Frames Commander

Version 1.19 grew out of feedback from 1.18 users. The headline feature is viewing several clips as one: select shots in the playlist and review the edit and the cuts between them, just like in RV — all the way to exporting the sequence as a single file. Alongside it come scrub audio for lip-sync, hotkeys for every drawing tool, settings that no longer reset, and a new visual HTML user manual.

Clips as one sequence — like in RV

Check the edit without assembling it in a video editor.

• Select clips in the playlist with Ctrl or Shift and press the As one sequence button at the bottom of the playlist. With fewer than two selected, the whole playlist goes in, in playlist order.
• One timeline for the whole sequence: cuts show as yellow ticks, frame numbers run straight through, and the current clip's name appears right on the frame (the N button).
• Shift+→ and Shift+← jump to the next and previous cut. Playback, Loop, In/Out points, scrubbing and scrub audio all work across cuts.
• Clips can differ: another resolution is letterboxed, a clip without sound plays silence, and variable-frame-rate screencasts stay in sync. A clip with a different fps is conformed to the sequence — the program warns you.
• Drawings and bookmarks are remembered per clip and its own frame: reorder the clips or open a clip on its own — the annotations stay in place.
• The sequence is saved into the .fcmd project with the position and segment. If a clip has gone missing from disk, the sequence is rebuilt from the rest.
• The sequence runs in the Normal mode; Split, 2x2 and other modes close it. Turn the button off and the clip under the playhead stays in the player, on the same frame.

Exporting a sequence as one file

Send the edit for review as a single video, not a pile of files.

• The regular Export (Ctrl+E) in sequence mode renders the In/Out segment across every cut into one MP4 with the sequence audio.
• The frames are exactly what the player shows, at the first clip's resolution.
• A JPEG sequence is numbered by sequence frames.
• Cancel stops the export and deletes the unfinished file.

Scrub audio for lip-sync

Hear a frame's sound when you move through the video by hand.

• The sound-wave button next to the volume, or Shift+S: every frame step plays a short slice of that frame's audio.
• It sounds when stepping with the arrows and dragging on the timeline or right on the frame; normal playback, jumps and bookmark navigation stay as before.
• Right-click the button to choose the slice length: 1, 2 or 3 frames.
• Works in Normal, Split and 2x2 modes (the active panel is voiced); the switch is shared and remembered. Off by default.

Hotkeys for drawing

Annotate without trips to the toolbar.

• 1–8 — pencil, vanishing ink, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, triangle, text. A digit turns drawing on by itself.
• "-" and "=" — line width or font size.
• Delete clears the frame's annotation immediately, without a prompt; Shift+Delete clears all frames, with confirmation. Both can be undone with Ctrl+Z.
• Button tooltips show the current keys; every key can be reassigned on the Hotkeys tab.

Stability and convenience

• Settings no longer reset. The settings file moved to the user profile folder (%APPDATA%\FramesCommander): it is always writable, even when the program sits in Program Files, and a new version unpacked in place of the old one picks up your hotkeys. Old settings migrate automatically on first launch. A failed read no longer wipes the settings.
• Per-file bookmarks, just like drawings. Come back to a file in the playlist — its bookmarks are where you left them.
• Undoing Clear All works again: annotation cleared from every frame comes back with Ctrl+Z.
• Undo doesn't mix files up: after switching files, the previous file's undo steps are no longer applied to the new one.
• A new manual. An interactive HTML guide with annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, text search and sections for every mode. The Russian edition is ready; the English one is in progress.

The update is recommended for all users of version 1.18.

Unified playback platform. Hotkey editor. Easier tracking. Flexible ghosting. Vanishing "magic" ink. Offset for Maya. Correct VFR playback. Smooth multi-video.

Video tracking, Ghosting (Onion Skinning), Frame Offset, Curve Speed Fixes.

Auto-play on File Open Videos now automatically start playing when opened from Windows Explorer or after export. Playlist Position Memory When switching between files in playlist, your playhead position and in/out points are now remembered. Playlist States Saved to Project In/out points and playhead positions for ALL playlist files are now saved with the project.