Changes log 2022
2022/Dec/29 Version 1.4.1
2022/Dec/19 Version 1.4.1 Beta 11
Improvements:
  • Import: New warning message when importing a language code that does not look like a language code.
  • Blackmagic: Improved stereoscopic playback.
2022/Dec/19 Version 1.4.1 Beta 10
Fixes:
  • Export: Fixed bug when stretching keyframe nodes and the factor was zero.
  • Keyframe editor tool: It now displays the frame position of the node inside the keyframe.
  • Report tags: Fixed bug in the "text with formatting" tag, when using the "all or part of the text" option.
Improvements:
  • Tags: Improved "change frame rate (round up)" tag. It now allows to apply the conversion to the exported subtitles, and select an anchor.
  • Tags: Improved "text visual overlap" tag. New detailed message in the "report tool". Now it displays which text is colliding.
  • Tags: Improved "text visual overlap" tag. New horizontal and vertical tolerances.
  • Tags: Improved "text visual overlap" tag. New option check subpictures.
  • Tags: Improved "text visual overlap" tag. New option to select a text collision mode. The new "by graphemes" mode checks collisions character by character.
  • Word export: New support for cell border size and color.
New features:
  • Import: New internal functions to be able to import files and create markers (not only subtitles).
  • Word documents: New warning when trying to import a Word document with unaccepted changes.
2022/Nov/12 Version 1.4.1 Beta 8
Fixes:
  • Report tool: Fixed crash when cancelling an analysis.
  • Scene changes: Fixed bug jumping to scene changes when the reel has a waveform offset.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed window size for the 'command picker'.
  • iTunes export: Corrected sizes for vertical regions.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Added support to extract scene changes from movies with dts_time timecodes.
  • FFmpeg: Disabled hardware acceleration for AV1 videos (requires more testing).
  • FFmpeg: New options in "settings/ffmpeg/ffmpeg render" to choose video acceleration individually for H264, H265, AV1 and VP9.
    This allows, for example, to use a Nvidia card to accelerate H264, and an Intel card to accelerate VP9.
    Please go to "settings/ffmpeg/ffmpeg render" and re-select your desired hardware acceleration.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.1 (Nov 09).
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.38.0.
  • Shortcuts: New "shortcuts group" command. It allows to set/toggle a group.
  • System: Support to detect if .NET 4.8.1 is installed .
  • Tags: New button in the "language code" tag to insert Disney codes.
  • Tags: New button in the "territory code" tag to insert Disney codes.
  • Video: Added support to export workcopies in H264 or H265 using Intel acceleration.
  • iTunes export: Added new regions for left and right aligned subtitles.
  • iTunes export: Added new styles for ruby and boten italic spans.
New features:
  • FFmpeg: New option to use Intel Quick Sync hardware acceleration. It requires Intel graphics with installed drivers (Intel integrated graphics or Intel Arc card).
    - H264 and HEVC work.
    - VP9 works, but requires more testing.
    - AV1 is not supported yet.
2022/Oct/24 Version 1.4.1 Beta 7
Fixes:
  • iTunes export: Fixed style for vertical text.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.1 (Oct 17).
  • Providers manager: Support to display all Disney languages.
  • Text comparer: It now displays the characters and graphames count.
  • iTunes export: Improved ruby styles.
  • iTunes export: Support for vertical right and left text.
  • iTunes export: Text with skew is now exported as italic.
New features:
  • FFmpeg: New option to select Intel Quick Sync hardware acceleration (in settings/ffmpeg/ffmpeg render). Work in progress.
  • FFmpeg: New support to export AV1 videos.
    Use "hardware acceleration = none" or "Intel".
    Nvidia and AMD accelerations are experimental.
  • FFmpeg: New support to export videos with NV12 pixel format.
  • FFmpeg: New support for Intel Quick Sync hardware acceleration.
  • Languages: New table with Disney language codes and territories.
  • Variables: New variable {ElementLanguageDisney}.
  • Variables: New variable {ElementTerritoryCodeDisney}.
2022/Oct/11 Version 1.4.1 Beta 6
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.1 (Sep 30).
  • Find tool: New option in the "text contains" to select "position = inside" (not at beginning or at the end).
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.37.4.
  • Json Newtonson: Updated to version 13.0.
  • Project frame rate conversion: New option to also convert keyframe nodes.
  • Tags: New tag to specify how to export reference texts.
  • Unicode: Added support for additional 11170 characters (mainly Asiatic).
  • Unicode: Updated to version 15.0.
  • Utilities: New option in the "change frame rate" utility to also convert keyframe nodes.
  • Utilities: New option in the "copy reference text from" to specify a text converter.
  • Utilities: New option in the "copy reference text from" to specify the text formatting.
  • Variables: The "{TextArea}" variable now supports "Y_B" argument to insert the Y position of the text baseline.
  • Windows: Checked compatibility with Windows 11 update 22H2.
  • iTunes export: New option to specify the TimedText version.
  • iTunes export: Support for Japanese features. Including ruby, boten, tate-chu-yoko and vertical text.
  • iTunes export: Support for specs v5.3.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New option to specify a text converter to process imported texts (subtitle text, reference text, comments).
  • Shortcuts: New option in shortcuts to disable "key repeat". The shortcut will not be triggered when the key is hold down.
