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What's new in mimoLive 4.5 Build 26739

Nov 23, 2018
  • New: Added new streaming service Periscope.
  • New: Added screen9 streaming service and account for streaming to screen9.
  • New: Level meters in audio sources are now post-gain and pre-dynamics.
  • New: Current NDI version is displayed in NDI settings window.
  • New: Added support for H264 video codec for mimoCall connections.
  • New: Add advanced settings and statistics to mimoCall Source.
  • New: Added an Instant Replay Layer.
  • New: mimoLive now prevents App Nap, system sleep and display sleep while a document is open. This makes macOS allow mimoLive to stay active regardless of a document’s activity. App Nap, for example, would interfere with processing if mimoLive was in the background and no audio output destination was live.
  • Enhancement: Automatically adjust the channel selection of audio aux output destinations that send audio output to a Bluetooth headset if the headset microphone is activated in an audio source to let active output destinations stay live.
  • Enhancement: Updated NDI to version 3.7.2.
  • Enhancement: Output Destinations can now be searched by related keywords.
  • Enhancement: Add more icons & colors to Remote Control Surface.
  • Enhancement: Reduced likeliness of intermittent audio input glitches from Blackmagic Design devices. Please note that switching apps or triggering certain UI changes may cause the system to slow down audio data delivery from Blackmagic Design devices for a very short duration which in turn causes audio input glitches in mimoLive.
  • Enhancement: Increased mimoCall’s compatibility with clients.
  • Enhancement: Added audio fade to Placer layer for dissolve transition.
  • Enhancement: Now also personal scheduled Facebook live streams are selectable in the Live Streaming output destination
  • Enhancement: Add file reference mode chooser to "add media files" open panel
  • Enhancement: Twitter Layer: Bring back Favorites.
  • Fixed: mimoLive was hanging under macOS 10.14.0 Mojave.
  • Fixed: Fixed a bug in Twitch authentication procedure.
  • Fixed: Fixed some User Interface glitches in macOS Mojave 10.14.
  • Fixed: Level meters in audio sources and layers did not respect device delay.
  • Fixed: The Audio Mix Panel could grow bigger than the screen making some layers unreachable. It now has a maximum height and can be scrolled if necessary.
  • Fixed: News Crawl Layer didn't work on macOS Mojave 10.14.
  • Fixed: Playlist source crashed under macOS 10.14 Mojave.
  • Fixed: Sports Graphics Demo template didn't load properly.
  • Fixed: Loading a document with 150+ media files failed under macOS 10.14 Mojave.
  • Fixed: The failsafe source would not be set when the respective menu selection was changed in the NDI output destination while it was already active.
  • Fixed: Fixed unavailable audio output devices routed to an audio output destination to become “(unavailable) (unavailable) (unavailable)” after several save-load-cycles.
  • Fixed: When dragging items to a playlist source which was set to Absolute Path reference mode the mouse pointer would incorrectly display a plus instead of a link arrow.

New in mimoLive 4.4 Build 26484 (Sep 27, 2018)

  • New: Added the YouTube account to the Social Media source. Now we can get the comments from YouTube live streams.
  • New: Added the Sport Graphics pack (optional license required).
  • New: Added a Sports Graphics Demo template in the New Document window to show how everything should work together.
  • Enhancement: Implemented an intelligent naming schema when duplicating layer variants or output destinations.
  • Enhancement: Follow layer now can follow multiple faces at the same time.
  • Enhancement: Sorted out some UI glitches.
  • Enhancement: PIP layer got a dedicated Remote Control surface representation including the Do Shrink option.
  • Enhancement: mimoLive respects the macOS User preferences for the count of recent documents.
  • Enhancement: Increased performance of Window Capture source (FPS) while lowering overall memory consumption.
  • Fixed: When playing back movies the audio and video could get out of sync.
  • Fixed: Live streaming comments didn't work for old mimoLive documents out of the box.
  • Fixed: Streaming to Twitch or screen9.com was aborting after about 4 hours and 40 minutes.
  • Fixed: When streaming to YouTube the comments didn't show up in mimoLive after 1 hour anymore.
  • Fixed: Crash when loading complex documents that take a longer time to load.
  • Fixed: Screen Capture source built up memory.
  • Fixed: Sources parameter preview showed blank image for Screen Capture sources.
  • Fixed: Crash when setting up a failsafe source for NDI output.
  • Fixed: Updated the link to the mimoLive online help for several layers.
  • Fixed: File Recording couldn't be started manually if Start With Show option was deselected.
  • Fixed: Split Screen layer had drawing glitches with name tags.
  • Fixed: Fixed Web Browser source memory build up.
  • Fixed: Audio issues.

