Today, we’re happy to unveil the newest version of Kyno — delivering a sleek new interface, full native Apple Silicon support on macOS, and expanded camera and format compatibility to keep your workflows running faster and smoother than ever.
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What's New
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Native Apple Silicon support on macOS
- ⓘ️ For Apple Silicon Mac users: Kyno's auto-update will keep you on the Intel version. To switch to the Apple Silicon version, please download it directly from: https://lesspain.software/kyno/download/.
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New look & feel:
- More modern, darker appearance
- Improved contrast of selection color
- Improved readability with a larger font
- Drilldown button moved to general toolbar
- Activity view is now linked from the status bar, where progress is displayed
- System font on macOS
- Improved scrolling performance on macOS
- Updated the BRAW SDK and RED RAW SDK to support latest cameras and firmware versions
- Removed integrations with Frame.io and Archiware P5
- New volume settings that allow you to store technical metadata and thumbnails in a shared file system and allow you to optimize indexing on shared storage environments (see here for details)
- The behavior of the refresh button in the lower right corner of the application has been improved, hold SHIFT while clicking it for a hard refresh should you run into inconsistencies
- There’s a new context action for files "Show in Enclosing Folder", which shows the enclosing folder of an item - very useful in drilldown mode!
- Preanalyze now runs in the background and no longer blocks the user interface
- Smart proxy presets to allow creating batches of proxies with automatic scaling
Fixes
- Security updates and some minor bugfixes
- Fixed copy/paste keyboard shortcuts and enabled pasting while in browse panel
- macOS: Send To Premiere Pro now works with Adobe Premiere Pro 2025
- macOS: Fixed an issue that caused folders being displayed as removed/offline in the Workspace after a macOS update
- macOS: Fixed an issue that caused keyboard shortcuts not working on MacOS
- Windows: Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the update-installer to fail