Rebalance the license tiers. Clip Sequence export is now included in Personal. All NLE round-trip exports (Premiere, Final Cut, Resolve, Kdenlive, Shotcut, Premiere .otio…) now require Pro. Full-resolution (1×) proxy preview now requires Studio.
Licenses purchased before tiered pricing launched (June 8, 2026) are now honored as Pro, so they can upgrade to Studio.
date: 2026/06/17
4.12.0
Add multi-tier licensing (Personal/Pro/Studio) with a license upgrade page. Hardware encoders, full-resolution proxy, and Clip Sequence export now require Pro; NLE round-trip exports (Premiere/FCP/Resolve) require Studio. Motion and subtitle detection stay free.
Add a rotate action.
Apply actions to arbitrary spans on the timeline.
Add AMF encoder presets.
Auto-load sibling subtitle files (.srt/.ass next to the media).
Update auto-editor to 30.5.0.
Bound proxy memory and stop proxy generation storms.
Fix proxy preview races and delete the proxy file when enabling Preview.
Rename "Preview Cuts" to "Preview".
Remove the redundant "Include subtitles" checkbox.
date: 2026/06/08
4.11.0
Add a subtitle edit method with a timeline lane showing cue text (uses a sibling .srt/.ass when the media has no subtitle track).
Reset the editor session on a full app quit (closing/reopening the window on macOS still restores it).
Add micro-fade at clip edges to prevent audio pops.
Fix the subtitle lane not spanning the full clip length.
date: 2026/06/01
4.10.1
Display audio waveforms.
Add timeline ticks.
Implement level-of-detail rendering for the main ribbon.
Fix issues relating to switching between projects.
date: 2026/05/28
4.10.0
Allow setting the video encoder's preset (file size/time trade-off).
Query and show hardware encoders on Windows/Linux.
Add Premiere Pro (.otio) export option.
"Export As" now follows the output name's extension (.otio, .xml, .fcpxml, .kdenlive, .mlt, .v3, or a media-file extension).
Projects, inputs, cuts, undo history, Controls + Timeline settings, and the playhead now persist across reload/window-close, and are tracked per-project.
Open/Save projects as .aep files via File > Open Project (Cmd/Ctrl+O) and File > Save Project (Cmd/Ctrl+S).
date: 2026/05/27
4.9.0
When exporting to our very robust media rendering engine, you can now easily choose the format, and a few more additional advanced options.
Want the best audio encoder around? Auto-Editor now chooses opus as the default. Even YouTube recommends uploads using opus these days.
Can't use Opus? Want to use a royalty free audio codec that's been available since 2000? You can now use the vorbis audio encoder.
date: 2026/05/20
4.8.0
Add horizontal/vertical flip actions.
Kdenlive export: support multiple inputs.
Fix incorrect rendering of some AV1 videos.
Enable flv muxer/demuxer.
date: 2026/05/15
4.7.2
You can now double-click to select a clip.
Fix manual edit indicator sometimes visually disappear.
date: 2026/04/22
4.7.1
Fix black screens output with media with nonstandard stream configuration.
date: 2026/04/18
4.7.0
Add setting Constand Rate Factor (CRF).
You can import/export multiple videos with projects.
Add support for multiple inputs (concat horizontally).
date: 2026/03/28
4.6.0
Unregistered users now get 3 free exports.
Fix wrong colors when encoding HDR content.
Improve audio rendering performance for single channel streams.
Improve audio rendering for exotic layouts.
date: 2026/03/21
4.5.1
Now available to the general public for evaluation.
Now uses license keys.
date: 2026/03/02
4.5.0
'Preview Cuts' now uses a proxy for more accurate previews. You can adjust the proxy settings in the Timeline tab.
Add the ability the scroll the timeline vertically.
Add 'invert' and 'zoom' actions.
date: 2026/02/23
4.4.0
Use FFmpeg's AVIndexEntry feature for more efficient video seeking.
Improve clip-sequence export, avoiding resource exhaustion for many clips outputs.
date: 2026/02/07
4.3.1
Fix two major regressions. One related to caching, the other relating to media rendering.
You can now use Intel QSV encoders.
