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What's new in SilverStack 5.2.2 Build 5156

Jun 2, 2016
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed: Mhl generation fails when copying file sequences with file size verification
  • Fixed: Backup to LTFS not possible if the volume is mounted under /tmp
  • Fixed: Scanning of some Phantom cine files may never finish
  • Fixed: Backup to LTFS can not handle file size verification

New in SilverStack 5.1.1 Build 5090 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • Show one more number after decimal point for data size in reports and statistics
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed: Pasting comments in Quick Entries still broken for some situations
  • Fixed: Bypass filtering broken for arriraw, when switching to bypass only the current clip is bypassed
  • Fixed: Silverstack crashes on 10.9 when ingesting arriraw files
  • Fixed: Pulling project information like “producer” or “director” from clip metadata not working
  • Fixed: Logo in project overview can not be changed and always reverts to the first one you used
  • Fixed: Comment field in table can not be edited when in a smart folder
  • Fixed: General info sidebar does not work for scene/take info of documents
  • Fixed: Scene/shot/take Wildcards in backup wizard are not working for documents

New in SilverStack 5.0 Build 5048 (Feb 12, 2016)

  • Color Grading Features:
  • Create an individual grade for each clip
  • Non-destructive preview and playback
  • Manipulate looks interactively with typical grade controls
  • Multiple grading modes (CDL and LUT, ACES CDL and more)
  • Build a Look library and manage looks for an entire project
  • Transcode clips with custom looks
  • Export look metadata in reports
  • Grading panel support for easier look control
  • Look Import and Matching:
  • Import looks from LiveGrade Pro
  • Import look archives from LiveGrade Pro
  • Match looks to clips automatically
  • QC Enhancements:
  • HD-SDI output
  • Frame lines
  • Improved Dailies and Transfer Features:
  • Transfer clips to a DaVinci Resolve timeline including ASC-CDL color metadata
  • Transfer clips to AVID Media Composer including ASC-CDL color metadata
  • New Camera Format:
  • C300 MkII
  • Additional Features:
  • Mini Player for flexible player option also in clip list view
  • New smart folder option for creating per-volume clip report

New in SilverStack 4.3.3 Build 4158 (Dec 17, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Added player zoom size persistency
  • Added consistent reporting for footage with 23.976 fps vs. 23.97602 fps in metadata
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where copy speed drops to very low values while writing on and reading from a RAID at the same time
  • Fixed an issue where Silverstack crashed while playing back clips with audio
  • Fixed an issue where time remaining was displayed wrong after resuming a job
  • Fixed an issue where edit panels are out of screen while Silverstack being opened on two screens
  • Fixed an issue where library folder name was fed by bin name instead of library folder name in wildcards
  • Removed “Apply looks embedded in clips" preference that could disable the new look features
  • Fixed crash in clip table view while sorting columns by “Shutter”
  • Fixed an issue where smartfolders couldn't contain documents or sidecars
  • Fixed crash while playing back RED footage

New in SilverStack 4.3.2 Build 4137 (Nov 16, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed crashen when entering the player or during playback of clips with audio
  • Fixed an issue where managing custom Column Layouts lead to a crash
  • Fixed a problem with the data size calculation in the LTFS backup wizard
  • Fixed an issue where dragging folders into another lead to their invisibility
  • Fixed an issue where RED footage produced bin files on the HDD root during playback
  • Fixed crash when trying R3D GPU playback on some Macs

New in SilverStack 4.3.1 Build 4127 (Nov 6, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where updating the library lead to loss of preferences and custom layouts

New in SilverStack 4.3 Build 4076 (Nov 5, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Added Multichannel Audio Support
  • You can now playback and transcode clips with audio for specific formats.
  • Added Improved Look Processing
  • You can now choose looks for clips and load custom LUTs.
  • Added "Match clips based on Source File Without Extension in Tape column" option to ALE export
  • Added new scene naming options to ALE export
  • Updated to latest R3D SDK
  • Updated to latest ARRIRAW SDK
  • Minor usability improvements in new offload wizard
  • Added option to disable R3D GPU decoding to the preferences
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed detecting drop frame flag of ProRes clips
  • Fixed problem loading Cinema DNG files on 10.11
  • Fixed transcoding of clips with SLog2Video filter applied on 10.11
  • Fixed detected duration of some A7S clips
  • Fixed stored destinations are gone in backup wizard if going back to file selection
  • Fixed scheduled cascading copy jobs are not resumed correctly
  • Fixed library export crashes if the library contains a folder with an empty name
  • Fixed opened sections in clip detail sometimes collapse again

