Changelog

Version 1.6.1 - September 26, 2026

• Know when an update is ready. MarkerBuddy and MarkerBuddy Lite now show a quiet update notice, with a Check for Updates option in About.
• Update on your terms. Open your edition’s Adobe Marketplace page, ask to be reminded tomorrow, or skip reminders for one version.
• Keep editing offline. Update checks are optional and never upload your project, media, or marker data.
• Read About comfortably in smaller panels, with scrolling that keeps update controls and links within reach.
• Find help faster. The website has a visible How to Update section, a simpler Resources menu, and local search across guides, FAQs, and documentation.
• Download the Stream Deck companion plugin 1.6.1. Its installer is available from the homepage and the Stream Deck setup guide.

Version 1.6 - September 19, 2026

• Use MarkerBuddy and MarkerBuddy Lite in Spanish, German, French, Japanese, or Brazilian Portuguese.
• Choose your language, or match Adobe Premiere automatically.
• Read the website and core guides in these five languages.

Version 1.5.2 - September 19, 2026

• Back to your edit: The Import Notes window now closes after a successful import. In Full, the separate Import panel stays ready for your next batch.
• Less time fixing timecodes: Notes that clearly use a different sequence start, such as 01:00:00:00 instead of zero, are adjusted automatically when the whole batch fits. You can review and change the offset before importing.
• Offsets that stay put: Your chosen timecode offset stays in place when you switch between sequence and clip markers.
• Clearer file-import help: Full now explains file-opening problems beside Choose a File and keeps your pasted draft when a file is cancelled or cannot be read.
• More reliable companion panels: In Full, you can open a separate tool panel before the main MarkerBuddy window without a startup error.
• Keep overlapping notes in XML exports: Full helps Adobe Premiere retain sequence markers that share a timecode by separating conflicting exported markers by one frame where possible. Your original sequence is unchanged.

Version 1.5.1 - September 9, 2026

Improved stability and responsiveness throughout MarkerBuddy/Lite, with additional bug fixes and general performance optimizations. Recommended for all MarkerBuddy/Lite users.

Version 1.5.0 - August 1, 2026

• Flexible workflow surfaces: Opens Import Notes/Markers and Export As as centered Main Panel dialogs, while Automation Center and the alternate Window menu entries remain available as independent non-modal Adobe Premiere panels.
• Quick Marker and Location Memory mirrors: Keeps Quick Markers and Location Memories in the Main Panel while optionally opening a second synchronized panel for either tool. Changes and actions are reflected immediately in both places.
• Add Marker panel: Adds a compact, responsive Add Marker panel that mirrors the Main Panel button and can stay near the part of the workspace where markers are being added.
• Released MarkerBuddy Lite! A free version of MarkerBuddy with core functionality only.

Version 1.4.1 - July 28, 2026

• Safer Batch Shift: Moves requested sequence and clip markers together, including markers on retimed or reversed clips. If any destination is unavailable or outside the sequence, nothing moves.
• Reliable OTIO and OTRN interchange: Keeps markers correctly timed through trims, nesting, and supported speed changes, preserves completion and MarkerBuddy status, and flags timing it cannot place safely for review.
• Predictable audio analysis: Ignores disabled audio inside nested selections and clearly reports whether analysis was cancelled before changes, cancelled after adding markers, finished with failures, or completed successfully.
• Consistent context actions: Makes right-click and keyboard context menus reliable across Quick Markers, marker defaults, Location Memory, import and export presets, and marker rows.
• Marker workflow fixes: Applies status changes correctly to mixed selections, hides unchanged Batch Remove rows, keeps Location Memory jumps in the intended sequence, and makes new Location Memory assignments travel with shared Adobe Premiere projects.
• Interface clarity: Makes Transcript Markers easier to read, starts Quick Markers closed for new users with a dedicated header button beside Add Marker, moves Search beside the MarkerBuddy menu, and clarifies Change Marker Track, sequence details, mini-timeline cues, and Location Memory.
• Stream Deck Quick Marker keys: Gives the eight shipped Quick Marker keys their default names and colors: B-Roll, VFX, Audio, Music, SFX, Graphics, Color, and Review. All ten Location Memory keys use the same MarkerBuddy blue bullseye.
• Performance and resilience: Keeps marker order accurate at the sequence frame rate, improves responsiveness for large marker lists and long clip searches, and fixes retries after a PDF, spreadsheet, or AAF export fails to start.
• Pro Tools Marker AAF: Adds a marker-only AAF for moving Premiere sequence timecode and marker details into an existing Pro Tools session. It contains no audio or video media, and Pro Tools is not required on the export computer.

