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VERSION 1.5.1
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FEATURES
IMAGE PROCESSING
- UPRES / RESIZE (INCLUDING UHD & 4K)
- New high quality resize algorithm option in deliverable configs (ENTERPRISE EDITION only)
- Resize to and from any resolution during encoding, including up-res to UHD and 4K
- APERTURE CORRECTION TOOL
- New tool tab in color tool to apply aperture correction to enhance perceived sharpness of images
- DYNAMIC EFFECTS:
- Can now add transitions and dissolves for Framing, Aperture and Grain effects
DATA AND METADATA
- COPY TOOL
- Copy and verify data from multiple sources to up to 3 destinations (primary storage and 2 backups)
- Backup to LTO with LTFS
- MD5 checksums calculated during copy. Optionally verify checksums on destination copies
- Output reports of all data copied
- Checksums and list of files included in Job Manifest
- JOB MANIFEST
- Provides a means to exchange metadata between Cortex systems and intelligently merge it with new or existing media
- Missing media is clearly displayed to provide greater confidence that all media has been properly received
- Ability to export Job Manifest with all pertinent metadata from a Job at time of export
- Ability to import Job Manifest from any system
- Ability to merge metadata with existing clips, automatically prompted after manifest import
- Ability to relink media to offline clips automatically when media is imported
- RELINK
- Ability to relink offline clips to media at a new location
- Relink automatically searches for any remaining clips at similar a relative paths based on the identified clip
- Automatically uses a combination of timecode, tapename and filename to match clips
- IMPORT EDL
- Ability to import CMX 3600 EDL files to create a pull list or list of offline clips
- During EDL import, can now select whether clip name defaults to source name or comment
- TRACEBACK / MERGE METADATA
- Ability to trace through and merge metadata from several sources:
- Current project database
- Another project database
- ALE, FCP XML and CORTEX XML File(s) or Folders of files
- Selectively apply color, sound, sync and edit metadata during merge
- Ability to trace through and merge metadata from several sources:
- PDF REPORTS
- Export PDF reports for each reel or for an entire job
- Replaces text based FLR and NDR reports with one single report
- Optionally include details sections for QC Notes, Reels, Copy Jobs and Data Discrepancies
FILE FORMATS AND CODECS
- SONY RAW CUSTOM DEBAYER AND SGAMUT3/SLOG3 COLORSPACE
- Fast, high quality, full resolution debayer now available for Sony RAW footage (F5, F55, F65)
- SGamut3/SLog3 colorspace now available
- Sony RAW controls now available for Exposure Index, Color Temperature and Tint
- RED SDK WITH GPU SUPPORT
- R3D files are now decoded using the new GPU accelerated SDK when possible
- ARRIRAW OPENGATE AND MONOCHROME SUPPORT
- Can debayer ARRIRAW Open Gate format (3414 x 2198)
- Can decode ARRIRAW monochrome files
- PHANTOM FLEX 4K SUPPORT
- Added support for new Phantom Flex 4K camera
- Added additional controls for Phantom color metadata
- Colors now match Phantom SDK when using GPU debayer with advanced parameters
- DNXHD QUICKTIME / MOV SUPPORT
- Can read and write DNxHD of all bitrates in a QuickTime / .mov wrapper
- 16 BIT DPX SUPPORT
- Added support for reading and writing 16 bit DPX files
- COMPRESSED CINEMA DNG SUPPORT
- Added support for reading compressed CinemaDNG files
- MONOPHONIC WAV FILE SUPPORT
- Can import audio monophonic wav files and use them directly in the sync tool
- H264 BLURAY SUPPORT
- Can create BluRay disc images with the H.264 codec
USER INTERFACE
- SELECTIVELY APPLY COLOR AND IMAGE SETTINGS TO MULTIPLE CLIPS
- When copying and saving color from one clip to many, select which parameters to clone, all the way down to a single RED setting
- CLIP BIN COLUMN LAYOUTS AND SORTING
- Sort the clip bin by any column by clicking the header
- Column layout is automatically saved between sessions (column order, width and visibility)
- Custom layouts can be saved with a name and recalled on demand
- JOB NAVIGATION SIDEBAR
- Added sidebar for navigating among reels and copy jobs. Replaces tab-based reel navigation
- New views for clip list: Thumbnail Only and Thumbnails + List
- All actions for each reel or copy job bin are now accessible via right-click on bin in side nagivation list
- STILL STORE OPTIMIZATIONS
- Optimizations to still store makes saving color corrections faster, takes less disk space
