What's new in 1.1.15.

1A simpler layout

One header, on every page. The top of a project now reads as a path, Projects / folder / project name, and the project's menu sits on its name. The title block, the row of buttons under it and the Export tab are gone. What they did is in three places you can always see: the project menu, the header tools, and one export button.

One export button that follows your editor. It says Send to Final Cut Pro, Save for Premiere Pro or Save for DaVinci Resolve, and sends what is on screen. Its arrow opens the Export window with every other choice (documents, markers, a named timeline), which is what the Export tab used to hold.

One Settings window. The settings that apply to every project (the AI model, your own cloud key, speaker naming, your name as the interviewer, light or dark) are in Settings, on Command-comma and on the gear in the header. Settings for one project stay in that project's menu.

• My Style is one menu in the header. It says whether My Style is on and which profile is in use.
• Speakers take one line each: the name, how many lines and how long they speak, and a menu for rename, merge and jump.
• The Projects page has New project, a search field, one drop area (taller, so it is the obvious place to start), a Select bar for working on several projects at once, and a menu on every row and folder. Files you drop wait in a card until you start them.
• The collection page has the same header, the same export button and the same tabs as a project.
• There is more room between the header and the tabs, and Chat sits before Story Brief on a project, as it does on a collection.

2A welcome that shows how it works

New here? Four steps. The Projects page opens with a short welcome: drop in your interviews, read the transcript and the AI Analysis instead of scrubbing, collect the best moments in the Clip Library, and send them to your editor. Tick Don't show this again and it stays away; How it works in the drop area brings it back whenever you want it.

The Studio build adds a fifth step, on sharing an interview or a collection for review.

3One name for each thing

The same thing has the same name everywhere. Adding a clip is Add: Add all to Clip Library replaces Pull Clips, and the messages and empty states say the same (Added 3 clips to Clip Library, No clips yet). Transcribe Again is the one name in the menu, the dialog and its messages. Editors are named in full: Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve. The document choice says Clip Library on a project and on a collection.

4Faster where you wait

Chat answers sooner. Chat is made ready when the page opens and keeps the transcript between questions, so the first answer and every follow-up start faster. A question asked while an analysis is still running goes ahead of the remaining background work.

• The AI Analysis shows as soon as it is written. The moment labels fill in afterwards instead of holding the page back.
• Speaker naming writes less, so it finishes sooner.
• The Projects page no longer re-reads every project every few seconds.
• Time estimates use the speed measured on your Mac instead of a guess.
• On Macs with 24 GB or more, the model keeps one working size for the whole session, which avoids a reload in the middle of your work.

5AI Analysis you can use as it comes

Soundbites, story beats and social clips come back at usable lengths. A soundbite runs 5 to 30 seconds, a social clip 15 to 60 seconds, a story beat 10 to 90 seconds. A pick that starts or ends in the middle of a sentence is widened to the whole sentence, and one that cannot be made long enough is left out.

• Beats arrive in story order. An opening is found near the start of the interview and a closing near its end.
• The picks are spread across the interview instead of crowding its first minutes.
• The interviewee's words. A pick that turns out to be the interviewer talking is dropped.

6Fixes

• A plain click never deletes a clip. Clicking a highlighted word plays from there.
• Undo where it was missing. Remove all clips… says how many it will remove and offers Undo. Merging two speakers has Undo.
• Timecode. Typing a timecode in the search field jumps to it. A project imported from Final Cut Pro shows timeline timecode. Resting on a word shows its timecode, and a clip's timecode has a Copy timecode control.
• The speech model downloads up front, and a download that fails says why.
• An analysis error links to the AI Model window, where the fix is.
• My Style: importing pieces no longer switches a profile on by itself, and the page is tidier.

7Changes to know about

• Several files dropped without ticking collection now stop after transcription. Open a project to run its AI Analysis.
• The per-section FCPX buttons on AI Analysis and Story Builder's own export button are gone. The header's export button sends what is on screen.
• The Export tab is the Export window, behind the arrow on the export button.

8Studio: the share page

The page your clients open is rebuilt for people who are not editors. A share link opens straight to the transcript with one line on what to do: play to listen, drag across words (or tap the first and last word on a phone) to save a clip for the editor.

• It works on a phone. The transcript comes first, and the player is a bar that stays at the bottom of the screen.
• A clip is saved or you are told it was not. If the connection drops or the link is paused, the mark is taken back and the page says so.
• Nobody removes anybody else's clips. A click never removes a clip. Undo reverses only your own last step, and only you can remove a clip you made.
• One word, one set of tabs. A marked moment is a clip everywhere, and the tabs carry the app's names: Transcript, Clip Library, AI Analysis, Documents.
• The name prompt can be skipped, and the text is easier to read.
• What you switch off is not sent. A tab you leave out of a share is not in the page at all, and a share of part of a recording plays only that part.
• Collections get all of the above for each interview, an interview picker at the top, and the Story Brief's suggested structures.
• Protections on the share server: passcode guesses are limited everywhere, a paused link takes no changes, and a link that has been closed says so in plain words.

Links you have already sent keep working. A link shows the new page the next time you publish it from this build.

9How to get it

• Direct download: choose Check for Updates… in the app menu, or download it.
• FxFactory edition: update through the FxFactory app to 1.1.15. Licensing and purchases in the FxFactory edition go through FxFactory.
• Studio: the matching Studio build carries everything above, with the share page changes.