Menus and app updates

Where the app menus live, the main items, automatic updates, and opening logs.

On macOS, use the menu bar at the top of the screen. On Windows / Linux, use the title-bar menu at the top of the window. The main available features are the same.

Top menu Main items
SeqLens (macOS only) About SeqLens, Preferences… (Cmd+,), Project Settings…, Services, Hide / Hide Others / Unhide, Quit SeqLens
File Open Project… (Cmd/Ctrl+O), Recent (submenu), Close Project (Cmd/Ctrl+W), Export (submenu), Preferences… (Cmd/Ctrl+,), Project Settings…, Quit SeqLens
Edit Copy Selection…, Move Selection…, Archive…, Convert to… > MP4 (H.264), Move Selection to Trash, Delete Selection Permanently…, Clean Up Empty Folders…
Select Select All (Cmd/Ctrl+A), Deselect All (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+A), Invert Selection, Select Healthy, Select Missing, Select Anomalous
View Inspect in Lens / Compare in Lens (switches automatically based on selection count, Space), Rescan (Cmd/Ctrl+R), Clear Filters, Columns…, Focus Search (Cmd/Ctrl+F), Hide Address Bar / Show Address Bar, Jobs (Sort by / Group by / Filter by Status / Filter by Extension / Columns… are available only in the Windows / Linux title-bar menu)
Server Enable Server / Disable Server, status display row, Server Settings…, Open API Docs, Show Server Logs
Help Website, Report a Bug…, Request a Feature…, Show Logs, About SeqLens
  • File → Export submenu: Export as CSV… / Export as JSON… / Export as PDF… / Export as OpenTimelineIO… / Export as MHL… / Push to After Effects
  • ZIP and MP4 are available from the Edit menu, the row right-click menu, or the Windows / Linux title-bar menu
  • When Recent is empty, it shows No recent projects

Title bar (Windows / Linux only)

On Windows / Linux, the title bar shows the SeqLens logo, workspace name, project name, and menus. In addition to view-related items such as Sort by, Group by, Filter by Status, Filter by Extension, and Columns…, it also provides state-aware items such as Select by Extension, Select by Metadata (submenu), and the command palette.

App auto-updates

  • Select Stable (latest) or Beta from Preferences → About → Update channel
  • SeqLens checks for updates on launch. When an update is found, it is downloaded automatically and applied by restarting automatically as soon as the download completes
  • SeqLens also checks periodically for new versions after launch. When an update is available, Restart to update appears in the lower right
  • Version strings are assigned like 26.10.0 (stable) or 26.10.0-beta.3 (beta)
  • You can check the current app version on the About tab. Electron / Node / Chromium versions are shown inside About → Third-Party Licenses
  • When using the Beta channel, a Report a Bug floating button appears in the lower right and opens the bug report form directly (you can hide it with the × on the right)

Logging

  • Choose Help → Show Logs to open the current log file in the default app (if it cannot be opened, the log directory opens in Finder / Explorer)
  • Logs are saved under userData/logs/. When using the HTTP API server, api-server.log is generated as a separate file. Open it directly from Server → Show Server Logs