Release Notes - cineSync 5

September 17 2024 - cineSync 5.4.4

• NEW Timeline preview
• NEW User selected variable frame rates
• NEW Added scale option to save frames
• NEW Added ability to set the number of read behind frames
• NEW Added ability to change date format on saved frame folder names
  
• NEW Added ability to reset all play positions
  
• NEW Added right click menu to group table and ability to rename groups
  
• NEW Added 1px and 64px line thickness for drawing tools
  
• NEW OCIO profile are now applied to visual timeline thumbnails
  
• IMPROVED Added ability to control sound output device from within cineSync
• IMPROVED Added audio output options when using Blackmagic devices
• IMPROVED Reduced memory consumption when downloading encrypted files
• IMPROVED Next/Previous Media now respects the active group
• IMPROVED Made groups table resizable
• IMPROVED User can now select which iconik frame storage they want to use at export time
• IMPROVED Added option to prevent screen saver or sleep mode
• IMPROVED Locating files in folder is recursive to a user specified max depth
• IMPROVED Windows now generates crash logs
• IMPROVED Added save confirmation on close
• IMPROVED Added minimal drawing size to prevent excessive empty notes
• FIXED Downloading and encrypting large (2Gb+) files
• FIXED Bug in how zero-padded file names are handled
• FIXED Visual timeline rendering black frames when frame sequences use non-default frame rate
• FIXED Rendering media with non-square pixels
• FIXED Issues with masking not always respecting Apply to All
• FIXED cineSync login not working with some special characters
• FIXED Encrypted files not going into the correct groups when loaded from a session file
• FIXED Groups not deleting for guests when clearing a session
• FIXED Issue loading a saved session that contains SG/Flow media even with offline license present
• FIXED Column sorting not working within groups

July 11 2024 - cineSync 5.4.3

• NEW Option to change colour precision, 8 bit, 16bit and 32bit float
• NEW Goto dialog box
• NEW Support for video files with zlib compressed headers
• NEW Item count now shown for Playlist groups
• NEW Sort options added to Flow integration
• NEW Sidebar (beta) in View menu
• NEW Warning message if running Intel build on Apple Silicon
• IMPROVED Renamed mac installers to include CPU type (Intel or Apple Silicon)
• IMPROVED Continued improvements to loading large playlists via integrations
• IMPROVED IME text entry for foreign languages
• IMPROVED Changed colour operations order so highlights are not blown out
• IMPROVED Increased timeline refresh rate for smoother timeline performance
• IMPROVED More robust hash checks when adding similar files
• IMPROVED Updated legal text on startup
• FIXED Slow auto scroll issue in Playlist
• FIXED AliCloud URLs now refresh correctly
• FIXED Corruption in notes table when changing font size on macOS

June 3 2024 - cineSync 5.4.2

• NEW iOS app
• NEW Added ability to password protect reviews
• NEW Added new visual timeline, displaying thumbnails of files, sequences and OTIO sequences
• NEW Support for iconik domains
• NEW Ability to view annotations during playback (preference)
• NEW Buddy list now shows user status
• NEW Eye icon added to all Playlist views to indicate "currently viewing" 
• NEW Integrations menu updated from Shotgrid to Flow
• IMPROVED Improved SFTP and FTPS transfer speeds
• IMPROVED Frame sync in compare mode
• IMPROVED Increased size of dropdown playlist menu so longer filenames are more visible
• IMPROVED Added separate parameters so frame playback, OTIO, and video playback can have different cache sizes
• IMPROVED UI fixes to collection tree in the iconik integration browser
• IMPROVED When adding files to cineSync, multiple files can now be selected in file selection dialog box
• IMPROVED Reworked fullscreen controls, adding more controls like colour grading, colour picker and line width
• IMPROVED Colour range setting now persists
• IMPROVED Performance of some ftrack API calls
• IMPROVED Fullscreen mode no longer saved as a preference
• IMPROVED The iconik integration browser now only shows active/available collections.
• IMPROVED iconik URLs now refresh correctly and renew when added from a session file
• IMPROVED Playlist added from ftrack now reflect live changes (add/delete media)
• IMPROVED Playlist added from Flow now reflect live changes (add/delete media)

• IMPROVED Playlist added from iconik Collection now reflect live changes (add/delete media)

• IMPROVED Open saved frame folder now opens latest review folder
• IMPROVED Render optimisations
• FIXED Flow playlist order maintained when added to cineSync
• FIXED OCIO profiles not being set correctly when multiple files with different OCIO profiles are played in a sequence
• FIXED Performance issue playing OTIOs with variable frame rates
• FIXED Screen position not always maintained when resizing on a second display
• FIXED Graphic corruption when dragging cineSync on second display, with a different resolution
• FIXED Placeholder text not showing in light mode
• FIXED Crash on startup when running on Enterprise version of Windows
• FIXED Crash on exit if audio wave graphic generation thread was running

