VERSION 3.1.3 b11127
Is now available. Click here to visit the download page
Please note if you have CORTEX Enterprise you will need a separate license to activate the IMF feature. You can get this license by contacting support@mtifilm.com. You will then need to click the “Install IMF” button in the upper right corner of CORTEX and follow the prompts.
FEATURES
- COLOR: Full ACES support
- EDIT: Able to handle subtitles (SMPTE Timed Text)
- EDIT: Able to trim and move subtitles using the mouse rather than keyboard shortcuts
- EDIT: Able to do audio and video fades
- QA: Added a QC tab to monitor video bit rate for formats that support it (J2K, DNx, ProRes) and audio levels
- RENDER: Able to pickup renders for formats that support it (DPX, EXR, etc.)
IMPROVEMENTS
- COPY: Allow user to select folder when doing an archive job
- COPY: Allow copy/archive jobs to go to the same destination if barcode is changed
- COLOR: Include some predefined LUTs when creating a new project (ie Full to Legal)
- COLOR: Optimize grabbing of stills
- EDIT: Ability to generate tone in the slate tool
- EDIT: Usability improvements working with supplemental IMFs
- EDIT: Optimize editing with many events
- GENERAL: Support for Panasonic Varicam files
- GENERAL: Update RED SDK to 6.2.0
- GENERAL: Update Sony SDK to 2.4.0 adding support for Sony XOCN format
- GENERAL: Update DNx SDK to 2.3.0.35 and AMT SDK to 2.13.1 which includes REC 2020 support
- GENERAL: Update Mainconcept Codecs to 10.3
- GENERAL: Update EVS SDK to 2.8.3 (click Install IMF button to update IMF license if applicable)
- GENERAL: Update Adobe DNG SDK to 1.4 adding support for compression
- GENERAL: Ability to use timecode control to navigate by frames (pressing ++ or – gets you into that mode)
- GENERAL: Faster decoding of TIFF files
- GENERAL: Ability to reverse red and blue channels in DPX files
- GENERAL: Add ability to read uncompressed OP-1A YUV 10 bit files
- GENERAL: Add ability to read IMF packages that have packing lists with new 2016 XML namespace
- GENERAL: Add ability to read WAV files bigger than 4 GB
- GENERAL: Add option to use UTF-8 tables when creating a MySQL databases (required if working with subtitles that contain non-ASCII characters)
- GENERAL: Speed up importing of long file per frame sequences (use Import -> File per Frame Sequence)
- QA: Include timecode in dead pixel CSV report
- QA: Integrate Photon IMF validation tool (requires Java)
- RENDER: Improved readability of render bar tooltip
- RENDER: Add EssenceDescriptor to CPL when creating an IMF package
- RENDER: Multi-channel audio (> 2 channels) H.264/AAC renders now write each channel to a separate track
- RENDER: Add some new bit rates to AAC audio encoder including 320 kbps
- RENDER: Add ability to do Hulu MPEG-2 encoding
BUG FIXES
- GENERAL: Fix issue reading timecodes in Alexa Mini MXF files
- GENERAL: Fix issue opening Sony FS5 files
- GENERAL: Fix occasional crashes when working with Sony F5 clips
- RENDER: Empty audio tracks in a composition are replaced with silence when rendering
- RENDER: Catch missing deliverable events before deliverable is marked complete
- RENDER: Fix vis tc burn in issue when rendering a 23.98 clip to 29.97