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• Transcriptive End of Life is May 1st, 2026
• New Flicker Free Tutorials with Videos for Each Host App
  • Rolling Bands
  • Slow Motion
  • Time Lapse

After many great years helping editors work faster and more efficiently, we’ve made the tough decision to discontinue Transcriptive and its related products on May 1st, 2026 — The products affected are Transcriptive Rough Cutter, PowerSearch, the Transcriptive Web App, and Eff-it.

This mostly means that after May, the web services will be shutdown. So you’ll no longer be able to transcribe with the Transcriptive panel, and the Web App will no longer be available.

There are no significant immediate changes.

And this only affects Transcriptive and other panels. All other Digital Anarchy plugins will continue to be available. We’re not going anywhere, just re-focusing on our visual effects plugins.

The Transcriptive, PowerSearch, and Eff-it panels will continue to work in Premiere Pro as long as Adobe continues to support CEP panels. Adobe is moving to a new framework, UXP, but we expect older panels to continue working for at least another couple years (and most likely longer). So any projects you’ve used Transcriptive for will continue to work. (if you’re interested, here’s more info on why Adobe is doing this.) It does not affect our vfx plugins, only panels like Transcriptive.

Until May 2026, existing users will continue to have access to all online services. You can still transcribe, use your existing transcribing credits, and the Web App/Premiere Pro integration will remain fully functional.

Please note:

• If you’ve prepaid for minutes, once you run out of them, you’ll need to use the pay-as-you-go option and transcribe with a credit card. You will no longer be able to purchase prepaid transcription credits.
  
  

• All yearly Transcriptive.com subscriptions will renew as monthly plans to make account management easier.
  
  

• You can continue importing transcripts from other sources and use the free Alignment function to use them in Transcriptive. This function is part of the Premiere panel and will continue to work as long as the panel does.
  
  

• Again, this does not affect any other Digital Anarchy products. We’re continuing to develop, sell, and support our VFX plugins. We’ve got some cool new AI features in the works!
  
  

It saddens us to make this announcement, but with Premiere adding transcripts natively, the writing has been on the wall for a while. It also didn’t make sense for us to re-write Transcriptive as a UXP panel. So it’s just time to move on and focus our development efforts on our visual effects plugins.

We’re deeply grateful for your support over the years. Transcriptive was the first fully integrated text-based editing solution for video, and it has helped thousands of editors speed up post-production. It’s been incredible to be part of your creative process, and thank you for being part of the Transcriptive community.

If you have questions about your account, subscription, or remaining credits, please contact us at cs@digitalanarchy.com .

Also, there is a new build of Transcriptive with some minor fixes that we recommend you download:

https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_316_Pr.dmg (mac)

https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_316_Pr.zip (win)

Jim Tierney
Chief Executive Anarchist
Digital Anarchy

We've published a few blog posts about different types of flicker and done short tutorials about them for four of the host apps we support. (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Resolve)

Deflickering Rolling Bands from Video Footage

Removing Flicker from Slow Motion Shots

Deflickering Time Lapse Videos

Each blog post has four videos that talk about how to fix the problem in each video editing app. Of course, you can just read the blog post, but the videos have examples that can be useful.

As Flicker Free is not usually a real time effect and needs to be rendered, we discuss how to do that in some of the host apps. It's a common question that we get. Some of the settings in Flicker Free can really slow down renders, so it's often important to render the effect if you want the timeline to playback normally.

We also talk about the difference between Flicker Free and some of the filters that are built into the host app.

So check out the blog posts and videos for the video editing app you use! And if you have any questions, you can always reach out to us at cs@digitalanarchy.com