  • Shortcuts: New option to open the Windows keyboard settings in the control panel (settings/shortcuts/options).
  • Shortcuts: New option to turn off keyboard "key repeat" for all shortcuts (settings/shortcuts/options).
  • Tags: New "advance conditional" tag.
  • Tags: New "rotation conditional" tag.
  • Text converter: New "continue opened markups HTML" converter.
  • Text converter: New "continue opened markups" converter.
  • Utilities: New utility to merge overlapping keyframe nodes.
  • Utilities: New utility to remove all text markups.
  • Variables: New "{TextAreaPercent}" variable.
2022/Aug/28 Version 1.4.1 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Render: Fixed bug rendering images with charcter spacing and multi-treading.
Improvements:
  • GUI: Changed country name to "Türkiye".
  • Import: When a required screen size is not available, HD 1080 will be used.
  • Tags: New option in the "keyframing" tag to add keyframes at effects.
New features:
  • Tags: New tag to remove all character spacing.
  • Variables: New "{TextAreaDC}" variable to export text areas for digital cinema (Values are percentages. Vertical position is bottom based).
2022/Aug/17 Version 1.4.1 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Reels: Fixed inaccuracy adding a new scene change when reel's time-in is not zero.
  • Utilities: Fixed bug in the "remove lines" utility. The "line" parameter was not saved..
Improvements:
  • Commands: New option in the "edit text" command to select all text.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.1 (Aug 02).
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.34.4.
  • Overlays: Added new position options to several overlays.
  • Presets: New settings for the presets browser to display all preets when browsing the root folder.
  • Progress: New buttons in the progress window to show all errors, and to copy errors to the clipboard.
  • Settings: New option to renumber new clips using subindex.
New features:
  • Formats: New support to detect Canvas SST sdb files.
  • Renumber: New auto-renumber mode "following clips" which only renumber clips after the new one.
  • Renumber: New option to turn on/off renumbering of new clips.
2022/Jul/18 Version 1.4.1 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Effects: Fixed crash when using the "anti-aliasing edges effect" tag.
  • Export: Fixed bug in the "treat italic/bold fonts as regular" options when exporting fonts.
  • Languages: Corrected Digital Cinema and BPC47 codes.
  • Reels: Fixed inaccuracy adding a new scene change when the waveform has a visual offset.
Improvements:
  • Actors: Improved "actor ID" conditional tag. It nows uses the actor ID.
  • Actors: Improved "actors" tag. It now allows to specify an ID, line alignment, font color and name for each actor.
  • Actors: Improved {actor} markup. It now accepts the actor ID as parameter: {actor:ID}.
  • Actors: New support for actors to have a font color and line alignment.
  • FFmpeg: Improved export of frame rates.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.0 (2022-Jul-05).
  • Newtek NDI: Updated to version 5.1.3.
  • Presets: Improved refreshing of presets. Now only presets from active folders are displayed.
  • Variables: Improved {ClipIndex} variable. It now works in exporters.
New features:
  • Actors: New "convert actors to variables" tag. It converts actors to variables (Actor ID = Actor name).
  • Actors: New {lactor} markup. It sets the actor to the entire text line.
  • Commands: New "convert text" command. It converts text in the text editor using the selected text convert.
  • Commands: New "edit bytes" command. It toggles edition of bytes in the subtitle editor tool.
  • Commands: New "edit reference text" command. It toggles edition of the reference text in the subtitle editor tool.
  • Commands: New "edit subpicture" command. It toggles edition of the subpicture in the subtitle editor tool.
  • Commands: New "insert text" command. It inserts text into the text editor using the selected text inserter.
  • Commands: New option in the "edit bytes/comments/reference text/subpicture" command to also select all text.
  • Commands: New option in the "edit bytes/comments/reference text/subpicture" command to toggle the field.
  • Custom format export: New field to replace bold markups.
  • Custom format export: New field to replace strikeout markups.
  • Custom format export: New field to replace underline markups.
  • Digital cinema: New option in the "convert language code" tag to convert only the first or second Digital Cinema code to BCP-47.
  • Overlays: New "flags" overlay.
  • Overlays: New "subpicture" overlay.
  • Presets: New button in 'settings' to refresh presets.
  • Presets: New option in 'settings' to include/exclude the default presets folder when refreshing (C:\ProgramData\Lemony Pro 5\Presets\).
  • Statistics: The statistics report now includes average, minimum and maximum reading-speed.
  • iTunes export: New option to select if underline is exported as color (yellow) or decoration.
2022/Jun/06 Version 1.4.1 Beta 2
Improvements:
  • CaptiView: Renamed options in the report tag.
  • Configuration: New option to force a watermark logo to "none".
  • Configuration: New option to force a watermark logo.
  • Configuration: New option to force a watermark opacity.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.0 (May).
  • HUD: The HUD now displays comments from markers even if no clip is active.
  • Languages: Updated list of BCP47 languages.
  • Languages: Updated list of Digital Cinema languages.
  • TimedText export: New option to convert the boten symbol to name.
  • TimedText export: New option to override the boten name (textEmphasis).
  • TimedText export: New option to override the boten position (textEmphasis).
  • TimedText: Support to export frame rate 59.94.
  • Watermark: New option to select the watermark position.
