Limecraft 2026.3 – Workspace Metadata, Verified Offloads, Advanced AAF Export and Faster Transcription

Ghent, Belgium, 5 May 2026 – With the third platform update of 2026, Limecraft continues to remove friction from production workflows by strengthening the foundations that production and post-production rely on every day: pre-existing and extracted metadata, ingest, and interoperability.

Release 2026.3 introduces workspace-level metadata, ASC Media Hash List support when using Limecraft Edge, extended AAF export configuration, improved transcription performance and broader language coverage. All of these to make your workflow more structured, to improve reliability and easier to automate at scale.

This release also arrives just ahead of the Media Production & Technology Show in London. On 13 and 14 May, Limecraft will be present at Olympia London, stand F70, where we will be showing how our platform supports workflow design and automation, media asset management and content delivery across professional production environments. If you are attending MPTS and want to discuss a specific project, delivery workflow, localisation challenge or Avid- or Adobe-based post-production setup, this is a good opportunity to meet in person.

As always, the new release is not built around isolated features, but around practical improvements that help teams work more predictably. Workspace metadata creates a stronger foundation for reporting and automation. MHL support improves trust in offload and ingest. Advanced AAF export gives editorial more precise control over what lands where in Avid. Faster transcription shortens the time between upload and usable production metadata.

Below, we walk through the key updates in Limecraft 2026.3, followed by an overview of additional improvements and fixes included in this release.

Support for MHL files: More Trust in Every Offload

In a professional context, ingest is not just copying files from one place to another. One has to prove that the copy is complete, reliable and verifiable. Camera cards, field recordings and production drives often contain irreplaceable material. Once that material enters post-production, you need confidence that every file has been transferred correctly and can be checked later if required.

💡How to Offload, Backup and Verify Media

Limecraft Edge has supported MD5-based verification for a long time, helping edit assistants confirming the integrity of copied media during card offloads. With Limecraft 2026.3, this trusted verification workflow is extended further with support for ASC Media Hash List (MHL) files.

MHL files provide a standardised way to record checksums for media files. In practice, this means that the verification information created during offload can travel with the media itself. The MHL file is written into the destination folder alongside the copied media, creating a persistent and interoperable record of the transfer.

This is important because productions rarely operate in a single tool or environment. Material often moves from set to post-production, from post-production to archive, or between different vendors and facilities. By supporting MHL files, Limecraft Edge makes it easier for downstream teams to verify that the media they received is identical to what was originally offloaded.

As part of this capability, users can choose the checksum algorithm used for verification. In addition to legacy MD5, Limecraft Edge now supports alternative xxHash 64 and xxHash 3 64-bit algorithms. These checksums are recorded in the MHL outputs, so cards and disks offloaded with Limecraft Edge can be verified using other MHL-capable tools and workflows.

In summary, while Limecraft continues supporting proven MD5 verification, we have added MHL as a more interoperable way to document and exchange file-integrity information across professional production and post-production workflows.

Workspace-Level Metadata: More Flexibility in Reporting and Workflow Automation

Metadata has always been the stronghold of Limecraft. It is what turns files into assets: searchable, reportable and ready to move through a workflow. Until now, metadata was primarily associated with clips, collections and deliverables. Since this Limecraft 2026.3 release, admin users can now also define and populate metadata fields at workspace level. Workspace-level metadata make the workspace itself a better-defined operational unit.

While this is a seemingly small extension, it has important operational consequences. A workspace often represents a production, season, broadcaster assignment, delivery project, archive batch or customer-specific workflow. By attaching metadata directly to that workspace, you can capture information that applies to the entire operational context rather than repeating it on every individual clip or collection. Once this information is available at workspace level, it becomes much easier to use it consistently across reporting, dashboards and custom workflows.

For reporting, workspace metadata provides a cleaner way to group usage, progress and activity across projects. Operations can compare productions, monitor throughput, identify bottlenecks and analyse workload without relying on naming conventions or external spreadsheets. For dashboards, workspace metadata can be used to filter information by customer, programme type, delivery obligation or business unit.

The same principle applies to automation. If a workspace carries structured information about the project, Limecraft can use that information to drive workflow and storage logic, routing, status changes, delivery rules or integrations with external systems. In practice, this helps teams move from manual coordination to configuration-driven operations.

Advanced AAF Export: More Precise Track Definitions for Avid Workflows

AAF export is the key enabler to bridge between Limecraft and professional editing environments such as Avid Media Composer. In the earlier 2026.2 release, Limecraft introduced configurable AAF export templates, supporting reusable export settings and apply them consistently. With 2026.3, this capability is extended further with advanced track definitions.

This specific improvement allows more precise control over which material lands on which track in the resulting sequence. When editing a sequence within an AAF Export Template, users can now select a new sequence type that unlocks advanced track mapping based on devices. This opens a Track Definitions panel where the intended sequence can be composed track by track.

