What's new, in our words.

Release announcements, letters from the maker, and the occasional note on where Doza Assist is headed. For the line-by-line version of every update, see the changelog.

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  ReleaseOctober 6, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Doza Assist 1.1.1 is here

  Doza Assist now works inside ChatGPT and Claude, 25 languages get the fast transcription engine, and a one-line prompt tells the AI what your piece is for. Plus Story Builder that lands on the length you ask for, clips that stop on the word, and dozens of fixes from your reports.

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  PerspectivesOctober 15, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Editing Is Changing. Story Isn't.

  A working director and editor on how the edit bay looks now: Claude Code with Opus 5.5 for motion graphics, Doza Assist for finding the story in interviews, MCP to connect the two, and Final Cut Pro for the part that has always mattered.

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• ProductOctober 7, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Eleven short videos: the Doza Assist How-To series

  The whole Doza Assist workflow in a three-minute video, then ten jobs at about ninety seconds each: quote sheets, Story Builder, collections, Share, finding soundbites, exports to Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut, other languages, speaker labels and paper edits. How to use the series, and where each film lives on the site.

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• GuidesSeptember 18, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut: Getting AI Selects Into Your NLE Without Re-Cutting

  A practical comparison of FCPXML, Premiere XML, and CMX 3600 EDL for moving selects from a transcription tool into Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve. What each format carries and what it loses.

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• ProductSeptember 17, 2026Chris Cardoza

  AI That Edits Like You: What 'My Style' Learns From Your Cuts

  Most AI video editing tools sound generic because they've never seen your work. My Style in Doza Assist builds an editorial profile from your finished cuts, locally, and filters every suggestion through it.

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• GuidesSeptember 16, 2026Chris Cardoza

  How to Transcribe Video Locally on a Mac (No Cloud, No Subscription)

  A practical guide to offline video transcription on Apple Silicon: which models to use, what hardware you need, how to get word-level timestamps, and how to do it free with Doza Assist Core.

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• EngineeringSeptember 15, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Why FCPXML Round-Trips Break, and How We Fixed It (Patent Pending)

  Most tools that write FCPXML lose your multicam angles and bookmarks, so selects come back into Final Cut Pro with audio but no video. Here's why, and how Doza Assist's patent-pending round-trip keeps the container intact.

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• ProductSeptember 15, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Your Producer Has an AI Now. With Share, They Can Pull Selects With It.

  Doza Assist Share, part of the new Studio subscription, gives a producer, client or co-editor one link to your interview. They pull clips by hand or with their own AI over MCP, and every select lands back in your Doza Assist project.

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• ProductSeptember 14, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Introducing Doza Assist Studio and Share: Send a Link, Get Selects Back

  Doza Assist now comes two ways: the one-time license you know, and Studio, a subscription that adds hosted Share. Share gives a collaborator one link to pull clips, by hand or with their own AI, and syncs their work back into your project.

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• PerspectivesSeptember 14, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Local First, Frontier When You Want It: Why Doza Assist Gives Editors a Choice of AI Model

  Doza Assist runs a local model by default and lets you switch to Claude or GPT with your own key. With the MCP connector, Claude Desktop can read your transcripts too. Here's why choice matters.

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  PerspectivesSeptember 11, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Sovereign AI shouldn't require a data center

  IBC 2026 is talking about sovereign AI for media: owned models, owned infrastructure, footage that never leaves the building. Doza Assist has run that way since day one, on a Mac. NVIDIA Parakeet, locally on Apple Silicon. No GPU rack, no cloud, no meter.

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• ReleaseSeptember 10, 2026Chris Cardoza

  Doza Assist 1.1 is here

  Fifty-plus editors bought the full version after the open-source release, and almost everything in 1.1 traces back to one of their messages. A Claude connector that sits in on your project, transcript correction by double-clicking a word, Collections that work like a project, and a much smarter Chat.

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