Matchbox

Version history

2.3.3

Big performance improvement when editing Matches in large sessions

Fix rare issue with Import from DAW

2.3.1

Add track name asterisk suffix (*) to skip tracks from Smart Conform

Fix rare crashes in OTIO import

Several Smart-Conform improvements in Pro Tools

Bumped minimum macOS for hardware acceleration to 14.0

Moved clip name to bottom for audio clips

Fix Split Into Source Clips where last few clips were not processed properly

Fix edge-case OTIO import failures

Add support for Mixalert bypass during reconform

2.2.6

Smart-Conform for Reaper

Improvement to Pro Tools reconform

Set MB track colours in Pro Tools 2025.10

Fix load audio from movie cancel not working correctly

Added user-adjustable auto-fade length for Reconform

Added more recently-opened items in the menu

Added small session info text to bottom of UI

Shot/Scene tracks now respect reconform offsets

Fixed ambiguity in OTIO exports

2.2.3

Fix for recent Resolve MP4 format changes

Match-back now ignores hidden files and folders

Fix some AAFs missing tape names.

Added “Export Summary PDF”

Removed pointless marker numbers from email/PDF

Fix importing AAF in wrong framerate requiring a second attempt.

Fixed rare negative-length matches after match-back.

Added framerate warning when importing audio only

Reaper reconform now much much faster (requires latest dev build of 7.48)

Reaper reconform now has progress window

Reaper reconform now has undos for each stage.

Improvements to video playback performance

Fix for Video Ref matching on second attempt.

2.2.0

Reaper support.
Audio Diffing now sums all Audio References.
Improved speed and size for framestores and audiostores (requires rebuild).
Fixed issue with Shot detection sometimes getting a few extras.
Fix for matchup selected clips removing exisitng matches.
Fix playhead sometimes getting off grid.
Added memory check for advanced shot detection.

2.1.7

Numerous sanity checks and fixes for rare crashes in matching and healing.
Fix for non-standard target rate in PTSL reconforms.
Fix for media on SMB share points on windows.
Improvement for clock leaders matching wrong reel in video ref matchup.
Support for OTIOz and OTIOd formats.
Properly support Match-back from the OLD timeline.
Stop waveforms redrawing when a track is deleted.
Support import of multiple AAFs.
Fixed Run Reconform panel hiding some smart-conform prefs.
Fixed some text labels being cropped short.
Added user-alert about uncertain framerate when doing audio-only matchups.
Fixed saving sessions using names containing certain illegal characters.
Added alert when attempting a clip search (external) for a missing path.
Added lower limit for Hardware Acceleration on Mac to OS 13.2.
Added “Export Diffs As EDL”.
Fix Video Ref matchup grabbing wrong clock leader in multi-reel matchups.
fixes for compare in gaps not adding matches to current change list.
Fixed Regex formulas failing due to being case sensitive.
Added regex results preview text next to each pref
Fixed “unsaved changes” alert when none was required.
Disallow editing of source timecodes when they would be outside range of parent media file.
Fixed import of some weird Premiere AAFs.

2.1.1
Add Video Match-Back options panel
Add “1 match only” mode for video Match-Back
Match-Back results are now sorted by relevance.

Add progress bar for extracting audio from video
Better progress bar and more responsive CANCEL for Match-Back

SplitToSource now remembers previous box selections
Fixed Audio Diffing failure after about 12hrs timecode
Better GPU support for timecode/clipname extraction
fix split selected into source clips for Video Ref in OLD timeline.

Fixed PTSL reconform when PT was using non-english languages
Fixed missing final scene on scene tracks
Fixed crash when closing PT with DAW Follow enabled
Add pref for deactivating tracks before PTSL reconform
Fixed potential crash when importing from PT tracks.
Refuse to import crossfaded clips from PT – PT bug makes it impossible.
Fix scene/shot tracks on windows (non PTSL)

Respect tiny matches for pips/pops/plops.
Add ability to trim Matches with SHIFT-ALT-Mouse drag
Allow “Scan For Diffs..” when no matches exist – enables diffing only for VFX updates.

