Silverstack Lab - 8.2.3
Wed, 29 Jun 2022Changes
- Added: "Shooting Day" now available for smart folder predicates
- Added: Burn-in wildcards for clip's "Shooting Day" and "Crew Unit"
- Improved: PDF Report "Resources" column sorting
File paths of resources now listed in order of creation date (as in resources panel)
Bugfixes
- Fixed: ALE "Source File" and potentially "Tape" column of transcoded clips showed transcode's file name rather than OCF's name
- Fixed: ARRIRAW LUTs not correctly extracted when reading from Codex VFS
- Fixed: Metadata scanning and ingesting errors with some Sony card readers (timeout)
- Fixed: Verified state of folders sometimes not updated when moving bins between folders
- Fixed: Scopes potentially not displayed correctly when using Metal API
- Fixed: CSV export column "Resources" did show count rather than file paths
- Fixed: PDF/HTML export column "Missing" and "Playable" not populated
- Fixed: Applying looks from look library (or copy&pasting them) did sometimes not update playback view instantly
- Fixed: Switching between clips in Grid/Wipe view sometimes showed slight "fading" effect when using Metal API
- Fixed: "Audio TC Offset" for footage with non-integer FPS and manual slipping potentially miscalculated by 1 frame
- Fixed: "Take over metadata" settings in look and audio matching not remembered independently
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.2.2
Thu, 19 May 2022Changes
- Changed: S3 Upload - removed support for upload of "split clips" (certain camera formats)
Not working properly yet, will re-introduce in a later version
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Offload rename sorting did not sort as expected
- Fixed: Hang or "Resource Offline" during playback in some situations
- Fixed: Memory release in knee node
Silverstack Lab - 8.2.1
Thu, 12 May 2022Bugfixes
- Fixed: Duplicate file names alert when trying to offload multi-part clips
Silverstack Lab - 8.2
Thu, 12 May 2022Changes
- New: Direct upload of files to AWS S3
- New: Support for ACES version 1.3.0, including “Reference Gamut Compress” parameter
- New: “Knee Curve” node for creating simple “knee” and “toe” curve adjustments
- New: Load Common LUT Format (CLF) files in ACES LMT node
- New: LUT Interpolation Preferences
Choose between different interpolation methods, including tetrahedral interpolation for improved color accuracy - New: New ACES look metadata fields
“ACES Input Transform”, “ACES Input TransformID”, “ACES Output Transform”, “ACES Output TransformID”, “Reference Gamut Compress” and “LMT Nodes” - New: GPU acceleration for Canon RAW now also on M1 (with Metal API)
- New: ALE export options
Options to export camera letters lowercased and to leave “Name” column blank - for better matching in some AVID workflows - Improved: ALE export performance
- Improved: ALE export value mapping
“Cue Points” now listed with more information; Made “Tracks” column more consistent with “TRK” for OCF; “FPS” header was sometimes not correctly filled - Improved: Library Sync via ShotHub
More robustness in unreliable network conditions; Improved UI; Better handling/communication in case of errors; Fixes and improvements under the hood - Improved: Rename on offload feature
New Option to sort clips by timecode, creation date, or file name before adding unique number - Improved: Export to Final Cut Pro X
Updated to FCPXML v1.9; Transfer clips, bins or folder structure as event and projects including synced audio clips to Final Cut Pro X - Improved: Metadata information “Soundroll” is added DNx transcodes' MXF container
- Improved: Panasonic Varicam input now correctly ingests full range clips
- Improved: Sony a7S input now correctly ingests full range XAVC-MP4 clips
- Improved: Zoelog import wizard
New option to set a time offset; Shows more metadata information for easier resolving of multiple matches - Changed: macOS 10.15.x now marked as deprecated
Still works, but support will be removed in one of the upcoming releases - Changed: Removed “Tape” column from library table (redundancy with “Reel/Tape”)
- Changed: Removed option to deactivate RED GPU debayer
- Changed: Reset switch to use legacy ARRI SDK v6
- Changed: Vectorscope UI adapted to Livegrade
Boxes for the main colors indicate 100% saturation in the video scopes - Updated RED R3D SDK to 8.2.2
Fixes image artifacts, color shifts and crash/hangs for special clips in specific configurations
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Chinese and Japanese user interface - filters did not work correctly in jobs and volumes list
- Fixed: Display issues of ARRI-ProRes clips with sensor-crop in Metal API
- Fixed: Positioning of images in oversized crop container
- Fixed: Artifacts in last line for some CRM clips at half and quarter res
- Fixed: ALE was sometimes missing FPS information in header
- Fixed: Exporting multiple still image presets with project settings was not possible
