General Changelog up to 1.4

Mon May 20, 2019 3:49 pm

Dear Pixera users,

this changelog contains enhancements, bug fixes, and some new features.
Please note that this list is not a complete list of all fixes.
The majority of customer-reported issues, reproducible system errors, and numeric issues have been corrected.

Pixera 1.4.20:
Download | 22.06.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Brush: Several Art-Net related fixes and brushes.
Brush: Dmx and mapped values are displayed side by side for a better overview.
Brush: API Added monitoring for resource distribution.
Fix: GUI Do not change library and workspace content together.
Fix: Content Transcoding Entering text in combobox fixed.
Fix: Fixed not resetting error flag when restarting task.
Fix: Fixed not patched params showing in patch plan and not being able to set dmx resolution.
Fix: Calculation of FOV and Lens Offset with Zhang algorithm fixed.
Fix: Possible crash with DMX Folder IDs fixed.
Fix: Avoid too many UI updates.
Fix: Dominant Values. Changing resource did not work correctly whit dominant transport param
Fix: API Fixed getResources.
Fix: Projector Database updated

Pixera 1.4.14:
Download | 28.02.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Fix: Do not change library and workspace content together.
Fix: Entering text in combobox fixed.
Fix: Reverted changes of "Possible jumps when looping videos fixed" from version 1.4.12. The fix caused problems with transport events on the first frame of a clip.

Pixera 1.4.13:
Download | 26.02.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Fix: Projects from Beta version loadable.
Fix: Selection in Mapping tab in combination with item shwon inspector fixed.
Fix: Possible jumps when looping videos fixed.
Fix: Possible wrong duration for preview files fixed.
Fix: Generate testpattern only for projectable screens.
Brush: Content ingestion via API.
Brush: Mpcdi with profile 3D or SL sets projectors transformation.
Brush: Mpcdi warp files loadable via API.

Pixera 1.4.9:
Download | 05.02.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Fix: Camera calibration fixed
Fix: Screen Group Member selection fixed
Brush: Testpattern limitation 16k

Pixera 1.4.8:
Download | 04.02.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Fix: Follow Nowpointer with timeline jumps fixed
Fix: Wrong screen target texture size for displays and LEDs fixed
Fix: Possible crash with direct input labels in preview fixed.
Fix: Unnecessary camera reset avoided
Brush: Support for wma files added.
Brush: LED and projector databases updated.
Brush: More generic displays sizes.

Pixera 1.4.5:
Download | 23.01.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Fix: Projector Lens Properties
Fix: Avio connections can be saved.
Fix: Layer Mute during Preview Edit.
Fix: Output warping fixed.

Pixera 1.4.3:
Download | 16.01.2020

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Improvement: NDI Input Performance improved.
Improvement: Preview rendering can be disabled per screen.
Fix: Unintended output fps limitation removed.
Fix: Performance plot in inspector updated along with the rest of the controls when observed service changes.
Fix: Taker Over Service fixed.

Pixera 1.4.0:
Download | 08.01.2020

New Features:

Feature: High Quality Text Out
Feature: NDI Streaming In/Out
Feature: Art-Net Pixel Patching Out
Feature: Select Target Rendering
Feature: Timeline: Allow for negative clip playback speed.
(Only supported with image sequences or videos encoded with HAP codec)

