This is the first official release of OnTheAir Node 3 with the Smart Playout Engine (SPE). Some have been released before and it is already 3.1 version because the engine that is built in there is the same as the one of OnTheAir Video, and we wanted the build numbers to correspond between the 2 applications. OnTheAir Node has thus the same stability with an engine already in use at hundreds of installations worldwide.
With the Smart Playout Engine built in, OnTheAir Node 3 now has all its bells and whistles. See below the major new features in this version compared to the previous version using the NAVI playout engine.
Note that OnTheAir Node 3 is compatible with the previous versions of OnTheAir Live and OnTheAir Manager.
Release Notes for OnTheAir Node 3.1
- More codecs supported (it would be easier to say what we don’t support than to list all the codecs we support )
- Built-in support for MXF
- Built-in support for DNxHD
- Fixed Logo overlay and HD options now built into the standard license
- Smart Automatic Resize (mix & match multiple file resolutions to the output with a high-quality resize)
- Dynamic Graphics Overlay (optional - coming soon)
- Closed Captioning CEA-708 Support (optional)
- Multiple outputs with AJA cards
- Support for Deltacast Cards
- Support for a “Virtual Output” (No need to have a video device to stream as you can playout to a virtual output, and stream with MovieRecorder 3 thanks to the direct link between the two)
- Direct Link to MovieRecorder 3 for easy recording/streaming (no need for an additional video card, the frames are sent from one application to the other running on the same Mac). MovieRecorder 3 is not yet available but will be released soon.
- ATEM plugin to control ATEM routers directly from the playout through an ethernet connection
- Master-Slave mode (for easy redundancy)
- New REST API
