Release Notes

8.32

Release date 21 November 2024

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Added

  • New Qualify version 2024.11.1
  • Support for DSC option for STL caption outputs
  • UI light mode
  • Support for HEVC vbv-end and vbv-end-fr-adj parameters

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Changed

  • ommedia tools (ommcp and ommq) upgraded to the version 10.1
  • Optimized download sources from CML

📘

Fixed

  • Incorrect parameters (resolution) detection for some kind of sources (hevc)
  • Granted sub-users' access to parent’s Qualify templates and vice versa
  • Updated source tab styles and snapshot cases

Check the latest API changes here.

8.31.5

Release date 11 November 2024

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Changed

  • Updated libx265 to v3.5

8.31.4

Release date 31 October 2024

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Changed

  • X265 Encoder version upgraded to 3.5 for DolbyVision outputs.

8.31

Release date 17 October 2024

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Added

  • New Qualify version 2024.10.1
  • New Qualify+Transcoding plans for AWS Marketplace integration
  • Added the possibility to pass a hash file for the 'hash_value_test' Qualify test along with sidecar files.
  • Apply the video_tag for the mxf_op1a output format and the XDCAM video codec
  • MP4 container support for the adaptive_intermediate output
  • Fixed an issue with signed S3 URLs and QC jobs on Azure cloud

👍

Changed

  • Statistics charts in UI interface include sub-Users data

📘

Fixed

  • Wrong MXF timecode for video_codec=copy

Check the latest API changes here.

8.30.3

Release date 14 October 2024

👍

Added

  • Retry task in case of I/O error

8.30.2

Release date 08 October 2024

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Changed

  • Improved Qualify jobs stability

8.30.1

Release date 02 October 2024

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Changed

  • Upgraded Aspera client to v4.4.4

8.30

Release date 19 September 2024

👍

Added

  • New version of the Qualify 2024.9.1
  • Parameter to check the maximum audio output level when the dialnorm threshold is specified

👍

Changed

  • Improved Qualify jobs stability

📘

Fixed

  • Audio distortion for DolbyE audio

Check the latest API changes here.

8.29.2

Release date 22 August 2024

📘

Fixed

  • DVB subtitles desync when Dolby audio codecs were used

8.29

Release date 15 August 2024

👍

Added

  • Preserve style and positioning when converting TTML to WebVTT
  • API parameter to properly decode the GXF source file if it uses sequential field number increments for frame-encoded video
  • S3 storage class support for output destinations
  • New values for crop_type option in auto_crop section

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Changed

  • ommcp_repack* option is available for mxf_op1a format

📘

Fixed

  • Updated source tab styles and snapshot cases
  • Invalid Kag size warning for XDCAM in MXF
  • Bitrate adjustment for DNxHD codec
  • MCC-to-MCC conversion improvements

Check the latest API changes here.

8.28

Release date 25 July 2024

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Added

  • New Qualify container 2024.7.1
  • Amazon Marketplace integration

👍

Changed

  • New UI style

8.27.3

Release date 18 July 2024

👍

Added

  • API parameter to round the specified bitrate value to the nearest allowed bitrate from DNxHD profiles
  • DVB subtitles mux type for MPEG-TS ouptut
  • support of copy closed captions muxed to MP4 as WebVTT (wvtt) or as TTML (stpp) track
  • support of muxing WebVTT to MP4 as WebVTT (wvtt) track
  • support of muxing TTML to MP4 as TTML (stpp) track

📘

Fixed

  • Qualify template validation fix in UI
  • Avoid failing encoding job in case of single output teletext channel specified
  • Incorrect usage (debt) calculation on prepay plan refill
  • UI: Qualify template “Caption Paint Style” test form bugfix
  • Qualify jobs table improvement in UI
  • Watchfolder UI bugfix

Check the latest API changes here.

8.27.2

Release date 28 June 2024

📘

Fixed

  • Loudness normalization improved in case of padding black

8.27.1

Release date 24 June 2024

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Fixed

  • 5.1-to-stereo downmix fixed for PCM outputs processed by DEE if source stream loudness within specified loudness threshold

8.27

Release date 20 June 2024

👍

Added

  • Support for WebVTT files with timestamps without hours
  • Timecode framerate conversion during timecode copy when the source and output frame rates are different

📘

Fixed

  • repack of DV5 MP4 intermediate source
  • Intermittent issue with CML source download

8.26.1

Release date 29 May 2024

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Fixed

  • Custom usage graph in the UI improved

8.26

Release date 23 May 2024

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Added

📘

Fixed

  • Windows instances health check improved
  • Incorrect closed caption extraction (wrong timestamps) for some kind of sources

8.25

Release date 16 May 2024

👍

Added

  • Updated Qualify version to 2024.2.3

👍

Changed

  • Improved upload speed for assume role destinations

📘

Fixed

  • Hide: Upgrade notes from UI

8.24

Release date 09 May 2024

👍

Changed

  • Retry for ludicrous mode chunk encoding if it fails

📘

Fixed

  • Confirmation message is displayed upon support ticket submission

8.23.1

Release date 03 May 2024

📘

Fixed

  • Trim points calculation if the source TC value overflows 24 hours

8.23

Release date 02 May 2024

👍

Added

  • Pushed new Qualify container 2024.2.2 (v39)
  • More logs from Qualify run are saved when it fails
  • Added confirmation prompt when user is editing the template and tries to leave the page without saving

👍

Changed

  • Increased amount of memory available for Qualify container to improve stability.

