Getting Started

Tin Man is an elegant video playback and export application, designed with a customizable interface featuring resizable and dockable windows. This flexibility allows you to tailor the workspace to best fit your post-production workflow.

Playback

To import media files for playback:

• Click the File Import icon in the File List window

• Or choose Import Files from the File menu

• Or simply drag and drop media files directly from your operating system into either the File List or Playback Viewer windows

Once imported, click on a file in the File List to load it into the Player Window, where you can use the playback controls to play, scrub, or seek to a specific frame.

Additional Playback Tools:

• Video Image window: Adjust video source properties, set the color space, and configure monitor settings.

• Metadata Windows:

  • NRT (Non-Real-Time): Displays static metadata that doesn’t change over time

  • RT (Real-Time): Displays timecode-based metadata that updates during playback

  • Inspect: Shows key metadata in a concise, easy-to-read format. Also allows editing of supported metadata fields.

• Audio Mapping window: Route individual audio channels to different speakers and adjust their volumes independently.

• Video Check window:

  • Enable gamut warnings

  • View individual RGB channels

  • Toggle action/safe title overlays

  • Use the pixel color picker to inspect precise values

• Video Scopes and Audio Meters: Monitor video signal and audio levels in real-time.

• Issues window: Displays any problems encountered during import, playback, or export.

Export

To add files to the export queue:

• Click the File Import icon in the Export window

• Or right-click a file in the File List or Player Controls and select Add to Export Queue

• Or drag and drop media files directly into the Export window

Note: Once a file is in the export queue, its source properties cannot be changed until it is removed from the queue.

Tips

• Use Reset Panels from the Main Application menu to restore all dockable windows to their default layout.

• Many controls have additional options available via right-click context menus.

• On Windows, the first launch (or first launch after an update with RAW support changes) may take longer due to compilation of OpenCL GPU programs.

  • AMD GPUs may take over 5 minutes for this initial setup.

  • Once compiled, future launches will be significantly faster.