Features

Library

• Storage of all assets in one comprehensive library
• Thumbnails for all assets
• Access to all assets at all times, even when offline

Management

• Support for camera specific metadata*
• Extraction of metadata from clips and sidecar files (XML, ALE, etc.)*
• Management of source and transcoded clips in one library
• Transcoding statistics

Pomfort ShotHub

• Connect your local project with Pomfort ShotHub
• Upload your local project to a new Pomfort ShotHub project or add it to an existing one
• Manage multiple Pomfort ShotHub accounts

File sequences

• Automatic detection of file sequences
• Treatment of entire file sequences as single clips for easier management
• File sequence input for JPEG, TIFF and DPX files (e.g. for playback and transcoding of timelapse sequences)

Verification States

• Inspect the verification status on file resource, clip and bin level

Color & Look

• Typical grade controls
• Node based CDL and LUT grading mode
• ASC-CDL compatible interaction types: CDL/SOP, and simplified (contrast, stretch, warmer, greener controls)
• Advanced grading modes (including ACES modes)
• Basic grading nodes include ASC-CDL and 3D LUT
• Advanced grading nodes include 1D LUT, RGB curves, HSL curves and HHS nodes
• Load and save ASC-CDL (.cdl) directly to/from grading node
• Amount slider for adjusting the intensity of individual grading nodes
• Player grid view for side-by-side reference view of two clips
• Look library
• Copy and paste of looks with shortcuts
• Combine clip and look information in one library
• Manage and download latest ACES versions
• Export ACES Metadata (AMF) files for looks from ACES version 1.2
• RED IPP2 color processing for custom looks

Audio

• Automatic detection of Broadcast Wave (BWF, .wav) audio files
• Automatic assembly of audio tracks to audio clips/li>
• Linear Timecode (LTC) extraction from internal audio tracks
• Manual audio sync with video clips
• Audible frame stepping

Dynamic Metadata

• Extraction of dynamic lens and camera metadata to reference settings per frame and in playback
• Export dynamic metadata per clip to a CSV file

Search

• Search for keywords in specific metadata fields to filter clips list
• Build search expressions for more complex searches to filter clips list
• Smart-folders for complex and recurring searches

Library Sorting

• Keep library assets automatically sorted by name or date

Import

• Metadata import, merge different libraries with bins, folders, and projects.

Relink

• Relinking of files which were moved/copied outside of Silverstack

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Assigning custom keyboard shortcuts to all actions in the main menu

Backup

• Multi-destination file copy
• Checksum verified copy for maximum security (MD5, SHA1, xxhash, xxhash64 [compatible to Google’s xxhash])
• Create standardized Media Hash List (.mhl) files with checksums
• Support for backing up to LTO tapes via LTFS
• Support for backing up to SONY ODA (Optical Disk Archive)

Offload

• Offload of camera storage cards
• Cascading copy, first to fast drives, from there to slower drives
• Preservation of folder structures
• Creation of custom folder structures with wildcards
• Provide custom bin name on offload
• Offload wizard templates

Verification

• Immediate verification file per file as part of copy job
• Separate copy and verification jobs to complete copy first and verify afterwards

Ingest

• Detection of duplicate clips for less confusion in post
• Format-specific ingest preferences for look management, audio and format options
• Easily register files in the library without copying

Volumes

• Overview of all used volumes
• Inspection of capacity, fill levels and stored files
• Unmounting of volumes without going through Finder
• Sealing of volumes to ensure completeness and consistency of media data
• Seal management (seal info, delete, re-seal)

Wildcards

• File name creation based on clip metadata

Job Queue

• Queuing of jobs for consecutive and parallel execution of multiple jobs
• Visualized job queues for copy and transcoding
• Reordering of scheduled jobs via drag and drop
• Schedule jobs on offload to be executed at earliest possibility

Job Suspension

• Suspension of jobs after completion of subtasks
• Optimized job order by combining suspension/resumption and reordering

Job History

• Overview of all finished copy jobs

Job Status

• Constant access to the status of all jobs through a pervasive status display
• Instant and notable indication of success or errors for faster turnaround times
• Job status notifications on macOS and possibility to send to Slack