Add Nuendo/Cubase support for Follow DAW, Jump DAW, Assemble in DAW etc.
Improved Nuendo/Cubase Smart Conform logic to better match Pro Tools.
Fix crash in Nuendo reconform.
Disabled Matches are no longer sent to Nuendo for reconform

Add support for older NVIDIA GPUs
Add menu item for Audio Diffing selected Matches.
fix broken undo for generic delete clips in sequence
Fixed crash in healing diff scores

2.0.18
Enabled single-CTRL-Click to locate playheads
Fixed Regex Scene-extraction pref
Improved lag for some Matches editing functions
Added safety check for Pro Tools becoming unresponsive during PTSL reconform

2.0.17
Fixed annoying “missing media” logic – now asks once if possible
Fixed crossfades being disconnected after reopening session
Added ETA and time-taken logging for match-back
Fixed rare crash with auto-diff on windows
Fixed audio extraction from video on windows and for surround audio
Fixed occasional missing file paths from OTIO
Removed noisy logging about framerates
Fixed track selection confusion with clip selection
Improved PTSL reconform speed by deactivating tracks first and skipping unnecessary tracks
Split To Source Clips: Changed default source timecodes to 0
Added more alerts where PTSL was not available
Fixed rare issue with subclips landing in wrong timeline
Fixed Windows version-update alert supplying the Mac installer
Rename “drop markers” to “Send markers”
Fixed windows fullscreen mode having click-zone misaligned
Fixed missing file paths in AAAF and OTIO imports

2.0.16

=== BUILDS ===
Universal binary for Intel/Apple Silicon
Min macOS is now 10.15
New icons for app and documents

=== MATCHING ===
Added new “Intelligent Image Matching” mode, tolerating quite large distortions (zoom, rack, colour, VFX etc).
New and improved shot detection mode (Advanced shot detection)
All CLIPS can now be relinked to real media
Match-Back Ref (GT or Vid) to external files and assemble takes in MB/DAW (e.g. A/V production media)
Match-Back clips (if linked) to external media.
Improved clip matching logic for EDL/AAF etc
Audio matching algorithms tweaked, especially Tolerant and Strict

=== RECONFORM ===
Reconform is now much faster and more reliable in PT.
Smart-Conform implemented in Pro Tools
Reconform now adds special tracks for markers, changes, diffs, matches, etc
Markers in PT can be moved between main ruler and dedicated tracks
“Main Ruler” can be named by the user
Cut markers now show inserts with > < and x for cuts.
Add Jump Between Old/New in DAW after reconform (button in MB and recon HUD)
Helper Plugin now totally redundant for PTSL (scripting API) reconforms
Added Cubase support
Added ADR Master / CuePro reconform.
Added “Import Track From DAW” – get clips from selected tracks in PT to use after a manual GT conform !!!
Made PT scroll into view after MB sends a position change (incl. Jump DAW button)
Reconform HUD now has CANCEL button
Can now Assemble unmatched (or selected) audio as clips in DAW. (E.g. new AAF clips since last version)

=== SCENE/SHOT TRACKS ===
Fix scene num Regex to allow 1 character scene numbers
Create new-style scene and shot tracks in PT.
Scenes/Shot tracks can now be run as part of reconform.
Scenes track now ignore gaps between reels.

=== INPUT / OUTPUT ===
Added “reconform a reconform” for applying change to existing matchbox file.
Export Matches as EDL – with optional source name
Export Relative Change Note
Add “Import Change Note” menu item
Added Export Selected Clips as OTIO
Added support for OTIOZ and OTIOD
Better crash reporting with zipped logs package.

