Release Notes

3.1.3

🎉 Released:

8 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added Apple Intelligence+ agentic mode in the Command Palette with timeline-aware tools and natural-language editing.
Added an embedded Lua 5.4 scripting engine with REPL, menu scripts, example scripts, and MCP tools.
Improved social captions with Basic Title support, karaoke highlighting, auto-transcription, and better lower-third behavior.
Added default spatial conform controls for new timeline clips.
Fixed Lua RPC deadlocks, caption engine selection, Parakeet build compatibility, and long-clip caption blocking.

3.1.2

🎉 Released:

7 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added local App Store receipt validation for Creator Studio subscriptions before launch.
Shows an alert when no valid subscription is found.

3.1.1

🎉 Released:

7 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added support fixes for Final Cut Pro Creator Studio.
Fixed subscription validation and a CloudKit crash on ad-hoc signed builds.

3.1.0

🎉 Released:

6 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added configurable J/L playback speed ladders instead of Final Cut Pro’s fixed shuttle progression.
Added menu and API controls for custom playback ladders.
Added MCP playback speed controls and current-rate reporting.
Preserved original K+L and K+J single-frame stepping behavior.

3.0.2

🎉 Released:

6 Apr 2026

What's New:

Improved Final Cut Pro discovery so SpliceKit can find non-standard app locations automatically.
Added a manual “Browse for Final Cut Pro...” fallback.
Fixed a launch crash caused by a missing log panel class in the dylib build.
Fixed incorrect version display when Final Cut Pro is installed outside the default path.

3.0.1

🎉 Released:

5 Apr 2026

What's New:

Fixed Sparkle showing false update prompts on the latest version.
Bundled the pre-built parakeet-transcriber in the DMG for easier setup.
Improved Parakeet error messages and skipped clips shorter than 0.5s.
Deployed helper tools into the SpliceKit tools folder during deployment and added more detailed logging.

3.0.0

🎉 Released:

5 Apr 2026

What's New:

Rebranded FCPBridge as SpliceKit.
Introduced a new wizard-style patcher app, DMG distribution, and app icon.
Renamed the Final Cut Pro menu item to Enhancements.
Removed hardcoded user-specific paths and standardized tool locations.
Existing users need to re-patch because the framework name changed.

2.8.4

🎉 Released:

4 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added effect browser favorites support through Final Cut Pro’s built-in favorites API.
Exposed Final Cut Pro internal debug and diagnostics tools through MCP presets.
Fixed patcher signing to preserve Apple framework signatures.
Added crash prevention for unsafe trim selectors and fixed the retimeHold action mapping.

2.8.3

🎉 Released:

2 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added effect dragging to empty timeline space to create named adjustment clips.
Included a toggle for this behavior in the FCPBridge menu.

2.8.2

🎉 Released:

2 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added support for Final Cut Pro Creator Studio with auto-detection and an edition picker.
Added adjustment clip creation when dragging effects into empty timeline space.

2.8.1

🎉 Released:

2 Apr 2026

What's New:

Improved Parakeet error messages with download progress and network, disk, memory, and Xcode CLT diagnostics.
Expanded the command palette to 120+ entries.

2.8.0

🎉 Released:

2 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added full MCP control with universal menu access and dialog handling.
Added effect parameter read/write support for opacity, transform, crop, and volume.
Expanded timeline actions to 200+ operations.
Improved playhead monitoring, tool selection, and modal-safe dispatch.

2.7.0

🎉 Released:

2 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added batch export to export timeline clips individually to a folder with one initial destination prompt.
Added batch_export() and set_timeline_range() MCP tools.
Added absolute startTime and endTime positions for timeline clips.
Used swizzling and range controls to automate Final Cut Pro’s export pipeline.

2.6.1

🎉 Released:

1 Apr 2026

What's New:

Fixed Parakeet in the release patcher by embedding transcriber source in the patcher app bundle.
Added handling for read-only app bundles by copying sources to a writable temp directory before building.

2.6.0

🎉 Released:

1 Apr 2026

What's New:

Made Parakeet v3 Multilingual the default transcription engine, with Parakeet v2 still available.
Added batch transcription with shared model loading, source deduplication, and concurrent diarization.
Fixed installation issues caused by hardcoded paths and improved binary deployment.
Cleaned up logs, sockets, repo files, and patcher resources.

2.5.0

🎉 Released:

1 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added Sparkle auto-update support to the patcher.
Fixed “Browse Titles...” so titles insert correctly as connected clips.
Made NVIDIA Parakeet the default transcription engine.
Added speaker diarization and improved transcript/playhead sync after edits.

2.4.0

🎉 Released:

1 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added NVIDIA Parakeet transcription as the default engine.
Added speaker diarization for Parakeet and Apple Speech.
Added speaker renaming in the transcript UI.
Improved transcript/playhead sync, long-audio stability, authorization flow, and progress updates.

2.3.0

🎉 Released:

1 Apr 2026

What's New:

Added a VS Code-style command palette inside Final Cut Pro.
Added Apple Intelligence integration for natural-language editing commands.
Added silence detection and removal using Apple-native audio analysis.
Added scene detection with configurable marking and blading actions.
Improved timeline state, playhead positioning, and media path resolution.

2.2.0

🎉 Released:

1 Apr 2026

What's New:

Fixed live playhead sync for transcript highlighting during playback.
Moved patcher shell commands off the main thread to prevent beachballing.
Removed the git dependency by switching downloads to curl.
Fixed button overflow and clean Cmd+Q shutdown.

2.1.0

🎉 Released:

31 Mar 2026

What's New:

Added a transcript editor for text-based video editing inside Final Cut Pro.
Added word-level transcription, click-to-seek, delete-to-ripple-delete, and drag-to-reorder.
Added toolbar, menu bar, and keyboard shortcut integration.
Added a self-contained signed patcher app.
Added MCP tools for opening, reading, deleting, and moving transcript words.

2.0.0

🎉 Released:

31 Mar 2026

What's New:

Introduced FCPBridge 2.0.0 with direct programmatic control of Final Cut Pro via injected dylib and MCP server.
Added 28 MCP tools, 40+ timeline actions, JSON-RPC access, object handles, KVC property access, and FCPXML generation/import.
Added patcher app support for copying, injecting, re-signing, and launching a modded Final Cut Pro build.
Verified the system with 30 passing tests across editing, playback, color, effects, and timeline analysis.