Job Status

• Monitor in the library which bins have running offload/backup jobs
• Select a job to mark its dependant jobs in the jobs panel

Jobs Summary

• Purified jobs summary to get overview about finished jobs from the main window
• Warnings and reminders for failed unread jobs

Native Playback*

• Real-time playback of camera-native media
• Comprehensive clip timeline for quick navigation
• Audio clip playback with metering and channel mixer
• Playback of single audio tracks
• "Absolute time" and "every frame" playback mode
• Playback, jog, and shuttle with JKL controls

Processing*

• Live processing with per-clip settings for playback and transcoding
• Anamorphic de-squeeze for correcting images from anamorphic lenses
• Flip horizontally (mirror), vertically (upside down) or both (180° rotation)
• Rotate clips left or right to work with video in portrait mode
• Look processing (e.g. log-to-video from file, preset or custom 3D LUT)

Frame lines

• Framing assistance with custom aspect ratios

HD-SDI output

• Full quality (10-bit) clip review on HD-SDI monitors

External video supported devices

• AJA KONA series, AJA Io series, AJA T-TAP
• Blackmagic Design Ultrastudio series, Mini Recorder and Decklink cards

Native Video Scopes

• Waveform, histogram, vectorscope with settings

External Video Scopes

• Integration with "ScopeBox" (via ScopeLink)

Playback via Quick Look

• Media Files: QuickTime, AVI, MPEG4, MP3, AAC, AIFF, WAV, JPEG, JPEG 2000, Adobe PhotoShop, TIFF, BMP
• Additional Formats: XDCAM HD, DPX and others with 3rd party Quick Look plugins
• Production Documents: PDF, HTML, RTF, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT, CSV

Display options*

• Separate color channels
• Black and white clipping indicator
• Focus assist for inspecting focus on small screens

User Information*

• Support for comments, labels, ratings and flags
• Cue points for commenting on specific frames
• In- and Out-Points for marking relevant clip segments
• Cue points are fully integrated into the library search

Transcoding

• Comprehensive transcoding tab to manage transcoding settings
• Path wildcards for custom folder structures of transcoding destinations
• Transcoding preview player mode to preview the transcoding configuration
• Automatic ingest of transcoded clips to the library

Destination Formats

• QuickTime ProRes
• Quicktime H.264
• Quicktime H.265/HEVC (macOS 10.13 or higher)
• MP4 H.264
• MP4 H.265/HEVC (macOS 10.13 or higher)

Transcoding Options

• One custom transcoding configuration and multiple preinstalled transcoding presets
• Multiple custom transcoding configurations
• Multi format and multi destination transcoding to different resolutions
• Custom bitrate options for transcoding to H.264 and H.265
• Output resolutions larger than Full HD (1920 x 1080)
• Basic burn-in options (video TC, clip name) and watermarking
• Embedded audio (stereo mixdown with Linear PCM and AAC codecs)
• Automatic pause of transcoding during copy and playback

Compositing

• De-squeeze and flip conversion
• Crop clips to a custom aspect ratio or custom resolutions
• Transcoding with look from file or as in library
• Configurable resolution and cropping

Export

• Distribute well structured information to others on and beyond set
• Export multiple report types simultaneously

Formats

• Export reports including thumbnails and all metadata from the library
• Choose from formats PDF and HTML
• Choose from multiple report types
• Customize metadata content of reports and include general report note

Clips Thumbnails

• Provide three thumbnails per clip (thumbnails and clips reports)
• Adjustable thumbnail quality to keep report file size small

Import

• Matching of QTAKE XMLs for metadata import
• Matching of MovieSlate XMLs for metadata import
• Conforming EDLs for consolidating referenced clips in a new bin
• Importing of sealed library archives

Export

• Export of FCP XML and FCP X FCPXML file with extended metadata
• Export of ALE file
• Export of CSV file
• Export to DaVinci Resolve including clip (.csv) and color (.ccc, ColorTrace) metadata
• Export to Assimilate Scratch including color metadata (via .ale)
• Export to AVID Media Composer including color metadata (via .ale)
• Export of clip metadata to Adobe Premiere Pro (via .xml)
• Export of audio synced clips to synced sequences for Adobe Premiere Pro (via .xml)