=== DIFFING ===
New diffing modes – Basic (mb1), Deep (great), QC (nerdy AF)
New Audio Diffing modes – Fussy (mb1), Tolerant (best), Smart (alternative)
Added Diffing pref panel
Added realtime threshold controls for filtering Visible/Audible diffs
Added codec noise tolerance pref
Added “diff mask” option for ignoring added watermarks
Diffs now live on a separate mini track under Matches
Visual Delta View improved, with hyper sensitivity in QC mode, focus on more important stuff in other modes.
Added gain/limiting in phase cancel mode

=== REFERENCE FILE IMPORTS ===
Added ability to extract timecode from video files using metadata
Added ability to extract timecode from video files using character recognition
Import Video File now offers to extract audio, or load existing audio (if found)
Support for MXF audio, incl. waveforms
Ref files can display shot boundaries and be split into subclips
Video Ref preferred start timecode is now optionally stored in .framestore
Audio Ref files now have a .audiostore metadata file

=== CHANGE MARKERS ===
change (AUTO) markers are now automatic, perennial and immutable
Allow change markers to calculate when no OLD/NEW data present (e.g. from change note)
Allow hiding of change markers in UI.

=== GUI & DISPLAY ===
Renaming of “Video/Audio Files” to …References
Big UI update including a few new buttons.
Added Contextual Menu when right-clicking on things.
Added separate Get Info window for clips/matches etc
Better display of overlapping DIFF objects
Added “Display in Frames” modes
Added “use hour code prefix”  for F&F and Frames display modes
Reorganised Prefs panels
Added ‘Open Log File’ menu item
Added help menu with search field
User markers now sit on top of the red change markers in MB timeline.
Added “use hour code” preference for F&F and Frames display modes
Summary page improvements
“Paste Range Occupied” Now gives the option to CANCEL
Changed appearance of offline Ref files.
Fixed Summary page incorrect after loading a .matchbox file.
Summary page now alerts you when it needs to analyse something for accuracy, and adds ANALYZE button.
New (ugly) icons for scrubbing in Matches & Diffs view

=== EDITING MATCHES ===
Unmatch Selected Clips / Current Shot
Resync Selected Match
Split Match at playhead

=== MISC ADDS ===
Added FOLLOW DAW mode (yellow foot button, but better with green “as reconformed” button as well)
Added “Promote To Match Ranges” button for the existing Menu Item.
Added Solo Focus Mode.
Split Video Reference Into Source Clips/EDL

=== MISC FIXES ===
Looping works better and for smaller regions
Fixed Win key hijacking on windows
check for unsaved changes upon opening a .matchbox file
Add header field to CSV exports
Fixed intermittent crashes when matching video/audio
Implement SHIFT-ScrollWheel for horizontal on Windows
Playhead Follow as Reconformed – now locates on enabling
reveal timecodes greater than 24hr in run reconform display
Short marker names are not displayed
Fix Video Delta Overlays don’t work if MB opened without the delta view
Fix Scrolling sucks when only one timeline populated
Fix bogus framerates entering model from Resolve AAF
Fix Very slow navigation in playback when audio device is NONE
Fix Video matching leaves 1 frame gaps at end of shot
Fix portability of Mac/Win .matchbox files
Fix Offsetting Match range doesn’t redraw healing links
Fix scene num Regex to allow 1 character scene numbers
Fixed legacy issue with UNDO after adding sequence data
Fixed legacy issue with very large timestamps on WAV files.

1.6.0

Added Resolve/Fairlight integration

Fixed crash in Nuendo when asking for just Scene/Shot tracks.

1.5.19

Simplified audible diffs a little

Redesign of clip matching logic to better identify best clip from multiple options.

Fix for some users getting beachballs with AAX Helper Plugin.

Fixed duplicate markers after reconform in Nuendo

Removed iLok requirement for helper plugins

Fixed flashing video during scrub on some Apple Silicon machines.

1.5.15

Fixes for video engine displaying wrong frame after scrubbing

Fix for AAF importing on Apple Silicon only

Added support for latest OpenTimelineIO schema

1.5.14

Added reconforming of Feet+Frames text files (excel, databases, google sheets etc)

Improvements to PTSL support.