New features:
  • CaptiView: Added support to allow musical symbols (♪ ♫).
  • Project save: New option to stop media and editing before saving a project.
  • Variables: New "{ClipArtDirectory}" variable.
2022/May/18 Version 1.4.1 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • CaptiView: Fixed bug reported illegal characters.
  • GUI: Fixed crash when opening progress bars, for example, when refreshing presets in the presets editor.
New features:
  • Settings: New option to block/allow retrieval of public IP addresses (blocked by default).
2022/May/01 Version 1.4.0
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed crash when drawing audio waveforms in multi-treading mode.
  • TimedText import: Improved conversion of regions to display areas.
Improvements:
  • Custom formats import: New field to specify the maximum text lines to import.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.0 (April).
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.33.3.
  • Tags: New options in the "children root" tag to merge clips from elements and keyframes.
  • Utilities: New category tab "position".
New features:
  • Tags: New "add new subtitle" tag. It allows to create and export additional subtitles.
  • Utilities: New "convert empty lines to position offset" utility. It detects leading/trailing empty lines, removes them, and offsets the text to keep the original position.
2022/Mar/31 Version 1.4.0 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Tags: The old "rescale project" tag is back. The new one has been renamed to "rescale project 2".
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: New setting to convert alpha values in the video server.
  • Blackmagic: New setting to enable double-buffered video server.
  • Blackmagic: New setting to enable multi-threaded video server.
  • Blackmagic: New setting to enable overlays in the video server.
  • Font compression: New setting to always use the TTF extension in compressed fonts. This is, resulting OTF fonts will have the TTF extension.
  • Font compression: Support to compress OTF fonts. The CFF table is not converted to GLYF table.
  • Report tool: New option (in settings/tools/report) to display reel numbers in the "filters" panel.
  • Settings: New option in interface/visual style to simplify the GUI decoration.
New features:
  • Subpictures: New setting (import/post-process) to automatically embed imported subpictures.
  • Tags: New "Subpicture position offset (percent)" tag.
  • Tags: New "color space conversion (sRGB to sRGB PQ)" tag. It contains all necessary options for the color conversion.
  • Tags: New "color space conversion" tag. It allows to specify a color conversion.
  • Tags: The "color space conversion" tag now supports conversions from sRGB to sRGB PQ (Smpte ST 2084).
  • Tags: The "color space conversion" tag now supports to apply gamma correction.
2022/Feb/18 Version 1.4.0 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • TimedText export: Fixed problem exporting IDs for subtitles splitted in several P's. A subindex is now added to the ID.
Improvements:
  • CaptiView: Improved to support firmware 0.21. Latin, Eastern European and Cyrillic.
  • CaptiView: The "allowed CaptiView characters" now supports to select the CaptiView version.
  • Comparer tool: Adding a markers track is now undoable.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte export: New annotation field.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte export: New annotation options "auto" and "force".
  • Digital Cinema Smpte export: The options to export IssueDate have been renamed.
  • Luminance: Luminance gain can now be up to 500%.
  • Tags: New option in the "fix spaces advance" tag to convert spaces to an Em space.
  • TimedText export: New option to omit empty spans (spans without text and without children).
New features:
  • CaptiView: New text converter that supports cyrillic.
  • Report tool: New button to 'apply all' solutions (only for errors that contain a single solution).
  • Report tool: New button to create markers.
  • Report tool: New button to select all clips in the list.
  • Tags: New "color space effect" tag. It allows to convert all pixels using the current color space conversion.
2022/Feb/03 Version 1.4.0 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Disney+ export: Fixed bug exporting empty regions.
  • Disney+ export: Fixed bug exporting right-to-left regions.
Improvements:
  • GUI: Simplified GUI design.
  • GUI: The progress bar now shows elapsed time.
  • GUI: The progress bar now shows the number of completed tasks.
  • Macros: Macros now display information about their utilities.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New indicator that shows if the subpicture is embedded.
  • Tags: Dummy tags now display information about their parameters.
  • Utilities: Dummy utilities now display information about their tags.
New features:
  • Monitor tool: New "reel" overlay. It displays reel's waveform and scene changes.
  • Project: New "from movie" project wizard. It creates a new project using a video file. Available via the file/project wizard menu.
  • Project: New "sample project" project wizard. It creates a new project with dummy subtitles. Available via the file/project wizard menu.
  • Report tool: New option to group errors by project.
2022/Jan/31 Version 1.4.0 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Playlist: Fixed crash assigning a time provider to the play list.
  • Plug-ins: The Windows 10 plug-in works now on Windows 11 too.
  • TimedText export: Corrected "/ns/ttml/profile/imsc" with the right IMSC version.
Improvements:
  • Digital Cinema export: New option to select how to format the date.
  • Disney+: Improved export. New option to auto set the region size based on the aspect ratio.
  • Disney+: Improved export. New option to follow guidelines.
  • Disney+: Improved export. Support for right-to-left and Japanese regions.
  • Disney+: Improved export. Support to select IMSC version.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 5.0.
  • Find tool: The "Text with ruby" has been renamed to "Text with Japanese features". And it has additional options to find rubies, boten and tate-chu-yoko.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.29.0.
  • GUI: Progress windows now omit messages if the same error message is already shown.
