Changelog for Silverstack Lab
Silverstack Lab - 9.3.1
Tue, 28 Jul 2026Changes
- New: Caption wildcard for destination paths
- New: Option to remove a clip's thumbnail frame position (Clip menu)
Recreates the thumbnail at its default position. - Changed: Thumbnail-related options in Clip menu moved into a Thumbnail submenu
- Improved: Clearer messaging that Adobe credentials are required when connecting to Frame.io account
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Workflow configurator could crash on systems with non-Gregorian calendars
- Fixed: LockitNetwork connection failures
- Fixed: Potential crash on failing PSLA import
- Fixed: Potential crash in workflow configurator with upload activities
- Fixed: Changes of ingest option "Look Source" were not respected for Fujifilm clips
Silverstack Lab - 9.3
Tue, 21 Jul 2026Changes
- Changed: Internal library structure
Existing projects are migrated automatically on open. Migrated projects are no longer compatible with earlier versions of Silverstack. - New: Support for footage from iPhone, including variable frame rate (VFR) clips
Extensive metadata extraction; Retiming of VFR clips to constant frame rate in playback and transcoding. - New: Support for Fujifilm GFX Eterna 55 footage
Including dynamic metadata extraction for MXF clips from this camera. - New: Support for Nikon ZR MP4 footage
Extensive metadata extraction, application of suitable default Rec. 709 transformation LUT. - New: Log decoding of Phantom CINE footage
Decode to Phantom Log 1, Log 2, or Rec.709; improved metadata extraction. - New: Support for Sony Cine EI mode (MXF, MP4)
Automatic compensation of exposure when EI is diverging from base/native ISO. - New: ScriptE CSV importer
Match metadata from ScriptE CSV exports. - New: Clip upload to Frame.io v4 [Lab only]
Uploading to the previous Frame.io legacy platform is no longer supported. - New: Shooting Date and Day consistency check in the Register in Library step
With convenient one-click actions to bump values on new days. - Improved: More timecode formats supported, including HFR timecodes
- Improved: Clearer communication of different duplicate clip offload/ingest scenarios
- Improved: Handling of upside-down footage
- Improved: Metadata extraction for Canon CRM/MXF/MP4 clips
Robust extraction of Camera index and Reel number; Better extraction of recording color space and application of default Rec.709 transformation LUTs. - Improved: Metadata extraction for Blackmagic RAW clips
- Improved: More precise recording date/time extraction for many formats
Including ARI/ARX, Canon MXF/MP4, Sony MXF/MP4, Phantom CINE, and more. - Improved: Rec. Color Space extraction for Atomos ProRes RAW clips
- Updated: Sony RAW SDK to 6.0.0
- Updated: Canon CRM SDK to 2.11 R3
- Updated: RED R3D SDK to 9.2.1
- Changed: New app icons for Silverstack XT and Lab
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Relink with the "Replace missing file resources" option also removed offline resources
- Fixed: HDE decoding could fail or crash in certain situations
- Fixed: Some UI issues and crashes in workflow configuration window
Issues when deleting post-steps, resetting configurations, or updating presets in certain situations. - Fixed: Color shift in clips from some Phantom cameras
- Fixed: Incorrect matrix in exported AMF CLF files
This broke the ACES AP0↔AP1 round-trip. - Fixed: Double desqueeze for ARRI MXF clips with baked-in desqueeze
- Fixed: Transcoding to one combined clip with custom filename was blocked with incorrect "do not resolve to unique file paths" error
- Fixed: Incorrect "does not recreate folder structure" warning for destination paths in certain configurations
- Fixed: Internal audio could be cut off a few frames before the end in playback and transcoding
- Fixed: Playback view showed "Unknown Error" when switching clips in certain situations
- Fixed: Inconsistent frame stepping behavior in playback view in certain scenarios
- Fixed: Timecode information was missing for certain audio clips
- Fixed: Crash when opening file scanner settings with very large file pattern tables
- Fixed: Image sequence checkboxes in file scanner settings were not respected
- Fixed: Options to deactivate thumbnail creation on offload were not functional
- Fixed: Connecting Slack channel showed outdated browser error
- Miscellaneous bug fixes, UI, and stability improvements
Scripting
- New: Unformatted raw values for many metadata getters/setters
Select if you want to work with formatted (rounded) values or raw values. - New: Functions to set or reset in/out points and crop
- New: Functions to navigate from an asset to its parent bin and folders
- Fixed: getLabel incorrectly returned a number
- Complete changelog available at https://github.com/pomfort/silverstack-scripting
Silverstack Lab - 9.2.4
Thu, 11 Jun 2026Changes
- Improved: Livegrade 7 PFLA import with markers/ranges running over midnight
- Improved: Display of mixed running/suspended workflow states in summary status bar
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Unmounting volumes could lead to a crash in certain situations
- Fixed: Opening the settings window could result in a crash
- Fixed: Import of transcoding preset with custom burn-in wildcards [Lab only]
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Scripting
- Fixed: getAudioCodec() did not return a value
- Fixed: Test runs failed in certain configurations
Silverstack Lab - 9.2.3
