Release Notes - cineSync 5

June 3 2026 - cineSync 5.4.10

• NEW Support for VP9, AV1, and MKV codecs
• NEW Support for transferring files via Google Cloud and Azure
• NEW Color categories
• NEW Ability to copy and paste markers from one movie to another 
• NEW Ability to copy some or all media metadata to the clipboard
• NEW Menu option and playlist button to show the current file
• NEW Confirmation dialog when deleting media from the playlist
• NEW Thumbnail column in the playlist window can now be resized
• NEW FTP setting to control whether guests are required to enter a password
• IMPROVED Reworked encryption code to use less memory
• IMPROVED Reduced idle CPU usage
• IMPROVED Enlarged the sidebar groups combo box and added an icon for better visibility
• IMPROVED Changed the default keyboard shortcut for zoom reset from Backspace to 0 
• FIXED Rare crash in the audio system
• FIXED Crash that could occur in the timeline thumbnail renderer
• FIXED OCIO presets menu not always updating correctly

November 3 2025 - cineSync 5.4.9

• NEW Added ability to export playlist as CSV
• NEW Added reconnect button to disconnection dialog box
• NEW Added log to record failed opengl commandsGuests can now load saved sessions with Flow hosted media, if they have access to the Flow server
• NEW Read password protected PDFs
• IMPROVED Added option to disable reading OCIO settings from environment
• IMPROVED Updated instructional text on 360 dialog box
• FIXED Encrypted PDF viewing crash
• FIXED 1 frame error on range out point
• FIXED Crash that occurred when opening cineSync with a second monitor attached 

July 10 2025 - cineSync 5.4.8

• NEW Support for multipart EXRs
• NEW Support for publishing frame sequences to iconik
• NEW "What's New" dialog in application
• NEW "About" box with build date
• NEW Added an error message when uploading > 5GB file to S3 (Max single put size)
• NEW Ability for a user to take over Flow file ownership
• NEW Ability for a cineSync guest to become an owner of the review
• NEW Manual sorting of groups
• NEW Option to not read timecode from file when using frame count
• NEW Added recent session files to menu
• IMPROVED Ftrack integration now allows change of status on export, or search on status when browsing
• IMPROVED Removed inactivity timer - max life of a review now set at 12 hours via load balancer
• IMPROVED Changed Transfer percentage to show percentage up to 2 decimal places
• IMPROVED Threads now used to calculate SHA checksum during uploads
• IMPROVED Changes in playlist to the highlight and drop indicator behaviour
• IMPROVED Removed horizontal scrollbars in sidebar playlist
• IMPROVED Playlist combo now displays an error for guests when guests can't control is enabled
• IMPROVED Improved scrubbing
• IMPROVED Ftrack reviews tagged as always open now appear in the active review list
• IMPROVED Previous and Next group in playlist now changes to the first movie in the group
• IMPROVED Guest user permissions are no longer persisted (reworked since last test)
• IMPROVED Close confirmation always shown when online
• IMPROVED Added checks to prevent loopback addresses being used when connecting to sync servers
• IMPROVED Refactor of notes and playlist tables to reduce flicker when updating
• FIXED Upload and download progress not showing in sidebar playlist
• FIXED Combo focus issue when scrolling version list in ftrack integration
• FIXED Occasional crash in Sound system
• FIXED Inability to select all files via standard OS shortcuts in the sidebar playlist
• FIXED Issues with ftrack search and pagination
• FIXED ftrack integration not always correctly respecting review start and end dates
• FIXED race condition where asset list can load before the storage list
• FIXED files not loading into existing groups from a session file