Export OLD/NEW clips lists now conforms better to EDL standards.

1.5.10

Fixed MacOS Ventura issue where helper couldn’t be found.

Add option to bypass Pro Tools Scripting features.

Fixed rare issue with Nuendo12 session start times

Better logging and error handling for Nuendo.

1.5.7

Fixed bug from 1.5.5/6 where bogus framestores were created. Please trash any framestore files from that era.

Re-enabled Pro Tools Scripting stuff for any PT version supporting it.

1.5.6

Disabled broken Pro Tools Scripting stuff on Windows

1.5.5

• Partial support for reconforming using the new Pro Tools Scripting SDK. Minor improvement.

• Greatly improved Nuendo support – The benefits Should be:

Much faster reconform – particularly on really large sessions.

Less likely to make a mistake with automation breakpoints, overlaps or fades.

Scraps are more accurately identified instead of deleting every clip under the threshold.

No longer any need for the “session start time” field in Matchbox (redundant till I can remove it)

Fixed “Selected Tracks Only” Issues with tracks in folders and group tracks

• Added option for using “local Framesstores”

• Framestores will be generated in your Documents folder instead of next to the video file.

Means you don’t have to worry about someone else using different video crop settings.

• Fixed calculation issues with the Summary page.

• AAF fix.

• Fixed SmartConform timecode fields loading with default vales

• Fixed Pro Tools markers ignoring the “use offsets” checkbox.

• “Promote..” No longer clears the match-list before promoting.

• Internal changes to video analysis data – watch out for any differences.

• Fixed empty lines in text reconform being flagged as BADCODE

1.5.4

Fix bug in Audio File Matchup introduced at 1.5.3

1.5.3

Fix for reconforming on Windows Pro Tools

AAF import fixes

Fix for audio compare on Apple Silicon and some PCs

1.5.2

Fixed issue with negative timecodes in Nuendo

Added file type filtering for “Open Matchbox FIle..”

1.5.0

Added Nuendo support

1.4.24

Fixed USER markers being deleted during PT reconform

Fixed Main Window forgetting its un-maximised state (opt-click the maximise button)

Big improvement to selection of matches when clips are reused in the edit.

Extra logging when helper plugin can’t be opened automatically.

1.4.20

Big upgrade under-the-hood

Added Apple Silicon installer option

Fixed healing bug from v1.3.0

Various fixes to importing AAFs

Fixed recent Audible Diff changes so it correctly named the finished diff objects

Fixed track headers not aligning correctly with tracks

Changed to using Selected video files for creating shot tracks.

Added Min Match Length pref (Default to ON and 5fr)

Fixed playback issues when one timeline was empty

Alert on quitting now defaults to DON’T QUIT

Fixed auto-relink to recently chosen search path

Various healing and diffing fixes

Added “Create AUTO/USER Markers in DAW” menu items

Added alert message when accidentally importing a .matchbox to the old/new timelines.

Fixed an issue with importing PT Session Info Text

Improved Video Analysis performance – requires re-analysis of frame stores

Fixed timeout with phone-home version check on startup

Improved visibility of connection rods in matches view

Fixed issue reconforming Pro Tools Session Info text

Fixed text reconform wrongly applying offsets

Fixed text reconform for cues on start edge of match range

Fixed Reconform Offsets checkbox not being respected in a few places

Added Opt-Click to maximise window

Fixed opening helper plugin when menu organised by only Manufacturer

Fixed issues in Clipname text filtering of list view

1.3.0

Massively improved Audio File Matching algorithm

Improvements to the creation of AUDIBLE DIFFs

Added support for auto-relinking files if they are siblings of the .matchbox or .sequence file

Added Create Diffs Track In Pro Tools

Added Clip Type filtering checkboxes to list views

Added Preference to stop playhead locating when in playback

Improved F&Fr support in Markers and lists

Fixed various zoom and scroll annoyances

Added tick marks in view menu for toggle-able features

Removed automatic relinking of missing files – was taking forever on large server volumes.

