Updates / Piston Server

🎬 In Sync

· Build 944

New

  • Each angle on a session's page has a new Download flat MP4 button: the same video, packaged so QuickTime Player can trim it. A progress bar shows while it's prepared, and the download starts by itself.

Improved

  • Add Camera from URL now starts with No audio selected. If a camera's audio stops it getting a fallback slate, Generate Slate now tells you to turn the camera's audio off or set it to AAC.
  • Tools → System Info now shows whether the system records with in-sync timestamps. In Analyse, Shift + D now also shows each angle's timing: when its first frame was recorded, the time of the frame on screen, and the segment playing.
  • The guide now explains how angles line up in multi-angle view, what Calibrate measures, and how to check each angle's timing.
  • The Sessions list opens faster on systems with many sessions: thumbnails now load as you scroll to them.

Fixed

  • Recordings from several network cameras now line up more accurately: each angle's timing comes from when its pictures actually arrived, so angles no longer start up to a second apart in playback and exported timelines. This does require the recorder to be rebuilt using version 9.
  • Cameras that stream in, such as drones, now keep recording through dropouts more reliably: two cameras on the same stream no longer cut each other's recording, re-encoded streams stay in time after the device reconnects, and the New Session form warns when a camera's fallback slate isn't in place yet.
  • A streaming device that changes what it sends, such as a drone that starts sending audio, is no longer locked out by its fallback slate. Between sessions it's let straight back in and gets a new slate; during a session, the session page says how to get it back.
  • The SB button on the session page now shows only on angles that have the scoreboard burned in, not on every angle.
  • Settings, Admin, MarkUps and Scoreboards open much faster on systems with lots of cameras, users, organisations or MarkUps, and typing in their dialogs no longer lags in Safari.