Install

Get Verbatim running in Premiere — about 2 minutes

14-day free trial of Cinelore Cloud, then $9/mo — cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.

Don't have a license yet? Start a free trial →

What you'll need

  • A Mac or a Windows PC — macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon or Intel), or Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).
  • Premiere 25.6+ (the December 2025 release or newer).
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop — running while you install, so the plugin can register. You almost certainly already have it.
  • An AI to run it. Cinelore Cloud has the AI built in — no accounts, no setup. On Verbatim Perpetual you use your own: your ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription, a free Gemini key from Google, a Claude API key, or free offline AI on your computer (Ollama). You pick inside the plugin during setup — there's nothing to configure on this page.

No Terminal, no Node.js, no developer tools. The Verbatim Helper bundles everything it needs. If you followed an older guide that mentioned npm or the UXP Developer Tool — you can skip all of that now.

Step 1

Download the Verbatim Helper

One installer per computer — paid license or free trial. Pick yours:

Download for macOS Download for Windows
  • macOS: Verbatim-Helper-1.10.1.dmg · about 90 MB · notarized by Apple · macOS 13+, Apple Silicon and Intel
  • Windows: Verbatim-Helper-Setup-1.10.1.exe · about 110 MB · Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

When you buy Verbatim — or start a free trial — Lemon Squeezy emails you a receipt with your license key. Keep that email handy — you'll paste the key in Step 3. The receipt has a download link too, if you'd rather grab the installer from there.

Can't find the email? Check spam, and search your inbox for lemonsqueezy.com. Still nothing? Email support@cinelore.app.

Step 2

Install it

On a Mac

  1. Double-click Verbatim-Helper-1.10.1.dmg to open it.
  2. Drag Verbatim Helper onto the Applications folder in the window that appears.
  3. Quit Premiere if it's open, and make sure Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop is running.
  4. Open Verbatim Helper from your Applications folder. It's notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click — no right-click needed.
  5. The first time it opens, Adobe shows a dialog asking to install the Verbatim plugin — click Install. That's the only click.

On Windows

  1. Quit Premiere if it's open, and make sure Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop is running.
  2. Double-click Verbatim-Helper-Setup-1.10.1.exe.
  3. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.
  4. Click Next, accept the license, click Install, then Finish. It installs for your user only — no administrator password.
  5. The Helper then installs the Verbatim plugin for you. If it asks you to quit Premiere, quit it and the install carries on.

A small Verbatim icon appears in your menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows — next to the clock, sometimes under the ^ arrow). That's the helper running quietly in the background. It starts automatically with your computer and only wakes up when Premiere is open. Leave it be.

Installing manually on a Mac (advanced / if Adobe's dialog never appears)

If Adobe's install dialog doesn't appear, you can load the plugin yourself with the Adobe UXP Developer Tool:

  1. Install the UXP Developer Tool from the Creative Cloud Desktop app.
  2. In Finder, right-click Verbatim Helper in Applications → Show Package Contents → Contents/Resources/Verbatim.ccx.
  3. In UXP Developer Tool → Add Plugin → Add Existing Package → choose that Verbatim.ccx, then ••• → Load.

On Windows, or still stuck? Email support@cinelore.app.

Step 3

Open Verbatim & enter your license key

  1. Open Premiere → Window → UXP Plugins → Verbatim.
  2. The first time, you'll see a Welcome to Verbatim page asking for a license key.
  3. Copy the license key from your Lemon Squeezy receipt email, paste it into the I have a license key field, and click Activate.

Don't have a key yet?

  1. Click Get a trial key → on the Welcome page — it opens cinelore.app/pricing.
  2. Start the free 14-day trial. Checkout asks for a card; cancel before day 14 and you're never charged.
  3. Wait for the Lemon Squeezy email (usually under a minute), copy the key, come back to the panel, paste it.

Heads-up: the key is tied to this machine. Moving to a new computer? Open Settings (the ⚙ icon) → Sign out to free your activation, then activate on the other machine — or email support@cinelore.app and we'll move it for you.