Fixed Audio I/O being forgotten on restart

Changed Healing between reels – now refuses to heal over a gap of 10min or more

Fixed annoyance with Apply Offsets checkbox

Fixed incorrect channel output count in log file.

Various other little fixes.

1.2.3

Numerous important improvements to matching from AAF/EDL/XML clip metadata

Fixed handling of multi-cam clips from AAF

Added Old Playhead Follows New as if Reconformed mode

Added support for TTML closed captions

Added support for Netflix TTAL closed captions

Added support for reconforming lists when cues are split to multiple shots.

Added “Trim Name After..” Pref to help clean up clip names

Added AUDIO DEVICES preference page to enable choosing output hardware.

Added Audio output gain preference

Fixed Clip Mute from list views

Fixed Marker start time when added during playback

Changed shortcuts – Disable/Enable track is now SHIFT-E. Locate to DAW… now uses “D”

Added “Create Scene Track” based on clipnames and a regex string

Fixed issues reconforming in Pro Tools on Windows (esp. with ASIO4All installed)

Fixed tabbing into List Filter field.

Numerous little UI and usability fixes

Added choice of data to import from .matchbox files

Fixed quit without warning when changes made to a previously empty Matchbox.

Fixed List views not showing correct “Parent Files” checkboxes

Fixed zero-length events causing trouble during Pro Tools reconform

PT Reconform now only adds USER markers from the range of selected Matches

“Search in other files” now alerts when it could find nothing.

Fixed crash with malformed regex strings

Added support for importing Pro Tools “Session Info As Text” files.

Fixed healing behaviour in “Forceful” mode for Matchup Any…

1.1.3

Fixed issue with Offset… and Spot To… vaping clips.

1.1.2

Video File Matching algorithm rebuilt. Faster, More accurate, more tolerant of colour and other changes.

Video Matching now allows you to “End search” and keep whatever results it has found.

Fixed issue with overlapping video files after an offset.

Fixed Windows build reporting incorrectly when PT missing.

Fixed misleading error message for “Create Shot track…”

Fixed Audio files ignoring sequence mute status when being added to seq.

Increased recent files list to 8 items.

User settings are now saved at regular intervals.

Added AUTOSAVE mechanism.

Fixed Summary when multiple reels involved.

Improved Damage value calculation (generally lower)

Fixes timelines not auto-scrolling when scroll master toggled

Improved performance with Pro Tools reconform on Windows

1.0.5

Fixed issues in AAF parsing

Fixed issue in Video File Matching multiple times for the same file

Added “Always use English” preference

1.0.4

Now forcing the appleEvents security check to happen when running for the first time, rather than during the first reconform

Fixed UNMATCHED list filter for Audio by removing any use of flattened track

Fix typo for 59.94fps detection

Fixed slowness in Matchup Video Files

Applying offsets to the Locate DAW… routines.

fixed Marker exports default save path

Fixed an AAF import error

Fixed LINE FEED issue with Avid Marker exports.

Fixed Windows installer download

1.0.3

Added Open and Open Recent menu items

Fixed a rare AAF import issue

Fixed issue promoting clips from lists window.

Added alert when no clips selected

Added highlight colour to default button in alert windows.

Added Open and Open Recent menus

Added more informative text to the crash report email

Added extra user logging to help trace issues

Video File Matchup – small optimisations. Fixed progress indicator stuck at 99%.

Added extra progress messaging  to phase2 and 3  for slow cases.

Fixed various issues when videos were in different aspect ratios. Requires a rebuild of framestores for any files not 16:9

Added more system info to the log file on wakeup

Fixed TAB/TSV and CSV list reconform.

Allows mixed use of quotes. Always applies quotes for saving CSV, never for TAB

Changed menu item names to clarify behaviour.

Fixed import audio EDL to Matches.

Added support for importing multiple EDL files to Matches in one operation.

1.0.0

Everything is new.