- Optimizations to still store makes loading jobs faster and browsing project stills faster
- ABILITY TO SYNC PICTURE AND AUDIO SHOT AT DIFFERENT FRAMERATES
- Picture and audio can now be sync’d together if they were shot at different framerates (eg. picture at 24, audio at 30)
- AUTO-COMPLETE COMMENTS
- Auto-complete comments as they are added in the SYNC tool
- SCOPE CONTROL AND REGION OF INTEREST (ROI)
- Click and drag in image area to define a region of interest to highlight in the waveform and vectorscope
- Right click scope for options to choose various display options (channels, gain)
- BETTER TANGENT ELEMENT SUPPORT
- Added mapping files for all Tangent Element panels
4K MONITORING
- BLACK MAGIC DESIGN SDI OUTPUT
- A variety of black magic design hardware can now be used to output SDI video (along with AJA and DVS which continue to be supported)
- UHD SDI OUTPUT
- Can output SDI at UHD using AJA, BMD or DVS SDI cards
DIAGNOSTICS AND TROUBLESHOOTING
- ERROR LOG
- Notifications displayed for any errors logged while running application
- Can open log window to see errors, cut/copy error messages, and filter by severity. Can also save logs to send to support.
IMPROVEMENTS
- COLOR: Tools are disabled when clip with offline media is selected
- COLOR: When switching between RED clips, the chosen RED tab stays selected
- COLOR: Framing decisions are included in still thumbnails and exports, per the Preview configuration
- COLOR: Save button is enabled when multiple clips are selected, regardless of whether any changes were made
- COLOR: Save button now on all tabs
- COLOR: Color tools and tabs are disabled when a deliverable is selected which is configured not to apply a given tool
- COLOR: Aspect ratio of still thumbnails matches source frame
- COLOR: Still store project browser expands down so controls are less likely to be out of view
- COLOR: T key now toggles framing changes in addition to other color changes
- COPY: Copy jobs pause automatically when clips are importing to reduce contention over disk and database access.
- COPY: Current moving average copy speed is shown in addition to average speed for whole job.
- COPY: Can now calculate disk space on StorNext and other volumes mounted in NTFS folders
- COPY: Show current file being copied in the copy job widget
- COPY: Optimized copy tool for copying file sequences (like .ari or .dpx files)
- COPY: Available and remaining space now includes in progress copy jobs
- COPY: Verification waits until copies to that volume are finished
- COPY: Checksum calculation of downstream copy can be used to verify upstream copy
- COPY: Can copy from multiple sources at one time
- COPY: Folders hidden in ‘show clips’ mode
- COPY: Ability to resume a copy job that has failed
- COPY: Improved layout for each copy job widget
- COPY: Database optimizations to handle millions of file entries for file-per-frame media types
- COPY: Source name is set to volume name if the root drive is chosen as source
- COPY: Ability to set the maximum number of concurrent offloads (copy to primary)
- GENERAL: In file list, “Mismatches” and “Not Listed” are now differentiated
- GENERAL: When clips are imported on another system, it is less disruptive (current clip and frame are maintained)
- GENERAL: Comments imported from manifest are now always merged with existing comments
- GENERAL: Stills and LUTs are now always located via the project path at the chosen root directory:
{project}\stills
{project}\luts
Allows users to more easily move stills and LUTs when moving projects between locations or moving project from one storage volume to another - GENERAL: Update RED SDK to v5.0, includes RED Gamma 4, RED Dragon Color
- GENERAL: Now able to import a project into a sqlite database using import project feature
- GENERAL: Can import DPX files with bogus framerate. Fall back on project framerate when header value is not present or obviously incorrect.
- GENERAL: When project configured to use filename as clip name, index part of filename is no longer included.
- GENERAL: Can now set file sequence configs to start at any chosen number or a number based on timecode.
- GENERAL: Added ability to import broadcast wave files with .bwf extension
- GENERAL: Improved licensing so that plugging/unplugging USB wireless adapters should not cause re-activation
- GENERAL: Sort files by path/filename in PDF reports
- GENERAL: Ability to add embedded audio back to clip after it has been removed
- GENERAL: Optimizations to ensure real time playback of 4K material on appropriate hardware.
