Highlights

• Critical internal bugfix

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Updated internal player version to fix issue where player could crash if initialized improperly.

Highlights

• Bugfixes and improvements
• Auto ingest via manifest file

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Storages: Auto ingest using manifest files added to storage modal. See UI guide and technical documentation.
• Promo creator: Added Audio Scrubbing.

Fixes

• Poster Room: Fixed an issue where the tool could crash if no snapshots remained after creating a poster.
• Poster Room: Fixed an issue where overlay dropdown wasn't populated for the default aspect ratio.
• Poster Room: Fixed an issue where inactive overlays appeared in the dropdown.
• Poster Room: Adjusted non-predefined aspect ratios to present proper integer values.
• Visual QC: Added form validation to the create marker track modal.
• Visual QC: Improved form validation for creating markers as well as for points and duration

Deprecations

• Deprecated useVttSubtitlePlugin in the settings file, use subtitleType instead.
• Deprecated auth.disabled in the settings file, use auth.enabled instead.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Support IN operator in asset filters.

Fixes

• Allow job requester to read their own jobs, regardless of role.
• Improved performance for asset retrieval with many timespans.

Job system

Features

• Added option to ingest assets using a manifest file. Read more.

Fixes

• Amazon Rekognition integration use configured storage region.

Highlights

• Minor bugfixes

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Now possible to control which storages can run rekognition by setting storage metadata tag.

Highlights

• Minor bugfixes

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in loadVideofile that could cause the player to crash when loading extremely large video files.

Postgres Adapter

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in subtitle import that resulted in the creation of duplicate subtitle cues for some files.

Highlights

• UI for managing Poster Room overlays and presets
• Configure auto ingest via the storage UI

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Poster Room: Added support for managing poster image presets and uploading poster overlays via global settings for later use in the application.
• Visual QC: Added enrich functionality to the timeline menu.
• Visual QC: Show progress of enrich job in application header.
• Storages: Add and edit tags for a storage.
• Storages: Auto ingest added to storage modal.
  • See user guide for more information.

Fixes

• Poster Room: Fixed an issue where black edge removal would carry over between snapshots when applying different aspect ratios.
• Poster Room: Fixed an issue where switching between two snapshots captured at the same frame would cause the selection tool to stop functioning properly.
• Poster Room: Fixed an issue where the tool could crash if no snapshots remained after creating a poster.
• Storages: Creating a storage now gets an updated status when the storage has been scanned.
• Asset list: Allow changing title and access for disabled assets.
• Fixed minor visual issues that appeared when using Light Theme.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Added possibility to restrict access to the settings API.
• Added possibility of granting access to settings by wildcard roles.

Read more about roles in Accurate Video here.

Fixes

• Various smaller bug fixes.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Added support for Vidispine notifications.

Job System

Features

• Can now handle video rotation metadata.
• Support for running the next action if one action fail conditionally.
• Support for file based auto ingest
  • S3, Azure and local storage support

Highlights

• Fixed authentication issue in frontend

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Removed initial basic auth popup.
• Amazon Rekognition is now enabled for files stored in regions separate from the backend, as long as the storage region supports the Rekognition feature.

Highlights

• Asset list enhanced with table layout
• Added user preferences
• Amazon Rekognition job template

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Added table view for asset list.
  • Includes asset status and who set it.
  • Filter by status.
  • Search by title or id.
• Added username to user profile dropdown.
• Added user preferences.
• Implemented AWS Rekognition enrichment from asset list.
• Visual QC: Added and implemented fullscreen component.
• Visual QC: Added ability to export markers. The output format can be altered using our template engine.
• Promo Creator: Added fullscreen functionality.
• Poster Room: Selection area now customizable in Preferences.
• Poster Room: Improved guidelines to enhance visibility.
• Added color attribute to asset statuses (settings.assetStatus.statuses[*].color) allowing custom colors to all statuses.
• Storages: Added support to add and edit Azure Blob storages and Local storages.

Fixes

• Audio QC: Fixed layout of audiometer.
• Poster Room: Fixed issues with snapping within a constrained space.
• Leading and trailing whitespaces is now removed from storage form.

Deprecations

• settings.qc.features.assetStatus deprecated. Use settings.features.assetStatus instead.
• settings.assetStatus.statuses[*].status removed in favor of settings.assetStatus.statuses[*].color.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Support for proxying pre signed urls.
• New API for settings.
• New API for uploading small files to storages via the adapter.
• Web socket notifications for various asset updates (metadata changes, asset create/delete).
• Added metadata field on assets for ingest status.
• New API for doing asset analysis via Amazon Rekognition.
• Allow cluster configuration through environment variables.

Fixes

• Asset listing could return the same asset multiple times when ACL was enabled.
• When doing conditional asset listing, make title conditions also apply to the id field.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• New API for settings.
• New API for uploading small files to storages via the adapter.
• Web socket notifications for asset updates (metadata updates, asset create/delete).

Fixes

• Asset list sorting on creation date.

Job system

Features

• Support automatic ingest on discovery of new files, configured on a per storage basis.
• Add built-in job templates for Amazon Rekognition analysis.
• New action to set asset metadata.

Fixes

• Marker export would sometimes crash.
• File info analysis would sometimes crash without notification.

Highlights

• Fixed critical bug in Postgres Adapter

Release notes

Postgres Adapter

Fixes

• Resolved memory leak which occured in 4.2.0.