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Improvement: Engine Tasks: Processing of transfer and transcoding messages optimized
Improvement: Screens: Content resolution limit removed
Improvement: Timeline: All running sequences are stopped when export starts.
Improvement: Api: Pixera 2 Avio moved to TCP/IP. Screens.Screen.addWarpFile() added.
Improvement: Api: Resources.Resource.setText() available.
Improvement: Timeline: Snapping. Relative mouse position in dragged clip determines whether the left or right border of the clip is snapping.
Improvement: Timeline: Cues. Added cue-creation buttons to button bar.
Improvement: Timeline: Cues. Cues with finite wait duration are marked by a new icon.
Improvement: Timeline: Cues. Cues cannot be created at the same time.
Improvement: Timeline: Cues. Changed tooltip text.
Improvement: Timeline: Cues. Cues cannot be positioned at the same time.
Improvement: GUI: Files can no longer be dragged onto resources.
Improvement: GUI: Horizontal autoscrolling in resource tree is now disabled.
Improvement: Timeline: Cues. Jump to label. Choose goal cue via dropdown box.
Improvement: Engine: Frameblending rounds frames more deterministically on pause
Improvement: Screens: Texture per Screen mode with target over whole screen per machine to allow layer filtering.
Improvement: API: Added methods for closing the application and for loading and saving projects.
Improvement: Api: Moved project and app related methods to "Session" namespace.
Improvement: Timeline: Create new cue via Shortcut "N". New cue operation equal to operation of selected one
Improvement: Settings: Help related controls moved to separate settings section
Improvement: Settings: Initial Values. Timeline fps and duration
Improvement: Settings: Changed default of "Ensure Continuous Live Input", default is "off".
Improvement: Timeline: Add Pause Cue Before Clip via right click popup menu now adds cues for all selected clips.
Improvement: Timeline: Close Timeline Gap via right click on clip and cue.
Improvement: Database: Projector and LED database updated.
Improvement: Timeline: Blend to this Cue. Activity state of cue ignored when blending to it.
Improvement: Audio: Samplerate can be set.
Improvement: Project: If project file is not found an empty new default project is created.
Improvement: Resources: Font file of text resource is distributed to clients.
Improvement: Mapping: Detecting the last feed rect leads to reset to keep mapping to output.
Fix: Content Transcoding: Fixed crash if selected resource was dragged and then transcoded.
Fix: Art-Net: Several Art-Net related bugfixes.
Fix: Resources: Context menu on folder level with more options.
Fix: NDI: Possible crash due to network messages fixed. NDI finder moved back into the application
Fix: Vioso: Correct Vioso autocal version started when applications are started without specific task.
Fix: Compositing: Mising camera update in inner compositing fixed.
Fix: Softedge: Softedges are immediately created after app startup and auto softedge creation.
Fix: Softedge: Softedge distribution to client for frequent updates fixed.
Fix: Softedge: Warped softedge export is rendered with depth buffer.
Fix: Resources: Bundling of custom effects.
Fix: GUI: Relative value labels in inspector can be edited.
Fix: Project: Project lifecycle fixed.
Fix: Transcoding: Possible crash fixed.
Fix: Timeline: Art-Net Input: Fixed not being able to set the layer transport mode.
Fix: Resources: Creation of default mesh ensured when text resource is removed from layer.
Fix: Sequence: Follow Nowpointer. Now, view follows nowpointer on jumps to pause cues.
Fix: Cross Selection: Multi selection in tree can used in engine correctly.
Fix: Mapping: Removed doubled entries in tree if feed rect output changed.
Fix: Sequence: Free Loop. Now, transport domination values are applied when moving nowpointer into a clip.
Fix: Resources: Fixed creating new drive when using UNC path to add resource.
Fix: Softedge: Softedge export size now matches screen target size.
Fix: Resources: Fixed not being able to delete assets for services which are not present anymore.
Fix: Timeline: Snapping fixed.
Fix: Warping: Additional vertex modifier to separate automatic perspective correction and user edited offsets.
Fix: Workspace: Screens and projectors which are already part of the venue can not be dragged into the workspace again.
Fix: GUI: Tooltip visible (again) on windows 7.
Fix: Project: Project is saved after standard content properties are set in resource
Fix: Settings: Initial values are loaded correctly after starting Pixera.
Fix: Resources: Font file distribution fixed
Fix: Timeline: Preview Editing. Audio under preview-edit-nowpointer not played anymore.
Fix: Engine: Possible heap corruption fixed.
Fix: Engine: Content visible in fullscreen after engine restart.
Fix: Audio: Changed sample rate is stored and applied after restart.

Known Issues:

Issue: After Windows you need a new pixera demo key
Issue: Preview edit +Audio not working
Issue: Issue Network Clients: if a client appears in the live tab without visible output configuration, please restart the Presence on the client as well as Pixera
Issue: Cut tool not snapping to Nowpointer
Issue: Audio objects can appear in the Inscreen Editing. This can occur when the audio file is on top of the layer – object you are currently editing
Issue: Preview Edit is very performance demanding. Glitches might occur on the outputs. Especially when a lot of scrubbing with the preview locator is done.
We highly recommend using Preview Edit only on Master Client Setups with a powerful Master Workstation.
Issue: Importing unsupported formats (3D...) leads to crashes
Issue: Bitmap files (.bmp) not supported as Picturesequence
Issue: Content transcoding is not working on remote clients. Only available on the local machine for now.
Issue: Adding points to warping grid causes a reset of the warping grid
Issue: After deleting softegde, the projector pane will disappear. The projector must be re selected.
Issue: Playmode: Show inpoint not working
Issue: After reopening Pixera, live-input objects in timeline have no thumbs
Issue: Follow Nowpointer doesn’t follow on jumps.
Issue: Vioso Re-Calibration not working
Issue: When exporting a timeline, the timeline has to be stopped.
Issue: Using Shift + Drag on timeline objects is duplicating them instead of locking movement to the corresponding axis
Issue: Media Import: After importing multiple files at once and additionally adding cues it can occur that snapping won't work. Moving objects in the timeline will help.
Issue: Multiselect not working on layers when moving them in layer – hierachy
Issue: Activating ignore next cue shortly before a pause marker freezes the render output
Issue: Small line visible in the softedge (depending on the resolution)
Issue: Performance monitor shows wrong values
Issue: Transport Key (Loop) works only with inpoint 00:00:00:01
Issue: Allow for negative clip playback speed not with freerun loop
Issue: Content Transcoding Cropping not working