  • Report tool: New button to show/hide the filters panel.
  • Statistics: New settings to customize project statistics (in settings/project/statistics).
  • System: Function to clear memory (when rendering large images) is now active only in x32 systems.
  • Tags: Improved "rescale project" tag. Negative display areas (out of screen) are now corrected.
  • Tags: Improved "rescale project" tag. New option to turn on/off aspect ratio scaling and offset.
  • Tags: Improved "rescale project" tag. New option to turn on/off screen size scaling.
  • Tags: The "luminance" tag now allows to specity the maximum luminance too.
New features:
  • Blackmagic: New support for stereoscopic videos, using the new video servers.
  • Blackmagic: New support to redirect the audio to the Blackmagic device.
  • Reels: New option in reels to offset the waveform. This is useful when extracted waveforms are misaligned some frames.
  • Tags: New "gamma" tag to specify the gamma correction. This tag does not affect the rendering.
  • Tags: New "nits" tag to specify the maximum nits in the color space.
  • Tags: New tag to remap variables. One variable can get a new variable, based on the value of another variable. It uses an external file to specify the value pairs. ("Remap variable from file").
  • Tags: New tag to use a language table specifying the file. ("Language code (custom table file)").
  • Windows 10 plug-in: New "MediaPlayer UWP" player.
  • Windows 10 plug-in: New "UWP video server". This component is used to cast video to devices, for example, to a Blackmagic card.
  • Windows 10 plug-in: New support to detect audio devices.
Changes log 2021
2021/Dec/17 Version 1.3.8
2021/Nov/25 Version 1.3.8 Beta 8
Fixes:
  • Comparer tool: Fixed misaligned columns in the grid.
  • Video export: The video source "first reel" option now uses the first reel in the project.
Improvements:
  • Comparer tool: Removed some settings to auto resize the grid. They are not longer needed.
  • EDL import: New option to remove empty events.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.4.1.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.28.1.
  • GUI: The preset combobox has a new button to remove the preset.
  • GUI: The preset combobox has a new button to browse presets.
  • Import: New sub-options for the "file name specifying a different language" setting. You can now enable case-sensitive detection, and full language name detection.
  • Tags: New option in the "children depth" tag to export all clips and tracks in a project.
  • Tags: New option in the "children depth" tag to export all clips and tracks in the parent track.
  • Tags: New option in the "convert language code" tag to convert from digital cinema to ISO 639-1.
  • Tags: New option in the "convert language code" tag to fallback to the original code if the conversion fails.
  • Tags: New option in the "keyframing" tag to segment at markers.
New features:
  • Formats: New Snapshots format. It exports subpictures (images) using the movie's frame as background. It also exports a simple script describing the exported images.
  • Images: New PNG 24-bit image format.
  • Tags: New image video file tag. It draws movie's frame. This tag is not real-time, it is very slow since the video frame must be extracted from the movie.
  • Variables: New {ClipIndex} variable. It inserts the clip's index (and subindex, if any).
  • Variables: New {KeyframeIndex} variable. It inserts the Keyframe's index.
  • Variables: New {KeyframeTimeIn} variable. It inserts the keyframe's time-in in frames.
  • Variables: New {KeyframeTimeInHHMMSSFF} variable. It inserts the keyframe's time-in in HH:MM:SS:FF format.
2021/Nov/25 Version 1.3.8 Beta 7
Fixes:
  • Comparer tool: Fixed misaligned columns in the grid.
  • Video export: The video source "first reel" option now uses the first reel in the project.
Improvements:
  • Comparer tool: Removed some settings to auto resize the grid. They are not longer needed.
  • EDL import: New option to remove empty events.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.4.1.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.28.1.
  • GUI: The preset combobox has a new button to remove the preset.
  • GUI: The preset combobox has a new button to browse presets.
  • Import: New sub-options for the "file name specifying a different language" setting. You can now enable case-sensitive detection, and full language name detection.
  • Tags: New option in the "children depth" tag to export all clips and tracks in a project.
  • Tags: New option in the "children depth" tag to export all clips and tracks in the parent track.
  • Tags: New option in the "convert language code" tag to convert from digital cinema to ISO 639-1.
  • Tags: New option in the "convert language code" tag to fallback to the original code if the conversion fails.
  • Tags: New option in the "keyframing" tag to segment at markers.
New features:
  • Formats: New Snapshots format. It exports subpictures (images) using the movie's frame as background. It also exports a simple script describing the exported images.
  • Images: New PNG 24-bit image format.
  • Tags: New image video file tag. It draws movie's frame. This tag is not real-time, it is very slow since the video frame must be extracted from the movie.
  • Variables: New {ClipIndex} variable. It inserts the clip's index (and subindex, if any).
  • Variables: New {KeyframeIndex} variable. It inserts the Keyframe's index.
  • Variables: New {KeyframeTimeIn} variable. It inserts the keyframe's time-in in frames.
  • Variables: New {KeyframeTimeInHHMMSSFF} variable. It inserts the keyframe's time-in in HH:MM:SS:FF format.
2021/Oct/24 Version 1.3.8 Beta 6
Fixes:
  • Font compression: Fixed bug. Some ligatures were not removed.
Improvements:
  • Custom format: New "{Variable:xxx}" markup. It inserts the content of the given variable.
