Updates

Important: We'll be making changes soon to digitalrebellion.com that will make it so that it's no longer possible to register old versions of CinePlay. Older versions will work if they are already registered, but we recommend new registrations use 1.7.4 or higher.

• Fixed an issue where markers could be misaligned in the timeline
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Changes in this version:

• Support for version 1.1 of the Kollaborate Adobe panel
• Tasks - Allow task assignees to change the status of the task
• Player - Don't show "your browser can't play this file" for files that wouldn't be expected to be playable in a browser
• Player - Fixed an issue where users with "modify others' files" permission but not admin could not change the workflow for a file
• API - Fixed an issue where thumbnails could be black
• API - More robust thumbnail generation
• API - Improved compatibility with CinePlay for iOS
• Better support for older browsers
• Lots of small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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Although there are no new user-facing features right now, this is a significant reworking of the panel for better support in newer versions of Premiere. It now requires Premiere 25.6.0. If you are self-hosting you'll need Kollaborate Server 2026.2.2 or higher.

Note: the plugin now appears in the UXP Plugins menu.

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Although there are no new user-facing features right now, this is a significant reworking of the panel for better support in newer versions of Premiere. It now requires Premiere 25.6.0. If you are self-hosting you'll need Kollaborate Server 2026.2.2 or higher.

Note: the plugin now appears in the UXP Plugins menu.

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Important: We'll be making changes soon to digitalrebellion.com that will make it so that it's no longer possible to register old versions of CinePlay. Older versions will work if they are already registered, but we recommend new registrations use 1.7.4 or higher.

• Improved registration reliability
• Improved compatibility with newer versions of macOS
• Improved compatibility with newer versions of Kollaborate
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Changes since 2026.1.1:

• This version features a brand new video player and image viewer with an improved user interface and features like switching between proxies, better error handling and error messages, speaking captions out loud for accessibility, better mobile support, and the ability to add overlays like safe areas and aspect ratio mattes
• Side-by-side comparison - load two players at once and compare them with playback synchronization for video/audio, zoom/pan synchronization for images, and page sync for documents. Switch between comments independently of whichever file is the active file. You can load any type of file alongside another for reference, but only files of the same type can be synchronized.
• New file viewers for PDFs and text files, with full screen support for both. The text viewer loads content dynamically, meaning it can display very large files, as well as offering features like line numbers and word wrap
• Annotation overhaul - New shapes including boxes, circles, arrows and text. Shapes can be moved about, resized, and rotated, with full undo and redo. Shape colors are now independent of the comment's color. 
• Annotations can be drawn on top of PDFs
• Comments can be added to particular lines of a text file
• New advanced search fields: frame rate, orientation (portrait / landscape) and uploader
• The H.264 level is now shown in the Metadata tab of the player (for new uploads)
• The old and new backends now communicate and synchronize with each other, which fixes an issue where encoding jobs might not start immediately after you set up the encoder
• The player page is no longer static, which means it loads faster and actions like setting workflows or switching between files can happen without a page refresh
• If the player can't play back and it shows a download overlay, it shows a message to explain why it couldn't play (e.g. if "force download" was set on the file)
• You can now click on the duration field of the video player to toggle time remaining
• Player - Allow dot characters when seeking to timecode. Dots at the start skip that digit and make the timecode relative. Dots at the end substitute for 00. So ..10. seeks 10 seconds from the current position
• Player - Shift + T now opens the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Significant accessibility improvements and much improved keyboard navigation
• Support for audio captchas on the login page
• Updated icon used to denote that a file has comments
• Improved the quality of video poster images
• Email - Fixed issue where some emails might not have the custom logo set
• Fixed an issue that could cause thumbnails to appear black in some instances
• Fixed an issue that could cause folders to be unable to be downloaded
• Fixed an issue where Global Search may not return results if caches are not up-to-date
• Captions - Fixed an issue causing imported caption timestamps to drift
• Workflows - Fixed an issue where the approve / reject workflow may not trigger when pressing the approval buttons in some instances
• Fixed an issue that could cause encoding jobs to not be sent to the encoding server
• Fixed an issue causing thumbnails to sometimes display blank
• Lots of small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Changes since 2026.2.1 RC1:

