# 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.