  • Font copy: New option to remove spaces in the font's filename.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.27.1.
  • System information: Support to detect SCSI/M.2 drives.
  • Unicode: Updated to version 14.0.
  • Variables: New "Requestor" variable.
  • Windows: Updated to Windows 10 SDK 10.0.20348.
New features:
  • Finder tool: New matcher to find subtitles with ruby.
  • Import: New option in "settings/import/import" to report if the imported filename specifies a language different than the imported one.
  • TimedText export: New option to create regions using the paragraph size (text size).
2021/Sep/14 Version 1.3.8 Beta 5
Improvements:
  • Newtonsoft Json: Updated to version 13.0.1.
New features:
  • Clip scopes: New clip scope "from time-head to last".
  • Tags: New tag "double directionality codes". It reports texts with double or duplicated directionality codes.
2021/Aug/28 Version 1.3.8 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • TimedText export: Corrected lowecase when exporting "tts:shear".
  • TimedText export: Subtitles with fading were exported with zero opacity.
Improvements:
  • SubRip export: When exporting text adding directionality codes, all existing codes are now removed.
  • TimedText export: New support to export transitions (fades) as animated opacity.
  • WebVTT export: When exporting text adding directionality codes, all existing codes are now removed.
New features:
  • Commands: New command "select from time position to last".
    This command selects clips all the way to the last clip. Command "select from time position to end" selects only to the end of the project.
  • Commands: New commands "copy clip to lower track" and "copy clip to upper track".
  • Commands: New commands "move clip to lower track" and "move clip to upper track".
  • Timeline: New menu "select/select from time position to last".
2021/Aug/09 Version 1.3.8 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Import: Fixed bug importing files with font embedding. Fonts were embedded even when empty.
  • Playlist: Fixed bug resizing playlist items.
Improvements:
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.26.2.
2021/Aug/01 Version 1.3.8 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • CPL: CPL editors are now closed when the owner project is closed.
  • System: Fixed bug removing invalid characters when importing files.
Improvements:
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.25.0.
  • Import detection: New option to select format detection mode (settings/import/detect).
  • MediaPlayer UWP: Improved playback speed.
  • Newtek NDI: Updated to SDK 5.0.
  • Newtonsoft Json: Updated to version 13.0.1.
  • Scenarist export: The script header is now filtered to avoid exporting non-ANSI characters.
  • Smpte-TT export: It contains now the "optimize attributes" option.
  • Smpte-TT export: It contains now the "paragraph attributes order" option.
  • Smpte-TT export: It supports now fontStyle and fontWeight.
New features:
  • Tags: New tag "convert image name to ANSI". This tag converts subpicture filenames from Unicode to ANSI. Use this tag when tracks' names contain characters that cannot be exported in scripts. For example, Scenarist scripts are ANSI, and does not support all Unicode characters.
2021/Jun/24 Version 1.3.8 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Markers: Fixed problem with colors for selected markers.
  • System: Fixed bug overriding the default location of the data folder.
  • Tags: Fixed crash disposing preset tags.
  • Tags: Fixed crash disposing the monitor tool.
Improvements:
  • EBU and PAC export: Improved export of vertical positions (row).
  • EBU export: New option to add teletext box codes.
  • EBU import: Teletext box codes arer now removed from imported text.
  • Overlays: The "grid" overlay now allows to display the column/row to which text lines will snap to.
  • Settings: The "fix windows positions" option is now enabled by default.
  • Tags: The "colorize subpicture" tags have more options to select the colorize method.
  • Utilities: The "remove tags by group" and "enable tags by group" utilities, now have a drop list to select the name of an installed preset.
New features:
  • Digital cinema import: New option to remove namespaces before importing.
  • Digital cinema import: New option to sort text lines by Vposition.
  • Find tool: New "line characters count" matcher. It finds text lines with a given amount of characters.
  • Tags: New "box color alpha" tag. It changes only the alpha value of the box color.
  • Tags: New "color (minimum)" mode for the colorize tags. It combines two colors using the lowest RBG value.
  • Tags: New "line position snap to grid". It snaps text lines using the current grid.
  • Viewer: New "EBU STL" viewer. It displays EBU files as human-readable text.
2021/May/24 Version 1.3.7
Fixes:
  • Character picker: Fixed crash.
  • Custom formats: Fixed small problem scrolling the options panel.
Improvements:
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.23.1.
  • Tags: New option in the "remap keyframe value" to select the type of keyframe to modify.
New features:
  • Subtitle editor tool: New convert text option, to insert right-to-left directionality codes to the selected text (removing any other existing directionality codes).
  • Utilities: New "remove all directionality codes" utility.
  • Utilities: New "replace directionality codes" utility.
2021/May/09 Version 1.3.7 Beta 4
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.4.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.22.1.
  • Gelula import: Markup @n is now removed in the imported text.
  • Timeline tool: Markers now use colors.
New features:
  • Custom fonts.
    - Using the new "custom font" tag, it is possible to use a font not installed on Windows.
    - It is possible to point to the external ttf file, or embed it into the project.
    - If the font is compressed, it is possible to point to an alternative file to use it for exporting.
    - This alternative file can be used to export a new compressed font file.
    - The "unsupported font" tag can be used to report characters not supported by the custom font.
