There is no longer a limit on how much footage a project can hold in total. Each individual file can still be up to 10 hours.

Starting analysis now shows the estimated credit cost first, then one combined progress bar and a single completion notice for the whole batch. Projects with no name yet get one automatically once analysis finishes.

You can now add still images to a project and place them on the timeline. Images cannot be analyzed yet, so they carry no transcript or analysis of their own.

A new [Right-to-left transcript] option in transcript preferences flips the transcript, its navigation, and its selection to read right-to-left.

Selecting a clip inside a synced timeline now shows that file's transcript in the transcript panel.

A folder in the Project panel now shows when something inside it is still being analyzed, and canceling an analysis in progress no longer asks you to confirm first.

Very large transcripts, hundreds of thousands of words, can now be opened, scrolled, and edited without crashing.

An analysis that fails from a server timeout now retries automatically instead of just failing.

Importing a project you already have is now blocked with a clear message, instead of silently creating a duplicate that loses its analysis.

AI-assisted edits are more precise. Removing a word or phrase no longer expands the cut or gets rejected just because it would leave an isolated pause behind.

Timeline markers can now carry notes. Double-click or right-click a marker to add one, and hover to read it.

The keyboard shortcuts list can now be searched by action name or key.

Synced timelines are fully editable: cut, trim, and rearrange clips directly on them.

Preview frame size now includes 4K and a custom width and height option.

Chat now supports attaching more than one file at a time.

You can rename media files, drafts, folders, synced timelines, chats, and project titles the same way everywhere: click to edit, Enter to confirm, Escape to cancel. The Project panel also gained a sortable column for duration, date added, size, or kind.

Clicking a chapter or subtopic band no longer selects the clips underneath it or moves the playhead.

Starting a project by dropping or picking media on the home screen no longer also creates an extra, default-named draft.

A valid Claude subscription connection could be wrongly rejected as running an outdated client, and chat now names that reason instead of showing a generic "connection lost" error.

The multicam expand/collapse view now stays the same across tabs and sessions instead of resetting every time you switch.

Dragging files from Finder onto the timeline now works even when the Project panel is collapsed.

A failed export caused by missing source media now names the file and points you to the timeline's Locate button.

After you export a video, Selects asks how it went, the same rating prompt handoff already shows. It appears once per batch rather than once per file.

Exporting on Windows with a frame-rate conversion now works and produces standard video and audio output.

Video exports are stereo again, after a bug briefly made them mono, and exporting a fully empty timeline is now blocked with a clear message instead of failing partway through.

Leftover empty gaps at the end of B-roll or audio tracks after a cut, which could add extra seconds of black to an export, are now trimmed.

Windows updates are more reliable. They wait for Selects to fully close before replacing files, repair Start Menu, Desktop, and taskbar shortcuts, and automatically restore any AI files that go missing or get corrupted after an update.

Very large project archives, 2 GB and up, can now be imported successfully. A damaged archive now fails clearly instead of leaving partial files behind.

The source panel has a third view that lists every file flat, with the folder rows dropped, so footage spread across a lot of folders takes one look instead of several expands. Open [Flat view] in the source panel.

A caption you split now stays lined up with the transcript when you go on to edit it, instead of drifting out of sync.

Graphics like title cards were stuck at whatever length they were placed at, with no way to trim or extend them. You can now drag their edges like any other clip.

[Compare with source] stays reachable while a source file is in view, instead of dropping out of reach just when you want it.

Exporting at 4K is noticeably faster.

Rating a handoff one star now sends your app logs along with the rating, so we can see what actually went wrong without asking you to write it up. The team reads every one of these.

Media sampling and keyframe extraction no longer look frozen under memory pressure. At least one worker keeps making progress, and a brief loss of memory telemetry no longer cancels your analysis.

Ask chat to check for shaky or blurry shots and it runs a fresh scan if none exist yet, and re-running analysis no longer erases bad-shot results you already have.

Selects no longer drops a second speaker when two people share one detected voice in a multicam project. Both keep their name and profile now.

Some HEVC footage that previously failed to decode now plays back correctly.

Editing a transcript word no longer drops its punctuation when the replacement text is unchanged.

Thumbnails keep their original aspect ratio instead of stretching to a fixed width.

Option prompts now have step-by-step navigation, a Skip button, a Recommended marker on the first choice, and hover descriptions.

