists workspace members. ## Fixes - Custom voice uploads now tell you what went wrong (unsupported file type or over 10 MB) instead of showing an empty review screen. - Hitting an admin-set per-member usage limit fails immediately with a clear message instead of appearing to hang. - A tab left open across a deploy now offers a one-click refresh instead of “This node failed to render.” - Free workspaces on Generate see the upgrade prompt before a video submit, rather than a failed run. - Viewers opening a link-shared project no longer get the “choose a workspace” modal. - Org admins with an analytics assignment can open Settings → Analytics even with subworkspaces off. - Leaving inpaint or outpaint restores the node's previous model, and switching models keeps upstream inputs in order. - Image nodes no longer crash when browser storage is full, and expired workspace invitations are hidden from the switcher. - Referrals survive cross-device checkout, and picking an empty-state example on Generate keeps the deep-linked model. - Review Mode grid rows no longer overlap, and Generate result trays stay usable on small images. - Mobile: previous Fauna threads load on project pages, chat pickers open above the composer, and the skills panel stays on screen. - The comments discovery nudge's Got it button is clickable again, SVG outputs render in technique app mode, and technique pages load reliably.