Changelog

Normalization

• Preview audio normalization before applying it, with A/B comparison, looping, range selection

Export

• Choose Source, Mono, or Stereo audio when direct exporting.
• Automatically remove detected silent audio channels from direct and NLE exports.

Transcript

• Global transcript search now jumps quickly between distant results without a blank or slow-scrolling transition.

Player

• LUFS meter can show an expanded state upon click to reveal loudness and peak readings.
• LUFS meter now provides improved clipping feedback.
• Fixed playback sometimes failing to restart after reaching the end of a video.

Login

• Fixed email magic-link and two-factor authentication handoffs, including links opened when Sequence is not already running.

General

• View the Sequence EULA alongside bundled licenses in Licenses & Attribution.
• Missing-media controls adapt better to narrow player panes.
• Split-pane behavior, animations, accessibility, and localization have been refined.

Clips

• New: Clips are split into their own tab to make it easier to see how your media will be broken up into a timeline in FCP or Resolve with the option to re-order just like you would a sentence.
• New: Jump to Clip - get to the start of the clip easily.
• Keywords shown in clips rather than transcript view to keep mental association clearer.
• New: Easily re-order clips the same way as you’d re-order sentences in your transcript pane.

Transcript

• New: Adaptive audio adjustment to improve transcription accuracy for quiet recordings.
• New: When playing we now present a Follow Playback button that takes you to a follow-along style interaction.
• New: When paused it shows a new Jump to Current button to scroll to that zone.
• Move handles are only shown when valid sentences are selected for re-order.
• Marquee selection tool is improved.
• The current word indicator beam now pulsates when the video is paused.
• Fixed edge cases that could prevent Duplicate Existing from creating a transcript copy.
• Improved first-time transcription engine setup and runtime-readiness feedback.

Workspace

• New: Auto Edit ⌘⌥E toolbar icon for text-based editing tools (Profanity, Filler Filters)
• New: Audio Edit ⌘⌥A toolbar icon for audio-based editing tools (Auto Sync, Silence Removal)
• New: Auto Sync to match external audio files automatically using waveform and word matching technology.
• Review Sequence prompts are now surfaced with a limit in-place.
• Project switching and startup restoration are faster and more reliable.
• Large workspaces and transcript panes received substantial rendering and playback performance improvements.

Variants

• New: Set a custom frame/crop scoped to each variant, applies for both NLE and direct export.

Player

• New: Hover preview of frame, glide your cursor over the track bar to see a preview of the frame at a given timestamp.
• New: Detached player mode which pulls the player pane into a separate window, useful for multi-monitor setups or final review stages.
• New: OSD (On-Screen Display) feedback for player overlay actions.
• New: Frame-by-frame stepping using , and ..
• New: Loop playback with ⌥L.
• New: Toggle transcript captions over the player with C.
• New: Capture the current frame with ⌘⇧F.
• Improved Picture-in-Picture (PiP) support for workspace and external window player.
• The player now previews the edited timeline more accurately, including removed sections, muted profanity, and profanity beeps.
• Playback position is now restored more reliably when reopening projects and switching between projects or variants.
• Media information now includes available audio tracks, subtitle tracks, and chapters.
• External audio playback and audio-offset handling were substantially improved.
• Audio-only projects now load reliably without waiting for video feed.

Export

• New: Export captions using Final Cut Pro 12.3’s native subtitle format, including supported word-highlight animation.
• New: Set resolution and frame rate settings to apply to your timeline in FCP or Resolve.
• New: Fractional frame rate support: 59.94, 29.97, and 23.976 fps options were explicitly added to both Direct Export and NLE timeline export.
• New: Direct Export lets you render your edit directly from Sequence without using an NLE..
• New: Frame Export exports the current frame to either PNG, JPG or Copy to Clipboard.
• Final Cut Pro export no longer creates unnecessary cuts at silent moments that haven’t been removed
• DaVinci Resolve export now uses an FCPXML timeline instead of Lua scripting, making it available to Resolve Free users.

Settings

• Sequence can securely back up its encrypted library to your private iCloud database when the app closes, with backup status, manual controls, and restore support in Settings.
• New: Vocabulary Replacement to apply custom replacement for specific words automatically, helping for brand names that get misinterpreted by transcription models.
• New: View two-factor authentication status and registered passkeys.
• New: Remove passkeys and revoke other activated devices directly.
• New: Account data controls for requesting your data or deleting your account.
• New: Manage product analytics, error reporting, and newsletter preferences.

Onboarding & Recovery

• New: If the local library cannot be opened, Sequence now offers recovery options including retrying, restoring from iCloud, resetting the library, or quitting.
• iCloud backups are validated before restoration to detect incomplete or corrupted backups.
• Backup and restore status is surfaced in Settings.
• Account, analytics, and privacy preferences are now synchronized more reliably during onboarding.

General

• Various stability improvements, code quality improvements, and minor UI polish throughout the app.
• Support for multi-file dock drop import, previously it was only single file or folders of media.
• Fixed an issue where some transcriptions could fail to save when processing large batches.
• Keywords generation is improved.
• Search reliability improved.
• Fixed external audio alignment in Final Cut Pro and Resolve exports.
• Fixed intermittent database-busy errors affecting transcript loading, saving, and global search.
• Improved reliability when downloading transcription models and required media components.
• Fixed several cases where transcript or clip edits could momentarily revert or become out of sync.
• Improved relinking and prepared-media handling for moved or unavailable files.
• Foundations for Sequence CLI and MCP.