- GENERAL: Faster loading of clips with lower up front memory footprint
- GENERAL: Faster decoding of ProRes in optimized mode
- GENERAL: When deleting a reel with many clips or large dpx files, busy message is displayed
- GENERAL: The edit timecode setting last used is remembered
- GENERAL: Can now import multiple clips of Avid MXF media stored in a single folder
- GENERAL: Can now import multiple sequences of DPX files with the same base name stored in a single folder
- GENERAL: Can now import DPX sequence where the padding / index number changes in the middle of the sequence
- GENERAL: When importing manifest, if sync’d audio is online, show in white even if picture is offline
- GENERAL: Player stops when application is minimized - fixes application freeze that could happen
- GENERAL: Much faster playback of RED material when using RED Rocket or RED Rocket-X
- GENERAL: After deleting clips, Cortex now lets go of file handles so they can be moved or deleted
- GENERAL: Separate locations for deliverables and stills and LUTs can now be chosen for your project
- GENERAL: Column for comments now available in clips bin
- GENERAL: When importing media that has a wav file in the same folder, separate audio clip is created so it can be re-synced if necessary
- GENERAL: Player loops to beginning of reel when in reel playback
- GENERAL: Do not allow user to add clips to a source timecode reel if playspeed is modified and ‘enforce consistency’ is checked
- RENDER: Automatic decode quality for Sony RAW better optimized for speed / quality trade-offs
- RENDER: File-per-reel deliverables which don’t start encoding until reel is closed now more accurately reflect their progress
- RENDER: Ability to create BluRays with 0, 2, 4 or 6 audio channels
BUG FIXES
- COLOR: Fix null reference exception when toggling in and out of ACES mode
- COLOR: Picture would shift in wrong direction when Flip H or V was enabled, with a position shift and high-quality resize enabled
- COLOR: Aperture correction applied only in active picture region when resizer adds letterbox or pillarbox
- COLOR: Fix issue where aperture correction would add black line at the bottom of the frame
- COLOR: Color correction applied only in active picture region when resizer adds letterbox or pillarbox
- COLOR: Initial sort of timeline stills was wrong
- COLOR: Fix issue where get next and previous color sometimes did not work
- COLOR: Fix navigation of stills which broke when new sorting methods were added
- COLOR Fix issue where tabs could be empty when switching between multiple open jobs
- COLOR: Fix issue where color was applied to Media Offline slate
- COLOR: Fix issue where stills were timeline sometimes loaded for clips that no longer exist
- COLOR: Fix some cases where invalid dissolves could be added to clip
- COLOR: FlipX and FlipY are properly ignored when ‘No Resize’ or ‘Original Clip’ sizing settings are chosen in deliverable configuration
- COLOR: Fix issue where ‘Output LUT’ would alsways be selected during save color to multiple clips
- COLOR: Fixed issue where Film Grain Saturation would sometimes be selected erroneously during ‘save color to multiple clips’
- COLOR: Fixed issue with still captions not showing take id properly
- COLOR: Fixed issue with panels not connecting when you first click ‘Connect’ until restart application
- COLOR: When jumping to next color event (dynamic/dissolve), cursor now always lands on next sub-clip
- COPY: Fix crash when drive root is selected as source
- COPY: Fix issue where copy could fail saying destination file already exists
- COPY: Fix crash when trying to copy folder with single frame duration file sequences (eg JPG stills)
- COPY: Fix issue where GUI could freeze when copy finished while viewing details tab
- COPY: Fixed issue where clips could be imported to the wrong job by the copy tool when multiple jobs are open
- COPY: Fixed crash when you click ‘create copy job’ and source path does not exist
- COPY: File attributes are maintained during copy
- COPY: Copy jobs are handled properly in multi-node systems (copy jobs are owned by the initiating workstation, but visible on others)
- COPY: Fixed crash in copy tool when attempting to process hidden files
- COPY: Fixed some cases where copy job would appear ‘stuck’ after copy/verify completed
- COLOR: Fix intermittent issue where thumbnails still wouldn’t load in clip list until loading timeline stills.
- COLOR: Fix issue with auto-repeat on printer lights button
- COLOR: Put back deprecated RED Color and Gamma options for compatibility with older media and systems
- COLOR: Fix issue exporting stills for files that have variable resolution decoding options (RED, etc)
- COLOR: Fixed behavior of arrow keys in Framing Tool
- COLOR: Save and revert buttons work now after changing the LUT on a clip
- COLOR: Added extra checks to prevent incomplete color pipelines from being saved to database
- COPY: Fix issue where local checksums sometimes did not update after verification until you closed and reopened the job.