Pixera 1.2.8:
Download | 18.12.2019

Bug Fixes:

Fix: NDI working again
Fix: Tooltip visible (again) on windows 7.
Fix: Art-Net Input: Fixed not being able to set the layer transport mode.
Fix: Screens and projectors which are already part of the venue can not be dragged into the workspace again.
Fix: Possible crash in Transcoding fixed.
Fix: Initial values are loaded correctly after starting Pixera.
Fix: Audio in Preview Editing mode corrected

Pixera 1.2.5:
Download | 29.11.2019

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Fix: Softedges are immediately created after app startup and auto softedge creation
Fix: Correct Vioso autocal version started when applications are started without specific task
Fix: Softedge distribution to client for frequent updates fixed
Improvement: Frameblending rounds frames more deterministically on pause
Improvement: Fixed crash if selected resource was dragged and then transcoded

Pixera 1.2.2:
Download | 15.11.2019

Bug Fixes:

Fix: Timeline Export & Content Transcoding with HAP codec is not working
Fix: Crash if selected resource was dragged and then transcoded.

Pixera 1.2.0:
Download | 08.11.2019

New Features:

Feature: Project bundling added.
Feature: Autosave function added
Feature: Content Transcoding added
Feature: Partlist Export added
Feature: Videomapping added
Feature: Layer Offset added
Feature: Timeline Multihead (Preview Edit & Blend to Cue) added
Feature: Timeline Export added
Feature: Resources reveal in timeline added.
Feature: Playback Control Multitimeline added

Improvements & Bug Fixes:

