Limecraft 2026.1 – More Control, Compatibility and Scale

Ghent, Belgium, 3 February 2026 – With this first platform update of the year, Limecraft makes a strong start and sets the tone for what lies ahead in 2026. Building on the momentum of eight consecutive releases in 2025, this update continues a clear trajectory: removing friction from professional media workflows by taking advantage of the professional context, deploying production-grade AI services, and strengthening interoperability with industry-standard tools. Allowing you to benefit from economies of scale, and to reduce operational complexity.

Rather than introducing a single headline feature, 2026.1 focuses on consolidation and extension. It extends core components such as Limecraft Edge and Delivery Workspaces, introduces long-requested format support, and quietly prepares the ground for major changes coming later this year—particularly around resource management for Enterprise customers.

As always, this release was shaped by real-world usage: feedback from broadcasters, production companies, and post-production facilities working at scale. Below, we walk through the key updates in Limecraft 2026.1, followed by a look at what is already underway beyond the release notes.

Limecraft Edge: Broader Format Support Where It Matters

Limecraft Edge remains a cornerstone for teams working in hybrid and on-premise environments. Acting as the bridge between local infrastructure and cloud-based collaboration, Edge needs to be robust and format-agnostic at the same time. With 2026.1, we extend that capability further.

Native Support for iPhone Video Formats

Smartphones have become an increasingly common capture device in professional contexts, especially for news gathering, social-first content, and behind-the-scenes material. With Limecraft 2026.1, Limecraft Edge now adds improved support for common iPhone recordings, by ignoring APAC (Apple Positional Audio Codec) versions and using AAC audio instead.

This ensures smoother ingest, correct metadata interpretation, and more reliable preview and processing downstream, and avoids the need for manual transcoding or format workarounds before footage enters postproduction. If you are dealing with mixed-source material, this means faster availability of content and fewer technical surprises later in post-production.

DNxHR LB: Optimised for Performance and Efficiency

In addition to better support for smartphone formats, 2026.1 introduces native support for the DNxHR LB codec (Digital Nonlinear Extensible High Resolution, Low Bandwidth. More info on the Avid Knowledge Base) within Limecraft Edge workflows. DNxHR LB is widely used for editorial proxies, especially in Avid-centric environments, where performance and storage efficiency are critical.

By supporting DNxHR LB directly, Limecraft enables:

• 2-4 times faster ingest and playback for large volumes of material
• 2-4 times reduced storage and network overhead without sacrificing usability
• Better alignment with editorial proxy workflows

This update reinforces Limecraft’s position as an integration-first platform that adapts to established post-production practices rather than forcing teams to change them.

Delivery Workspaces: Notifications That Close the Loop

Delivery Workspaces have steadily evolved into a structured, auditable environment for managing complex content exchanges between producers, broadcasters and third parties. In 2026.1, we add a small but meaningful enhancement that improves visibility and accountability: notifications.

Recap – What is a Delivery Workspace

Delivery Workspaces are Limecraft’s structured content portals designed to manage the complex exchange of media, metadata and ancillary files between producers, broadcasters and third-party service providers. Rather than relying on ad-hoc file transfers or spreadsheets, Delivery Workspaces provide a shared, auditable environment where deliverables, review steps, responsibilities and deadlines are clearly defined and tracked in real time. This ensures greater transparency, fewer errors, and more predictable turnaround across the entire content delivery process.

💡 More info: see the case study of DPG Media

Stay Informed Without Chasing Status

With this release, key events in Delivery Workspaces can now trigger notifications, ensuring that stakeholders are informed when something changes—without having to manually check the workspace.

Examples include:

• Updates to delivery status
• Changes following review or verification steps
• Progress on outstanding deliverables

The goal is to reduce friction and eliminate guesswork. Instead of relying on email chains or external tracking tools, Delivery Workspaces act as the single source of truth, with notifications helping users stay aligned in real time.

These enhancements build directly on the notification framework introduced and refined throughout 2025, extending it into one of Limecraft’s most operationally critical modules.

Beyond the Release Notes: Better Resource Management (Private Beta)

Not every important change ships fully formed in a single release. Limecraft 2026.1 also marks an important milestone for Enterprise customers through a feature currently running in private beta: improved resource management.

Counting Audio and Video Separately

For Enterprise environments, usage patterns are often far more nuanced than a single aggregated metric can capture. Audio-only workflows, large volumes of short-form content, or mixed editorial pipelines all place different demands on the platform.

In response, Limecraft is introducing a more granular approach to resource tracking, starting with the ability to count audio and video separately for Enterprise plans.

This change enables:

• More accurate insight into actual platform usage
• Fairer alignment between consumption and cost
• Better forecasting for large or long-running projects

While the private beta is already underway, the final, generally available version of this feature is planned for release 2026.2. Feedback from early adopters will directly influence its final shape.

Additional Improvements

As with every Limecraft release, 2026.1 includes a broad set of smaller enhancements and fixes that may not grab headlines, but materially improve day-to-day work.

These include:

• Performance optimisations across ingest and playback
• Incremental UI refinements for clarity and consistency
• Stability improvements in long-running workflows
• Minor usability tweaks driven by customer feedback

Individually, these changes are subtle. Collectively, they reinforce a platform that is designed for professional use at scale—where reliability, predictability and polish matter just as much as new features.

Looking Ahead: Structure First, then Deploy AI at Scale

As we move further into 2026, Limecraft will continue to invest heavily in Artificial Intelligence—but with a clear and deliberate philosophy. AI only delivers value when it operates on structured, reliable data. Applied to fragmented workflows and inconsistent metadata, it merely amplifies complexity. Applied to well-defined processes and clean metadata, it becomes a force multiplier.

Our focus remains firmly on control, structure and transparency across media, metadata and delivery workflows. By strengthening foundations such as Delivery Workspaces, resource management and metadata consistency, we create the conditions in which AI can genuinely support professionals rather than disrupt them.

As always, we look forward to your feedback and to continuing the dialogue on how Limecraft can best support your production and delivery workflows in 2026 and beyond.