Features

Everything on the desk, in one app.

What InterDirector does today, area by area. It is a native console for live multi-camera production on the Mac, and it is built for one operator.

Inputs

Ten kinds of input, switched, framed and coloured the same way.

Everything you bring in behaves like a camera: it sits on a card, goes to Preview, and takes a transition.

NDI sources found on your network. Take the full stream, the small preview stream, or the sound alone.
Camera inputs for USB and UVC devices and capture cards.
Blackmagic inputs for SDI capture devices, through Blackmagic Desktop Video.
Audio inputs from any Core Audio device: a mono channel or a stereo pair, with no picture.
Web pages as live inputs, with a frame rate you set and a transparent background, and a window to interact with the page.
Image carousels, and Media playlists from files or folders, with loudness levelling.
Composite inputs that layer other sources, each framed with its own size, position, crop and rotation.
Overlay and Replay inputs, described below.
Every picture can be framed (size, position, crop and rotation) and colour-corrected: white balance, exposure and three-way grading, with presets.
A delay of up to two seconds per input lines up sources with different latencies.

Switching

The two monitors that matter stay in view while everything else scrolls.

Preview and Program side by side, with a tally on each input card.
Cut, two Fade buttons each with its own duration, Dip through black, and Fade to Black.
A T-bar between the monitors: drag it, or hold Option and scroll. Nothing commits until you let go: release at Program to take it, at Preview to cancel, or anywhere between to hold the mix.
Audio sources set to Follow Program fade with the picture.
A clean, full-screen Program on any external display your Mac detects, described under Outputs.
Input cards in five sizes show every source live. The multiview, audio mixer, replay and data panels can each move to a window of their own.
A Show runs at 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K, and at 24 to 60 frames per second.

Audio

A mixer built for a solo operator: simple routing, real processing.

Three stereo mixes, Master, A and B, each with a fader, a meter and its own chain of effects.
Every source has gain, mute, routing to the mixes, and Follow Program, which brings a source in and out with the picture.
VST3 effect chains on every source and every mix. Native Apple Silicon plug-ins; effects, not instruments. A plug-in that fails is bypassed, and the rest of the chain carries on.
Give a picture input the sound of another input, chosen from an Audio Source picker.
A sync delay per input, from zero to two seconds.
Media files are levelled to a loudness target: each is measured once to the EBU R128 standard and played at a fixed gain.
Master, A and B go to the stereo pairs you choose on your audio interface, set per Mac.

Overlays and data

Overlays are HTML, so they can look like anything, and what changes is a few controls, not the design.

Bring your own overlay package, or start from the ten that come with the app: Lower Third in 1, 2 and 3 lines, two Fight Card lower thirds, Simple Text, Scrolling Ticker, Rolling Credits, and two Logo Scrollers.
Each package exposes its own controls (text, numbers, colours, choices, on/off, images and image folders), editable live without touching the design.
Overlays fade or slide in and out and can scroll. An overlay you have taken stays up across every switch. Four priority layers decide what sits on top.
Feed them data: CSV or JSON from a file or a web address, Google Sheets included, refreshed on a schedule from one second to an hour.
Bind any text to a data field. A Data panel lists the rows, and a cursor moves through them.
Type a countdown into any text and it runs by itself.

Outputs

Every output runs on its own, so one failing does not take the others with it.

External output sends a clean, full-screen Program to any display macOS detects. Pick one, or leave it on Automatic to prefer an external display, and scale it Fit, Fill or Pixel Accurate.
Stream to RTMP, RTMPS and SRT destinations, several at once, from a single encode. The stream adapts its bitrate to the connection.
Record Program as a QuickTime file with HEVC (or H.264) video and 24-bit PCM sound, written in one-second fragments so a crash still plays back.
Input recording writes each armed input (NDI, USB, Blackmagic or audio) to its own file, as it arrives, before crop and colour, and starts them all together.
Program also leaves as NDI, with Master, A and B available as sound-only NDI sources, and out of Blackmagic SDI connectors.
Stopping a live output asks first.

Replay

A rolling buffer of Program, ready when you are.

Keep the last minute of Program, or more, and capture the moment into named buckets.
Play a clip, a bucket, or everything, with a crossfade you set between clips.
Play in slow motion or at normal speed.
A replay can take Program like any source, or play over it.
Clips can be saved as MP4 files.

Control

Anything you do during a show can be put under a finger.

Dozens of actions (switching, overlays, media playback, replay, mute and gain, data rows and outputs) can each go on a keyboard shortcut.
The Stream Deck plug-in installs with the app, and its keys light up to show state.
Rules say: when this happens to a source, wait a moment, then do this. Loops are refused, with the reason shown.
The auto director takes a rotation of sources in turn, each for as long as you set, cut or faded. Any take of your own turns it off.

Reliability

What InterDirector does when something goes wrong.

A source that drops is retried until it comes back, at intervals stretching to thirty seconds, and its card says it is retrying.
Recordings are written in one-second fragments, and closing a Show finishes the recording file first.
Autosave keeps a Last Show copy, offered again when you next launch. A damaged Show still opens, with a list of what was repaired, and nothing is written until you save.
A Show is checked as it opens, and a file it cannot reach can be relinked: finding one reconnects its whole folder.
A journal of what your inputs, switcher and outputs did, with memory, CPU, GPU and thermal readings every minute, stays on your Mac and is never uploaded.
Updates are signed, checked at launch and once a day, never installed by themselves, and never checked while you are streaming, recording or sending NDI.