Changes log 2025
2025/Oct/17 Version 1.5.6
Fixes:
  • Editing:
    Fixed crash when editing text manually, when it included some tags.
  • Tracks:
    Fixed bug toggling the original version flag.
Improvements:
  • Languages:
    Improved Disney+ language codes.
New features:
  • Variables:
    New "{ElementLanguageDisneyFirst}" variable. It inserts only the first Disney code.
2025/Oct/14 Version 1.5.5
Improvements:
  • Office:
    Document page sizes now have two decimal precision.
  • Office:
    The default font for Word documents is now "Aptos" (previously "Calibri").
    The default font for Excel documents is now "Aptos Narrow" (previously "Calibri").
  • Unicode:
    Updated to version 17.0.
New features:
  • Variables:
    New "{ElementLanguageCodeFirst}" variable. It inserts only the first code.
2025/Sep/29 Version 1.5.4
Fixes:
  • TimedText export:
    Fixed hard crash resolving attributes to export.
Deprecations:
  • Installer:
    Removed option to install the Sentinal drivers.
  • Installers:
    The "Windows 10" and "Windows 11" plug-ins are now enabled by default.
  • Plug-ins:
    Removed "Cinevation" plug-in.
  • Plug-ins:
    Removed "DECEMate" plug-in.
  • Plug-ins:
    Removed "Microsoft Word 2007" plug-in.
    Office 2007 is not longer supported by Microsoft.
  • Schemas:
    The schemas feature has been removed (compare XML files agains a XML schema).
    It was used only by the DECEMate plug-in.
  • System:
    Removed back-compatibility support for .NET 4.7, required for Windows 7.
2025/Sep/15 Version 1.5.3
2025/Sep/08 Version 1.5.3 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • NBCU export:
    New support to export <p> position using regions.
Improvements:
  • Frame rates:
    New frame rate 47.952.
2025/Sep/02 Version 1.5.3 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Exporter report:
    Fixed bug reporting errors from some export tasks.
  • Project save as:
    Fixed bug when analizing a saved project. A false warning was displayed.
Improvements:
  • Digital Cinema export:
    New option to specify how to export the font path.
  • NBCU export:
    NBCU updated to specs July/2025. Two new options for HD/SDR 1.2 and UHD/HDR 1.3
  • FontTools:
    Compiled with Python 3.13.7.
  • Office:
    OpenXML library updated to version 2.20.
  • Plug-ins:
    Removed "Media Player" plug-in.
    The legacy Windows Media Player was replaced by Windows Media Player 12 in November 2021.
  • Plug-ins:
    Removed "QuickTime" plug-in.
    QuickTime player is not supported on Windows 10 or newer.
    Apple QuickTime support.
  • Tags:
    Condition tags now display more information when collapsed.
  • Tags:
    Small changes in the names of some display area tags.
  • Tags:
    Tags in the tags panel now display description, priority and condition.
  • Watermark:
    New setting to show/hide the watermark logo.
  • Watermark:
    Now some watermark settings cannot be modified when the watermark is forced by default.
New features:
  • Comparer tool:
    New action to add the errors to clips' comments.
  • Comparer tool:
    Redesigned columns' footers. New "actions" panel.
  • Fonts:
    New option in "settings/fonts/font compression" to allow to compress fonts without file extension.
    New option in "settings/fonts/fonts" to allow to copy fonts without file extension.
  • Markups:
    New "{da}" markup (display area). This markup allows to set the active display area by specifying the index or name.
    Example: {da:2} or {da:top}.
  • Overlays:
    New option in the "display areas" overlay to show the index and name of the area.
  • Project:
    Projects and tracks now store information about the file format used to import them.
  • Project:
    Display areas can now have a name.
  • Tags:
    New "active display area (by name)" tag. It allows to set the active display area by specifying a name.
    New "active display area" tag. It allows to set the active display area by specifying an index or name.
  • Tags:
    New "display area name" condition tag.
  • Tags:
    New "display area Set name" tag. It allows to set the name for a display area.
  • Tags:
    New "execute tags (by group)" system tag.
    This tag will allow the execution of all following tags belonging to a given group.
  • Tags:
    New "ignore tags (by group)" system tag.
    This tag will stop the execution of all following tags belonging to a given group.
  • Tags:
    New "set condition name" tag.
Notes:
  • Plug-in "Cinevation" will be discontinued soon.
  • Plug-in "Microsoft Word 2007" will be discontinued soon, since Office 2007 is already discontinued by Microsoft.
