Build 384
We view this update as a critical as we have solved issues in our movie loading and capture completion procedures. We owe a real debt of gratitude to Mike Harkness at LSU Womens Basketball for trialling HEVC (H.265) capture and giving us real time feedback as a game was being played. Mike found an interesting problem where the timeline movie collection was not including parts of the capturing file which caused clips to be inserted incorrectly during markup. His williness and patience to work with us during the game lead us directly to the problem and we were able to solve it, then improve these important procedures. Mike has been incredibly helpful for the past 2 seasons and certainly helped us in building a robust and stable product, Thanks!
Obviously, issues during critical moments like a game are not what we want to happen, but when it does happen, it is great when we can get real time information and ask questions. Often, replicating a bug or state of the software in a particular situation is very tricky, especially as our software becomes smarter and more mature.
Composer duration added to composer inspector. The duration includes picture and movie clips that are dragged and dropped into the composer.
Topic duration added to composer topics next to the topic title. Each topic displays the total duration of all filterd in clips. If clips are selected in the topic, the time will show total duration for those selected clips. Shout out to Wake Forest Womens Basketball for this request.
Topic exclusions added to composer topics. Clicking on the small circle above the topic number will exclude the topic from being played or exported.
J K L I O shortcuts added to speed up clip marking and trimming. This feature goes out to Leeds United. They, recently, requested the I O keyboard methods to hasten their workflow, so we added some more on top of their request.
We love shortcuts too, they are hard to remember at first, but once the muscle memory kicks in, they will save you heaps of time.
Using Control J K L I O shortcuts to move through the movie and trim clips keeps your fingers in the home positions on the keyboard; increasing your efficiency during these repetitive tasks.
The J K L I O shortcuts have been cleverly bound to the Arrow key shortcuts. So, learning them is easy.
- ⌃J - Control J aka Left Arrow - Movie Rewind
- ⌃K - Control K aka Up Arrow - Movie Play / Pause & Speed Control
- ⌃L - Control L aka Right Arrow - Movie Fast Forward
- ⇧⌃I - Shift Control I
aka Shift Left Arrow
- Move to start time
and decrease start time while holding down.
Keep Shift Control down and press O to increase start time. - ⇧⌃O - Shift Control O
aka Shift Right Arrow
- Move to end time
and increase end time while holding down.
Keep Shift Control down and press I to decrease end time.
★ Star rating added to timeline clips. Press the plus or minus key on the keyboard to add or remove stars to timeline clips. Touch bar keys have been added too.
★ Star rating filtering. Clips can be filtered in timelines and composers by clicking
on the star button next to the filter title in the inspector.
For example, to filter in clips with 3 or more stars, add ★★★ to the filter input.
To filter in clips with exactly 3 stars, wrap double quotes around the stars: "★★★".
Clip filter patterns can be saved, so they can be easily applied to other timelines and composers. To use:
- Input a filter pattern in the timeline or composer inspector.
- Click the filter menu button ⌄ .
- Choose Add Pattern from the filter menu.
Filter patterns are saved with the timeline and composer data, so they are shared when distributing these files through native exporting or including in vaults.
Improved filtering, anything that is in inside quotes must match a qualifier or qualifier category exactly.
Updated manual clip creation using Shift Control. When Shift is pressed, the timeline playhead position is remembered and will be used as the new clip start time. This increases the accuracy of the start time.
Batch qualify selected clips in the timeline with the same qualifier in one go. Example usage:
- In MarkUp mode, select a clip. Be sure the clip cursor appears. This is a small white circle that appears to indicate which clip has focus.
- Select the remaining clips to be included in adding the qualifier.
- Hold down ⌥⌃ (Option Control) and press the qualifier button to be marked in all the selected clips. A qualifier will be inserted in all clips at the midpoint of the selected clips. * Press the qualifier button again to expunge the closest like qualifier.
Touch bar shortcuts to show and hide Vault and Inspector sidebars.
Synergy import includes Team column data from their export.csv file. This is imported as a qualifier with Team as the qualifier category.
Added support for a bluetooth keyboard remote.
Bug fixes:
- Case 713 - Movie collections jumping around when many tabs are open.
- Case 714 - Qualifers not importing correctly when appending XMLs in timeline
- Case 716 - Cut clips option "Single movie for row" adding new clips at end of movie