• Player - Added a Copy button to the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Several fixes to the reliability of approval workflows

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• WebP is now used for hoverscrub thumbnails instead of AVIF
• Improved support for handling redirects when communicating with the web server
• Several fixes for jobs looping unnecessarily
• Overhauled the file downloader for improved speed and reliability
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This version is a release candidate, meaning we consider it stable and well-tested with no known issues, but continue to monitor it on the cloud. If no new issues are found this will become the stable version.

Changes since Beta 3:

• Player - Being able to show a heatmap for a specific user has been added back in this version. It now appears as a draggable, resizable overlay over the video
• Player - Show heatmaps for audio files
• Player - Fixed an issue that could cause the stated duration to be incorrect
• Player - Various improvements to the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Player - Allow dot characters when seeking to timecode. Dots at the start skip that digit and make the timecode relative. Dots at the end substitute for 00. So ..10. seeks 10 seconds from the current position
• Player - Shift + T now opens the Seek to Timecode dialog
• Player - Improved the reliability of seeking and frame-stepping
• Player - Play videos in true full screen on iOS
• Fixed an issue where Global Search may not return results if caches are not up-to-date
• Captions - Fixed an issue causing imported caption timestamps to drift
• Captions - Various reliability improvements
• Files - Fixed an issue where clicking the path in the player for a link would go to the wrong folder
• Files - Fixed an issue where the color picker was empty
• Workflows - Fixed an issue where the approve / reject workflow may not trigger when pressing the approval buttons in some instances
• Comments - Fixed a layout issue when editing comments
• Fixed an issue that could cause encoding jobs to not be sent to the encoding server
• Raised the rate limit when the encoder uploads the finished file
• Fixed an issue causing heatmaps to sometimes fail to display
• Fixed an issue causing thumbnails to sometimes display blank
• Lots of UI spacing / layout tweaks

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This version contains major changes to the player page. Although this has been tested extensively, we expect a change this big to still contain bugs in real-world usage and are releasing this version as a beta to get feedback.

Changes since Beta 2:

• The video player will now play VP8, VP9, HEVC (H.265) and AV1 sources if the browser supports it
• Player - Added keyboard shortcuts 1 and 2 for switching the active file in side-by-side playback
• Text Viewer - Preserve scroll position across font / word-wrap changes
• Significant accessibility improvements and much improved keyboard navigation
• Updated icon used to denote that a file has comments
• Player - Changed the plus icon to say "Compare" to make its function more obvious
• Support for audio captchas on the login page
• Support for Synced Sessions in the new player
• Player fixes / improvements for iOS
• Player - Fixed view count increasing by 2 when a file is viewed
• Player - Made transcript use the currently active file
• Player - Fixed issue where adding tags would only add them to the first file
• Player - Fixed issue where captions from one file would be loaded into both files when comparing side-by-side
• Player - Fixed issue where files would sometimes not appear as viewed
• Comments - Fixed timecode holding unnecessarily when pressing Shift or Control
• Email - Fixed issue where some emails might not have the custom logo set
• Improved the quality of video poster images
• Fixed an issue that could cause thumbnails to appear black in some instances
• Workflows - Fixed an issue that could cause a file with Needs Approval set to not show the approval controls in the player in some instances
• Fixed an issue that could cause folders to be unable to be downloaded
• Preview - Fixed issue where controls may not appear when previewing vertical video
• Player - Don't show versions dropdown for links not able to access versions
• Player - Fixed erroneous error message saying you don't have permission to download a file
• Lots of UI spacing / layout tweaks

Download

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This version contains major changes to the player page. Although this has been tested extensively, we expect a change this big to still contain bugs in real-world usage and are releasing this version as a beta to get feedback.