New in SilverStack 4.2.1 Build 4076 (Aug 29, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed rental license being detected as subscription licenses, may have led to incorrect expiration warning messages

New in SilverStack 4.1.1 Build 4053 (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed regression that prevents offloading of R3D or C300 clips if they are split into multiple files
  • Fixed detection of Sony F65, F55 RAW clips

New in SilverStack 4.1 Build 4047 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • Added support for AVC-Intra recorded with the Pansonic Varicam 35
  • Supports AVC-Intra 4k,AVC-Intra 4k LT, AVC-Intra 4k 444, AVC-Intra 2k. Applies LUT and CDL selected in the camera.
  • Decoding R3D files using the GPU for better performance on fast Macs
  • Use wildcards to automatically name exported LUTs or grades based on the information entered in LiveGrade
  • Added advanced decoding options for XAVC playback and transcoding
  • Support for XAVC-S clips recorded with the Sony A7S
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed problem of not detecting all clips if card contains corrupted clips
  • Fixed missing number of backups in clips report
  • Fixed crash in report generation if no project name was set
  • Thumbnails sometimes not show directly after the clips have been aded to the library
  • Fixed missing green checkmarks in volume report
  • Fixed problems in report when using project logos in eps or pdf format
  • Fixed hanging copy if one file in a file sequence is corrupt
  • Added option to limit TC display to 30 frames and indicating duplicate frames
  • Improved fonts in jobs detail view on 10.10
  • Fixed height of interlaced XAVC clips
  • Added workaround for report sae panel growing bigger than screen on 10.10
  • Improved handling of NFS shares

New in SilverStack 4.0.2 Build 4037 (Dec 10, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Added more control over how "second runs" of cascading copy are executed
  • Option to hide percentage bars in shooting day reports
  • Added support for DNxHD in .mov containers recorded by the KiPro
  • Added a strictly sequential parallel task count for drives that can not handle parallel file access
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed reelname and size extraction of some ARRIRAW clips
  • Improved volume identification
  • Fixed restore of library backups if the library is corrupted
  • Fixed wrong image size when transcoding some DNG formats
  • Fixed calculation of percentage bars in shooting day report when ignoring sidecars and documents
  • Fixed problem with destinations paths that contain a space after a closing parenthesis
  • Fixed additional comma is inserted when pasting text in the wildcard editor

New in SilverStack 4.0.1 Build 4033 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Enable support for clips recorded by a Canon XF camera
  • Improved R3D reel name format options
  • Added create still image button to play controls
  • Restoring scroll position of destination paths table
  • Hide empty production info fields in reports
  • Renamed Data Wrangler to Data Manager
  • Bugfixes:
  • R3D or C300 clips consisting of multiple files may end up with the wrong filename when doing cascading copy
  • New project name was not stored when changing it from the project overview
  • Enable file actions of conform folders
  • Fixed crash when using red rocket
  • Fixed cascading copy still enabled if disabled from a different copy wizard
  • Fixed black still images and transcoded clips from DNG if bypass filtering is enabled
  • Fixed FCP 7 XML export wizard shows documents
  • Various fixes to prepare for OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
  • Fixed second conform bin has wrong icon and position

New in SilverStack 4.0 Build 4029 (Sep 30, 2014)

  • PERFORMANCE:
  • Faster copy and larger library:
  • Improvements of overall copy performance (image sequences, single files, multi destination copy)
  • New "Cascading Copy" feature for sequential copy to different destinations
  • New, super-fast checksum type (xxhash) for speeds >400 MB/sec
  • Improved support for LTFS (copy first, then verify all)
  • File size verification option
  • Silverstack is now a 64 bit application
  • LIBRARY EXCHANGE:
  • Multi-Set and Set-to-Post workflows
  • Support for several DIT workstations in one project
  • Set-to-Post workflow with file verification
  • Library export/import (bins, folders and entire projects)
  • Accumulating metadata transfer (collecting metadata in post from several shooting days)
  • OTHER NEW FEATURES:
  • Export of still images (JPG, TIFF) from player
  • New report type with larger thumbnails
  • Better report customization
  • Ability to provide a custom bin name on offload
  • FORMATS:
  • Alexa ProRes XQ playback without FCPX installed
  • Metadata handling, playback and transcoding of Sony F55 / F65 RAW material
  • USABILITY:
  • Improvements, simplification and modernization:
  • Jobs are now in a separate jobs panel
  • Better overview of running and finished jobs
  • Better help for resolving failed jobs
  • Improved behavior for abort and retry/resume of copy jobs
  • Improved and modernized look and feel of the user interface
  • FIXES:
  • Handle Codex file system updates in Offload Wizard
  • Selection of multiple bins/folders

