Releases: FyodorKrasniy/stagehand-vj
Release list
Stagehand VJ Beta r47 (Windows) — Tag Sets, Undo, Backups
Stagehand VJ — Beta r47 (4 Aug 2026)
Everything since r45 in one build. Just run the installer — no need to
uninstall first. It upgrades your existing beta in place; your library,
tags, settings and your license activation all carry across (they live
in your user profile, which the installer never touches). And this release
adds automatic safety nets around them (see Undo & Backups below).
Windows only for now — the Mac port is coming shortly.
⚠ The one behaviour change to know about
Editing tags / ratings / clip info no longer writes into your media
files automatically. Edits are saved to the Stagehand database instantly,
and the status bar shows an amber counter — "N not written to files" —
for clips whose files haven't been updated yet.
- Click the counter to see exactly which clips are pending; click it again
to go back. - Click "write now" next to it to write them all (same progress bar
and Cancel as before). - Prefer the old behaviour? Preferences → Write File Metadata
Automatically turns the instant cascade back on.
What to test: make edits, watch the counter climb, filter with it,
write with it. Quit and relaunch — the counter should still be right.
Nothing should ever touch your files until you say so.
Folders — organise beyond tags and collections (new)
A proper nested folder tree, sitting right alongside tags and collections.
- Drag clips into folders, nest subfolders as deep as you like, and
rename folders freely. - It's a separate hierarchy from collections — use it when you want real
structure over your library, the way you'd arrange a drive.
What to test: build a few folders and subfolders, drag clips between
them, rename and rearrange. Confirm your tags and collections are unaffected.
Undo — everywhere, at last
- Edit → Undo (Ctrl+Z) now covers bulk operations and individual
edits: removes, bulk tag/untag, bulk rating, folder/collection deletes,
metadata imports, tag-set imports, single rating stars, and inline
artist/year/tags/comments edits. - Rapid edits to the same clip merge into one undo step, so undoing a
burst of tag typing takes you back to before you started. - Undo survives an app restart (it lives in the database) and keeps the
last 20 operations. - Undoing an edit re-flags the clip as "not written to files" — the
database and the file have diverged again, and Stagehand tells you.
What to test: do something destructive on purpose (bulk retag, remove
selected), undo it, confirm everything comes back — tags, collections,
folder placements included.
Automatic backups + Restore
- A snapshot of your library is taken once a day on first launch, and
before every metadata or tag-set import. File → Back Up Library Now
for manual ones; the last 10 are kept. - File → Restore from Backup… lists every snapshot with date, reason
and clip count, and restores in place — no file copying, no restart. A
pre-restore snapshot is taken first, so even a restore is reversible.
What to test: open the restore dialog, confirm your snapshots are
listed and labelled sensibly. Restore one on a test library if you can.
Tag Sets — share your tagging without sharing your media (new)
Two VJs own the same clip pack; one has done the tagging work.
- File → Export Tag Set… packs tags, ratings, artist/year/comments and
collections for the selection (or whole library) into one small
.stagehandtagsfile. No media inside — email it, Discord it. - File → Import Tag Set… matches the file against your library
(filename + duration + resolution, so same-named-but-different clips are
caught) and shows a review first: matched / length differs / resolution
differs / ambiguous / not in your library. Nothing is written until
you confirm. - Import is additive by default — your existing tags, ratings and notes
are kept. "Replace my tags" is an explicit opt-in, only ever applies to
confident matches, and a backup + undo entry are taken first.
What to test: export a set from part of your library, import it back,
sanity-check the review counts against clips you know. If you and a friend
share a pack, trade files and tell us how the matching held up.
Safer deletes, folder hygiene, stuck exports (since r45)
- Remove Selected got a real confirm dialog, and the optional "also
delete files from drive" now sends files to the Windows Recycle Bin
instead of hard-deleting. - Preferences → Watched Folders… shows every folder Stagehand has
scanned and lets you exclude folders from future scans. - Tag cloud: Alt+click a tag to exclude it from results (alongside
the existing click-to-filter and Ctrl+click add/remove). - Bulk metadata exports no longer freeze on a poison file — a stuck
ExifTool write is killed after a timeout, logged, and the run continues.
Help → Open Export Log shows what timed out; re-running an export
offers to skip files already written so an interrupted run finishes
instead of restarting.
Faster
- Clip Format / Resolution info is now remembered in the database —
the second launch shows it instantly instead of re-probing every clip
with ffprobe. (First launch after updating probes once, as before.) - Thumbnails generate two-at-a-time on a cold cache.
- Several operations that could stall the window while a sleeping external
drive woke up (pasting from Resolume, tag-set scans) now happen in the
background.
What to test: open your biggest library twice — the second launch
should feel noticeably snappier, with Format/Resolution filled in
immediately.
Found something weird? Undo it, then tell us what you did —
fyodor.krasniy@gmail.com, or reply wherever you got this build.
Stagehand VJ Beta r39 — Experimental (Windows, unstable)
Experimental / possibly unstable — Windows only.
This is an early experimental build (r39) for testers who want the newest features ahead of the stable channel. The current stable release remains v0.4.1-beta (r35).
