CORTEX v1.5.4 release notes

VERSION 1.5.4 b5463

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

FEATURES

  • COLOR: Sony XAVC now exposes controls for adjusting Exposure, Tint and Kelvin
  • COLOR: Can now export 3D LUTs from selected looks in the still store
  • COLOR: Can now export CDL from selected looks in the still store
  • GENERAL: Add ability to set Audio Aux Timecode
  • GENERAL: Add ability to detect timecode recorded on an audio track of a wave file
  • GENERAL: ALE is output with Aux Timecode in column Auxiliary TC 3 when present

IMPROVEMENTS

  • COLOR: Resize filter ignores now picture outside of included region
  • COLOR: When adding multiple dissolves to a clip, revert now only reverts the current dissolve
  • COLOR: More CDL metadata is parsed on input if present
  • GENERAL: Improved speed of saving merged metadata after EDL traceback
  • RENDER: ProRes files are rendered with separate tracks for each audio channel

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fixed bug in framing tool when offset applied in combination with Flip X or Y
  • COLOR: Fix display of some values on Sony slider controls to display less digits
  • COLOR: Fix issues with Phantom color rendering for Unpacked files
  • COLOR: Fix issue that could cause clips with dissolves not to re-render when changes were made after the first dissolve
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where clips did not load in player immediately after doing an EDL traceback
  • GENERAL: Fix issue that could cause MXF PCM audio not to load with an erroneous license error message
  • GENERAL: Fix issue that could cause J2K picture and audio not to import together if they were in the same folder with matching timecode
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where reopening a job could show reels with duplicate events
  • GENERAL: Fix crash that could occur during EDL traceback
  • HARDWARE: Fix memory leak that could occur when frames are rendered faster than they are output over SDI
  • SHARE: Fix crash that could occur when switching from MySQL connection to a local SQLite database

VERSION 1.5.4 b5495

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

FEATURES

  • GENERAL: Added deliverable type for Broadcast Wave files.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • COLOR: Grabbed still thumbnails now sort by date of creation; Timeline still thumbnails continue to be sorted to match the clip list.
  • COLOR: After manually grabbing a new still, scroll to that still’s thumbnail in the still store and select it.

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fixed issue where Mems would not be saved correctly if color wasn’t saved to clip first.
  • RENDER: Fixed bug where DVD and Bluray .iso process would attempt to start even if mpeg/h264 render failed or was restarted.
  • RENDER: Encoding Sony RAW to a continuous TC reel with a different frame rate could result in a render failure, even though the deliverable completes OK.
  • RENDER: Clip TC burn-in window running at the wrong rate when rendering to a continuous TC reel at a rate different from the source clip.
  • SHARE: In progress encoding tasks are now cancelled when they are restarted on another system.

VERSION 1.5.4 b5509

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Reverted “After manually grabbing a new still, scroll to that still’s thumbnail in the still store and select it.”
  • COLOR: Fix crash when browsing grabbed stills from other project.

VERSION 1.5.4 b5536

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

FEATURES

  • GENERAL: Add option to encode broadcast wave deliverables as separate monophonic files per audio channel.
  • RENDER: Broadcast wave files for all deliverables automatically fall back to monophonic if polyphonic file size would exceed 4 GB.

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fix issue where toggle wasn’t working properly with LUTs.
  • COLOR: Fix issue where loading RMD values for a clip didn’t work.
  • COLOR: Fix issue where loading Clip or Default values for a clip sometimes wouldn’t work.
  • RENDER: Fix issue where ProRes file would not open if encoded with the ‘Both’ audio option.

VERSION 1.5.4 b5567

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Clicking on the source/record volume meters now properly works to iso/mute individual audio channels for monitoring.
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where reels would not get imported from a manifest if all the clips were being merged with existing clips.
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where merged color metadata would not save properly when importing manifest to MySQL database the first time.

##VERSION 1.5.4 b5588
is now available [Click here to visit the download page] (http://forum.mtifilm.com/t/cortex-v1-5-4-downloads/544)

###BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue with GPU debayer of Canon RAW

VERSION 1.5.4 b5633

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix bug introduced in v1.5.4 b5588 which caused a crash when launching 32-bit processes like DVD and Blu-ray.

VERSION 1.5.4 b5636

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • SYNC: Fix issue where autosync with offset could fail when offset was a large negative number.

VERSION 1.5.4 b5724

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where .aif files would not import.

VERSION 1.5.4 b5735

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • RENDER: Fix issue where gamma and exposure adjustments were not applied in outputs from Canon C500 by falling back to CPU decoding when necessary.

##VERSION 1.5.4 b5831

Is now available. [Click here to visit the download page.] (http://forum.mtifilm.com/t/cortex-v1-5-4-downloads/544)

###BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Open MPEG-4 AVC files with the QuickTime Parser to check for timecode tracks.

##VERSION 1.5.4 b5860

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

###BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Sort take by number so take 10 comes after take 9 in Scene-Take-Camera order

VERSION 1.5.4 b5864

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BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where audio playback could be off by up to a frame

VERSION 1.5.4 b5900

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BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where GoPro files with a bogus timecode track would not open

VERSION 1.5.4 b6012

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fix issue where setting Canon RAW to GPU Debayer would reset any custom parameters, GPU debayer falls back to CPU when necessary for now
  • COLOR: Fix issue where it was not possible to load clip values from Canon RAW clips after changing parameters
  • RENDER: Fix issue where render would always fall back to CPU, even when not necessary

VERSION 1.5.4 b6021

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where mixed linebreaks in BWF header could cause unwanted linebreaks in ALE
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where audio track labels could be written in the wrong order in ALE

VERSION 1.5.4 b6264

Is now available. Click here to visit the download page.

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue reading timecode from PIX260 files with incorrectly flagged TC track
  • GENERAL: Fixed decoding of Phantom clips when tone map LUTs include the end points
  • COLOR: Fixed SGamut3.cine.SLog3 color space matrix per errata from Sony
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VERSION 1.5.4 b6279

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BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix for reading SonyRAW Kelvin value from metadata
  • GENERAL: Fixed issue with bad frame rate values in DPX clips originating from Sony RAW Viewer

VERSION 1.5.4 b6307

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BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Update color space matrix for internal debayer of Sony RAW
  • GENERAL: Apply color space matrix before the SLog LUT when decoding Sony RAW.
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VERSION 1.5.4 b6380

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BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix occasional issue importing Cortex manifest into a MySQL based project