Faster Direct Export, Safer Saves, and More Reliable Trimming and Relinking

Sequence 1.4.3 speeds up Direct Export on edits with many cuts, fixes save-panel exports in the sandbox, repairs trim and restore edge cases, relinks a whole folder from one file, and adds a usable timeline zoom range.

Export

• Direct Export is much faster on cut-heavy edits. On a 150-second 4K HEVC test, a 50-cut edit dropped from 83 s to 46 s and a 25-cut edit with a late start from 58 s to 24 s.
• Single-video-track edits with only cuts now feed the encoder directly, skipping an intermediate conversion step. Output is visually equivalent, but pixel values can differ slightly from earlier versions.
• Fixed exports failing in the App Store build when saved through the save panel. Sequence now writes only to the location you chose, and asks for another location if the first one rejects the finished file.
• SRT export follows the edited timeline and writes a single file extension.
• Sequence now finds its bundled FFmpeg consistently across the app, tools, and sandboxed builds.

Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve

• Final Cut Pro (FCPXML) exports now handle overlapping fades in the same direction, such as a join fade combined with a profanity duck, and clip starts snap to whole frames, which removes trailing sliver clips.
• Native titles are exported only when requested, and audio files are no longer duplicated in the bundle.
• Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve exports no longer copy or convert your audio. A 33-minute 6-channel export that wrote a 1.7 GB audio file into the package now references your original media. If a file has several audio tracks and you’ve edited its audio mix or chosen a different playback track, only the chosen track is saved into the package as a lossless copy.
• The export dialog no longer shows “Complete With Warnings” when Remove Silent Channels is on but the audio was mixed, unless a source actually had silent channels. The message now reads “Silent channels were not removed because this edit mixes the audio.”

Trimming and Editing

• Added Restore Trim to the clip menu. Restoring disabled words after an edge trim now works.
• Dragging a clip edge stops at fully excluded source, no longer adds extra cuts when you overshoot, and no longer moves the playhead.
• Fixed a failure when replacing a clip that a disabled word splits.
• Merge Words discards editor state captured before an undo or redo.

Media Relinking and Normalization

• Relink one file and Sequence finds the rest by name, size and hash, including Multi-Cam angles and group audio.
• Normalized audio is kept when its reference file is relinked afterwards.
• Renamed or moved files are matched by their stored hash when a library opens.
• Auto Sync is always reachable in the normalization inspector. Without a linked reference it opens the audio picker, and stale sync results are hidden.
• A missing source waveform now shows a quiet state instead of an error.

Multi-Cam and Playback

• Fixed playback of standalone Multi-Cam programmes that have no media of their own, which previously failed as stale media.
• Replaced Detach from Multi-Cam with a single Duplicate as Standalone Project action.
• Cached video frames are cleared after relinking. If rebuilding the edited timeline fails, playback pauses and shows an alert.
• Fixed a crash in the audio meter when its view model was released while audio was starting.

Timeline

• The timeline has a usable zoom range with fit as the minimum.
• The ruler scrolls with the tracks, is shorter, and no longer fails on an invalid visible range.
• Short items draw at their true width.
• Clipping now shows as a red meter state with a reset tooltip.

First Run and Interface

• Finished the first-run onboarding flow. Home-folder access is now described as media access, and the App Store build offers Open Setup Guide instead of Download Installer.
• Quitting while work is active asks for confirmation and offers to wait.
• Cancelled speaker detection is treated as a cancellation, not a failure.
• Undo, redo and variant-selection toasts no longer slow down the main window.
• Sequence Package bundles use a sharper document icon, and the License Check title uses the primary text color.

Reliability and Engine

• Upgraded the database engine to SQLCipher 4.20.0 (SQLite 3.54.1), which includes a security fix.
• Model readiness is cached, and only failed download verification is logged.
• Diagnostics now name which thread held a lock when a wait times out, and diagnostic breadcrumbs are sanitized before leaving the app.
• Fixed repeated log noise from lookups of deleted projects.