Changelog

Search & Playback

• Search Jump has been completely reworked. Clicking a search result now loads that exact moment much faster than before.
• Added Jump to Word shortcut (⌘J) for instant navigation to any word in the transcript.

Library

• Project covers are now available in the library - you can attach an image file to a project e.g. YouTube thumbnails.
• Added sorting for library items.
• Pinned projects, you can now pin one project per catalog.
• Added support for moving multiple projects to catalogs simultaneously.

Transcript

• Added the ability to break sentences and group sentences together, now accessible via the / keyboard shortcut.
• Transcription cancellation is now more reliable. Sequence will wait for the job to finish cancelling before you can re-trigger the same transcription.
• Single-project Transcribe on right-click on a library item or using the Project menu.
• Text-only redaction mode is now fully supported, allowing you to just redact the captions.
• Marker timestamps are more reliable in Final Cut Pro exports.

General

• A few more performance related tweaks applied.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for breaking sentences (/) and jumping to words (⌘J), plus organized shortcuts into groups.
• Expanded menu bar options.
• General clean up, and hardening throughout.

DaVinci Resolve Export

• We've now added an Export pane with native Lua-based DaVinci Resolve export which creates you a .drp file (This is currently marked as beta).

Export

• You can now toggle on/off native titles for your exports.
• fcpxmld packages are built more reliably when re-using existing media for variants.

Transcript

• Find within Transcript now triggers even when your focus isn't within the transcription pane.
• Transcript marquee selection now stays within its bounds.
• Timestamp ranges are now correct when disabled words are in the mix.
• Disabled words at the end of a video no longer flash a few frames.

Variants

• When creating a variant duplicate the profanity settings now reliable copy to the new variant.

General

• Tooltip delay improved (slightly slower).
• Close tab button is now only revealed on hover to clean up the tab bar UI.
• General clean and hardening in places.

External Audio

• You can now safely remove attached external audio from the metadata pane.

Export to FCP

• Tightened a few edge case inconsistencies to improve the reliability of creating the Final Cut Pro package.

General

• Internal engine enhancements, cleanup and general fixes.
• Tidy up of localized strings.
• Steppers and drop-downs now match Sequence's UI.

Major Performance Upgrade

• The internal engine has mostly been rewritten to use a binary format contract with the UI, which means loading projects, searching, making edits will feel much smoother.

Conversions

• You can now automatically converted MP3's to M4A's (this is a toggle in the Settings, off by default)

Custom Profanity Symbol

• You can now set your own custom symbol to replace profane words (emojis too, anything your keyboard can type)

History

• A new Reset History button has been added, letting you wipe the undo/edit history for a project when you want a clean slate.

Transcript

• Jump to Word from a word context menu was jumping to the wrong playback position in some cases, this is now fixed and it accurately jumps to where the word is.
• The timestamp or range is shown on the right click menu when selecting a word or group.
• Enabling disabled words will no longer un-hide filler words.
• If a transcript reset operation fails partway through, the rollback now correctly restores your previous transcript and profanity preferences rather than leaving things in a mixed state.
• You can now reset the order of your edits via the more options menu.
• We added a filter toggle to choose what to see in the pane.
• Added .ass Advanced Sub Station sidecar files.
• You can now use ⌘C to copy selected word or group selection to your clipboard.

Metadata

• Audio-only projects were sometimes showing a Video Source section in the metadata pane when there was no video, this false information no longer appears.

General

• Added a hover highlight effect on split-view panel dividers.
• Lots of small bug fixes and consistencies addressed.
• Queued operations in the Action Center are now more clear.

Transcript

• Added multi-sentence/group reordering, including keyboard nudging for complete sentence selections.
• Improved marquee selection with smoother autoscroll, better row-edge detection, and more reliable word/sentence selection behavior.
• Shift-click can now add or remove individual words from the transcript selection.
• Sentence move handles are disabled for partial-word selections, with clearer feedback that only complete sentences can be reordered.
• Added Re-Apply button for filler words and profanity, so visible leftover matches can be filtered again if added manually.
• The transcript bottom bar now updates filler/profanity counts when preferences change and handles overflow with edge fades.
• Improved transcript scrolling, virtualization, wrapped-height caching, and restore behavior so the pane feels smoother and jumps less.
• The bottom status now auto-scrolls when the label doesn't fit within the pane, this can be paused/activated with a single click.

Export

• FCPXML exports can now write sidecar files alongside the package in `.txt`, `.csv`, `.srt`, `.vtt`, and `.sbv` formats (toggle from Export in Settings).
• Improved FCP timeline creation for edge cases on reordered transcript rows, disabled words and skipped material.

Media Player

• Improved video seek and scrubbing reliability, especially around rapid interactions and same-file reloads.
• Fixed stale pending seek state when loading the same media URL again.

Media Compatibility

• Added a refresh action to the conversion/compatibility screen for cases where compatibility status is stale.

Search & Shortcuts

• Fixed global search regressions involving transcript search (sorry!).
• Tightened shortcut handling so transcript find shortcuts do not fire while unrelated editable fields are focused.
• Settings → Keyboard now includes the Find in Transcription shortcut label.

General

• Refreshed the empty workspace state with clearer primary actions: Import Media, Create New Catalog, Keyboard Shortcuts, and documentation link.
• Improved shortcut button rendering so shortcut chips no longer overlap labels.
• Added filename sanitization for normalization save-window names.

Media Player

• Added J/K/L shuttle controls: J shuttles reverse, L shuttles forward, repeated presses ramp speed, and K pauses/enables precision frame stepping with J/L.