New in mimoLive 4.3 Build 26305 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • New: Added Social Media source: Grabs comments and reactions data from Facebook Live streams or custom post IDs (will be extended for other services soon).
  • New: Added Facebook Reactions layer: Uses the new Social Media Source as a data source for presenting the Facebook Reactions.
  • New: Added Social Media Likes layer: Displays likes counts of Facebook pages.
  • New: Added BoxCast account and streaming service.
  • New: Added a Matte Choker video filter to adjust the alpha channel of video sources.
  • New: Added an option to automatically show the Recent Recordings window after a finished file recording.
  • Enhancement: News Crawler: Added option to restart the content when layer gets switched live again.
  • Enhancement: The file extension .mp4 commands the File Output Destination to write a native MP4 file.
  • Enhancement: The New Document window remembers the settings of last document creation.
  • Enhancement: Split Screen layer got an option to display name tags for each video sources
  • Fixed: Resetting mimoLives preferences via the Help menu would crash the app.
  • Fixed: The new Box layer drew the drop shadow at a wrong place.
  • Fixed: Glitch when movie sources was replayed again: The last frame of movie flashed before the movie played back.
  • Fixed: Layer level meter does not get cleared when layer is shut off.
  • Fixed: Remote Controls: Fixed issue that prevented scrolling in layer/sources lists.
  • Fixed: Remote Controls: Enabled scrolling in action button edit menu.
  • Fixed: Movie Source: Playback stops when switching previewed layer.
  • Fixed: UI glitches when working with the layer stack.
  • Fixed: Streaming output destinations didn't update their video dimensions if the document was changed.
  • Fixed: Some account data not being saved upon updating.
  • Fixed: PTZ controls in the Multi View didn't show up reliably.
  • Fixed: Crash when working with Audio Mix Configurations.
  • Fixed: New audio mixes beyond the fourth audio mix and some audio mixes in saved documents can not be started.
  • Fixed: Audio Mix Panel does not update when switching between document windows.
  • Fixed: Audio click artifacts when muting or unmuting an audio mix via the audio mix panel or the Program button.
  • Fixed: Layer stays silent despite being live when its content source’s audio device or NDI source reconnects.
  • Fixed: Potentially loud thud when activating the audio output destination or switching the audio device if the device volume is low.
  • Fixed: Audio output freezes and pitch changes when switching the document sample rate while audio output destinations are live.
  • Fixed: In some cases removing the web browser source would cause the app to crash.
  • Fixed: Ducking Trigger source in Audio Only layer now works with Playlist sources and Movies.

New in mimoLive 4.2.1 Build 25918 (Jul 13, 2018)

  • New: Assign any audio mix to the output destinations for Live Streaming, File Recording, NDI® Playout, BMD Playout and Audio Aux.
  • New: Moved audio mix configuration to a separate window.
  • New: The output destinations can be controlled via HTTP API. (e.g. lets you set the file path of a file recording output destination via a remote HTTP command)
  • New: Added a Source Performance Monitor. Useful if there are issues with the video sources.
  • New: Audio Output Destinations now support downmixing to one physical device output channel.
  • New: Added a Box layer.
  • Enhancement: Updated the NDI® framework to version 3.5 and adjusted some UI accordingly.
  • Enhancement: Made the playout of video sources more stable.
  • Fixed: Audio channel mapping was not restored when using the system default devices.
  • Fixed: macOS provided video filters weren't stored in the mimoLive document anymore.
  • Fixed: Apple AirPods and other Bluetooth enabled headsets with built-in microphone damaged the Audio Output Destination beyond repair if selected simultaneously as output device and input device. A restart of mimoLive was necessary.
  • Fixed: Streaming to Akamai was broken.
  • Fixed: Some source types wheren't previewed correctly.
  • Fixed: Glitch in the Remote Control Surface when using the Flying Text layer: The text wasn't shown properly when the remote was loaded.
  • Fixed: The Facebook likes layer won't count down if someone removed their "like".
  • Fixed: Static Text layer didn't rotate the text with the background box.
  • Fixed: Leaking memory when using Screen Capture Source or Web Browser Source.

