Release Notes

Release Notes

• New Copy Protection. Now using Softron License Manager. WARNING: Internet connection is required. More info...
• New System Requirements. macOS 12 or later is required
• Video Playback: Added support for H.264. It was required for some video streaming services. See remaining known issue below.
• HTTPS: Added the ability to use self signed certificates for HTTPS when using localhost addresses.
• Audio Output: Added support for audio output. A much requested feature to be able to view... and hear videos
• UI: Issue with some drop down menus that would not be rendered
• macOS: Output settings UI issue in macOS 12 and earlier
• NDI: Issues when using multiple NDI outputs (there was only one created)
• Blackmagic-Design: Issues with some models when using ARGB output. Playback would not start even if it is possible.

Known issues

• Potential Crash: May crash when you quit the application. We are investigating, but it will not happen while you are running the application — only when quitting.
• Video Playback Can stop: We have seen that some videos may stop playing after a few seconds or when seeking. We are investigating, and will come with an update as soon as we have one. Make sure to check our pre-release page.

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express

• Inspector: You can now use the same keyboard shortcuts as in the playlist to advance frame by frame (so you can use the same keys for keyboard emulators such as ShuttlePRO).
• Playlist: When using the "Multi" versions, it was not possible to drag and drop between instances.
• Inspector: Excessive logs when scrubbing in a XDCAM or MPEG2 file.
• Clips: Potential issues with Apple ProRes 4444 files that did not have an alpha channel (issue introduced in macOS 15.4.1)
• Engine: Playback issue with files using long GOP codecs, and with corrupted frame. If the corrupted frame was around an in point, playback could stop.
• Deltacast/M|Family: Reference genlock source may not be properly acquired.

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video only

• NDI: Added support for CC and SCTE.
• REST API: Added requests to enable/disable live sources.
• Actions: Now Appending "Missing" on AppleScripts if they are offline.
• Remote: Potential disconnections to the remote OnTheAir Video.
• Engine: Potential crash when output is in 10bit and scrubbing in inspector with some codecs that don't support 10bit.
• DGO: Potential crash when output is in 10bit and using CG project with smile images that are not in 10bit.
• REST API: Potential race condition when receiving a GET just after a playlist is closed.
• Actions: AppleScript actions could show an offline warning while it was not.
• Schedule: The "loading" status may indicate that it is loading while it was not.
• Schedule: When updating fields in an event, they were not properly saved if you didn't exit the field first.
• Schedule: When creating a repeating event, the repeated days could not be selected.

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video Express 4.2.7

• Deltacast: Fixed compatibility issue in version 4.2.6.

• New Copy Protection. Now using Softron License Manager. WARNING: Internet connection is required. More info...
• New System Requirements. macOS 12 or later is required
• Now using NDI SDK 6.1
• Compatibility with Blackmagic-Design drivers

• New Copy Protection. Now using Softron License Manager. WARNING: Internet connection is required. More info...
• New System Requirements. macOS 12 or later is required
• Potential crash when editing the schedule

• New Copy Protection. Now using Softron License Manager. WARNING: Internet connection is required. More info...
• New System Requirements. macOS 12 or later is required

• New Copy Protection. Now using Softron License Manager. WARNING: Internet connection is required. More info...
• New System Requirements. macOS 12 or later is required
• Added support for TSL 5.0. More info...
• Updated user interface