New in SilverStack 3.4.3 Build 3175 (Sep 19, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed crash when using 10.9.5

New in SilverStack 3.4.2 Build 3169 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Don't limit Final Cut Pro export to any format, so it can be used with FCP plugins
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed double folder bug when offloading from a folder inside the Codex VFS
  • Fixed memory leak when offloading large amount of clips
  • More robust decoding of M-Jpeg clips
  • Several smaller library performance improvements

New in SilverStack 3.4.1 Build 3165 (May 12, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix-up of build issue in 3.4 release that prevented some fixes to apply. All users of 3.4 should update.
  • Fixed crash when trying to show the ARRIRAW import settings in the preferences

New in SilverStack 3.4 Build 3163 (May 9, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Added support for the ARRI Amira
  • Offload, Playback, and Transcode ProRes Clips from the ARRI Amira. Looks set in the camera are automatically applied.
  • Adding experimental support for M-JPEG QuickTimes recorded by a Canon 1D C
  • Applying Alexa Looks to Alexa clips shot with look enabled
  • Mark unread jobs automatically as read after entering the jobs view
  • Adding a reveal in finder button to the file info view
  • Added recent licenses button to license manager that show recently used licenses for easier license migration
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed that some ARRIRAW clips created in open gate mode are not displayed
  • Fixed handling of split R3D files (_002,_003, etc.) in library
  • Extracting reel name from ARRIRAW clips
  • Fixed rental licenses if using a non Gregorian calendar
  • Extracting R3D user scene, shot and take values correctly
  • Fixed different file size summaries in reports if r3d clips are split into several files
  • Fixed sometimes wrong display of job status view
  • Fixed changed project name is not updated in job status view
  • Fixed wrong in- and out-points when offloading RED Dragon clips
  • Removed sequence numbers from ARRIRAW clips
  • Fixed false color mode to match Alexa false color mode in Rec.709

New in SilverStack 3.3.3 Build 3135 (Mar 18, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Added support for ARRIRAW Open Gate mode
  • Including new R3D SKD to support new Dragon clips
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed playback sometimes crashes Silverstack
  • Improved stability of XAVC playback
  • Fixed creation of reel folder icons may crash when copying multiple files at once
  • Improved stability of transcoding
  • Fixed that transcoded clips with 23.97 fps show as 24 fps in Final Cut Pro X
  • Fixed empty project overview on large projects
  • Fixed invalid FCPX XML files when the file path contains special characters
  • Various stability improvements

New in SilverStack 3.3.2 Build 3111 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Adding metadata from project overview to reports
  • Silverstack now aggregates project metadata like director and production from clip metadata and adds this metadata to reports. Users may overwrite project metadata to show in reports from the project overview.
  • Showing path of currently played clips
  • Click the volume icon in the playback controls to see the volume and the path of the currently played clip.
  • Improved volume identification of network shared
  • Network shares are now no longer identified using volume size and creation date but the URL of the connected share. This will improve volume detection of network shares that change their size or creation date.
  • Support for the new RED Rocket X
  • Adding detection of volume rename
  • New tint metadata field in sidebar and table view
  • Using new ARRIRAW SDK to allow higher tint values introduced with SUP 9.0
  • Allow R3D clips to be transferred to Final Cut Pro X
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed sometimes not created thumbnails when offloading ARRIRAW from Codex vfs
  • Fixed decoding of anamorphic ARRIRAW clips
  • Limiting H.264 transcoding to 2k due to problem with higher resolutions
  • Improved sorting of clips if sorted by a value thats equal in multiple clips
  • Fixed empty reports when exported from camera rolls
  • Allow ingest of single .ari and .dng files
  • Fixed r3d scene and take metadata extraction
  • Hide menu bar on second screen when using fullscreen on 10.9 Mavericks
  • Various stability improvements and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.3.1 Build 3098 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed bug that may cause failing transcoding jobs during trial

