Release Notes

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Added

• Advanced GOP settings can now be specified for MPEG-2 outputs
• Improved HDR support for HEVC outputs: SDR-to-HDR tone mapping , plus content light level and mastering display metadata for HDR10

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Changed

• The User UI is now served over HTTPS only; plain HTTP requests are redirected

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Fixed

• Audio-only Ogg outputs were always delivered with an .ogg extension, ignoring the requested extension

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Changed

• Various UI refinements across the platform

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Fixed

• Improved overall task queue turnaround time

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Added

• Upgraded Baton version to 9.4

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Fixed

• A limit of 5 OP-47 (436m) teletext pages for mxf_op1 output , now up to 20 ones can be used
• Do not add CEA-708 closed captions service descriptors for empty services

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Added

• Country-qualified language codes for closed captions translation, like fr-ca, pt-br etc.

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Fixed

• acbr=yes for ogg/libvorbis improved

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Added

• New Qualify 2026.3.1

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Fixed

• Do not add CEA-708 closed captions service descriptors for empty services
• Qualify template form UI for AI Lip Sync test has small fields
• Incorrect frame rate for GXF sources with progressive/sequential field numbering
• A 53/ DTVCC closed captions pass-through for AVC and MPEG-2 encodings in case of single value closed_captions.direct_copy=no. The option was ignored before.
• UI date picker wrong day selection
• Reporting Speech to Text and Translate tasks progress improved

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Fixed

• UI — Error handling when adding media with an invalid source link

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Added

• New API options for controlling user presets
• New options for Speech to captions: normalize_non_verbal, normalize_music
• Technical preview of Telestream AI Engine for audio-to-caption and caption-to-caption translation

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Fixed

• Missing media info for multi-source jobs in the UI Job Queue
• Multi-source jobs failing when the source URL contains a plus character

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Added

• Improved version of Qualify 2026.2.1

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Fixed

• Intermittent processing failures for videos from newer iPhone models that include a spatial audio track
• UI: Job details layout improved
• UI: Qualify template naming issue in raw mode
• UI: Glimpse drag and drop issue
• UI: Job queue pagination issue
• The issue with sources located in certain AWS regions (e.g. eu-north-1) that were never processed

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Changed

• Billable resources now use a single, consistent name across invoices, dashboards, and exported tables

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Fixed

• UI: Long URLs in QC jobs table
• Incorrect timecode mapping for OP-47 (436m) captions in MXF OP1a output when using clipping options
• UI: Jobs queue table layout

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Added

• Support for all closed caption’s output formats in legalize task (including ttml)
• Qualify 2026.2.1

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Fixed

• QC Template raw mode validations

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Changed

• Ommcp and Ommq tools updated to v10.2

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Fixed

• CML input parsing error
• Qualify template raw mode validation
• Qualify template upgrade to v2026.1

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Added

• API parameter to specify preferred CEA 608/708 closed captions muxer

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Changed

• UI enhancements and fixes

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Fixed

• Minor UI Improvements

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Changed

• Updated new EDC Logo
• Updated new Qualify Logo

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Fixed

• Displaying odd markup characters in timed-text subtitles

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Changed

• Minor API requests handling enhancement

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Changed

• File upload services (upload.encoding.com and upload-beta.encoding.com) are updated to use signed S3 links for uploaded files and disallow uploads with empty uid parameter

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Fixed

• Incorrect scaling and auto_crop behavior in case of rotated sources
• Handing of negative values in Qualify Template form

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Changed

• File upload services (upload.encoding.com and upload-beta.encoding.com) are updated to use signed S3 links for uploaded files and disallow uploads with empty uid parameter

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Fixed

• Incorrect scaling and auto_crop behavior in case of rotated sources
• Handing of negative values in Qualify Template form

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Added

• New Qualify 2026.1.1
• Technical preview of Telestream AI Engine for audio-to-captions transcribing and caption-to-caption legalization

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Fixed

• Unexpected timecode notation change for mxf_op1a in some cases
• Occasional job fails when adding ttml subtitle tracks to MOV/MP4

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Added

• The option copy_audio_streams works now for apple_prores output. Now you can copy several or all audio streams from source to output with the only option.

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Fixed

• API request using multiple sourses and no destination field

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Added

• AVC-Intra classes 300/480 support
• Two API parameters to expand unclosed SCC item duration when converted to SRT or WebVTT
• Signed S3 links expiration pre-validation
• New Qualify templates upgrade method

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Changed

• New user password reset flow

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Fixed

• Improved worker disk allocation stability for large inputs
• Burn-in captions with Mainconcept MXF output
• UI: Fixed destinations tooltip for multi-destination jobs

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Changed

• Temporary outputs (jobs with no destination specified) will use S3 signed links by default

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Fixed

• Worker disk allocation for specific jobs
• Language selection in Qualify PID vs Language Test