QCView
QCView is a media player and reviewer for Windows and macOS, built for artists and post-production teams who need accurate, color-managed playback of video, EXR, and image sequences.
Key Features
Playback
- Hardware-accelerated video decoding — Vulkan/D3D11-video on Windows, VideoToolbox on macOS, with FFmpeg software fallback
- HDR10 (PQ / ST.2084) on Windows via DXGI + DirectComposition; Extended Dynamic Range (EDR) on macOS
- Frame-accurate stepping with press-and-hold fast forward / rewind
- Playlists with cross-clip seek, per-clip in/out trims, and hover thumbnail filmstrip
- Embedded timecode (DV / TimeCode / MXF) with selectable origin
- Audio playback (WASAPI / CoreAudio) with per-channel routing for multi-stream broadcast deliveries
- A/V sync offset trim, separate dual-view value
Image Sequences
- OpenEXR with multichannel and multipart support
- TIFF, PNG, JPEG sequence playback
Color
- Live OCIO color correction with a node-based interface
- Bundled OCIO configs: ACES 2.0, ACES 1.3, Blender 5.1
- Screenshots and notes exports apply the OCIO transform
Review Tools
- Annotations + notes with brush, line smoothing, screenshot illustrations, and Markdown / HTML / PDF / DOCX export
- Dual-view comparison: side-by-side, split-wipe with mouse-drag seam, difference mode, independent A / B controls
- Title-safety guides for broadcast and social-media deliverables
- Live background switching for alpha-channel review
Project Support
- Adobe project metadata import (Premiere / After Effects timecode + project links via ExifTool)
- Custom project files (
.qcvproj) qcview://URI scheme for sharing file paths
Documentation
Use the sidebar to browse the full manual, including installation, playback basics, color management, annotations, and more.
Links
QCView is free software released under the GNU General Public License version 3.