Chris Roy Films

Changes in v4.9

• Fixed: PostSync would disappear from the menu bar when a status popup window was displayed. Affected macOS Sequoia and up.
• Fixed: Selected User would sometimes disappear from the PostWatch menu bar icon.
• Running Validation on Pushover User Keys and App Tokens would freeze if there wasn’t a working internet connection. Also the Cancel button was not responsive.
• Optimization for enabled Notifications on macOS Tahoe will check for each installed application before giving a warning. Required for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Frame.io Transfer and Offshoot. (Will require Optimization again even if run on the previous version of PostWatch.)
• Bluetooth Battery Alerts: Added option to adjust the battery threshold.
• Added UK English localisation. (Apologies for all the z’s.)
• Several small fixes and stability improvements.

Changes in v4.8

• Fixed: Notifications stopped working for Compressor v4.10 and later.
• Added menu icons for macOS Tahoe.
• Updated Optimizer for compatibility with macOS Tahoe 26.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.7.2.
• The installer was blocked from installing on macOS Tahoe.
• Fixed a major issue with the language detection method for watched applications. Should now correctly work for all languages.
• DaVinci Resolve: Added support for German (Deutsch) and Italian (Italiano)
• HandBrake: Added support for Swedish (Svenska)
• Several small fixes for macOS Tahoe and stability improvements.

Changes in v4.7

• Liquid Glass icon and minor UI updates for macOS Tahoe compatibility.
• Updated the Optimize utility for macOS Tahoe.
• Several small fixes and stability improvements.

Changes in v4.6

• New logo and branding to match the style of PostSync 2.
• New Security Reset tool to help fix issues where macOS blocks access to applications or system resources.
• New setting to launch application after user log on.
• Improved stability with macOS Sequoia.
• Dropped support for macOS Catalina.
• Stability improvements and bug fixes.

Changes in v4.5

• Fixed: Final Cut Pro was reporting the wrong number of export items and elapsed time for first alert.
• Fixed: Final Cut Pro was sometimes triggering a Security Access lockout when exporting.

Changes in v4.4

• Now compatible with Final Cut Pro v11.
• Now compatible with Compressor .4.9.

Changes in v4.3

• New: Adobe Premiere Pro is finally supported! PostWatch can alert on export success or failure and provide elapsed time. Tested with Premiere 2021 and above. If an Activity Watcher was setup for Premiere then the App Token will automatically be transferred to the new feature.
• Fixed: Some odd behaviors when verifying App Tokens with Pushover.
• Fixed: Rare incorrect elapsed time when sharing from Final Cut Pro to Frame.io.
• Fixed: The Optimizer utility not setting up OffShoot/Hedge scripts correctly.
• Some application “pruning” to remove unused code.
• …and many other small fixes and stability improvements.

Changes in v4.2

• macOS Sequoia Compatibility (15.1 highly recommended)
• Apple made a major change to the security for Notification Center. PostWatch can no longer read the content of Desktop Notifications. However, much of the functionality that uses this information has been rebuilt (or will be soon.) Many of the apps that were using Notification information are the following:
  • Final Cut Pro – Rebuilt with more accurate elapsed time calculation.
  • Frame.io Desktop – Rebuilt and now includes elapsed time! (Adobe panels not included it this time)
  • EditReady – Rebuilt and now includes elapsed time!
  • ff·Works – Rebuilt to send an alert only when all encodes are complete. Improved alert for errors.
• The following apps still need rebuilding (for a future release) and only send a general generic alert and cannot discern errors:
  • Frame.io Transfer, OffShoot (non-pro) and Apple Motion (May require enabling Notifications in app’s settings)
  • Custom Notification Watchers (The keyword options have been disabled for Sequoia)
• Improved: Security & Privacy testing is much improved. New prompts warn you when important access has been denied or ignored. Please note that PostWatch asks for access to several system resources and many of the post-production app’s data to do its work.
• Improved: New updates to Adobe After Effects 2024 and 2025 have caused issues for PostWatch. Also, the experimental “automatic” mode in PostWatch occasionally crashed After Effects and caused other issues. So these have prompted me to re-work my solution. Now there is a new PostWatch Alert panel for After Effects that prepares and starts the Render Queue. (A possible future update might have a monitoring panel that works in the background.)
• Improved: Bluetooth device battery check has been updated for better compatibility with macOS Sonoma and above.
• Improved: Refined disk space monitoring does a better job of ignoring hidden system disks.
• Fixed: Issue launching PostWatch Watcher on macOS systems not set to English.
• Several small fixes and improvements.