Sequence loading is more reliable when multiple parts of the app request the same project at once. A recent edit is no longer silently reverted by a slow background load, and a deleted sequence no longer reappears.

Multicam lanes now show a camera's real coverage on the timeline, so cutting near a sync offset no longer makes it look like footage was deleted.

Preview playback starts faster after a seek, stalls less on large or 4K sources, and no longer shows a stale frame after certain edits.

Captions, titles, and stickers on the timeline can now be trimmed longer, up to the end of the draft beneath them.

Pressing a trim handle no longer clears your clip selection.

Transcript-based edit requests now work on older or partially analyzed projects instead of failing with a metadata error.

A disabled clip's name is easier to read now instead of fading into the clip.

A failed save now tells you plainly to undo your last edit and try again, instead of showing a technical error code.

Chat replies can include a clickable timestamp that jumps you straight to that frame in your draft.

Imported Premiere label colors are now carried onto clips and survive a full re-sync.

Rename a chat from the chat list's menu, and undo and redo (Cmd/Ctrl+Z, Shift+Z) now work in the chat composer.

Drag draft tabs to reorder them.

Camera and speaker keyboard shortcuts (camera select, cut to camera, speaker change) can now be rebound to keys of your choosing. Open [Keyboard shortcuts] to change them.

Turn on [Show subtopic clips] in the timeline's Preferences to see subtopic breaks as separate clips.

When chat delegates part of a request to a helper task, it now shows as a quiet one-line row instead of cluttering the conversation.

Clicking a draft tab now reliably switches to that draft instead of occasionally jumping back to the first tab while it's still loading.

Timeline edits (razor, delete, enable/disable clip, camera angle) now appear instantly and roll back visibly if saving fails, and Undo/Redo waits for edits in progress instead of racing them.

Timeline scrubbing feels smoother on large drafts, and filmstrip thumbnails and waveforms stay stable through razor, trim, and zoom.

Preview no longer flashes a blank frame when editing the current draft, and HDR footage in preview matches the exported look more closely.

Agent chat now collapses finished progress and tool calls into a single [Worked] row above the final answer, so long responses read cleaner.

Exports from projects with unusual frame rates (like 16.5 fps) no longer drift out of sync. Affected existing projects are corrected automatically the next time you open them.

Exported SRT transcripts now show correct subtitle timestamps at second boundaries, especially for NTSC frame rates (23.976, 29.97, 59.94 fps).

A DaVinci Resolve handoff now shows the same completion dialog as other handoffs, with your saved path, instead of a separate import guide.

The Mac window bar has a cleaner look: the title strip is gone, the navbar sits at the top and doubles as the drag handle, and a Home icon replaces the back arrow. Reset your zoom anytime with [Actual Size] (Cmd+0).

On Mac, the bug-report recording "Stop" and screenshot buttons, and the Intercom banner's close button, are now actually clickable.

An import that gets blocked now tells you which clips are the problem, which track each one sits on, and how much shorter it is than its source, so you can go fix those clips instead of guessing at a count.

Hover any file in the Prep file tree for [View topics] and [Add to timeline]. [Add to timeline] drops that file straight onto the end of your open draft, which saves a trip through the menus when you are assembling by hand.

Analyzing footage that lives on an external drive or a NAS is much faster, because Selects now reads each file in a single pass instead of jumping around it.

Transcripts, captions, SRT and TXT exports, and copied text now come out punctuated and sentence-cased, so what you paste elsewhere reads like written text. Search matches what you see too, including a word typed as "Hello,".

Dragging clips onto a Prep timeline stacks them vertically by default, which is what you want for multicam. Hold Option to lay them side by side instead.

Footage in codecs your browser cannot handle, including some HEVC and AV1 files, now falls back to native decoding and plays normally instead of being written off as unplayable.

Relinking no longer cares about extension case, so a project shot as interview.MP4 reconnects to interview.mp4.

Removing media from a project no longer deletes the file and its analysis from disk. It only drops the project's reference, and undo puts it back, so a mistaken delete is no longer permanent.

Multicam sync is steadier on chaptered GoPro and DJI footage, and syncing now works on Windows when your file paths contain non-English characters.

When a sync fails because the audio could not be sampled, it now says so, instead of telling you the clips have no audio and sending you off to check the wrong thing.

