Check Out What's New in Selects ✨

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

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.

When a separate audio recording is close in quality to the camera audio, it is used as the main audio for every speaker.

Chat can now open folders whose names use accented or non-Latin characters.

Matching speakers no longer loses accuracy when several projects are analyzed at the same time.

Collapse the Transcript, Chat, or All Media panel and a button appears to bring it straight back.

Click the line between the video thumbnails and the audio waveform on a multicam timeline to jump into expanded view.

Chat checks its own edits before telling you it is finished, and can export your captions as SRT or VTT.

Chat can save an approach you like as a reusable skill and follow it again next time.

Script-based edits no longer fail on scripts pasted in with invisible blank lines.

Drafts keep the intro and closing context they need, even when the cut is running long.

Search results show the right frame for projects made from several clips.

Fewer crashes on transcripts that have incomplete word timing.

Sign-in errors now tell you whether the email is already registered or the details are simply 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 (Syncing 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.