Older releases.

Cut marks. While Program is recording, a key, a Stream Deck button or an automation rule can mark "cut here". A short notice under the toolbar says "Cut mark 4 at 01:12:33", or why no mark was taken — there is none while Program is not recording. Each mark is saved beside the recording as you take it, in a file named after it, so marks survive a crash.

Tools ▸ Cut Marks… opens a window listing every marked recording in a folder — the recording folder to start with, or any folder you choose — and the one recording now. Each recording shows its pieces and the marks between them; move a mark a second at a time, type its time, or remove it. The recording itself is never changed.

Export Pieces… in the Cut Marks window writes each piece of a finished recording as its own file, in a folder you choose, numbered in order. The pieces are copied rather than encoded again, so the export is quick and loses nothing, and each piece starts on the frame where its mark is.

Program on several displays. The External output's setup now lists each display, and each can show Program with its own scaling — a projector for the room and a monitor for the stage at once. A display that disconnects stops on its own and the others carry on; one you chose that is plugged back in shows Program again.

Preview on a display of its own. Set any display to Preview in the External output's setup and it shows exactly what your Preview monitor shows, full screen, with PREVIEW and the source's name in a corner so nobody mistakes it for Program. It starts and stops with the External button, together with your Program displays.

Shows saved by this version open in this version or later. Earlier versions cannot open them, because of the new cut mark action; keep this version on every Mac that runs the same Show.

A crash that could follow a change to Replay during a show, such as adding or removing a bucket. It happened once in a six-hour production, three hours in.

Changing a Replay setting no longer empties the replay buffer. Adding, renaming or removing a bucket, or changing the capture length, playback speed, crossfade or Play as overlay, used to restart the buffer and lose what it held. Only changing the buffer's own length or quality still does, as it must.

An SRT passphrase is saved as you type it. It used to be saved only when you pressed Return or left the field, so one typed and not confirmed was not used, and the stream went out unencrypted.

Streaming to Cloudflare Stream over RTMPS works. It connected and then sent nothing, dropping and reconnecting about every twelve seconds, while the same destination worked from other software. Other RTMPS services that answer while you stream, such as YouTube, were not affected.

The Media panel. A Media button beside Replay, Data and the Audio Mixer opens a panel with each media playlist and image carousel as a tab, and its files as rows with a picture of each. Click a row to make it the current item. Change the input's playback settings there, and for a list of files you chose, drag to reorder, add files and remove them — none of which restarts the input, even on air. Removing asks first and never deletes the file. Like the other panels it can move into a window of its own. A Show saved by this version cannot be opened by an older one.

Play on Program in for media playlists, and Advance on Program in for image carousels. Turn it off and taking the input to Program starts nothing: it waits on what it shows until you press Play or step it yourself. With Restart on Program in on as well, it goes back to the first item and waits there.

Auto next for media playlists. Turn it off and each clip stops on its last frame instead of going on to the next; Play then starts the next one.

Scaling for each input. Every camera, NDI, Blackmagic, web, media and image input can choose how a picture of another shape meets the canvas — Fit, Fill or Stretch — or follow the Show's setting, as all of them did until now. It is at the top of the input's Picture tab, and in the Media panel. Preview and the multiview show it as Program does.

Next item and Previous item for keyboard shortcuts, Stream Deck keys and automation rules, stepping a media playlist or an image carousel the way the transport buttons under Preview and Program do.

Turning Shuffle on or off for a media playlist takes effect at once, keeping the item that is playing, instead of the next time the playlist restarts.

A file added to a playlist's folder plays in its filename's place after a refresh, rather than at the end of the playlist, unless the playlist is shuffled.

Preview now follows the Show's Fill or Stretch setting for a source you have not resized or moved. It showed such a source fitted, whatever Program did.

An image carousel set to restart on Program now shows its first image straight away. It used to keep the image it had been showing for one more slide and then go on to the second, never showing the first.

Changing an image carousel's settings no longer sends it back to its first image. Loop, shuffle, timings and the rest now take effect where the carousel is, without restarting it, even while it is on air.

An open input settings window no longer undoes a change made elsewhere. Its next change used to put back the settings it opened with.

Go to item now works on Image inputs. A rule, hotkey or Stream Deck key set to go to an item of an image carousel did nothing; it now shows that image, with the carousel's crossfade, and Next and Previous carry on from there.

NDI sources now tell the camera or app sending them whether they are on Program or in Preview. Any NDI-aware monitoring app or PTZ camera — the NDI mobile app, NDI Studio Monitor, and others — shows the standard red or green tally border the moment a source is placed.

InterDirector now looks for updates at updates.interdirector.com instead of the address earlier versions used. There is nothing to do: this copy is offered the change through the old address, and from then on checks the new one. The old address keeps working for copies that have not updated yet.

The Overlay button under the fades now lights up, and says "Overlay Off", when the overlay source in Preview is on air. It only did so for a picture the button itself had put up. Pressing it takes that overlay down, and the layer boxes move it. If the button has put a picture up, it stays about that one whatever Preview holds, as before.

