VLPremiere Pro 0.11.98: Russian Dubs, Stressed Right

A focused dubbing release

VLPremiere Pro 0.11.98 is out, released November 4, 2026. It also includes everything in 0.11.96 and 0.11.97. This is a focused release, and its focus is Russian dubbing: phrases are now stressed automatically before a voice speaks them, editors can see exactly which stresses were used, and the narrator and speaker voices in Dub from Captions are clearer to work with. There is also a small, practical improvement for anyone who starts a dub before the captions are translated.

VLPremiere Pro is a native macOS editor for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later, built for narration-led long-form video and Shorts. Its transcription and built-in AI run on the Mac by default, and it works offline.

Russian dubs are stressed automatically

A Russian word can change its meaning with its stress, and a voice can guess wrong. Until now, careful Russian dubbing in VLPremiere Pro meant supplying stress marks yourself, for example by loading a stressed script. In 0.11.98, when you dub into Russian, every phrase is stressed automatically before the voice says it.

The stresses come from three places, in order. First, the studio's dictionary. Second, the everyday forms of common words. Third, for words the dictionary does not know, and for words that can be stressed two ways, the decision is made with the built-in AI on your Mac. The captions themselves are not changed — only the text given to the voice carries the stress marks.

For professional editors, this removes a manual preparation step from every Russian version, and it does so consistently across a whole film. For beginners and smaller teams, it means a first Russian dub is far less likely to mispronounce a word simply because nobody marked the script by hand.

Show Stresses Used: check, correct, reload

Automation you cannot inspect is hard to trust, so 0.11.98 also adds Show Stresses Used. In Dub from Captions, under Stresses, it opens the stressed text the voice was given — saved as Stresses used.txt — so you can read exactly how each phrase was marked.

If a word is wrong, correct it in that file, save it, and load it back with Load Stressed Script. The next dub uses your correction, and the studio remembers the word. To redo only the phrases you corrected, use Dub Selected Phrase Again, rather than re-dubbing the whole film.

This is the same review-first pattern editors already know from the feature guide: the app does the repetitive work, and you stay in control of the final wording and pronunciation. Our support pages walk through the check-and-correct steps in order.

A clearer narrator voice in Dub from Captions

The Narrator voice menu in Dub from Captions now lists only your own voices, and it speaks the lines that have no speaker. Each speaker speaks in the voice cloned from them, or in the narrator voice.

That makes a multi-speaker dub easier to set up and easier to predict. Professionals working with several cloned voices get a shorter, relevant list instead of a mixed one. Beginners get a clear default: lines belong to a speaker where a speaker is known, and everything else falls back to one narrator voice they chose.

Translate the captions first

A dub can only follow captions that are already in the dub's language. When the captions are not in that language yet, Dub from Captions now says so directly and offers Translate Captions, instead of leaving you to discover the mismatch later.

It is a small change, but it prevents a common wasted run — especially for editors preparing a first version in a new language, where the order of steps is not yet second nature.

What this means for pros and for beginners

For professional editors, 0.11.98 shortens the Russian dubbing path: no separate hand-stressed script to prepare for a first pass, a clear record of the stresses actually used, a one-word correction that the studio remembers, and a cleaner narrator-voice choice for multi-speaker work. The work stays reviewable, which is what a client delivery needs.

For basic and beginner users, the same changes lower the expertise barrier. You do not need to know the stress of every Russian word before you start, and you do not need to guess why a voice said a word the way it did — Show Stresses Used tells you. If one word is wrong, you fix one word and redo only its phrases.

Compared with workflows that send dubbing to a separate cloud service, this stays inside the editor and on your Mac: the built-in AI that resolves difficult stresses runs on-device, with no per-minute cloud step in the middle of the edit.

How to get 0.11.98

Update from the app with VLPremiere Pro, Check for Updates, or install 0.11.98 over your current copy — projects, settings and your licence stay in place, as the 0.11.98 release notes describe.

VLPremiere Pro is available by subscription at vlpremier.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 including Voiceover Studio and on-device AI. You can cancel anytime, and your projects stay yours even if a subscription ends.