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🍿 Smooth Transitions Release

· Build 757

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Smooth Movie Collection Loading This release uses a new seek ahead movie loading routine, so when you play a composer, movies that are not loaded will be loaded on the fly 3 seconds prior to them being displayed. This routine results in smooth transitions from clip to clip when presenting full screen.

Better clip tabbing in the Composers. Double tapping Shift Tab to hop to previous clips is a lot less stubborn now. Also, Improved scrubbing of movies dropped into the composer.

Multiple selected movies from Finder can be dropped into the Composer. We do our best to keep selection order, but this cannot be guaranteed. Dropping movies below the last topic will create a new topic.

✂️ Cut Clips to VLC has been added to the composer. This can be a bit faster to use as it does not re-encode the clips before sending to VLC.

🏷 Timeline File Format Update We are making some significant changes to the native timeline PLIST and JSON file formats. If you are using the JSON export to drive reporting workflows, it is critical to pay attention to these notes. Please contact us if you need more information.

We are removing any spaces in element names to make it easier to parse the data and we are changing some of the names to make the data more clear.

This version adds some of the new conventions, duplicating data in order to preserve backward compatibility for those users relying on the JSON export.

Timeline row, clip, qualifier and attribute colors saving updated for ‘chron data.plist’. This effects the JSON export too.

In the JSON file, you will see: 

    "color" : "0.1485,0.6151,0.825",

This is red, green, blue; each item is from 0 to 1.

We added time_start and time_end to be used instead of str and end for clip times.

Versions 731 and later will load colors correctly for previous versions. Versions prior to 731 will not load colors saved with versions 731 and later, unless the tag ‘save old timeline format prior to 2020.11.03’ in the preference file ‘Save.plist’ is set to ‘YES’ when the file is saved with version 731 and later.

⚠️ Timelines Not Displaying Correct Colors Please note if timelines are not showing the correct colors, it is likely because the timeline was saved using build#731 or greater and the timeline is being viewed in an older build. Simply install the latest build to resolve the problem.

There is a bit more work to go in this area. The next release will have all this work completed.

🗺 Cartesian Coordinates updated so that the origin (0,0) is located at the bottom left of the button and (1,1) is located in top right corner of the button.

⚠️ Update your formulas! This change was made to make it easier to use simple scatter plots in Apple Numbers, Excel or other data plotting packages. But, if your formulas are not updated the plot will not display correctly. And you may need to run a script over older data to update the coordinates. Contact us if you need help.

Interlaced video is automatically de-interlaced in the movie collection.

Qualifier Attributes appear in the clip details pop-down when hovering over a clip.

Command A can be used to select all text in text boxes.

BUG FIXES:

  • Copying selected clips to chosen composer topic using menu would create a duplicate clip, this has been fixed.
  • None button button actions not firing when using Qualifier mode. They will fire now.
  • Center Fire not firing the correct buttons. The correct one is now firing.
  • Sluggish performance when Composer has a lot of pictures and dropped in movies. Thousands of pictures and movies can be used now.
  • Capture with no audio source has been fixed.
  • Various minor macOS 11 Big Sur fixes.