Highlights

• Configure content of metadata tab in Validate through settings UI

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Validate: Support for creating or editing custom metadata fields and views through settings UI. See this guide.
• Core: Add setting for OpenID Connect userStorageType to be able to change OpenID userStorage. E.g. window.localStorage/window.sessionStorage. By default window.sessionStorage is used.
• Settings: Added setting for safe areas. If disabled don't show in user preferences or in Validate.

Fixes

• Core: Update OpenId to refresh token if expired.
• User preferences: Disable preferred application settings if enabled apps are < 2.
• Validate: Fixed bug where application could crash if expected metadata not available.
• Validate: Fixed support for %asset in audioFileDisplay and videoFileDisplay in metadata view
• Validate: Some hotkeys has been updated to work better on OSX, changing from CTRL to CMD.

Postgres Adapter

Fixes

• Ignore invalid settings instead of crashing when invalid settings are inserted.
• Removed log spam about optimistic locking.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Support the Vidispine RunAs header, to impersonate other users.

Highlights

• Accessibility and keyboard interaction improvements

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• AssetView: Select assets via keyboard hotkeys.
• Validate: The metadata tab now uses videoFileDisplay and audioFileDisplay for labels.

Fixes

• Poster: Improved focus states for better accessibility.
• Miscellaneous minor fixes to keyboard interaction throughout the applications.

Postgres Adapter

Fixes

• Fixed issue with metadata triggers that didn’t work properly
• Bulk create with replace now doesn't delete all settings for a specific type for every entry created, resulting in only the last setting of each type is created.

Job system

Features

• Bitrate is now extracted from all audio and video streams.

Fixes

• Better error messages from Amazon Rekognition integration when it fails

Highlights

• Added possibility to configure the content of the Metadata tab in Validate
• Set language of audio- and subtitles files in Validate

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Validate: Customisable content of the Metadata tab
  • The metadata tab content is configurable and organized into asset, video and audio sections.
  • It's possible to configure expected values for a specific metadata field.
  • Users will be notified if the value of a metadata field deviates from its expected value by showing info and warning icons in the metadata tab.
  • User will be warned of all metadata fields that do not match their expected values when approving an asset.
  • See Metadata fields documentation.
• Validate: You can now change language metadata on video, audio, vtt-, and imsc subtitles. You need to activate the feature in settings.js to enable it. See Validate Settings.

Fixes

• General: The Accurate.Video logo has been updated.
• Ingest: It's now possible to remove files from the ingest modal.
• Poster: The "go back" arrow has been replaced with the new Accurate.Video icon.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Added bulk update method for timespans. See /bulk under asset_timespan in the API documentation.

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Added bulk update method for timespans. See /bulk under asset_timespan in the API documentation.
• Implemented job listing.

Job system

Fixes

• Fixed a bug with Elemental transcoding of files with dots in their names.

Highlights

• Poster: Fixed issue where using non-default guideline styles could cause snapshots to scale anomalously

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Poster: Fixed issue where using non-default guideline styles could cause snapshots to scale anomalously

Highlights

• Added support to ingest more subtitle formats via CCextractor and custom scripts
• File visualisation improvements in Validate

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Validate: Added support for audioFileDisplay and audioFileOrder in timeline. See Validate settings.
• Validate: Added support for %asset in audioFileDisplay and videoFileDisplay. See Validate settings.
• Validate: Audio meter can be resized using the settings menu.
• Validate: Added markerMetadata settings for timeline rows that can be used to specify metadata that should always be added to markers created on the row. See Marker settings.
• Storages: Warn the user when attaching a storage with a dot (.) in the bucket name.

Fixes

• General: Updated look & feel for all menus for consistency.
• Jobs: Pagination on jobs screen is now always visible.
• Validate: Fixed %asset template tag in timeline, now showing the correct asset title.
• Validate: Assign default language to subtitle timespans that are missing language.
• Validate: Retrieve thumbnails from the currently playing video rather than from mainAssetId.
• Validate: Submit marker form on enter now works.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Settings are now sorted by modification date.