Improvement: Sequence: Nowpointer time truncated to integer frames.
Improvement: Sequence: Consecutive input of same nowpointer time via numPad did not work.
Improvement: New Notch block icon.
Improvement: Mapping: Warp engine is not unloaded if destination feed rect is deselected.
Improvement: Transformation: Relative local translation and rotation for screens and projectors.
Improvement: Camera navigation: Mouse wheel zoom takes distance to object under cursor into account.
Improvement: Mapping: Feed rects of Displays/LEDs selectable in library tree.
Improvement: Media Transport: Media not reset to inpoint if only speed changes and media time is not tied to timeline.
Improvement: Sequence: Performance of drawing clip audio waveforms improved.
Improvement: Assets: Non running tasks can be cancelled too.
Improvement: Sequence: Scroll to nowpointer after setting its time.
Improvement: Sequence: Preload upcoming clips even in timeline pause mode
Improvement: Engine Integration: Optional time_sync.settings file contents passed to nui_rx.
Improvement: Sequence: Event/clip selection. More intuitive selection and drag clip length behaviour.
Improvement: Sequence: Add clips/events at nowpointer changed from RightDoubleClick to Shift + LeftDoubleClick.
Improvement: Vioso: License for director without Vioso license is written with 1 output to allow interaction with licensed clients.
Improvement: Assets: Removed limit for parallel running transfer tasks in pixera. However limits still exist in RX.
Improvement: Outputs: More info about assigned device in Live Systems tree.
Improvement: Sequence: Cue Selection Improvements.
Improvement: Mapping: String in dialog asking for feed rect source extended to make entries distinguishable.
Improvement: Mapping: Unique names for multiple feed rects.
Improvement: Tree: Made default tree node labels wider.
Improvement: Resources: Option to remove unused resources.
Improvement: Mapping: Dialog is shown to give the opportunity to either replace or add outputs to displays/LEDs.
Improvement: Database: Projector and LED database updated.
Improvement: Content Transcoding: Hap chunks set to 64.
Improvement: Sequence: Drop Resource on Screen. Clip is created at nowpointer instead of being created at time 0.
Improvement: Preview: Path to preview directory can be changed again.
Improvement: API: Layer: getParamWithName() added for access to e.g. transport param from Javascript (where Node base class of Layer is not accessible due to explicit Javascript class types).
Improvement: Sequence: Cues: Selection improvements. Visualization: Following cues are drawn on top of the preceding ones.
Improvement: Mapping: Feed rects for Art-Net output configurable (again).
Improvement: SMPTE: Ensure device time at pause option.
Improvement: SMPTE: Option to pause until timecode reaches an offset from the starting time.
Improvement: Resources: Option to disable dialog asking to import images as sequence.
Improvement: Content Transcoding: Allowing to drag resource from mediapool into ingestion folders.
Improvement: Content Transcoding: Fixed not being able to import content into a "preset folder" or deleting it.
Improvement: Mapping: Feed rects with different colored input labels when selected.
Improvement: Sequence: Clips can be pasted to selected layer.
Improvement: Sequence: Clips can be pasted to selected layer of different timeline.
Improvement: Sequence: Remove selected layers.
Improvement: Mapping: Feed rect outline with selection colour.
Improvement: Tasks: Tasks will not be started if the corresponding service reports that it is disconnected. Tasks can be cancelled instantly, if a service reports that it is disconnected.
Improvement: NDI: Own thread for NDI finder.
Improvement: Services: Utility services will no longer initialize graphics and audio devices.
Improvement: Services: Monitoring for utility services.
Improvement: Sequence: "Show Resource in Project" adds resource to selection.
Improvement: Project: Choose between absolute or relative paths in project.
Improvement: Sequence: Deselected clips/events via Esc.
Improvement: Assets and distribution options for disconnected services can be removed.
Improvement: Sequence: Delete selected layers via "Del"-Shortcut.
Improvement: Project: Relatives paths not enabled for old settings files.
Improvement: Tree: Edit only signature of content in tree and not the string which might contain additional information (e.g. Output with assignments).
Improvement: Project: Creating new project writes file immediately.
Improvement: RX Engine: Engine now always reopens render output after Vioso calibration on local machine.
Improvement: Sequence: Duplicate Layer.
Improvement: Vioso: Multiple warp files per screen.
Improvement: Resource Tree: Context menu working with multi selection.
Improvement: Sequence: Delete timeline objects. Changed to shortcuts and context menu and working with multi selection.
Improvement: Sequence: Change mute state of multiple selected layers.
Improvement: API: Methods Pixera.Screens.Screen.setRotation(), setScale(), setPosRotScale() added.
Improvement: Client Management: Master IP shown in Presence UI.
Improvement: NDI: Ndi device detection moved to separate process to avoid possible crashes of pixera executable.
Improvement: Engine Integration: Unnecessary graphics device configuration at application start up removed.
Improvement: Sequence: Video Export speed improved.
Improvement: RX: NDI: identify streams by name.
Improvement: Auto Save: Directory renamed. File names with date.
Improvement: Resources: New folders will inherit the distribution map of their parents.
Improvement: Content Transcoding: Resources placed in the ingestion folder can be dragged into the "media" folder.
Improvement: File Transfer: Robustness of task management increased.
Improvement: Settings: Modification time of settings.stt and settings_beta.stt is compared. The newer file is loaded.
Fix: Mapping: Transformation of feed rects with aspect ratio < 1.0 corrected.
Fix: Mapping: Missing feed rect update of first destination pixel size added.
Fix: GUI: Project version message box on startup blocking local engine on start up fixed.
Fix: Screens: Bugfix Multi selection is applied to projectable and visible state.
Fix: Camera: Camera rotation with shifted near plane fixed.
Fix: Live Input: Selected resolution and fps are sent to RX instead of max value.
Fix: Engine: Starting modifier editing without modifiers available does not change selection mode anymore.
Fix: Assets: Task cancelling fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Video Sampler Flashes in Free Loop Clips.
Fix: Inspector: Possible crash fixed when multiple events of different types were selected.
Fix: Assets: Fixed multiple wrong local assets because of new "bundling" storage.
Fix: Api: Fixed not being able to store modified opacity.
Fix: Sequence: No detach for hibernating multi-head transports, detach redundancy check takes rounded pause time into account.
Fix: Preview: Using the option "original" for the preview resolution will only copy needed files.
