Features

Transcribe & Find

Read the conversation, find useful moments, and keep the source untouched.

On-device transcription

Transcribe with Parakeet v3 on Apple silicon. Download the speech model before working offline. 2.159% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean.

Model setup

Transcript & Catalog search

Find words in a transcript or search project names, transcripts, and metadata across your Catalog.

Search your library

Speaker detection & People

Install the optional speaker model to detect speakers locally. Review names, filter the transcript by speaker, and manage people across projects.

Speaker workflow

Follow-along playback

Follow the transcript during playback and jump from a word to its place in the recording.

Transcript playback

Command Center

Press Command-K to find and run a feature or app action from the command palette.

Use Command Center

Edit & Clean

Build a reversible edit from text, then review the pacing against the footage.

Text-based editing

Hide words or sentences, restore them, and correct transcript text without rewriting the source recording.

Editing & cleanup

Sentence & clip reordering

Move spoken sections in the transcript, Clips, or timeline. Playback and export follow the same edit.

Reorder your edit

Silence removal

Preview and remove pauses with adjustable timing while keeping the source untouched.

Silence removal

Filler words & retake review

Use configurable filler lists and review suggested retakes before deciding what to keep.

Filler-word cleanup

Profanity controls

Skip, silence, or beep matched words and control transcript or caption redaction separately. Review matches before delivery.

Profanity controls

Multi-Cam & Multi-Track Media

Prepare recordings with more than one camera, microphone, or embedded stream.

Multi-Cam programmes

Review camera and audio roles, synchronize recordings, and create programme edits with angle decisions. Auto Sync needs matching recorded content.

Multi-Cam workflow

Picture-in-picture & split screen

Compose supported camera or embedded video streams, choose layouts, and adjust inset placement without baking a new source movie.

Compose video streams

Video & audio track selection

Inspect the tracks in your media, choose video and audio tracks for playback, and select the audio source for transcription.

Import & media choices

Sound, Captions & Framing

Prepare presentation and audio before direct delivery or an editor handoff.

External audio & Auto Sync

Attach a separate recording and align matching audio using waveform and transcript evidence.

Sync external audio

Audio normalization

Measure loudness and prepare a non-destructive derivative with loudness, dynamic-range, and true-peak controls.

Prepare audio

Captions & titles

Configure caption layout and timing, export subtitle files, or include supported caption titles in an editor handoff.

Caption settings

Variant framing & crops

Set framing for each version. Automatic subject-tracking Smart Crop is not currently available.

Composition & crop

Organize & Reuse

Keep alternate edits, assets, and editorial context close to the recording.

Variants

Keep alternate structures, cleanup decisions, audio, and framing without duplicating source media.

Organize your edits

Clips, markers & keywords

Split and arrange sections, mark review points, and tag useful material for search and supported exports.

Work in Clips

Timeline & reusable assets

Place images, video, and audio on the timeline. Reuse a variant as a live linked asset so later edits can flow through.

Timeline & assets

Export & Continue

Choose finished media or an editable handoff. Review destination-specific warnings rather than assuming every editor preserves every feature.

Direct video & audio export

Render the edited composition from original sources, including supported camera layouts, layers, and audio processing, with codec and output controls.

Direct export

Final Cut Pro

Export FCPXML with supported cuts, multicam structure, connected layers, titles, markers, keywords, audio, and framing.

Final Cut Pro handoff

DaVinci Resolve

Import a graph-backed FCPXML handoff with supported angle decisions, layouts, layers, audio, and framing. Review destination-specific export notices before finishing.

Resolve handoff

Transcript & subtitle files

Export TXT or CSV transcripts and SRT, WebVTT, SBV, or ASS subtitles separately from a movie or editor timeline.

Export text & subtitles

Frame export

Copy or save a frame from the edited composition as PNG or JPEG.

Playback & frames

Sequence Packages

Share a .sqbundle with project edits and optional source copies. Optional encryption protects editing data, not included media; send the code separately.

Package handoff

Automation, with Your Permission

Use the same editing engine from scripts and compatible AI clients. Automation is optional and disabled by default.

Command-line workflow

Use sq to inspect projects, read transcripts, run supported edits, monitor jobs, and export. App-backed actions need Sequence running and unlocked.

CLI setup & actions

MCP editing sessions

Connect a compatible client to find projects, work on a protected editing copy, clean up, and export. Context returned to that client follows its own privacy policy.

MCP setup & privacy

Local by Design

Transcription and editing run on your Mac. Optional cloud backup and external automation have separate privacy boundaries.

Offline editing

Work offline after signing in, activating, and downloading models. Direct and Mac App Store access require periodic online renewal of the signed seven-day offline lease. Setapp access follows your Setapp membership.

Account & offline access

Your media, your storage

Use accessible files on your Mac, external drives, or network storage. A network drive must remain reachable; the library does not copy all originals automatically.

Media & file access

Encrypted library & app lock

Project data is stored in an encrypted local database, with optional Touch ID protection. Source files and ordinary exports are not encrypted by the library.

Privacy & app lock

Optional iCloud library backup

Back up the encrypted library when iCloud is available. This is not live project collaboration or a backup of your source media.

Library backup

Find the Story. Build the Rough Cut. Keep Creating.

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