Current Release and What Changed

At a Glance

A compact list of user-facing changes since 1.0.

• Release 1.2: Release 1.2 reworked the settings panel, added keyboard shortcuts and accessibility improvements, sped up frame conversion, and hardened timing, audio and failure handling across camera and MKV/MXF workflows.
• Release 1.1: Release 1.1 added Blackmagic RAW and ARRI camera support, broader MXF decoding, MKV/VP9 and the Agent Tools command-line package.
• Official 1.0 Baseline: Release 1.0 was the original App Store release, centered on fast image-sequence and video conversion for macOS.
• WebM and Animated WebP Export: Export WebM (VP9 video with Opus audio) and Animated WebP with loop control. WebM output is opaque; Animated WebP keeps alpha.
• WebP, HEIC and AVIF Sequences: Image sequences can be saved as WebP (lossy or lossless), and as HEIC or AVIF on Macs that can write them.
• New Inputs: Import DPX image sequences, JPEG XL images, animated GIFs, and WebM or MKV files with AV1 video (hardware-decoded on Macs that support it) or transparent VP9.
• Clearer Settings Panel: Collapsed settings cards show their current value, edited cards are marked, and Jump To opens sections without closing others. Collapse All tidies the panel in one click.
• Keyboard Shortcuts and Accessibility: ⌘I imports, ⌘E exports, ⇧⌘Q adds to the queue and ⌘1/2/3 switch tabs. Focus rings, VoiceOver labels and Increase Contrast are honoured, and Appearance gains an Auto setting.
• Decimal Durations: Change Duration accepts fractional seconds such as 0.25 or 12.5, so short retimes are exact.
• Faster Frame Conversion: Colour attachments are prepared once per export and Core Image caching scales with resolution, reducing per-frame work on long sequences.
• Filterable Console: The Console tab is monospaced, filterable and copyable, with errors and warnings highlighted.
• Blackmagic RAW Support: Import BRAW clips, review camera metadata, export playable video, or create scene-linear OpenEXR sequences.
• ARRI Camera Workflows: Import ARRI MXF, ARRIRAW, ARRICORE, ARRIRAW HDE, and numbered ARI/ARX frame sequences for review or EXR output.
• Broader MXF Handling: Read more professional MXF sources, including ProRes, FFV1, AVC-Intra, MPEG-2 IMX, DV50, and Sony XAVC-style files.
• Agent Tools CLI: Install the signed Agent Tools package to use /usr/local/bin/sequency-cli with JSON inspect, dry-run, convert, and batch workflows.
• Camera-Aware Defaults: BRAW, ARRI, custom MXF, EXR, and video sources now prepare safer default size, frame-rate, color, alpha, and audio settings.
• Improved ACES and OCIO Paths: Scene-linear camera workflows, camera-log conversions, and EXR display transforms now follow clearer ACES/OCIO routing.
• MKV and VP9 Support: Standard video sources can use MKV/VP9 export presets, with better handling for high-bit-depth VP9 inputs.
• Import List Clear Action: A dedicated Clear action makes it easy to empty the imported file list before starting a new set of work.
• Colour Conversions: Standard conversions such as sRGB to Display P3 work again, SDR to HDR (PQ and HLG) places SDR white at 203 nits, and outputs are tagged with the colour space they really contain.
• Semi-Transparent Edges: Semi-transparent PNG and Targa frames keep their colour instead of darkening, and image sequences are written with exactly the channels and bit depth you choose.
• Untouched EXR Output: EXR exports keep their pixels and colour tags, split multichannel layers keep their source channels, precision and compression, and multilayer EXRs from Blender read the right beauty layer.
• Every Item Measured on Import: Each imported sequence gets its own size and colour detected, even ones you never click, so queued exports come out at the right size.
• Folder Imports and Access: Picking one image from an imported folder keeps the folder’s other items, and Sequency remembers granted folders for longer, even after they move or are renamed.
• Safer Exports: An export no longer replaces an existing file until it finishes, a missing frame stops the export with a clear message, and MXF clips with audio export to MP4 without stalling.
• Intel Mac MKV Crash: Importing MKV or WebM files no longer crashes Sequency on Intel Macs.
• BRAW Exports With Audio: Direct, queued and command-line BRAW exports with audio no longer stall waiting for one track to finish.
• MKV to Image Sequence Timing: MKV exports to image sequences now sample at the output frame rate and honour the requested duration, with progress that matches the frames written.
• Exports Stop Instead of Mislabelling Colour: If a required colour transform cannot run, the export stops and the partial file is removed rather than writing pixels under the wrong colour label.
• Exact Fractional Frame Rates: Rates such as 23.976 keep their exact cadence, and output file extensions are checked against the chosen codec before export.
• Numeric-Only Sequences and TGA: Sequences named with numbers only, such as 0001.exr, are recognised, and TGA/TARGA frames decode correctly.
• 16-bit TIFF With Alpha: 16-bit TIFF exports with alpha keep their bit depth and transparency.
• BRAW Import Stability: Fixed crashes and incomplete metadata reads when importing BRAW clips through the real app workflow.
• Camera EXR Resolution: Queued ARRI and BRAW scene-linear EXR exports now honor custom output resolutions instead of writing native dimensions.
• ARRI No-Look Imports: ALEXA 35 ARRI MXF files without a valid embedded look can import through the custom ARRI path.
• ARRIRAW HDE Decoding: ARRIRAW HDE MXF sources now decode correctly instead of producing black frames or noisy color bands.
• DCI-P3 Video Exports: DCI-P3 H.264 and MOV exports no longer crash during writer setup, including ARRI MXF delivery paths.
• MXF Duration Handling: Short custom MXF exports now stop at the requested duration instead of continuing through the full source.
• Audio Preservation: BRAW, MXF, MKV, and CLI exports now make clearer audio choices and preserve playable audio where supported.
• ProRes Settings Clarity: ProRes exports now hide the misleading Mbps control and label data rate as controlled by the ProRes profile.
• Malformed MKV Errors: Problem MKV files now show clearer decode messages instead of vague error labels.
• Queue and Recovery Fixes: Grant Access, unsupported-media recovery, mixed selections, and queue preparation now match direct export behavior more reliably.