Imported timeline XML keeps your video track order, so V1, V2, and V3 arrive stacked the way they were in your editor rather than upside down.

You can switch a clip off instead of deleting it. A disabled clip plays as black and silent in the preview and in your export, and a clip on a lower track shows through, so you can try a cut without losing the material. Right-click a clip and choose [Disable clip], or use the shortcut from your editing tool preset.

Selects tells you when the agent needs you. If it is running in the background and the agent asks something or finishes, a desktop notification shows the actual question or answer, and clicking it drops you back into that chat, so you can leave a long job running and go do something else.

Undo and redo now behave as single, predictable steps across Prep and the timeline, covering the file tree, folders, syncing, timeline imports, drafts, and names and terms. One action, one undo.

Your chat history now shows conversations from both agent generations in one newest-first list, and reopening an older one continues it on the agent that started it, so nothing you asked for last month is stranded.

A new draft takes the frame size and sample rate of the first clip you place on it. Frame rate still follows the project.

[Cut filler words] and [Restore filler words] now run through chat, sending your chosen categories and pacing as a request rather than applying an edit on the spot, so you can see what it plans to do.

Chat shows a retry status while a reply is being retried, so a slow response no longer looks like a hang, and agent errors now carry a short code you can quote to us.

The tool panel lists every tool while you are looking at analyzed footage, so you can see what exists, and asks you to pick a draft when a tool needs one.

Smaller touches: the playback time is centered in the video toolbar, [Compare with source] is now an icon toggle, draft clips show the media file behind them, and the timeline ruler draws finer ticks between labeled times.

Dragging a side panel shut no longer crashes the timeline, and the panels that remain keep the widths you set instead of snapping back to defaults.

Switching view modes no longer kills a conversation the agent is in the middle of, so you can rearrange the screen while it works.

Filmstrip thumbnails now come from the stretch of clip they actually cover, so you get fewer wrong or black frames when you zoom out.

B-roll overlays are silent in the preview, matching what you get in the exported file, so what you hear while editing is what you ship.

[Check names and terms] now rewrites transcript text only and leaves your chapter and subchapter titles alone.

The playhead no longer jumps back to an earlier spot when the same source is used more than once.

The trial dialog no longer reappears every time you create a project.

Audio no longer runs through pitch correction at normal speed, and AAC tracks missing a piece of metadata now decode.

A clip you disabled while prepping no longer carries that state into a draft or a handoff.

[Learn more] has moved from the start page into the profile menu, where you can reach it any time rather than only before you open a project. The Google sign-in wait screen is simpler and clearer too.

On Windows, updating no longer relaunches the previous version, and machines already stuck in that loop recover on their next launch with nothing for you to do.

AI agents connected through the Selects MCP no longer mistake an empty subfolder for an empty project, and starting an analysis no longer reports a false failure that caused it to run twice.

Selecting a folder Selects doesn't have permission to read no longer looks like an empty folder.

Switching a full draft to multicam works again for projects where the multicam flag had gone stale, instead of showing a mistaken "no multicam footage" error.

Eligible users, including some on older legacy plans, now see a [Claim free credits] button in the profile usage panel.

Signing in with Google is more reliable, with a clear waiting screen while sign-in completes and clearer error messages if something goes wrong.

Billing history now shows your Stripe invoices alongside older Lemon Squeezy payments in one place.

Voucher invitations now correctly grant the invited Selects plan after signing in with Google, including for existing Google accounts.

Preview a file in prep before you analyze it, by hovering it and clicking [View]

Analysis reports its outcome once, where you actually are, and tells you why anything failed so you can try those clips again

Audio scoring now looks at the five minutes with the most speech instead of always the first five, so quieter speakers are less likely to be missed on long recordings

Media you import into prep but never place on the timeline is no longer lost when the project is created. It is kept as B-roll and sound files

Chat moved into the [Assistant] panel on the left, with show and hide now at the bottom left

Camera switching happens entirely in chat, and the manual panel is gone

Editing tools are collected into one [Tools] menu: [Remove silence], [Cut filler words], [Speaker audio settings], and [Check names and terms]

The floating timeline toolbar keeps the cutting tools, and gains [Add marker] and [Shortcuts] under [More], plus a [Speakers] button

Group drafts, synced timelines, and files into folders that carry through to your export, or ask chat to do the filing. Drop in a screenshot of the bin structure you use in your editor and it will match it

