Limecraft Unveils Version 2026.3 with Enhanced AI and Automation

Limecraft has launched version 2026.3, the third major update of its 2026 release cycle for its AI-driven media management platform. Designed to support the entire production lifecycle from initial rushes to final delivery, the platform offers customizable workspaces tailored for scripted, documentary, and non-scripted formats. This latest iteration focuses on boosting reliability and scale, introducing sophisticated file verification via ASC Media Hash List (MHL) support, refined AAF export configurations for editors, and significantly accelerated transcription services that now cover a vastly expanded range of global languages.

A key addition in this release, ingest workflows now support ASC Media Hash List files using Limecraft Edge. MHL files are created upon card offloads, establishing a persistent and interoperable record of file integrity. As part of this enhancement, users can choose the checksum algorithm employed for file verification. In addition to legacy MD5, Limecraft now supports xxHash64 and xxHash3 64-bit algorithms.

To improve interaction with the editorial workflow, Limecraft 2026.3 extends AAF export templates introduced in the previous release. Users can now define more precisely which material lands on which track in the resulting edit sequence. Advanced track mapping automatically composes the intended sequence track by track, including master clips or auto-generated group clips, camera and audio device selection, auto-select camera angles, custom labels and per-subtrack labels for multi-channel audio. This is particularly relevant for multicamera, multitrack and high-volume productions where manual timeline preparation is repetitive and prone to errors.

Additionally, Limecraft 2026.3 introduces improvements to automatic transcription. Processing performance has been significantly improved, now accurately transcribing one hour of audio to text in less than a minute. This helps journalists, researchers, editors and subtitle operators use timecoded transcripts more quickly.

The release also broadens transcription language and locale support. Limecraft 2026.3 adds 35 newly supported languages and locales, including Latin American Spanish, Pashto, Somali, Maori, Luxembourgish, Belarusian and Kyrgyz, plus a broad set of African languages including Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Wolof, Lingala, Shona, Sepedi, Nyanja, Ganda, Oromo, Kamba and Luo.

Alongside these headline features, Limecraft 2026.3 adds a range of smaller improvements across the platform. These include workspace-level metadata, improved performance for bulk uploads via shared links, the addition of metadata changes in the Workflow & Activity pane, refinements to configurable AAF export templates, and fixes relating to custom status display, table sorting, comments in shares, clip detail URLs, DNxHR transcoding, and card offload job visibility in Limecraft Edge.

“Limecraft 2026.3 further strengthens the foundation of professional production workflows and in particular the usability of AI,” comments Dieter Van Rijsselbergen, CTO at Limecraft. “By combining workspace-level metadata, verifiable offloads, more precise AAF export and faster transcription, we help professionals handle larger volumes with great confidence, more automation and less manual coordination across production and post-production.”

Limecraft will host a live webinar on 7 May demonstrating the new features and their impact on production and post-production workflows. RSVP: https://us02web.zoom.us/.

Limecraft will also be present at the Media Production & Technology Show on 13 and 14 May at Olympia London, stand F70.

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