- Fixed: Extraction of empty dynamic metadata could overwrite static metadata in library with blank values
- Fixed: Failing of still image export for specific clips
- Fixed: Looks sometimes incorrectly labeled as “modified”
- Fixed: Possible crash when editing metadata in general info
- Fixed: Possible verify error when offloading .ais files
- Miscellaneous smaller bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.1.2
Thu, 31 Mar 2022Changes
- Updated Sony RAW SDK to 4.0.0
- Added: Support for Venice 2 footage
- Added: Extraction of anamorphic factor for Sony RAW clips
- Improved: Chinese user interface
Fixed: Cascading copy checkbox did not work correctly; updated a few translations
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Sony RAW clips in cine colorspace displayed with non-cine SG3-to-s709 LUT
Previously ingested clips had slightly different look - Fixed: Thumbnails not updated after look matching via PFLA
- Fixed: Edit button for "Tape/Reel" in gerneral info missing for audio clips
- Fixed: Custom switch for overwriting "Project FPS" did not work anymore
- Fixed: Some rotated clips (portrait format) crashed in playback
- Fixed: ARRIRAW .ari/.arx clips with noise reduction in metadata could lead to crash
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.1.1
Thu, 24 Feb 2022Bugfixes
- Fixed: Creating clip report with 3 thumbnails could lead to crash
- Fixed: Metadata editing in some fields of general info defect
- Fixed: Generic CSV Metadata export not working with column "Dynamic Metadata"
- Fixed: Shortcut "⌘ + ⌫" could move bins to trash even when library window in background (e.g. offload wizard open)
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
Silverstack Lab - 8.1
Wed, 16 Feb 2022Changes
- New: Input-depended offload settings
Automatically apply input specific offload settings by associating templates with input devices - New: All remaining formats now decoded and encoded natively on Apple Silicon
- New: ZoeLog CSV metadata import
- New: Support for Livegrade looks with FilmLight BLG grading mode
- New: UI available in Chinese
- Improved: ARRIRAW and CRM decoding performance on most systems
- Improved: R3D decoding, and DNx & ProRes encoding performance on newer Apple Silicon hardware
- Improved: Thumbnail caching during grading
- Improved: Volume management for running and queued tasks (ejection prevention)
- Improved: For all ARRIRAW file types, extracting LUT from clip metadata (for manual grading) now available
- Improved: Ingest of mixed ProRes/ARRIRAW cards (Mini LF) makes both clip types appear as clips
- Added: More static metadata fields available for burn-ins (Lens data, Tilt+Roll, CDL)
- Added: Adobe XML export option to derive "Tape Name" from "Video Clip Name"
- Added: Tooltips for all metadata fields in main table and "General Info"
- Changed: Library database structure
Will prompt before migrating old project to new structure - Changed: ARRIRAW processing
May lead to slight color shifts in comparison to clips ingested in former Silverstack versions - Changed: Default settings
Metal API decoding / encoding activated on all systems; RED GPU decoding activated on M1 systems - Changed: Shortcuts
Toogle sidebars with ⇧ + [1, 2, 3], double-click on title bar to maximize application window - Changed: Main table and general info tab
Adjusted some value formatting for more consistency - Changed: CSV export (resolved some inconsistencies and bugs)
Date Format now Generic ISO8601; "Focal Length" includes "mm" suffix; "Focus Distance" formatted as in table (metric/imperial); "White Balance" includes "K" suffix; "Duration" rounded to full seconds without decimal places; "Grading Mode"/"Verification State"/"Remote Resources" human-readable strings; some bool values formatted as "Yes"/"No"/""; decimal separator consistently '.' - Changed: Ignore patterns
Moved hardcoded ignore of hash files in specific subfolders ("*/md5/*.md5" and "*/sha1/*.sha1") to cusomizeable ignore patterns - Changed: Total clip count in project chooser does not count items in trash
- Updated ARRI Image SDK to 7.0.0-rc6
½ and ¼ decoding resolution no longer available for ARRIRAW - Updated RED R3D SDK to 8.2.1
- Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.2
- Updated Canon CRM SDK to 2.7
- Updated DNx SDK to 2.7.2
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Editing bin names sometimes not possible
- Fixed: Missing production info on some reports with specifc combination of settings
- Fixed: Offload wizard showed incorrect size estimation for HDE offloads
- Fixed: Occasional crash when offloading a very large amout of files
- Fixed: Look issues with certain R3D clips in IPP2
- Fixed: Crash when opening Silverstack application with secondary user account on macOS
- Fixed: Plackback and JKL bugs/hangs
- Fixed: New slating shortcus introduced leading '0' in "Scene"/"Shot"/"Take"
- Fixed: ProRes codec appeared with slightly different name on new M1 Pro/Max machines
