This update improves relinking, playback, and library reliability: - Relinked media is now recovered across an entire folder, including linked external audio, and playback resumes where you left off. - Relinking a folder now sticks, and a save that was already in progress can no longer undo it. - Long projects with the profanity filter applied no longer freeze the interface before playback starts. - Multi-Cam audio relinking keeps every angle in step, and the inspector separates source, external, and normalized audio. - Renaming a speaker keeps the transcript history, including redo entries. - Added Clear All to Action Center, and speaker detection now shows real progress. - Libraries open faster, and projects no longer keep a stuck Normalizing or Transcribing status. - Fixed a failure when opening projects with saved speakers, duplicate missing-media entries, and video that would not play when optional audio was missing. - Updated Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

This update improves reliability across editing and export: - Fixed audio dropouts and reduced memory use when exporting edits with many cuts. - Improved speaker matching, added custom speakers, and introduced sentence-level speaker indicators. - Improved Auto Sync accuracy and transcript timing updates. - Fixed trimming unexpectedly restoring hidden filler words or profanity. - Made speech-model downloads and installation more reliable. - Added clearer prompts when media needs file-access permission. - Added Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese. - Fixed crashes and improved library upgrade recovery.

Multi-Cam editing. Synchronize cameras and external audio, adjust timing, and create programmes with editable automatic camera cuts. A new visual timeline. See video thumbnails, audio waveforms and asset layers. Reorder clips, trim footage and scrub recordings, with changes kept in sync with your transcript. Reusable assets. Organize images, video and linked edits in your library, then place them on the timeline. Adjust placement, size and layer volume. More creative layouts. Improved framing, cropping, picture-in-picture, split-screen and image overlays. Improved transcription. Better handling of punctuation, repeated words and unwanted text. Our latest transcription candidate recorded 2.159% WER on the LibriSpeech test-clean benchmark. New speaker detection. Updated automatic speaker detection, clearer model setup and reusable speaker identities through library-wide People. Smoother transcript editing. More reliable sentence reordering, silence and filler-word removal, trimming, undo and redo. Portable Sequence Packages. Share projects with their media, transcripts, edits, layers and Multi-Cam setup. Optional encryption helps keep shared work private. Updated CLI and agent tools. Expanded tools for finding projects, creating rough cuts, cleaning transcripts and exporting work. Improved connection support for Direct and Setapp installations. Connect Claude and ChatGPT. Set up local agent access from Automation settings. Agent editing sessions create a copy by default to preserve your original. Early MCP UI support. Compatible hosts can now show richer Sequence result cards with status and result details. Better exports. Improved delivery of layered edits, framing and audio, plus more faithful Multi-Cam, captions and timeline handoff to Final Cut Pro. Faster everyday work. Faster startup and project opening, smoother timeline interactions and pane resizing, plus improvements to search and the command palette. Three seats per licence. Up from two, giving you more flexibility across your setup. Know what’s new. The update sheet now shows what’s included in each release.

- Added hardware-accelerated Apple ProRes export - Added ProRes 422, ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 4444, and ProRes 4444 XQ export options for compatible ProRes sources. - Updated the bundled FFmpeg components to version 9.0.1. - Fixed a crash when downloading or reinstalling the transcription model. - Improved validation of model-download progress and external-audio export handling.

- Sequence CLI 1.1.1 brings broad parity across editing, analysis, media, and export actions - Improved CLI integration with app projects and variants - More secure, reliable Homebrew installation verification - Create variants directly from selected clips or markers - Improved marker selection, transcript range selection, and clip interactions - More reliable playback and projection for media-only variants - FCPXML exports now better preserve variant projections and keyword metadata - Faster startup and smoother performance on large timelines - Improved Command Center search, recent actions, keyboard navigation, and help - Stronger project persistence and reliability after CLI edits - Added feature-request and changelog links to the Help menu - Added native App Store review prompts - General interface, localization, and stability improvements

EXPORT • Hid native title export options when no transcript is available. • Unified crop/framing behavior between variants, direct exports, and FCPXML exports. • Corrected FCPXML crop metadata nesting. • Fixed Final Cut Pro clip keyword associations and combined same-range keywords correctly. GENERAL • Fixed several crashes, persistence problems, and workflow issues. • Improved no-speech transcript handling and transcript update feedback. • Polished Library multi-selection and retained project selection when creating folders. • Cached missing embedded cover artwork to avoid repeated lookup work.

