CORTEX v1.5.3 release notes

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VERSION 1.5.3

Is now available. 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
  • GENERAL: Added support for reading ARRI ProRes 4444 XQ files
  • RENDER: Ability to encode TIFF file sequences
  • RENDER: Chapter menus are now included for DVDs configured with a main menu and chapter stops

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
  • GENERAL: Improved speed decoding Sony XAVC files
  • 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
  • COLOR: Possible fix for intermittent loss of connection to tangent panels
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where very short XAVC files would fail to decode
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where audio didn’t play back if manifest import automatically relinked to existing clips
  • 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
  • SYNC: Fix issue where audio and video timelines wouldn’t line up if framerates were different and timecode offset was very large

VERSION 1.5.3 b5172

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • COPY: Improved performance for creating copy jobs from list of clips
  • GENERAL: In ALE import, calculate duration for clips if there is no duration column
  • GENERAL: In ALE import, use UNC column for source filename if present
  • GENERAL: Vastly improved performance of EDL traceback through a large project database
  • HARDWARE: Add option to enable/disable feature to “DELAY GUI TO MATCH SDI”
  • RENDER: DVD styles are now stored in ProgramData directory so initial run will not crash on systems with UAC enabled

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue where audio info was not saved properly to clips when created via an EDL traceback
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where DNG files without a valid timecode in the header would not open properly
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where ALEs from Resolve would not import at all due to case of ‘kHz’
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where reel events for continuous tc reels would get shuffled after editing a reel
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where deleting and re-adding a reel event on a continous tc reel would not update timecodes properly
  • GENERAL Fix issue where trimming clips on a continous tc reel would not update timecodes properly

VERSION 1.5.3 b5238

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

FEATURES

  • GENERAL: Allow clips to be assigned timecodes with non-SMPTE framerates
  • RENDER: Add ability to output ProRes 4444 XQ

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fix bad LUT pipeline element records on load
  • COLOR: Fix regression where CDL would not import if description too long
  • COLOR: Fix issues where stills were grabbed stills unnecessarily in a few cases
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where clip was not really selected after changing view modes
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where color trace would often not write out any color metadata in EDL
  • GENERAL: Fix crash when attempting to export project database and file already exists
  • GENERAL: Fix ALE duration when playspeed is changed
  • RENDER: Fix issue with rendering embedded audio for clips with non-SMPTE framerates
  • RENDER: Fix audio resampling when source sample rate not 48 kHz

VERSION 1.5.3 b5256

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

BUG FIXES

  • COLOR: Fix regression where CDL import would not actually create stills
  • GENERAL: Fix issue with importing slow motion 2048 x 1080 XAVC files

VERSION 1.5.3 b5260

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

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue with SDI output lagging when playing at 2x or 3x speed (introduced in v1.5.3 b5238)

VERSION 1.5.3 b5300

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

FEATURES

  • GENERAL: In ALE import, use Filepath column for source filename if present (eg in Colorfront ALEs)

IMPROVEMENTS

  • GENERAL: EDL traceback now ignores case when comparing tapenames and filenames

BUG FIXES

  • COPY: Fix issue where copy job would fail with certain file organizations
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where some audio files would not relink to audio-only clips
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where bad ProRes files could cause crash when attempting to import media folder
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where tapename could be saved with illegal characters when not actually present, causing renders to fail
  • GENERAL: Fix issue with debayering some Canon C500 RAW files that are missing certain width and height metadata
  • GENERAL: Fix issue where crash could occur if ALE is imported to clips bin with no image or audio file name

VERSION 1.5.3 b5325

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • GENERAL: Added job name, internal job number and production number to PDF reports when filled in

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fix issue with EDL traceback matching things incorrectly. Regression introduced in b5300

VERSION 1.5.3 b5387

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

IMPROVEMENTS

  • GENERAL: Small improvements to merge metadata UI (better labels on checkboxes)

BUG FIXES

  • GENERAL: Fixed issue where some clips would not import properly using drag and drop import with multiple folders containing different file formats
  • GENERAL: Fixed crash when closing job or deleting clips with a null source extractor

VERSION 1.5.3 b5423

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

BUG FIXES

  • COPY: Fixed issue where copy tool would hang when source contain 0 byte files