Older releases.

An NDI source no longer stutters for minutes at a time. A source sending at the same frame rate as Program, such as a phone over NDI at 30 frames a second, could look like it ran at half that rate now and then. Program now shows each NDI frame when its time comes rather than when it arrives.

Effects on Master now process the buses that return into it. A limiter on Master did nothing to a source that reached Master only through a bus, such as hosts routed to Bus A. Master's effects now come after the buses return into it and before Master's fader, as in a recording app. A bus whose effects add delay also lines up with Master's direct sound now.

Dragging a source card onto another card moves it again. Since 2.3.0 the drop was taken for files from Finder and nothing happened; dropping past the last card still worked. A card let go of in the gap between two cards now lands there too, beside the nearer one, rather than at the end.

The Overlay button under the transitions reads Overlay On while an overlay is on air, rather than naming what a press would do.

Round corners and a border on any picture. In a picture's Size & Position, and a Composite layer's, Corner rounding rounds it from square to fully round ends (a circle when the picture is square), and Border draws a line inside its edge in a colour that can be see-through. Neither moves while the picture loops.

The frame and handles in Size & Position outline the picture itself. A square picture shown under Fit used to get a canvas-shaped frame around empty space; now its frame is square and its corners are the picture's.

Size & Position is laid out afresh. The preview fills the window, with every setting beside it in grouped sections — Scaling, Position and size, Crop, Corner rounding and border, Loop — each with its own reset in place of Reset to Full Canvas. Position and size are number fields, X beside Y and width beside height. In a Composite layer's narrower window the settings sit below the preview.

A Show saved with this version opens only in this version or later.

Scrolling Ticker has a text colour. It was always white; now you choose it, and it can be see-through too.

A gallery to choose an overlay from. Adding an Overlay input, or changing the package of one, now opens a grid of pictures instead of a list of names: the built-in overlays under headings (Lower thirds, Logos and badges, Text and quotes, Data and tables, Titles and full screen, Scrollers and credits), a search field above them, and Your Own Package… as the last tile. Use the arrow keys to move and Return to choose. A package of your own shows the thumbnail.png from its folder if it has one.

Every colour in an overlay can be see-through. The colour picker in an overlay's settings has an opacity control, so a backdrop, panel or bar is one control, not a colour and a separate opacity slider. The overlays that had such a slider (Simple Text, Headline Bar, Social Bar, Player Card, Quote Card, Schedule, Standings Table, Rolling Credits, both Logo Scrollers and the Logo Bug plate) no longer do, and Scrolling Ticker has a background colour. A Show that had set one of those sliders shows that backdrop at the default until you set its colour again. Logo opacity, the Title Card's image dim and the lower thirds' background strength stay as sliders.

Choosing an overlay's package now takes effect at once. In an Overlay input's settings, picking a package in the gallery, or a folder of your own, switches the overlay immediately and leaves the window open: there is no Apply to press. If the overlay is on air you are asked first, since switching replaces what viewers see. Values and data bindings the new package has no setting for are set aside while the window is open, so choosing the old package again brings them back.

A Blackmagic connector is listed by the name Blackmagic gives it, such as DeckLink Duo (2), in the order those names run, in a Blackmagic source's settings, Add Input and External Output. The connector numbers in front of the names are gone.

Dragging in an overlay's colour picker is smoother. The picture follows the drag as before, but the Show is now saved once when you stop moving, not on every step of the drag, which made the picker feel laggy.

A Blackmagic source's settings and Add Input no longer say its embedded audio is not carried. They now say how to hear it: choose This Input's Own Audio as its audio source.

Companion module 0.1.15: every ready-made button for an input carries one feedback, Input's tally, that draws its label colour at rest, red on Program or on air and green in Preview. Improvements to these buttons in later versions reach the buttons already on your pages. Drag your input buttons once more to get it.

Tally on every Stream Deck key and Companion button for an input, except mute and solo, which keep their own colours: red while the input is on Program, green while it is in Preview. A Stream Deck Media key and an input's animation key now show it, and an Overlay key turns green in Preview whatever it does. In Companion (module 0.1.14), the Inputs to Program and Overlay buttons show it, the Program and Preview feedbacks can name any input, overlays included, and new Media and reload presets carry it. Drag a Companion button again to pick this up.

A QR Code overlay: a scannable code for a web address or any text, with an optional caption under it. Choose the code and background colours, the size, the error correction (a higher level survives a dirty or partly covered screen) and where it sits. A message too long for any code, or an empty one, simply shows nothing.

A Lower Third Slant look, for sport: a slanted panel with a stripe of the highlight colour down its edge and the name in condensed capitals. It has the same settings as the other Lower Thirds.

A Lower Third Card look: the name, title and detail on a rounded card that settles into place, with a short line in the highlight colour above the text. It has the same settings as the other Lower Thirds.

A Lower Third Side Bar look: a tall bar in the highlight colour with the name, title and detail beside it on a panel that fades away from the bar. It has the same settings as the other Lower Thirds.

A Lower Third Boxed look: the name on a dark box with the highlight colour at its edge, and the title and detail on a lighter box set in below it. It has the same settings as the other Lower Thirds.