Thu, 07 May 2026Bugfixes
- Fixed: Incorrect timestamp format in general info tab and CSV exports
- Fixed: Default transcoding presets for new projects from .psconfig file were not imported exclusively
- Fixed: Inconsistent font size in cue point column in dual tone reports
- Fixed: Inconsistent thumbnail sizes in classic clip reports with 3 thumbnails
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and stability improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.2.2
Wed, 29 Apr 2026Changes
- Improved: Completion notification for batch still image exports
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Livegrade 7 PFLA marker import for clips with fractional frame rates
Start TCs and durations of imported marker ranges were inaccurate. - Fixed: Canon MXF clip detection on FAT32 cards
- Fixed: Scanning errors for Sony clips with invalid characters in XML sidecars
- Fixed: "Move Playhead to Start for selected clips" did not work for very large selections
- Fixed: Crash after cancelling look matching in certain situations
- Fixed: Stability issue in Jobs view on certain systems
- Fixed: Incomplete size summary in workflow outline for multi-part clips
- Fixed: Incorrect warning about stereo mixdown in combined clip transcoding without audio
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.2.1
Fri, 17 Apr 2026Bugfixes
- Fixed: Workflows with backup after DNx transcoding [Lab only]
Lead to failed jobs and incompletely registered transcoded clips - Fixed: Crash of workflow configuration window in certain situations
- Fixed: Crash when creating a new project while in jobs view
Silverstack Lab - 9.2
Wed, 15 Apr 2026Changes
- Info: This build can introduce behavior changes for the clip detection and handling of rotated clips.
While a rollback to 9.1.x is possible, we recommend updating between productions rather than during active shoots. - New: Scripting — Post step and ingest Lua scripts
Run scripts automatically when a job finishes, or granularly adjust extracted clip metadata during ingest. Learn more on pomfort.com/developer - New: Modernized report templates
Use light or dark "dual tone" or the "classic" template. - Improved: File scanner and clip detection
Faster scanning, detection and ingest of mixed clip types in one offload ("mixed cards"), new mechanisms to ignore certain clips (e.g., in proxy folders), clearer communication of scanning issues. - Improved: Ingest settings and default looks
Now bound to workflow configuration; replaces app-wide "Format Settings"; automatically apply custom show LUTs for all new clips. - Improved: Status bar with app-wide progress
Switch between app-wide or per-workflow progress; click to reveal workflow details (e.g., job ETAs). - Improved: Job view and concurrent task execution
Improved status messages, task execution timing chart, display of volume-specific workload, keyboard navigation in workflow history. - Improved: Livegrade 7 PFLA look matching
Markers and ranges import now supported. - Improved: Handling for vertical (and rotated) footage
Consistent display and processing of rotated and vertical footage in the internal player, on SDI out, and in transcoding; new orientation controls for external video (SDI out); improved transcoding preview mode. - Improved: Scaling options for transcodes and still image exports
Choose fixed resolutions (with black bars) or dynamic resolutions; includes 50% scaling and min/max sizing options. - Improved: Offload menu volume list
Sections separate new, already offloaded, and destination volumes for better overview; replaces auto-hiding mechanism for already offloaded volumes. - New: Metadata tagging for still image exports
Create EXIF, IPTC and TIFF tags with wildcards. - New: Warning in filescanner about detected .RSV files
Flags incomplete Sony clips and suggests to recover them in-camera before offloading. - New: Support for Nikon N-RAW (.nev) footage
Supports decoding to different colorspaces, dynamic metadata extraction, and custom RAW settings. - Improved: Support for Blackmagic RAW footage
Decoding to various colorspaces, custom RAW settings and dynamic metadata extraction. - Improved: Support for ProRes RAW footage
Now also supports decoding to Apple Log and Apple Log2 colorspaces, and custom RAW settings; improved default appearance for iPhone ProRes RAW footage. - Improved: Support for Canon and Sony MP4 footage
Improved metadata extraction for XAVC S, HEVC S, XF-AVC S, and XF-HEVC S, including dynamic metadata. - Improved: Performance in grid playback view
- Improved: Relinking wizard
More intuitive relinking of multi-part clips and sequences; better progress display. - Improved: Overwrite behavior and status messages for still image exports
- Improved: MovieSlate XML matching by filename (first characters)
- Updated: Sony RAW SDK to 5.3.0 / SMDK to 4.27.0
- Updated: ProRes RAW SDK to 1.3
- Changed: Auto apply workflow preset function
Now bound to dominant clip type in file scanner result rather than input device. - Changed: Renaming on offload function
Will rename all MOV and MP4 files if activated, not limited to certain input devices anymore. - Changed: Order of processing steps for rotated footage
Now 1. Rotate, 2. Flip, 3. Desqueeze, 4. Crop; will give different results for rotated footage with desqueeze and/or crop. - Changed: Transcoding of rotated footage
Rotation is now applied prior to transcoding. - Changed: System requirements
Requires macOS 14.7 or higher.