Changes since Beta 1:

• Side-by-side comparison - load two players at once and compare them with playback synchronization for video/audio, zoom/pan synchronization for images, and page sync for documents. Switch between comments independently of whichever file is the active file. You can load any type of file alongside another for reference, but only files of the same type can be synchronized.
• New file viewers for PDFs and text files, with full screen support for both. The text viewer loads content dynamically, meaning it can display very large files, as well as offering features like line numbers and word wrap
• Annotations can be drawn on top of PDFs
• Comments can be added to particular lines of a text file
• The player page is no longer static, which means it loads faster and actions like setting workflows or switching between files can happen without a page refresh
• If the player can't play back and it shows a download overlay, it shows a message to explain why it couldn't play (e.g. if "force download" was set on the file)
• You can now click on the duration field of the video player to toggle time remaining
• Fixed an issue where some files would incorrectly appear to be unplayable
• Reduced browser memory usage
• Various UI and styling improvements
• Lots of small bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Download

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: This version contains major changes to our video player and image viewer. Although this has been tested extensively, we expect a change this big to still contain bugs in real-world usage and are releasing this version as a beta to get feedback.

Changes:

• This version features a brand new video player and image viewer with an improved user interface and features like switching between proxies, better error handling and error messages, speaking captions out loud for accessibility, better mobile support, and the ability to add overlays like safe areas and aspect ratio mattes
• Annotation overhaul - New shapes including boxes, circles, arrows and text. Shapes can be moved about, resized, and rotated, with full undo and redo. Shape colors are now independent of the comment's color. 
• New advanced search fields: frame rate, orientation (portrait / landscape) and uploader
• The H.264 level is now shown in the Metadata tab of the player (for new uploads)
• The old and new backends now communicate and synchronize with each other, which fixes an issue where encoding jobs might not start immediately after you set up the encoder
• Lots of minor tweaks and optimizations

Download

Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

• Overhauled the user experience of commenting on a link. The order of steps is now reversed, so the user enters their comment and is then asked for their name. This reduces user confusion about where to enter a comment.
• Added a physical submit button to the comment text box to reduce user confusion about how to submit a comment
• Significant architecture changes. We've completely rewritten large parts of our uploader and changed how jobs are sent to Kollaborate Encoder. Most of these changes have more of an effect on the cloud but you may notice slightly faster uploads as a result.
• Added a Dangling File Locator tool to the Tools section of the Admin Area to help find files that exist on disk but not in the database (most likely because they failed to delete)
• HAProxy will now automatically restart when new LetsEncrypt certificates are ready
• Thumbnails now use WebP
• Accessibility - Improved support for screen readers
• Accessibility - Increased the contrast of certain on-screen controls
• Fixed an issue where not all permissions may be imported when importing custom roles from another project
• Fixed an issue where the duration overlay on a file's icon may not appear if the file exceeded 3 hours in duration
• History / Webhooks - Fixed an issue where newlines would not be interpreted correctly in history data
• Fixed an issue where captions would not be shown on-screen on mobile
• Fixed an issue that could prevent deleted files being removed from disk
• Fixed an issue where tags could not be added with square brackets surrounding the tag
• Player - Fixed an issue where clicking the banner to download an unplayable file wouldn't work
• Comments - Fixed an issue where link recipients could see buttons only relevant to logged-in users, such as Favorite and Make To-Do
• Uploads - Fixed an issue where uploading a file revision may not apply scoped workflows
• Webhooks - Fixed an issue where it may not send a signature for long results
• Comments - Fixed an issue where changing the author filter wouldn't update the list of comments
• Files - Fixed an issue causing title misalignment when opening a file in a new tab
• Workflows - Added an option to view all comments when creating a share link action in a File Workflow
• Trash - Fixed an issue where the page will crash if a file is deleted by a user whose account is then deleted
• Sharing - Fixed an issue preventing some links from rendering
• Player - Fixed an issue where PDF proxies of document files may not render in the player
• Fixed an issue where aliases would not work correctly when downloading a folder as a zip file
• Fixed an issue where proxies sometimes wouldn't download
• Fixed an issue where files with extremely long filenames might become inaccessible after uploading
• Fixed an issue causing some database passwords to not work correctly
• Fixed an issue where deleting a version would delete all versions
• File Deletion - Made trashing large quantities of files significantly faster
• Server performance improvements
• General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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• Fixed an issue that could cause data to be duplicated when sending to Final Cut Pro