Version 1.4.0 - July 27, 2026

• Automation Center: Keeps the complete eleven-tool catalog visible in three stable groups, with Batch Edit active by default and contextual Batch Edit or Sync links selecting the relevant tool without filtering or hiding any other workflow.
• Contextual marker actions: Adds compact right-click actions for one marker, multi-selections, TRK, status, timecode, and empty table space, including Set as Location Marker, Change Marker Track with Timeline Marker plus viable video/audio destinations, direct point/range time editing, Batch Edit, Export As, eligible Sync @ workflows, Paste, and Import.
• Location Marker column: Moves LM badges out of Timecode into a centered LOC column immediately after it. LOC stays hidden until a Location Marker is assigned, then supports sorting, resizing, reordering, visibility controls, saved layouts, and direct jumps like the other marker-table columns.
• Sequence-aware Add Marker timecode: Displays the active sequence’s complete timeline timecode in the Add Marker button and its point, syncing, and spanned In/Out guidance, including sequences with non-zero display starts and drop-frame timecode.
• Unified copy, paste, and undo: Replaces the separate text-copy command with one Copy action that writes human-readable tab-separated text and retains a reusable internal marker copy, adds panel-local Command/Ctrl+C, V, and Z with native text-field protection, and extends chronological Undo to destination, timecode, paste, and Location Marker changes.
• Find Claps: Analyze selected audio locally for likely clap/slate candidates, review false-match risks, choose one of eight colors, and add Clap Marker source markers with Clap @ source-timecode comments that remain correctly mapped through nested sequences.
• Beat Detection: Search the complete supported BPM range automatically with no range setup and estimate a local pulse grid for selected audio clips only, review tempo stability and every proposed marker, choose marker density and one of eight colors, then add Beat Marker points with empty comments without claiming downbeats, bars, or meter.
• OTIO and OTRN interchange: Import and export OpenTimelineIO marker files and EditingTools OTRN note files with rational timing, ranges, colors, track hints, comments, completion data, and MarkerBuddy sequence-or-clip destination metadata.
• Batch Frame Export: Export full-resolution stills from selected, visible, or all markers in eight image formats with flexible filenames and safe duplicate handling.
• Sync and Multicam: Align linked clips from explicit Sync @ marker instructions with forgiving drop-frame translation and collision checks, then surface logging markers from nested multicam sources.
• VFX Pull Prep: Build source-bounded pull sequences with handles, locators, File 32/129 EDLs, and optional full-resolution reference frames.
• Text Overlays: Convert reviewed marker names and comments into styled, timed, editable graphics with MarkerBuddy’s bundled local MOGRT, font/alignment/color/background controls, percentage-based placement across 4K, 2K, 1080p, vertical, square, and nonstandard sequence frames, range preservation, point timing, changed-frame and track-collision preflight, and result receipts.
• Audition Safe Transfer: Package selected and nested audio clip markers completely offline as reference WAVs with validated BWF and Adobe XMP metadata plus standalone XMP, CSV, and JSON files without claiming to repair Dynamic Link.
• Workflow refresh: Improved Batch Edit, Export As, Smart Reconform, Transcript Markers, and Automation Center, and added useful first-run Quick Markers for B-Roll, VFX, Audio, Music, SFX, Graphics, Color, and Review.

Version 1.3.1 - July 23, 2026

• Speaker filtering: Inspect language, timed-word counts, named speakers, duplicate speaker names, and unlabeled words before matching, then include only selected Premiere speaker IDs.
• Speaker-aware output: Add a named speaker to marker comments by default and optionally prefix the marker name without inventing a name for unlabeled words.
• Marker duration: Create the existing point marker or span the exact matched phrase.
• Safer phrases: Keep same-speaker matches across adjacent segments while preventing one phrase from crossing different known speakers.
• Clearer workflow: Use Find Matches to review transcript results before creating any markers.

Version 1.3.0 - July 18, 2026

• Transcript Markers: Turn reviewed matches from an existing Premiere transcript into named, colored point markers without uploading the transcript.
• Comment context: Add up to 50 surrounding words to marker comments without moving the marker. Sequence markers work with nests and multicams.
• Cleaner windows: Transcript Markers, Smart Reconform, and Batch Edit are more compact and scroll properly in small panels.
• Clearer Batch Edit: Choose a change, target the intended markers, and review every Before / After result before applying one undoable batch.
• Location Markers: Save ten sequence-specific marker bookmarks, safely recover moved markers, and jump from the panel or Stream Deck.
• Expanded Stream Deck support: Location Memory 1-10 brings the local integration to 25 actions.
• Default Marker Settings: Right-click the top-right add button to edit the default marker name and color.
• Reliable spanned markers: A valid live In/Out range creates one spanned sequence marker even when point markers already exist inside it.
• Interface clarity: Keeps Location Memory, status, and main-menu controls easy to identify.
• Row selection: Select directly from marker rows with desktop modifiers, clear from unused table space, use visible-only Command/Ctrl+A, and delete immediately with undo.
• Column Settings: Reorder and hide any of six columns, automatically retain layouts, and save unified presets for columns, filters, search, and Quick Marker settings.
• Import Review: Keep every source note in order, correct timing and marker fields, reset individual notes, and deliberately merge two notes before the undoable import.

Version 1.2.0 - July 15, 2026

• Stream Deck support: Introduced 15 local actions for markers, navigation, Undo, and statuses on macOS and Windows.
• Better marker placement: Clip markers land at the playhead; sequence markers can follow In/Out. The integration runs locally, and macOS requires Accessibility access.

Version 1.1.1 - July 15, 2026

• More reliable imports and exports: Fixed multiline Frame.io comments, MarkerBuddy and Resolve CSV files, YouTube chapters, 24 fps FCPXML timing, and quoted text.

Version 1.1.0 - July 14, 2026

• Smart Reconform: Review and carry markers from an older cut to a newer one, including nested and multicam edits, with Undo.
• Safer marker recovery: Auto-Rescue restores only exact matches; uncertain changes stay unchanged for review.
• Clearer statuses: Added Completed and Skipped badges and improved status handling in comments, batch edits, and exports.

Version 1.0.0 - July 9, 2026

• First release: Marker editing, Quick Markers, imports and exports, statuses, conversion, and Undo.
• Private by default: No account, cloud processing, or telemetry. Editing works fully offline; an optional lightweight update check contacts markerbuddy.app without uploading editing data.