A Speaker Card overlay: a lower third with a photo of the person, their name, their title and where they are from. The photo is a circle, a rounded square or a square, on the left or the right. It comes in and goes out the way the Lower Thirds do and has the same settings, so you can swap one for another in a Show and keep what you typed.

A Player Card overlay: a photo, a name with a number, a role or team, and up to four statistics, on a card with your team's colour down one edge. The photo can be rounded, a circle or a square, and sit on either side.

A Standings Table overlay: paste rows from a spreadsheet, or type them with | or commas between the cells, and it lays them out as a table with a header, numbers lined up on the right and one row highlighted. It shrinks to fit when there are many rows.

A Schedule overlay for an agenda or an "up next" list: type one line per item as time | item and say which line is current. It is highlighted and the lines already past are dimmed, and the list can start from the current line so it always shows what is coming.

A Quote Card overlay: a quote, or a viewer's comment you have pasted, on a card with the person's name, a line for where it came from and a small picture. Colours, size, width, alignment and position are yours to set.

A Social Bar overlay: up to three handles, addresses or hashtags, each with an optional icon of your own, in one bar. Show them side by side, or one at a time, changing every few seconds as you choose.

A Title Card overlay: a full-screen card for starting soon, be right back, thanks for watching or offline. A colour or gradient background, or a picture of your own that you can darken; a big title and a subtitle (type a countdown into the subtitle and it counts down by itself), an optional logo, and left, centre or right alignment.

A Headline Bar overlay: a full-width bar with a coloured label (BREAKING, LIVE, UPDATE) and a headline of one or two lines. The label comes in first, the bar runs out from it, and the headline follows; it leaves the same way in reverse.

A Badge overlay: a small tag such as LIVE, REPLAY or HIGHLIGHTS, with its colours, size and position, an optional dot before the text and, if you want it, a dot that blinks once a second.

A Logo Bug overlay: your logo in a corner of the picture or anywhere you place it, with its width and opacity, and an optional plate behind it for a logo that does not read on every picture. Add it like any other built-in overlay.

Drag files from Finder to add an input. Drop images on the inputs to make an Image input, or video and audio to make a Media input, and its settings open as they do from Add Input…. Files dropped together make one input, and each folder makes its own, which Refresh rescans as before. A folder holding both images and video or audio asks which input you want.

Plug-in presets. A plug-in's editor window has a bar across the top: choose a preset to load it, Save your settings as one, and Bypass the effect. Presets are standard VST3 preset files, so presets you saved in other audio apps on this Mac are listed too, and the ones you save here appear there.

Saved effect chains. The FX sheet's Chains menu saves a whole chain — every effect in order, with its settings — and loads it onto any source or bus, from this Mac's list or from a file you take to another Mac.

Balance on each source. A small control above each source's fader in the mixer moves its sound left or right: drag it, and double-click it to centre it again. Centred, a source sounds exactly as before.

Split a source's audio into two strips. Turn on Split audio in a source's audio settings to get a strip for each channel of its stereo pair — two microphones on one camera, say — each with its own level, balance, effects and buses. The source stays one source. Hotkeys, Stream Deck and Companion can mute, solo or set the level of each strip on its own — the presenters' microphones apart from a presentation's sound — or of both at once by the source. The Companion module 0.1.13 offers the strips; update it from the download page.

Tabs for your sources by colour. Above the live inputs, All sources is followed by a tab for each label colour your sources have, so you can show just the cameras, say, or just the graphics. Double-click a tab to name it. The tabs only choose which cards you see; everything else works as before.

Simple Text now reaches the very edge of the picture. At 0 or 100 its position sits flush against the edge instead of stopping short by a safe margin, and the new overlays with a position slider do the same. Keeping clear of the edge is left to you. Its starting position moved slightly inward, so a new one looks as it did.

A Show saved with this version opens only in this version or later.

A Blackmagic source's card says BM rather than SDI, since a Blackmagic device may take HDMI too.

In the audio mixer, each source's strip is a card of its own with rounded corners and a small gap between them, in place of the line between strips. Master and the buses look as before.

Windows close like any other window, from the title bar's close button or with Escape: Audio Device Setup has its Apply where Close was, and Show Settings, External Output, FX, Web Interaction and Layer Layout no longer have a Close or Done button. Closing Web Interaction any way now brings a completed sign-in to air, as its Done button did.

Up to eight buses, named and coloured. Enable a bus, A to H, in Audio Device Setup, and give it a name and a colour there; remove one there or from its strip's menu. An enabled bus needs no output of its own: it is still mixed and can return to Master, so buses no longer need an interface with many outputs. Each bus's colour runs along the top of its strip and tints its routing buttons, which brighten while assigned. Master, the buses and Solo carry their colour as that bar, so they stand apart from your inputs' label colours. Hotkeys, rules, the Stream Deck plugin and Companion (module 0.1.12) offer every bus your Show uses, by name, and a bus sent over NDI is named after it. A Show saved with this version opens only in 2.2 or later.