- COPY: Fixed a few issues when running multiple copy jobs simultaneously
- COPY: Fix crash trying to access non-NTFS drives. Issue introduced in when support for following junction points was added.
- COPY: Fix issue where deleting one copy job could cause other running copy jobs to stop updating progress in the GUI
- COPY: Fix potential conflicts when running multiple copy jobs
- COPY: Fix issue that could cause verify job status and progress not to be updated when job completes while application is closed
- COPY: When restarting a copy job in the verify column, only restart verification
- COPY: Better indication when Copy Jobs fail
- COPY: Fix issue where opening other jobs while copy jobs are running could cause verification process not to start
- COPY: Fixed issue creating a ‘verify only’ copy job on systems pointing to shared database
- COPY: Fixed issue where manual pause/resume were disabled for verify jobs until play/stop
- COPY: Fix for occasional failure to import clips after copy job completed
- GENERAL: Fix for occasional hang while deleting a reel
- GENERAL: Can read timecode from AVCHD files
- GENERAL: Fix issue that could cause app to hang when reopening jobs with QuickTime files
- GENERAL: Fix issue with importing new LUTs as Display LUTs into deliverable congigs
- GENERAL: Fix issue decoding Sony XAVC files
- GENERAL: Fix issue where thumbnails in clip list were not appearing until the Timeline still store was selected in color tool
- GENERAL: Fix hang importing manifest and merging metadata to existing clips with offline media
- GENERAL: Fix hang importing manifest that has clips pointing to the same file in two different locations
- GENERAL: Fix issue deleting jobs with file entries imported from manifest on MySQL systems
- GENERAL: Fix issue that could cause wrong clips to merge with manifest metadata in certain edge cases when tapename was missing
- GENERAL: Fix issue importing watermark images on MySQL systems
- GENERAL: Fix issue where total run time of a reel was not correct until you reopened the job
- GENERAL: Fix issue where attempting to traceback many clips created by an EDL could cause Cortex to crash
- GENERAL: Fix issue where clip list would scroll after selecting multiple clips
- GENERAL: Show warning when episode filename exceeds max length (20 characters)
- GENERAL: Fixed several issues related to doing traceback after importing an EDL
- GENERAL: Fixed issues with calculating timecodes for record timecode reels
- GENERAL: Fix issue where sometimes the ‘save reel’ button would not do anything when trying to edit a reel
- GENERAL: Fixed new issue with merging manifest metadata from manifest due to more precise subframe timecode calculation
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where sometimes multiple clips remained selected when only one appeared selected
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where Enter and Esc stopped working to exit text edit fields after running a copy job.
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where it appeared as though comments were not deleted until you reopened the job.
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where PDF report could show bogus ‘missing’ and ‘unlisted’ files when exported from Project Manager.
- GENERAL: Fixed hang importing manifest could hang due to improper naming of LUT filename in manifest.
- GENERAL: Clips can now play back immediately after traceback from EDL when media is already online.
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where source decoding settings were not properly stored after EDL import and traceback for certain file formats.
- GENERAL: Fixed crash caused by attempting to relink media on import when path has not changed.
- GENERAL: Fixed crash when importing media to a job with offline clips that have embedded audio.
- GENERAL: Prevent crash caused by user trying to traceback through another project file or ALE folder with no path specified.
- GENERAL: Fixed crash when attempting to create new database folder for SQLite projects.
- GENERAL: When doing traceback, if ‘Edit’ is unchecked, mark in and out are retained from imported clip.
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where Cortex sometimes thinks multiple clips are selected
- GENERAL: Fix for reading audio from certain quicktime files with a sample size table equal greater than 1
- GENERAL: Fix for wrong duration reported when reading certain quicktime files
- GENERAL: Fix issue updating project databases from 1.4.x to 1.5.x
- GENERAL: Fix issue with tearing in Black Magic SDI output due to illegal values
- GENERAL: Fixed hang that could occur when playing a reel with only 1 clip to the end
- GENERAL: Fixed issue with slate durations sometimes being incorrect in ALE
- GENERAL: Fixed issue with duplicate events showing up in GUI when opening/closing a reel with head formatting on deliverable
- GENERAL: Fixed issue with clip bin and reel run times being slightly off
- GENERAL: Fixed crash when sorting clip list by the comments column
- GENERAL: Fixed hang sometimes caused by pressing the Tab key in the Color tool
- GENERAL: Fix issue where Cortex would sometimes erroneously attempt to load the two wav files as one clip
- GENERAL: Fixed crash when attempting to read audio files with more than 16 channels. Now channels greater than 16 are ignored.