New in mimoLive 4.2.1 (Jul 13, 2018)

  • New: Assign any audio mix to the output destinations for Live Streaming, File Recording, NDI® Playout, BMD Playout and Audio Aux.
  • New: Moved audio mix configuration to a separate window.
  • New: The output destinations can be controlled via HTTP API. (e.g. lets you set the file path of a file recording output destination via a remote HTTP command)
  • New: Added a Source Performance Monitor. Useful if there are issues with the video sources.
  • New: Audio Output Destinations now support downmixing to one physical device output channel.
  • New: Added a Box layer.
  • Enhancement: Updated the NDI® framework to version 3.5 and adjusted some UI accordingly.
  • Enhancement: Made the playout of video sources more stable.
  • Fixed: Audio channel mapping was not restored when using the system default devices.
  • Fixed: macOS provided video filters weren't stored in the mimoLive document anymore.
  • Fixed: Apple AirPods and other Bluetooth enabled headsets with built-in microphone damaged the Audio Output Destination beyond repair if selected simultaneously as output device and input device. A restart of mimoLive was necessary.
  • Fixed: Streaming to Akamai was broken.
  • Fixed: Some source types wheren't previewed correctly.
  • Fixed: Glitch in the Remote Control Surface when using the Flying Text layer: The text wasn't shown properly when the remote was loaded.
  • Fixed: The Facebook likes layer won't count down if someone removed their "like".
  • Fixed: Static Text layer didn't rotate the text with the background box.
  • Fixed: Leaking memory when using Screen Capture Source or Web Browser Source.

New in mimoLive 4.2 (Jul 11, 2018)

  • New: Assign any audio mix to the output destinations for Live Streaming, File Recording, NDI Playout, BMD Playout and Audio Aux.
  • New: Moved audio mix configuration to a separate window.
  • New: The output destinations can be controlled via HTTP API. (e.g. lets you set the file path of a file recording output destination via a remote HTTP command)
  • New: Added a Source Performance Monitor. Useful if there are issues with the video sources.
  • New: Audio Output Destinations now support downmixing to one physical device output channel.
  • New: Added a Box layer.
  • Enhancement: Updated the NDI framework to version 3.5 and adjusted some UI accordingly.
  • Enhancement: Made the playout of video sources more stable.
  • Fixed: Audio channel mapping was not restored when using the system default devices.
  • Fixed: macOS provided video filters weren't stored in the mimoLive document anymore.
  • Fixed: Apple AirPods and other Bluetooth enabled headsets with built-in microphone damaged the Audio Output Destination beyond repair if selected simultaneously as output device and input device. A restart of mimoLive was necessary.
  • Fixed: Streaming to Akamai was broken.
  • Fixed: Some source types wheren't previewed correctly.
  • Fixed: Glitch in the Remote Control Surface when using the Flying Text layer: The text wasn't shown properly when the remote was loaded.
  • Fixed: The Facebook likes layer won't count down if someone removed their "like".
  • Fixed: Static Text layer didn't rotate the text with the background box.
  • Fixed: Leaking memory when using Screen Capture Source or Web Browser Source.

