FoolCat Release Notes

FoolCat 24.3.1

Added support for Sony Burano XAVC HEVC Intra HQ clips (Thanks, Luc and Zach!).
The green tint issue in SONY FX6 XAVC-I thumbnails has been fixed.

FoolCat 24.3

New

Support for new Blackmagic Design cameras:

PYXIS 6K, URSA Cine 12K and URSA Cine 17K
BRAW recorded by Panasonic GH7 and Fujifilm GFX100S II

Reports now also show Scene and Take for BRAW clips

Fixed

Fixed a rare issue where the frame count for BRAW clips was off by one.
When applying a LUT, some RED clips would show incorrect results (Thanks, Eric)
Selecting individual .cine and .crm files is now possible via the file browser.
MP4 clips are no longer reported as MOV, thanks to Yeong.

FoolCat 24.2

Support for the new RED V-Raptor [X] camera
Support for the new Sony BURANO camera
Improved processing of ARRI RAW clips
Updated Camera SDKs (ARRI v8.2 / RED v8.5.1 / SONY v5.0 / BRAW v3.6.1)
Sony RAW clips no longer get reported as X-OCN

FoolCat 24.1 🌈

FoolCat can now apply a custom look (LUT) to the stills in your reports. Alternatively, you can set FoolCat to convert RAW footage to Rec.709 color space automatically.

Learn more...

FoolCat 23.1.5

De-squeeze now works for ARRI ProRes and Sony RAW/X-OCN anamorphic clips (Thanks to David!)
Some RED clips showed the FPS value twice; that's now fixed (Thanks, Jason!). ARRI ProRes clips now also display the Sensor FPS.
Fixed a crash when thumb offsets set (Thanks to Jason!)

FoolCat 23.1.4

Fixed a rare crash that could occur when creating a report (Thanks for reporting, Jeremy).
Fixed an issue causing spanned RED clips to display incorrectly in the report (Thanks for reporting, Michael and Steve).
Rosetta is no longer required for installing FoolCat.

FoolCat 23.1.3

Spanned GoPro clips are now properly reported as one clip, with correct file size, duration and bitrate. (Thanks for reporting, Eliot.)
ARRIRAW thumbnails are now scaled to reflect Lens Squeeze metadata.
Fixed a crash when generating multiple reports from the FoolCat integration in Hedge. (Big thanks to Malia.)
Updated support for new camera firmware from Blackmagic, RED, and ARRI.
Other changes to improve stability and performance.

FoolCat 23.1.2

Panasonic S1H stills did not render correctly; that's fixed (Thanks for reporting, Ethan).
Added support for ARRIRAW SUP1.1 (Thanks, Ugis and Robin).
Thanks to Chanders, spanned RED and ARRI clips now report the total byte size and bit rate.

FoolCat 23.1.1

It’s now possible to create multiple reports at the same time via File > New (CMD-N).
Reset the FoolCat window after creating a report via Window > Reset (CMD-R).
Stills in the PDF report now look even better thanks to Mike.
When a still for one clip could not get created, the whole batch would fail. That’s fixed (Thanks for reporting, David and Dorian).

FoolCat 23.1

A brand-new FoolCat, with many more supported codecs, and up to three times faster report generation 🚀

IMPORTANT — to use the new FoolCat, you’ll need to extend your existing license!

Click the “Install Update” button below
Install and Relaunch FoolCat
Click “Extend License” after the new FoolCat starts

New codecs

Sony X-OCN and Sony RAW
Phantom CineRAW
ProRes RAW
Canon Raw Light (CRM)

New supported cameras/formats

ARRI Alexa 35
Sony FX3
Red V-Raptor XL
GoPro Hero 10+ HEVC
Sony F65’s high frame rate RAW files
ProRes 4444 XQ
Canon XF-AVC
Fujifilm XH2s BRAW clips captured by BMD’s Video Assist
Leica SL2-S clips captured through BMD's Video Assist

Foolcat 21.2.5

Fix for error -1004. As this is related to the Media Engine that powers Foolcat, it’s a mandatory update for everyone.

Foolcat 21.2.4

Creation of stills is now evenly spread out over the length of the entire clip (Thanks for reporting, Joshua and Adam).

Foolcat 21.2.3

Some ARRIRAW clips reported an incorrect lens size and shutter angle, that's fixed (Thanks for reporting, Francis and Ken).

Foolcat 21.2.2

Our license provider WyDay released a fix for the activation issue present in macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14. Major thanks to Hedge user Jochem for finding that workaround for them 👏👏👏

Foolcat 21.2.1

Fixed an issue in the HTML report that caused images not to load (Thanks for reporting, Isaac).

Foolcat 21.2

Updated Blackmagic RAW SKD, adds 5 gen color science support (BRAW 2.1).
Updated RED RAW SKD, adds support for Komodo Anamorphic.

Foolcat 21.1 - Reels & Labels

Set a Label, and it shows up as your Report Name.
Report now detect reels, and show the reel's folder and file path for every clip (Thanks for suggesting, all).
The filenames of generated stills now use the original filename + timestamp (Thanks for suggesting, Jeff).

Foolcat 20.4

Change the Report name by adding a Label, just like in Hedge 🤯
Don't want Foolcat to group PDFs? Prefer the old style? Just uncheck the new 'Group PDFs' option in Preferences.
Need direct access to the generated stills? The Report Data folder is now no longer hidden.
The 'Go to Report' menu item has been moved to the Window menu and has a shortcut: Command-Shift-R

Foolcat 20.3.2

Fixed a rare bug that caused the PDF creation to never finish.

Foolcat 20.3.1

Don't want thumbnails in your Report? Just set 'Thumbnails per Clip' to 0 and voilà (Thanks for suggesting this, Arthur).
Fixed a bug that caused the total byte size to be incorrect (Thanks for reporting, Jimmy).

Foolcat 20.3

Added support for RED Komodo camera (R3D SDK V7.3.4)

Foolcat 20.2

New Features:

Camera metadata for RED / ARRI / Blackmagic cameras.
RED sequences now show up as one clip.
Support for Codex HDE .arx files.
Support for ARRI RAW .mxf files.
New PDF dark mode and landscape orientation.
Thumbnail offset for last frame.

Foolcat 20.1.1

Adds support for non-square Report logos (Thanks to Louis-Philippe!)
Fixes an issue that caused the PDF to show black thumbnails (Thanks for reporting, Anthony).
Fixes an issue that caused faulty PDF page breaks. (thanks for for reporting, Andrew).
Fixes an issue with the Hedge integration when there are no clips found (thanks for reporting, Chris).
Fixes an issue that caused the 'Go to Reports' menu option not to work (thanks for reporting, Andrew).

Foolcat 20.1

A brand new version for Mac and Windows.