March 27 2025 - cineSync 5.4.7

• NEW Support for wacom eraser
• NEW Ellipse drawing tool
• NEW Support for “tracing paper” annotation layer
• NEW Option to set start frame count from either “1” or “0”
• NEW Time display option - feet and frames
• NEW Keyboard shortcut added for Playlist group selections (Control+PgUp and Control+PgDown)
• NEW Preference to show cineSync login on startup (via General tab)
• NEW Preference to update how long transport bar is displayed in fullscreen mode (via Timeline tab)
• NEW Option to change Flow version status when publishing notes
• NEW Flow users can now be linked to exported note
• NEW Timecode display settings now persist
• NEW Connection test added in Preferences (via Network tab)
• NEW In-app Log viewer in Preferences (via Debug/Logging tab) 
• IMPROVED Playlist thumbnails now update when movie changes, similar to cineSync 4
• IMPROVED Flow playlists are now added automatically to their own Playlist group
• IMPROVED Better save frame memory usage and speed
• IMPROVED Selecting a group in the Playlist now clears Playlist search box
• IMPROVED Faster iconik thumbnail loading when viewing large Collections
• IMPROVED A user can now export notes to a pdf without attaching thumbnail images - useful for guests when viewing encrypted files
• IMPROVED Added malloc_aligned and free Aligned, used in save frame code to ensure 32bit alignment of buffers
• FIXED Default audio device issues on macOS
• FIXED Keyboard shortcuts not working when Playlist dialog has focus
• FIXED UI fixes to iconik integration UI
• FIXED Frame stepping in compare mode
• FIXED Issue dragging files into folders if more than 8 folders are in the list
• FIXED Issues playing separate sound file when using frame sequences
• FIXED Flow playlist not updating after a period of time
• FIXED Various search issues within Flow integration
• FIXED “Template projects” no longer shown in Flow integration
• FIXED Added Flow domain name check, to ensure notes are going to the correct instance of Flow

February 2 2025 - cineSync 5.4.6

• IMPROVED Flow playlists containing more than 200 files will now refresh correctly
• IMPROVED Fragments are now stripped from integration URLs (Flow, Iconik and ftrack)
• IMPROVED Added support for Flow attachment URLs
• FIXED Fixed crash if shutting down cineSync while transferring files

January 7 2025 - cineSync 5.4.5

• NEW Added support for Flow Sequences
• NEW Side Panel for Playlist, Notes and Media Info
• NEW Support for audio at multiple playback speeds
• NEW Support for audio with backwards playback
• NEW Added ability to search a list of version names in the Playlist
• NEW Added 'Location Folders' dialog to allow user to manage which folders will be used when locating media
• IMPROVED cineSync Sequence creation/edit dialog now supports both cuts and handles. Also flags errors if the handles or cuts are not valid.
• IMPROVED Redesigned side panel notes
• IMPROVED Speed for file location system
• IMPROVED Blackmagic SDI output now supports zoom and masks on video and images
• IMPROVED Blackmagic SDI output can now display annotations during playback
• IMPROVED Added option to ignore SSL warnings when using Flow, ideally for 'on prem' Flow customers
• IMPROVED Added additional connection diagnostic information to the connection failure dialog box
• IMPROVED Linux version now exports crash logs
• FIXED Fixed frame number being off by 1 when exporting notes and frames to ftrack
• FIXED wacom and fullscreen controls
• FIXED crash if window is scaled whilst window was partially offscreen
• FIXED exr frame sequence frame number being off by 1 when read from file is enabled.
• FIXED forward and back buttons not working when browsing ftp, ftp and sftp sites
• FIXED browsing folder names with spaces not working correctly on ftp(s) sites
• FIXED default output colour setting not being set correctly
• FIXED variable speed playback and scrubbing
• FIXED EXR crash
• FIXED macOS freezing when used with a bluetooth microphone
• FIXED Menu keyboard shortcuts now work fullscreen mode on Windows and Linux
• CHANGED When updating lists via cineSync integrations, a user can select to either only add new versions, or to add and remove versions
• CHANGED Users can no longer add drawings whilst playing if 'Show Drawings whilst playing' is not enabled
• CHANGED Users can no longer add drawings as the shift key is pressed, Shift + LMB is now reserved for panning only

September 17 2024 - cineSync 5.4.4

• NEW Timeline preview
• NEW User selected variable frame rates
• NEW Added scale option to save frames
• NEW Added ability to set the number of read behind frames
• NEW Added ability to change date format on saved frame folder names
   
• NEW Added ability to reset all play positions
   
• NEW Added right click menu to group table and ability to rename groups
   
• NEW Added 1px and 64px line thickness for drawing tools
   
• NEW OCIO profile are now applied to visual timeline thumbnails
   
• IMPROVED Added ability to control sound output device from within cineSync
• IMPROVED Added audio output options when using Blackmagic devices
• IMPROVED Reduced memory consumption when downloading encrypted files
• IMPROVED Next/Previous Media now respects the active group
• IMPROVED Made groups table resizable
• IMPROVED User can now select which iconik frame storage they want to use at export time
• IMPROVED Added option to prevent screen saver or sleep mode
• IMPROVED Locating files in folder is recursive to a user specified max depth
• IMPROVED Windows now generates crash logs
• IMPROVED Added save confirmation on close
• IMPROVED Added minimal drawing size to prevent excessive empty notes
• FIXED Downloading and encrypting large (2Gb+) files
• FIXED Bug in how zero-padded file names are handled
• FIXED Visual timeline rendering black frames when frame sequences use non-default frame rate
• FIXED Rendering media with non-square pixels
• FIXED Issues with masking not always respecting Apply to All
• FIXED cineSync login not working with some special characters
• FIXED Encrypted files not going into the correct groups when loaded from a session file
• FIXED Groups not deleting for guests when clearing a session
• FIXED Issue loading a saved session that contains SG/Flow media even with offline license present
• FIXED Column sorting not working within groups

