Stoatworks Burrow

Keeping them all up to date

Nearly a hundred tools live in almost as many repositories, and most of the video plugins come in two or three formats. Burrow is an optional way to install and update the lot from one list, and I do mean optional: nothing has moved behind it, and nothing will.

Free and open source under MIT, like everything else here. It's currently beta, so read the caveats below before you put it near a show.

Stoatworks Burrow v0.3.1

One list for every plugin, tool and module.

Most of the video plugins come in two or three formats (FFGL for Resolume, OpenFX for Resolve, a build for After Effects), and each format lives in a different folder, in a different place on each platform. Installing one by hand means finding the project page, picking the right archive out of six and knowing where it goes. Noticing there's a new version is a job in itself.

Burrow puts the lot in one searchable list instead: what you've got installed, what has an update waiting, and one click to take it, in whichever formats you actually use.

Reads the folders your hosts actually load from, so it knows what's already there, format by format, since a plugin can be up to date in Resolume and missing in Resolve
Release notes before you take an update, and Previous versions… to put one back when something misbehaves halfway through a show week
Audio plugins, applications and Bitfocus Companion modules as well as the video ones, with each module on the same row as the tool it drives
No account or sign-in, and no telemetry. It fetches one list and downloads from GitHub, and that's all it ever does on the network

Downloadv0.3.1

Read the guide

Stoatworks Burrow — One list for every plugin, tool and module — What it does, in 43 seconds.

You never have to use it. Every plugin, tool and module is still a plain download, from its own page here on the site and from its release on GitHub, same as ever. Nothing moves behind Burrow, and nothing ever will. All it does is save you doing it by hand.

It's also new. v0.3.1 is a beta: it hasn't yet installed a plugin into a running Resolume, Resolve or After Effects, and on Windows it does the FFGL plugins but not OpenFX or After Effects yet. Try it first on a machine where a broken plugin folder wouldn't cost you anything, not on a show day.

Up to date, update available, not installed — with per-format state on every row

Release notes for the updates you could take, before you take them

Audio plugins, and a Companion module on the row of the tool it drives

What it does

Everything in one searchable list under six tabs — Video plugins, Video tools, Audio, Networking & Infrastructure, Self-hosted and Device firmware to come — grouped into up to date, update available and not installed
Per-format state on every row — a plugin can be current in Resolume and missing in Resolve, and the row says so
Bitfocus Companion modules on the row of the tool they drive, installed into the developer modules folder Companion reads
Applications installed from their disk image, into your Applications folder or your own one — never with a password
Choose which formats to install by default, and override it for any single plugin
One administrator prompt per batch, never one per plugin
Release notes for every update, labelled honestly when a release carried no written notes
Each plugin's browser demo built in, running offline from a local address
Removes exactly what it installed and nothing else — other people's plugins in the same folder are invisible to it
Works with no internet connection, and says plainly when the version numbers it is showing came from the copy that shipped with the app
No account, no sign-in, no telemetry
Claim software you installed yourself — matched by the bundle identifier inside it, never the filename — so it reports a version and takes updates; releasing hands it back untouched

Keeping them all up to date

One list for every plugin, tool and module.

What it does

Or don't use it at all

Every project's own page

The releases on GitHub

The user guide

The project page