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express

• Stream Deck: Added built-in support for Stream Deck Studio (USB Only). Click on the "reset" button to see the new default pages - make sure to create a backup of your configuration before as it will delete your custom configuration when you do the reset.
• Playlist Playback Mode: When changing the playback mode of a playlist in cue mode, it will maintain cue mode.
• Playlist: The accuracy of the "Next clip" info. Previously some cases were not covered when there were clocked items for example.
• Playlist Offline Clips: When creating offline clips, the last extension used is remembered
• HyperDeck Emulation: Issue on macOS Sequoia and later.
• HyperDeck Emulation: Issues with Bitfocus Companion modules (after version 2.4.2)
• Blackmagic-Design: Issue with some devices when using ARGB modes. It would refuse to start while it should be possible when external or internal key are enabled.
• Resize Modes: Inconsistency with the default resize mode set in preferences: the wrong mode would be set.
• License: When rebooting computer with the "Reopen windows when logging back in" option enabled, and auto login, applications could be in DEMO mode
• MIDI: When using multiple devices, the selected device was not properly saved
• NDI: Potential crash in macOS Sequoia when in "Privacy & Security > Local Network" is disabled for OnTheAir Video
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Keyboard shortcut to advance frame by frame in the playlist was sometimes not working when the clip fps was different than the output fps

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video only

• Traffic: Folder-based Schedule: Handling alternate playlists. When a playlist has a suffix -1 or _1 (and any one digit number instead of 1), it is ignored by the scheduler
• REST API: Added a "play_next_item_unique_id" request to know which clip will play next.
• Time Markers: Changes with the "Auto start date/Time": They have now be renamed "Time Markers", and you can set if they will automatically trigger a playback start or if they should only be used for scheduler start, and join in progress.
• Actions: Added a new "playback" action: Join in progress (requires the traffic option)
• Actions: Right-clicking the "+" in clip inspector shows the actions in a new list model for faster action selection.
• Actions: Added the ability to apply actions on one clip to another one. Hold the command and option keys when drag and dropping a clip on another one to have its Actions applied to the clip.
• Actions: Reloading and notifications when macros changes on the ATEM
• Actions: When clicking on + to add new actions, we now show a contextual menu to select which action you want to add.
• Actions: Now supporting again the "custom icons" for AppleScript Actions (place, in the same folder as the AppleScripts, images with the same name)
• Actions: In some specific cases (very short clip with a transition longer than the clip), we may not call the "CLIP STOP", which would then cause other issues such as actions not to be triggered
• Folder-based playlists: Improved performances when dealing with a large number of items in a folder-based playlist
• Time Markers: When adding a "Timed Marker", you can set it to automatically start or not.
• Playlist Modes: When changing the playback mode of a playlist in cue mode, it will maintain cue mode
• REST API: When doing a STOP on a clip in "hold last frame", it now completely stops then playback.
• REST API: When creating an offline clip, it now returns correctly the is offline flag to true.
• REST API: DGO: Text Items: Now return the max number of characters
• Remote Control: When controlling multiple OnTheAir Video remotely from one OnTheAir Video, playlists will now only accept clips from its Media Browser, not from the others.
• Remote Control: Now loading the local cache if the remote server can not be reached.
• Scheduler: Improved performances when using large schedules
• Remote Control: WebUI: Added support for HTTPS/WSS
• SCTE input processing: Issue with SCTE processing (on input), the action may be triggered only once.
• SCTE input processing: The drop-down menu with the action to be triggered is now updated when an action is added/removed
• DGO option: Intel Macs: Potential frame corruptions and gpuRestart
• AppleScript: Wrong AppleScript properties. The playing clip index could be mixed with the VideoHub index.
• Actions: Issues with actions controlling Graphics.
• Remote Control: Notifications of changes in the Media Browser
• Router Control: GVG Native routing status incorrectly labeling routes as failed, potentially causing next route to fail.
• Transitions: Validation was done on the main thread, which could lead to potential freezes
• Closed Captions: Issues when playing files with CC in a video output using a different fps (for example a 1080p29.97 clip in a 1080p59.94 output)
• Closed Captions: Potential crash when reading a sidecar SRT or STL
• Closed Captions: Issues when there was both a CC track and A 53 CC in the frames. Decoding could be wrong.
• Inspector: Potential issues when splitting clips in the inspector. Index of clips could be wrong and create a crash after a drag and drop.
• Time Marker: Potential issues with items using a "Time Marker". In some rare case it was not triggering.

