New Features
- Rundown Templates. With templates it's now possible to select items within the playlist and convert those into a template. A template can contain all media elements and configurations (trim, overlay, etc).
- Import and insert templates via API & Bitfocus Companion/StreamDeck
- More API functionality:
- Changing the destination / target URL and stream key
- Receive thumbnails from the output. The system should create thumbnails (400x224) all 10 seconds locally and make them available for download via API
- Getting Playout Status of the current playing element (Type, Name, Description, Status, duration & remaining Time)
- Volume change
- Lock / Unlock multiple elements via checkboxes
- Custom API Calls (Webhooks)
- Google Cloud Storage
- MXF-File support
- Failover configuration for listener live sources
- Possibility to change the output volume via API (Volume slider in UI coming in next release)
Changes / Bugfixes
- [Changed] You can now disable or enable the general overlay without deleting it in the UI
- [Changed] You do see the actual TS output bitrate including mux overhead in the transcoding settings
- [Changed] Improved API documentation
- [Changed] Ad-break countdown will now also show in PGM for pre-configured ad-breaks on VOD assets
- [Changed] EPG playlist id input field now allows not only numbers
- [Changed] You now only see ad-break events without delay when trying to assign one to a sub-playlist in the rundown
- [Bugfix] When pasting / inserting multiple items at once into the rundown, the trim-strategy could have produced an incorrect conflict resolution
- [Bugfix] Fixed error handling of Dropbox libraries
- [Bugfix] Videos with no audio track were causing multiple playback issues
- [Bugfix] Special characters in file names were not properly parsed and taken over as title in the library
- [Bugfix] Only allow adding ad-breaks on sequences once placed in rundown
- [Bugfix] Purge options were vanishing soon after general settings dialog was openend
- [Bugfix] ControlView responsive resizing fixed / improved
- [Bugfix] Several edge cases in connection with syncing secondary instances fixed
Documentation
For detailed product documentation, please refer to the following location:
https://ltnglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/1500000177442-Schedule
System Characteristics
View the full system characteristics here:
https://ltnglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500006970362-System-Characteristics-Schedule
Known Issues and/or Limitations
| Calender in date-time-picker resets its view | In case something in the rundown updates, it will cause a reset in the visible date. The date will not be changed though. |
| Deletion of rundown elements | Deleting more than 2,000 assets in the rundown at once does not work. |
| Starting Playback during an ad-break issue |
Starting Playback during an ad-break can cause the current video element to skip to the next one too early when the backup video is overall shorter than the ad-break itself. |
| Moving assets into folders in asset-library |
When the designated folder is expanded, items cannot be dropped into this folder. |
For the previously known issues and their fixed versions: https://ltnglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500002027841-Release-Notes-Changelog-Schedule