New in mimoLive 4.1.1 Build 25483 (May 31, 2018)

  • Fixed: The setup of keyboard shortcuts in layers is undoable now.
  • Fixed: mimoLive crashed after closing a document containing a Web Browser source.
  • Fixed: Clicking the information button for the new Source Groups in the Source Template Repository crashed the app.
  • Fixed: The help button for the new Web Browser Source linked to a missing online help page.
  • Fixed: UI glitches and a rare crash in the licencing window.

New in mimoLive 4.1 Build 25475 (May 27, 2018)

  • Important: Facebook comments are currently disabled pending a review from Facebook.
  • New: Sources in the Source Repository are sorted into folders and can be reordered for a better overview.
  • New: A Web Browser capture source with transparency support makes it easy to bring web content such as game widgets, chat rooms or HTML/JavaScript/CSS based broadcast graphics into your production.
  • New: If your audio interface supports multiple channels, you can now select which channels are used for playout in the Audio Output destinations.
  • New: Sources can be now be removed even if they are assigned in a Layer.
  • Enhancement: NDI devices are now sorted alphabetically.
  • Enhancement: Facebook Likes layer shows reactions immediately.
  • Enhancement: iOS Demo Layer has be updated with iPhone X graphics.
  • Enhancement: If you specify custom NDI Send Groups to filter for devices, the “Public” group is now included by default.
  • Enhancement: Undo/Redo now works for sources and other layer parameters.
  • Fixed: mimoCall client: When switching video sources this caused a freeze of the video feed.
  • Fixed: NDI sources failed to restore when opening a document immediately after launching mimoLive.
  • Fixed: Streaming Output destinations did falsely report the encoder being too slow.
  • Fixed: Working with filters sometimes blocked the app.
  • Fixed: Crash when working with Layer Settings.
  • Fixed: Crash when closing a document with a Window Capture Source active.
  • Fixed: Encoding problem with umlaut characters in the Remote Surface Title.

New in mimoLive 4.1 Build 25460 Beta 3 (May 19, 2018)

  • Attention: Unfortunately Facebook shut down some APIs mimoLive is using to fetch the comments of a Facebook Live Stream. This causes problems when streaming to Facebook regardless if you are using the Comments feature or not. Therefor we had to remove the Comments Features for Facebook Live Streams from mimoLive for now (its broken anyways). We are working on a replacement for it. Watch out for beta releases!
  • Enhancement: Web Browser Source improovements: Cropping, stability
  • Enhancement: Source Groups improovements: Undo, new icons
  • Enhancement: Working with filters sometimes blocked the app.

New in mimoLive 4.0.3 Build 24873 (May 19, 2018)

  • HOT-FIX! Unfortunately Facebook shut down some APIs mimoLive is using to fetch the comments of a Facebook Live Stream. This causes problems when streaming to Facebook regardless if you are using the Comments feature or not. Therefor we had to remove the Comments Features for Facebook Live Streams from mimoLive for now (its broken anyways). We are working on a replacement for it. Watch out for beta releases!

New in mimoLive 4.0.2 Build 24870 (Apr 29, 2018)

  • Fixed: Crash when licenses get updated in background.
  • Fixed: Crash when closing a document.
  • Fixed: Crash when opening a document with a Black Magic Design Output Destination configured.

New in mimoLive 4.0.1 Build 24864 (Mar 23, 2018)

  • New: Broadcast the Remote Control URL with the NDI(R) output so that NDI(R) receivers are able to open the Remote Control for mimoLive.
  • Enhancement: Updated NDI(R) framework.
  • Enhancement: Blackmagic Design output hardware is now remembered after the connection is lost.
  • Enhancement: Added notifications when output hardware is disconnected (e.g. removing a display)
  • Fixed: Remote Control Surface lost the connection to a document which was duplicated with the Save As file command.
  • Fixed: Remote Control Surface didn’t display layer variant titles anymore.
  • Fixed: Occasional crash when working with video source settings.
  • Fixed: mimoLive blocked the FaceTime camera from being used by 3rd party apps.
  • Fixed: Using the Window Capture source caused performance issues in the rendering engine.
  • Fixed: The calculation for the time remaining when recording to disk gave a wrong value.
  • Fixed: Accounts vanish into the nirvana.
  • Fixed: Crash when working with Twitter accounts.
  • Fixed: Streaming title and description sometimes didn’t update on Facebook.
  • Fixed: Several other crashes.