Transcript

• 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.

Settings

• New: Toggle to skip export confirmations directly from the Action Center.

Action Center

• Fixed: An edge case where bulk transcription jobs wouldn't all save correctly.

Workspace

• Improved: Sequence Updater reliability - handles edge cases that previously caused it to stall or fail silently.
• 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.

Onboarding & Sign In

• 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 for App Store version only.

General

• Various stability improvements, code quality improvements, and minor UI polish throughout the app.

Command Center

• Added a Command Center (⌘K) for faster access to common actions, search, settings, import, export, and navigation. (please not history and metadata shortcuts have been changed to accommodate this new feature)

Settings

• Added settings search so preferences are easier to find.

Global Search

• Improvements, including faster first results and clearer timestamp loading feedback.

Transcript

• Faster project opening for larger transcripts.
• Faster transcript scrolling, filtering, search, and reorder handling.
• Added quick export from the transcription more menu (TXT, SRT, etc.)
• Improved transcript loading reliability, especially when opening projects, switching variants, or returning to a project.
• Improved the visible silence rows in the transcript so removed silence can be reviewed and restored more clearly.
• Fixed an edge case where the transcript could briefly show an empty state even though transcript data existed.
• Improved disabled, enabled, silence, filler, profanity, and low-confidence filtering behavior.
• Improved inline transcript edit positioning.
• Improved selection behavior from transcript row handles.
• Added a bottom bar progress bar to improve loading experience.

Import

• Drop media onto the dock Sequence icon to import your media more quickly.

Library

• Added embedded artwork detection for project cover images where available.
• Improved audio-only project metadata handling.

Workspace

• Added clearer project loading states when opening or switching projects.
• Added update notifications into Action Center for a more consistent update experience.
• Reduced workspace freezes during project open and search.
• Improved background work scheduling so expensive jobs are less likely to block the UI.
• Improved shutdown handling for pending transcript edits and database writes.
• Improved handling when an account has reached its seat/device limit.
• Improved relinking/import permission handling through security-scoped access.
• Refined Action Center UI and export/update job states.

Export

• Improved Final Cut Pro package generation and compatibility.
• Improved Final Cut Pro caption/title output validation.
• Improved Resolve export title handling.
• Added better support for exporting transcript sidecar files alongside Final Cut Pro exports.

General

• Fix for macOS 26 first time crash.

Transcription

• Scrolling through your transcript is now significantly faster, running at up to 120fps.
• Transcriptions are now much quicker.
• Switching between the Markers and Transcript tabs is faster and no longer reloads the transcript.
• Transcript filters no longer hog system resources on long projects - particularly noticeable on recordings over an hour.
• You can now drag groups of sentences using the drag handle even when the selection contains disabled words.
• The transcription progress bar now accurately reflects each stage of the transcription process.
• Fixed an issue where large selection reorders could occasionally cause audio to drop out in the player (exports were not affected).

Export

• Sequence no longer requires fixed media IDs to successfully import into Final Cut Pro.
• Irregular file names and paths no longer cause export failures.

Inspector

• Profanity filters, silence removal, and filler word cleanup now display progress bars during processing, preventing the workspace from appearing frozen on very long projects (2 hours+).

Workspace

• Subtle animations have been added throughout the app.

General

• Added support for macOS 27 Gold Gate features.
• Sign in now uses a clean popup sheet instead of redirecting to the browser.
• You can now re-link missing media directly from the metadata pane.
• Added quick actions in the Account tab to jump straight to specific pages in your account.
• Various clean-up and polish ahead of the Mac App Store release.

Core ML

• Improved Core ML model handling.
• Decoupled model release versioning from the app version.

Transcript

• Active transcript filters now limit what can be selected with the marquee selector.
• Beep amplitude is now derived from the variant rather than a fixed 0.15 amplitude value.
• Thorough improvements to word timing accuracy throughout.
• Fixed ESC key regression on the transcript panel.

Action Center

• Stale Action Center jobs are now automatically dismissed when a project is deleted.

Trial

• Trial mode made significantly more robust and reliable.

Onboarding

• General onboarding improvements and polish.

General

• Added PrivacyInfo manifest for App Store compliance.
• Various fixes and stability improvements throughout.

Transcript

• Warning about missing text no longer covers your transcript content; it now appears at the top of the transcript pane.
• Silent moments UI now integrates more seamlessly with the rest of the transcript pane content.

Settings

• Custom shortcuts are now more reliable.

Compatibility Media

• Custom conversions now provide clearer warnings about potential issues before processing.
• General improvements for more reliable media conversion throughout.

General

• Updated color scheme for improved readability and visual consistency.
• General bug fixes and improvements throughout.

Remove Silence

• New feature that detects and removes silence from your timeline
• Delete key shortcut to remove selected silence chips
• Per-project silence threshold
• On first launch we run an audio analysis jobs to detect silent moments, then afterwards this is done on each transcription run.

Tab Switching

• ⌘[1–9] you can now switch between project variants using ⌘ + number.
• Tooltip now shows the command number.

Search

• Moved the Transcript results to the first item based on editors feedback.

Library

• Covers now reliably attach to their project.

Transcript

• You can now add to the multi-selection by clicking on the grab handle whilst shift is pressed, this expands the options for editors.

Settings

• Grouped Account into General tab
• Grouped Licenses into About tab
• Added ⌘[1–8] to switch tab in the settings.

General

• Lots of general polish to the app UI.
• Many small bug fixes addressed.

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.