Still Image Export

• Export of still images (JPG, TIFF) from player
• Still image export presets: Select still image export size, burn in overlays and multiple still exports in parallel

Looks

• Import and automatic matching of Looks from Livegrade Pro including transfer of clip metadata
• Import looks from ShotHub (Livegrade cloud project) for Look Matching
• Import of custom 3D-LUT files
• Export of Looks to multiple formats

Project Settings

• Export and import of project settings
• Default project settings template for new projects
• Enables easy exchange of offload templates, library folder structure, smart folders, etc.

ZEISS Lens Correction

• Import of lens data from ZEISS xD lenses via Ambient MasterLockit Plus
• Review of dynamic shading and distortion correction in the player
• Export of lens correction data to ZEISS lens correction files (.zlcf)

UI Layouts

• Quick configuration buttons for the user interface: Manage, QC and Color

Second Display

• Two screen working environment

Grading Panel Devices

• Tangent Element (all modules), Ripple, Wave, Wave2 with custom mappings via "Tangent Mapper"

ARRIRAW

• ARRI Alexa (.ari) **
• ARRI Alexa LF (.ari) **
• ARRI Alexa Mini (.mxf) **
• ARRI Alexa Mini LF (.mxf) **
• ARRI Amira (.mxf) **
• ARRI Alexa 65 (.ari) **

CODEX HDE ARRIRAW (.arx)

• ARRI Alexa **
• ARRI Alexa LF **
• ARRI Alexa Mini LF **
• ARRI Alexa 65 **

Blackmagic RAW

• Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 4.6K
• Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

AVC-Intra

• Panasonic Varicam **

Canon XF Movies

• Canon C300 Mk. I & II **
• Canon C500 Mk. I & II **
• Canon C700 and C700 FF **
• Canon C200 **
• Canon C70 **

Canon XF-HEVC

• Canon XF705 **

Canon MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (.mts)

• Canon C100 **

Canon Cinema Raw Light (.crm)

• Canon C200 and C200B

Canon Uncompressed RAW (.rmf)

• Canon C700 and C700 FF
• Canon C300 Mk II

CinemaDNG

• BMCC
• Bolex D16 **
• Ikonoskop
• IndieCam

Generic Image Sequences

• JPEG
• TIFF
• DPX

H.264 Quicktime Movies

• Canon DSLR **
• GoPro Hero **
• Nikon DSLR **

Kinefinity KineRAW (.krw)

• TERRA 4K/5K/6K
• KineMINI 4K
• KineMAX 6K

Panasonic DNG RAW

• Panasonic Varicam LT (with Convergent Design Odyssey7Q+)

Phantom Cine

• Vision Research Phantom Flex/Flex4K/Miro/v2640 Onyx

ProRes Quicktime Movies

• AJA KiPro
• ARRI Alexa / Alexa LF **
• ARRI Alexa Mini **
• ARRI Amira **
• RED cameras **
• Panasonic Varicam **
• Sony Venice **
• Atomos Ninja and Samurai
• Codex Action Cam
• Convergent Design Odyssey

ProRes (.mxf)

• ARRI Alexa Mini LF **

REDCODE

• RED Weapon Dragon 6K, Weapon Helium 8K S35, Weapon Monstro 8K VV **
• RED Raven 4.5K **
• RED Komodo
• RED Scarlet-X, Scarlet Dragon, Scarlet-W 5K **
• RED Epic-X, Epic Dragon, Epic-W 8K **
• RED One, RED One MX **

Sony RAW

• Sony F5/F55/F65, Venice

V-RAW

• Panasonic Varicam

X-OCN LT, ST and XT

• Sony F5/F55, Venice (with AXS-R7 recorder)

XAVC

• Sony F5/F55, Venice **

XAVC S

• Sony a7S **

User Interface

• English
• Japanese

Computer

• Intel Mac, Apple Silicon M1 Mac (native) (For information on compatibility with the latest Apple Silicon computers please see our Knowledge Base.)

Operating System

• macOS 10.15.0 or newer