July 11 2024 - cineSync 5.4.3

• NEW Option to change colour precision, 8 bit, 16bit and 32bit float
• NEW Goto dialog box
• NEW Support for video files with zlib compressed headers
• NEW Item count now shown for Playlist groups
• NEW Sort options added to Flow integration
• NEW Sidebar (beta) in View menu
• NEW Warning message if running Intel build on Apple Silicon
• IMPROVED Renamed mac installers to include CPU type (Intel or Apple Silicon)
• IMPROVED Continued improvements to loading large playlists via integrations
• IMPROVED IME text entry for foreign languages
• IMPROVED Changed colour operations order so highlights are not blown out
• IMPROVED Increased timeline refresh rate for smoother timeline performance
• IMPROVED More robust hash checks when adding similar files
• IMPROVED Updated legal text on startup
• FIXED Slow auto scroll issue in Playlist
• FIXED AliCloud URLs now refresh correctly
• FIXED Corruption in notes table when changing font size on macOS

June 3 2024 - cineSync 5.4.2

• NEW iOS app
• NEW Added ability to password protect reviews
• NEW Added new visual timeline, displaying thumbnails of files, sequences and OTIO sequences
• NEW Support for iconik domains
• NEW Ability to view annotations during playback (preference)
• NEW Buddy list now shows user status
• NEW Eye icon added to all Playlist views to indicate "currently viewing" 
• NEW Integrations menu updated from Shotgrid to Flow
• IMPROVED Improved SFTP and FTPS transfer speeds
• IMPROVED Frame sync in compare mode
• IMPROVED Increased size of dropdown playlist menu so longer filenames are more visible
• IMPROVED Added separate parameters so frame playback, OTIO, and video playback can have different cache sizes
• IMPROVED UI fixes to collection tree in the iconik integration browser
• IMPROVED When adding files to cineSync, multiple files can now be selected in file selection dialog box
• IMPROVED Reworked fullscreen controls, adding more controls like colour grading, colour picker and line width
• IMPROVED Colour range setting now persists
• IMPROVED Performance of some ftrack API calls
• IMPROVED Fullscreen mode no longer saved as a preference
• IMPROVED The iconik integration browser now only shows active/available collections.
• IMPROVED iconik URLs now refresh correctly and renew when added from a session file
• IMPROVED Playlist added from ftrack now reflect live changes (add/delete media)
• IMPROVED Playlist added from Flow now reflect live changes (add/delete media)
• IMPROVED Playlist added from iconik Collection now reflect live changes (add/delete media)
• IMPROVED Open saved frame folder now opens latest review folder
• IMPROVED Render optimisations
• FIXED Flow playlist order maintained when added to cineSync
• FIXED OCIO profiles not being set correctly when multiple files with different OCIO profiles are played in a sequence
• FIXED Performance issue playing OTIOs with variable frame rates
• FIXED Screen position not always maintained when resizing on a second display
• FIXED Graphic corruption when dragging cineSync on second display, with a different resolution
• FIXED Placeholder text not showing in light mode
• FIXED Crash on startup when running on Enterprise version of Windows
• FIXED Crash on exit if audio wave graphic generation thread was running

March 14 2024 - cineSync 5.4.1

• NEW Added autosave of session files
• NEW Added support for markers to make timeline navigation easier
• NEW Added alternative PDF renderer
• NEW Added ability to view a PDF via Blackmagic
• NEW Added additional output pixel formats for Blackmagic
• NEW Added checkerboard background
• IMPROVED Command + option(alt) can now be used to rotate the compare wipe tool
• IMPROVED Updated Linux build environment to Rocky8, changing minimum glibc version to 2.28 as per vfxplatform recommendation
• IMPROVED Moved all versions over to Qt6
• IMPROVED Improved speed when swapping files in playlist, removed extra black frames
• FIXED Play position sometimes not being set correctly when loading from a session file
• FIXED Opening cineSync by double clicking media or session file (MacOS)
• FIXED Render 1:1 scale rendering at the wrong size
• FIXED Rotation glitch in compare wipe tool
• FIXED Draw order for positive ghost frames, the active frame now always displays at the front
• FIXED Eraser and ghosting. The eraser will no longer incorrectly delete ghosted drawings
• FIXED Uppercase files extensions not being recognised
• FIXED Handling of unicode files names on Windows

