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Tribute Director 1.2.4 — Build 132

Tribute Director 1.2.4 introduces a substantially redesigned Funeral Settings workspace, more expressive holding-screen design tools, direct access to Content Pack backgrounds and a refreshed Tribute Creator and Launcher experience.

Funeral Settings and holding screens

• Redesign Funeral Settings around a larger live preview and clearer, grouped controls.
• Make the holding-screen heading, deceased name and subtitle directly editable while retaining the deceased name as the initial value.
• Add independent font, size, text colour and line-height controls for the heading, name and subtitle.
• Add compact preset menus with mouse-wheel fine adjustment for supported numeric settings.
• Keep zoom and position, border and drop-shadow options inside collapsible advanced sections, with their enabled state visible while collapsed.
• Add separate actions to create a holding screen or select one from a file.
• Improve service-time validation so the outside-business-hours warning waits until date and time entry is complete.

Overall styles

• Add visual overall-style selection using the current portrait in each preview.
• Include coordinated Classic, Contemporary, Floral, Minimal, Glass and Custom styles.
• Give each style its own background, typography, portrait scale, text offsets, border and shadow treatment.
• Add a photographic Floral design and improve background coverage and scaling across every style.
• Add a Glass style with a portrait-forward composition, translucent white text panel, backdrop blur, gradient border and tuned memorial typography.

Background design

• Add None, Colour, Gradient and Image background modes; None uses a clean white background.
• Add named funeral-appropriate colour presets, gradient presets and custom colour selection.
• Allow background images to be selected directly from a file.
• Ensure image and gradient backgrounds cover the complete holding screen.
• Add horizontal and vertical background-image flip controls.
• Add colour and gradient overlays with adjustable opacity.
• Support opacity presets, mouse-wheel fine adjustment and an interactive click-and-drag vertical slider.
• Clear the previously selected image when switching to a different background source, preventing old imagery from showing through.

Content Packs

• Open Content Packs directly from the Funeral Settings Image background controls.
• Display all available collections with Installed, Install or Purchase status.
• Allow entitled backgrounds to be selected and applied without leaving Funeral Settings.
• Improve local Content Pack loading and background previews for development and release validation.

Tribute Creator and Launcher

• Refresh Tribute Creator screenshots throughout Tribute Launcher.
• Improve the presentation of Creator’s import, photo editing, slideshow settings, title and rendering workflow.
• Update the Launcher changelog and feature summaries for this release.
• Update Tribute Launcher to version 1.5, build 6.

Release information

• Tribute Director version: 1.2.4
• Tribute Director build: 132
• Tribute Launcher version: 1.5
• Tribute Launcher build: 6

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Tribute Director 1.2.1

Released 22 October 2026 · Build 126

Tribute Director 1.2.1 improves setup, strengthens Tribute Creator project safety and introduces a more capable downloadable Content Pack background Library.

Highlights

• Set up licence access and operator, programme and confidence displays with a guided first-launch assistant.
• Assign and test multiple programme displays alongside a dedicated confidence display.
• Save Tribute Creator work as robust `.tc` projects with embedded media, incremental autosave, missing-media checks and guided relinking.
• Transfer projects between Macs with `.tcpackage` archives and deliver the finished tribute as an external MP4.
• Receive a reminder to render after making changes, before leaving Tribute

Tribute Creator

• See clear progress while importing and exporting, with smoother photo warmth, saturation and dehaze adjustments.
• Control title-sequence line spacing and use the selected background image in the title sequence.
• Browse protected downloadable Content Packs with improved previews, integrity checks and update support.
• Filter backgrounds by Content Pack and search by tag or image name.
• Benefit from clearer download errors, improved thumbnails and general reliability refinements.

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Tribute Director 1.2.0

Released 19 October 2026 · Build 120

Tribute Director 1.2.0 introduces Tribute Creator, a complete workflow for building and editing tribute slideshows without leaving Tribute Director. It also adds stronger pre-service checks, more dependable display and audio routing, and smoother ways to move services between Macs.

What’s new

• Create and edit tribute slideshows directly in Tribute Director with the new Tribute Creator.
• Import photos and videos, arrange media, adjust slideshow settings and render the finished tribute from one guided workflow.
• Access Tribute Creator with monthly or annual subscriptions from the Mac App Store, or through a Direct licence with a seven-day trial.
• Check subscription status, restore purchases and manage Creator access more easily.
• Run the guided Pre-Service Sound Check / Video Check to confirm programme and confidence displays, programme audio and headphone preview before the service begins.
• Assign the operator monitor independently from programme and confidence outputs, avoiding conflicting display assignments.
• Use built-in audio test signals to verify programme and preview routes.
• Work more reliably when headphones and other audio devices are connected, disconnected or changed.
• Add timed lyric audio markers and use improved song-library tools.
• Export more dependable portable service packages, with improved media relinking when a service is moved to another Mac.
• See a more consistent holding screen across the programme output and browser remote preview.
• Benefit from clearer output warnings, improved diagnostics and general reliability refinements.

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Tribute Director 1.1.4

Released 12 October 2026 - Build 119

This update makes it easier to check and configure every output before a service.

What's New

• Use the new Pre-Service Sound Check / Video Check to confirm the operator, programme and confidence displays, programme audio destination and headphone preview route in one place.
• Assign an Operator Monitor separately from the programme and confidence displays.
• Use built-in test signals to check programme audio and headphone preview routing before guests arrive.
• Benefit from more reliable audio-device detection and recovery when headphones or other output hardware are connected, disconnected or changed.
• See a more consistent holding-screen image across the programme output and browser remote preview.
• Get clearer warnings and diagnostics when an audio or display route needs attention.
• Before Your Next Service, after updating, open Pre-Service Sound Check / Video Check and confirm each display and audio route used at your venue.