New in mimoLive 3.2.1 Build 23763 (Jan 14, 2018)

  • Fix: Crash when opening a document with complex audio setup.
  • Fix: Window Capture source won't start when reloading a document.

New in mimoLive 3.2 Build 23760 (Jan 11, 2018)

  • New: Now its possible to enter multiple accounts for each service type in the mimoLive preferences. Please note that you may need to log out of Facebook and relogin to make everything work! You also will have to select a specific account in the layer itself.
  • Fix: The full-screen output couldn't be exited with the ESC key.

New in mimoLive 3.1.1 Build 23323 (Dec 15, 2017)

  • Fixed: Video filter setup didn't show a preview anymore on macOS 10.13.1

New in mimoLive 3.0 Build 23313 (Oct 17, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • New: We added the NDI™ Video Source on the input side as well as the NDI™ Playout on the output side.
  • Enhancement: Added Clock Offset option to the Date and Time layer.
  • Enhancement: Made some icons files ready for macOS 10.13.
  • Enhancement: Fixed user interface glitches in the sources repository for macOS 10.13.
  • Fixed: Split Screen Layer preview sometimes showed wrong guide lines
  • Fixed: Twitter Layer was displaying the name and the twitter user name swapped
  • Fixed: You won't believe this, but we fixed the audio/video sync bug for Blackmagic Design Playout again...
  • Fixed: When working with the remote control occasional crashes happened.
  • Fixed: Renaming a source didn't work at first try
  • Fixed: Annoying audio noise when streaming to YouTube
  • Fixed: We took a closer look at memory leaks
  • Fixed: Crash when launching mimoLive the first time on macOS 10.13
  • Fixed: Occasional crash when closing a stream
  • Fixed: Occasional crash when closing a document
  • Fixed: Crash when closing the document window and Program Out was in full screen mode.

New in mimoLive 2.9.3 Build 23127 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Fixed: Audio/Video sync issue introduced in version 2.9.2.

New in mimoLive 2.9.2 Build 23125 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • New: The Stop Watch layer got an option to always show the leading zeros.
  • New: The Placer layer got a new video input called Mask which allows for processing key and fill signals.
  • Enhancement: Added a warning for 10.11.6 users to update to 10.12
  • Fixed: There where still some crashes when closing the document.
  • Fixed: mimoCall sources couldn't connect to our mimoCall server anymore and reconnected 100+ times in a row.
  • Fixed: A crash could happen, if you close the mimoLive document window while having the Monitor Mix window open.
  • Fixed: A crash could happen, if you trying to reconnect to a mimoCall channel.
  • Fixed: The Blackmagic Play Out started to drop frames after a certain period of time.

New in mimoLive 2.8 Build 22911 (Feb 2, 2017)