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Look preview was applied to all clips in grid playback view
- Fixed: Double LUT issue for Sony MXF clips with a baked look
- Fixed: Color range was incorrectly interpreted for certain Sony MXF clips
- Fixed: Documents and audio clips could not be moved between bins in certain situations
- Fixed: Look matching wizard with duplicate matches could lead to crash
- Fixed: Sorting order of library outline was not persisted in certain situations
- Fixed: CDL and LUT could be applied to "Black Bars" of transcodes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.1.6
Wed, 25 Mar 2026Changes
- Improved: Smart Folders can now filter by anamorphic factor
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Playback did not update after changing processing settings (e.g., crop)
- Fixed: Relinking files with multiple matches did not work
- Fixed: Dynamic metadata handling of F-Stop aperture values
F-Stop values were not exported to CSV and not shown in the Dynamic Metadata panel - Fixed: Dynamic metadata extraction for certain ARRI ALEXA Mini LF clips failed
- Fixed: Cue points were not transferred from OCF to transcoded clips in library [Lab only]
- Fixed: Undo did not work correctly after moving clips in the library
- Fixed: Incorrect gamut compress identifier in AMF export
- Fixed: "Apply to Other Clips" for decoding color space did not work in certain scenarios
Silverstack Lab - 9.1.5
Thu, 29 Jan 2026Bugfixes
- Fixed: Potential crash when deleting or modifying destinations in workflow configurations
Silverstack Lab - 9.1.4
Thu, 22 Jan 2026Changes
- Updated: ARRI Image SDK to version 9.0.1
Fixes ARRICORE issues on Intel multi-GPU systems. - Updated: Canon CRM SDK 2.10 to R2
- Deprecation warning: Support for macOS 14 will be removed in a future release
Bugfixes
- Fixed: UI issues on macOS 26
Wildcard editor, still image export destination path, and "Export to" context menu - Fixed: UI issue with sliders in the transcoding preset panel
- Fixed: Look preset preview button disappeared with very long look names
- Fixed: Rating wildcard did not work (e.g., in burn-ins)
- Fixed: Potential crash when transcoding DNxHD footage to DNxHD [Lab only]
- Fixed: Potential ShotHub sync issue
- Fixed: Transcoded clips did not take over all the source's metadata in certain situations [Lab only]
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.1.3
Tue, 09 Dec 2025Changes
- Improved: Codex VFS metadata extraction error recovery suggestion
- Improved: ProRes RAW default decoding colorspace detection for certain DJI clips
- Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 5.1
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Long scanning time for Blackmagic cards with MP4 proxies
- Fixed: BRAW 17k clips could lead to playback/rendering issues on specific systems
- Fixed: BRAW transcodes could have frame jumps
- Fixed: Timecode burn-ins in transcodes could be static
- Fixed: DNxHR transcoding could fail for specific audio configurations [Lab only]
- Fixed: Relinking multiple times could result in duplicate resources
- Fixed: Muting of audio tracks did not work reliable in some cases
- Fixed: "Copy&Paste" looks lead to reset of the selected decoding colorspace
- Fixed: Removing external audio while in playback view could lead to crash
- Fixed: Potential crash when editing destination paths in workflows
- Fixed: S3 upload edge case could result in a crash
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.1.2
Wed, 15 Oct 2025Bugfixes
- Fixed: Transcodings randomly failed with "Could not communicate with helper application"
- Fixed: Update problems of image analysis settings in player
- Fixed: Exit of transcoding preview mode incomplete in certain situations
Silverstack Lab - 9.1.1
Fri, 10 Oct 2025Bugfixes
- Fixed: Different gradings not correctly reflected in player when switching clips in certain situations
- Fixed: Phantom clips appear with red look in player
- Fixed: Typo in Adobe Premiere export (label color)
Silverstack Lab - 9.1
Wed, 08 Oct 2025Changes
- New: Support for ARRI ALEXA 35 Xtreme and ARRICORE footage
Including custom RAW settings for ARRICORE footage - New: Support for Canon EOS C50
- Improved: Handling of clips with variable frame rate
Full support for playback and transcoding of clips with minor frame rate shifts, basic playback support for clips with significant shifts. - Improved: Playback and SDI out
Instant updates after grading changes, fewer black frames on external video out. - Improved: S3 upload to custom endpoints
- Improved: Workflow Configuration
