New: Direct Export, Clips tab, Auto Sync external audio, detached player mode, iCloud library backup, hover frame preview, and normalization preview.
Sequence Tool helps professional editors move faster through the rough-cut stage of spoken video.
Import interviews, podcasts, courses, talking-head videos, or other dialogue-heavy media, then work from the transcript to shape the edit before finishing in your NLE.
Use Sequence Tool to cut repetition, remove filler, clean up profanity, remove silence, organize ideas, search across your media, and prepare a cleaner timeline for the creative finish.
Built for editors who work in Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, Sequence Tool keeps the early editorial pass focused, searchable, and structured, so you can spend less time digging through footage and more time making creative decisions.
Features include:
• On-device transcription (Parakeet V3)
• Text-based editing
• Search across projects and media
• Repetition and filler-word cleanup
• Remove silent moments
• Profanity filtering tools
• Project organization and history
• Keyword generation including in export for Final Cut Pro
• Export workflows for Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve
• Local-first media handling
Sequence Tool is designed for pro editors, content teams, podcasters, educators, and filmmakers working with spoken video.
As featured in Larry Jordan’s Edit Smarter Newsletter.
By downloading or using this app, you agree to the Sequence Tool End User License Agreement: https://sequencetool.com/legal/eula/
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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
Version 1.3.2
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