Release Notes for MovieRecorder and MovieRecorder Express

• Logs: Added a log when a destination stops because of a disk writing issue
• Activity & Logs Window: Restored the ability to change the layout of the window
• Audio Encoder: Potential crash in Audio AAC encoder when using multiple tracks of audio
• Softron Streaming Pack: Issues with some URL containing special characters (requires Streaming Center 1.3.3 or later)
• Softron Streaming Pack: Encoding Issues with some formats (in all macOS) and macOS Sequoia
• Potential crash in macOS 15 (Sequoia)
• Potential crash when when the pixelBufferPool failed to create pixelBuffer (could only happen when computer is running low on resources because another software is blocking it)
• Potential crash when using ProRes encoder in an MXF destination, on Mac Intel computers
• When rebooting computer with the "Reopen windows when logging back in" option enabled, and auto login, applications could be in DEMO mode

Release Notes for MovieRecorder only

• Potential crash when handling SCTE data without parameters

• Issues with some URL containing special characters (requires MovieRecorder 4.6 or later)
• When rebooting computer with the "Reopen windows when logging back in" option enabled, and auto login, applications could be in DEMO mode

OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express

WARNING! OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express 4.2.2 require macOS 11 or later

• Added a "Default" playlist to be opened when OnTheAir Video starts
• Added an option "Use Thumbnails". Disable that option if you want OnTheAir Video not to render the thumbnails. This may save on resources if you have a lot of new clips arriving at once.
• AppleScript: Added the ability to ask to a clip which type of Closed Captions it has (Embedded, SRT Sidecar, ...)
• dded support for Stream Deck Neo
• NDI: Improved the behavior when using the "Frame Rate is not Constant" option, where there could be no audio at first, and then it would never come. Now when the option is enabled, you can now define the number of audio channels to use, instead of it being automatic.
• Stream Deck: Now comments do not "count" in the index of clips (when using the clip number feature)
• Timing windows settings and position are now saved.
• Potential issues when scrubbing in the playlist timeline, or jumping to a position using StreamDeck, when using HEVC files.
• Timing Window: When viewing the clip timecode (instead of the elapsed time), it could be wrong if there was an in point set
• MIDI: Issues after learning MIDI channels on a clip.
• Potential crash when doing a skip to next on a clip that was offline
• Contact Softron Support: Some logs were missing when using a "multi" version
• Blackmagic-Design: Improved compatibility with latest driver versions

OnTheAir Video only

• AppleScript: Added the ability to change the logo overlay attribute (enable/disable, change logo)
• Scheduler: Allowed to do copy/paste of multiple events (this allows to copy/paste entire days)
• DGO Option: Added support for texts with Drop shadow (Require OnTheAir CG Designer 3.6.1 or later)
• Traffic Option: Folder-based Schedule: Now automatically placing "expired" playlists into a "Archived Playlists" folder.
• Remote: When playlists are modified externally (other computer or remote), item selection is maintained
• Traffic Option: Now automatically archiving past playlists in a subfolder.
• REST API: api.html document for easier readability.
• REST API: Added the item_display_name info in the in the playback_timing_changed WS message info
• Auto-start date/time: Now allow to have multiple playlists with auto-start date time to start playback. Only playlists coming from traffic will have the ability to disable the auto-start date time
• Remote Control Option: Media Browser: "Reload" button changes when using the alt key to redownload the items
• Traffic option: Media Browser: When a new BXF arrives, it will now erase the previously existing in/out.
• DGO option: Potential issue when a CG projects path was empty
• Actions: Potential crash when trying to update action parameters dictionary
• Remote: Potential issue where 2 identical remote playlists could be opened
• Potential crash when receiving invalid VANCs
• Coming next not working when a clips is set as "Play Next"
• Potential crash when CG project path was nil
• Schedule: Potential conflict issue when the scheduler tried to validate a playlist while it was being reloaded by the UI (Playlist could not be validated by the schedule)
• Traffic Option: Issues with BXF playlists
• Stream Clips: When using HTTP URL such a HLS m3u8 playlist, if the server returned a 204 status code, we would refuse to connect while connection was valid