Fix: Assets: Fixed tasks not aborted when opening or creating another project.
Fix: Sequence: Follow Nowpointer. Now, view follows nowpointer on jumps to pause cues.
Fix: Cross Selection: Multi selection in tree can used in engine correctly.
Fix: Mapping: Removed doubled entries in tree if feed rect output changed.
Fix: Sequence: Free Loop. Now, transport domination values are applied when moving nowpointer into a clip.
Fix: Resources: Fixed creating new drive when using UNC path to add resource.
Fix: Screens: Problem with Output "None" removed.
Fix: Sequences: Fixed not being able to change order of sequences in tree.
Fix: File Transfer: Fixed crash when cancelling tasks rapidly through the Task Table.
Fix: Sequence: Free Loop. Improved behaviour concerning jumps between clips and transport-param adjustments while looping.
Fix: Sequence: Free Loop. Improved behaviour concerning running timeline into clips while dominant looping.
Fix: Sequence: Copy and paste of clips or events could lead to unwanted screen duplications.
Fix: Video Export: All screens (even non home screens) now visible.
Fix: Sequence: Pause Cues. Adjacent pause cues caused that a wrong sampler is shown by engine fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Copy Clips via Shift + Drag did not work anymore.
Fix: Sequence: Free Play Clips. When changing speed, clips in a free-play mode did start from input time again.
Fix: RX: File Transfer fixed
Fix: Assets: Fixed preview table not updated.
Fix: Sequence: Undo "Insert Time" was freezing nowpointer fixed.
Fix: Auto save: Fixed crash after entering to large numbers for the max. number of autosaves and the autosave interval.
Fix: Assets: Fixed being able to press cancel button multiple times, causing task-lifecycle problems.
Fix: Sequence: Layer Muted Icon was not updating correctly fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Minimum clip duration is 1 frame, now.
Fix: Presence: Pixera recognized quick Presence restarts (and no longer treats a quickly restarted Presence as still opened but non-responsive).
Fix: Sequence: Layer was deselected when clicked the second time.
Fix: Tasks: Filter for monitoring source type.
Fix: RX: Audio Volume bug fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Insert Time. Undo/Redo led to wrong nowpointer states.
Fix: Services: Transcoding service closed when presence exe closed or (quickly) reopened.
Fix: Assets: Tasks always started without checking service connection.
Fix: Mapping: Feed rects: Source resolution is snapped to pixels before settings destination resolution.
Fix: Sequence: Cues cannot be pasted to clip layer anymore
Fix: Services: Fixed transcoding services visible in asset list.
Fix: Services: Fixed connection state not correctly set.
Fix: Sequence: Deactivate all outputs via Shift + Esc now works even when timeline in focus.
Fix: Sequence: Copy & Paste clips to other timeline. Copied clips are arranged correctly on goal sequence.
Fix: Sequence: Single clips are not deselected after resizing via drag.
Fix: Bundling: Material path handled correctly for bundling.
Fix: Client Management: "Restart Engine" button in presence.exe UI works again.
Fix: Sequence: Selection of clips/events. Sometimes clips/events seemed to be selected but were not.
Fix: Perspectives: Labels follow perspective frustum base.
Fix: Layer Offset: Selection problems fixed when scale value is 0.
Fix: Sequence: Timeline nodes in timeline library show correct time after entering Compositing Tab, now.
Fix: Library Tree: Removing selecting elements by pressing trashcan button uses multi selection and is undoable.
Fix: Selection: Cross selection enabled again. Crash when deleting softedge element fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Timeline node in timeline library shows correct time after editing in edit-preview mode, now.
Fix: Mapping: First change of source feed rect processed correctly.
Fix: Sequence: Undo Remove Layer. Sometimes layer were added at the wrong position in layer hierarchy when undoing layer remove.
Fix: Live Input: Different kinds of Deltacast inputs handled correctly.
Fix: Sequence: Resource drop on vertically scrolled timeline caused crash.
Fix: Sequence: Trigger timeline via cue. Changed trigger timeline controls in cue inspector.
Fix: Bundling: Bundling tasks for material textures added.
Fix: Sequence: Jump to next cue triggered from Timeline Library did not apply next cue.
Fix: Bundling: Fixed empty transfer tasks for generated screens.
Fix: RX Engine: Softedge distribution fixed.
Fix: RX Engine: Opening Vioso warp files on network drives fixed.
Fix: RX Engine: Fixed possible crash in preview decoding if video source is damaged.
Fix: Assets: Fixed dialog reporting wrong number of open tasks on close.
Fix: Assets: Fixed possible crash when manually adding image files to preview folder.
Fix: Sequence: Drag clips while timeline follows now pointer fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Fixed possible crash related to clip time labels.
Fix: Sequence: Jump to cue that should trigger timeline. Goal cue did not trigger.
Fix: Transformation: Wrong hover plane size fixed for objects with scaled parent.
Fix: Selection: Engine selection respects workspace selection mode.
Fix: Sequence: Copy & paste opacity keyframes did not work.
Fix: Warping: Abstract warp meshes with perspective depth correction (for curved screens) use projector aspect ratio instead of content aspect ratio.
Fix: Client Management: Closed presence no longer treated as if only engine had been closed (so node is removed from Live Systems and connection reestablished when presence is started again).
Fix: File Distribution: Fixed missing deletion of table-row components if out of index.
Fix: Sequence: Copy & Paste of multiple clips with at least one selected layer. Clips of different source layers are not all copied to the selected one.
Fix: Resources: Deleting resource folders is undoable.
Fix: Version: Fixed inner compositing not visible if content transcoding turned off in Player or Demo version.
Fix: Resources: Fixed not able to apply distribution settings from folder.
Fix: Sequence: Mute audio layer.
Fix: Sequence: Do not mute, remove, duplicate selected layers when operation performed on unselected layer, now.
Fix: Parts List Export: Projector model added to export.
Fix: RX: Possible freeze on application start up fixed.
Fix: Sequence: Dominant Value Opacity. When canceling dominant value, layer was not updated in engine.
Fix: Sequence: Timeline time was incorrect (shifted to a future time) after clip remove or domination value cancel.
Fix: Content Transcoding: "RX-Cache as destination" can only be selected if transcoding happens on the local service, due to sharing issues.
Fix: Drives: NAS-Login has a password entry field without visible text.
Improvement: File Distribution: Task table updates corrected.
Fix: Sequence: Undo Layer Offsets. Preview was not updated.
Fix: Vioso: Edited multi-client calibration is saved correctly.
Fix: File Distribution: Errors while transferring files will be displayed again.

