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A .playout file holds a whole show, with as many playlists as you need: pre-show loop, walk-in, sermon clips. Documents auto-save once they've been saved the first time.
For Mac, iPhone and iPad · Free to try
FoShow Flow Orchestrated Playout
Broadcast-style video playout for church, conference and live-event teams. Build a playlist, cue it, and send a clean feed to a projector, switcher or Apple TV while you watch a separate preview.
Coming soon to theApp Store
How the free trial works
- A/B crossfades
- Clean feed over HDMI or to an Apple TV
- HyperDeck emulation
- Web control page
- Companion · HTTP · OSC
Features
Everything a live show needs. Nothing it doesn't.
FoShow is deliberately small: one window, one clean feed, and the tools to get a clip to air on time and without surprises. The same app runs on Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Two-channel playback
Independent A/B players give you cuts, crossfades and fade-through-black between clips, with frame-accurate seeking on both channels.
Per-clip settings
Trim in/out points in a scrubbable editor. Set a volume, the transition into the clip, and what happens at the end: advance, loop, hold the last frame, or fade to black.
Clean feed out
Program output goes full-screen on an external display over HDMI or USB-C, or on an Apple TV by screen mirroring, from a Mac, iPhone or iPad. With the unlock it can also go straight to an AirPlay receiver. On the Mac, route its audio to a different Core Audio device while the preview plays through the system default.
Countdown to next
The transport bar shows time remaining on the current clip and what plays next. The countdown turns amber under 30 seconds and red under 10, so hand-offs never sneak up on you.
Lockout
Lock playout and every command that would change it is refused, from the keyboard and from remote control. A stray keypress or button press can't interrupt a live show.
Remote control
Run it from the desk you already have.
Every command goes through one dispatcher, so the keyboard, an ATEM panel, a Stream Deck, a phone and a script all share the same verbs and the same lockout rules.
HyperDeck emulation
FoShow answers the Blackmagic HyperDeck protocol on port 9993. Add it to ATEM Software Control or a hardware panel as a HyperDeck and roll clips from the switcher with no extra software.
Web control page
Open FoShow's address on any phone or tablet on the network for transport, cue and lockout buttons. Nothing to install, so a volunteer can take over from the back row.
HTTP API and OSC
A JSON API under /api/v1 with bearer-token auth, plus OSC in and out with live state pushed to your feedback targets. Bonjour advertises FoShow so controllers find it without an address.
Bitfocus Companion
A free, open-source Companion module mirrors the whole API with actions, feedbacks, variables and a preset pack. See what's on the panel.
# What's on air right now?
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOSHOW_TOKEN" \
http://foshow.local:7878/api/v1/status
# Cue a clip by name, then take it
$ curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOSHOW_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"Sintel"}' \
http://foshow.local:7878/api/v1/cue/byName
$ curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOSHOW_TOKEN" \
http://foshow.local:7878/api/v1/take
# Lock playout for the rest of the service
$ curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOSHOW_TOKEN" \
-d '{"value":true}' http://foshow.local:7878/api/v1/lockoutSame verbs everywhere
Whatever you send it over, a command is a command. Cue by index, name or ID. Switch playlists by name or step through them. Fade to black and back. Lock and unlock.
While playout is locked, mutating commands return 423 Locked. Reads keep working, so dashboards and Companion feedbacks stay live.
/status/playlists/play/take/pause
/stop/next/previous/cue/cue/byName
/cue/byId/seek/jumpToIn/jumpToOut/volume
/mute/fadeToBlack/clearBlack/playlist/next
/playlist/loop/playlist/byName/lockout
Bitfocus Companion module
Put the whole show on a Stream Deck.
The FoShow module for Bitfocus Companion mirrors the HTTP API one-to-one. Add the connection, paste the token or pick FoShow from Bonjour, and the preset pack gives you a working panel immediately. The module is free and open source.
TRANSPORTPLAY▶
TRANSPORTPAUSE⏸
TRANSPORTSTOP■
CLIPPREV⏮
CLIPNEXT⏭
NOW PLAYINGSintel.mp412:47
NEXT UPSpring.mov0:28
DSKFADE TO BLACK
DSKRESTORE
AUDIOMUTE🔇
CUE 1Big Buck Bunny
CUE 2Tears of Steel
CUE 3Sintel
CUE 4Spring
SAFETYLOCK🔒
Actions
Play, pause, toggle, stop, next and previous. Cue by position or by file name so buttons survive reordering. Seek, set volume, mute, fade to black and restore. Switch playlists from a dropdown or by name, step through them, toggle loop, and engage lockout.
Feedbacks
Light buttons from live state: playing, blacked out, transitioning, ready, muted, clip on-air, playlist loaded, loop on, lockout on, and a “time remaining is below N seconds” warning for hand-offs.
Variables
Current and next clip names, playlist name, playhead, duration and time remaining as m:ss or raw seconds, volume, mute, lock state, end action and the active A/B channel.
Presets
Transport and DSK, audio, playlist and safety pages, including “Now Playing” and “Next Up” text buttons that turn red in the last ten seconds.
- 1Enable the HTTP API in FoShow under Output Settings ▸ Remote Control, and copy the token.
- 2Add a FoShow connection in Companion. Enter the host and token, or pick the instance Bonjour found.
- 3Drag in the presets. The connection turns green as soon as Companion reads
/status.
Module source and packages: github.com/mknerr/companion-module-foshow
Keyboard
Fast enough to run by hand.
On the Mac every key is a bare key, so an operator can cue and take without looking down. The number row cues clips one to ten.
| Space | Play / pause |
| Return | Take the cued clip |
| K | Stop |
| 1 – 9, 0 | Cue clips 1 – 10 |
| ] / [ | Next / previous clip |
| Home / End | Jump to in / out point |
| M | Mute the clean feed |
| ⌘⇧] / ⌘⇧[ | Next / previous playlist |
| ⌘L | Toggle playlist loop |
| ⌘⇧L | Lock or unlock playout |
Pricing
Run a full show free. Pay once when it's earned it.
No subscription, no per-seat licence, no account. Download it from the App Store and run a full show before you decide.
Free trial
$0
No time limit.
- All playback and transitions
- Clean feed to an external display, or to an Apple TV by screen mirroring
- Companion, HyperDeck, web, HTTP and OSC control
- A FoShow watermark on the clean feed
- No direct AirPlay video, which can't carry the watermark
One-time purchase
FoShow
$39.99once
Unlock inside the app to remove the watermark.
- Everything in the trial, watermark-free
- Direct AirPlay video to an Apple TV or other receiver
- Yours on every Mac, iPhone and iPad signed in to your Apple ID
- Updates included
Requirements
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, or iOS and iPadOS 17 or later. An external display, HDMI or USB-C video output, or an Apple TV for the clean feed. FoShow plays anything AVFoundation can decode, including H.264, HEVC and ProRes in .mov, .mp4 and .m4v.
First launch
FoShow asks for Local Network access, which remote control, HyperDeck and Bonjour need. Launch it once during setup so the prompt never appears mid-show.
Pro Pack
NDI® output sends the clean feed, with its sound, to IP switchers and other NDI receivers. It is a separate one-time purchase inside the app: $29.99, or $59.99 together with the watermark unlock. Hit-time scheduling, so a clip ends at a wall-clock time, is coming as a free update.
NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB. ndi.video