DM Adieu Film — Support

DM Adieu Film is a video editor for the Mac: a multi-track timeline, colour grading with scopes, an audio mixer, titles and captions, in a native app that runs entirely on your Mac. It is built on FilmCraft, the open-source video editor by the ArtCraft team, which Dependent Media packages, sandboxes and supports for the Mac App Store.

Getting started

The app opens with a demo project made of generated clips, titles and music, so you can try every tool before you import anything. Press Space to play, drag clips on the timeline, and switch workspaces (Editing, Color, Audio…) with the button at the top right. File › New › Project starts your own.

Projects, media and the sandbox

Because the app is sandboxed, it can only use the files and folders you give it: through File › Import and File › Open, by dragging files or folders onto the window, or by double-clicking a project (.fcproj) in the Finder. Media dropped on the Dock icon is imported. The app remembers every project, clip and folder you give it this way, so a project you reopen after a restart still finds its media. Importing a whole folder covers everything in it.

If a clip still shows as offline (for example a file you moved, or a disk that was not connected), use Link Media and choose the file, or a folder to search: that gives the app access again.

Save and Save As write the project file you choose. Auto-save versions, render previews and proxies are kept in the app’s own folder on your Mac (File › Recover Unsaved Changes and Browse Auto-Saves find them), not next to your project.

Exporting

The Export tab writes a movie to the folder shown under Location; the Movies folder is the default. Choose another folder with the … button. If you type a folder the app has not been given, it asks you to choose it once. Exports that write several files (image sequences, MXF OP-Atom, caption files, AAF and OMF with separate media) ask for their folder the same way.

H.264 and HEVC are encoded with your Mac’s hardware video encoder (VideoToolbox), which is fast but has one pass and no constant-quality mode: presets that ask for two passes run in one. For settings the hardware encoder cannot take (odd frame sizes, HDR in H.264), choose H.265 or Apple ProRes instead.

Voice-over

Record voice-over straight onto the timeline from a track header. macOS asks once for microphone access. Takes are saved next to your project when the app can write there, otherwise in Movies › DM Adieu Film.

Keyboard shortcuts

Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts lists every shortcut, lets you change them, and has layouts that match other editors you may know. J, K and L shuttle, I and O mark In and Out, comma and period insert and overwrite.

What is still rough

The editor it is built on is young and under heavy development. Camera files from some makers are not yet tested, long effects-heavy timelines and exports lean on the CPU, there is no AV1 or VP9 export and no third-party plug-ins. If something breaks, save your work, then tell us which file, what format and what you were doing.

Contact

Email [email protected] or use the contact form. Include your macOS version and the app version from DM Adieu Film › About.