January 15 2024 - cineSync 5.4.0

• NEW Added support for Standard and Pro accounts
• NEW Added native ARM version for macOS
• NEW Added support for V2 node locked licenses, V1 still supported on x86 machine
• NEW Added ability for movie window to follow note selection
• IMPROVED A/B compare mode
• IMPROVED Encryption now works better on high latency networks
• IMPROVED Reworked logging, all logs now written to single location
• FIXED Fullscreen playlist sometimes causing main window to go blank
• FIXED S3 urls invalidating after 60 mins (they now refresh correctly)
• FIXED Crash when deleting an encrypted file while downloading

November 10 2023 - cineSync 5.3.3

• NEW Added support for Iconik Storage Gateways (ISG’s) to the iconik integration, including proxy support
• NEW Added support for OTIOZ
• NEW New laser tool in annotations toolset
• NEW Ability to zoom out past 100%
• NEW New ability in ftrack integration to choose between exporting notes per frame or per asset
• NEW Added support for OCIO profiles and support to save and auto load the profiles per asset
• NEW Added support to setup secondary LUT via environment variables
• NEW Ability to login to Shotgrid integration via the Shotgrid desktop app
• NEW Added ability to add frames as either a sequence or as individual items in the playlist

• NEW Added ability to select save frame format – png or jpg

   
• IMPROVED Some reworking of the playlist and added “Manage Media” and “Manage Transfers” buttons
• IMPROVED Added “Add from server” option to main UI
• IMPROVED Added ability to select ftrack components when browsing and adding versions
• IMPROVED Playlists updates in Shotgrid now update in cineSync via integration
• IMPROVED Improved frame caching
• IMPROVED Added password reset link to cineSync 5 login dialog box
• IMPROVED Added ability for the customer to change their download location
• UPDATED Patched lib curl for security venerability CVE-2023-38545
• UPDATED Updated to the latest versions of OpenEXR (3.2) and OpenColorIO (2.3)
• FIXED line tool not generating a note
• FIXED playlist combobox sometime flashing incorrect icon when adding local files
• FIXED output settings not always saving
• FIXED dev menu not working from command line
• FIXED localised paths with environment variables when used with ftrack media

July 5 2023 - cineSync 5.3.2

• NEW Straight line tool - command/alt key locks to grid
• NEW Support for Wacom devices
• NEW Support for slower playback - 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75
• NEW Ability to set custom thumbnail frame
• IMPROVED Additional keyboard shortcuts for compare mode
• IMPROVED Hotkey to open Notes (command N)
• IMPROVED In compare mode added option to "use" A movie colour settings on B movie
• IMPROVED Support for loading files using symlinks, aliases and shortcuts
• IMPROVED Pinch gesture now works properly for zoom controls
• IMPROVED rec709 added as one of the default output options
• IMPROVED Increased max audio slip time from 1s to 5s
• IMPROVED Notes now correctly choose timecode or frame number
• UPDATED Colour channel menu options now respects "apply to all movies"
• UPDATED Compare mode now persists as a preference
• UPDATED Added support for paths conversions via the use of environment variables (Multi-OS environments)
• FIXED S3 uploads/Browsing/downloads via Northern Virginia
• FIXED Zoom box not always aligned correctly
• FIXED Mouse cursor not showing correctly on macOS

May 15 2023 - cineSync 5.3.1

• NEW "Log to desktop option" for file transfers
• NEW Support for playing encrypted audio files
• NEW Ability to login to iconik via the iconik web login
• NEW Select-All control to publish iconik window
• NEW "Open in folder" to right click menu, within the playlist
• IMPROVED cineSync now registers 'add to cineSync" custom actions in iconik
• UPDATED OpenEXR to v3.1.7
• UPDATED OpenColorIO to v2.2.1
• UPDATED FFmpeg to 6.0
• FIXED Sound offset issue when playing for OTIO
• FIXED Default EXR control not working on QT6 build
• FIXED Group control, within fullscreen playlist not working on QT6 build
• FIXED ssl issue when downloading from certain S3 zones
• FIXED Downloading files from s3 with ( or ) in their name
• FIXED Issues when browsing s3 buckets which contain a large number of objects
• FIXED Version numbers in windows and macOS installers
• FIXED Issue exporting frames back to ftrack
• FIXED "B" video sometimes showing a black frame in compare mode

April 6 2023 - cineSync 5.3