15 Jul 2026

Clips, Auto Sync, and Variant Cropping

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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