Slateflow 1.0.0-beta.1

Changed

• The main window shows only what changes per project: Project name, Format and Cameras. Folders and the Final Cut options (Leave files in place, Smart Collections) moved to Slateflow ▸ Customize Projects… (⌘,), in two tabs: Folders and Smart Collections.
• A Folders and Smart Collections row under Cameras shows how many each project gets, with Customize… to change them. The Folder Preview has Edit Folders… and Edit Smart Collections… links, and a one-time tip points new users to the row.
• "Build" is now Create Project: the button, the File menu item and the folder picker's Create Here. The first-time button reads Choose Folder & Create Project….
• Create Project… uses ⌘N (was ⌘B) and replaces New Window.
• The bottom bar reads as one line: Creates “NNN - Name” in Folder · Change….
• The Root folder row and its note are gone; hover over the project name to see how the number is picked.
• Build Archives is now Recent Projects, and Footage Sources is now Cameras.
• A line under Cameras says each camera gets a folder in Footage and a Smart Collection in Final Cut.
• Sections in the main window have even gaps, and camera names line up.
• The success window is shorter. The one-time Final Cut settings (Leave files in place, Keywords: From folders, and where to put Backups) are explained under Smart Collections in Customize Projects instead.

Slateflow 1.0.0-alpha.5

Added

• Color space: Standard (Rec. 709), Wide Gamut (Rec. 2020), HDR (Rec. 2020 HLG) or HDR (Rec. 2020 PQ). The timelines use it and the library is set up to match: Standard, Wide Gamut or Wide Gamut HDR. Footage from any camera is converted to it.
• Reel timeline: also adds a 9:16 timeline (for example 2160 × 3840 at 4K) next to the main one, for cutting a reel from the same shoot. Offered for landscape and portrait projects at a preset resolution.

Fixed

• Open in Final Cut Pro works again after relaunching Slateflow. With a remembered build folder, macOS said Slateflow didn't have permission to open the project's .fcpxml, and the success window said Final Cut hadn't created the library. Broken since 1.0.0-alpha.3.

Slateflow 1.0.0-alpha.4

Changed

• New default app icon: light stars and gear on a purple tile. It shows in light mode, Finder and on the mounted DMG; dark mode keeps purple stars on a dark tile.

Slateflow 1.0.0-alpha.3

Added

• Folders: add, remove or nest the project's folders (Admin, Audio, Final Exports, Graphics, Images by default; type Admin/Contracts for a subfolder). Restore Defaults brings back the standard set. Backup, FCP and Footage are always created.
• Slateflow remembers where you build. After the first build the button is just Build; Change… next to the folder name picks another.
• After a build, the success window says to set Backups to the project's Backup folder when Final Cut asks for storage locations. Media and render files already stay inside the project; Final Cut has no setting Slateflow can use to choose the backup folder.

Changed

• Each project's top level shows only folders. The build record is now the hidden .slateflow.json (was Slate Project.json), and FCP/Import Settings.md is no longer written: the app says to turn on Leave files in place when it matters.
• "Template name" is now "Project name".
• The "Project" section is now "Format", so it isn't confused with Project Folder.
• Folders is collapsed to a one-line summary until you open it. Restore Defaults shows only when the folders differ from the defaults.
• The project name is no longer selected when the window opens, so a stray key can't replace it.
• Clicking outside a text field, or pressing Return in Project name, ends editing.
• The bottom bar shortens the destination folder before the project name.
• VoiceOver names the item each remove button removes ("Remove Admin › Scripts").
• The "Leave files in place" switch says to turn on the same setting in Final Cut Pro, which doesn't take it from the project. The success window repeats it.
• Custom width and height must be at least 16 px; smaller values are raised on build. Before, a 2 px-wide project was allowed.

Fixed

• The mounted DMG shows the Slateflow icon instead of a generic disk icon. 1.0.0-alpha.2 was meant to, but Finder removed the icon while arranging the DMG window.

Slateflow 1.0.0-alpha.2

Added

• Help menu: Slateflow Help (⌘?), Troubleshooting, Release Notes, Privacy and Report an Issue open the matching GitHub pages. Before, Slateflow Help only said help wasn't available.
• The mounted DMG shows the Slateflow icon instead of a generic disk icon.

Slateflow 1.0.0-alpha.1

First public test build. A beta follows, then 1.0.0.

Changed

• Releases are built, signed, notarized and published by GitHub Actions when a version tag is pushed. The update feed is served from the gh-pages branch.
• Open in Final Cut Pro now has Final Cut create the project's library in its FCP folder and import the project, with nothing to click in Final Cut. The .fcpxml names the library with FCPXML's library location import option. The button was "Copy Name & Open in Final Cut Pro".

Fixed

• An unreadable Build Archives file is kept next to the archive as BuildHistory.unreadable-<date>.json instead of being overwritten by the next build.
• The Build Archives storage note no longer overlaps the list when it scrolls.
• Project folders and files use your Mac's default permissions. Before, Slateflow always made them readable by every account on the Mac, even if you had set new files to private.