New in SilverStack 3.2.1 Build 3092 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes for OS X Mavericks
  • Fixed color processing of Log2Video filters in thumbnails

New in SilverStack 3.2 Build 3086 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • CHANGES:
  • Media Hash List Support:
  • Silverstack now supports the creation of media hash list files. These files contain the hashes generated during copy in a standardized way and can be verified using free tools for various operating systems.
  • Please Note: The new default checksum generation method for all copy jobs is now Media Hash List
  • Wildcards in Offload Wizard:
  • You can now use wildcards to create custom folder structures from metadata while offloading.
  • Selective Offload:
  • Adds the ability to offload only some clips of a card.
  • Improving copy speed for ARRIRAW from Codex Capture Drives:
  • In the previous version of Silverstack, "parallel task count" for copy jobs from Codex VFSs has been limited to one to prevent the stalling of copy jobs with early firmware versions of Capture Drive readers. In Silverstack 3.2 we removed this limitation to increase the copy speed.
  • Preserve folder structure in backup wizard:
  • The backup wizard now also allows to preserve the folder structure the clips had while offloading.
  • Option to copy files without checksum creation and verification:
  • Using this option you can increase speed for the price of decreased safety.
  • Using whole clip name as name for R3D clips.
  • Extracting R3D record framerate to sensor framerate in Silverstack.
  • More details about files that are ignored while scanning for files in offload wizard.
  • Improved copy speed display that includes the sum of all byte written or read per second.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed overwriting in backup wizard doesn't work
  • Fixed sorting by read mark does not work in job view
  • Various stability improvements and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.1.1 Build 3073 (Jul 16, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Option to show overall statistics on shooting day report
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed F5, F55 clips are skipped when copying in some situations
  • Restoring the last active project when restarting Silverstack

New in SilverStack 3.1 Build 3069 (Jul 4, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • F5, F55 XAVC support
  • Silverstack now supports playback and thumbnail generation for XAVC clips coming from a F5 or F55
  • EDL Import and Conform
  • Silverstack allows to create a bin with all clips referenced by an EDL
  • Extended Volume Reports
  • The volume reports now include information about resource related copy tasks
  • The user can choose which statistics to include in the shooting day report
  • Extended job and task detail view
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed aborting of queued but not yet started jobs
  • Always copying R3D and C300 spanning files in Backup wizard
  • Various smaller stability and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.0.7 Build 3065 (Jun 7, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Improved changing selection while showing the Quick Look window
  • Prevent mac from going to sleep while copying files
  • Restoring playback position when switching folders
  • Alternating row colors in general info
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed playback of R3D files using a RED Rocket
  • Fixed selection is sometimes not displayed correctly in collection view
  • Fixed offloading of folders that were created by Silverstack
  • Fixed file size display of R3D and C300 clips that are split into several files
  • Fixed THM sidecar files are displayed twice in offload wizard
  • Various smaller stability and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.0.6 Build 3061 (May 22, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Added new toolbar button "Import" for quicker access of the import actions
  • Adding file name matching option to the MovieSlate import
  • Extended default ingest file patterns to support Phantom and Gemini recorders
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a crash that may occur when unmounting volumes
  • Fixed copying of large file sequences on Mac OS X 10.7
  • Fixed a bug when importing Alexa clips with missing Final Cut Pro XML
  • Fixed editing of multiple User Info fields at once
  • Various smaller stability and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.0.5 Build 3059 (May 9, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Reading more Alexa metadata, like ND filter and circle take
  • Improved file scanner performance on Codex VFS
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug that can cause empty lines in clip report
  • Fixed a crash that may occur when unmounting volumes
  • Fixed a bug that clip reports may not include the latest metadata changes
  • Disable parallel reading on Codex VFS, it may lead to never finishing copy processes
  • Various smaller stability and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.0.4 Build 3057 (Apr 30, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed empty general preferences view

