For those who don’t know the tool: Transcriptive is/was is a text based editing panel for Adobe Premiere that transcribes media via web services, plus related panels, and it now leans on imports and alignment.

The date that matters, and what actually stops

Transcriptive and its related products reach end of life in May, 2026. The affected lineup includes Transcriptive, Transcriptive Rough Cutter, PowerSearch, the Transcriptive Web App, and EFF-IT!.

Digital Anarchy releases ShotNotes panel for Premiere.

The change lands on the web side. After the shutdown, you cannot generate new transcripts through the Transcriptive panel, and the Web App no longer remains available. An email notice sets the cutoff for new transcripts to May 4, 2026.

If you already have transcripts, the Adobe Premiere panel continues to work and existing projects should stay intact. The panel keeps letting you open and edit transcripts you already created, and it keeps working with transcripts you import from elsewhere.

What still works inside Premiere, for now

The parts that survive are the local bits. The panels continue to run as long as Adobe keeps supporting CEP panels, while Adobe moves toward UXP for extensibility. That matters because Transcriptive, PowerSearch, and EFF-IT! sit in the CEP panel world. Digital Anarchy expects that older panels should continue to work for at least a couple of years, likely longer, but the long term direction stays with UXP.

EFF It: A Plug-In for Profanity and Professionals

In other words, your old transcripts do not evaporate, and your sequences do not suddenly uncut themselves. They just stop getting fed by the online transcription pipeline once the web services go dark.

Alignment becomes the escape hatch

There is one workflow the shutdown does not take away: importing transcripts from other sources and using the free Alignment function in the panel. If you already live on SRT, VTT, or third-party speech-to-text, alignment becomes the bridge back to text-based editing in your existing Transcriptive projects.

That also turns PowerSearch into more of a local indexer story. PowerSearch keeps operating in Premiere as a panel, and it can still search what is already in your project. The end of life does not remove it from your install, it removes the cloud services Transcriptive used for generating new transcripts.

If you depend on any of this in a shared pipeline, treat the transition as a tool change, not a footnote. Test the post shutdown behavior on a real project copy before you commit a production show to it.

Subscriptions, renewals, and refunds

Renewals for Transcriptive subscriptions have already stopped. If any renewal charges show up, the vendor asks customers to reach out for a refund.

The end of life notice also says users can keep using existing transcription access until May 2026. Once prepaid minutes run out, the public notice describes a pay as you go option for transcription during the remaining period before shutdown, with prepaid transcription credits no longer available.

Final builds and where to grab them

A final build with minor fixes is available for download for macOS and Windows.

The email notice points to version 3.17 installers here:
https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_317_Pr.dmg
https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_317_Pr.zip

The public end of life post points to version 3.16 installers here:
https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_316_Pr.dmg
https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_316_Pr.zip

If you archive toolchains for long running shows, stash the installer you actually deploy and document the host app versions you validated, especially with panel frameworks shifting over time.

The rest of the catalog continues

Ugly Gets an Upgrade: Digital Anarchy’s Free Halloween Plugins

This change only targets Transcriptive and the related panels. All other plugins remain available!

https://digitalanarchy.com/blog/video-editing-plugins/transcriptive-end-of-life-web-services-will-be-ending-in-may-2026/

https://digitalanarchy.com/eff-it/

https://digitalanarchy.com/transcriptive/

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For those who don’t know the tool: Neat Video runs as a denoise plug-in inside apps like Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, and Foundry Nuke. It cleans up shots without making you leave your host, which is the nicest kind of cleaning.

What 6.1.2 actually changes

Neat Video 6.1.2 shipped on 9 April 2026. The update targets three very practical areas: support for new Apple Silicon graphics hardware, compatibility with newly released host versions, and small workflow and stability improvements across plug-ins and platforms.

Boris FX welcomes Vegas Pro

The headline compatibility additions are support for Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max GPUs on macOS, support for Nuke 17 on Windows, macOS, and Linux, support for Nuke Studio 17 and Nuke Indie 17 on Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus support for Vegas Pro 2026 on Windows.

If your pipeline depends on host upgrades staying unblocked, that list matters more than any marketing adjective. A denoiser that falls behind host compatibility turns into the most expensive bypass node you never wanted.