New [Comments] mode: leave comments on a draft at specific timecodes, then send the whole batch to chat at once

Attach an image to a chat message when it is easier to show than describe

Selects marks shaky, blurry, and out-of-focus stretches on the source timeline, on by default. Ask chat to clean them off a draft, and it removes them on a single camera, or switches to a clean angle of the same person on multicam. Turn it off with [Mark bad shots in source] under Preferences, Timeline (Find shaky and blurry shots)

Handing off to DaVinci Resolve now gives you a Resolve project file (.drp) instead of a zipped XML, so you open it directly and relink far less

Audio rendering is steadier on long timelines

Billing history now shows invoice dates and payment dates separately, so retries are easier to tell apart from renewals

Payment failure messages and retry status are clearer

Scheduled cancellations now show the cancellation date instead of the next renewal date

Cancelling a subscription now works when browser translation is turned on

Timeline markers stay with their chapter after you insert gaps between chapters.

Attach a script file to chat with the paperclip button or by dragging it in: text, Markdown, Word, PDF, and SRT, up to 10 MB.

Multicam cuts back to a speaker at the moments they look into the camera.

Re-editing a draft with small tweaks finishes in seconds instead of running a full re-analysis.

The red marker on a clip that failed to sync is no longer mistaken for a color label you set yourself.

Dragging a file and dropping it outside the chat box no longer risks closing the app.

Exporting to DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro no longer fails on projects carrying B-roll suggestions you never placed.

Unsynced clips are placed in the order they were recorded when the filename carries a timestamp, so the timeline reads chronologically.

Synced clips hold their position and unsynced clips move around them, instead of a long unsynced clip pushing a synced pair out of place.

Creating a project no longer fails with an audio mapping error when the synced timeline and the source file list drift apart.

Re-uploading a file, or re-analyzing one after stopping it, starts a fresh analysis instead of reusing the old result.

Chat now runs on Sonnet 5 by default, a newer and stronger model, so expect better results from the same prompt.

Chat reconnects as soon as your network comes back, and says clearly when a response was cut off.

Chat handles very long tool results and long sessions without losing its place.

The stop button now actually stops, even when the connection has quietly died.

Camera angle thumbnails in the transcript right-click menu fill in reliably, even when your selection crosses a gap in the camera sync.

Switching drafts before the preview has loaded no longer throws an error, and playback no longer freezes as it starts.

Overlay exports work again.

The Windows installer works again, closes a running copy of Selects for you, and clears out the old Cutback Studio version.

Separately recorded audio is used as the main audio for every speaker when its quality is close to the camera audio.

Chat can open folder names containing accented or non-Latin characters.

Speaker matching stays accurate when several projects are analyzed at once.

Folding the transcript, chat, or full media panel leaves a button in its place to open it straight back up.

Clicking the line between the video thumbnail and the audio waveform on a multicam timeline opens the expanded view.

Chat reviews its own edit before telling you it is done, and transcripts can be exported as SRT or VTT.

An edit you like can be saved as a reusable skill and applied again next time.

Script-based editing no longer fails on a pasted script containing invisible blank lines.

Drafts keep the opening and closing context they need as the edit gets longer.

Search returns the right moment in projects built from many clips.

Fewer errors on transcripts with some word timings missing.

A sign-in error now says whether the email is already registered or the details are wrong.

A [Drive disconnected] message now explains when an external drive has been unplugged mid-project, instead of showing a generic failure.

Relinking missing files matches by filename rather than pulling in everything in the folder you picked.

A dialog lists any dropped files that could not be imported and why, and you can click a filename to reveal it on disk.

Offline media now reads "Media is offline" and tells you where the file used to be.

Multi-participant Riverside recordings sync as parallel feeds even when the audio will not correlate.

Dragging a synced angle next to another merges them onto one row instead of just reordering tracks.

Scanning a folder for media no longer hangs on symbolic links.

[Merge with previous word] is now its own command with its own shortcut, separate from merging with the sentence above.

Chat can correct word spellings, chapter titles, and speaker names across a whole project in one action.

Camera-number requests such as "show track 4" now land on the right camera, and on-screen captions follow the language your footage is in.

Extending a clip no longer leaves a phantom gap further down the timeline.

The playhead stops at the end of the sequence, including when external audio runs past the last video clip.

B-roll appears in preview stills instead of the footage underneath it.