Known Issues:

Issue: NDI temporarily deactivated (we encountered bugs in the NDI code which can lead to a freeze in Pixera. We are currently working on a solution.
NDI will be hopefully back in one of the first updates following after the 1.2 release)
Issue: Issue Network Clients: if a client appears in the live tab without visible output configuration, please restart the Presence on the client as well as Pixera
Issue: Cut tool not snapping to Nowpointer
Issue: Audio objects can appear in the Inscreen Editing. This can occur when the audio file is on top of the layer – object you are currently editing
Issue: Preview Edit is very performance demanding. Glitches might occur on the outputs. Especially when a lot of scrubbing with the preview locator is done.
We highly recommend using Preview Edit only on Master Client Setups with a powerful Master Workstation.
Issue: Importing unsupported formats (3D...) leads to crashes
Issue: Bitmap files (.bmp) not supported as Picturesequence
Issue: Content transcoding is not working on remote clients. Only available on the local machine for now.
Issue: adding points to warping grid causes a reset of the warping grid
Issue: After deleting softegde, the projector pane will disappear. The projector must be re selected.
Issue: Playmode: Show inpoint not working
Issue: After reopening Pixera, live-input objects in timeline have no thumbs
Issue: Follow Nowpointer doesn’t follow on jumps.
Issue: Vioso Re-Calibration not working
Issue: When exporting a timeline, the timeline has to be stopped.
Issue: Using Shift + Drag on timeline objects is duplicating them instead of locking movement to the corresponding axis
Issue: Media Import: After importing multiple files at once and additionally adding cues it can occur that snapping won't work. Moving objects in the timeline will help.
Issue: Multiselect not working on layers when moving them in layer – hierachy
Issue: Mute layer doubleclick creates a new layer
Issue: Activating ignore next cue shortly before a pause marker freezes the render output
Issue: Small line visible in the softedge (depending on the resolution)
Issue: Under certain conditions the default content does have a resolution of 0x0px (Refresh content to solve this).