Better communication of common error cases (e.g., "Not enough space"); Job priorities can now be configured as part of workflows. - Improved: Volume performance settings
Increased max reading/writing counts now have an immediate effect on job execution. - Improved: Job retry after "File Exists" error
"Retry & Overwrite" quick fix now available - Improved: EDL import now also imports in/out points
- Updated: Added "Apple Log 2 → Rec.709" to preset LUTs
- Updated: ARRI Image SDK to 9.0.0 / ARRI MXF Lib to 4.4.9.0
- Updated: Blackmagic RAW SDK to 4.6.1
- Updated: Canon CRM SDK to 2.10
- Updated: R3D SDK to 9.1.1
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Persistence of filter settings in job view
- Fixed: Timecode extraction of MP4 clips with frame rates beyond 30 FPS
- Fixed: Recording Date of some Sony clips incorrectly interpreted in the local timezone
- Fixed: RED transcoding issues on multi-GPU systems
- Fixed: Crash on certain Intel systems when playing back Blackmagic RAW 6k clips
- Fixed: Main menu and streamdeck actions to mark jobs as read
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.0.5
Wed, 17 Sep 2025Changes
- New: Ready for macOS 26 Tahoe
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Stripes in DNx transcoding with unusual width [Lab only]
- Fixed: LTC extraction failed
- Fixed: Issues with pausing/resuming of jobs
- Fixed: Could not do LTFS backup on certain systems
- Fixed: Extraction of ZEISS lens correction data from speicfic clips
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.0.4
Wed, 27 Aug 2025Changes
- Added: Transcode burn-in wildcard "Path Components"
Bugfixes
- Fixed: BRAW 17K clips lead to crash
Fallback to 1/2 res decoding, as macOS does not support resolutions beyond 16K natively. - Fixed: Certain BRAW clips appeared cropped when using low decoding resolutions (also affected thumbnails)
- Fixed: Grid playback view issues
RED clips sometimes with double-LUT; slight color shifts; playhead position changed unintentionally. - Fixed: Mini player issues
Playback HUD was empty when mini player was opened before; could not set thumbnail frame from mini player. - Fixed: Volume details and resource panel UI issues
Trashed or "in-progress" resources were not correctly excluded; filter field was non-functional. - Fixed: Report content inconsistencies
Trashed or "in-progress" files could incorrectly be included; report header could show incorrect shooting day in migrated projects; line breaks in "Comment" column were missing. - Fixed: Report option to skip audio clips was missing
- Fixed: Suspension of jobs was unreliable in certain scenarios
- Fixed: Verification state was not updated to green in edge cases
- Fixed: Unable to relink empty folders in some situations
- Fixed: Thumbnails appeared flipped and without look in specific scenarios
- Fixed: ALE export's default custom wildcards (for the "Name" field) were non-functional
- Fixed: Failed transcodes when using metadata export option "Pomfort XML" [Lab only]
- Fixed: "Bin Path" burn-ins were incorrect in transcodes
- Fixed: Partial ingest warning was not shown in certain cases
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.0.3
Wed, 30 Jul 2025Changes
- Added: More wildcards in ALE export
- Improved: Volume identification of ZFS volumes
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Package name of renamed DNx transcodes did not reference OCF name anymore [Lab only]
- Fixed: Potential hang of file scanner in offload workflow
- Fixed: Potential sorting issue in library outline
- Fixed: Playback grid view update issues after multi-edit
- Fixed: Main table appeared empty when switching between views in certain situations
- Fixed: Sealing was not possible after failed/canceled workflows to that volume
- Fixed: Switching look source back and forth between "From File" and "Custom Look" did not restore custom look
- Fixed: Tasks and job view did not update HDE size expectation after offload
- Fixed: Tasks view unexpectedly presented empty in certain situations
- Fixed: Imported workflow presets from old projects dropped unknown destinations
- Fixed: Ingest metadata not applied to sidecar files
For example XMLs of Sony clips or WAVs of ARX sequences - Fixed: Backup step's "Not enough space on destination" warning details text
- Fixed: Relinking of audio clips with tracks in multiple files (mono WAVs) was not possible
- Fixed: Folder statistics could be incorrect when multiple smart folders were selected
- Fixed: FCP XML export to Resolve could result in crash
- Fixed: Transcoded clips appeared with incorrect timecode in library [Lab only]
- Fixed: ShotHub sync issues with clips that have unexpected/corrupt metadata