Vegas Pro 2026 support on Windows

6.1.2 adds support for Vegas Pro 2026 on Windows. What is clear is the intent: the update aligns the plug-in with the newest Vegas Pro release line, so editors on that host can update without losing access to the denoise plug-in. If your finishing workflow includes cuts or conform work in Vegas Pro, this update keeps that lane open. And, if you think that EWgas is getting a second wind, you don’t have to miss your favourite denoiser.

Nuke 17, Nuke Studio 17, Nuke Indie 17 compatibility

6.1.2 adds support for Nuke 17 across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and adds support for Nuke Studio 17 and Nuke Indie 17 across the same trio of platforms. In a mixed facility where artists jump between OS builds or where show work crosses between Linux workstations and macOS laptops, that cross-platform statement carries scheduling weight.

Some teams will care about this update purely because it removes friction around moving to Nuke 17. Others will care because they have already moved and need the denoise step to catch up. Either way, the result is the same: one less reason to keep an older host version installed just to keep a plug-in alive.

Apple Silicon M5 Pro and M5 Max support

Version 6.1.2 adds support for Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max GPUs on macOS. The practical promise is simple: GPU-accelerated processing for faster renders on Apple Silicon M5 Pro and M5 Max machines.

Updating, licensing, and what costs money

6.1.2 is described as the latest update improving compatibility and support for new software and hardware, and it is free for licensed users of version 6 of the product.

To update, the release directs users to the My Products page. The My Products page requires login access through the vendor site, so you should expect the usual account-based download flow rather than a public direct installer link for licensed builds, or a line of smooth WinGet.

Upgrading from older major versions gets described in two ways across the official materials provided. Owners of versions 1 through 5 can upgrade to the new major version 6 with a discount. Another official upgrade page adds extra detail: version 6 can coexist with version 5 or older and does not replace it in current projects, a v6 demo is available to try before upgrading, and users who purchased version 5 within the last 12 months receive an additional discount.

Pricing of a single-copy license price is €72.90 for the Home edition and €136.90 for the Pro edition on several host categories. The same page also shows discounted bundle pricing for certain host combinations, but the exact bundles and discount figures vary by host section on that page. If you buy based on a specific host, verify the exact host row you plan to license, because the page layout presents pricing per host family.

https://www.neatvideo.com/news/nv612

The post Neat Video 6.1.2 adds Vegas 2026 and Nuke 17 first appeared on DIGITAL PRODUCTION and was written by Bela Beier.

TweenFX is a tween animation library for Godot 4, published as a public repository by EvilBunnyMan on GitHub. The project describes itself as “a simple, juicy tween animation library for Godot 4” and is released under the MIT licence. If you want a free and mildly indulgent tool to poke at before the next sprint planning meeting, this fits the bill. It ships as a Godot plugin and the repository shows the plugin folder path under addons/TweenFX.

What it actually does

TweenFX exposes ready-made animation calls you can trigger directly on a node, plus controls for stopping animations and awaiting completion. The project’s own examples include calls like shake(node), pop_in(node) with awaiting its finished state, and stop and stop_all helpers for cancelling playback. It also includes a PlayState concept aimed at interactive UI, with example calls that set ENTER and EXIT states for a snap animation. That is presented as an approach for UI interactions where you want deterministic in and out behaviour rather than a single fire-and-forget tween.

All of this sits on the familiar tweening idea of interpolating values over time, but the key point here is packaging: TweenFX is presented as a drop-in library of named animation behaviours you can call, rather than re-authoring the same handful of UI and feedback tweens per project.

A demo release you can actually run

The repository has a live demo via the project’s releases, and that it includes an interactive tutorial. The demo is weirdly addictive, the Gov in the bog picture took us 12 tries, because it’s just a nice clicking sensation :) Yes, i’s time for the weekend, we agree.

On the releases page, it lists 14 new animations, a new tutorial page titled “COMBO!” intended to explain parallel animations, multiple pages on categories, and “overall polish”.

Licence and cost

TweenFX is MIT licensed. The repository also states it is free for personal and commercial use. That makes it a low-friction candidate for a quick trial in a prototype branch, assuming you are comfortable with adding a third-party dependency to your project.

Pipeline notes for production-minded people

Because this is a plugin-style add-on living in an addons folder, it is the sort of dependency that can quietly become “that one folder everybody copies around”. Treat it like any other: pin a known-good revision, test it against the Godot version you ship, and decide how you want to manage updates from upstream.