Undo and redo no longer fire twice on macOS.

Changing a speaker from the transcript works for every named speaker in the project, not only the ones already in the draft.

Editing a word in the transcript no longer loses the edit.

[Prompt directly] on an empty draft runs the edit in that draft instead of creating another one.

Trim keeps the opening and closing clips you picked, and no longer fails when a removal spans several chapters.

The note box after a handoff rating now appears whatever score you give, not just low ones, so you can tell us what went well too.

B-roll and music tracks stay continuous through handoff instead of being sliced at the words you cut.

Windows machines with a discrete graphics card now use it for hardware decoding, including over remote desktop.

Free trial users with granted credits are no longer blocked from creating a project.

Sync now reports exactly which clips failed and why, such as no audio track or could not be aligned (Sync your files).

You get a system notification when a long multicam sync finishes or fails, so you can leave it running.

Media with Apple Positional Audio tracks now imports reliably.

Start a clean conversation with [Restart chat], or pull up something you asked earlier with [Past prompts].

Long pastes into chat become a single attachment chip you can expand or remove, and a message that is too large says so instead of quietly failing.

Drafts are now created through chat, so the [Match a YouTube video] option has been retired.

Waveforms stay smooth and aligned while you drag a trim handle, instead of flickering or blanking out.

Adding a subchapter inside a single clip now works, instead of silently doing nothing.

Per-track volume works on multicam projects.

Dropdowns and menus opened inside a dialog are no longer hidden behind it.

Trim no longer fails when protected words overlap an edit, or when your prompt lays out its own chapter plan.

Matching speakers now completes on very large multi-camera projects.

The draft list in the handoff picker scrolls instead of running off the screen.

The free trial is now described as 3,600 credits, about 10 hours of footage, rather than as a one-week trial.

A required update restarts the app for you once it has finished downloading.

Projects carrying leftover state from an older version no longer show up broken in the progress panel.

Multi-channel audio inside a video file is no longer wrongly broken apart into separate mono sources.

Relinking B-roll now scans your B-roll files too, not just the main timeline.

Solo versus multicam detection decides from the angles that are usable, instead of giving up when one angle is empty.

Big multi-track projects fall back to shared audio far less often when matching each speaker to their mic.

Short clips cut on cleaner word boundaries and follow the pacing you asked for (Create Shortform Clips).

Trim follows explicit instructions about chapter counts, timestamps, and targeted cuts more faithfully.

Chat picks up where it left off after a reconnect, and offers quick actions when a conversation is empty.

Extending a clip no longer deletes the clip beside it in older projects.

Selecting a chapter in the transcript maps to exactly that range rather than the whole clip around it.

Clip thumbnails match what actually plays when a video track has gaps or is hidden.

Best-take selection no longer crashes on retake groups.

Finishing an export gives you a confirmation with an [Open folder] button.

Overlays now warn you up front that they do not carry over to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or DaVinci Resolve.

Projects left half-finished by an interrupted job no longer crash the app on the next launch.

The MCP setup window is now titled [Connect to Selects MCP], and connecting from the Claude desktop app on Windows works (Connect Selects to your AI agent with the Selects MCP).

Selects is more accurate at telling people apart when they talk over each other or trade turns quickly, in every language.

Starting an edit from the Prep page no longer stops to ask whether you want to sync the main timeline first.

Audio plays from the right file again after you move your media and reconnect it.

Right-click any clip or audio track to give it a color, and your colors carry over to Premiere Pro (Refine Your Draft).

Timeline editing pauses while chat is working, with a message explaining why, so the two cannot fight over the same edit.

Drafts cut at cleaner boundaries, and stray reactions are trimmed out of cut-ins.

Clicking a speaker in the multicam panel steps through each place they talk, instead of always jumping back to the first.

Preview playback lines up with your cuts.

Audio no longer drifts a fraction out of sync with video on synced timelines.

Switching takes no longer leaves slivers of the previous take behind.

The transcript cursor follows the part that is actually playing instead of jumping backwards.

The playhead no longer jumps ahead when it reaches a B-roll region.

Solo recordings shot on two cameras now cut between both angles instead of falling back to a placeholder.

Audio-only projects get a real best take instead of always keeping the last one.

Handoff progress names each step and can be cancelled partway through.

The handoff settings window can no longer be dismissed while an export is running, and the cancel button on the progress overlay works.