Audio/Motion levels now takes up 1/2 of the memory it used to by storing the data in float32 instead of float64
date: 2026/01/07
4.3.0
The current timeline's timebase is now viewable
Media rendering: will now copy attachment streams
Better support for varispeed
Media rendering: better performance
Minor UI upgrades
date: 2026/01/06
4.2.1
Make exporting to Premiere Pro XML a lot faster.
date: 2025/11/04
4.2.0
Allow selecting different actions.
Add UI buttons for "add", "cut" and "undo".
Fix bug related to Final Cut Pro exports.
date: 2025/11/02
4.1.0
Improve performance.
date: 2025/10/16
4.0.2
Fix resolve backend when handling Windows paths.
4.0.1
Fix bug with video rendering.
4.0.0
A core component has been rewritten, this has resolved in reduced binary size and faster (up to 2x) media rendering
Add kdenlive export.
Support VEGAS Pro exports (a.k.a resolve-fcp7).
date: 2025/08/14
3.13.2
Editing methods are now saved between sessions.
date: 2025/07/14
3.13.1
Fix issue with Final Cut Pro/DaVinci Resolve when timebase is not a whole number.
date: 2025/07/09
3.13.0
Fix fcp11 warnings/errors.
Getting motion levels is faster now.
More intuitive zooming.
date: 2025/06/18
3.12.0
Include a software h265/hevc encoder for all platforms.
Get audio levels faster.
date: 2025/06/05
3.11.0
Add the toolbar and a new tool, the "hand".
Ability to add padding to change the aspect ratio.
Ability to change the timeline background.
date: 2025/05/13
3.10.0
Allow setting the audio layout to "stereo" or "mono".
date: 2025/04/23
3.9.0
Remember window position and control settings.
Allow previewing one audio track at a time with the new volume button.
date: 2025/04/08
3.8.0
Add "Check for Updates" and "Changelog" button.
Add subtitle editing method.
3.7.4
Media Exports: Fix problem with seeking in large files.
date: 2025/02/24
3.7.3
MacOS: Add support for using Hardware AAC.
Fix crash when using opus and vorbis audio encoders.
Fix minor UI bugs.
date: 2025/02/23
3.7.2
Adds support for the yuv422p10le pix_fmt. This brings better support for prores.
Windows: Add experimental support for some Nvidia encoders (h264_nevc, etc.)
date: 2025/02/13
3.7.1
Fixes a crash when outputting using the prores encoder.
date: 2025/02/09
3.7.0
It is now possible to set the video profile for the h264 and hevc codecs.
Option to use the hardware h264 and hevc encoders on MacOS.
Fixed a quirk with the play/pause button.
date: 2025/02/08
3.6.1
Windows: fix error caused by stdout not being utf-8.
date: 2024/11/28
3.6.0
Upgrade openh264 encoder
Remove static ffmpeg binaries
MacOS: Delete all localization files besides English to save file size.
date: 2024/11/23
3.5.1
Play all audio tracks when previewing.
Use auto as the bitrate's default value.
Streamline the way multiple audio streams are handled in the UI
date: 2024/10/24
3.5.0
Fix clip sequence export
Allow setting the Final Cut Pro version to version 10.
Fix motion returning lower values than it should.
date: 2024/09/27
3.4.0
Add FCP7 backend for DaVinci Resolve
Allow including/excluding subtitle streams when outputting media export
Various small bug fixes
date: 2024/08/31
3.2.0
UI for margin has been improved
Get levels data asynchronously
Various other small bug fixes
date: 2024/07/03
3.1.0
You can now use multiple editing methods at once
Cleaned up UI, made text generally smaller
date: 2024/06/20
3.0.0
Start the re-design! Any changes are not necessarily final
Fix JSON reading issue that should address rare issue when exporting a video randomly fails
Fix desync issue with videos with FPS's like `30.01`
date: 2024/05/18
2.22.2
You can now name export sequences for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro
Made "mincut" and "minclip" their own global settings so they could be applied to "motion" as well
Upgraded ffmpeg to 6.1.1
A standalone ffprobe is no longer needed, Auto-Editor now talks to the ff* library directly.
date: 2024/03/26
2.22.1
Premiere Export: Fix bug where only one audio channel would be used
Fix bug where importing a media file with only audio would put entire app in an invalid state
Add help icons that when clicked, will give additional help text for its option
date: 2024/02/29
2.22.0
The size of the application on all platforms are about 10MBs smaller
The Windows version now uses the squirrel framework. That means you run `setup.exe` once and it will install Auto-Editor on your system.