- Fixed: Empty LUT name for some ARRI clips
- Fixed: Specific invalid RED format preference combination lead to crash
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.6
Thu, 20 Jan 2022Changes
- Improved: Indication in grading panel when LUT from camera file is used for ARRIRAW clips
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Some ProRes clips on M1 Pro/Max systems appeared cropped in playback and transcodes when using half or quarter decoding resolution
- Fixed: Transcoding issues (stuttering) when using multi-preset transcoding with Metal enabled
- Fixed: Could not open files with multiple video streams (e.g. clips from some DJI Drones)
- Fixed: Library folder tree A-Z sorting issues on some systems
- Fixed: Cue Point type could not be changed occasionally
- Fixed: PSLA Import could lead to inconsistencies of displayed project name
- Fixed: Frame.io uploads were sometimes not added as remote resources to library
- Miscellaneous playback and transcoding fixes and improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.5
Wed, 15 Dec 2021Bugfixes
- Fixed: BRAW some metadata not correctly imported
- Fixed: Sony FX-3 timecode not correctly imported
- Fixed: Canon C300/C500 Mark III white balance not correctly imported
- Fixed: Import and copy/paste looks with reset curves node
- Fixed: Smart folder count did not respect "Show Clips Only" setting
- Fixed: Bug syncing resources to ShotHub
- Miscellaneous minor fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.4
Wed, 01 Dec 2021Bugfixes
- Fixed: Check for updates could cause crash
- Fixed: "Every Frame Playback" and JKL not working on macOS 12
- Fixed: Possible frameline inconsistencies on SDI-out for special clips when using reduced decoding resolution
- Fixed: In certain cases switching between clips in playback view could cause crash
- Fixed: Grading of Cinema DNG could lead to hang
- Fixed: RED "IPP2 for Custom Looks" was not enabled by default in SST 8.0.x
- Miscellaneous minor fixes and UI improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.3
Wed, 24 Nov 2021Changes
- Added: Support for Venice tilt and roll metadata
- Improved: Drylab export wizard now excludes trashed items
- Improved: Relinking supports clips that were renamed on offload
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Slack notifications login page
- Fixed: Enabled metal pipeline led to display issues with some clips
- Fixed: Enabled metal pipeline led to inconsistent waveform for some clips
- Fixed: Some DNxHRs were displayed stretched and off-color
- Fixed: Special BRAW clips could lead to hang or crash
- Miscellaneous minor fixes and improvements
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.2
Thu, 04 Nov 2021Changes
- Improved: Performance of HDE offload speed on SAN storage systems
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.1
Thu, 21 Oct 2021Changes
- Added: Enable Metal Graphics
Added checkbox to "Use Metal Graphics", account preferences > copy + jobs > transcoding
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Update of playhead position in audio detail view
- Fixed: Pan of audio track did not work and influenced pan of other tracks
- Fixed: Audio track selection when switching clips
- Fixed: Crop value was not formatted in PDF reports
- Fixed: Application crashed when adding cuepoint via playback-hud
- Fixed: possible failure when transcoding to multiple formats
Silverstack Lab - 8.0.0
Tue, 12 Oct 2021Changes
- New: Library Sync via ShotHub
Keep a shared project clip library in sync across multiple Silverstack applications via ShotHub - New: ShotID for referencing clips on ShotHub
Forward the ShotID or burn it as QR code into transcodes to reference the clip's metadata on ShotHub via web interface - Added: Multiple Audio Slate Markers
Sync multiple video clips with the same or different claps on one audio clip - Updated: Metadata Import Wizards
Preview of changes before importing metadata from other applications, more options to adjust import, better mapping to Silverstack's metadata - Improved: Support for more slating systems
Different systems (Standard/American/All) with individual configuration and actions - Added: File renaming during offload
(for selected cameras and formats) - Improved: Library layout condensation
Option to show all columns with metadata or hide empty columns - Improved: Custom Fields and Labels
Can now be named for each project individually - Added: Metal support
Improves the performance of ProRes processing on certain systems - Added: RED GPU decoding
Can improve processing speed of R3D files on system with low CPU performance (opt-in)
If you are looking for the change log of Silverstack Lab 7 please refer to:
http://updates.pomfort.com/silverstack-7-lab/changelog.php
If you are looking for the change log of Silverstack Lab 6 please refer to:
http://updates.pomfort.com/silverstack-6-lab/changelog.php
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