Release Notes

WARNING! This is the last version of OnTheAir Manager that we will release. Indeed, OnTheAir Node, OnTheAir Manager, and OnTheAir Live have been discontinued.Their key features—and much more—are now available in OnTheAir Video.

Owners of OnTheAir Node 4 can request a free crossgrade to OnTheAir Video 4.
Owners of OnTheAir Node 3 can simply order the upgrade from OnTheAir Video 3 to 4, and we’ll provide the crossgrade.
OnTheAir Video 4 has a graphical schedule interface included which replaces OnTheAir Manager.

Warnings and Important Changes

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

Release Notes

• Potential crash when editing the schedule

• Issues with copy/paste of clips (some attributes were not copied)

• A potential crash with the inspector

• A potential crash with subplaylists (introduced in 4.0.1)

• Added the possibility to override the media item durations of live/stillImages
• Issues with media item durations

Warnings and Important modifications

• As OnTheAir Node is now a "regular" application, and is not started from a system preference pane anymore. To start it use the aliases that are installed in "/Applications/OnTheAir Node/"
• Because what we used previously has been deprecated for security measures by Apple, there is no "auto-start" option anymore. To automatically start the Node with your computer, you should add it to the login items. Currently there is no automatic restart of OnTheAir Node in case of an issue.
• The playback preferences are different than the one of OnTheAir Node 3. So if you switch from one to the other, make sure to change them in both versions.

Release Notes for OnTheAir Node

• Full Compatibility with macOS Big Sur (11.0) or later
• Universal application for better performances on Apple Silicon computers
• Full compatibility of NDI with Apple Silicon computers
• 4K decoding performances improvement
• OnTheAir Node is now a "regular" application. There is no more System Preference Pane. Start it from the Applications folder.
• Secondary Audio Output: Additionally to the video output on the selected video device, you can now also output to another available audio output on your Mac. Works with CoreAudio, so supports the audio devices that are available for macOS (including Dante or MADI).
• Support for OP47 Subtiltling. (Requires the CC option). It is supported either in an MXF file with OP47, or using SRT or .STL sidecar files
• Support for .SRT sidecars files with Closed Captioning. (Requires the CC option)
• Support for SCTE triggers. (Requires the CC option - only when embedded in MXF file, no "manual" trigger)
• Added the ability to perform basic playback controls from the Node user interface, when Node is running a schedule (Pause/resume/stop/resync schedule)

Release notes for OnTheAir Live and OnTheAir Manager

• Full Compatibility with macOS Big Sur (11.0) or later
• Universal application for better performances on Apple Silicon computers
• View timecode of file, and added the ability to go to specific timecode by entering a value in the "current position" field

• Catalina Compatibility with notarization
• (OnTheAir Manager) Underrun and Overrun are now shown in the playlists, even if playlist or clip is in loop, but they are not reported in the verification results
• Playback of some MPEG and MXF files
• Playback of FLAC/MKV files
• Issues with keychain

• A few UI issues in Mojave
• TC display issues in inspector
• Password in Keychain was not always remembered
• Display day now uses again preferred language in System prefs (was not automatic since 10.13)

• Added the ability to enable/disable the slave mode (unlock the slave Node, then right click on the lock and select "enable slave mode")
• Even if an event is in Loop, we will still display the overrun and underrun information (so it is easier to schedule)
• The duration of the selection is now shown (so you can know how long a given set of clips will last)
• Some issues with stick to next/previous
• When selecting all events by clicking on the top of the column, sometimes some events of the previous day were selected
• Issues when renaming categories
• Issues with the clip real start time and calculation of the underrun/overrun in the currently playing event (some fixes may require updating to OnTheAir Node 3.5 to be seen)

New driver requirements for Deltacast cards: You should use drivers 5.21 or later. Check the System Requirements.

Release Notes for all 3 applications

• Updated video devices SDK and frameworks (this is the main reason for the version number change)
• The menu "Contact Softron Support..." now gathers the unified logs of macOS Sierra
• Read performances on some network drives
• Scrubbing on some files
• Duration of still images was ignored
• Some DNxHD QuickTime MOV files were indicated as not valid
• Playback of some H.264 files
• Playback of some ProRes files on network drives

Release Notes for OnTheAir Node 3.4

• REST API: Added the ability to reload the schedule using a path
• CC is now also working for 720p and 1080p
• AJA cards now appear/disappear in the list of playback devices when the device is connected/disconnected
• Error reporting when controlling Node via REST API
• Internal and External Key opacity are now done on Alpha
• DNxHD 440 RGB files in a YUV output
• Issues with the NodeCG plugin
• HDMI output with AJA Io 4K
• Issues with the REST API when using playlists
• Audio Issues with AJA devices (we can now only select a minimum of 6 channels)

Release Notes for OnTheAir Live 3.1

• Connection/Disconnections with OnTheAir Node
• Issues when the media received from Node had some "nil" values

Release Notes for OnTheAir Manager 3.1

• Added EPG plugin for New Zealand
• LED status of backup Node is now the same as the main Node
• Some possible issues when importing playlists and schedules
• Issues when the media received from Node had some "nil" values

• Some UI issues in the Playlist area
• Import of .vpls playlists now also imports logo
• Open issues of possibly corrupted database

• "Activations/deactivations" via internet with El Capitan
• Duration of Still images
• Duration of clips when importing xpls playlists
• Possible issue when importing playlists
• Issue with Daylight Savings Time

• Added a button to delete schedules and a confirmation window before deleting the schedule.
• Fixed an issue when sending schedules to OnTheAir Node. This could take a long time as too many events were sent.
• Fixed an issue where the files in inspector would show as "Local Media Not Found".
• Fixed an issue when deleting clips in the Media Browser.
• Fixed an issue with the new version notifications that would not work in 10.8.

OnTheAir Manager goes from version 1.3.5 to version 3.0. The reason for that version jump is that OnTheAir Manager 1.3.5 still used QuickTime to preview and trim the clip in the inspector. This could be confusing as OnTheAir Manager was not able to read some files that OnTheAir Node could, or the other way around. With version 3.0, we now use the same engine for the OnTheAir Manager preview as OnTheAir Node 3 uses to playout files. So the files that can be read by both applications are identical. This is a major change in itself which then deserved a major version number change. By using version 3, we also bring it in line with OnTheAir Node, which is also at version 3.

• Added the ability to send more than a month to OnTheAir Node.
• Updated inspector UI.
• EPG plugins have been updated to newer versions with a few fixes.
• Fixed an issue with Keychain.

• General Stability and performance improvements
• Fixed an issue with Attributes being applied to a whole playlist when closing the inspector window

• General Stability and performance improvements
• Fixed an issue when going to next/previous day which could jump 2 days directly
• Fixed a possible crash when quitting OnTheAir Manager after closing the schedule window
• Changes in the schedule XML import (we now import the ClipDisplayName and we import the duration of a clip only if it is offline)

• Improved xpls and vpls playlist import
• General Stability and performance improvements
• System date formatting is again taken into account

• General Stability and performance improvements
• Changes in the UI for Yosemite
• Improved behaviours when importing XML schedules

• General stability and performance improvements

• General stability and performance improvements
• Added an auto-import feature for schedules (third party integration)
• Fixed an issue with Mavericks (window not opening correctly)