    - There are new options in "settings/import/post-process" to import a subtitles and point/embed the font.
    - The "font path" tag has new options to assign the path using the custom font's.
  • MediaPlayer: New option to disable overlays for the MediaPlayer Video Server.
  • MediaPlayer: New option to redirect audio for the MediaPlayer UWP player.
  • Presets editor: New "save as" button.
  • Settings: New options in "settings/import/post-process" to import external font files. Pointing to the external ttf file or embedding it.
  • Tags: New "custom font" tag. This tag offers all the options to add a custom font.
  • Tags: New "embed custom font" tag. This tag offers the options to add a custom font from a file, and/or embed it.
  • Tags: New "remove custom font" tag. This tag removes the custom font.
  • Tags: New "use custom font" tag. This tag allows to turn on or off a custom font.
  • Tags: New "custom font file" option in the "font path" tag.
  • Tags: New "custom font full path" option in the "font path" tag.
  • Tags: The "typeface file" and "typeface full path" options in the "font path" tag, now takes the path from the custom font, if any.
2021/Apr/29 Version 1.3.7 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Monitor tool: Fixed crash when showing pixel information, while hiding the on-screen editor.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug saving the parameters for tag "Smpte-TT (Text)".
Improvements:
  • Blu-ray export: New option to select if the OFSFileName attribute is exported with full path.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to edit the navigation.
  • Commands: New command to show the CPL.
  • Navigation: New context menu to edit the navigation element.
  • Navigation: New context menu to show the current CPL.
  • Navigation: Some small improvements to the navigation editor.
  • Tools: New context menu "select all bottom subtitle tracks".
2021/Apr/16 Version 1.3.7 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Macros: Fixed crash when reloading deleted macros.
Improvements:
  • Final Cut Pro: Support to import font style from outline text clips.
  • Smpte-TT: New option to select how to export region units.
New features:
  • Comparer tool: New option to only display rows with differences.
  • Formats: New support to detect "FilmEdit" files.
  • Markers: New option to specify a color.
  • Tags: New "colorize subpicture" tag.
  • Tags: New "colorize subpicture (by font color)" tag.
  • Tags: New "set text variable" tag.
  • Variables: New text variables. These variables work as regular variables, but they also work inside the subtitle's text.
2021/Mar/25 Version 1.3.7 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Excel: Fixed bug exporting data from row 1. Data and header overlap which results in a corrupted Excel file. Workaround: use "row 2".
  • Tags: Fixed buy in the "color remap" tag. Base colors were now loaded.
Improvements:
  • Custom formats: The import function now reformats the text lines in case variables were used to create new lines.
  • Digital cinema: Updated list of territory codes.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.3.2.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.21.1.
  • Netflix: Updated list of supported glyphs.
  • PNG: Improved color palette sorting. Alpha value is now considered.
New features:
  • Report tool: New option to automatically select all tracks (settings/teools/report).
  • SubRip: New option to import additional formatting, such as {/a} and {/an}. Those markups are not standard in SubRip, but still common.
  • Tags: New "remove transition" tag.
  • TimedText export: New option "paragraph attributes order". It specifies the desired order of attributes.
  • TimedText export: New option "optimize attributes". It removes redundant attributes in paragraphs and spans.
  • TimedText export: New option to specify an ID for the TT element.
  • Variables: New custom format variables "{IfFirst}" and "{IfLast}". They add conditioned text for the first and last subtitle. {IfFirst:AAA:BBB}.
  • Variables: New "{ElementGUID}" variable. It inserts the GUID specified by a tag.
Windows 10 plug-in:
  • Formats: New import and export file format "TranStation".
2021/Mar/17 Version 1.3.6
  • Excel: New option to export worksheets with cell borders.
2021/Mar/11 Version 1.3.6 Beta 13
Fixes:
  • Monitor: Fixed bug displaying the reel's background image.
Improvements:
  • Custom formats: The following variables are now exported processed by the selected text converter: {TextPlain}, {TextReference}, {TextReferenceOneLine}, {SubpicturePathOriginal}, {Comments}, {CommentsOneLine}, {SubpicturePath}, {SubpicturePathOriginal}, {SubpictureFileName}, {SubpictureFileNameOriginal}.
  • SubRip: Imported text positions are now also set as subpicture position and size. This trick helps to export the same positions when batch converting.
New features:
  • Scopes: New "comments contain" clip scope.
  • SubRip: New "subpicture area" option to export the subpicture position and size as text position.
  • Tags: New report tag "text contains HTML entities". It reports subtitles that cointain HTML entities or Unicode values.
Windows 10 plug-in:
  • Utilities: New "OCR" utility. It uses one of the installed OCR engines to scan subpicture.
  • Utilities: New "OCR DVD" utility. This OCR utility has options to choose the DVD colors.
  • OCR: New OCR engine. It uses Windows' installed OCR languages.
    - It requires to install the Windows 10 plug-in.
    - To add an OCR engine, go to "Windows settings / Time & Language / Language", and add a preferred language. Make sure the language supports OCR.
2021/Mar/02 Version 1.3.6 Beta 12
Improvements:
  • Custom formats: New "remove variables and markups" option. to import files keeping texts that are inside curly brackets.
  • Custom formats: New "remove markups" option to import files keeping texts that are inside curly brackets.