  • Plug-in "WinZip" will be discontinued soon.
2025/Jul/31 Version 1.5.3 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Closed captions:
    Fixed code for character «.
  • Images:
    Fixed bug loading rotated images.
  • Smpte-TT Captions export:
    Fixed problem linking paragraphs with right Pop region.
  • System:
    Fixed bug detecting the pixel shader version.
  • Texts:
    Fixed potential problem with pattern matching (wildcards).
Improvements:
  • Commands:
    New option in the "set play speed" command/shortcut to toggle the speed.
  • Export:
    New option to show/omit the summary report after exporting.
  • Exporter report:
    New option to analyze the tasks of an exporter.
  • Exporter report:
    New option to report file names containing a given text.
  • Final Cut Pro export:
    New options to specify the ID and name for the sequence.
    It is useful to have unique names when importing several languages into a NLE.
  • Keyframes ID:
    New "index + subindex" option in the "set keyframe ID" tag.
  • Plug-ins:
    The "dexter" and "experimental" plug-ins are now obsolote.
    They will be automatically removed from your system.
  • Presets:
    New option in settings/presets to select how to apply presets (tags) to projects.
  • Smpte-TT Captions export:
    New option to select the time base.
    New option to select the font units.
  • System:
    Improved beeping.
    Now beeping follows Window's system sounds .
  • Tracks:
    Now when duplicating a track, the "master" flag is preserved.
New features:
  • Commands:
    New command "original version" to flag a track as original version.
  • Export formats:
    Now all stereoscopic export tags flag the current export as stereoscopic.
  • Presets:
    New option in settings/presets to replace tags just by disabling them, not removing them.
  • Presets:
    New option in settings/presets to select an optimization mode when applying presets. For example:
    •Replace tags of same type:
    If a font name tag is being added, it removes all existing font name tags.
    •Replace identical tags:
    If a font name tag is being added, it removes all existing font name tags, if they point to the same font.
  • Projects:
    New option in the project wizard to select presets to apply to the project.
  • Projects:
    Tracks can now be flagged as "original version".
  • Tags:
    New "drop shadow effect 2" tag.
    This tag allows to have a secondary drop shadow. It has its own parameters. independent from the default shadow
  • Tags:
    New "export is stereoscopic" tag.
    This tag flags the export as stereoscopic.
  • Utilities:
    New "set language (auto)" utility.
    This utility can set the track's language, based on its name and source file.
  • Variables:
    New "{Underscore}" variable.
  • XML Import:
    Added a new warning when detecting unknown XML nodes.
2025/Jun/26 Version 1.5.3 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Variables:
    Fixed crash when evaluating variable {TextAreaPercent} with empty subtitles.
  • Word export:
    Fixed problem keeping tables in the same page.
Improvements:
  • Batch:
    A batch job can now monitor its source file, and warn if it changes.
  • FFmpeg:
    Updated to version 7.1 (2025/May/21).
  • Word export:
    Exported tables now keep all rows inside the same page.
  • Word export:
    New option to include/exclude the page header and footer.
  • Word export:
    New support to have empty lines in the header.
  • Utilities:
    The "set subpicture path" utility now supports variables.
    For example, you can use the {ClipIndex} variable to dinamically point to different subpictures.
New features:
  • Export settings:
    New option to remove spaces in video file names.
    New option to simplify underscores in script file names.
    New option to simplify underscores in image file names.
    New option to simplify underscores in video file names.
  • Variables:
    New "{TitleSecurity}" variable.
  • Word export:
    New option specify an image for the header.
    Tip: Use the "header" field to add empty lines to the header and make place for the image.
2025/May/15 Version 1.5.2 (non-public release)
Introducing execution tags
  • There is a new tag category called "system tags".
    These tags can modify how other tags are executed.
    • Fixes:
    • Digital cinema export:
      Corrected "EditRate" field. In the previous release values were exported using base 1000.
    Improvements:
    • Settings:
      New "utilities" category.
    • Tags:
      The "character diacritics amount", "duplicated diacritics" and "isolated diacritics" tags now support spacing combining marks too.
    • TimedText export:
      New option to enable/disable Unicode BOM.
    • TimedText export:
      New option to enable/disable XML indenting.
    • Video export:
      The maximum video bitrate has been raised to 200,000.
    New features:
    • Commands:
      New "open location folder" command.
      This command opens the folder that contains the project, and selects the file.
