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. So you can continue editing transcripts you’ve already gotten and using transcripts from other sources.
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 not renew. Users that want to continue until May, can sign up for the Monthly plan.
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_317_Pr.dmg (mac)
https://digitalanarchy.com/downloads/transcriptive_317_Pr.zip (win)
4 Comments
The May 2026 cutoff is a helpful amount of notice, especially for anyone with archived Transcriptive projects who may need to export transcripts before the web services disappear. I appreciate the distinction between the local tools and the services that depend on Digital Anarchy’s servers.
The May 2026 cutoff is helpful to know this far ahead, especially for anyone relying on Transcriptive’s web services in existing production workflows. I’d be curious whether archived projects will remain fully usable locally after that date, or if users should plan to export everything well before the shutdown.
I appreciate the long runway to May 2026, since teams with archived Transcriptive projects will need time to adjust their workflows. It would be helpful to know whether existing transcripts and synced metadata will remain fully accessible after the web services shut down.
The May 2026 end date is useful to know well ahead of time, especially for teams with old Transcriptive projects they may need to revisit. Exporting transcripts, captions, and any dependent assets before the web services shut down seems like the key thing to plan around.