Switch

Switch is a media playback, inspection, and conversion tool for professionals that gives you everything you need to play, inspect, and correct your multiformat media in one easy-to-use application.

Switch is available in three editions: Player, Plus, and Pro. Compare the features and pricing.

Note: Switch 4 is a free upgrade for customers with Premium Support; simply download Switch 4 and install. Please check your email for special upgrade instructions, or Contact Desktop Sales if you need assistance. For customers without Premium Support, Switch 4 is a paid upgrade.
Note: Now requires OS X 10.12 or later.

New:

• Added a new purchasable option to enable un-watermarked IMF and DCP package playback in copies of Switch Pro
• Added the ability to decode Sony MPEG-4 Simple Studio Profile (SStP)
• Added the ability to change the color range in edit mode and see the effects in the player window
• Changing the color matrix coefficients in the colorspace section of the inspector window while in edit mode will now update the image in the player window

Customer Requested New Features:

• Added the option to display safe area (title, action, and caption) overlays
• Added a preference to control whether the default export folder is the same as the source directory or the last directory used

Improvements:

Customer Requested Improvements:

• Navigation key commands will now work when the inspector window has the focus unless the selected control accepts the keystrokes
• Added stepper controls to crop settings in the inspector
• Lowered the minimum required license level for Windows Media Audio & Video exports from ‘Pro’ to ‘Plus’
• Switch is now more lenient with MPEG-2 Transport Streams and will correct for EBP descriptors with a length of zero

General:

• Audio track languages are preserved in MPEG-2 Program Stream containers
• Switch will now show an error and automatically revert to the previous color matrix coefficients when there is no conversion path to the user selection in the inspector
• Improved performance when playing FLAC files on Windows while indexing
• Switch will now display an error in the export summary dialog when trying to export LPCM into an MPEG-2 Transport Stream with a track containing a number of channels other than 2, 4, 6, or 8. Previously there was no error and the export would fail using this unsupported configuration

Fixes:

Customer Issues

• Fixed a bug that prevented the complete playback of WAV audio files made by Dalet
• Switch is now more lenient and will try to recover from malformed ‘wave’ atoms in MOV files, when possible
• Fixed a bug that prevented Switch from learning the user’s preferences regarding which timecode sources are preferred and displayed by default
• Fixed several display issues in the Audio Meters window

General:

• Fixed a bug that prevented the display of ProRes 4:4:4:4 on macOS X 10.14 (Mojave)
• Fixed a memory leak when exporting PCM audio to MPEG-2 Transport Streams
• Fixed a bug that caused flags to be hidden in the inspector when located between two deleted flags
• Fixed the keyboard shortcuts for looping so that they are unique. This, unfortunately, requires additional keystrokes for the shortcut combination
• Fixed a bug that prevented the display (in the timeline) of any flag on the first frame of video