Inspector

The Inspector lives in the Right Rail (Ctrl + 2). It shows per-source properties and provides quick paths to the source files.

Path actions

The Inspector shows the file path of the currently-loaded media with two path actions:

Button	Action
Copy path	Copies the path to the clipboard (native separators on each OS)
Reveal in Explorer / Finder	Opens the containing folder and selects the file

File and video details

The File card names the container family (QuickTime, MP4, MXF, Matroska…) and, for MXF, the operational pattern — OP1a (interleaved, what Adobe Media Encoder / Premiere / Resolve write) versus OP-Atom (Avid’s one-essence-per-file layout) — plus the authoring tool when the file records one (MXF identification set, QuickTime ©swr, Matroska writing app).

The Video card shows the codec and its flavor in export-menu terms: ProRes 422 / HQ / 4444, and for Avid VC-3 the Compression ID is read from the first frame so you get the actual bandwidth name — DNxHD 36 / 115 / 145 / 175 / 220…, the x suffix marking the 10-bit variants (175x, 220x), DNxHD 444, and the resolution-independent DNxHR LB / SQ / HQ / HQX / 444 classes. A Bitrate row lists the video stream’s rate when the container declares it (or DNxHD’s fixed nominal), with the whole-file average alongside.

Projects saved before these fields existed are back-filled on open with a header-only re-probe — no full re-scan, and offline volumes are simply retried next launch.

Per-clip properties (pills)

Several properties are stored per media item and shown as togglable pills in the Inspector:

• Video range override — force the decoder to interpret the source as limited or full range, overriding container metadata. Useful for sources that are mis-tagged. Auto follows the container tag; when the file carries no tag, Auto falls back to the convention for the pixel class and says so on the pill — YCbCr sources assume limited (what every player assumes), RGB sources (uncompressed RGB, Animation, PNG/TIFF-in-MOV…) assume full and are shown exactly as stored — with one codec-level exception: untagged Avid DNx 4:4:4 (RGB included) is read as limited, the Avid codec’s own convention and how Avid / After Effects interpret it. Pick Limited on any other RGB source to expand video-level RGB (16–235) to full. The Color card’s Range tag row shows the container’s tag (or “untagged”) and, when the container is silent, where the effective range came from (e.g. “decoder: limited”).
• Timecode Origin — pick which embedded timecode track drives the playhead readout (DV, TimeCode, MXF), or From start to ignore embedded timecode and count from frame 0.
• Broadcast Master Audio Mix — pick which mix you want to preview. If QCView detects a broadcaster master with 6 or 8 tracks, it will perform a technical mix of the tracks for preview. If stereo tracks are on tracks 7 and 8, they will be automatically selected. Click on the 5.1 toggle to preview the 5.1 downmixed to stereo.

Pill states persist with the project on save and re-apply on open.

Adobe Projects

The Adobe Projects section scans the file’s metadata via ExifTool for linked source projects. If QCView finds After Effects or Premiere project references, it displays them with an Open button to jump to the source project.

Image Sequences

For image sequences, the Inspector displays resolution, frame count, format, and per-format details (EXR compression and channel layout, etc.). You can select which layer set to view, adjust framerate, and select a skip-frame stride for heavy sequences that won’t playback without help.