Stream in HEVC. Choose H.264 or HEVC as the stream's Video codec, or for one destination in its own settings. HEVC gives a better picture at the same bitrate. YouTube takes it over RTMPS, and so does an SRT server that reads HEVC; Twitch, Kick and Facebook take H.264 only, which stays the default.

Find NDI sources on another network. A sender on another network segment, across a VPN, or on a network that blocks NDI discovery never appeared in the list. Add the sending machine's IP address in Settings › NDI › Extra addresses, and every source it sends is listed. The setting belongs to this Mac, not to the Show. If NDI's own configuration file already lists addresses, the tab shows them, and they are used while yours is empty.

Master's routing button reads ST, the usual mark for the main stereo mix, where it read M, which looked like mute.

The Statistics input meters Master (and Solo while it has an output), not Bus A and Bus B.

A camera unplugged and plugged into another USB port is found there again. It used to stay offline until it went back into the port it came from. With several identical cameras, InterDirector does not guess between them: choose the device again in the input's settings.

Mute Master, Bus A or Bus B. Each mix strip in the mixer has a mute button, and hotkeys, automation rules, the Stream Deck's Sound action and Companion (with the module's new version, 0.1.11) can mute, unmute or toggle a mix, lit while it is muted. A muted bus is silent, including what it returns to Master; a muted Master silences the stream, the recording, every other output and the headphones. A mix's mute is saved with the Show.

Mutes fade. Muting or unmuting a source or a mix now fades rather than cutting, 100 ms by default. Set the length under Mute fade in Show Settings › General, from 0 to 2000 ms.

Finer faders where levels are set. A mixer fader now gives the range from −18 to +6 dB most of its travel, with 0 dB three-quarters of the way up, as on a console; the ends are coarser.

An input card's label colour is a lighter wash, so it marks the card without weighing on it.

Muting a source no longer cuts it off mid-sound, which could click.

An input can have a label colour. Choose one of the hotkey colours in the input's settings, under Source. Its card shows the colour under its name, and its strip in the mixer takes a light wash of it, so a camera is easy to find at a glance. On the web remote, on Stream Deck keys for that input, and on Companion buttons from its presets (with the module's version, 0.1.10), its buttons rest in the colour too, while Program, Preview and other lit states keep their own colours. A Stream Deck key whose idle colour you chose yourself keeps it.

The Stream Deck plug-in has ten ready-made actions. Drag Transition, Input, Overlay, Sound, Output, Replay, Media, Data, Show or Hotkey onto a key and choose in the key's settings what it does, from what your Show has: an input key glows red on Program and green in Preview, and every key that can be on lights while it is. A long name wraps onto a second line rather than running off the key. Each key colour has a Reset button that puts it back to the default. Keys are set up on the keys themselves, so a profile taken to another Mac does the same there. It needs Stream Deck 6.9 or later.

Stream Deck keys are no longer learned in Show Settings. Keys set up that way stop working when this version's plug-in is installed: set them up again with the new actions, or with Hotkey to press the same hotkey. A Show with hotkeys on Stream Deck keys opens with those keys taken off, and says which. Learning in Controls now takes keyboard keys only.

The web remote and Bitfocus Companion can put an overlay in Preview. Overlays are among the web remote's sources, and Companion's Put an input in Preview and Inputs to Preview offer them; Cut or Fade then puts the overlay up, as in InterDirector. Companion needs the module's new version, 0.1.9. A Stream Deck's Overlay key can do the same.

The web remote shows Preview before Program, as InterDirector's own window does.

Only the transition that is running lights its button, on the web remote and on a Stream Deck. Every transition button used to light together, whichever was pressed, and Fade 1 and Fade 2 are told apart even when they have the same length.

A Composite made only of images shows its picture. It could stay on No picture yet for good. A paused Media input, an Image input and Replay at rest could lose their picture the same way when they restarted.

Preview and Program no longer say Unknown cadence under a still picture, such as an Image input, where it looked like something was wrong. A still has no frame rate, so the corner is left empty.

Add Input describes Blackmagic correctly. Its card said a Blackmagic input was an SDI connector with picture only. Any Blackmagic capture device works, and an input can carry the sound embedded in its signal: choose This Input's Own Audio on its Audio tab.

Media playlists can crossfade. Set Crossfade in a Media input's settings or in the Media panel, and each item dissolves into the next, picture and sound together, over the seconds you choose. Next, Previous and picking an item crossfade too while the playlist plays. Files of different sizes, sample rates or channel counts crossfade cleanly, and a music file fades through black. It is off by default: a playlist cuts as before until you set a duration.

Changes to a playlist or carousel made in the input's own settings now appear in the Show journal, as changes made in the Media panel already did.

A documented control API. Your own remote controls, panels, plug-ins and scripts can read the show and do anything a hotkey can, over a WebSocket or plain HTTP: switch, put overlays on air, mute and set faders, start outputs, run replay, move data rows and press hotkeys. It also tells them fader levels, how the stream is doing, and each data source's row on air. On the Mac running InterDirector it needs no password; from another computer it uses the Show's web remote password. See the new Developer pages in Docs & Help.

A web page that tries to reach InterDirector's local control connection is now refused at once, rather than left waiting.