Fixes

• Handle Unicode file names in SNS response
• Handle S3 buckets with dots in their names

Job system

Features

• CCextractor is now part of the default container, this makes it possible to ingest additional subtitle formats such as 608 through custom scripts. See example.
• analyze.py now works without writing to local FS

Fixes

• Greatly improved speed of sprite map creation
• Improved dynamic settings
• Asset is no longer deleted on failed ingest to existing asset

Highlights

• Added safe area overlay feature to Validate
• Added possibility to define composite roles in the Postgres Adapter

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Validate: Added safe area functionality.
• Validate: Add information text about exporting filtered markers
• Validate: Using hotkey `shift+m` with no marker selected, now selects the marker closest to CTI.
• Validate: Hotkey `shift+r` now selects the first track, if a track is selected the next track is selected and when reaching the last track it selects the first track.
• Validate: Added channelNamesMetadataKey settings in order to display channel names in timeline, see Validate settings.
• Validate: Added audioTagBlackList and videoTagBlackList settings that make it possible to prevent files from being shown and activated for playback, see general settings.

Fixes

• Core: Handle multiple tags for files.
• Ingest: Reset autocomplete input when switching between "Create new asset" / "Add to existing asset" in ingest modal.
• Jobs: List pagination shortly shows up and then disappears when selecting a status that have no jobs
• Poster: Filter out asset thumbnails in poster so that they are not shown as user-made posters.
• Poster: Updated text in delete poster/snapshot dialog to make them more consistent.
• Poster: Video no longer vertically overflows the container in Capture view.
• Validate: Improve load times of player by deferring timespan retrieval.
• Validate: Tooltips for toolbar-icons fade away correctly when the button gets disabled.
• Validate: Toolbar tooltip improvements
  • Tooltips are shown even when its button is disabled.
  • Display hotkeys when hovering playback speed and loop button.
• Validate: Removing in- and / or point will disable an active loop.
• Validate: Tracks are now correctly shown as implicitly muted.
• Validate: Waveform stuck in loading state when toggling audio track in collapsed state.
• Validate: Improvements to assets without audio and video.
  • Loading assets without video and audio now sets the timeline duration to the last available timespan.
  • Appropriate start time is set if it is set on any of the discrete audio tracks with a fallback to the first timespans start timecode if no other start time was found.
• Validate: Fixed issue where it was not possible to play/pause when clicking on the player.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Retrieve full job tree for a given root job
• Optional file tags that override the default original file access logic
• Backend defined composite roles (uses settings)
• Allow configuring frontend license key via environment variable

Fixes

• Not possible to update settings blob field
• Allow multiple copies of the same file on the same storage
• Fixed SNS bugs

Job system

Features

• Added action for copying files between storages
• Added job and configuration field original_extra_tag, for adding extra tags to original files during ingest
• Added job and configuration field web_ready_tag, for adding extra tags to web ready files during ingest
• Added waveform extraction action

Fixes

• Clarified default ingest workflow
• Fixed file order in templates (null,AUTO,*,VIDEO,AUDIO)

Highlights

• IMSC subtitle support in Validate
• Solo & mute tracks in Validate
• Ingest files to already existing assets via the UI

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Core: Add warning for when a storage CORS configuration is not set in storage status.
• Ingest: Support for ingesting files to an existing asset via the UI.
• Poster: Added reset crop button.
• Validate: Added solo/mute functionality to audio tracks.
• Validate: Allow user to configure how to display and order files in the media tab, see Validate Settings.
• Validate: Improvements to default marker colors.
• Validate: Added IMSC support.

Fixes

• Asset list: Pagination of assets page is now responsive for smaller screens.
• Jobs: Fix job pagination list to update correctly when updating limit.
• Poster: Provide snapshots with default configuration values on caption.
• Poster: Selection tool edges are only highlighted when active.
• Validate: Fixed bug when switching marker while looping.
• Validate: Fixed DASH playback when backendUrl is relative.
• Validate: Fixed bug when creating marker without having any track selected and names are not set.
• Validate: Removed padding inside of the timeline when no thumbnails are available.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Added API shortcut to trigger ingest on all files associated with an asset.

Fixes

• Add access and collection features to /asset/ingest endpoint.
• Preserve file type=AUTO when indexing new files.
• Improved error message when attempting to ingest files to a non-existing asset.