New in this build
- Format / codec sorting — a new Format column lets you sort and group clips by codec.
- Show unrendered clips — toggle via View → Show Unrendered to surface clips that haven't been rendered yet.
Notes
- Windows installer only. No macOS build for this experimental channel.
- May be unstable. For day-to-day use, stick with the stable r35 release.
Stagehand VJ Beta r35 (Win + Mac)
Stagehand VJ Beta (r35)
Latest beta build of Stagehand VJ Clip Manager. Patch update to r34 with bug fixes and improvements.
The same binary works as both the free demo and the licensed app — entering a licence key from Help → License… removes the demo's batch-export cap. Buy a licence at stagehandvj.com.
Downloads
| Platform | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Windows 10/11 x64 | StagehandVJ-Beta-WinSetup_r35.exe |
~200 MB |
| macOS Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) | StagehandVJ-Beta-arm-x64_r35.zip |
~105 MB |
| macOS Intel | StagehandVJ-Beta-osx-x64_r35.zip |
~105 MB |
Mac builds are Apple Developer ID signed, notarized, and stapled — Gatekeeper accepts on first launch, no right-click-Open dance.
Demo limits
- Metadata tagging / editing / export is limited to 10 distinct files per app session
- Metadata export runs one file at a time (no batch export)
Everything else — tagging, rating, search, collections, preview, codec detection, Resolume drag-and-drop, REST API integration — works without limits.
Install
Windows: Run the installer. Per-user install to %LOCALAPPDATA% — no admin rights needed.
Mac: Double-click the zip, drag Stagehand VJ.app to /Applications.
Settings + database survive reinstalls.
Links
Stagehand VJ Beta r34 (Win + Mac)
Stagehand VJ Beta (r34)
Latest beta build of Stagehand VJ Clip Manager.
The same binary works as both the free demo and the licensed app — entering a licence key from Help → License… removes the demo's batch-export cap. Buy a licence at stagehandvj.com.
Downloads
| Platform | File | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Windows 10/11 x64 | StagehandVJ-Beta-WinSetup_r34.exe |
~200 MB |
| macOS Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) | StagehandVJ-Beta-arm-x64.zip |
~105 MB |
| macOS Intel | StagehandVJ-Beta-osx-x64.zip |
~105 MB |
Mac builds are Apple Developer ID signed, notarized, and stapled — Gatekeeper accepts on first launch, no right-click-Open dance.
Demo limits
- Metadata tagging / editing / export is limited to 10 distinct files per app session
- Metadata export runs one file at a time (no batch export)
Everything else — tagging, rating, search, collections, preview, codec detection, Resolume drag-and-drop, REST API integration — works without limits.
Install
Windows: Run the installer. Per-user install to %LOCALAPPDATA% — no admin rights needed.
Mac: Double-click the zip, drag Stagehand VJ.app to /Applications.
Settings + database survive reinstalls.
Links
Beta Demo v0.3.0 (R11)
Beta Demo v0.3.0 (R11 — encryption fix)
Latest beta demo of Stagehand VJ Clip Manager.
This release switches from a portable zip to a proper Windows installer — one-click install instead of unzip-and-find-the-exe.
What's new
- Installer-based delivery — clean install/uninstall via Windows
- Encryption / licensing fixes (R11)
Demo limits
- Metadata tagging / editing / export is limited to 10 distinct files per app session
- Metadata export runs one file at a time (no batch export)
Everything else — tagging, rating, search, collections, preview, codec detection, Resolume drag-and-drop, REST API integration — works without limits.
Install
- Download
StagehandVJ-Demo.exebelow - Run it and follow the installer
- Launch Stagehand VJ from the Start Menu
Platform: Windows x64.
Size: ~210 MB.
Clips not included — point Stagehand at any folder of your own loops/clips/DXV files to start indexing.
Links
Beta Demo v0.2.0
Beta Demo v0.2.0
Latest beta demo of Stagehand VJ Clip Manager.
Demo limits
- Metadata tagging / editing / export is limited to 10 distinct files per app session
- Metadata export runs one file at a time (no batch export)
Everything else — tagging, rating, search, collections, preview, codec detection, Resolume drag-and-drop, REST API integration — works without limits.
Install
- Download
StagehandVJ-Demo.zipbelow - Extract anywhere on a fast drive
- Run the executable
Platform: Windows x64.
Size: ~210 MB.
Clips not included — point Stagehand at any folder of your own loops/clips/DXV files to start indexing.
Links
Beta Demo R3 (v0.1.0-demo)
Beta Demo R3
The free demo of Stagehand VJ Clip Manager — the fastest way to organize your VJ library.
Demo limits
- Metadata tagging / editing / export is limited to 10 distinct files per app session
- Metadata export runs one file at a time (no batch export)
Everything else — tagging, rating, search, collections, preview, codec detection, Resolume drag-and-drop, REST API integration — works without limits.
Install
- Download
StagehandVJ-Demo.zipbelow - Extract anywhere on a fast drive
- Run
StagehandVJ.exe
Platform: Windows x64.
Clips not included — point Stagehand at any folder of your own loops/clips/DXV files to start indexing.