Caption Preset Previews, AI Drafts & Transcript Review

What's New

• Caption presets now show a rendered visual preview thumbnail — you can see exactly how your captions will look before applying them, without running a full edit.
• AI can now generate and remix caption presets for you. Describe the style you want and AutoEdit drafts a complete preset, including font, colour, and layout choices.
• You can now import custom fonts by pasting a direct URL to a TTF, OTF, or ZIP file — including fonts from Dafont — and AutoEdit installs them for use in caption presets.
• Google Fonts is now searchable directly inside AutoEdit. Find and add any Google Font to your caption preset without leaving the plugin.
• A new split-view caption preset editor lets you tweak every style setting — across 13 organised groups — while watching a live preview update in real time.
• A new Transcript Review screen opens as a two-panel view when you enter review mode, showing your transcript segments on the left alongside the player on the right. Unsaved changes are protected by a confirmation gate so you don't accidentally lose edits.
• The plugin can now fetch your transcription for review directly, with a dedicated endpoint that validates your request before returning results.

Improvements

• Caption preset list page has been redesigned with a new toolbar, a dedicated AI Drafts section, and a cleaner modal for generating AI presets.
• Preset previews are now generated and stored when a preset is created or updated, so loading the preset list no longer fires multiple simultaneous preview requests — the page loads faster with fewer round-trips.
• The plugin now syncs the current Premiere Pro playhead position to the caption workflow, so caption timing can stay in step with where you are in the timeline.
• API requests from the plugin are now more resilient — the retry ceiling has been raised and errors are classified more precisely, so transient network hiccups are less likely to surface as failures.
• Text measurement now has a fallback so caption bounding-box overlays remain visible even when the preferred measurement method is unavailable.
• Stale AI-drafted presets are automatically cleaned up on a schedule, keeping your preset list tidy.

Bug Fixes

• Transcript split and merge operations now use corrected timing math, preventing segments from overlapping or leaving gaps after edits.
• Transcription data is now loaded through a dedicated, validated path that enforces strict consistency rules, reducing the chance of out-of-sync segment states reaching the review screen.