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• Audio export. A new Audio Export card writes each file’s audio as its own WAV, AIFF (16- or 24-bit) or AAC file — alongside the video, or instead of it.
• Split 7.1 into stems. Keep every channel in one file, or split a 7.1 mix into eight mono files (_L, _R, _C, _LFE, _Ls, _Rs, _Lrs, _Rrs) or four stereo pairs (_L-R, _C-LFE, _Ls-Rs, _Lrs-Rrs). Channels are named from the file’s own channel layout, whether the mix is one 8-channel stream or eight mono tracks.
• An 8-channel WAV is written so other software reads it as 7.1. Videos with no sound get no audio file. Loudness, true-peak and sample-rate settings apply.
• Works with any file macOS can read (MOV, MP4, WAV…); MKV, WebM, Ogg, FLV and MXF audio export comes later.
• Everything from 1.5.4.

This is a beta — please report anything odd with Help ▸ Report a Bug…

"DXV" and "Resolume" are trademarks of Resolume B.V.; "NotchLC" is a trademark of 10bit FX Limited. openEncoder's support for these formats is an independent implementation; openEncoder is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by either company.

• openEncoder opens even when a network share it used has gone away. If the queue or a watch folder pointed at a share that was no longer reachable — a disguise server unplugged from the Mac, say — the app kept trying to reconnect at launch, flashing “cannot connect” alerts, and never opened. It now opens straight away and never tries to reconnect a share by itself.
• Nothing is lost while a share is away. Queued files and watch folders on a missing share are kept. A watch folder shows as offline and resumes by itself when the share is reconnected.
• Everything from 1.5.3: NotchLC keeps white text clean on coloured backgrounds.

"DXV" and "Resolume" are trademarks of Resolume B.V.; "NotchLC" is a trademark of 10bit FX Limited. openEncoder's support for these formats is an independent implementation; openEncoder is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by either company.

• NotchLC no longer tints white text on coloured backgrounds. White lettering on a saturated colour — white on blue, say — could come out with blocky pink and cyan patches and a coloured fringe. NotchLC exports now keep text and edges clean. Files exported with earlier versions need exporting again.
• Everything from 1.5.2: audio that plays in disguise, multiple watch folders, skip already-converted files, Add Folder, and faster 12-bit NotchLC.

"DXV" and "Resolume" are trademarks of Resolume B.V.; "NotchLC" is a trademark of 10bit FX Limited. openEncoder's support for these formats is an independent implementation; openEncoder is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by either company.

• Audio now plays in disguise (d3). PCM audio in .mov exports is labelled sowt instead of lpcm, which disguise Designer rejected. Files exported with earlier versions need exporting again.
• Multiple watch folders, each with its own preset, output folder and options, in their own Watch Folders card. They work over the network, wait for copies to finish, and are remembered across launches.
• Skip files already converted, so re-running a whole project folder only converts what’s new.
• Add whole folders (File ▸ Add Folder…, or drop a folder on the queue) and Clear Queue.
• NotchLC is 3–5× faster and keeps 10- and 12-bit source precision.
• An export can no longer fill your disk — the cause of the “crash while encoding to NotchLC”. Encoding stops with a clear message below a 1 GB margin.
• The live preview follows one encode at a time instead of flickering between parallel ones.

"DXV" and "Resolume" are trademarks of Resolume B.V.; "NotchLC" is a trademark of 10bit FX Limited. openEncoder's support for these formats is an independent implementation; openEncoder is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by either company.

• Audio now plays in disguise (d3). Uncompressed audio in .mov exports was labelled lpcm, which disguise Designer rejects (“convert to ‘sowt’ or ‘twos’”). NotchLC, Hap, DXV, ProRes and every other .mov output now use the classic sowt label — the audio itself is untouched. Files exported with earlier versions need exporting again.
• Multiple watch folders, each with its own preset and output folder. They have their own Watch Folders card (in Easy mode too) with per-folder options: start automatically, include subfolders, pause. Drop a folder onto the card to add it. Watch folders are now remembered across launches — along with the files they have already queued, so a relaunch doesn’t convert a folder all over again.
• Watch folders work over the network. Network shares are re-checked every couple of seconds, and a file is only picked up once it has finished copying, never half-written. Files that arrive during a run start when it ends.
• Skip files already converted. A new switch under Output Folder leaves a file alone when its output already exists, so re-running a whole project folder only converts what’s new.
• The full-disk guard now covers every kind of export and posts a notification when it stops a run. NotchLC falls back to 8-bit when a decoder can’t deliver 16-bit, and parallel NotchLC encodes share the machine’s cores and memory.

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