For edit assistants, post-production supervisors and workflow managers, this matters because sequence structure is not a cosmetic detail. It determines how quickly editors can start working, how reliably rushes are organised and how closely the generated timeline matches the production’s editorial conventions.

So users can now define whether a track contains master clips or auto-generated group clips, choose which camera or audio device the track should pull from, identify the auto-select camera angle for group clips, define custom labels and per-subtrack labels for multi-channel audio, and decide whether empty tracks should be omitted or kept visible to flag missing material.

This is particularly relevant for multicamera, multi-track and high-volume productions, where manual timeline preparation would otherwise be repetitive and error-prone. By encoding editorial structure into the export template, Limecraft will generate AAF sequences that are more predictable, more complete and closer to what editors expect when opening the project in Avid.

Further to this, this release also includes a number of fixes with regards to configurable AAF export templates, including improvements to group sequence generation, filler gaps, parent collection exports, synced audio, marker positions and alternate camera angles.

Transcription: Faster Processing and Broader Language Coverage

Automatic transcription is increasingly central to factual and entertainment production. Embedded at the core of Limecraft, it creates timecoded metadata that can be used for accurately searching, paper edits, sync pulls, subtitling, localisation, summaries and downstream editorial workflows.

Speed matters because transcription often sits at the start of a chain. With release 2026.3, Limecraft introduces important improvements to transcription performance and language coverage. Thanks to the integration with Speechmatics, transcription performance has improved significantly, with one hour of media now processed in less than a minute. For journalists, researchers, edit producers and localisation teams, this reduces the delay between ingest and meaningful access to the content. This changes the rhythm of the production workflow.

In addition to performance improvements, Limecraft’s transcription services have been refreshed with broader language and locale support. The 2026.3 release notes list 35 newly supported languages and locales, 13 retired locale variants and one renamed language option. Notable additions include Latin American Spanish, Pashto, Somali, Maori, Luxembourgish, Belarusian and Kyrgyz. The release also adds a broad set of African languages including Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Wolof, Lingala, Shona, Sepedi, Nyanja, Ganda, Oromo, Kamba and Luo.

Additional Enhancements

As with every Limecraft release, 2026.3 includes a number of smaller improvements that may not all require a dedicated headline, but that contribute to a more reliable and efficient platform overall.

Bulk uploads via a shared link have been improved. This is particularly useful in workflows where external contributors, production teams or partners need to upload material without being fully embedded in the workspace. Faster and more reliable bulk uploads reduce waiting time and help ensure that incoming media becomes available to the team more quickly.

The Workflow & Activity pane in clip details now also includes metadata changes. This is a useful addition for teams that depend on traceability and operational transparency. Metadata is often used to drive workflows, reporting, delivery rules or editorial decisions. Being able to see when metadata changed, and as part of the broader activity trail, helps teams understand how a clip evolved over time.

Further to the above, the occasional incorrect display of custom status in clip details has been fixed. Resizing a table header no longer affects the sort order on that column. Missing tooltips have been re-enabled. The positioning of comments within a share has been corrected. URLs pointing to clip details are now defined more consistently.

In Limecraft Edge, a regression that caused most DNxHR transcodes to fail has been resolved. DNxHR LB encoding was not affected, but other DNxHR flavours can now be used again. Card offload jobs also once again display the corresponding source path in the user interface.

More Information and Webinar

For more information and technical details, please refer to the full Limecraft 2026.3 release notes. The release notes include detailed descriptions of workspace metadata, ASC MHL support in Limecraft Edge, advanced AAF export configuration, transcription language changes, additional enhancements and specific fixes.

We also invite you to join the 2026.3 release webinar on Thursday 7 May. During this session, we will walk through the main highlights of the release and show how they fit into real production and post-production workflows.

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The webinar will focus on the practical value of the new features. We will explain how workspace metadata can support reporting, dashboards and workflow automation; why MHL files matter for secure and verifiable ingest; how advanced AAF export gives Avid-based teams more control over generated sequences; and how faster transcription and broader language support help teams move from media to usable production metadata more quickly.

As always, the webinar is also an opportunity to ask questions and share feedback. Many of the improvements in Limecraft releases are shaped by real-world usage, especially from broadcasters, production companies and post-production facilities working at scale. Your feedback helps us refine the platform and prioritise the changes that matter most in day-to-day operations.

Otherwise, if you are attending MPTS in London on 13 or 14 May, you can also meet the Limecraft team in person at Olympia London, stand F70. We will be available to discuss workflow automation, media asset management, content delivery, transcription, localisation and interoperability with professional editing environments.

We look forward to seeing you online during the webinar or in London at MPTS.