  • New: Added mimoCall video source! Bringing in remote interview partners is very easy now! Beta phase!
  • New: Added a Split Screen layer for up to 6 video sources. This layer has a "solo" button fore each source to bring it in full screen.
  • New: Added a Deskew video filter. This filter helps you to deskew a flat surface if you capturing it from an odd angle (e.g. a scoreboard in a gym)
  • New: Start/Stop Stream commands were added to the HTTP API.
  • New: Added BoinxConnect account login (needed for mimoCall video source)
  • New: Created a companion app mimoLive Remote for iOS devices. (Beta)
  • New: Created a new Quartz Composer Patch called Set Structure Member.
  • New: Added a Help menu item to output some tech specs about the available video encoders
  • New: Added a Anonymous video filter to pixelate a face via face tracking.
  • New: Copy/Paste of layers is now possible, also drag and drop layers between multiple mimoLive documents.
  • New: Added buttons for Remote Control Surface and Virtual Camera Plugin Status to the tool bar.
  • New: Added an option to record the mouse cursor in the Screen Capture Source.
  • Enhancement: Chroma Keyer Pro video filter has a adjustable despill color now. Also fixed a problem with noise in dark colors. Changed the user interface for "Cut Off" setup so that it is more obvious how that works.
  • Enhancement: Chroma Keyer Basic now has an "automatic" feature that guesses the settings by analysing the current video image.
  • Enhancement: Put some tooltips on the buttons in the toolbar to explain what they do.
  • Enhancement: Increased overall performance by reducing the number of threads used by the app.
  • Enhancement: Fixed typos in some layer descriptions.
  • Enhancement: Added "day" output option to Stop Watch layer.
  • Enhancement: Improved undo redo management when working with layers.
  • Enhancement: Updated the UI to make it more consistent.
  • Enhancement: Updated links to new online documentation at http://docs.mimo.live
  • Enhancement: Fixed some glitches in the Window Capture Source cropping setup panel.
  • Enhancement: Updated the virtual Camera Plugins.
  • Enhancement: Now composition sources can use other sources as image inputs.
  • Enhancement: Renamed Sports Standing layer to Table layer and added a Flip transition.
  • Enhancement: Movie Sources now have the option to
  • Fixed: Crash when opening a document and having a Twitch account configured.
  • Fixed: A missing keyframe at the beginning of a H264 recording which made the recording pixelated and unable to upload to YouTube. This also affects streaming.
  • Fixed: Placeholder sources are now correctly restored after loading a mimoLive document.
  • Fixed: Instagram Source didn't show images if the user name didn't match a unique account.
  • Fixed: Keyboard shortcut now work with multiple documents open at once.
  • Fixed: Hang when working with image outputs in custom layers and the Remote Control was enabled.
  • Fixed: Twitch Chat layer displayed empty messages.
  • Fixed: When selecting a Facebook channel destination mimoLive sometimes crashed.
  • Fixed: Glitch when using a layer with movies the last frame of movies was still shown.
  • Fixed: Glitch when using empty text inputs filed that where displayed as

New in mimoLive 2.7 Build 22670 (Jan 4, 2017)

  • New: Instagram Source! Put your own, tagged, liked or others Instagram pictures on screen.
  • Enhancement: Source With Distortion layer now can display the cross hair handles in live output. Very helpfull when using mimoLive for projection mapping.
  • Fixed: Stream state at YouTube and Facebook get set to "stream finished" when the streaming gets stopped by the user.
  • Fixed: The aspect ratio of the video frame got lost when applying a filter to DV sources.
  • Fixed: Most of the user reported crashes could be fixed.
  • Fixed: Overall render performance was thwarted by a debugging code.

New in mimoLive 2.0.1 Build 21669 (May 23, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • New: Cyclic Sponsor Logos layer now has up to 10 sponsor logos.
  • Enhancement: CPU performance increase for audio volume meter,
  • Enhancement: Cleaned up Twitter account preferences
  • Enhancement: Don't save volatile state when saving the document as a template
  • Fixed: Video filter view is presented in the video pixel dimensions now
  • Fixed: Breaking News layer: gradient background was drawn from the wrong side
  • Fixed: Made With mimoLive layer didn't switch off itself after intro animation
  • Fixed: Audio volume for layers wasn't correctly restored after reloading document
  • Fixed: Render performance monitor couldn't be opened in fullscreen mode
  • Fixed: applying filters to image sources didn't work quite well
  • Fixed: If Facebook website won't start streaming for some reason mimoLive didn't recognize it
  • Fixed: Filtered image sources looked blurry.
  • Fixed: Ducking in Audio Only layer was buggy.

New in mimoLive 2.0 Build 21625 (May 8, 2016)

  • Built in live streaming to any RTMP-based streaming service (including Wowza, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch.tv and more)
  • Integrate with your workflow using SDI playout including an alpha channel using hardware from BlackMagic Design
  • Direct manipulation in layers, to directly adjust all visual elements
  • Frosted glass effects in many layers
  • Modern 64-Bit architecture, so mimoLive can now use all the RAM available
  • All new user interface