Written for the operator running InterDirector: what is new, what changed, and what was fixed. This page is generated from the release notes, so it says what they say.
InterDirector now looks for updates at interdirector.com instead of the address earlier versions used. There is nothing to do: this copy is offered the change through the old address, and from then on checks the new one. The old address keeps working for copies that have not updated yet.
The orange warning in Input Recording settings that armed inputs might be more than a Mac can encode. It compared against a figure measured on one Mac mini, so it was wrong on faster Macs and silent on slower ones. A recording that cannot keep up still drops frames, counts them, and says so on its row.
Settings → Diagnostics → Log monitor pacing writes to the system log, every ten seconds, how the Preview and Program monitors and the external output window are keeping time: frames shown twice, frames skipped, and how long each frame stayed on the display. For finding out where a micro-stutter comes from; off by default.
The Preview and Program area can no longer be dragged so short that the Transition, T-bar and Overlay controls between the monitors are clipped. The divider stops at the height those controls need, and a Show saved with a shorter share is shown at that height. In a very short window the row of controls below still stays reachable, so the deck can be shorter there.
Countdowns in overlay text. Type a countdown shortcode into any text value of an overlay — alone, or inside other words — and it runs by itself on air: Live in [countdown to="20:30" format="{mm}:{ss}" done="On air"]. The format can be anything from {hh}:{mm}:{ss} to running text such as {hh} Hours, {mm} Minutes and {ss} Seconds; the largest unit you use counts everything above it, so {mm}:{ss} shows 90:00 for an hour and a half. done is optional text shown at zero; without it the countdown holds at zero. A time without a date is that time today, so for a show that runs past midnight give a date (2026-09-20 00:15). A shortcode that is misspelled is left as typed so you can see it.
A Countdown Generator section in an overlay's settings, with a Build… button, opens a small panel that builds the shortcode for you — pick the time (or date and time), a format, optional finished text — shows what it reads right now, and copies it to the clipboard. It appears for any overlay with a text value.
A Simple Text overlay: a rounded rectangle of colour and opacity behind text, placed where you want it. Type the text in a multi-line box — your line breaks are kept — and set the backdrop colour and opacity, the text colour and size, left / centre / right alignment, the horizontal and vertical position, and how wide a line may run before it wraps. It fades in and out. Add it like any other built-in overlay.
Fight Card Lower Thirds keep their text centred when it wraps. In the Split version's middle column, and in the Stacked version's RED / BLUE tags, a class, format or tag long enough to run onto a second line used to line up flush left inside its centred box. Every line now centres.
Moving a data source's cursor no longer marks the Show as changed, and no longer replaces what you typed beside a data-bound overlay value. The value under a binding is now always kept as you typed it, so removing the binding puts it back, and a row with nothing in the bound field falls back to it instead of to the previous row. An overlay value you bound with an earlier build may have had a row's text saved over it; type it again if so.
The Data panel no longer scrolls sideways on its own. It opens at the first column, and a wide table keeps the horizontal position you gave it when the cursor moves or the data refreshes; only the vertical position follows the highlighted row. A row moved by a hotkey, Stream Deck key or rule is brought to the middle as before, while one that merely shifted because a refresh reordered the rows is kept in view without re-centring the table.
A Data panel, opened with the new Data button beside Replay and the Audio Mixer (shown when the Show has a data source). Each data source is a tab, in the look of Replay's bucket tabs, with its row count; click any row to point that source's cursor at it, and every overlay bound to it follows. The selected row is highlighted, and the highlight follows the cursor when a hotkey, a Stream Deck key or a rule moves it, scrolling the row into view. It is read-only, has a Read Now button for re-reading the source, and takes the place of Replay or the mixer when docked, or moves into a window of its own like they do.
In the Data panel, click a row and then use the up and down arrow keys to walk the list. They stop at the first and last row rather than wrapping.
Moving a data source's cursor from anywhere now appears in the Show journal, naming the source and the row.