Highlights

• Renamed Visual QC and Poster Room to Validate and Poster
• Added several more Rekognition services
• Support for Collections
• Support for ingesting MPEG-DASH content

Release notes

Frontend

Features

• Asset List: Added UI support for collections
  • Creating and removing collections
  • Searching within collections
  • Collection tree navigation
  • Moving assets/collection
• Asset List: New style for asset/collection grid items.
• Asset List: Allow bulk selection, used for moving assets/collections or opening multiple assets.
• Core: Load dash content from backend endpoint
• Core: Load waveform data from file on Asset
• Core: Use container data from original if missing on ABR file
• Core: Disable unsupported applications if asset contains ABR content
• Core: Now updates the query parameter authentication token from the /whoami response if the response provides a new token.
• Core: Forward refreshed video and discrete audio urls to player (pre-signed url support)
• Core: Added more Rekognition services
  • Content moderation
  • Label detection
  • Celebrity detection
  • Face detection
  • Text detection
• Core: Moved the theme select to user preferences.
• Core: Added MANIFEST and MARKER ingest file types.
• Storages: Added possibility to refresh storage from UI.
• Validate: Miscellaneous improvements
  • Submit marker form on Enter key
  • Prevent setting in point before out.
  • Added toolbar buttons
    • Jump to previous and next marker.
    • Create marker
    • Clear points
  • Read-only markers are now highlighted and scrolled to in the marker list when selected in the timeline
• Validate: Added optional query parameter mainAssetId which loads and stores groups, tracks and markers from/to that specified id instead of using id of currently selected video.
• Validate: Added metadata group setting for passing custom metadata on track creation.
• Validate: Added allowEditTrack and allowDeleteTrack row settings variables.
• Validate: Add settings for marker groups and rows to be initially collapsed, based on number of rows or collisions.

Fixes

• Asset List: Changed pagination label to 'Items per page'
• Core: Increased the max-width for storages/ingest/jobs/settings to resolve the narrow width.
• Core: Added setting to enable/disable eventbus under eventBus.enabled. Also moved eventBusUrl to eventBus.url.
• Core: Fixed asset refresh functionality to take a start time into account when queuing the first refresh.
• Core: The start time is set with the av:refresh_interval_start metadata field and is expected to be a ISO 8601 date time string.
• Poster: Fixed an issue where the user could select invalid presets. The user now receives a warning when attempting to select an invalid preset, and the action is prevented.
• Settings: Close button is back on the personal preferences screen.
• Settings: Escape key now closes the personal preferences screen.
• Storages: Fixed bug in storage form where it was not possible to delete all tags
• Validate: Disable playback rate for firefox when using web audio api (visualizing firefox limitation).
• Validate: Align timeline marker titles to top
• Validate: Use metadata-field component to show metadata
• Validate: Fixed solo mute button spacing.
• Validate: Fixed asset title overflow on metadata tab
• Validate: Reworked the timeline duration to now properly match the duration of the video file.
• Validate: Fixed bug in fullscreen control compensating for start timecode offset.
• Validate: While looping a marker it is now possible to
  • Move in- & out point
  • Change playback speed
  • Reverse playback
• Validate: Fixed marker row to still be selected when clicking on a marker.
• Validate: Optimize marker filter calculation.

Deprecations

• Deprecated qc settings in favor of apps.validate
• Deprecated posterRoomSettings settings in favor of apps.poster

Postgres Adapter

Features

• Added option to skip transcode during ingest
• Updated Storage refresh endpoint to return the created job
• Prevent removal of non-empty collections

Fixes

• Prevent asset relationship cycles
• Fixed bug when ingesting asset into collection

Job system

Features

• Allow transcode to be skipped on ingest
• Added more Rekognition services:
  • Celebrity Recognition
  • Face Detection
  • Text Detection
• Expanded job template documentation
• Added waveform generation step to default ingest template

Fixes

• Fixed asset import cleanup bug

Vidispine Adapter

Features

• Added poster export endpoint to API