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Scene Maestro — for Mac
Scene Maestro 1.3.3
Scenica Player — for Mac, Apple TV, iPad, iPhone
Scenica Player 1.4.3
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• Apple TV, iPad, iPhone: App Store →
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2023-02-23
Scenica Player 1.4.3
- Mac: fixed an issue where the mouse pointer was not always hidden at launch.
- Mac: support for multiple monitors.
- Mac: added a windowed mode where you can create player windows, mostly useful for testing.
- Fixed an issue where some 10-bit video files would not show up properly on Apple TV 4K (2022 model).
- Updated to latest NDI SDK.
Scenica Player 1.4.2 (iOS and tvOS update)
- Using Scenica Player to choose an image file or an image URL would result in a blank screen. Fixed.
- File transfers will now work correctly on networks where hostname resolution is unreliable. Previously, transferring files to the players was relying on mDNS or DNS-based hostname resolution: this dependency has been removed.
Scenica Player 1.4.1 (iOS and tvOS update)
- Fixed Scene Maestro networking issues introduced in 1.4.
Scenica Player 1.4 (iOS and tvOS update)
- Fixing an issue with orientation buttons and proximity blackout button (iPhone) when Scenica Player is running solo, without Scene Maestro.
- Updated to latest NDI SDK.
2022-10-11
Scenica Player 1.3.3 (iOS and tvOS update)
- The device name was not determined correctly on iOS/tvOS 16. Fixed.
2022-03-27
Scene Maestro 1.3.3
- Running Scenica Player on the same Mac as Scene Maestro could result in “File does not exist” errors when adding files.
- Deleting tracks could put the document in an inconsistent state where where deleting slides would not delete the correct ones.
- Copying groups in the list (option drag) did not refresh the list correctly and could cause other issues down the line.
- Copying groups between documents did not work. Now you can copy them with option-drag, and the slides they contain will be copied to corresponding tracks in the destination document (assuming the destination has enough tracks).
- Undoing the deletion of a group would put back the group at the end of the list. Now restoring at the original position.
- Fixed inconsistent canvas display after deleting slides or undoing adding slides
- Fixed inconsistent slide selection vs. canvas after adding a slide
- Show welcome at launch checkbox in preferences had no effect. Fixed.
- Clicking New Scene in Welcome window leaves the button-highlighted
- List of recent files in Welcome window is now updated immediately when new files are opened instead of at next restart.
2022-03-11
Scene Maestro 1.3.2
- Using more efficient messaging when sending a command to multiple players simultaneously.
- Fixed a message spillover bug where changing slide for players in a group could affect players in other groups.
- Due to changes in the message format, selecting different slide or track will need Scenica Player 1.3.2 or later to be simultaneous over many players.
Scenica Player 1.3.2
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- Fixing issue with remote command spillover (when used in conjunction with Scene Maestro 1.3.2).
2022-03-07
Scene Maestro 1.3.1
- Adding a track will add a new track as the last one, not second to last (bug introduced in 1.3).
- Fixed issues where manipulating tracks could put the app in an inconsistent state.
- Undo could sometime make the app crash. Fixed.
- Fixing an issue that could cause column width to change spontaneously when selecting a slide with a long title.
- Removed “—” marks in inspector that were just visual noise.
Scenica Player 1.3.1
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- [Mac] Fixed an issue where the mouse pointer would stay visible.
2022-02-26
Scene Maestro 1.3
- Rebuilt the user interface with a better macOS look and feel and improved document handling
- Can open many documents at the same time now, but only one document is active (controlling players) at any given time. Use the wi-fi icon to connect to screen and thus choose the active document.
- Added Preferences, About, and Welcome windows
- Added a preference setting for UI appearance (system, light, or dark)
- Added auto-update and check for updates.
- Added support for undo and redo.
- Individual screens don’t have slides now, only groups, and so when a screen is selected you can still see the group’s slides and can navigate through them.