The release page is useful as a simple changelog, but it is still your job to validate behaviour under your own frame pacing, platform targets, and UI input edge cases. New tools and innovations should be tested before use in production, even when they look fun and harmless. If you just want something free to play with for a Friday wind-down, TweenFX has a demo release and a growing set of named animatoin behaviours, and it does not ask for a login, a subscription, or your dignity.
https://github.com/EvilBunnyMan/TweenFX
https://github.com/EvilBunnyMan/TweenFX/releases/

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With some plug-ins, scripts and extensions, you wish you had known about them long before the start of the last project, in our case, a 100-minute archive documentary with over 1,000 individual media files. The “Project Sorter” script saves a lot of time when editing and post-processing larger projects, especially when it comes to sorting and cataloguing different media types.. Project Sorter is a bit like the post office clerk who sorts letters by city, district and street – only for media, not for direct mail items.

How Project Sorter works

But first things first… Who hasn’t been there: you find (or receive) one (or more) media files, drag them into Adobe Premiere (or After Effects) for processing, and leave them at the highest project level until you completely lose track of them and grudgingly (or the intern) start putting all the elements away individually and neatly in the bins provided for them. Only to be faced with the same problem of a completely overloaded project level a week later.

Project Sorter provides a fully automatic remedy here by sorting the elements into the correspondingly defined bins during import (including drag-and-drop directly into the timeline). Sounds simple? It should be, provided you make the effort and define a reasonably well thought-out order at the start of the project – which is actually common practice for larger productions. If even this first step is too time-consuming, you can simply rely on the “demo” settings supplied with the script to ensure at least basic sorting into audio and video bins.

Setup

The actual script can be found under Window -> Extensions and opens a three-column mask where the corresponding sorting parameters are defined. The user is not only limited to the type of file, for example video, sound or images, but can also search through metadata and file paths via a second column in order to carry out a precise sub-sorting.

An example: If you organise your raw material on the hard drive according to days and recorded cards, you can specify in the Project Sorter that all media from shooting day XY of card 1 (with the corresponding path on the hard drive) are also stored in the project bin with the same name. The secret lies in so-called sub-filters that can be defined within the “Video” filter column.

Project Sorter even goes so far as to change not only the names of the bins but also the names of the elements within Premiere (or After Effects). Instead of an element in Premiere being generically named “KLB0011.MXF”, it can be automatically renamed to “[creation-date] [creation time] cam 01″, which makes it much easier to find the clip again (if the editor knows the shooting date and time).

To perform a sort, the small chain symbol above the Project Sorter window must be activated. If you click on the “Play” button after an import, the bins are created, renamed and sorted automatically. If the link button remains pressed, the sorting function is also permanently activated, but this is not necessarily to the user’s advantage, as a file that is imported immediately disappears in the corresponding bin and must first be found there again. To avoid immediate sorting, deactivate the linking, import the element, process it in the timeline or comp, and reactivate the linking later, for example at the end of the working day (or if you lose track after a few hours), to restart the automatic sorting.

Subtleties

The Project Sorter includes lots of individual options and parameters, most of which you will never need in your entire professional life. What proves to be very useful, however, is the fact that you can add new sorting filters for each project using the ” ” symbol. The filter collections are retained and are not saved with the project so that the user can also access old settings at a later date.

In addition to the file type and creation date, the very useful sorting parameters also include file extensions, so that PSD and PNG files, for example, are not only sorted into one image folder but into different bins, as well as image sizes and resolutions, which can be used to separate HD, 4K and 6K material in the project. You can also sort by frame rates, alpha channels and multicam clips. In addition to the aforementioned sorting and renaming of project elements, the “Actions”, i.e. the tasks that the Project Sorter performs automatically, also include adding labels and automatic scaling to the active frame size.

Conclusion

The Project Sorter is not very easy to understand at first (which even the programmer admits), but once you have got behind the logic of the script, the sorter makes a lot of work steps easier that you either regularly procrastinate on, or the user may generally shy away from, for example renaming video elements according to shooting days and cards.

So if you don’t shy away from the time it takes to familiarise yourself with the software and invest 50 US dollars, you will save yourself many, many hours of work in the long run. Work hard, sort fast, retire young.

Info box

Leyero – Project Sorter v1.75: Script for automatic sorting and naming of media files.
Price for Project Sorter 1.75: USD 50
Host application: from After Effects / Premiere 2022
Further information: https://aescripts.com/project-sorter

The post Work Hard, Sort Fast: Project Sorter 1.75 first appeared on DIGITAL PRODUCTION and was written by Andreas Zerr.