    • Project:
      New option "generate new project ID when 'saving as'".
    • Project:
      Projects have now an ID.
      It can be edited in the project editor.
    • Project:
      New "warn if saving fails" option.
      This option can display a notification and create a backup if the project could not be saved.
      It includes failing due to: unable to access the folder, unable to create the file, unable to overwrite the file, resulting zero-byte file.
      This option is located in settings/project/save.
    • Tags:
      New "execute once" option for all tags.
      In some cases, executing a tag more than once may result in undesired results.
      For example, when using a relative font size, rescaling, or applying a color conversion.
    • Tags:
      New "replace style" tag.
      This tag can change text from one formatting to another. For example, convert all italic text to yellow.
    • Tags:
      New execution tag "".
      This tag makes the render pipeline to ignore tags that have already been executed.
      For example, to avoid the execution of one "relative font size" tag more than once.
    • Tags:
      New execution tag "ignore executed tags by ID".
      This tag makes the render pipeline to ignore tags that have the same ID of already executed tags.
      For example, to avoid the execution of all following "relative font size" tags, once one has been executed.
    • Tags:
      New execution tag "stop tags execution".
      This tag makes the render pipeline to ignore all following tags.
    • Unicode:
      The "text analyzer" and "unicode browser" now display the bidirectional type of the characters.
    • Variables:
      New "{ProjectId}" variable.
2025/Mar/29 Version 1.5.1
Improvements:
  • Export wizard:
    The wizard is now closed automatically when the projects are closed.
  • Lambda import:
    The original lambda subtitle index is now imported as clip ID.
  • List tool:
    The list can now be scaled up to 300%.
  • Monitor tool:
    New "100%" fit mode..
  • Utilities:
    The "find and replace between" utility now supports text runs inside the delimiters.
    It also has a new option to preserve the delimiters.
  • TimedText export:
    New option in the "TimedText" tag to force the frame rate multiplier.
New features:
  • Settings:
    New option to remove ID from imported clips (settings/import/import default/remove clip ID).
  • Settings:
    New option to specify the default horizontal line alignment for imported subtitles without line alignment (settings/import/import default).
  • Tags:
    New "clip with duplicated ID" tag. It reports clips with identical IDs.
  • Tags:
    New "isolated diacritics" tag. It reports diacritics without a base character.
  • Utilities:
    New "remove between".
    This utility allows to remove text between two delimiters.
2025/Feb/28 Version 1.5.1 Beta 3
Introducing clip ID
  • Clips can now have an unique ID. this is, subtitles, effects, keyframes, markers and reels.
  • We have a new set of utilities to create, modify, and remove IDs.
  • The ID of a clip can be viewed in the subtitle editor tool, subtitle info tool, and in the respective clip editor.
  • To find a clip with a specific ID, you can use the quick find tool, or the find tool.
  • To export PNG subpictures using the subtitle ID, you can use the {SubtitleId} variable, or use the "set keyframe ID" tag.
  • Clip ID's are not supported in older versions. If you open and re-save a project using an older version, ID's will be lost.
New features related to Clip ID:
  • Clip editor tool:
    New option to edit the ID.
    This option is available in the editor for subtitles, markers, effects, keyframes and reels.
  • Custom formats:
    New "{ClipId}" export variable.
    New "{SubtitleId}" export variable.
    New "{ReelId}" export variable.
  • Excel export:
    New support to export keyframe ID and clip ID.
  • Excel import:
    New support to import clip ID.
  • Matchers:
    New "ID contains" matcher. It find clips that contain a given ID.
  • Overlays:
    The "hierarchy" overlay now displays clips' IDs.
    The "hierarchy" overlay has a new option to show/hide subtitle text.
  • Project:
    New support for clip ID.
    Now clips have their own ID. This is, subtitles, markers, effects, keyframes and reels.
  • Settings:
    New option to activate clips IDs (settings/project/clips).
    This option will create clips ID automatically when needed. For example, when splitting clips.
  • Settings:
    New option to specify the kind of IDs to be used for clips (settings/project/clips).
  • Subtitle info tool:
    New option to show the clip's ID.
  • Tags:
    New "clip without ID" report tag.
  • Tags:
    The "set keyframe id" tag now supports clips ID's and subtitles ID's.
  • Tags:
    New option in the "set keyframe ID" tag to use clip's ID.
  • Twins:
    New kind of twin that matches clips' IDs.
  • Utilities:
    New "generate ID" utility. It creates IDs for the clips.
