VLPremiere Pro 0.11.70: Shorts That Understand the Film

VLPremiere Pro 0.11.70 is out today, November 1, 2026 — a stable release for Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later, signed and notarized by Apple. It also includes everything in 0.11.64, the media-library release from yesterday. The theme this time is judgement: the built-in AI does less counting and more understanding.

Find Shorts reads for meaning

Until now, Find Shorts chose moments by rules: length, pauses, energy. With the new option in Rules — Let the AI understand the video — a model reads the narration and picks passages that form one complete idea and make sense on their own. Borders fall between sentences, so no thought is cut in half, and the usual rules fill any remaining places. It is on by default for the model that runs on your own Mac. For an online service it stays off until you turn it on, because that route sends the narration to the service — the choice, and the reason for it, are stated plainly in the release notes.

Dub phrases follow the original's feeling

A dub can say the right words in the wrong mood. The new Dub option — Feeling, Match the original's feeling — gives each phrase its energy from how the original voice said it, together with the mood of the line. In Fix This Phrase you can follow the original or set the feeling yourself with a slider. It applies to phrases spoken from now on; dubs you already made stay as they are. The notes are honest about the limit: the engine follows energy and mood, not an exact performance.

Find Different Footage

Sometimes the words are right and the picture is not. Right-click a video clip — or several — and Find Different Footage gets another shot for what is said over it, at the same place and the same length. It searches where your Look in settings point and never offers the clip being replaced; if nothing fits, the clip keeps its picture. Each replacement is one undo step, and you can stop at any time.

Review, metadata and playback, improved

AI Review and Redo now reads a short together with the 45 seconds around it, checks the opening, the ending and what is missing, and answers keep, fix or weak — with a reason for each answer; only "fix" changes the short. When shorts are created or exported, the AI also writes their titles, descriptions, tags and hashtags — text you typed yourself always stays. And playing a short from its row now starts at the short's beginning and stops at its end, so checking a candidate is quick.

Link Media finds the rest

Relinking a moved project gets much shorter. After you find one moved file, Link Media works out how the folders moved and looks for the other offline files in the same place, then searches by name nearby — never a whole drive. A file comes back only if it is the same file; if the name and place are right but the contents changed, the app asks you once. Automatic Video on big folders is faster too: the folder list is kept between passes, so network folders are not walked again each time.

The fixes

Four repairs round out the release. A mono clip on a stereo track now plays on both sides in XML exported for Premiere, and redone voice parts are written in stereo when the voice they replace is stereo. The typing cursor no longer jumps to the end when you edit the middle of a caption or title. Object Mask now outlines what your click selected on frames where no object is recognised, instead of looking dead. And the Assistant no longer fails on long films: an oversized request is resent with a shorter view, and the Assistant receives a shortened version of the whole transcript instead of only the beginning.

What professionals get

Shorts chosen by meaning means fewer almost-right candidates to reject by hand. Dubs that carry the original's energy protect the tone of an interview or a narration across languages. Find Different Footage and the smarter Link Media remove two classic deadline chores — hunting a replacement shot and relinking a moved project file by file.

What beginners get

If you are newer to this, the release mostly removes guesswork. The app proposes Shorts that stand on their own as ideas, writes their titles and tags for you, and tells you which shorts are weak and why. A moved folder of footage is fixed by finding one file — the app finds the rest. You stay in charge — every AI change is one undo step, and every option can be turned off.

Updating

Update from the app with VLPremiere Pro, Check for Updates, or install 0.11.70 over your current copy — projects, settings and your licence stay in place. The full notes are on the 0.11.70 release page, and the feature guide covers Find Shorts and dubbing in depth.

The short version

An editor that understands more of what your film says: Shorts picked as complete ideas, dubs voiced with the original's feeling, footage swapped in a click, and relinking that finishes the job it starts. VLPremiere Pro is available by subscription at vlpremier.com, and every subscription starts with the full Pro app free for 3 days, no credit card required.