Highlights

• Updated application header with navigation between applications
• Multiple new job actions such as start Amazon Rekognition analyze

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Possible to load subset of settings from remote location. More information in settings documentation.
• Poster Room: Added support for horizontal mouse wheel scrolling to reel.
• New application header:
  • Navigation between applications.
  • More menu containing hotkeys and about.
  • About modal containing version information.
  • User name within user profile dropdown.

Fixes

• Poster Room: Improved reel interaction and behavior.
• Timeline marker configuration now includes the marker track in the “match”-callback if it exists.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Expose created date and last update timestamp in API response.
• Custom filtering using any field or property when listing assets through the API.
• Custom sort order using any field or property when listing assets through the API.
• Expose backend version through API.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Custom filtering using any field or property when listing assets through the API.
• Custom sort order using any field or property when listing assets through the API.
• Expose backend version through API.

Fixes

• Optimised creation of pre-signed URLs.

Job system

Features

• Added marker import & export actions, supported formats are JSON, CSV and XML.
• Added Amazon Rekognition action to start analyze of files.
• Added FFMPEG render action to transcode proxies and generate new assets.
• Render jobs will use FFMPEG by default, instead of Elemental.

Highlights

• Visual QC: Possibility to set asset status
• Added ECS hazelcast discovery

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Visual QC: Approve/reject functionality for assets. Configurable in settings.
• Visual QC: Added possibility to turn off marker creation.
• Visual QC: Added a frame counter next to the time input in the timeline sidebar.
• Added settings to configure network interceptor for playback of DRM protected HLS content.

Fixes

• Admin UI: Updated background color on selected job.
• Removed the badges from the asset items in the asset view.
• Promo Creator: Prevent using blank titles for assets and EDL assets.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Runner credentials set through environment variables.
• Able to set a dynamic path prefix.
• Added ECS Hazelcast discovery.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Able to set a dynamic path prefix.
• Added ECS hazelcast discovery.

Fixes

• Added Vidispine shape as metadata.
• Propagate bitrate properly.

Job system

Features

• Able to set cookies in http requests (for Cloudfront).
• Added ECS Hazelcast discovery.

Fixes

• Improved VTT parsing.

Highlights

• Minor bugfixes and optimisations

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Job action breadcrumb no longer includes matrix parameters after reload.
• Share access save button disabled on pending principals.
• Poster Room: Fixed issue where quickly resizing the selection area would cause inconsistent behavior.
• Multiple minor authentication optimisations.

Highlights

• Performance improvements during playback

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Visual QC: Added toolbar buttons to control timeline zoom.

Fixes

• Improved performance during playback.
• Job UI: Fixed issue where long token values could overflow the page.
• Audio QC: Fixed issues with language select.

Highlights

• Deprecated endpoints removed from Postgres Adapter.
• Access controls for assets added.
• HLS and Dash support added for Visual QC.

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Access controls for individual assets added with intuitive UI.
• Visual QC: HLS and DASH support added. Includes support for adaptive and custom video quality levels, as well as support for muxed audio tracks and subtitle tracks.
• Display warning dialog on http forbidden.

Fixes

• Keycloak uninitialised when already logged in.
• Keep query parameters when routing through application.
• Promo Creator: Add transcoder selection dropdown in export modal if multiple transcoders are configured.
• Ingest: Add free-text filter field.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• ACL's are enforced on assets.
• New API endpoints for retrieving and updating ACL's.
• Principal (user/group) listing support, including using Keycloak as a source

Fixes

• Deprecated APIs and fields removed, see Breaking changes below
• Allow public_url in storage metadata to be local to the system (i.e. /media2/ instead of full url)
• Upgrade to Java 14
• Upgrade to Quarkus 1.5

Breaking

• API removed: /asset/X/marker, instead use /asset/X/timespan
• API removed: /asset/X/marker/tag, instead use /asset/X/timespan
• API removed: /asset/X/stillFrame, instead use /asset/, /file/ or /storage/Y/file APIs
• Create/update/delete video/audio/subtitle file APIs removed from /asset/X/file, instead use /file/ or /storage/Y/file APIs
• Removed fields from asset: audioFiles, subtitleFiles, markers

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• ACL's are enforced on assets.
• New API endpoints for retrieving and updating ACL's.
• Principal (user/group) listing support

Fixes

• Upgrade to Java 14
• Upgrade to Quarkus 1.5

Job system

Fixes

• Updates required because of removal of deprecated APIs in adapter layer
• Upgrade to Java 14
• Upgrade to Quarkus 1.5

Highlights

• Support for multiple assets in Visual QC via url parameters.
• Added static file API.
• Improved ingest API with support for ingesting files to existing assets.

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Visual QC: Multiple asset support added via url parameters. E.g. ?assetId=22,23
• Visual QC: Preload / enable specific video proxies, discrete audio files or VTT subtitles using the new query parameter. E.g. ?assetId=22,23&components=3880

Fixes

• Visual QC: Use the same file label for Discrete audio tracks in timeline and in the settings tab.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Improved API documentation.
• New Ingest API that can ingest to both new and existing assets.
• Job runner now sends heartbeats while running.
• New static file API that can be used to serve static files.
• Wildcard search now supported for storage file listing.

Fixes

• Asset update now updates metadata based on the incoming request.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• New static file API that can be used to serve static files.
• Asset search/filter functionality added to asset list endpoint - limited to the title field for now.

Fixes

• Asset id set on all files in API responses.

Job system

Features

• Job runner now sends heartbeats while running.
• Analyze support for Dash.

Fixes

• Fail with error message if timeline refers to files without tag=original and only originals are allowed.

Highlights

• Minor text fixes

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Minor text updates that was missed in the previous release.

Backend

Fixes

• Better handling of SRT files in subtitle ingest.