TRANSCRIPT • New: floating action bar for quickly editing, removing, restoring, copying, or jumping from a transcript selection • New: Bigger Text (⌘+), Smaller Text (⌘−), and Actual Size (⌘0) commands • New: Added support for the macOS Bold Text accessibility preference • New: Jump to Start of Selection action for multi-word selections • Improved transcript editing, marquee selection, follow-along, scrolling, and playback synchronization • Fixed unavailable jump actions appearing for hidden, removed-silence, or synthetic timeline content IMPORT • Improved media import, metadata analysis, and transcription startup reliability • Prevented duplicate metadata analysis while importing media • Improved recovery when media analysis or transcription setup fails • Hardened persisted transcription jobs, cancellation, and status handling LIBRARY • Added project folders for organizing the library • Improved drag-and-drop across the entire library sidebar • Project cover cards now have more accurate clickable areas ACCESSIBILITY • Transcript controls scale more consistently at larger text sizes • Improved accessibility labels and help text for transcript selection actions • Inline notices now use a clearer, accessible dismiss button CLI • CLI support is here, homebrew install is required separately. GENERAL • Improved runtime diagnostics • Improved stability across transcript editing, media import, and playback • Various code quality improvements and minor UI polish throughout the app • Improved gated licensing and trial presentation

CLIPS • Clips now have their own tab for reordering media like sentences • New Jump to Clip feature • Keywords shown directly in clips • Significantly improved Clips and Markers performance TRANSCRIPT • Adaptive audio adjustment for quieter recordings • Follow Playback during playback, Jump to Current when paused • Pulsating word indicator when paused • Improved marquee selection and re-order handle visibility • Better first-time transcription setup and Duplicate Existing reliability • Improved transcript follow-along, selection, scrolling, and playback synchronization • Fixed copied transcripts losing silence-removal edits • Fixed silent audio rows appearing in the wrong order VARIANTS • Custom frame/crop per variant for NLE and direct export • Fixed the inline variant-tab rename shortcut • Fixed stale clip counts appearing on empty variants • Fixed variant tabs disappearing or selecting the wrong playback state after duplication WORKSPACE • New toolbar icons: Auto Edit (⌘⌥E) and Audio Edit (⌘⌥A) • Auto Sync to match external audio files using waveform and word matching • Faster project switching, startup, and rendering for large workspaces • Improved project opening, restoration, navigation, and workspace selection reliability • Improved global transcript search across projects and variants • Refreshed library cover artwork automatically after project changes • Improved relinking, media import, and account login diagnostics • Fixed keyword-analysis scheduling and progress text • Fixed media-probe scheduling during import PLAYER • Hover frame preview on the track bar • Detached player mode for multi-monitor setups • Frame-by-frame stepping (, and .), Loop playback (⌥L), Toggle captions (C), Capture frame (⌘⇧F) • More accurate edited timeline preview • Improved PiP, playback restoration, and media info display • Preview audio normalization before applying it • Added hour-based timestamps for long videos • Fixed transcript subtitles and playback mapping in edited timelines EXPORT • Direct Export renders your edit without an NLE • Final Cut Pro 12.3 native subtitle export with word-highlight animation • Fractional frame rates (59.94, 29.97, 23.976 fps) • Frame Export to PNG, JPG, or Clipboard • DaVinci Resolve now uses FCPXML timeline (available in Resolve Free) • Fixed incorrect projected clip timing and clip-card alignment • Fixed duplicated frames in Final Cut Pro XML exports AUDIO • Fixed audio-normalization settings not persisting correctly • Fixed external audio synchronization and app-broker communication SETTINGS • Encrypted iCloud library backup with restore support • Vocabulary Replacement for misinterpreted words • Two-factor auth status, passkey management, and device revocation • Account data controls and privacy preference management ONBOARDING & RECOVERY • Library recovery options: retry, restore from iCloud, reset, or quit • iCloud backup validation and status in Settings CLI • Final phase added for the upcoming Sequence command-line interface GENERAL • Multi-file dock drop import • Improved stability, search, keywords, and transcription reliability • Fixed database-busy errors and transcript sync issues • Foundations for Sequence CLI and MCP • Various stability improvements, code quality improvements, and minor UI polish throughout the app

New: Keywords are automatically generated from your transcript and displayed per clip in your variant, with the final list visible at a glance in the metadata pane. New: Keywords appear in your Final Cut Pro export. New: Clip rails now clearly show which clips will appear in your export. New: Toggle to skip export confirmations directly from the Action Center. Fixed: An edge case where bulk transcription jobs wouldn't all save correctly. Internal app links now open in an in-app browser sheet for quicker access. New: macOS Share Extension added - import media directly from Finder's share sheet. New: Language and theme can now be set during first-time setup. New: Sign in with Apple - uses the native Apple ID sheet without leaving the app. Various stability improvements, code quality improvements, and minor UI polish throughout the app.