    There are several kinds of ID to create.
  • Utilities:
    New "convert ID" utility.
  • Utilities:
    New "remove ID" utility.
  • Variables:
    New "{ClipId}" export variable.
    New "{SubtitleId}" export variable.
    New "{ReelId}" export variable.
Fixes:
  • Blackmagic:
    Fixed missing components for the Blackmagic plug-in.
  • Metadata:
    Fixed problem parsing metadata from full paths.
  • Settings:
    Fixed bug when finding a setting, and when window only contains one category of settings.
  • Tags:
    Fixed default value for the "normalization change" tag.
  • TimedText NBCU export:
    Corrected attribute from "tts:shear" to "tts:fontShear".
Improvements:
  • Excel export:
    Support to export styles with underline and strikeout.
  • Export:
    Script comments now support variables that contain line-breaks.
  • Font export:
    New option to set the file name of the exported font taking the value from the element's font path.
    This font path value can be assigned using the font path tag. Variables are allowed.
  • Font export:
    Removed option "remove spaces in font name" in the "copy font" tag.
    This option can now be changed by using the "remove spaces in font name" tag.
  • Office export:
    New suppport to export hierarchical text formatting (formatting applied to text using tags).
  • Overlays:
    The "hierarchy" overlay has a new option to show/hide subtitle text.
  • Overlay:
    The "reel" overlay uses now the active reel.
  • Plug-ins:
    Plug-in "KioAPI 2" is now obsolete and has been removed.
  • Render pipeline:
    New support to have more than one span effect.
  • Settings:
    The "project/project elements" tab has been splitted into different tabs.
  • SignalR:
    All SignalR dependencies are now merged in the exe.
  • Subtitle info tool:
    Some visual improvements.
  • Tags:
    New "normalization decomposition" tag.
    This tag reports decomposed text.
  • Tags:
    New option in the "text formatting discontinuity" tag to also check the beginning and end of the line.
  • Variables:
    The {ElementComments} is now supported in script comments.
  • WebVTT import:
    New option to import comments when they are located after the subtitle (not before the subtitle as per specs).
    New support to import comments at the end of the file, which do not belong to any subtitle (orphan comments).
    New option to ignore orphan comments.
New features:
  • Quick find tool:
    New option to select text source.
    It is now possible to find text inside the subtitle text, reference text, comments, or clip ID.
  • Quick find tool:
    New option to ignore markups.
  • Settings:
    New settings to set the default values for font export.
    "convert font file name to ANSI", "remove spaces in font file name", "font file name in uppercase" (settings/export/export).
  • Tags:
    New "convert font name to ANSI" tag.
    New "remove spaces in font name" tag.
    New "uppercase font name" tag.
    New "remove font extension" tag.
  • Tags:
    New "fix text formatting discontinuity" tag.
    This tag finds a text segment without formatting which is between two formatted segments, and applies the proper formatting.
    This tag does not merge the text segments (use the "merge text by formatting" tag).
  • Tags:
    New "merge text by formatting" tag.
    This tag merges all text runs that have the same formatting.
  • Text converters:
    New "Unicode to Zawgyi" and "Zawgyi to Unicode" text converters.
2025/Jan/27 Version 1.5.1 Beta 2
2025/Jan/23 Version 1.5.1 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • GUI:
    Fixed crash when resizing tab controls. For example, when resizing the utilities window.

    • This is seems to be a bug in Windows 11.
  • Stereoscopic:
    Fixed missing components for the anaglyph player.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg:
    Updated to version 7.1 (2025/Jan/10).
  • FontTools:
    Updated to version 4.51.0.
  • HandySaw:
    Updated to version 4.7.
  • Overlays:
    New options in the "text formatting" overlay to highlight italics, bold, underline and strikeout.
  • Overlays:
    The "digital cinema" overlay now supports multi-threading.
  • Unicode:
    Updated to version 16.0.
  • Waveform:
    Support for load, display and scrub waveforms in 44100 Hz and 48000 Hz.
  • Waveform:
    Support to extract waveforms in 44100 Hz and 48000 Hz, and stereo.
New features:
  • Tags:
    New "text formatting discontinuity" report tag.
    This tag reports a text segment without formatting which is between two formatted segments.
    For example, non-italicized spaces between italicized words.
  • Reels:
    New "load waveform" command.
    This command pre-loads the entire waveform for a faster timeline scrolling.
    This command is available via shortcut, menu, context menu, and reel editor.
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