Release Date: September 5, 2025
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We are happy to announce this new major release of RV 2025.0.0!
This release of RV offers a new Live Review workflow, currently in Beta, allowing RV users to participate in a session presented by the Creative Review web app (Beta). It also contains several SDK and API updates, including Qt6. Additionally, it introduces new features such as Hold and Ghost for annotations, and more!
New Supported Platform
- RV is now natively supported on ARM64 macOS devices. [SG-31969] - [SG-36751]
- RV now supports macOS Sequoia 15.5.
New Features
- Added support for RV users to join as participants in a Live Review session run by a user from the Creative Review app (Beta). [SG-37297]
- Auto-mark annotations on the timeline are always enabled when working in a Live Review session while the Creative Review app is the presenter. [SG-39946]
- New Hold and Ghost (also known as Onion skinning) features have been added for annotations. [SG-38044]
- Added the support of High DPI Display in RV on MacOS and Linux operating systems. [SG-28658]
- Added support for multiple media representations when loading an OTIO [SG-38202]
- Added the ability to mute participants’ audio when joining a Live Review session. [SG-39187]
- Added the ability for the presenter to mute all participants while working in a Live Review session. [SG-23041]
- Added a feature to extend or override the list of multiple media representations available in RV’s Screening Room. [SG-39308]
- Added the 120 Hz SDI output timing for Blackmagic Video. [SG-39413]
- ProRes hardware decoding is now available for Apple Silicon (ARM64). [SG-39511]
- Added a new Diagnostic Tool feature for Live Review. [SG-39145]
- Added an option in the Annotation tools to clear all annotations on timeline. [SG-38113]
SDK and API updates
- OpenEXR library has been updated to 3.2.4. [SG-34609]
- OCIO libraries have been updated to 2.3.2. [SG-34610]
- Python libraries have been updated to 3.11.9. [SG-34611]
- BOOST library has been updated to 1.82.0. [SG-34612]
- FFmpeg has been updated to 6.1.2. [SG-34758]
- ARRI RAW SDK has been updated to version 0.21.1. [SG-35977]
- OpenSSL library has been updated to version 3.0. [SG-36694]
- Added support for Qt 6.5.3 for all platforms. [SG-37872]
- BlackMagic Design SDK has been updated to version 14.3. [SG-37413]
- Flow Production Tracking Toolkit in RV has been updated to tk-core v0.22.3. [SG-38971]
- NDI feature has been updated to SDK 6.2.0. [SG-39393]
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented users on a Mac M1 from using the presentation mode. [SG-25296]
- Fixed an issue that would cause RV to stop working with Nuke versions 13/14/15. [SG-32963]
- Fixed a crash that occurred when RV tried to read incomplete rendered PNG image sequences. [SG-34647]
- Fixed an issue that caused intermittent audio synchronization issues while playback was runnning in presentation mode. [SG-34860]
- Fixed an issue that blocked the application of the RV_NETWORK_PROXY_x environment variables. [SG-35205]
- Fixed errors when launching RV on a Linux Rocky 8 platform with Plasma X11 (KDE) desktop environment. [SG-35235]
- Fixed delays around the drawing of annotations while working in a Live Review session. [SG-35879]
- Fixed a regression that caused the source frame value of a clip to be incorrect. [SG-38282]
- Fixed an issue that caused RV to crash when loading movie clips using AV1 codec. [SG-38778]
Known issues and limitations
- High DPI support on Windows is disabled by default due to known instabilities with QtWebEngineWidgets in Qt 6.5.3 on Windows which are used by Flow Production Tracking packages. You can still activate High DPI on Windows by setting the “RV_QT_HDPI_SUPPORT” environment variable but we cannot guarantee the results. [SG-40030]
- The new High DPI displays support in RV can also be disabled by setting the “RV_NO_QT_HDPI_SUPPORT” environment variable if you encounter any issues with custom RV packages, for example.