CORTEX v1.5.3 beta release notes

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VERSION 1.5.3 beta b4926

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

FEATURES

  • GENERAL: Can export EDL with color metadata by Right-Clicking a project in the Project Manager and doing a ‘color trace’
  • GENERAL: Can import ALEs into a job and merge metadata with new or existing clips
  • GENERAL: Add support for audio-only QuickTime files
  • GENERAL: Add support for audio-only MXF files
  • GENERAL: Added burn-ins for Take, Camera ID, and Comments
  • RENDER: Ability to encode TIFF file sequences

IMPROVEMENTS

  • HARDWARE: Reduced delay on SDI output
  • HARDWARE: When SDI output is enabled, synchronize computer display and audio to SDI output during playback
  • SHARE: When another system changes an event already on a reel, only check the changed reels for updates to render
  • SHARE: Application no longer prevents multiple database transactions from occuring simulaneously when connected to a MySQL database

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fixed XYZ colorspace conversions
  • RENDER: Fix crash when attempting to encode between 9-15 audio channels in MXF audio for J2K deliverables, if channel count is greater than 8, always encode 16 channels
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VERSION 1.5.3 beta b4947

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • GENERAL: Added support for reading ARRI ProRes 4444 XQ files
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VERSION 1.5.3 beta b5062

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • COLOR: Added labels to tangent element LED for different color tools
  • GENERAL: Better quality matching of clips for merging metadata based on combination of timecode, filename and tapename

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where media would not relink automatically to clips created by an ALE import
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where audio didn’t play back if manifest import automatically relinked to existing clips
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where in and out point for clips traced back from an EDL import were not being set properly
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VERSION 1.5.3-beta b5081

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • GENERAL: Improved speed decoding Sony XAVC files

BUG FIXES

  • SYNC: Fix issue where audio and video timelines wouldn’t line up if framerates were different and timecode offset was very large
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where very short XAVC files would fail to decode
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VERSION 1.5.3 beta b5098

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

FEATURES

  • RENDER: Chapter menus are now included for DVDs configured with a main menu and chapter stops

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix regression causing Sony RAW clips to fail to import
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VERSION 1.5.3 beta b5108

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

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where stopping during playback would make player jump to another earlier frame if clip had sync’d audio and SDI output was enabled
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VERSION 1.5.3 beta b5110

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • RENDER: Label DVD chapter menu buttons for head formatting events (Bars, Black, Slate)
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VERSION 1.5.3-beta b5115

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

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Possible fix for intermittent loss of connection to tangent panels