Deprecations

• QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_URL is now deprecated. The new variable is named QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_JDBC_URL

Job system

Features

• Support EBU STL captions.

Fixes

• Fix unicode errors when ingesting SCC files through URLs.

Highlights

• Bug fixes

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Fix strict taxonomy bug when creating marker without selected row.

Highlights

• Bug fixes

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Token from cookie not available in initial requests.
• Remove duplicate call to list assets.

Postgres Adapter

Fixes

• Improved asset loading speed.
• Bulk file index now responds with a status of 200 and a list of files, instead of 204

Job System

Fixes

• Set correct Content-Encoding when uploading to S3
• Support exporting files to external locations

Highlights

• Bug fixes

Release notes

Frontend

Fixes

• Fix permissions when generating configuration files on startup.

Highlights

• Bug fixes

Release notes

Job system

Fixes

• Rounding error in spritemap script.

Highlights

• Support for dynamically update settings via API
• Resizable panels in Validate
• Copy & paste markers between tracks in Validate
• Added support for strict taxonomy for marker names

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Asset List: Share access modal is updated to support only viewing.
• Asset List: Add delete asset functionality.
• Core: Added configurable subtitle priority order to settings file.
• Core: Usage UI available from the more menu in the header.
• Core: Update Amazon Rekognition supported check to be compatible with backend.
• Core: Add support for reading settings from backend.
• Core: Support startTime adjustment of subtitle files. This allows loading subtitle files with shifted timestamps.
• Core: Added settings `startTime` that can be used to indicate that the marker data is offset by the given amount.
• Jobs: Add possibility for a user with role job_view to see its own jobs.
• Validate: Updated Marker form track selection, where both group and track where in the same select, to instead be split up into one Group select and one Track select.
• Validate: Added support to open any asset with at least one file attached to it.
• Validate: Added the setting row.tag.
  • If a tag is configured on the row, a label tag is displayed on the row in timeline.
• Validate: Added the setting row.names that lists names of a marker row. See SETTINGS.md for more details.
  • If there are names on a marker row, the marker form displays the name field as searchable list with names from the selected track.
  • If there are no names on the selected track, the form fall backs to a regular text field.
• Validate: Added resizable panels.
• Validate: Copy/Paster marker feature added by new toolbar buttons and new hotkeys, cmd+c/cmd+v for mac and ctrl+c/ctrl+v for PC.
• Validate: Hotkeys for toolbar actions are now displayed in tooltips.

Fixes

• Asset List: New design of asset status in asset list and grid.
• Validate: Fixed loop marker logic to allow seek to another frame if paused.
• Validate: Fixed in- and out point not cleared after clicking on "Cancel"/Back arrow in Create marker form.
• Validate: Fixed marker not deselected after clicking "Cancel"/Back arrow in Edit marker form.
• Validate: Fixed issue where it sometimes wasn't possible to step to Previous/Next marker when opening the marker form due to name-field was auto focused. Hence removed autofocus property from name-field.
• Validate: Fixed so it's no longer possible to allow writable marker tracks in a read-only marker group.
• Validate: Fixed paste marker logic to paste the marker from the copy even if original marker was deleted.

Breaking

• Removed deprecated settings. See MIGRATION.md for details.

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Extract and save start timecode from video files.
• Report user type when doing user reporting.
• API for dynamic settings to frontend settings file.
• Log user report history.
• Asset can now be automatically deleted after a configurable time.
• Calculate if Amazon Rekognition is supported for assets.

Fixes

• Always do storage refresh once for storages without list access.
• Allow users to list their owned jobs, regardless of role.
• Persist audio timebase.
• Calling user should have modify access with role access_read.

Breaking

• Accept job now return 204 when no jobs are available (was 404).

Job system

Features

• Graceful shutdown, wait for active jobs before stopping.
• Cache control and content encoding supported for storage upload.
• Load job templates and other runner local scripts from adapter settings API.
• Compress waveforms.

Fixes

• Error in ffmpeg proxy creation.
• Transcoded files got tag=original.
• Set default Cache-Control to 12 hours on new files.
• Storage scan without list access should only do storage validation, no file listing.