New features:
  • Tags: New "paragraph vertical position offset (percent) by height" tag.
  • Tags: New "paragraph vertical position set (percent) by height" tag.
  • Tags: New "subpicture vertical position offset (percent) by height" tag.
  • Tags: New "subpicture vertical position set (percent) by height" tag.
2021/Feb/26 Version 1.3.6 Beta 11
Improvements:
  • Digital cinema: Importing the main font effect now also imports its color.
  • Timeline tool: The scroll actions now affect all opened timelines.
New features:
  • Tags: New "line vertical position offset (percent) by height" tag.
  • Tags: New "line vertical position set (percent) by height" tag.
2021/Feb/10 Version 1.3.6 Beta 10
Fixes:
  • Tags: Dragging & dropping a tag now preserves its group name.
Improvements:
  • Digital cinema: New setting "import all spaces".
  • Excel: The Excel format now allows to export characters count and reading speed.
  • Tags: Added a padding option to the "texture" tag.
New features:
  • Utilities: New "enable tags (by group)" utility.
  • Utilities: New "remove tags (by group)" utility.
  • Utilities: New "remove tracks (by type)" utility.
2021/Jan/28 Version 1.3.6 Beta 9
Fixes:
  • PAC export: Removed encoding check. It reported some false errors.
Improvements:
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.19.
  • Log: Closing projects is now logged too.
  • Log: New option to create a directory using the current year and month as a name.
  • Log: New options to include/exclude project title, project language, project path and project source path.
  • Log: The application log system now supports to specify two directories.
  • Providers manager: Now time formatters now display their ID.
  • Tags: New option in the "fix spaces advance" to specify the width range of the spaces to modify.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New timecode format to export time in/out expressed in seconds ({TimeIn:Seconds}).
  • Tags: New "texture" tag. It allows to apply an image to a surface.
2021/Jan/24 Version 1.3.6 Beta 8
Fixes:
  • Digital Cinema Smpte: Fixed bug exporting DisplayType. It was exported twice when using "auto" mode.
  • Import: Fixed bug displaying error messages when importing a file.
  • Macros: Fixed crash when creating a macro with the "select with matcher" utility and "time range" matcher.
Improvements:
  • Import: Improved error messages when importing files.
  • Utilities: New context menu in the utilities tab, to show/hide all tracks.
New features:
  • Import: New "none" mode for the track name mode option. This will keep imported tracks' name unchanged.
  • Matchers: New "time range HMSF" matcher. This matcher works with utilities and macros.
  • Tags: New "maximum characters per line (Japanese)" tag.
2021/Jan/10 Version 1.3.6 Beta 7
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug with resized windows. Their minimum size could be larger than the monitor.
Improvements:
  • Shortcuts: Removing a shortcut now refreshes errors in the remaining shortcuts.
New features:
  • Tags: New "timestamp (elapsed)" tag.
  • Tags: New "timestamp (range)" tag.
Changes log 2020
2020/Dec/26 Version 1.3.6 Beta 6
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
Improvements:
  • Captions: The "decode captions" utility now displays decoding errors.
  • Captions: When reporting overlapping characters, now the position (column/row) of the cell is also displayed.
  • Digital Cinema: Element "DisplayType" is exported as "Caption" if the track has the "caption" flag.
  • GUI: All "hyphen" labels have been changed to "dash".
  • GUI: Tags editors now use the compact version of color picker.
  • Google translator: New settings to optimize the number of subtitles to submit.
  • Shortcuts: Improved analysis of errors in shortcuts.
  • Shortcuts: The shortcuts panel now shows the number of shortcuts with errors.
  • Tags: Obsolete tags are now reported when opening a project.
  • Tags: Private tags (internal use tags) are now reported when opening a project.
  • Video: Removed support to export AVI videos: Uncompressed, MJpeg, PNG and YUV.
New features:
  • Captions: The "decode scc" batch job now has a new "all" option. It decodes assembly, disassembly and text.
  • Commands: New command to create a new empty karaoke track.
  • Find: New matcher to find subtitles that contain characters of a given category.
  • Flags: New flags: "2D", "3D Stereoscopic", "Audio description", "Caption", "Lyrics", "Original version".
  • Overlays: New "language index" overlay.
  • Screen: New screen sizes for HD 1080 flat and scope.
  • Screen: New screen sizes for UHD 4K flat and scope.
  • Subtitler: New menu to create a new empty karaoke track.
  • Tags: New "factorize stereoscopic separation (from screen size)" tag.
  • Tags: New "timestamp" tag. It allows to store a date/time.
  • Tags: New character category tag to find characters of a given category.
  • Unicode: New support for character categories (letters, punctuation, dashes, quotes, etc).
2020/Dec/15 Version 1.3.6 Beta 5
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
Improvements:
  • Boxes: They are drawn again using antialias.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.18.0.
  • OCR: The OCR now adds the directionality codes selected in settings/editing.
  • Reading speed: Unicode format characters are now always ignored.
  • Subtitler: Reorganized track menus.
  • Tags: The "custom font" tag now reports an error when using an invalid path.
  • Tags: The "font path" tag now reports an error when using an empty path.
  • Tags: The "image background" tag now reports an error when using an invalid path.
  • Tags: The "image foreground" tag now reports an error when using an invalid path.
