Release Notes
8.32
Release date 21 November 2024
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
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
Changed
- Updated libx265 to v3.5
8.31.4
Release date 31 October 2024
Changed
- X265 Encoder version upgraded to 3.5 for DolbyVision outputs.
8.31
Release date 17 October 2024
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
Changed
- Improved Qualify jobs stability
8.30.1
Release date 02 October 2024
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
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
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
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
Fixed
- Custom usage graph in the UI improved
8.26
Release date 23 May 2024
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
- Fixed missing lines when converting RollUp SCC to WebVTT with enabled roll-up emulation
- New API parameter to disable RollUp emulation when converting SCC to other formats
- Burn-In subtitles for advanced multisource medias
8.17
Release date 21 March 2024
Added
- Per minute usage report for some resources
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
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
- Option to pre-convert CC to other format, before conversion to final format
- New option notify_body_format, when set to raw, XML/JSON is sent without modifications, unlike the default behavior which sends it as URL-encoded form data. The Content-Type header will be set accordingly.
- New Qualify container v38 (2023.12.2)
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
- New format option copy_audio_streams to specify which audio streams to copy in case of audio_codec is copy
- Ability to configure/run Qualify media in UI and Qualify support in WatchFolders.
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
- Added new parameter 'return_url' for the GetQualifyReport API call. The parameter makes the call return URL address of the report.
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