mcraw-tui

Cross-platform terminal UI for browsing and exporting MotionCam .mcraw files to professional video formats.

Features

• Browser: Navigate file system, import .mcraw files, view metadata (codec, resolution, FPS, white balance, camera make/model)
• Media Pool: Select files, preview details, batch operations
• Render Queue: Multi-file batch export with per-item status tracking
• Export Settings: 15 color spaces (Rec.709, S-Gamut3, ARRI WG, Canon Cinema Gamut, DaVinci Wide Gamut, ACES AP1, etc.), 14 transfer functions (S-Log3, C-Log3, ARRI LogC3/C4, PQ, HLG, etc.)
• 16 export codec profiles: ProRes 4444/XQ, HEVC 10-bit 4:4:4, H.264, AV1 (SVT-AV1, NVENC), VP9, DNxHR
• Hardware acceleration: Auto-detects NVENC, AMF, QSV, VideoToolbox encoders
• Pure Rust: No C++ dependencies, no FFI

Prerequisites

• Rust (edition 2021, no toolchain pin)
• FFmpeg 5.0+ on PATH (required at runtime for video encoding)
• motioncam-decoder-rust: Clone alongside this repo (git clone https://github.com/Yoganshbhatt/motioncam-decoder-rust ../motioncam-decoder-rust)

Quick install

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yoganshbhatt/mcraw-tui/main/mcraw-tui.rb

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add mcraw-tui https://github.com/Yoganshbhatt/mcraw-tui

scoop install mcraw-tui

Build from source

cargo build --release

cargo run -- -f <file.mcraw>

Usage

# Open file in TUI

mcraw-tui -f <file.mcraw>

# Headless export

mcraw-tui export -f <file.mcraw> -F prores -o <outdir>

# View metadata

mcraw-tui info -f <file.mcraw>

Quick help

Full keybinding reference: press ? in the TUI or see the architecture doc.

License

Apache-2.0