- Fixed: Issues in trial version with backups of empty folders
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.0.2
Tue, 08 Jul 2025Bugfixes
- Fixed: Miscellaneous issues/inconsistencies with new Shooting Date field
- Fixed: Camera letter in ingest metadata was not always respected
- Fixed: Stream Deck plugin was incompatible with some Stream Deck app versions
- Fixed: Summary view statistics for smart folders were not calculated
- Fixed: Dynamic Metadata CSV export was not working in Silvertack XT
- Fixed: Dynamic Metadata extraction from virtual _hde magazines
- Fixed: Destination paths with pipe character (|) failed classic MHL creation
- Fixed: Problem with undoing bin moves when previous parent folder was unregistered in the meanwhile
- Fixed: Miscellaneous inconsistencies in report statistics
- Fixed: Miscellaneous (potential) crashes
When using unreasonable crop values, unregistering bins, scrubbing in timeline, or in collection view - Fixed: Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.0.1
Tue, 24 Jun 2025Changes
- Added: Transcoding destination path wildcard "Path Components"
- Added: Customizable ProRes RAW default look import options (Settings > Formats > ProRes RAW)
- Improved: Ingest metadata "Shooting Day/Date" restored value is now independet of saved preset
Bugfixes
- Fixed: New bins were incorrectly registered at library root folder in certain configurations
- Fixed: Crash when syncing specific libraries with ShotHub
- Fixed: Empty folders were not marked as verified
- Fixed: Codex "_hde" volumes sometimes appeared as offline
- Fixed: Custom bin name was not applied when submitting ingest very quickly
- Fixed: Occasional crashes when managing post steps in the workflow configuration window
- Fixed: Window > Full Screen Player (Cmd + Shift + F) not working when in table or collection view
- Fixed: Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 9.0
Thu, 12 Jun 2025Changes
- Major update to Silverstack Lab
Silverstack Lab 9 changes core usage concepts and default behaviors. Updating during an ongoing project is not recommended. Requires macOS 14 or newer. - New: Workflow configuration UI for chained activities
Combine different jobs in one workflow and start them with a single click. Consolidates offload, backup, transcode, and upload wizards, introducing many UX improvements. - New: Interleaved job execution and load balancing per drive
Job cross-dependency resolution on task level; Maximum reading/writing task counts per volume; New workflow-centric job UI - New: Customizable ingest metadata
Specify a card's common metadata (shooting day/date, crew unit, episode, camera) before the ingest; Allows to auto-create project folder outline and more intuitive use of destination path wildcards. - New: ASC MHL-based sealing, compatible with MediaVerify
Replaces Pomfort Seal, not compatible with Pomfort SealVerify anymore - New: Checksum creation job for transcoded clips
Calculate checksums and generate ASC MHL manifests for transcoded clips - for transparent chain of custody and faster sealing. - New: Undo functionality for metadata edits and grading
- New: EL Zone / Exposure Assist False Color modes
- New: Thumbnail creation in background
- New: Shooting/Recording date metadata fields
Renamed "Shooting Date" (with timestamp) to "Recording Date"; Introduced "Shooting Date" (time-agnostic, for easier management when a production day crosses midnight). - Improved: Handling of "UNTITLED" volumes
Allows to process multiple untitled volumes in parallel; Tries to extract bin name from reel name. - Improved: Transcoding preset options
Transcoding to source resolution, bypass crop, bypass anamorphic desqueeze, color tagging options - Improved: Transcoding H.264/HEVC options
Support for specification of profiles and keyframe intervals. - Improved: Action shortcuts for grading options (e.g., printer lights, warmer/cooler, …)
Including custom step size options. - Improved: Custom reset values for scene/shot/take fields
- Improved: Elgato Stream Deck integration
Introduces new default layouts, new actions and support for dial encoders. - Improved: ASC MHL history continuation
- Improved: Made report wizard templatable
- Changed: Still export without color tag
Opt-in via Still export preset. - Changed: Color sync disabled per default
Not using macOS color management per default, opt-in via Playback settings. - Updated: Camera manufacturer SDKs
RED R3D SDK 9.0.0, Sony RAW SDK 5.1.0 / SMDK 4.26.0, Blackmagic RAW SDK 4.5
Bugfixes
- Countless stability, performance, and UI/UX improvements
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