📘

Fixed

  • Audio stream extraction fixed in case if DolbyE output requested and loudnorm enabled for only certain streams

8.22

Release date 25 April 2024

📘

Fixed

  • Fixed parsing of STL input files containing blocks with user data
  • Akamai upload is retried in case of an error

8.21

Release date 18 April 2024

📘

Fixed

  • incorrect PTS in the intermediate source after muxing 608/708 Closed Captions into the video elementary stream

8.20

Release date 11 April 2024

👍

Added

  • New API parameter ommq_data for mxf_op1a output, to add specific omneon metadata
  • Added support for merging multiple CC sources in a single SCC output
  • Added frame_wrapping parameter to control audio frame wrapping mode in MXF OP-a outputs
  • Added force_clap parameter to force insert clean aperture metadata for Apple ProRes outputs
  • Added progress in Qualify UI

📘

Fixed

  • Fixed qc_check error in UI
  • Corrected Time Code Rate value in closed captions MCC outputs
  • Fixed problems with conversions/parsing between intermediate formats (SRT, SCC)

Check the latest API changes here.

8.19

Release date 04 April 2024

👍

Changed

  • In UI, restrict removing Qualify layouts used in Templates

8.18

Release date 28 March 2024

👍

Changed

  • Improved speed and stability of Baton QC jobs.

📘

Fixed

8.17

Release date 21 March 2024

👍

Added

  • Per minute usage report for some resources

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Changed

  • Improved Qualify EditTemplate error messaging

📘

Fixed

  • Fixed minor issues with watchfolder settings

8.16.2

Release date 19 March 2024

👍

Changed

  • Updated the logic of the set_video_duration API parameter, so it works for all cases when the audio duration is less than, more than, or equal to the video duration.

📘

Fixed

  • fixed set_video_duration parameter was ignored if loudnorm parameters were used in the API request

Check the latest API changes here.

8.16

Release date 14 March 2024

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Added

👍

Changed

  • Referenced video and audio streams file names and formats according to customer’s requirements.

📘

Fixed

  • fixed missing and duplicate lines after EraseDisplayMemory command when converting Roll-Up SCC to Webvtt

8.15

Release date 07 March 2024

👍

Added

📘

Fixed

  • Fixed “Process Fell Down” error
  • Added custom reset functionality in UI component and fixed existing functionality for change event in UI component

8.14.2

Release date 06 March 2024

👍

Added

8.14

Release date 29 February 2024

👍

Added

👍

Changed

  • Updated UI components to the latest versions

📘

Fixed

  • Make start/finish parameters specified as timecodes correctly accepted on closed captions clipping
  • Security issues in UI.

8.13

Release date 22 February 2024

📘

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where S3 uploads were getting stuck when using the 'assume role'

8.12

Release date 15 February 2024

👍

Changed

  • Improved S3 transfer logging

8.11

Release date 08 February 2024

👍

Added

👍

Changed

  • Updated Mainconcept SDK version for mainconcept_avc video codec processing

📘

Fixed

  • Prevent jobs from failing if duration parameters in source CML are specified as timestamps instead of timecodes.
  • Timecode handling is improved.
  • Detection of teletext closed captions multiplexed in MXF as 436m data stream
  • QC API Request validation

8.10

Release date 01 February 2024

👍

Changed

  • Improved processing of Dolby Vision assets with a complex Ad-Breaks list

8.09

Release date 25 January 2024

👍

Added

📘

Fixed

  • Segment-aligned image playlist generation improved if the duration between ad breaks is comparable with the keyframe interval.

8.08

Release date 18 January 2024

👍

Added

  • More logs from Qualify run are saved when it fails

👍

Changed

  • Referenced video stream file name according to customer’s requirements

📘

Fixed

  • fixed “wrong endpoint” error ignore during single-threaded S3 transfer
  • Source S3 bucket location auto-detect with assume-role and non-specified region
  • Fixed a problem with automatic region detection
  • Proper timed test subtitles muxing for mp4 in ludicrous mode
  • Redundant DolbyE extract disabled for video only tasks
  • Bug for some multi-source jobs with a specific set of parameters

8.07

Release date 11 January 2024

👍

Added

  • Improved internal logging to catch the issue related to allocating EBS
  • Increased Baton progress timeout to improve stability with large source QC jobs
  • A possibility to get additional detailed notifications while processing the job

👍

Changed

  • Qualify tasks balancing and scaling improved: added dynamical scaling of required slots based on source parameters and instance type

📘

Fixed

  • Audio channel number passing for direct advanced multisource in case of simple audio mapping, Audio normalization for silent sources removed.

8.06

Release date 04 January 2024

👍

Added