March 14 2024 - cineSync 5.4.1

• NEW Added autosave of session files
• NEW Added support for markers to make timeline navigation easier
• NEW Added alternative PDF renderer
• NEW Added ability to view a PDF via Blackmagic
• NEW Added additional output pixel formats for Blackmagic
• NEW Added checkerboard background
• IMPROVED Command + option(alt) can now be used to rotate the compare wipe tool
• IMPROVED Updated Linux build environment to Rocky8, changing minimum glibc version to 2.28 as per vfxplatform recommendation
• IMPROVED Moved all versions over to Qt6
• IMPROVED Improved speed when swapping files in playlist, removed extra black frames
• FIXED Play position sometimes not being set correctly when loading from a session file
• FIXED Opening cineSync by double clicking media or session file (MacOS)
• FIXED Render 1:1 scale rendering at the wrong size
• FIXED Rotation glitch in compare wipe tool
• FIXED Draw order for positive ghost frames, the active frame now always displays at the front
• FIXED Eraser and ghosting. The eraser will no longer incorrectly delete ghosted drawings
• FIXED Uppercase files extensions not being recognised
• FIXED Handling of unicode files names on Windows

January 15 2024 - cineSync 5.4.0

• NEW Added support for Standard and Pro accounts
• NEW Added native ARM version for macOS
• NEW Added support for V2 node locked licenses, V1 still supported on x86 machine
• NEW Added ability for movie window to follow note selection
• IMPROVED A/B compare mode
• IMPROVED Encryption now works better on high latency networks
• IMPROVED Reworked logging, all logs now written to single location
• FIXED Fullscreen playlist sometimes causing main window to go blank
• FIXED S3 urls invalidating after 60 mins (they now refresh correctly)
• FIXED Crash when deleting an encrypted file while downloading

November 10 2023 - cineSync 5.3.3

• NEW Added support for Iconik Storage Gateways (ISG’s) to the iconik integration, including proxy support
• NEW Added support for OTIOZ
• NEW New laser tool in annotations toolset
• NEW Ability to zoom out past 100%
• NEW New ability in ftrack integration to choose between exporting notes per frame or per asset
• NEW Added support for OCIO profiles and support to save and auto load the profiles per asset
• NEW Added support to setup secondary LUT via environment variables
• NEW Ability to login to Shotgrid integration via the Shotgrid desktop app
• NEW Added ability to add frames as either a sequence or as individual items in the playlist
• NEW Added ability to select save frame format – png or jpg
   
• IMPROVED Some reworking of the playlist and added “Manage Media” and “Manage Transfers” buttons
• IMPROVED Added “Add from server” option to main UI
• IMPROVED Added ability to select ftrack components when browsing and adding versions
• IMPROVED Playlists updates in Shotgrid now update in cineSync via integration
• IMPROVED Improved frame caching
• IMPROVED Added password reset link to cineSync 5 login dialog box
• IMPROVED Added ability for the customer to change their download location
• UPDATED Patched lib curl for security venerability CVE-2023-38545
• UPDATED Updated to the latest versions of OpenEXR (3.2) and OpenColorIO (2.3)
• FIXED line tool not generating a note
• FIXED playlist combobox sometime flashing incorrect icon when adding local files
• FIXED output settings not always saving
• FIXED dev menu not working from command line
• FIXED localised paths with environment variables when used with ftrack media

July 5 2023 - cineSync 5.3.2

• NEW Straight line tool - command/alt key locks to grid
• NEW Support for Wacom devices
• NEW Support for slower playback - 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75
• NEW Ability to set custom thumbnail frame
• IMPROVED Additional keyboard shortcuts for compare mode
• IMPROVED Hotkey to open Notes (command N)
• IMPROVED In compare mode added option to "use" A movie colour settings on B movie
• IMPROVED Support for loading files using symlinks, aliases and shortcuts
• IMPROVED Pinch gesture now works properly for zoom controls
• IMPROVED rec709 added as one of the default output options
• IMPROVED Increased max audio slip time from 1s to 5s
• IMPROVED Notes now correctly choose timecode or frame number
• UPDATED Colour channel menu options now respects "apply to all movies"
• UPDATED Compare mode now persists as a preference
• UPDATED Added support for paths conversions via the use of environment variables (Multi-OS environments)
• FIXED S3 uploads/Browsing/downloads via Northern Virginia
• FIXED Zoom box not always aligned correctly
• FIXED Mouse cursor not showing correctly on macOS

May 15 2023 - cineSync 5.3.1

• NEW "Log to desktop option" for file transfers
• NEW Support for playing encrypted audio files
• NEW Ability to login to iconik via the iconik web login
• NEW Select-All control to publish iconik window
• NEW "Open in folder" to right click menu, within the playlist
• IMPROVED cineSync now registers 'add to cineSync" custom actions in iconik
• UPDATED OpenEXR to v3.1.7
• UPDATED OpenColorIO to v2.2.1
• UPDATED FFmpeg to 6.0
• FIXED Sound offset issue when playing for OTIO
• FIXED Default EXR control not working on QT6 build
• FIXED Group control, within fullscreen playlist not working on QT6 build
• FIXED ssl issue when downloading from certain S3 zones
• FIXED Downloading files from s3 with ( or ) in their name
• FIXED Issues when browsing s3 buckets which contain a large number of objects
• FIXED Version numbers in windows and macOS installers
• FIXED Issue exporting frames back to ftrack
• FIXED "B" video sometimes showing a black frame in compare mode

April 6 2023 - cineSync 5.3