The splash screen now reflects Screen’s recently opened files more immediately
Fixed an issue where “Loading Media, Please Stand By” would be presented for much much too long
Fixed an issue with downloading media from certain URLs

1.7.9

11 May 2023

Internal performance improvements
Updated Help menu
Fixed some edgecase bugs

1.7.8

20 March 2023

Add 1.66 crop ratio
Fix an issue with “Play Movie from URL”
Update ARRIRAW SDK (still no Alexa 35 support, sorry!)
Update FFmpeg to 6.0

1.7.7

9 November 2022

Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.7
Updated FFmpeg to 5.1
Update ARRIRAW SDK (still no Alexa 35 RAW support yet)
Export width and height when using “Current” is now actually always current

1.7.6

1 August 2022

Fixed a range conversion issue for XAVC clips
Fixed an issue reading certain MXF files
Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.6
Updated RED SDK to 8.3.0

1.7.6

22 June 2022

Fixed an issue with playback performance
Fixed reading certain ARRIRAW clips

1.7.5

7 June 2022

Added preference to allow burning-in image inspection settings like gamma, exposure, and channel isolation in a screenshot
Internal updates to RED, Arri, and BMD RAW SDKs
Minor performance improvements

1.7.4

2 May 2022

Fixed an issue with downloading media from URLs
Update newest known Apple Pro Video Formats Plugin version to 2.2.3

1.7.3

3 April 2022

Fixed a crash when opening Blackmagic RAW clips that have drop-frame timecodes
Updated RED SDK to 8.2.2

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

1.7.1

20 January 2022

Updated Play in Screen functionality
Fixed issue with alpha in image sequences in certain cases

1.7.0

18 December 2021

Color tags will now passthrough to exported video instead of re-tagging to Rec 709 (1-1-1)
Apply new color tags on export by setting them in the color menu and selecting “Use current color settings” in the export window
Added support for specifying a “Custom HDR” colorspace in the color menu

1.6.8

3 December 2021

Added support for taking HEIF 10-bit screenshots for macOS 12 Monterey and later.
Improved screenshots of HDR media
Improved “Play URL” functionality
Change the Pro Video Formats download link to a more reliable one
Fixed an issue with debayering ProRes RAW in full resolution

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.

1.6.5

14 September 2021

Fixed another (!!!) potential issue when playing audio
Fixed an issue with reading multi-line comments in Resolve EDL markers.
Fixed a bug setting in and out points in rare circumstances

1.6.4

11 September 2021

Fixed an issue where Screen would prefer the integrated GPU for playback in some situations

1.6.3

27 August 2021

Fixed a “Match QuickTime” color management discrepancy in macOS 11.0+ with media that lacks both a colorspace and a transfer function tag
Fixed another issue with audio playback in rare circumstances
Various internal updates

1.6.2

27 August 2021

Hover over metadata in the inspector to get the original “namespaced” key if available
Fixed an issue where audio might “click” during playback under certain conditions
Many internal performance improvements and bug fixes

1.6.1

7 May 2021

Improved responsiveness when adding a lot of media to a playlist at once
Added a progress indicator to media in playlists to show that work is actually being done in the background to load the media!
Prevent a crash from happening in FFmpeg in certain situations

1.6.0

4 May 2021

Preliminary support for playing Canon RAW (.CRM)!
Added a Help menu shortcut for resetting Screen’s preferences
Various bug fixes

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

1.5.5

30 March 2021

Added preference for preventing the Export Manager window from automatically opening when adding an export job or when an export job finishes
Fixed issue opening ARRIRAW MXFs that were media managed by Resolve
Fixed an issue opening some non-standard QuickTime files

1.5.4

25 March 2021

Fixed an issue with incorrect timecode in a clip with variable framerate and a timecode track
Fixed an issue with clean aperture with certain ARRI ProRes clips
Various bug fixes and performance enhancements

1.5.3

19 March 2021

Fix opening a MXF that Pro Video Formats 2.2.1 doesn’t support.

1.5.2

17 March 2021

Fixed issue (regression) with treating each multi-part R3D file as it’s own media!
Upgraded Blackmagic RAW to 2.1 Beta 3

1.5.1

9 March 2021

Re-exposed advanced caching controls.

1.5.0

7 March 2021

Preliminary support for ARRIRAW in .ari, .arx, and .mxf containers. CPU-only decode, very slow! GPU decode coming soon.
Fixed an issue with certain YCbCr content.
Many bug fixes.

1.4.1

6 February 2021

First Universal 2 (Intel / Apple Silicon) release. Screen is now faster than ever when running on Apple Silicon.
Fixed a crash when adding media to a playlist.

1.3.6

21 January 2021

Fixed an issue where the “Media Loading” progress window wouldn’t close in rare instances.

1.3.5

20 January 2021

Added a loading progress window that will appear if Screen is taking a long time to open a clip.