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Tribute Director 1.1.3

Build 115 - Released 6 October 2026

A maintenance release focused on dependable audio routing, live-playback responsiveness and clearer recovery during service operation.

Audio and playback improvements

• Fixed programme audio routing to headphones and connected headphone interfaces.
• Headphone audio now recovers after a device is unplugged and reconnected.
• Headphone routing no longer requires macOS Default output to be changed.
• Headphone and Default output mute controls now operate independently.
• Added an Audio Levels refresh control to re-detect available audio devices.
• Improved playback responsiveness by reducing audio-meter processing overhead.

Diagnostics

• Added clearer messages when an audio output cannot be selected or started.

Before a live service, complete a brief sound and display check using the exact devices and connections planned for the service.

Tribute Director is continually refined to improve reliability, workflow speed and confidence during live services. This page records the changes included with each public release.

Version 1.1.2

Build 114 · Released 1 October 2026

Tribute Director 1.1.2 adds clearer first-run guidance, improved appearance handling, a more readable browser remote and updated operator documentation.

Guidance And Help

• Added a first-launch Getting Started guide for creating a service, building the running order, checking outputs and running the service.
• Added a What's New presentation after an update.
• Both guides can be reopened from the Help menu.
• Rebuilt and expanded the Operator Manual with current screenshots and practical instructions for preparation, playback, displays, remote operation and recovery.

Appearance

• New installations follow the current macOS Light or Dark appearance until the top-right appearance button is used.
• Using the appearance button saves a manual Light or Dark override that persists across launches.
• Existing appearance choices are preserved during upgrade.
• Refined Audio Levels mute buttons so normal and muted states remain clear in both appearances.
• Refreshed the scalable Tribute Director top-bar branding.

Browser Remote

• Improved the holding-screen preview so its portrait, text layout and typography more closely match Programme output and remain readable on a phone.
• Made HOLDING state updates immediate and clearer across the programme preview, playback status and Holding button.

Reliability

• Opening Tribute Director again now activates the existing app instead of starting a duplicate instance.

Before updating: Finish any live service first. After updating, run a sound, screen and remote check before the next service.

Version 1.1.0

Build 110 · Released 29 September 2026

Tribute Director 1.1.0 introduced expanded audio routing, clearer display control and a more efficient operator workspace.

Audio Outputs

• Added multi-output programme audio for sending audio to multiple devices at the same time.
• Added per-device volume, mute and delay controls.
• Added post-fader master metering and master mute behaviour that preserves each output's previous mute state.
• Added mouse-wheel adjustment for audio faders and delay dials.

Displays And Lyrics

• Added clearer controls for assigning available external displays to Programme or Confidence output.
• Improved Confidence output so the lyric preview follows the next lyric screen.

Operator Workflow

• Added a resizable divider between the running order and Section Media.
• Made the Audio Levels panel denser and easier to scan.
• Added automatic reopening of the most recent .td service file at launch.

Version 1.0.4

Build 106 · Changes since 1.0.3

Video Playback

• Looping video cues restart seamlessly without briefly showing the holding screen.
• Looping cues remain live and playing instead of being temporarily marked finished at loop points.

Programme Transitions

• The holding screen fades back in smoothly after audio or video completion.
• Fixed an unwanted fade-out and fade-in when moving from a completed video tribute to an audio cue that also uses the holding screen.
• Improved transitions between spoken segments, selected images and cues that use the holding screen.

Spoken Segments

• Selected images can use a custom background colour, giving a cleaner Programme output when the image does not fill the display.

Version 1.0.3

A maintenance update focused on playback reliability, project handling and live-service safeguards.

Improvements

• Improved reliability when preparing and validating local media files.
• Improved handling of audio and visual media in service sections.
• Improved project save and reopen behaviour.
• Improved operator confidence through clearer service status feedback.
• Additional refinements for live-service control workflows.

Fixes

• Fixed minor issues with media readiness reporting.
• Fixed edge cases affecting recently opened projects.
• Fixed small layout and usability issues in the main application window.
• General bug fixes and reliability improvements.

Version 1.0.2

A refinement release with improvements to application stability, service setup and core playback workflows.

Improvements

• Improved stability across core playback workflows.
• Improved handling of service documents and local media references.
• Improved operator interface responsiveness.
• Improved behaviour around preview, standby and Programme output workflows.
• Minor usability refinements throughout the application.

Fixes

• Fixed minor bugs identified after the initial public release.
• Fixed compatibility issues affecting some media workflows.
• Fixed small visual and layout issues.
• General maintenance and reliability fixes.

Version 1.0.1

A maintenance release focused on stability, reliability and general refinement following the initial public release.

Improvements

• General application stability improvements.
• Performance and responsiveness refinements.
• Improved reliability across core playback workflows.
• Minor interface and usability refinements.
• Additional safeguards around live-service operation.

Fixes

• Various minor bugs identified following the initial release.
• General compatibility and reliability fixes.

Version 1.0.0

Initial public release

The first production release of Tribute Director, a dedicated macOS application designed for reliable media playback and programme control during funerals, memorial services and other live events.

Core Features

• Structured running order for managing service content.
• Dedicated Standby, Preview, Programme and Current workflow.
• One-click GO control for progressing through the service.
• Full-screen output to an external Programme display.
• Music, video, image and slideshow playback.
• Holding and welcome screens.
• Lyrics and on-screen text support.
• Per-section media and playback controls.
• Black-screen control for immediate Programme output suppression.
• Local project saving, reopening and recent-project access.
• Local-network remote control from an authorised iPhone or iPad browser.
• Licence management and authorised software downloads.
• Operator event logging for troubleshooting and post-service review.