Changes in v4.1

• Fixed: Improperly Ejected Disk alerts will no longer warn for system disks and connected network volumes.
• Fixed: Clicking Cancel in settings would sometimes ask you to save even though nothing was changed.
• Improved: Clearer notice for trial expiration.

Changes in v4.0

• Major code change: PostWatch now connects directly to the Notifications database so it no longer needs to read the Notification Center through the UI. This has major impacts on PostWatch:
  • Special Notification Center settings are no longer required.
  • Applications no longer need to have Notification Center alerts enabled.
  • Intel and Apple Silicon Macs work equally the same.
  • The PostWatch Screensaver is no longer needed.
  • You can use the macOS System Screensavers, Display Sleep and Screen Lock freely.
  • The Optimizer has been re-worked with some sections now optional.

• Lite (free) and Pro (paid) editions. Many advanced features are now part of the Pro Edition. Pro is a one-time paid non-subscription model.
• Improved: Supports interacting with macOS in any language.
• Improved: Greatly expanded language support for post-production applications, including: Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch and more.
• New: Guided setup walks users through the Pushover signup and Key/Token configuration with PostWatch.
• Improved: Modernized the Settings window as well as many of the modal alerts.
• New: Application Activity Watcher. Observe an applications’ background processes and send an alert when complete. (Pro) Good for applications that aren’t already integrated into PostWatch. (Premiere Pro, Topaz Video AI, etc.)
• New: Toggling between Light and Dark modes.
• New: Manual language selection for menu and interface.
• New: Disable watching of specific applications.
• Updated: Support for ff·Works 4.
• Improved: Reworked code for EditReady. Alerts now contain the number of files completed as well as alerts for failed conversions.
• Improved: Reworked code for Media Encoder. Fixes issues with the reliability of alerts.
• New: Clicking the menu’s Watcher Status shows a list of currently watched applications. Also clicking Recent Problems gives a detailed list of issues.
• …and many other fixes and stability improvements.

Changes in v3.2

• Important update for Apple Silicon Macs: An issue was discovered in the detection of the System Screensaver and Display Sleep that affects the PostWatch Screensaver. Now works correctly on Intel and Apple Silicon.
• Fixed: The PostWatch Screensaver was running on older macOS’s (Catalina) when it shouldn’t and was actually blocking the watching of Notifications.
• New: Optimization Utility has been completely redesigned with enhanced navigation and improved error reporting.
• New: The optional Notification Sleep Test has also been redesigned with an easier to use interface.
• Improved: Error logs now expanded with better information details.
• Includes many small fixes and stability improvements.

Changes in v3.1

• New: Now calculates elapsed time for Final Cut Pro, HandBrake and ff·Works.
• New: Option to be notified when opening a post-production app using an unsupported language.
• Improved: HandBrake watcher rebuilt. PostWatch no longer uses Notifications, which were inconsistent, and now watches the Queue window for progress.
• Fixed: PostWatch was not asking for permission to use Finder on first launch, which disabled a few functions, including starting its own screensaver.
• Fixed: Accessibility request button was not opening the Accessibility panel in System Settings.

Changes in v3.0

• macOS Sonoma compatibility.
• Greatly improved setup experience with Pushover; including detailed checklist and guided video.
• Added French and German localization.
• Added support for OffShoot.
• Redesigned menu interface.
• Expanded settings with many new options.
• Redesigned updates window.
• Improved crash and unresponsive apps alerts.
• More improvements for After Effects alerts.
• Ejected disk alert was not closing the desktop notification.
• Many other fixes and adjustments.

Changes in v2.7

• Now compatible with Adobe After Effects 2023. Still requires turning on logging in the Render Queue.
• Fixed rare Compressor error when cancelling a batch.