Pixera 1.0.42:
Download | 05.09.2019

Feature: Implemented SMPTE Feature
Improvement: Audio - Support for up to 128 channels.
Improvement: Changes about the Camera Navigation
Improvement: Live Input - Latency reduced in engine.
Improvement: Live Input - Additional latency frame settable for standard services. Preview service always with 0 frames latency.
Improvement: Changed preview container from mkv to mp4 to reduce performance impact of larger files.
Improvement: LED and projector databases updated.
Improvement: Timeline - Relative resizing (Events keep their relative positions in clip on duration change)
Improvement:Timeline - Zoom and scroll position is restored at timeline change.
Improvement: Timeline - Nowpointer scrubbing performance increased.
Improvement: Timeline - Auto scrolling for running timelines possible (Can be enable in button bar).
Improvement: Alternative dump file creation.
Improvement: Sequence: Current time can be entered directly by using the num pad.
Improvement: New column in task table for showing the task-target ip address.
Improvement: Implemented the new RX Engine Version 2.9
Improvement: RX Engine - Performance of file openings optimized.
Improvement: Resources - When replacing an image sequence file browser multi selection enabled.
Improvement: RX - Optimized file reading for image sequences.
Improvement: SMPTE - Incremental frame count needed to qualify as running input reduced from 5 to 2.
Improvement: Assets - Option for stopping and restarting tasks.
Improvement: UI - Window handling optimised to avoid freezes.
Improvement: Preview Files - Video preview files can contain alpha channel.
Must be enabled in settings. In this case ProRes Codec is used which will produce much larger files than default VP9!
Improvement: File Transfer - File system mechanism can be optionally used for file transfer.
Enable in File Distribution Settings (Checkbox “Use Filesystem Transfer”)
Improvement: File listing processing optimized: Speeds up processing of new clients especially when many image sequences are used.
Improvement: The maximum processed packet size from RX has been increased from 20 MB to 100 MB.
Improvement: Performance of file listing processing improved.
Improvement: Ressources can now be renamed
Improvement: Sequence - Reveal resource in project tree added
SMPTE:
- Improvement: Offset can be subtracted as well as added (commit includes more robust handling of negative received time due to offset)
- Fix: Time updated immediately when mode changes
- Fix: Receive timecode offset corrected (frames no longer interpreted as seconds).
- Fix: Thread gating based on get instead of sleep as part of output debugging.
- Fix: Output pitch correction no longer uses autopitch (syncing to goal time should no longer cause output dropouts).
Timeline:
- Improvement: Free loop videos always loop at the end of the video (even if the end of the clip is to the right of the end of the video).
- Improvement: Free run videos orient loop duration towards video duration by default (towards in- and outpoint if they are set).
- Improvement: Add pause cue before clip via right click
- Improvement: Events - Value change via inspector-label dragging more sensitive.
- Improvement: Floater - Time and value can be changed via dragging.
- Improvement: Sequence Floater - Corrected undo/redo for value/time drag
- Improvement: Floater - Relative movement of multiple selected events (via time/value dragging)
- Improvement: Scale Events - Dragging of value in inspector and floater more sensitive
- Improvement: Floater - Drag limits for movement of multiple selected events (via time dragging)
- Improvement: Clip/Event movement - From pixel to quantum oriented movement. Inter layer clip movement
- Improvement: ScrollBars with buttons and fine mode
- Improvement: Selected layer snaps to screen bounds in outer compositing
- Improvement: Cue Inspector. Jump goal time label is time label, now
- Improvement: Cut tool. Default is "deactivated". Line height corrected
- Improvement: Added layer init with height of preceding layer
- Improvement: Inter Layer Movement - Brushed visualization errors concerning layers with opened param nodes
- Improvement: Showing timeline inspector when clicking on left label in timeline title bar
- Improvement: Two-colored event diamonds and handle circles only in thumbnail area
- Improvement: Main time label is draggable
- Improvement: Doubleclick on nodes open/closes nodes
- Fix: Free run initialization at startup corrected to account for late-arriving time distortion attributes.
- Fix:Click to the left of free run clip that already had time applied taken out of reapplication redundancy check.
  Leads to clip starting from beginning in more situations where that is expected.
- Fix: Merged clips. Events in the inactive area of clips (duration reduced) did serve as mirror events.
- Fix: Now, creating events via shortcut "N" creates events correctly at nowpointer time.
- Fix:Nowpointer manipulation via arrow keys. Switched "Alt" and "Shift" to unify "small-step movement" to "Alt".
  Furthermore, define moving steps by param quantum instead of pixels per value.
- Fix: SeqEvent value manipulation via arrow keys.
- Fix: API - Move to previous cue works when current time is already at a cue
- Fix: SeqClip time manipulation via arrow keys.
- Fix: Value editing of multiple operands with expressions fixed.
- Fix: Render Order - Corrected bug that lead to layers with undefined render order
- Fix: Floater. Repositioning of floater after time/value drag
- Fix:Events were copied on Shift + Drag instead of being moved horizontally/vertically fixed.
- Fix: Pixera crashed when zooming and scrolling timeline holding a very long clip
- Fix: Playback speed limit set to 1000
- Fix: Disabled label were still dragable
- Fix: Inter layer movement. Visualization of clips/resources dragging below last layer was buggy.
- Fix: Timeline structure. Layers/Params were opened/closed even when user clicked besides toggle symbol
- Fix: Events. Now, opacity events can be selected in merged clips areas
- Fix: Copy paste of clips was buggy when multiple clips/layers/sequences were involved
- Fix: Right side of clip changed when dragging left clip border into timeline structure
- Fix: Inspector-label "Inpoint" missed some updates
- Fix: Inpoint as well as outpoint could be set to invalid values
Fix: Possible corruption of settings file fixed. Application more robust against incomplete settings file
Fix: Presence: Attempt at fixing failure of presence.exe to access network after autostart.
Fix: Live Input problems after loading new project fixed (#9055)
Fix: Selection of top most layer in compositing fixed
Fix: Installer: Missing pixera_settings file added to installer (again).
Fix: SMPTE controls visible again.
Fix: SMPTE - Engine informed of new timing when input restarts for timeline with no-input-behaviour set to 'continue'.
Fix: SMPTE - More complete mode change reset (e.g. to break state token redundancy checks when toggling between modes 'none' and 'receive').
Fix: Avio - formulas.lua added to enable smart connections.
Fix: Selected layers are deselected when timeline selection changes.
Fix: Layer selection fixed for layers with same z pos.
Fix 9171: Changed client name is applied after presence/engine restart.
Fix 9170: Changed output aggregation is applied after presence/engine restart.
Fix: API - Stop Command sets sequence time to 0.
Fix: Sequence - Deleting a clip while it is dragged and adding a new clip afterwards does not lead to a crash anymore.
Fix: Inspector - Crash fixed when colour picker menu was open and inspector loaded other content.
Fix: Resource Tree - Width of label increased.
Fix: SMPTE Out updated when Pixera starts, stops and when cues are applied.
Fix: Sequence - Paint bug fixed when dropping resource in scrolled timeline.
Fix: Sequence - Possible crash fixed when moving multiple clips in timeline.
Fix: Sequence - Drawing of clip background fixed.
Fix: Sequence - Audio clip cut fixed.
Fix: Only audio devices of local service are listed in settings.
Previously selection of local audio device could lead to unwanted selection of audio device of clients.
Fix: Crash fixed when opening project on different machine than it was created.
Fix: Possible freeze fixed if media files used in timeline are not available.
Fix: Thumbnail path for media files on network drive fixed.
Fix: Sequence/Engine - Per-layer preload time settable in inspector.
Fix: Sequence - Dropping resource on existing clip with large clip heights fixed.
Fix: Possible problems with file transfer when multiple drives have the same name fixed.
Fix: RX Engine - Bug causing video abort looping fixed

