Switch 3 at Mac App Store analyse

Play it
Trust Switch for frame-accurate, smooth playback of all your media files, including captions and subtitles.

Check it
Inspect video properties, audio properties, captions, and subtitles. Includes SDI out for external preview and loudness monitoring, plus compare media feature, and Timeline view with GOP structure.

Fix it
Make changes: trim, scale or crop your media; rearrange audio tracks; change speaker assignments and rewrap or encode your media.

Deliver it:
Use the iTunes preset to create asset-only iTunes store packages, or publish your media directly to Vimeo, YouTube, or Facebook.

Affordable High Quality QC
With features such as professional audio meters with loudness monitoring, SDI out to external monitors, easy media file comparison feature, and support for caption playback, Switch Pro provides an affordable software solution for professional media Quality Control.

Caption playback and verification
Play CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well as SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT) and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files to verify timing and accuracy. Switch is the only software player with full support for CEA-708 caption decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support.

Deep file inspection
Switch gives you frame-accurate playback of all your media and lets you see detailed information about it in an intuitive, well-organized interface. See metadata (including DPP), bitrate, video essence and codec, audio channels, speaker assignments, loudness levels and much more.

Playback Format Support

Containers:
AAC
AC3
AIFF
ASF
AVC (AVC Elementary Stream)
AVI (openDML)
DV
GXF
HEVC (HEVC Elementary Stream)
IMF
LXF
M1V (MPEG-1 Video Elementary Stream)
M2V (MPEG-2 Video Elementary Stream)
MOV
MP3 (MPEG Layer 1, 2, 3 Audio
Elementary Stream)
MP4 (ISO Base Media Format)
MPG (MPEG-1 System Stream)
MPS (MPEG-2 Program Stream)
MTS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)
MXF (AS-11 with UK DPP metadata)
MXF (OP-1a; AS-02, AS-03, AS-11)
MXF (OP-1a Proxy)
MXF (OP-1b)
MXF (OP-Atom)
SCC
SeaChange DVL
WAV

Video Codecs (decode only):
Apple Quicktime Animation RLE 24-bit and 32-bit only
Apple ProRes
DNxHD
DNxHR
DV 25
DVCPro 25
DVCPro 50
DVCPro 100
DVCPro HD
H.263
H.264
H.265
JPEG
JPEG2000
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
Uncompressed YUV
WMV

Audio Codecs (decode only):
AAC
AC3
G.711 aLaw
G.711 uLaw
G.726
Microsoft ADPCM
MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, 3
PCM
WMA

Captions:
Extraction and playback of CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions
DVB
SCC
SRT files
STL files
TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT captions)
Web VTT


Encode Format Support

Containers:
MOV
MPEG-2 TS/PS
MPEG-4
MXF OP-1a
MXF OP-Atom

Video Codecs:
Apple ProRes
MPEG-2 Video
x264

Audio Codecs:
AAC
MPEG Layer 2
PCM