Changes in v2.6

• New security feature: the ability to use PostWatch’s screen saver as a lock screen. You can launch it from the menu and the Mac will be locked. (yet still get alerts) PostWatch also honors the “Require password after the screen saver begins” in System Preferences/Settings.
• Fixed update check from hanging at launch.
• Removed the Notifications workaround for HandBrake that kept it in focus during encodes. Handbrake v1.6.1 removed the need for it.
• Fixed issue with Optimizer hanging when modifying Notifications. The macOS 13.2.1 update broke it.

Changes in v2.5

• Added alert and link to procedure to enable System Events permissions when blocked. (macOS Monterey)
• Fixed alert messages with missing localization text.
• Improved identification of macOS version for non-english areas.

Changes in v2.4

• Now supports MacOS Ventura!
• Rebuilt Bluetooth battery warning (now works on newer OS’s).
• Improvements to low disk space alerts.
• Optimization Tool progress meter with cancel button. (Big Sur and higher)
• Several minor fixes and tweaks.

Changes in v2.3

• Adobe Media Encoder alerts working again after Adobe updates.
• Fixed PostWatch Screensaver cycling on/off when system Screen Saver is disabled.
• Shrunk the size of the installer .dmg
• Preparations for macOS Ventura.

Changes in v2.2

• Button to cancel Startup Delay.
• Fixed rare PostWatch Screensaver “idleTime” error.
• Fixed PostWatch Screensaver showing on all displays.
• Fixed false or missing complete notices in After Effects.
• Updated paths to new website: chrisroyfilms.com

Changes in v2.1

• Added compatibility with ff·Works 3.
• Fixed Compressor error when cancelling a batch.

Changes in v2.0

• Re-designed as a menu bar app including preferences.
• Single application file deployment. No more helper files.
• Digitally signed for Gatekeeper.
• Multi-language support: English and Spanish. (more to come)
• Integrated and intuitive setup and optimization.
• Rebuilt Pushover verification.
• Now uses Pushover Groups and User switching.
• Option to use a single App Token.
• New and improved built-in screensaver.
• Compressor encode duration fixes.
• Media Encoder error count fixes.
• Many, many small stability improvements.

Changes in v1.70

• Now supports macOS Monterey!
• Beginning stages of multi-language support. (coming in 2022)
• Improved System Optimization scripts for specific macOS’s.
• Fixed issue affecting display sleep modes with Big Sur and higher.
• Fixed issue with HandBrake not triggering Notification Center and PostWatch alerts.
• Fixed an After Effects issue with desktop Notifications showing incorrect composition name.
• Fixed several issues from changes in Resolve 17. (tested with v14 through v17.4.2)
• More code improvements for less RAM and CPU usage.

Changes in v1.65

• Now supports DaVinci Resolve. Tested on v14 and higher.
• New script to make sure your system is set to work with PostWatch; Notification settings, Helper scripts and more.
• New version check at launch will let you know when an update is available.
• Small fixes and adjustments.

Changes in v1.65

• New feature that saves PostWatch alerts when the internet connection is down. Sends them when the connection returns.
• Fixes to communication with Pushover for a more stable exchange.

Changes in v1.63

• Rebuilt time elapsed for Apple Compressor. Time elapsed is now reported to Pushover for: After Effects, Media Encoder, Compressor, Hedge, REDCINE-X Pro, CD-Transfer and Episode.

Changes in v1.62

• Added support for Adobe Media Encoder.

Changes in v1.59

• Added support for Adobe After Effects.
• Added support for REDCINE-X Pro.
• Fixed a few issues with versions of Compressor older than v4.5.3

Changes in v1.58

• Updated Compressor compatibility to include new Notifications introduced in v4.5.3
• Added sounds when startup/shutdown notice is activated.

Changes in v1.57

• Fixed issue with macOS Big Sur with reading Notification Center – PW had trouble distinguishing between a banner alert and user opening Notification Center. Now works properly.

Changes in v1.56

• Rebuilt for compatibility with macOS Big Sur.

Changes in v1.53

• Compressor detection revamped and working more efficiently.
• Tweaks and fixes.