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Xe-Flipbook

FreemacOS 15+ · Apple Silicon

A fast, focused flipbook viewer for VFX image sequences on the Mac. Play back renders with real colour management, then load an editorial QuickTime alongside and wipe between them frame-locked. Built on OpenImageIO and OpenColorIO so it reads what your renderer wrote.

What it does

Xe-Flipbook plays back image sequences the way VFX and post expect them. It decodes scanline, tiled, and multipart EXRs, and applies an OCIO display transform so what you see matches the renderer’s intent.

Drop a folder onto the window and it turns every sequence in there into a sidebar tile. Arrow-key between them and the playhead holds its frame, so you can flip between versions of a shot and land on matching frames.

Load a QuickTime alongside (an editorial cut, an offline, another render), right-click it and set it as Compare (B). A vertical wipe handle appears over the viewer; drag it to reveal the reference underneath, frame-locked to whatever you’re playing.

FormatsEXR (scanline, tiled, multipart), DPX, JP2, TIFF, PNG, plus QuickTime video

Compare wipeLoad a reference movie or another render as B and wipe between them, frame-locked

ColourOCIO display transforms with Display / View pickers. Picks up your studio config automatically, with ACES built in as a fallback

SidebarEvery sequence in a folder becomes a tile. Arrow-key between versions and the playhead holds its frame

PlaybackPlay/pause, frame stepping, scrubber, FPS picker, and a sliding-window prefetch cache

OverlaysTimecode overlay, pixel sampler, and per-frame exposure and gamma tweaks

Drag and dropDrop a folder, a single image, or a movie file

PrivateEverything runs locally. No uploads, no tracking

Apple SiliconNative on M-series Macs, macOS 15.3 or later

How it works

Drop it

Drag a folder of frames, a single image, or a QuickTime movie onto the window. Every sequence in a folder becomes its own tile in the sidebar.

Play it back

Pick a frame rate (12, 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 48, 50, 60) and hit space. Scrub the timeline, step frame-by-frame, or arrow-key between versions with the playhead locked.

Compare it

Right-click a reference movie in the sidebar → Set as Compare (B), then drag the wipe handle across the viewer to check your render against editorial, frame-for-frame.

Download

Xe-Flipbook 1.3.3 · Free

macOS 15.3+ · Apple Silicon · 31 MB