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• Improved compatibility with Final Cut Pro .fcpxmld files

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

• Fixed an issue that could prevent encoding jobs from completing (you might need to clear the queue in the Admin Dashboard and restart existing jobs)

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

• Database Backups - More reliability when exporting a table that's in the middle of being modified
• History - Fixed an issue where event thumbnails would be blank if the user did Quick Look on a file instead of opening the player
• Workflows - Restored old behavior of instantly deleting the original file instead of trashing it when run from a workflow. Manually removing the original file will still trash it
• Uploads - Fixed an issue where uploading from a file request link would fail if the resulting file had the same name as an existing file and would have been combined in a version stack
• Heatmaps - Fixed an issue where heatmaps may not be logged for link users
• Tasks - Fixed a crash when trying to view tasks from a project you don't have access to
• Comments - Fixed an issue preventing comments from being printed correctly
• Fixed an issue where events wouldn't be updated with the file's thumbnail when it changes
• Fixed an issue preventing file revision emails from being sent
• Fixed an issue that could prevent files in My Private Files being encoded
• API - Fixed a crash that could occur when listing files
• Player - Fixed an issue where thumbnails in the versions dropdown would be blank
• Uploads - Fixed an issue where files uploaded to My Private Files could be encoded twice
• Uploads - Fixed an issue where new versions of a file would appear as Version 1
• Thumbnails - It will now retry creating a thumbnail from frame 0 if the file was corrupt and could not be seeked
• Player - Improved the visual appearance of the timecode hover overlay
• File Browser - Fixed an issue where not all files / folders would be returned if there are a large number of departments
• File Moving - Fixed an issue where redirecting to the destination folder would not work correctly with departments
• Player - Don't say it's the original file if a proxy replaced the original
• Transcription - Fix crash if shared link doesn't exist
• Upgrader - Fix issue preventing caches being rebuilt upon upgrade
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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• Support for converting H.265 / HEVC source files
• Improved compatibility with recent versions of Kollaborate
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause files to be moved to a duplicate folder instead of the intended folder
• Uploads - Fixed an issue where uploading a file replacement could result in the new file being inaccessible
• Player - Fixed an issue where loading poster / audio waveform would not appear
• Fixed an issue that could cause icons in history events and email alerts to be blank
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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Important: The Docker image is configured to convert the current database to your MariaDB version automatically. As such, we would recommend backing up the database before upgrading to any version as you may be unable to downgrade otherwise. You can download the current database as a .sql file from the Tools section of the Admin Area. We recommend doing this BEFORE copying the newer version's files over.

Note: 2025.3.1 and higher have important changes to how files are stored on disk that makes them backwards-incompatible with earlier versions. See the release notes for 2025.3.1 for more details.

Changes:

• Faster processing of PHP code and better caching makes pages load quicker
• Encoding - Fixed an encoder crash if an overlay has an apostrophe in the file's title
• Thumb Queue - Fixed a potential crash when adding new thumb jobs
• Files - Fixed an issue where creating a new folder inside a folder with special characters in the path would make the new folder disappear
• Player - Fixed hoverscrub thumb being blank when hovering over timeline
• Uploads - Fixed an issue preventing large files being uploaded
• Downloads - Fixed an issue where proxy URL might be incorrect when there are multiple proxies for a file
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

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• Fix issue where it would say all encoded proxies were 540p irrespective of their actual resolution
• Fix issue where old hoverscrub thumbs might not be cleared out

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