Highlights

• Bug fixes

Release notes

Postgres Adapter

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where player was not frame accurate for some videos.

Highlights

• Renamed Visual QC and Poster Room to Validate and Poster
• Added several more Rekognition services
• Support for Collections
• Support for ingesting MPEG-DASH content

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Asset List: Added UI support for collections
  • Creating and removing collections
  • Searching within collections
  • Collection tree navigation
  • Moving assets/collection
• Asset List: New style for asset/collection grid items.
• Asset List: Allow bulk selection, used for moving assets/collections or opening multiple assets.
• Core: Load dash content from backend endpoint
• Core: Load waveform data from file on Asset
• Core: Use container data from original if missing on ABR file
• Core: Disable unsupported applications if asset contains ABR content
• Core: Now updates the query parameter authentication token from the /whoami response if the response provides a new token.
• Core: Forward refreshed video and discrete audio urls to player (pre-signed url support)
• Core: Added more Rekognition services
  • Content moderation
  • Label detection
  • Celebrity detection
  • Face detection
  • Text detection
• Core: Moved the theme select to user preferences.
• Core: Added MANIFEST and MARKER ingest file types.
• Storages: Added possibility to refresh storage from UI.
• Validate: Miscellaneous improvements
  • Submit marker form on Enter key
  • Prevent setting in point before out.
  • Added toolbar buttons
    • Jump to previous and next marker.
    • Create marker
    • Clear points
  • Read-only markers are now highlighted and scrolled to in the marker list when selected in the timeline
• Validate: Added optional query parameter mainAssetId which loads and stores groups, tracks and markers from/to that specified id instead of using id of currently selected video.
• Validate: Added metadata group setting for passing custom metadata on track creation.
• Validate: Added allowEditTrack and allowDeleteTrack row settings variables.
• Validate: Add settings for marker groups and rows to be initially collapsed, based on number of rows or collisions.

Fixes

• Asset List: Changed pagination label to 'Items per page'
• Core: Increased the max-width for storages/ingest/jobs/settings to resolve the narrow width.
• Core: Added setting to enable/disable eventbus under eventBus.enabled. Also moved eventBusUrl to eventBus.url.
• Core: Fixed asset refresh functionality to take a start time into account when queuing the first refresh.
• Core: The start time is set with the av:refresh_interval_start metadata field and is expected to be a ISO 8601 date time string.
• Poster: Fixed an issue where the user could select invalid presets. The user now receives a warning when attempting to select an invalid preset, and the action is prevented.
• Settings: Close button is back on the personal preferences screen.
• Settings: Escape key now closes the personal preferences screen.
• Storages: Fixed bug in storage form where it was not possible to delete all tags
• Validate: Disable playback rate for firefox when using web audio api (visualizing firefox limitation).
• Validate: Align timeline marker titles to top
• Validate: Use metadata-field component to show metadata
• Validate: Fixed solo mute button spacing.
• Validate: Fixed asset title overflow on metadata tab
• Validate: Reworked the timeline duration to now properly match the duration of the video file.
• Validate: Fixed bug in fullscreen control compensating for start timecode offset.
• Validate: While looping a marker it is now possible to
  • Move in- & out point
  • Change playback speed
  • Reverse playback
• Validate: Fixed marker row to still be selected when clicking on a marker.
• Validate: Optimize marker filter calculation.

Deprecations

• Deprecated qc settings in favor of apps.validate
• Deprecated posterRoomSettings settings in favor of apps.poster

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Added option to skip transcode during ingest
• Updated Storage refresh endpoint to return the created job
• Prevent removal of non-empty collections

Fixes

• Prevent asset relationship cycles
• Fixed bug when ingesting asset into collection

Job system

Features

• Allow transcode to be skipped on ingest
• Added more Rekognition services:
  • Celebrity Recognition
  • Face Detection
  • Text Detection
• Expanded job template documentation
• Added waveform generation step to default ingest template

Fixes

• Fixed asset import cleanup bug

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Added poster export endpoint to API

Highlights

• Minor bugfixes

Release notes

Job System

Fixes

• Removed interfering Rekognition metadata