INSTALL GUIDE · YTF TOOL v2 · v2.90.0

Ten minutes, five steps.

Everything the tool needs is inside the download. Nothing is fetched during setup, and your account survives a reinstall. On Windows, steps 1 and 2; on a Mac, On a Mac instead. Steps 3 and 4 are the same on both.

1 · Extract all of it2 · InstallOn a Mac3 · First run4 · The editorIf something goes wrongUninstalling

1 · Extract all of it

You downloaded one .zip. Right-click it → Extract All, and let it finish. Inside:

YTFSetup.exe
YTFSetup-1.bin  …  YTFSetup-5.bin

All six files must sit in the same folder.

Setup.exe is small; the .bin files are the actual program. Moving Setup.exe alone to your Desktop and double-clicking it there will not work, and neither will running it from inside the zip — Windows unpacks that to a temporary folder where the .bin files are not found.

2 · Install

  1. Double-click YTFSetup.exe.
  2. Windows will say “Windows protected your PC”. That is SmartScreen, and it says it about any installer that has not been through a paid code-signing certificate. Click More info, then Run anyway.
  3. No administrator prompt, no password. It installs into your own user folder, not Program Files. The one exception is the tick box “Pre-approve it in Windows Firewall” — that single step does ask for administrator, because Windows requires it. Untick it if you prefer; the tool still works, Windows simply asks about the network the first time.
  4. About 8 GB of disk, a few minutes. Most of that time is one long step with no visible progress — it is unpacking three gigabytes. Leave it alone.
  5. At the end it runs a check and tells you if anything is unhappy.

On a Mac · instead of 1 and 2

One disk image (.dmg) per kind of Mac. Not sure which you have? Apple menu › About This Mac: “Chip Apple M…” is Apple Silicon, “Processor … Intel” is Intel. macOS 14 Sonoma or newer.

  1. Open the .dmg and drag YTF Tool v2 onto Applications. Start it from Applications, not from the disk image or Downloads — macOS runs an app from there out of a temporary, read-only copy.
  2. The first time, macOS says it cannot check the app. The app is not notarized with a paid Apple developer account, and macOS says that about any such app. Click Done (or Cancel) — never Move to Trash. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down to “YTF Tool v2 was blocked…”, click Open Anyway and confirm. Once; after that it opens like any app.
  3. The first start takes about a minute. It copies the tool into ~/Library/Application Support/YTF Automation v2, where its updates go — the app itself is never changed.
  4. About 4 GB of disk, plus room for your videos. Everything it needs is inside the image — Python, the browser it uses for the stock sites, ffmpeg, the speech models.

3 · First run

  1. Open YTF Tool v2 from the Desktop or the Start menu — on a Mac, from Applications.
  2. Create an account: email, a password you choose, your age range, your country, and the tick for the Terms and the Privacy Policy — both open in your browser from that screen. Choose a password you will remember; you need it again if you ever reinstall.
  3. A new account gets 2 free videos and 5 free Shorts, one hand per computer. After that, credits are bought inside the tool under Refill credits — videos and Shorts have their own packs. Nothing renews, nothing is a subscription, nothing to cancel.
  4. The tool asks for your own API keys the first time a step needs one. They are yours, they stay on your computer, and they are sent nowhere except to the service they belong to:
Anthropicwrites the script · required · pay-as-you-go
ElevenLabsrecords the voice · required · pay-as-you-go
Google Geminipictures and the thumbnail · optional
Pexelsstock clips and photos · optional · free key

4 · The editor — no Premiere needed

When the timeline is built, the video opens in the tool's own editor: every scene, text, caption and sound on a track, with a live preview and the sound as the tracks are set. Roll a cut, split, trim, swap footage, add a title, take hold of any title or picture on the preview and drag it where it belongs, put a transition on a cut (or let YTF Magix place them by what each sentence does), take the silences out — then Export › Video for the MP4: name the file, pick the folder, watch the bar. It also opens from Edit › YTF Editor at any time, on any finished video.

Premiere Pro

XML from the editor's Export menu, and timeline.xml is written beside every video for Premiere Pro 2025 or newer. Two panels are still installed for Premiere users: YTF Magix and Remove Silences, under Window › Extensions after a restart.

DaVinci Resolve · Final Cut Pro · CapCut

Resolve takes the edit as OTIO, XML or EDL; Final Cut as FCPXML; CapCut and every other editor get a media pack — the video, the voice / music / sounds as WAV stems, captions as SRT, every title and graphic as a PNG with its times, the cut list.

Where things go. Your projects are written next to the tool, inside the install folder (on a Mac, ~/Library/Application Support/YTF Automation v2). Nothing is uploaded: scripts, voiceovers, pictures and finished videos never leave your computer.

If something goes wrong

“The .bin files were not found”Setup.exe was moved away from them, or you ran it from inside the zip. Extract everything again into one folder and run it from there.
The install finished but says a check did not passIt names a file. Send that name to admin@ytfpanel.com — it says exactly which piece is unhappy, and the tool often works anyway.
The editor did not openEdit › YTF Editor opens it on the current video; with no timeline there yet it asks which finished video's timeline.xml to open.
Premiere shows no panelsRestart Premiere. If they are still missing after that, say so. The panels are optional — the tool's own editor does the same work.
“This copy is not signed in”Open the tool again and sign in with the email you registered.
Nothing happens when I press StartThe tool checks your credits first. If they have run out it opens the top-up window instead of starting — a video that cannot finish is not started.
Windows blocked the installerThat is SmartScreen (step 2 above): More info → Run anyway. It appears because the installer carries no paid code-signing certificate, not because anything is wrong with it.
Where is the exported video?In the folder the editor's Export window shows — Videos\YTF (Movies/YTF on a Mac) unless you chose another with Browse or Save as — under the name you gave it. The window remembers the last folder, and can open it when the export is done.
macOS says the app cannot be openedThat is Gatekeeper (On a Mac, step 2): System Settings › Privacy & Security › Open Anyway, once. It appears because the app is not notarized with a paid Apple developer account, not because anything is wrong with it.
“This is the Intel version… it needs Rosetta”The Intel download on an Apple Silicon Mac. Take the Apple Silicon one instead — it is made for that chip. The other way round, the app says so too: an Intel Mac needs the Intel download.

Uninstalling

Settings › Apps › YTF Tool v2 › Uninstall. It takes the program, the runtime, the editor and both Premiere panels with it. Your projects are not deleted, and neither is your account — reinstalling and signing in with the same email puts you back where you were, with whatever credits you had.

On a Mac: drag YTF Tool v2 from Applications to the Trash. Your projects stay in ~/Library/Application Support/YTF Automation v2 — delete that folder too to remove them. The account stays, the same as on Windows.

Ready?

One .zip, 3.1 GB. Extract all of it, run YTFSetup.exe, come back here if anything asks a question. On a Mac, one .dmg: drag the app into Applications.

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Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit · macOS 14+ · the Windows guide as plain text