Installation

Windows

Download QCView from the Microsoft Store for automatic updates:

Requirements

  • Windows 10 version 1809 or later (10.0.17763.0), x64.
  • Vulkan-capable GPU with up-to-date drivers (FFmpeg software fallback when unavailable).
  • HDR-capable display + Windows HDR mode enabled for HDR10 output.

macOS

Download the latest release here.

  1. Open the .dmg file.
  2. Drag QCView to your Applications folder.
  3. Launch from Applications or Spotlight.

Updates

Once installed in Applications, QCView keeps itself up to date — it checks once a day and offers to download and install new versions in place. You can also check any time from About → Check for Updates…, or turn automatic checks off in Settings → Updates. (In-place updates require running QCView from the Applications folder, not from the mounted disk image.)

Requirements

  • macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or later.
  • Apple Silicon (arm64) — native Metal rendering, no Rosetta.
  • EDR-capable display recommended for HDR workflows.

Version History

What’s new in 2.2.4

  • SRT streaming improvements
  • Upgraded the Blender OCIO profile to 5.2 (Includes EDR improvements and several camera profiles to bring it closer to parity with ACES studio packages)

What’s new in 2.2.3

  • Added framework to support SRT streaming

What’s new in 2.2.2

  • Added a setting to disable audio when scrubbing
  • Added a metadata field in the Inspector to show codec specifics such as “ProRes 422 LT”
  • Margin tweaks on a few panels
  • Added left/right arrow as ALT keyboard shortcuts for previous/next frame

What’s new in 2.2.1

  • Automatically rotates mobile videos with portrait orientation metadata
  • Added a new option in the inspector panel to manually rotate videos

What’s new in 2.2.0

  • added a thumbnail contact sheet to the EXR layer picker in the Inspector panel
  • fixed a few bugs around EXR loading and playback
  • added a waveform audio visual to the timeline and a setting to toggle it

What’s new in 2.1.10

  • UI tweaks and bug fixes

What’s new in 2.1.9

  • Improved audio scrubbing. It still pitch-shifts when slower than 1x speed, but no longer pitch-shifts when faster than 1x
  • Minimized latency when scrubbing
  • Fixed a bug when loading a solitary EXR image.

What’s new in 2.1.8

  • Improved audio sync and added pitch-shifting audio for scrubbing + FF/RW

What’s new in 2.1.5

  • tighted up the UI in the timeline, tracks and other elements are less tall
  • sidebar rails now fully close
  • there is a new setting to always load the app in minimal mode
  • a new tooltip and modal system is added, and more tooltips are included

What’s new in 2.1.4

  • fixed an issue with odd-width videos with the software scrubbing path on Windows
  • added triangle markers on the timeline for notes

What’s new in 2.1.3

  • Moved screenshot exporting to its own thread.
  • Added options for screenshot exports in settings: PNG, TIFF, and JPEG
  • Added messaging on the bottom toolbar for screenshot progress

What’s new in 2.1.1/2.10

  • Improved scrubbing for MP4s and other B-frame media
  • This release is v2.1.1 on MacOS and v2.1.0 for Windows. Windows didn’t need the last-minute regression fix. We will get back in sync for the next release.

What’s new in 2.0.9

  • Added track identifiers to the left of the timeline; this is mainly to keep the playhead and grab handles of the zoom/pan tool away from the app’s edges.
  • Fixed persistence on image sequence FPS when switching to other media and back.
  • Added a dual-view panel for saving dual-view sessions and moved dual-views out of the media panel
  • Made the entire surface of collapsed sidebars a trigger to open the rails.
  • Removed the max size from the media bin—-eliminating dual scroller contention
  • Fixed a glitch where the minimal mode menu option hid the frame counter row
  • Added detection for ARRI RAW mxfs and a message to guide users to Resolve or other apps
  • Added video range overrides to the scrub decoders (single and dual media flows)
  • Added a dark background behind the MacOS icon for light-mode users.

What’s new in 2.08

  • Editing in dual-view and playlist modes has better viewport feedback with slips and trims.
  • Added a difference mode option for dual-views
  • MacOS now checks for and optionally installs updates

What’s new in 2.06

  • UI tweaks for better panel and selection legibility
  • UI tweaks to the playhead in dual-view and playlist edit modes
  • Better scrubbing in dual-view modes with video sources
  • Added grab handles to the timeline’s zoom/pan tool
  • Fixed an edge-case crash in playlist mode with thumbnails
  • Added a height limit to the thumbnails so vertical videos don’t occupy so much viewport space
  • Added a loading spinner–especially helpful for large projects that take a moment to load

What’s new in 2.04

  • Slight UI change to playhead when a timeline track is in edit mode.
  • Fixed a bug where thumbnails didn’t respect clip edits in dual-view mode.

What’s new in 2.03

  • Fixed issues in dual view mode when two clips with different FPS were compared.
  • Fixed issues with dual view when two ProRes clips were loaded in systems with NVIDIA gpus.

What’s new in 2.02

  • fixed glitches with windows resizing.
  • fixed glitches with the playhead flickering on seek operations.

What’s new in 2.01

  • new UI and backend - a complete rewrite of the frontend.
  • stereo audio mixing for 5.1 SMTPE broadcast master video review.
  • added extended linear sRGB as an HDR option for Windows.
  • OCIO default presets are now based on app display mode.
  • vulkan HW accelerated decoding for ProRes in Windows.
  • new dual view and playlist flows. new edit modes for both.
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