- Groups and screens are shown displayed as an outline.
- You can see what version of the player is running on a remote device in the Add Screen window and in the screen inspector.
- Online status is now depicted by the icon color in the list of group and screens.
- There now is a single [+] button for adding all kind of things.
- Can now open multiple inspectors at once, if the option is selected in preferences.
- Can switch to the first 10 tracks using shortcut keys (numbers 1…9 and 0).
- Can now set an image in your Scenica Account from the License window. This image will show up on the ID screens for all players registered with the same account.
- Replaced Underscan section with more flexible margin controls: move the mouse over the canvas and drag the yellow squares on the edges.
- Resolution / Refresh settings for Mac version of Scenica Player have been added.
- Sliders in the Color Adjust section shows a proper scale and are now accompanied by steppers.
- Saturation section is renamed Color Intensity and harbors four sliders: Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, and Vibrance (a filter that increase or decrease saturation while keeping the skin tones pleasant).
- Added video output delay setting.
- Fixed various issues related to changing in and out marks for a slide.
- Fixed an issue where in and out marks for slides made from the same file would be interchanged during playback.
- Track inspector now allows tracks to be reordered.
- Track inspector now behave correctly when there is no screen in the document.
- List of tracks in the toolbar pushes overflowing tracks to a menu when the list does not fit the available space.
- If Scene Maestro was paused and a new player came online, video could start playing in Scene Maestro and the player. Now everything stays paused when Scene Maestro is paused.
- A slide could continue to play in the preview area after being deleted. Fixed.
- Mirroring and color adjustments are now previewed in the canvas.
- Aspect ratio used for the canvas when a group is selected now uses measurements of the first screen in the group.
- Fixed issue where loading some media would make the app freeze instead of just emitting an error (when, for instance, a file was expected to be present but is missing).
- NDI playback could drop video frames due to faulty time synchronization. Fixed.
- Fixed an issue where NDI streams could cause a crash when disconnecting
- Fixed an issue where NDI streams maintained in the background would be kept running for longer than necessary
- Updated NDI SDK
- Added forced reconnection for stalled NDI streams (in preferences). This setting is propagated to players.
- NDI version is now displayed in the about box
- File Transfer preferences for sequential or concurrent downloads, configurable timeout and number of retries for failed downloads
- File transfer status and errors are now visible in the screens column.
- Added diagnostic overlay in preferences: when enabled various diagnostic information will be visible over the content in the players and in the Scene Maestro canvas.
Scenica Player 1.3
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- Improved responsiveness when scrubbing or changing parameters remotely with sliders. Most notable on less powerful devices or when content playback is consuming significant resources.
- Progress bar while loading content was sometime stuck and not showing the actual progress.
- Fixed an issue where the screen would stay black on the Apple TV HD when the device is set in single-app mode.
- Fixed an issue where NDI streams could cause a crash when disconnecting
- Updated NDI SDK
- [Mac] Support for changing the resolution and refresh rate from Scene Masetro.
- [Mac] OpenGL renderer now works correctly at HiDPI resolutions for older Macs
- [Mac] Text on ID screen was not always sized properly
- NDI playback could drop video frames due to faulty time synchronization. Fixed.
- Support for Scene Maestro network settings and file transfer indicator
- Support for Scene Maestro’s diagnostic overlay.
- Added support for video output delay controlled remotedly by Scene Maestro.
- Fixed issue where loading some media would make the app freeze instead of just emitting an error (when, for instance, a file was expected to be present but is missing).
2021-11-30
Scene Maestro 1.2
- Added color saturation control
- Added blur control: lens blur (bokeh) and fog blur (gaussian)
- Sections in inspectors are now collapsable
- Sections in inspectors show a reset button when using non-default values
- Changing the track name from the inspector would not update it in the slide list, fixed
Scenica Player 1.2
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- New: Mac version
- Added support for color saturation and blur when operated remotely from Scene Maestro
- Properly cropping the image when aspect-fill is used together with underscan
2021-11-04
Scene Maestro 1.1
- Use the underscan slider to size down the image and add black borders
- Can now scrub within the currently playing slide
- In an out marks for videos in the Slide inspector; trimmed regions are shown as black in the scrubber
- The window can now be smaller, and resizing the screen column will hide the buttons instead of the screen names.
