1.7.2
23 March 2022
- Added LUT preview support to the scrubber’s barcode image
- Fixed an issue with drop frame timecodes in some instances
- Added preference for hiding the “Welcome Window” on launch and when becoming active from the Dock
- VP9 WebM files can now be hardware decoded if supported
- Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.3
- Updated RED RAW SDK to 8.2.1
- Updated FFmpeg to 5.0
- Updated ARRI RAW SDK
1.6.7
8 November 2021
- Preliminary ARRIRAW decode support on Apple Silicon - CPU only for now!
- Updated RED SDK to 8.1.0 - this includes the new and improved demosaic
- Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.2
- Fixed a longstanding bug where the Help menu would occasionally not have search functionality.
- Numerous other small bug fixes
1.6.6
21 September 2021
- Added a preference for toggling hardware acceleration for FFmpeg.
- More performant FFmpeg playback for instances where the media couldn’t be decoded with hardware acceleration
- Improved detection of a proper installation of Apple’s Pro Video Formats.
- Fixed another issue with seeking and not getting audio immediately upon playback.
1.5.6
8 April 2021
- Added a preference to allow changing the priority of AVFoundation (Apple’s native playback and decoding engine) and FFmpeg. Unchecking this preference will give FFmpeg priority over AVFoundation, which means that Screen will use FFmpeg if it can play back the file.
- Hopefully fixed an issue where the Help search bar was not appearing
- Fixed a bug with scrolling in the Markers sidebar
- Fixed an issue where unchecking the “Remember color and sizing settings” preference would actually result in no preferences getting remembered.
- Updated R3D SDK to 8.0.2
- Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.1 Public Beta 4
1.3.1
26 September 2020
- Updated for macOS Big Sur - check out the new icon!
- Complete overhaul of the media playback engine. Should play faster, snappier, etc.
- Added export option for Apple ProRes 4444 XQ
- Allow scaling down the movie player window to a very small size
- Fixed an issue with videos with very tall aspect ratios from displaying correctly.
- Improved GPU decode support for RED and BMD clips.
- Updated Movie Downloader compatibility
- Updated to Apple Pro Video Formats 2.2
- Fixed issue opening GoPro MP4s
1.2.7
11 June 2020
- Added preference to set the default size of an opened movie as a percentage of your display’s area
- Added preference to make videos with resolutions smaller than the default size to actually scale their pixel for pixel resolution
- Support for scaling to Pixel for Pixel for videos with a smaller resolution than the player window’s minimum size
- Fixed issue dragging movie windows around while clicking the title
1.2.5
1 June 2020
- Added preference to allow dropping frames to keep up with playback
- Any user input to the player (play, pause, seek, etc.) will now immediately drop all pending frames to display for ultimate snappiness. This should fix issues where pressing pause would play through all pending frames first before actually pausing.
1.2.0
16 April 2020
- At long last, you can can create playlists in Screen! Import a collection of movies and folders and view them all in the same window. You can even copy/paste preferences like LUTs and Cropping to apply to other movies in the playlist.
- Support for EDR tonemapping for movies with static HDR 10 metadata or a HLG tag when using “Match QuickTime” color management (macOS 10.15+ required). Please note that screenshots of system tonemapped material will not match the viewer!
- Added a preference to disable horizontal scrolling for scrubbing (mainly for Magic Mouse users)
- Added a preference to specify maximum folder search depth
- Squashed a significant amount of bugs
1.1.9
7 March 2020
- Updated to Blackmagic RAW 1.7
- Fixed a show-stopping crash when opening movies
- Go To Timecode now supports “.” as a replacement for “00”. For example, to jump to 01:00:30:00 type “01.30.” or to jump to 00:01:30:00 type “.0130.”
- Each tab in the Preferences window now has the same width
- Fixed an issue opening ProRes RAW videos
- Fixed an issue with Screenshots and non-even pixel dimensions
- Prevented a unlikely crash from occurring during export
1.1.7
18 February 2020
- Added auto-detection of start timecode to help find a “best fit” for importing Markers
- Added support for Avid Tab-Delimited Markers (.txt)
- Interlacing info now available in the inspector
- Prevent Screen from crashing when a movie is opened with too large of a resolution (width or height > 16384). Super high resolution support TBA!
- Fixed a bug opening certain AVI files
- Fixed an issue with the video downloader
1.1.6
6 February 2020
Markers
- Add markers to your movies!
- Zoom in and out of the timeline to get a more precise look at your markers
- Import and export markers in CSV and Resolve Marker EDL formats
- Added a panel with a list view of markers
Bug Fixes
- Added Undo/Redo for most preference changes
- Fixed a problem with alpha channel not showing up in some instances
- Fixed various crashes
1.1.1
10 December 2019
- Added ability to reorient a movie in 90° increments in Sizing settings
- Better detection of Arri ProRes MXF videos with pixel padding
- Added preference for changing the “Play URL” download location
- Added preference to prevent the “Welcome to Screen” window from opening after the last open movie is closed
- Fixed bug with getting the correct start timecode for trimmed QuickTime movies
- Fixed issue with certain movies not actually muting when muted
- Fixed issue opening certain greyscale image formats
1.0.8
16 October 2019
Features
- Export a “trimmed” version of your movie when you set in and out points. This will perform a lossless copy of the movie’s trimmed media into a new file. QuickTime (.mov), MPEG-4 (.mp4), Blackmagic RAW (.braw), and REDCODE RAW (.R3D) currently supported
- Screenshots (PNG, TIFF, HEIC) can now optionally preserve the alpha channel of the original movie. By default, this preference is disabled and the movie will be composited against black.
- Support for opening WebP images
- Quick Look plugin support for WebP images
- HEVC with Alpha now allows inspection of alpha channel (macOS 10.15 Catalina and above)
- Alpha channel mode (Straight or Premultiplied) will show up in metadata if an alpha channel exists
Improvements
- “Ahead” frame caching will now smartly stop at or wrap around in and out points
- Better Premultiplied/Straight Alpha detection in ProRes
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where caching “On Demand” wouldn’t cache every frame in the movie even if there was enough memory to do so
- Fixed a bug where clicking “Setup LUT Library” wouldn’t actually take you to the Color preferences tab
1.0.7
11 October 2019
- Added cache modes “Ahead” and “On Demand”
- Added Linear transfer function to Color Management
- Added default cache mode selection for video and image sequences in the preferences
- Added a Cache menu with Cache Mode selection and a Clear Cache button
- Improved rendering performance
- Updated Pro Video Formats version detection to 2.1.1
- Fixed an issue reading EXRs with more than RGBA channels correctly
1.0.5
4 October 2019
Features
- Improved JKL transport controls to better match NLEs. While holding K, you can tap J to step backward one frame or tap L to step forward one frame. While holding K, you can hold J to slow reverse play 0.5x or hold L to slow forward play 0.5x. K key will now only stop playback (instead of toggling playback)
- Added ability to clear just the in or out points
Tweaks
- R, G, B, A, and Y keys are now the shortcuts for toggling Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, and Luma channel isolation respectively - C will cycle through all channels
- Moved around some menu items for better organization
- Changed some keyboard shortcuts to better match NLEs
Bug Fixes
- Tweaks for memory management on export - should fix some issues with excessive memory usage on long exports
- Fixed a crash that could happen when external GPUs are added or removed
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