New in SilverStack 3.0.3 Build 3055 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • User-defined Thumbnail Images
  • It is now possible to set a default frame position for the clip thumbnail generation in the preferences. Furthermore, it is possible to choose a specific frame during playback via the main menu "Edit->Set Thumbnail Frame"
  • Improved Library Performance
  • When managing a large number of assets with Silverstack, the overall performance of the library slowly degraded. Silverstack is now able to handle many more assets while maintaining the same performance.
  • Improved Offload Performance
  • When offloading a large number of assets with Silverstack, the scanning for files could take a very long time. The performance in this area was increased by an order of magnitude.
  • Colored Reports
  • Reports now contain colored images to make it easier to spot labels and flags.
  • "Limit to In- and Out-Points" button
  • Clarified the functionality of the "Limit to In- and Out-Points" button above the Summary View by adding a blue glow around the affected text. Fixed several In- and Out-Point related bugs.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Improved Reporting Stability
  • Generating a report could sometimes take a very long time and make the entire Silverstack become unreponsive.
  • Fixed crashes during C300 offload
  • Fixed playback stuttering
  • Enabling the focus assist or other visual controls sometimes caused the playback to stutter or loop between frames.
  • Several UI improvements
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Reports don't show folder icons
  • Path Navigator shows wrong folder
  • Project volume folder shows clip count
  • Multiline comments in table view are clipped
  • Data wrangler summary view always shows date

New in SilverStack 3.0.2 Build 3047 (Apr 11, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • Improved performance when working with large folders
  • Keeping quick look panel open to inspect multiple assets
  • Adjusting Final Cut Pro X export to contain new metadata
  • Reading more R3D metadata
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a crash that happened when quickly opening the project chooser several times
  • Various stability and user interface improvements

New in SilverStack 3.0.1 Build 3045 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed hang when aborting jobs
  • Fixed that Silverstack is sometimes not responsive while offload jobs are running
  • Fixed sometimes ignoring the non-drop flag of Alexa timecode tracks
  • Allow to run Silverstack 3 parallel to Silverstack SET 2.x

New in SilverStack 3.0 Build 3043 (Mar 27, 2013)

  • Data-management and checksum-verified copy support for any kind of camera and file format e.g. RAW sequences, sound files, photos and other production documents.
  • A completely improved user interface of clip library, playback view and metadata table accelerates the access to all relevant clip information and enhances the project overview.
  • Advanced data management, tools for quality check (QC), playback and metadata controls for ARRI Alexa, RED, Canon EOS C300 / C500, Canon DSLRs, Nikon DSLRs and GoPro cameras.
  • Improved copy-performance by writing data simultaneously in one operation with verified checksums.
  • Aa completely revised report center with new statistic features and the ability to customize copy-reports.

New in SilverStack 1.6 Build 818 (Sep 24, 2009)

  • Works with Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard).
  • Full ProRes 4444 support.

New in SilverStack 1.5.2 Build 798 (Jul 13, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Additional ARRIRAW support for .ari files, now supporting ARRIRAW in .dpx files (S.Two wrapping) and .ari files (other DFR wrapping).
  • ARRIRAW support in QuickLook.
  • Bug fixes and minor changes:
  • Fixed a bug by handling invalid host names.
  • Fixed pink pixels bug for FCP Uncompressed 4:2:2 codec.
  • Fixed a bug that disabled submitting of jobs with command line cinemator.
  • Fixed unwanted log output in command line cinemator.
  • Fixed a possible crash during workspace loading.

New in SilverStack 1.5.1 (Jul 13, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that randomly disabled image filters in Cinemator.
  • Fixed a bug that made an incomplete install of SilverStack and Cinemator in some circumstances (Render Bundle was needed for proper execution).
  • Fixed a bug that let image sequence renders "unexpectedly quit".
  • Enabled update licenses.

New in SilverStack 1.5 Build 770 (May 5, 2009)

  • Support for the ARRIRAW format of ARRI D-21 cameras (including ASA/logC and color matrix settings).
  • Improved meta data support from S.Two and Codex field recorders.
  • Enhancements for dailies workflow.
  • New filters such as luminance sharpen for QuickTime creation.
  • Reworked render pipeline with command line renderer.
  • 16bit TIFF export.
  • New aspect ratio settings for Hawk anamorphic lenses with x1.3 squeeze.
  • Export of movie settings for exchange between workstations.
  • Polished user interface.
  • New per-host render license.

New in SilverStack 1.4.3 Build 590 (Feb 18, 2009)

  • Improved stability of Cinemator.
  • Fixed a problem with temporary folders in certain environments.