Smarter Repetition Cuts, Trial Reactivation & Caption Fixes

What's New

• AutoEdit now uses an AI-powered Repetition Clusterer (Claude Haiku) to identify repeated phrases across your footage more accurately, grouping them intelligently before deciding what to cut.
• Repeated phrases that span different speaker groups are now isolated and handled independently, so cuts are more precise and don't bleed across unrelated sections of your edit.
• A new stutter detector catches intra-sentence stutters (e.g. 'I I I was') and marks them for removal as a dedicated pass in the editing pipeline.
• A fragment detector now identifies incomplete takes — sentences that trail off or restart — and flags them for cutting separately from full repetitions.
• Trial-ended users now see a clear 'Trial ended' message in the Settings and Hub screens, with a one-click Reactivate button to resume their subscription without contacting support.
• Clicking a segment in the timeline now jumps the Premiere Pro playhead to that exact moment, with frame preview synced and visual styles preserved as you navigate.

Improvements

• Frame previews now load via a direct file path instead of a base64 conversion, making them appear faster and more reliably in the plugin panel.
• Frame export now tries PNG first, then falls back to JPEG, then to a secondary export method — reducing blank or missing frame thumbnails.
• The playhead now settles for 80 ms before capturing a frame preview, and the preview image is fully refreshed on each navigation to prevent stale frames from showing.
• Caption uploads now correctly bypass the per-minute quota check — caption audio is counted separately so it no longer eats into your editing minutes.
• Bonus minutes are now correctly decremented when your plan's included minutes run out, so your usage balance always reflects what you've actually used.
• The macOS installer now cleans up old plugin files before installing and removes quarantine flags automatically, so macOS no longer blocks the plugin after an update.
• The Windows installer now wipes stale plugin assets before laying down new files, preventing leftover UI fragments from a previous version from appearing after an upgrade.
• The trial usage bar label has been moved below the bar so it no longer overlaps the progress indicator.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where trial-ended accounts were not correctly identified by the billing API, causing the wrong plan state to be shown in the plugin.
• Fixed a coalescing bug where adjacent repetition cuts were incorrectly merged across group boundaries, leading to over-cutting in some edits.
• Fixed an issue where the QE DOM frame exporter appended an extra '.jpg' extension, causing exported frame files to be unreadable; the extension is now handled correctly.
• Fixed the caption Path B upload flow so it passes the correct purpose flag, preventing caption audio from being misrouted or rejected at the quota gate.