ShowMotion 1.2
What’s new

More creative tools, flexible routing, integrated stage visualization, and a workspace that adapts to your show.

Stage & Lighting

• Stage Designer: Visualize your stage with an integrated LED screen designer and real pixel mapping.
• Art-Net/DMX Lighting Studio: Control your lighting and visualize it in the Stage Designer. Place lighting presets and cues in Switcher, Timeline, and Grid for full integration into your video setup.

Show Control & Routing

• Video Loop Fade: Smooth out visible loop boundaries with an adjustable crossfade.
• Switcher Scene Triggers: Build custom scene entrances and exits with timed actions, opacity fades, and slide animations. Rehearse visual sequences in Preview before taking them live.
• Screen Routing with Layer Selection: Route an entire screen or include only the layers you need.
• Grid Groups: Organize layers into groups and launch columns within individual groups.
• Flexible Grid Routing: Route complete Grids, individual groups, or single layers to Switcher scenes and output regions.
• Slice Editor & Chase Effects: Create slice layouts for Switcher screens, Grids, and Timelines, then animate slice visibility with reusable chase patterns.
• Media Information on Screen Routes: Display remaining playback time for routed video layers.
• Playlist Generator: Generate playlists for your show.

Creative Tools

• Web Browser Generator: Native web rendering with a fullscreen YouTube player and CSS support for background removal.
• AI Background Removal & Bokeh: Isolate people or foreground subjects, refine mask edges, and soften backgrounds with adjustable blur.
• Expanded Lower Thirds: Choose from 19 designs with customizable typography, colors, and logo badges on supported designs.
• Improved Text Controls: Search available fonts and fine-tune text, timer, and lower-third styling.
• Improved Layer Cropping: Crop within the layer without stretching the image, with more consistent editing handles.
• Color & Contour Effects: Additional tools for color adjustments and contour styling.

Two New SMFX Plugins

• Liquid Orbit: Explore a library of animated 3D scenes and presets with scene-specific controls for geometry, lighting, cameras, and motion.
• Reality Backgrounds: Bring Gaussian Splat environments into your show, with interactive walkthrough navigation, camera controls, and adjustable light mood.

Audio & Media

• Audio Mixer & Routing: A dedicated mixer window, routing matrix, and audio-file playback in Grid and Switcher.
• ShowMotion Codec & Converter: An ASTC-based codec designed for real-time playback on Apple Silicon, with integrated media conversion. Tested with 32 simultaneous 8K60 streams on M5 Max in an isolated GPU/memory benchmark; full-show playback capacity depends on storage, effects, and composition complexity.

Workspace & Monitoring

• Operator Window: Monitor Program and Preview layers, media progress, trigger activity, recording status, audio levels, and system information in a dedicated overview.
• Custom Workspace Layouts: Rearrange tabs, sidebars, and inspector panels, then save layouts for different workflows.
• Multi-Window Workspaces: Detach workspaces into separate windows for multi-monitor setups.
• Viewport Zoom & Pan: Inspect your composition with zoom, pan, and Fit controls across the editing viewports.
• Adaptive Local GPU Previews: Preview resolution responds to viewport size and zoom, within source-resolution and resource limits.

Connectivity & Control

• Online Streaming: Stream directly via RTMP/RTMPS.
• Native NVIDIA Driver: Native NVIDIA Quadro output on Apple Silicon with phase-locked FrameSync across supported card outputs. Runs natively on macOS without a Linux backend.
• UniFi EAV IP: Added input and output support.
• Updated NDI and Blackmagic DeckLink libraries.
• Added NDI PTZ control and Program/Preview tally support for compatible sources.
• Updated Companion integration with dynamic Grid layouts, thumbnail buttons, live playback feedback, navigation, and column launching on Stream Deck.

Performance & Reliability

• Improved DXV startup and decoding performance.
• Optimized NotchLC decoding, including GPU processing.
• Improved audio continuity during high-resolution ProRes playback.
• Improved restoration of video playback modes, speed, trim points, and start policies when reopening projects and sessions.
• Personal presets and Chase patterns are now preserved when creating or loading projects.
• Improved desktop-capture target persistence and independent editing of copied capture layers.
• Additional rendering, routing, and interface fixes.