Pixera 1.0.15:
Download | 24.06.2019

Improvement: No need to choose the path for a Vioso Calibration during editing of an existing one
Improvement: New API functions added. Timelines: "ignoreNextCue", Cues: "getTime", "setTime".
Improvement: Projector database: Old projectors added to database
Fix: Vioso (editing of existing calibrations, various bug fixes)
Fix: Recognition of image sequences failed in some cases
Fix: Local engine no longer closed if it's not in list of explicit IP filters
Fix: Missing API json file added to installer
Fix: Possible crash during marker calibration
Fix: Unclipboardable selected content no longer corrupts clipboard
Fix: Tasks with invalid service id are now closed after error message
Fix: Perspectives in screen group are updated when screens is removed from group
Fix: Non modal dialogs which are still shown on app stopping are closed correctly
Fix: Possible crash in sequence with adjoining clips fixed

Pixera 1.0.7:
Download | 15.05.2019

Feature: „Take over Service“ backup functionality has been implemented
Feature: Pixera now supports SDI output for Pixera Servers equipped with the according 4/8 I/O 3G SDI cards
Improvement: Sequence Button Bar received more functionality:
- Toggle next cue state (ignore next cue)
- Joint kind
- Toggle cut tool
- Lock movement horizontal/vertikal
Improvement: SDI video outputs react to F5 and shift+esc
Improvement: Marker Calibration with numeric labels
Fix: Fix of a memory leak that was caused by importing 3D gltf objects
Fix: Softedge now works with imported 3D objects and 90 degree rotated projectors
Fix: Colour standard settings saved for live inputs
Fix: Live Input „Active Status“ is stored in the project
Fix: Multiple overlapping clips had unwanted behaviour if events (keys) have only been inserted into the first clip
Fix: Custom LED objects now show the correct behaviour
Fix: Import of embedded textures from FBX files

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