Changelog

Every MotionCaption release, newest first.

7 releases, from Aug 8, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026

v1.3.0

LatestOct 13, 2026

Stacked captions in Premiere, Sound FX and a smarter Clean Up

New

  • Stacked captions in Premiere: each caption is built as a block with its keywords emphasized, and Edit words lets you move, scale and restyle every word
  • Sound FX: add a sound on each word, line or caption, with a built-in sound or your own file
  • Voiceover (beta): AI narration from your captions or a script, straight onto the timeline, with a license or Pro
  • Script match: paste the script you recorded from, and Clean Up keeps the best take of each line
  • AI check in Clean Up: AI marks retakes, fillers and talk about the recording, like "is it recording?", for you to remove
  • Fix captions: replace the words the transcription always gets wrong, all at once
  • J-cut in Clean Up (Premiere): each clip's audio starts a few frames early, for tighter cuts
  • Auto Zoom: Rhythm places zooms at a steady pace for free, and each zoom can have its own anchor
  • Captions tab: a toolbar under the word you are editing, a label on each pause in the speech, and Merge into 2 or 3 lines
  • An eyedropper in the color pickers picks a color from your video
  • Request a caption style you can't find, right from the preset list

Improved

  • With Pro, or a license with active updates, the small AI tools use no AI credits up to a daily limit: emoji, highlight and Supersize suggestions, Chapters, Auto Zoom, Auto B-roll and more
  • A ring in the panel shows your AI credits, and Usage history lists what each run used
  • Find Repetitions catches more broken-off takes, a sentence said twice, filler words and hesitations
  • Drag across the review waveform to cut any stretch of audio, or press I and O while it plays
  • Hide the cuts in the Repetitions review to read and hear the result before you cut
  • Gentler Remove Silences defaults that keep quiet words, with presets and a level slider
  • Clean Up always keeps your original
  • Premiere: each sequence keeps its own captions, and reading them from the timeline is about 9 times faster
  • Settings > Layout: one click puts the caption at the top, middle or bottom
  • What's New in the panel takes you to the features you have not tried yet

Fixed

  • Premiere: new captions no longer overwrite the clips on your top video track
  • Premiere: a caption too wide for the frame shrinks to fit, and Fade fades captions in and out
  • Premiere: captions no longer render blank after Premiere stays open for days
  • Premiere: Remove Captions removes only MotionCaption's captions
  • After Effects: stopping a generation no longer removes your previous captions
  • Translate keeps your highlights and emojis

v1.2.0

Sep 18, 2026

Viral Moments, Paper Edit and a faster first run

New

  • Viral Moments: AI ranks the best short-form moments in your transcript. Mark them, or cut each one into its own comp or sequence
  • Paper Edit: select passages in the transcript and keep only those, in a new comp or sequence or in the one you have open
  • New accounts start with 7 days of Pro and 50 AI credits
  • Earn up to 7 extra trial days by trying the main features
  • With a license or Pro, buy AI credit packs straight from the panel
  • A short walkthrough opens on your first run, and Settings replays it any time
  • Report a bug or request a feature from Settings > Help

Improved

  • Transcription starts in the cloud when your plan covers it, so the first run needs no download
  • Mac: transcription, the media browser and Grab run natively on Apple Silicon. MotionCaption now needs macOS 12 or later
  • After Effects: the Text Layer card has preset settings, and every layer it builds follows one Motion Control null
  • Premiere: caption edits reach the timeline as soon as you pause typing
  • Premiere: Properties opens Layout Settings in one click, ready to move and resize your captions
  • Premiere: One Clip holds a whole video's captions, up to 3 hours, and long videos generate and edit much faster
  • Settings: drag the caption anywhere in the Layout preview, even past the frame edge, and scale it from any corner up to 300%

Fixed

  • Premiere: long videos keep every caption to the end, in One Clip and in Separate Captions
  • Premiere: highlight colors stay right on the timeline after you edit captions
  • Hiding highlights and showing them again keeps them
  • Clean Up: captions stay in sync with the cuts

v1.1.2

Aug 24, 2026

Caption timing fix

Fixed

  • Caption timing is correct again. In 1.1.1 every caption after the first one could get the wrong start and end
  • The caption composition covers the whole video again, instead of ending at the first caption
  • If you generated captions with 1.1.1, generate them again to correct them

v1.1.1

Aug 23, 2026

Improved

  • Generating captions is much faster, and it stays fast when you generate several presets in one project
  • The progress window tells you how much time is left

Fixed

  • New captions always go into your main composition again
  • Undo after removing captions no longer undoes two things at once

v1.1.0

Aug 22, 2026

Stacked captions

New

  • Stacked captions in After Effects. Each caption builds as a vertical block with one word emphasized, and the words appear as they are spoken
  • Four stacked presets to start from, plus three new caption presets
  • Turn AI word grouping off in Settings to build stacked captions without spending credits

Improved

  • Get Pro from the panel, with the monthly and yearly price shown before you decide

v1.0.1

Aug 17, 2026

New

  • Manage your devices from your account on motioncaption.com
  • Premiere: pull in the captions already on your timeline

Improved

  • Transcribe any audio file. Drag it onto the panel or pick it, and see the cost before you spend
  • The free trial starts with more AI credits

Fixed

  • Motion tab animations now work on your own Premiere titles and on any video track
  • Imported caption files keep their own line breaks, and files saved with a byte order mark keep their first caption

v1.0.0

Aug 8, 2026

First release

The first public build. Animated captions generated from your own audio, inside the app you already edit in, as layers you can keep working on.

MotionCaption in After Effects
  • Animated captions inside After Effects and Premiere, from your own audio
  • 330+ animated caption presets in After Effects, 80+ in Premiere
  • Transcription in 99 languages, in the cloud or offline with Whisper