1.3.4

18 January 2021

Further optimized file sequence detection
Fixed a bug opening certain file sequences

1.3.3

15 January 2021

Sped up file sequence detection by a lot (a lot, a lot!)
Fixed an audio playback stuttering issue in certain cases
Various bug fixes and optimizations
Updated to RED SDK 8.0.0
Various performance and bug fixes

1.3.2

4 January 2021

Added support for 12K Blackmagic RAW
Fixed issue exporting high bit-depth videos to certain ProRes formats.
Tweaked some UI elements for Big Sur
Various performance improvements and bug fixes

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

1.2.12

25 September 2020

Added more pixel aspect ratios
Speed up Screen’s initial launch if launched because of opening a video
Fixed an issue with off-by-one frame durations in certain situations
Prevent UI from disappearing in fullscreen if editing a marker
Minor bug fixes

1.2.10

6 July 2020

Fixed issue where playlists couldn’t open
Fixed issue where setting a custom colorspace or transfer function for preview for a movie wouldn’t restore on a subsequence reopening of the movie
Further optimized ProRes 422 decoding

1.2.9

22 June 2020

Faster decode for most codecs that use YCbCr
Fixed an issue with macOS 10.13 High Sierra unable to open certain movie types
Fixed a rare crashing bug

1.2.8

12 June 2020

Fixed a bug introduced by macOS Catalina causing H.264 and H.265 QuickTimes and MP4s to display in the wrong colorspace if tagged with an undefined transfer function with a gamma tag. We have reached out to Apple to see if they can more concretely fix this bug on their end.

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

1.2.6

2 June 2020

Better metadata reading support for QuickTime and MP4 containers.

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.

1.2.4

11 May 2020

Fixed a bug where some users on macOS Catalina would be asked for license information on every launch

1.2.3

11 May 2020

Various crashing bug fixes

1.2.2

6 May 2020

Screen will no longer ask to connect to previously connected networks when loading recently opened movies
Fixed a bug where users with registered licenses would have to re-enter their registration information

1.2.1

17 April 2020

Fixed a rare crashing bug while opening a movie

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

1.1.10

9 March 2020

Respect rotation metadata from QuickTime and MP4 movies
Fixed a bug where MacBook Pros with discrete graphics cards wouldn’t automatically switch to discrete on macOS Catalina
Fixed a bug where custom bitrate and keyframe interval couldn’t be edited in the export window

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

1.1.5

6 January 2020

Added a menu item and keyboard shortcut for copying the Pixel Sampler’s values
Fixed issue where the Pixel Sampler wouldn’t respect the precision specified in the preferences

1.1.4

26 December 2019

Fixed an issue where REDRAW files wouldn’t open

1.1.3

21 December 2019

Internal bug fixes

1.1.2

17 December 2019

Improved loading of movie preferences if any preferences reference a movie on a slept disk
Fixed a bug where loading a movie with an unknown video codec could cause a crash
Fixed an issue with loading media containing tracks with an unspecified framerate

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

1.1.0

19 November 2019

Support for a myriad of new formats and containers! MXF, DNx, all XAVC and AVC codecs, MKV, WebP, HAP, and many more.

1.0.12

29 October 2019

Spooky Halloween surprise!
Updated Blackmagic RAW to 1.5.2
Improved slow-to-open .MTS and .TS files opening speed

1.0.11

29 October 2019

Spooky Halloween surprise!
Updated Blackmagic RAW to 1.5.2
Improved slow-to-open .MTS and .TS files opening speed

1.0.10

21 October 2019

Fixed a bug where Macs with lower-end or older GPUs would crash reading REDCODE RAW clips

1.0.9

21 October 2019

Added support for taking screenshots with bit depths greater than 8-bit
Added support for exporting 16-bit float EXR screenshots
Fixed several other minor bugs

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

1.0.6

7 October 2019

Added “Frame Width” field for Barcode Export
Fixed a bug where Screen would request ability to create notifications in macOS Catalina
Fixed some bugs that would cause Screen to crash

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

1.0.4

2 October 2019

Added support for exporting without audio
Added support for Loop and Ping-Pong playback behaviors
Fixed an issue with resuming smooth playback after playing at 2x speed
Fixed a bug in macOS 10.13 with reading 16-bit float EXRs without alpha channels incorrectly

1.0.3

29 September 2019

Added support for BMD Raw anamorphic metadata
Fixed a bug where Screen would crash when clicking the “+” button to add a new video to a tab

1.0.2

28 September 2019

Fixed a bug where the version check for Pro Video Formats plugin would cause a crash

1.0.1

28 September 2019

Added 1:1 crop ratio
Timecode no longer rolls back around to 00:00:00:00 when hitting 24 hours

1.0

26 September 2019

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Version 1.7.14 — Release Notes
Requires macOS 10.13 or later, 10.15 or later recommended.

Runs natively on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

Certain formats require Apple Pro Video Formats to be installed.