• Design: Added support for texts with Drop shadow (If the project is to be used in OnTheAir Video with the DGO option, it requires OnTheAir Video 4.2.2b44 or later)
• Design: Added Capitalization Option for TextItems. (Lower case, Upper case, Capitalized and unchanged)
• Squeezeback: General behaviour improvements
• NDI:Now using NDI SDK 6.0
• Design: Max characters checkbox when current text is “”
• Squeezeback: Potential "Crop" effect during animation
• Blackmagic-Design: Improved compatibility with latest driver versions

• REST API: Added new requests to set which inputs assigned to which outputs
• REST API: Added a key to set if a clip name must be unique or not
• REST API: Added the ability to go to the in or out points (Check api.html documentation)
• Controllers: Added initial support for JLCooper SloMoPro
• Blackmagic-Design: Improved compatibility with latest driver versions

• Stream Deck: Added support for Stream Deck Neo.
• Blackmagic-Design: Improved compatibility with latest driver versions

OnTheAir MOS Gateway is an application that will connect in MOS to your NRCS, and create a playlist in OnTheAir Video from the rundown. This includes a redesigned plugin where you can add MOS objects to your stories, link media files to them and assign templates.

Note: Feature support may differ between the support NRCS systems: ENPS and iNews. 

• Channel Assignment MOS Objects can have a channel assignment. 
• Clock Starts Clock starts are now compatible with OnTheAir MOS Gateway playlists. They can be added directly from the playlist, or with templates.
• Duration Update Support for OnTheAir Video's update durations setting (still images, live clips, and streams will now write back their duration to the playlist). Duration updates get pushed back to OnTheAir MOS Gateway.
• Preset Duration Added support for manually setting a preset duration to a MOS playlist when using iNews, while ENPS automatically takes this from the running order properties.
• Hide Thumbnails Hide thumbnails in plugin for faster loading.
• Persistent Flags Persistent flag on MOS objects hide the object from the MOS object deletion selection tool.
• Saved Playback Mode Manually setting a playlist item as "disabled" or changing an item's playback mode is saved to the MOS object.
• Revalidation Media folder automatically revalidates invalid media every 30 seconds.
• Default Channel Added default channel preference for the templates & placeholders.
• Transition Duration Now using the transition durations in chain mode when calculating MOS object duration.
• Sort by Creation Date Sort MOS objects by creation date in purge window. "Toolbar>Window>MOS Objects"."
• Playlist Refresh Added a refresh button for playlists in OnTheAir MOS Gateway application.
• Fixed Crash on bad file URL.

Release Notes for MovieRecorder and MovieRecorder Express

• AVPresets: Added support for Apple ProRes 4444 XQ
• AVPresets: Added support for "Unused" and "Discrete" audio track labels
• REST API: New layout and improvements for document api.html for our REST API documentation
• Encoders: Potential Invalid frame size when recording a 1920x1080 source to Apple ProRes HQ in a Classic QuickTime destination
• Destinations Custom Naming: Potential crash when using empty tokens for the custom file naming
• Sources: Auto-detect checkbox could not be modified

Release Notes for MovieRecorder only

• External Audio: Behaviours when external audio devices are disconnecting/reconnecting. WARNING: important change: when an external audio device cannot be found at startup, or when enabling the source, it will not start.
• Encoders: Issues with DV PAL codec when using QuickTime Classic destination
• External Audio: When using external audio, we don't use the device audio anymore to create the audio track. Previously, issues on the device audio could create issues with external audio even if device audio was not used.

Note that this will be the last release for version 4.1. This was made to fix a few issues to leave some time so that our users can transition to version 4.2, which has some major new features. Make sure to update to version 4.2, and check the new actions in that version.

