130 (20260701)

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.