Step 4

Pick your AI provider

After your license activates, the wizard asks which AI to use. On Cinelore Cloud, pick Verbatim Cloud and you're done — nothing to paste. On Perpetual, choose ChatGPT (signs in with your ChatGPT account through OpenAI's free Codex app — a one-time step in Terminal), Gemini or Claude (paste a key), or Ollama (free, runs offline on your computer). The wizard runs a quick Test Connection before moving on.

Where your AI key lives: if you paste an API key, Verbatim stores it encrypted on your computer, in the storage your operating system manages for saved passwords: the macOS Keychain, or Windows credential protection (DPAPI). It's never written to a config file in plaintext. On a Mac, macOS may ask permission the first time — click Always Allow.

Step 5

Use it

  • Input view: select clips in Premiere → click USE SELECTION → search and edit transcripts.
  • Output view: switch Premiere to your selects sequence → click SET AS OUTPUT → drag cards to reorder, right-click words to split, click [ del ] to delete.
  • Selecting a clip in the Premiere timeline highlights the matching card in the panel and scrolls to it.

License management

Open Settings (the ⚙ icon in the panel header) to see your license details and manage your seat.

  • Re-check — forces a fresh check against Lemon Squeezy. Useful right after upgrading from trial to paid so the status refreshes immediately.
  • Change key — paste a different license key. The new key has to activate successfully before the old one is replaced; if activation fails, your previous key still works.
  • Sign out — frees this machine's activation so you can re-activate on another computer. Reversible; your cached transcripts stay on disk.

During your 14-day trial: everything works, AI included. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing; otherwise your $9/month subscription starts on its own, and the same license key keeps working — nothing to re-enter.

Privacy & data

  • Your footage never leaves your drive. Verbatim reads it from your Premiere project; nothing uploads to any cloud.
  • Your transcripts stay local. They're cached on your computer, encrypted.
  • Your API keys and license key live encrypted on your computer. Verbatim never writes them to a config file in plaintext.
  • The only data we receive is anonymous license-validation pings (does your key still exist + is your trial active). No transcript content, no clip names, no file paths.

Full privacy policy: cinelore.app/privacy

Troubleshooting

Adobe's install dialog never appeared

Make sure Creative Cloud Desktop is running and Premiere is closed, then quit and reopen Verbatim Helper (from Applications on a Mac, the Start menu on Windows) — it offers the install again on each launch. Still nothing? Use the manual install steps under Step 2.

Verbatim doesn't appear in Window → UXP Plugins

Quit and reopen Premiere. If it's still missing, confirm Creative Cloud Desktop is running and reopen Verbatim Helper — it reinstalls the plugin on launch.

"AI Find" or chapters return errors

Check the Verbatim icon is in your menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows). If it's not, open Verbatim Helper from Applications or the Start menu. If you're on a bring-your-own provider, re-check its API key in Settings.

Setup wizard's Test Connection fails

Verbatim Cloud needs no setup — if Cloud fails, check your internet. For a bring-your-own provider, double-check the API key and run Test again.

License activation fails with "license_key not found"

Double-check the key for typos. It comes from your Lemon Squeezy receipt email — search your inbox for lemonsqueezy.com. If still failing, email support@cinelore.app.

Trial banner says "expired" but I just bought

Open Settings (⚙) → Re-check. If it's still wrong, quit and reopen Verbatim Helper from the menu bar or system tray, then reload the panel.

"License invalid" banner appears unexpectedly

Email support@cinelore.app with your license key. Could be a revocation, a server hiccup, or a real bug.

Reporting bugs

If anything breaks:

  1. Click the ⚠ icon in the panel header.
  2. Optionally type what you were trying to do.
  3. Click Generate report — you'll see a block of diagnostic text.
  4. Click Send to developer.

The report includes the last 200 console messages and a snapshot of plugin state (counts and flags). It does not include any transcript content, clip names, or file paths — feel free to read it before sending if you want to confirm.

Getting help

  • Support email: support@cinelore.app — first response within one business day during launch period.
  • Bug reports: the in-app ⚠ icon → Generate report → Send.
  • Feature requests / general feedback: cinelore.app/contact.