nFramed

nFramed is a media server for building and running video shows across many displays and projectors from one Mac - the kind of work usually done with Watchout-class systems, without the rack of hardware.

You build the show on a timeline with layers, clips and cues, watch every screen in a live stage preview, and press GO on show night. Outputs render at each display's native resolution with zero-copy playback on Apple silicon, so 4K60 content plays smoothly.

• Multi-display output, and screen groups that bind displays into one video wall playing a single canvas across them, side by side or stacked
• Projection mapping: per-output corner pin, mesh warp and edge blending
• A proper editor: multiple clips per layer, media bin, razor split, layer groups, per-layer audio routing and a mixer strip
• Show night: a run sheet with full-width GO, BACK and PANIC, park-at-sections so a long show advances section by section, operator notes on cues, and a kiosk mode that boots straight into the show for unattended installs
• Cues can fire Art-Net DMX levels (Pro); MIDI control surfaces and live variables (Pro); multi-machine clustering with master/slave roles and SMPTE timecode out (Pro)
• Media: ProRes, HAP, H.264/HEVC, image sequences, PDFs, stills and live camera input
• Licensing is fully offline - the app never phones home, and no show data leaves your machine

nFramed Lite is a free download from the Mac App Store; its projected output carries a watermark until you subscribe. nFramed Pro adds clustering, show control, timecode and variables, and is sold directly with a perpetual licence. Requires an Apple-silicon Mac running macOS 14 or later. A Windows version is in development.