Transcription

• The transcript bottom bar now shows total words plus disabled, low-confidence, filler, and profanity counts when present.
• Find within Transcript (⌘⌥F) adds in-transcript search, result highlighting, and result navigation via buttons or shortcuts (⌘G, ⌘⇧G).
• Added marquee selection for transcript sentences and words, making bulk edits easier.
• Disabled transcript words can now be re-enabled with ⇧⌫.
• Right-click transcript selections can now be copied, disabled/enabled, and low-confidence transcribed words can be marked as correct.
• Move handles are now always faintly visible so sentence reordering is easier to discover.
• Improved the contrast of selections in dark mode.

General

• Settings → Keyboard now groups shortcuts, including the new player and transcript shortcuts.
• Segmented controls have been polished, with counters/badges for relevant tabs such as Markers.
• Improved media playback consistency, transcript projection behavior, error reporting, and general reliability.

Normalization

• Added support for additional codecs.

Video Player & Export to Final Cut Pro

• Unified the video player and Final Cut Pro export pipeline so the preview accurately reflects the final output.
• Improved timecode metadata extraction from imported media for more reliable Final Cut Pro timeline exports.
• Fixed timeline structure corruption in Final Cut Pro exports caused by external audio tracks.

Transcription

• Fixed an issue where the transcription view would jump to the top after an edit.
• Decoupled profanity and filler word filters so they no longer trigger each other.
• Fixed an issue where disabling a word would clip the preceding word in the sentence.
• Preserved scroll position when toggling profanity or filler word filters on or off.
• Added an Enable Disabled Words button to the transcription options menu to restore all manually disabled words at once.
• Reset Transcription to Original now clears all manual edits and overrides.
• Improved marker timing accuracy in exports after refining the processing engine.

Speed, Stability & General Fixes

• Improved internal engine consistency and resolved general bugs.
• Optimized the engine-to-UI pipeline for faster, more responsive media playback and transcription.

Markers

• Markers have arrived. Press M at the playhead to add a marker, then give it a name. All markers export cleanly to Final Cut Pro.
• Markers now appear on the scrub bar for quick visual reference across tabs and projects.
• Added Jump to Marker to each marker’s menu to snap playback to that exact timeline position.

Transcription

• Select multiple projects at once to trigger bulk transcription ⌘A and deselect with ⌘⇧A.
• Individual projects can also be transcribed directly from their context menu.
• Fixed text wrapping in edit mode when a word is longer than the one before it.
• The cursor now hides during transcription edits to reduce distraction, then reappears when you finish.
• Added Jump to Word to each word’s menu to snap playback to that exact point.
• Copy Transcription now copies the active edited text rather than the raw baseline transcription.

Export

• Fixed an issue where Final Cut Pro exports could incorrectly attach stale media. This rare case occurred when re-importing Sequence-generated normalized audio back into the app, which then mistakenly bundled the original media into the audio project on export.

Player

• Disabled words in audio projects are now properly excluded from exports.

Speed, Stability & General Fixes

• Fixed edge cases and improved internal consistency.
• Project deletion is now faster.
• Improved startup behavior.
• Operations are now queued to support large edits made in quick succession.
• Improved tab bar layout when content overflows.
• Old model manifests are now cleared on fresh downloads to ensure Sequence pulls the latest updates.
• Fixed an issue where library items failed to appear on first open.
• Bulk import progress bar now matches other Sequence UI components.
• Search view closes more reliably after loading a project.

Profanity Filter

• Improved profanity audio mode handling in exports and playback.
• The ‘beep’ sound effect is now generated at the exact length needed to keep file sizes small.
• The ‘beep’ is also cached locally so it can be reused across projects rather than generating a new one each time.

Search

• Further improvements to search reliability.

Normalization

• Fixed an issue where 24-bit PCM big-endian audio caused the process to fail.

Export to FCP

• When instances of profanity are close together, we no longer pre-apply a crossfade, which can distort the audio of adjacent words.

Video Player

• Improved playback readiness detection so videos now load faster when switching between projects or catalogs.

Transcription

• Transcription behavior now respects project length to optimize model loading across ANE, CPU, and GPU.
• Deleting transcriptions is now much faster.
• Importing transcripts is now faster thanks to a new baseline architecture in this release.
• We now use a beam cursor to indicate the current word, and it is now more precise.
• The model cache is now used consistently. Previously, it was sometimes ignored.

Speed, Stability & General Fixes

• General cleanup of edge cases and improvements to internal consistency.
• Fixed cursor behavior inconsistencies.
• Improved shutdown experience with progress indication.
• Scrolling in the transcription pane is now smoother when many filters are applied.
• Tooltip overlays now align more precisely with their targets and are styled more consistently throughout.
• Database speed has been improved on first load.
• We no longer display raw errors when an export fails.
• Sequence no longer holds the model in memory, so RAM usage remains low until transcription is triggered, after which the model is unloaded to free up system memory.
• Cached audio files are now cleared when Sequence closes to protect your data privacy.

Transcription & Audio Analysis

• Sequence now classifies audio regions to distinguish speech from silence and other sounds before transcription begins, which improves accuracy dramatically.
• CoreML model handling is more robust with better runtime detection reducing edge-case failures.
• Post-processing is significantly improved to handle natural speech patterns better.

Search

• Your selection is even more reliable.

History

• Timing breakdowns now show three distinct phases, giving you clearer insight into where time is spent during processing.

Export to FCP

• Crossfade duration handling is more precise when removing filler words, avoiding occasional timing glitches in Final Cut Pro timelines.

Accessibility

• More UI elements now carry accessibility identifiers, improving VoiceOver support and automated testing coverage.

Speed & Stability

• Variant switching is now even smoother.
• General cleanup of edge cases and internal consistency