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What's new in MovieStreamer HLS 2.0.3 ?

• NEW: option to deinterlace or not
• IMPROVED: the H.264 hardware encoder available on some Mac (most Intel Core i5 or i7) can now again be used to lower CPU usage

What's new for both OnTheAir Video Express and OnTheAir Video 3.3.1?

• NEW: modify the audio gain for clips
• NEW: control the playback from an ATEM mixer through an IP protocol (no GPI cabling needed anymore)
• NEW: skip to 5 seconds before the end of the clip shortcut (to just check how clips chain): cmd + alt + left or right arrows.
• IMPROVED: the "Revert to" older version of the playlist
• FIXED: some issues with the SD 16:9 resize modes
• FIXED: when replacing clip, attributes are now kept

What's new for OnTheAir Video only?

• NEW: create "Live inputs" (this will either be a real video card input or a direct link from OnTheAir Video or OnTheAir Node) and use those Live inputs as a video clip in your playlist. This greatly simplifies the workflow when you want to handle Live inputs.
• NEW: "Automatically use images as logos" preference. When enabled, if you have in the same folder a png image and a movie file that bear the same name, we will use the png image automatically for the logo of that movie. These png images are then not added to the playlist when doing a drag and drop.
• IMPROVED: Optimisations of the "Smart Resize and Graphics" engine for better performances on smaller computers

OnTheAir Live goes from version 1.2.14 to version 3.0. The reason for that version jump is that OnTheAir Live 1.3.5 still used QuickTime to preview and trim the clip in the inspector. This could be confusing as OnTheAir Live was not able to read some files that OnTheAir Node could, or the other way around. With version 3.0 we now use the same engine for the OnTheAir Live preview as OnTheAir Node 3 uses to playout files. So the files that can be read by both applications are identical. This is a major change in itself which then diserved a major version number change. By using a version 3 we also bring it in pair with OnTheAir Node which is also in version 3. 

So there were a lot of changes, but most are "under the hood". But here is what's new for version 3.0 :

• Added the ability to scrub in the timeline of the playlist (hold the cmd key down and click - requires OnTheAir Node 3.3 or later)
• Fixed an issue with Keychain

What's new in 1.4.4?

• Added the ability to trigger Start/Stop logging with AppleScripts (and thus with GPICommander).
• Added the ability to enter a TC offset.
• Documents now save the previous position of the windows to restore it for the next document.
• Fixed an issue when sending to Final Cut Pro X.

OnTheAir Manager goes from version 1.3.5 to version 3.0. The reason for that version jump is that OnTheAir Manager 1.3.5 still used QuickTime to preview and trim the clip in the inspector. This could be confusing as OnTheAir Manager was not able to read some files that OnTheAir Node could, or the other way around. With version 3.0 we now use the same engine for the OnTheAir Manager preview as OnTheAir Node 3 uses to playout files. So the files that can be read by both applications are identical. This is a major change in itself which then diserved a major version number change. By using a version 3 we also bring it in pair with OnTheAir Node which is also in version 3. 

So there were a lot of changes, but most are "under the hood". Below are the new features that can actually be seen :

• Added the ability to send more than a month to OnTheAir Node
• Update inspector UI
• EPG plugins have been updated to newer versions with a few fixes
• Fixed an issue with Keychain

Read the article at www.produ.com

Watch the interview

(Daniel Tapie, CEO Softron, presents the new solutions for ingest and playout. Softron has many customers in Latin America. Sales is mainly done by their dealer 'Simplemente' in Mexico. Televisa and all the other big players already user our solutions for bot ingest and playout.)

Daniel Tapie de Softron: Presentamos nuevas soluciones para playout e ingesta para mercados de LatAm
jueves, 13 de agosto del 2015

(Vladimir Martínez). Softron Media Services presentó sus nuevas soluciones de playout e ingesta en los mercados de Latinoamérica y ya cuenta con desarrollos implementados entre grandes jugadores en la región, dijo a PRODU Daniel Tapie, CEO de la empresa.

“Presentamos mejoras al sóftwer MovieRecorder, que es nuestro producto bandera de video para Mac. Estamos introduciendo el paquete de códecs; muchas mejoras como el control remoto en el TPI. Estamos presentando el M44 por primera vez para Latinoamérica, que es una caja de entrada como para salida. Es una familia MDI para in y para out. Presentamos el M62, con seis entradas y dos salidas, estamos presentando por primera vez el DCG3, que es un generador de subtítulos, que está basado para una Mac Pro” mencionó.

Y añadió: “Nuevas mejoras en nuestro set de video en nuestros productos bandera de playout: estamos presentando los live clips, que es la habilidad para cambiar para en vivo y en estudio sin necesidad de un switcher. Lo cual es muy bueno para estaciones de TV web o convencionales muy pequeñas”.

El ejecutivo aseguró: “Tenemos muchos clientes en Latinoamérica. Tenemos a dealers como Simplemente en México. Televisa y grandes jugadores ya usan nuestras soluciones para hacer tanto ingesta como playout”.