VLPremiere Pro 0.11.135: Focus Areas and the Area Tool

VLPremiere Pro 0.11.135, released November 9, 2026 (build 20261109.0050), is built around one idea: help the viewer look at the right thing. Its new Focus Areas draw attention directly in the picture, while voice, dubbing and everyday fixes make long projects easier to organise and safer to finish.

Focus Areas and the Area Tool

With the new Area Tool, you draw an area over anything in the picture, then zoom in on it, highlight it, or cut it out while the rest dims — one area after another. For professionals, that is a fast way to guide a sequence through a busy frame — a face, a product detail, a line on a chart — without building keyframed moves by hand. For beginners, it is simpler still: draw the box, choose what should happen, and the emphasis is clear.

Suggested Focus Areas, and zooming one item

Suggested Focus Areas outlines the people, faces and objects at the playhead, on your Mac only. Click the outlines in order, or let Do It for Me lay out the whole sequence. Zoom one item lets a Focus Area zoom just the caption, title, graphic, image or video at the playhead, cut out along its own edges. Pros gain speed on sequences with several emphases in a row; beginners gain a starting point they can accept or adjust, instead of a blank frame and a guess.

Voices, organised at last

Favorite voices, voice folders and Manage Voices let you star the voices you use most, sort them into folders, and delete or save them in one window. When Detect splits one person in two, Merge speakers fixes it with one click, so one speaker stays one speaker through captions and dubbing. If you return to the same narrators project after project, this saves the hunting that used to start every session.

Looks, smarter search, and a clearer Tools panel

You can now install many looks at once: several .cube files, or a whole LUT pack folder, each pack in its own group. Smart search is more forgiving across Effects, Graphics, Motion Studio, Text Studio, Looks, Title Styles and Keyboard Shortcuts — any word order, one typo forgiven, Russian words understood. The Tools panel is grouped: click for the last tool, long-press for the rest, while Object Mask, Area and Create Video Grid have their own buttons.

Redo a part, finish sooner, trust dubs more

Redo This Part remakes a part's captions from your text, timed to the new take. Automatic Video asks the AI four to five times fewer questions, so long films finish much sooner, and shows the right time left during the second try. Dubs are steadier: Detect Again keeps speaker names and voices, and clones are made only from that person's own clear lines. Pros keep casting and continuity across a long dub; beginners face fewer questions and clearer progress.

The playhead comes back

Each timeline opens where you stopped, with a "Stopped here" flag on the ruler. Dragging the playhead past the timeline edge scrolls the view, and the playhead no longer disappears while you drag it. Close a project at night, reopen it in the morning, and you are exactly where your attention left off.

Fixes that protect finished work

A finished voiceover now goes on a free track of its own language and never overwrites another track. Part markers are found again for voiceovers with Russian or accented names, and Apple system voices finish properly on macOS 27.3. Russian voiceovers no longer guess the stress of words with two possible stresses — they are listed for you instead. A dub that could stall at "Fitting to the original's timing" is now retried, then skipped so Dub the Rest can make it later, and Stop ends it at once. Phrases set to a deleted voice now speak in their speaker's voice. Dragging clips no longer lags on many-take dubs, closed projects and browsed looks no longer stay in memory, and a removed voice is forgotten everywhere, while cloning again keeps the previous recording.

A new name, carried by this release

This release also carries the app's new name: VLPremiere Pro. The app offers to move an older copy to the Trash — settings, projects, voices and licence stay exactly as they were. Only the name changes.

For pros, for beginners, on your Mac

Professionals will feel 0.11.135 in guided sequences, organised voice libraries, bulk LUT installs and dubs that keep their names. Beginners will feel it in suggested areas accepted in one click, forgiving search, and a playhead waiting where they left it. The built-in AI runs on your Mac by default and the editor works offline. See the guide for Focus Areas step by step, and support if you need a hand after updating.

VLPremiere Pro is available by subscription at vlpremiere.com, with a free trial of the full Pro app for 3 days and no credit card required. There are two plans — Creator for individual creators and Pro for the full advanced toolset — you can cancel anytime, and your projects stay yours.