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express

• NDI: Improved the behavior when using the "Frame Rate is not Constant" option, where there could be no audio at first, and then it would never come. Now when the option is enabled, you can now define the number of audio channels to use, instead of it being automatic.
• MIDI: Issues after learning MIDI channels on a clip.
• Timing Window & info: The in point was not considered when viewing the elapsed time as timecode
• Playback Control: Potential crash when doing a skip to next on a clip that was offline
• Compatibility: Potential issues with macOS 10.14 and macOS 10.15
• Contact Softron Support: Some logs were missing when using a "multi" version

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video only

• Traffic/Remote Control Option: Media Browser: When a new BXF arrives, it will now erase the previously existing in/out.
• Traffic/Remote Control Option: Media Browser: "Reload" button changes when using the alt key to redownload the items
• Scheduler: Potential issue with playlist not being able to be validated by the scheduler if they were already opened in the application, and they were validated while being reloaded after an external modification
• VANC: Potential crash when receiving invalid VANCs
• Coming next not working when a clip is set as "Play Next"
• DGO option: Potential crash when CG project path was nil

• Live Inputs: Potential crash when receiving invalid VANCs
• Scheduler: Issues with folder based playlists when used in a schedule
• Scheduler: Potential hang if all playlists in a schedule were offline
• SCTE inputs: When receiving twice the same SCTE message within 2 seconds, it is ignored
• MOS: Added story information to the item_changed websocket message
• MOS: Now closing locally playing documents when they are closed by MOS Gateway (but not when disconnected)

Warning: New actions !

In OnTheAir Video 4.2, one of the major changes is the new types of Actions. Previously, in OnTheAir Video 4.1 or earlier, actions were only AppleScripts. With version 4.2, actions can be other things than AppleScript in order for example to control the DGO or video routers directly. These new actions required us to change the playlist format to save these actions.

Thus there could be issues when going back and forth between version 4.2 (or later) and earlier versions of OnTheAir Video which were using different actions. Here is the behaviour to expect:

When going from version 4.1 to 4.2:
- Actions will be converted to the new actions with attributes, there is nothing to do.
- You can save the playlist in the new format and if you only use AppleScript actions, you can go back and forth between version 4.1 and 4.2, but not if you use other types of actions.

When going from version 4.2 to 4.1:
- If you were using only "AppleScript" actions in version 4.2, there will be no issue.
- If you used other types of actions, you will be able to open the playlist in version 4.1, but if you save your playlist in version 4.1, you will loose all "non-AppleScript" actions and you won't be able to retrieve them when reopening with version 4.2. So make sure to disable auto-save in that case.
REST API modifications

There are some important changes in the REST API. We recommend using the same OnTheAir Video versions for the client and the server. Particularly if you are using actions.

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express

• Actions: Added a "none" to the ATEM triggers so you can connect to an ATEM (to control it using the new OnTheAir Video actions), but it won't trigger any playback action in OnTheAir Video
• Engine: Updated NDI SDK to 6.0
• Engine: Updated AJA SDK to v17.0
• ATEM Integration: Updated API to version 9.3.3. Requires ATEM Drivers 9.3.3 or later
• HyperDeck Emulation: Fixed issues when using ATEM Constellation

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video

• EPG: Added a new EPG (paid) option. Create EPG tags, assign them to clips, and export EPG to XMLTV and TVGuide.
• Scheduler: New "Calendar" type of user interface.
• Actions: Added new "Actions": Previously, in OnTheAir Video 4.1 or earlier, actions were only AppleScripts. With version 4.2, actions can be other things than AppleScript in order for example to control the DGO or video routers directly, without going through AppleScripts. Includes router, MIDI, ATEM macros, and SCTE improvements.
• SCTE input: Added the ability to trigger an Action when a SCTE trigger is received on a video input.
• Remote: Added the "Remote Pack" option
• Remote: Added the ability to control OnTheAir Video, view and edit opened playlists (Using : http://127.0.0.1:8081/web_ui/index.html). Note that this feature is Work in Progress, make sure to test before using it in production.
• REST API: Added the ability to get info and modify the currently playing clip (using a request such as this one: http://127.0.0.1:8081/playback/current_item/)
• REST API: Added the ability skip to next only on live items. (using a request such as this one: http://127.0.0.1:8081/playback/skip_next?live_only=1)
• ATEM ActionsAdded the ability to use transitions when controlling an ATEM (so select an input in preview, then do the "auto" transition" (only with the new actions)
• Traffic Option: Added support for BXF and SCD playlist formats

