Vision Pro Creator Tool

Apple’s immersive video format is a packaged playback file for Vision Pro, and Colorfront has released a Mac app built to make one from finished footage. (colorfront.com) Colorfront said April 18, 2026 that its new Immersive Utility for macOS creates Apple Immersive Video files, with the `.aivu` extension, for playback on Apple Vision Pro. The company said the app accepts ProRes, multiview High Efficiency Video Coding, and other standard video formats. (colorfront.com) The workflow is aimed at postproduction houses: users choose a video file, a metadata file with camera intrinsics, and an output directory, then the app handles encoding, audio extraction, and packaging into one deliverable. Colorfront said the software can pair Spatial Audio with camera metadata inside the final file. (broadcastnow.co.uk) Apple’s own tools describe `.aivu` as the packaged file used to create a high-quality playback asset, while Apple’s Immersive Media Support framework is designed to read and write the metadata that makes Apple Immersive Video work. Apple says that framework is available on macOS 26 and visionOS 26. (support.apple.com) (developer.apple.com) That means the bottleneck is no longer just shooting immersive footage. Editors and finishing teams also need a way to combine picture, sound, and calibration data into a file Vision Pro can actually play, and Apple has been opening more of that workflow to developers. (developer.apple.com 1) (developer.apple.com 2) Colorfront is pitching its app as a one-machine pipeline rather than a custom engineering project. On its product page, the company says the software includes foveated encoding and uses Apple’s Metal graphics framework for GPU-accelerated performance. (immersive.colorfront.cloud) The company also says the app supports multi-shot `.aivu` creation from Final Cut Pro XML timelines, which would let post teams package edited sequences instead of only single clips. That points the tool at finishing and delivery, not just technical tests. (immersive.colorfront.cloud) Apple has its own Immersive Video Utility on the Mac, including guides for importing media and previewing clips on Vision Pro. Colorfront’s opening is that post houses already using its mastering and streaming tools may want the same kind of workflow for Apple’s immersive format. (support.apple.com) (colorfront.com) For studios experimenting with Vision Pro distribution in 2026, the practical step is now clearer: get the footage, audio, and camera data into a `.aivu` package, then test it on the headset. Colorfront is selling software for that last mile. (colorfront.com)