cinemaOS 2: everything new in version 0.3, build 10

cinemaOS 2 (version 0.3, build 10) is the biggest update since launch. The headline is the J.A.R.E.D. director: describe the film you want in a sentence, approve one plan, and cinemaOS builds the cut on your Mac. Around it, the editor gains paper edits and word editing, seven film looks made in-house, Photoshop and Lottie files that open as layers and live compositions, real vector design and print in Atelier, a 3D camera with lights for motion design, RAW photo development, discrete surround sound and a long list of reliability fixes. Here is what changed, room by room.

J.A.R.E.D. director: from a sentence to a film

Type "make a fun 2-minute movie of all the event footage" or "three 30-second social clips from this interview". The director reads your request into a brief, maps the moments in your footage, and plans an arc of hook, build, peak and ending, with a reason for every pick, cuts on the music's beats, a look that fits the tone and titles only in words you typed. You approve once. It builds a new sequence beside your work, step by step, checks each step, and hands you a receipt. Then you redirect it in plain words: "shorter", "more of grandma", "end on the toast". All of it runs on your Mac. The full walkthrough is in J.A.R.E.D. director explained.

Editing: paper edits, best takes and B-roll

• Paper Edit Rough Cut. Choose transcript lines in the order you want to hear them, and cinemaOS assembles them on a new sequence with linked sound and handles. See paper edit in cinemaOS.
• Word editing. Delete or move words in the transcript and the media follows, one undo step each.
• Best takes with reasons. Rank the takes in a stack, or circle the best one, and read why it won.
• B-roll. Get B-roll ideas for the words at the playhead, or place B-roll over a sentence directly.
• Multicam picks. Ask J.A.R.E.D. to switch the angles to whoever is speaking.
• Timeline polish. Ten timeline fixes, a toolbar that never clips with the inspector open, and Smart Cache, which keeps renders you already made so playback after an edit picks up faster.

Colour: seven looks of our own

Golden, Night Drive, Super 8, Flash, Scope, Mono and Tape replace the borrowed film-stock LUTs of earlier versions. Each is generated by Momentum's own film model and carries its own texture. Old projects resolve to the nearest new look. Read why we made our own looks.

Adobe files

• Photoshop. PSD and PSB files open in Photos as real layers, with masks, groups, clipping and adjustment layers. Export a layered PSD back for Photoshop.
• Lottie. Lottie animations open as live Video Compositions with their shapes, text and keyframes.
• After Effects. An experimental reader brings in the structure of an .aep project.

Details and limits are in open Photoshop, Lottie and After Effects files.

Atelier: vector design, print and 3D motion

• Vectors. A pen kit, Pathfinder, Outline Stroke, Create Outlines, Image Trace, Blend and Envelope, symbols and on-canvas artboards.
• Print. Bleed, margins, spot colours, preflight and PDF/X-4 export with separations.
• Video Composition. A real 3D camera with dolly and orbit, ambient and point lights with soft shadows, puppet pins, composition markers and audio.
• Brand kits. Check a document against your brand and fix what is off.

The tour is in design and print in Atelier.

Photos

• RAW develop. Exposure, white balance, shadow recovery, noise reduction, sharpening, HDR headroom and lens correction on camera RAW files.
• New tools. Liquify, Content-Aware Scale, History Brush, Patch and Smart Filters.
• Selections. Select the subject or the sky in one step, plus Deselect, Reselect, Inverse, Image Size and Canvas Size in the Select and Image menus.

Sound

5.1, 7.1 and 7.1.2 mixes now keep every speaker on its own channel from the bus to the export, instead of folding anything together along the way. If you are mixing for a festival or a cinema, see spatial audio for indie film.

Reliability and delivery

• MP4 export fixed on more Macs. The export helper now links only to libraries that ship with macOS, which fixes standard H.264/MP4 delivery on Macs where the helper could not start.
• High frame rate masters. A 4K H.264 master above 30 fps keeps its frame rate.
• Conform watchdog. A Program conform that hangs is restarted once and then stops with a clear message instead of waiting forever.

A new icon

cinemaOS has a new app icon: an amber glass C. You will see it in the Dock, on project files and in the app.

FAQ

Which version is cinemaOS 2?

cinemaOS 2 is version 0.3, build 10. The download on the cinemaOS page is always the current build.

Do I need a new Mac for the director?

No. The director runs on the same Macs as cinemaOS and uses the same on-device language model that J.A.R.E.D. already uses.

Will my existing projects open?

Yes. Projects from earlier builds open in build 10. Shots that used the old bundled film-stock looks now use the nearest of the seven new looks, so check graded scenes once.

Mac and Windows

cinemaOS is available on Windows through the Microsoft Store as well as on Apple silicon Macs. See cinemaOS for Windows.

Get cinemaOS 2

cinemaOS has a 14-day free trial with no card required. Download build 10, open a project and press ⌘J.