måndag 26 september 2022

Update 4.7.3

 

Green Hippo is pleased to announce the release of Hippotizer software version: 4.7.3.

What's new in v4.7.3
Version 4.7.3 improves the stability and usability of Hippotizer software focusing in particular on TimelinePlus and Pixelmapper.
Installation Notes
  • The recommended capture card driver version has been updated. If you have a capture card fitted, please select ‘Yes’ when asked during installation to update your drivers to the correct version. 
New Features
  • MultiController now supports the Modbus protocol.
Functionality Changes
  • Importing Timeline+ and Preset Manager components have been improved to detect whether a preset is utilised in a timeline already. During a Timeline+ import if any timelines include presets, these presets will be created in the Preset Manager, if they do not already exist. When importing a Preset Manager component, and overwriting presets used in an active timeline, any preset keyframes referencing the overwritten preset will convert to standard keyframes.
  • Changed play behaviour after stop command to match the behavior from the original Timeline component. After continuing from a stop command, track values do not get evaluated.
  • Changed playback behaviour of clips when jumping to a new timeline position to match the behaviour from the original Timeline component. Clips should now playback without jumping playhead position if set to any infinite playmodes and recalling a keyframe.
  • Copy and pasting keyframes in the Timeline+ component now respects the time snapping.
Key Improvements
  • Optimised network traffic of keyframe value changes when using Timeline+. Timelines should now be more responsive and handle larger implementations accessing thousands of pins across the network.
  • Presets can be edited and relocated in the Preset Manager without disassociating with the timeline preset keyframes.
  • Fixed a crash when using remote ZooKeeper to copy and paste a preset in a remote Timeline+ component.
  • Fixed Timeline+ playhead position not stopping at a stop command and instead playing a tenth of a second beyond.
  • Fixed a ZooKeeper crash when switching between remote hosts in the Timeline+ Host Manager selector.
  • Fixed an intermittent bug that highlighted two hosts in the Timeline+ Host Manager selector when using a remote ZooKeeper.
  • Fixed thumbnail visualisation in Timeline+ displaying an empty field after changing media bank and slot for a media player keyframe.
  • Fixed a problem where presets would not work anymore in Timeline+ when using multiple hosts to contral timeline.
  • Changed box selection handles in PixelMapper to scale with large-size pixel maps. Now selection handles will decrease in size when zooming.
  • Improved logging in the TouchEngine component to better explain cause of crashing.
  • Fixed hardware de-interlacing in Live Capture on layer from squishing layer to half x/y axis resolution.
  • Fixed a bug with sync buses on none Xfade mixes did not work correctly.
  • Adjusted scaling text sizes in the network settings window of Engine Host settings, ZooKeeper settings and Configuration settings. The windows should no longer cut off text and button UI elements.
  • Added scroll bar to network setting page when a large number of network adapters is present.
  • Fixed a UI bug in OutputManager that would show a duplicated patch for a single viewport assignment.
  • Improved handling of not correctly formated MPCDI files.
  • Fixed an intermittent crash on ZooKeeper startup. 
  • Fixed failing import of image sequences while 'copy to host' is selected in the media encoding settings.
  • Fixed a bug which stopped image sequences from being imported when using the Watchfolder import feature. Further clarity of filename specifications is included in the Watchfolder section of user manual.
  • Fixed a bug with the 4.7.2 installer, while the update option is selected, which caused Streamdeck devices to not be detected. Future installers will not have this issue.
  • Updated the packaged Datapath installer in the Hippotizer installation process to support recent datapath PCIe card default firmware version.