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where clips sometimes did not show up in clip bin after being imported until re-open job
- RENDER: Fixed issue where clips could be rendered to the wrong folder after changing the reel name
- RENDER: Fixed issue with intermittent incomplete DNxHD renders
- GENERAL: Fix regression where CDL’s were not importing due to exception generating timecode
- GENERAL: Fix issue where occasional exception shown when loading stills while opening job
- GENERAL: Fix stuttering of certain formats during initial playback on SDI with BlackMagic card
- GENERAL: Fix ‘pulsing’ when playing back RED material with RED Rocket or RED Rocket X
- GENERAL: Fix crash on startup and on exit that could occur due to bad config file
- GENERAL: Fix issue where color was sometimes not loaded from manifest file
- GENERAL: Information message “A clip is still encoding…” could come up unnecessarily after stopping Convey
- GENERAL: Fix issue where wav files could not be imported if they were in the same folder as other media with audio
- GENERAL: Fix issue where reel was sometimes not sorted properly when initially selected
- GENERAL: Fix issue where certain tabs were disabled after closing log window
- GENERAL: Fix issue where checkbox could erroneously show up in deliverable configuration GUI “Show LUTs for this job only”
- GENERAL: After changing clip timecode, to project framerate, warning about framerate mismatch no longer appears
- GENERAL: Fixed issue where marks could not be added at frames with certain dropframe timecodes
- GENERAL: Fix possible crash when importing audio only clips into a new job
- GENERAL: Fix possible crash when deleting sony clip while audio waveform being created
- GENERAL: Blackmagic design SDI output audio channels set to valid value when first configured
- GENERAL: Fix intermittent crash in GPU caused by displayer attempting to show frame with invalid parameters
- GENERAL: Fix crash that could occur when minimizing the application before job is opened
- GENERAL: Enforce consistency setting now prevents clips with modified playspeed from being added to reels
- GENERAL: Fix issue with path to LUT files used during rendering when manifest with LUTs is imported
- HARDWARE: Fix issue selecting 4 audio channels on video output with BMD cards by updating SDK to version 10.1
- RENDER: Fixed intermittent issue where QuickTime PhotoJpeg files output from Cortex would not open in QuickTime player.
- RENDER: Fixed intermittent crash rendering to H.264 with more than 2 audio channels caused by insufficient memory allocation.
- RENDER: Fixed pixel aspect ratio for center extract SD delvierables
- RENDER: MainConept MPEG encoder rolled back from 9.8 to 9.6 to fix issue with “I-frame pulsing”
- RENDER: Fix issue when encoding speed slider is set to 0, new reels start slowly encoding
- RENDER: Cannot output DPX files at certain resolutions like 720x486
- RENDER: Clip can be left in pending state after start and stop render
- RENDER: Fix issue where clip could start encoding for disabled deliverable when job is first opened
- RENDER: Fix issue where jpeg sequences created from clips with modified playspeed did not reflect the speed change
- RENDER: Fixed half pixel offset in low quality resize
- RENDER: Fix issue where data offset in DPX headers was sometimes written incorrectly, causing image to ‘bounce’ in certain applications
- RENDER: Fix issue where DNG extraction settings were not being applied in render
- RENDER: Can output DPX and OpenEXR clips with the chosen framerate in the header
- RENDER: When outputting from file sequences, index number of source sequence is duplicated in output filename
- RENDER: Fix issue where encoding DNxHD as file-per-reel with head formatting events would fail
- RENDER: Fix issue where jpeg sequences would not render out with modified playspeed
- SHARE: Fix issue where after syncing clip on another system, audio track is not properly selected in isolate audio mode on the other machine
- SYNC: Camera, scene, take and sound roll fields were allowing more characters to be entered than are stored in database (16)
- SYNC: Fix issue where clips that start before midnight and end after midnight could not be sync’d
- SYNC: Fix issue with waveform disappearing for clips when audio data not exactly the same length in all tracks