Switch is a media playback, inspection and conversion tool for professionals that gives you everything you need to play, inspect and correct your multiformat media in one easy-to-use application.

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

Check it
Open the Switch inspector to view
in-depth media information in a well-organized display of container, video, audio & subtitle information.

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

iTunes
Use the iTunes export preset to easily create an asset-only iTunes store package, complete with content and XML file.

High-quality Visual QC
A single tool that plays all your media and displays in-depth information about it ensures more accurate streamlined QC. Switch gives you frame-accurate playback of professional media files, with controls such as single-frame stepping, JKL navigation, and more. You can also view subtitles and captions.

Caption playback and verification
Switch lets you playback embedded CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions, as well SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT captions) and WebVTT 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. See MacCaption / CaptionMaker for caption creation.

Deep file inspection
Backed by trusted Telestream technology and experience, Switch lets you see all the information you’d ever want to see about your media in one intuitive well-organized tool. See metadata (including DPP), bitrate, video essence and codec, audio channels and speaker assignments and much more.

What's New:

Version 4.5.7:
IMPROVEMENTS:

• Customer Requested Improvements:
• Updated the Inspector title bar to allow for standard MacOS functionality such as Command-Click to show path, reveal in finder, or initiate dragging.

FIXES:

• Fixed the licensing button coloring in Dark Mode on MacOS so that they remain visible in the preferences.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the video dimensions shown in the window title bar to disappear when changing to Dark Mode on MacOS Mojave and remain hidden until a relaunch using Light Mode.
• Modified the display of the video filename in the player window title bar so that it can easily be read in MacOS Light and Dark modes.
• Changed the preferences text coloring in MacOS Light and Dark modes so that all user interface elements remain clearly legible in both modes.
• Changed the Inspector text coloring in MacOS Light and Dark modes so that all user interface elements remain clearly legible in both modes.
• Changed the Welcome screen text coloring in MacOS Light and Dark modes so that all user interface elements remain clearly legible in both modes.

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