The coloured buttons on the operator window keep their colour when another window or a settings sheet has focus. AutoDirector On, Animations, an overlay that is on air, the numbered overlay layer boxes on the input cards and in the replay panel, CUT and Replay's Capture used to fade to grey the moment the window lost focus, which made it impossible to tell at a glance what was running. They now look the same whether or not the window is in front, like the Stream, Record, Input Rec, NDI and External buttons already did.

Licences. InterDirector now needs a licence to start its outputs. Open InterDirector → Licence… to see where you stand, enter a licence key, start a free trial, buy a licence, or manage an existing one. - A free trial of 14 days on each Mac, started from the startup window or the Licence window. While it runs, the Program output carries a small TRIAL VERSION mark in the bottom-right corner, under the InterDirector logo. The Licence window shows a short code for the Mac, which is what to quote if you contact support about your trial. - A licence covers two Macs, for example an operator Mac and a spare. To move it, free a Mac with Free This Mac in the Licence window, or from your customer portal; the freed place is available at once. - What needs a licence is starting streaming, Program recording, input recording, NDI output, SDI output and the external Program window. Without one, InterDirector says why and offers Licence… and Buy Licence…. Opening, preparing and editing Shows, the monitors, Replay and updates all keep working. - A licence never ends a show in progress. If it runs out while you are live, everything already running carries on; the change applies the next time you start an output. A licence that is about to end is announced a few days ahead. - InterDirector checks your licence when it starts, and again from time to time. If it cannot reach the licence service, for example when there is no internet, it keeps relying on its last answer for three days and tells you so, so a bad connection never stops a job. - What is sent: your licence key, the Mac's name, and, for a trial, a one-way code made from the Mac's hardware identifier so that a trial cannot be started twice. Nothing about your Shows or how you use InterDirector is ever sent.

The Show journal notes when the licence state changes, and when an output start is refused because of it, so a refused start can be explained afterwards.

The Check for Updates…, Licence… and Settings… entries in the InterDirector menu now have icons, like the other entries in that menu.

InterDirector now looks for updates at interdirector.com instead of the address earlier versions used. There is nothing to do: this copy is offered the change through the old address, and from then on checks the new one. The old address keeps working for copies that have not updated yet.

The orange warning in Input Recording settings that armed inputs might be more than a Mac can encode. It compared against a figure measured on one Mac mini, so it was wrong on faster Macs and silent on slower ones. A recording that cannot keep up still drops frames, counts them, and says so on its row.

Settings → Diagnostics → Log monitor pacing writes to the system log, every ten seconds, how the Preview and Program monitors and the external output window are keeping time: frames shown twice, frames skipped, and how long each frame stayed on the display. For finding out where a micro-stutter comes from; off by default.

The Preview and Program area can no longer be dragged so short that the Transition, T-bar and Overlay controls between the monitors are clipped. The divider stops at the height those controls need, and a Show saved with a shorter share is shown at that height. In a very short window the row of controls below still stays reachable, so the deck can be shorter there.

Countdowns in overlay text. Type a countdown shortcode into any text value of an overlay — alone, or inside other words — and it runs by itself on air: Live in [countdown to="20:30" format="{mm}:{ss}" done="On air"]. The format can be anything from {hh}:{mm}:{ss} to running text such as {hh} Hours, {mm} Minutes and {ss} Seconds; the largest unit you use counts everything above it, so {mm}:{ss} shows 90:00 for an hour and a half. done is optional text shown at zero; without it the countdown holds at zero. A time without a date is that time today, so for a show that runs past midnight give a date (2026-09-20 00:15). A shortcode that is misspelled is left as typed so you can see it.

A Countdown Generator section in an overlay's settings, with a Build… button, opens a small panel that builds the shortcode for you — pick the time (or date and time), a format, optional finished text — shows what it reads right now, and copies it to the clipboard. It appears for any overlay with a text value.

A Simple Text overlay: a rounded rectangle of colour and opacity behind text, placed where you want it. Type the text in a multi-line box — your line breaks are kept — and set the backdrop colour and opacity, the text colour and size, left / centre / right alignment, the horizontal and vertical position, and how wide a line may run before it wraps. It fades in and out. Add it like any other built-in overlay.

Fight Card Lower Thirds keep their text centred when it wraps. In the Split version's middle column, and in the Stacked version's RED / BLUE tags, a class, format or tag long enough to run onto a second line used to line up flush left inside its centred box. Every line now centres.

Moving a data source's cursor no longer marks the Show as changed, and no longer replaces what you typed beside a data-bound overlay value. The value under a binding is now always kept as you typed it, so removing the binding puts it back, and a row with nothing in the bound field falls back to it instead of to the previous row. An overlay value you bound with an earlier build may have had a row's text saved over it; type it again if so.

The Data panel no longer scrolls sideways on its own. It opens at the first column, and a wide table keeps the horizontal position you gave it when the cursor moves or the data refreshes; only the vertical position follows the highlighted row. A row moved by a hotkey, Stream Deck key or rule is brought to the middle as before, while one that merely shifted because a refresh reordered the rows is kept in view without re-centring the table.