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express 4.1.7

• Engine:Optimised performances when displaying a large number of logs in the Activity & Logs window
• Engine:Performances when reading from HFS Volumes
• Engine:We can now use the Apple Silicon hardware acceleration to decompress Apple ProRes 4444 clips with Alpha

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video 4.1.7 only

• REST API: REST API: Added the ability to check for missing clips (http://:/playlists//items//validate)
• Added an icon when a GPI trigger is set on a clip
• Prepared compatibility for the migration to OnTheAir Video 4.2. It is recommended to go first to version 4.1.7 before using 4.2 (particularly for remote control)
• Remote Control: Now retrieving the transitions (including their durations), actions and logo overlays from the remote instance (instead of showing the local ones).
• REST API: you can now retrieve the duration of the clips that will include the duration of the transition applied to the clip. You will find these new properties: "chained_playback_duration_timecode" : "00:00:10" "non_chained_playback_duration_timecode" : "00:00:10" "chained_playback_duration" : 10.05 "non_chained_playback_duration" : 10.05 The first two provide a text representation of the duration, the last two a duration in seconds. The “chained_playback_duration” is the duration when the clip is following another one. The “non_chained_playback_duration” is the duration of the clip when played by itself (or at the beginning of a playlist). If no transition, the numbers will be identical.
• Playlists: Issues with calculation of playlist durations when using custom transitions, and the playlist was in chain
• Ross Ultrix Control: Issues when controlling a Ross Ultrix with the ProBell protocol, and using AUX sources
• Logs: Some excessive logging about duplicated frames when using custom transitions
• Playlists: Start times and durations were not updated if a clip was created remotely as "deactivated".
• Potential crash in macOS 11 (Big Sur) and earlier. Introduced in OnTheAir Video and OnTheAir Video Express 4.1.6

Release Notes for OnTheAir Video Express 4.1.8

• Express fix for an issue that was left behing, sorry...

Release Notes for MovieRecorder and MovieRecorder Express

• Sources: Added the ability to choose the number of audio channels retrieved from the AJA, Blackmagic-Design or Deltacast card (Currently only available for Video Device Audio, not for external audio)
• NDI: Updated NDI SDK to 5.6.0 - r135583 (NDI 6 is available in MovieRecorder pre-release 4.6)
• Logs: Optimised performances when displaying a large number of logs in the Activity & Logs window
• AJA: Updated AJA SDK to v17.0
• AJA: Added support for AJA Kona X
• Softron Streaming Pack: Issue when doing streams longer than, 12 hours, there could be a short interrupt of the signal every 12 hours.
• Custom Naming: When using the timecode token in a custom naming, if it was a DF TC, the ";" was not replaced by a "-"
• SD: Some possible preview issues when using SD sources. It would change from 4:3 to 16:9 very fast.
• Scheduler Web UI: Fixed issues on Daylight Savings Time days: scheduled recordings could show with an offset of one hour.

Release Notes for MovieRecorder only

• Logs: Added logging of more SCTE104 messages
• Destinations: Added support for Apple ProRes in MXF destinations
• Metadata: Potential crash when adding Metadata fields in "Settings > Metadata"; in macOS 12 and earlier
• Growing Files: Growing MXF AVC-Intra files are now working with Adobe Premiere