- Improved presentation of HDR video files. Scene Maestro will now enable macOS EDR mode when displaying “brighter than white” HDR colors on displays that support that.
- Support for 10-bit colors on Intel Macs.
- Fixed incorrect orientation when playing portrait videos
- Fixed a crash when adding a HLS stream
- Losing the NDI signal will display the ID screen (after 1 second)
- Fixed a memory consumption issue when NDI streams are maintained in the background
- Opening a document left in paused state did not show the current video and the pause button was visible instead of a play button
- New commands in View menu to toggle visibility of screen list & inspector sidebars
- New shortcut keys:
- All Screens
- Y: Rewind Track
- U: Play/Pause
- I: Previous Track
- O: Next Track
- Selected Screens
- H: Rewind Slide
- J: Play/Pause
- K: Previous Slide
- L: Next Slide
- Drag and drop into the list of slide could work or not depending on details of how the document was opened. Fixed.
- Closing the document could leave audio playing in the background. Fixed.
Scenica Player 1.1.1 — Apple TV, iPad, iPhone
- Fixed an issue where some previously working video formats would show a blank screen.
Scenica Player 1.1 — Apple TV, iPad, iPhone
- iPhone: sounds are no longer muted by the Ring/Silent switch
- Losing the NDI signal will display the ID screen (after 1 second)
- Fixed a memory consumption issue when NDI streams are maintained in the background
- Support for in an out marks defined in Scene Maestro for videos
- Reduced watermark size by about 15% on Apple TV and iPad
- Fixed incorrect orientation when playing portrait videos
2021-10-16
Scene Maestro 1.0.3 — Mac
- Network chatter is significalty reduced.
- Fixed an issue where Scene Maestro could congest the network in the presence of too many instance of Scenica Player.
2021-10-06
Scene Maestro 1.0.2 — Mac
- Doing pause, rewind, then play would cause a quick flash of the ID screen.
- Updated to the NDI 5 SDK.
Scenica Player 1.0.2 — Apple TV, iPad, iPhone
- Remotely doing pause, rewind, then play in Scene Maestro would cause a quick flash of the ID screen.
- The progress bar was failing to display loading progress in some circumstances.
- Updated to the NDI 5 SDK.
2021-09-22
Scene Maestro 1.0.1 — Mac
- Fixed issue where Scene Maestro could fail to scan for players on the network immediately after opening a document
- Moving a screen to another group could fail to send the updated screen slides to the player. (When the screen is using the group’s slides.)
- Support for proximity blackout for iPhone players.
- Fixed an issue were rotation settings would apply in reverse for NDI streams.
Scenica Player 1.0.1 — Apple TV, iPad, iPhone
- New: iOS version
- Proximity Blackout feature (on iPhone): screen becomes black when close to an object, similar to when making a phone call. While the screen is black, touches become unresponsive.
- Orientation changes from Scene Maestro now propagate instantly to the players. This was not the case when the player was paused or displaying still images.
- Still image could sometime display the ID screen (especially after hitting pause and play in Maestro)
- Screen won’t sleep at all while the app is open. Previously keeping the options screen open would allow the device to sleep according to the device’s settings.
- Changed the playback pipeline to always use CoreImage.
- Video files that fail to play (due to decoding issues for instance) should no longer put the app in an unusable state.
- The app is now better at cleaning up its temporary files
- Fixed an issue were rotation settings would apply in reverse for NDI streams.
2021-08-26
Scene Maestro 1.0 — Mac
Scenica Player 1.0 — Apple TV
If you want to test pre-release builds, see the beta download page.