  • Tags: The "image run (path)" tag now reports an error when using an invalid path.
  • Tags: The "image" tag now reports an error when using an invalid path.
New features:
  • Boxes: New support to have rounded corners.
  • Fonts: New internal function to detect Unicode control characters that are visible.
  • Screen: Two new screen sizes for HD1080 with flat and scope aspect ratios (1920x1038 and 1920x804).
  • Subtitler: New options in the menu track/create to duplicate tracks.
  • Tags: New "box border (offset)" tags. It allows to add a value to the box border.
  • Tags: New "corner size" tags. It allows to specify the size of rounded boxes.
  • Tags: New "replace directionality codes" tags. It converts directionality codes from one set to another.
  • Tags: New export tag "clips scope (exclude)".
  • TimedText: New option to select IMSC 1.2.
  • Tracks: New commands to duplicate a track changing its type. Ex, duplicate a subtitle track as markers track.
2020/Dec/07 Version 1.3.6 Beta 4
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
Fixes:
  • Keyframe editor: Fixed bug displaying keyframe's default value (when the previously displayed keyframe had no value).
  • Subtitle editor tool: Composed runs (to edit ruby and boten) still cannot be undone, but they do not crash.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Fixed bug pasting text. Paragraph margins are now fixed after pasting.
  • TimedText: Attribute "multiRowAlign" is now ignored when importing vertical subtitles, which could result in wrong alignment.
Improvements:
  • Import: Now removing outlines in imported projects, keeps the outline in the project if outlines are enabled in settings.
  • Import: Now removing shadows in imported projects, keeps the shadows in the project if shadows are enabled in settings.
  • Keyframe editor: The graphic now displays keyframe's default value.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Reordered buttons in the toolbar.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Text formatting is now evaluated using the subtlitle as root. This improves text-editor formatting when the subtitle is flagged or tagged.
  • TimedText: Attribute "ebutts:multiRowAlign" is exported only if the paragraph has more than one line.
  • TimedText: Rubies can now be imported using tags.
  • Viewer: Improved OFS viewer. Stereoscopic values are now displayed in a graph.
New features:
  • FFmpeg: New setting to specify the ProRes quantizer.
  • Japanese: Now "zero-width spaces" can be used inside rubies to group phonemes. Grouped phonemes are treated as single characters when calculating the layout.
  • Japanese: Now "zero-width spaces" can be used inside ruby bases to group phonemes. Grouped phonemes are treated as single characters when calculating the layout.
  • Overlay: New "keyframe" overlay. It displays a graphic with nodes.
  • Providers manager: New button to display the text editing "converters".
  • Providers manager: New button to display the text editing "inserters".
  • Subtitle editor tool: New "convert text" button. It allows to apply a "text converter" to the selected text.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu that changes the selected text to lowercase, using language's lexical order.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu that changes the selected text to uppercase, using language's lexical order.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to convert the selected text to Japanese Yomi.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to convert the selected text to boten.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to convert the selected text to ruby.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to convert the selected text to tate-chu-yoko.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to remove blank spaces.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to remove directionality codes.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New converter menu to separate Japanese phonemes (with a zero-width spaces).
  • Subtitle editor tool: New inserter menu to insert a zero-width space.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New inserter menu to insert an empty ruby box, to create a new ruby run.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New button to insert text or objects at caret position. More inserters to be added soon.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New button to modify the selected text. More converters to be added soon.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New support to edit runs in tate-chu-yoko.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New support to edit runs with boten (when boten is assigned using tags).
  • Tags: New report tag "text contains (simple)".
  • Text converter: New converter to remove blank spaces.
  • Text converter: New converter to remove right-to-left directionaliy codes.
Window 10 plug-in:
  • Media: New media information to extract media properties. It uses the Windows 10 functions.
2020/Nov/29 Version 1.3.6 Beta 3
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
New features:
  • SubStation Alpha export: New option to select the line-break position.
  • SubStation Alpha export: New option to select the line-break type.
  • SubStation Alpha export: New option to select the time-out mode.
  • SubStation Alpha export: New option to select the karaoke mode.
2020/Nov/26 Version 1.3.6 Beta 2
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
Fixes:
  • Batch: Fixed crash with the new timer.
  • Exporters: Fixed bug removing exporters for the second time (remove, undo, remove).
  • Render: Increased the graphic surface size. Some tall glyphs (usually characters with double diacritics) could be cropped when italicized.
  • Unicode browser: Fixed regression finding characters by name.
Improvements:
  • Comparer tool: The grid control has been replaced with a list control.
  • Project editor: Changing the frame rate of the project is now undoable (using the "change frame rate" button).
  • Ruby: Cell-based rubies now defaults to "fill" if the ruby and the base have different amount of characters.
  • Ruby: Improved calculation of position for cell-based rubies, including boten.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Invalid timecodes are now displayed on red.
  • Subtitle info tool: Invalid timecodes are now displayed on red.
  • Text formatting overlay: Improved highlighting of spaces, to support zero-width spaces.
New features:
  • Commands: New "remove all presets" command.
  • Custom format: New variable "{Stereoscopic}". It accepts as parameter, units (Pixels|Percent) and number of decimals.
  • Explorer tool: New menu item in the presets node to remove all presets.
  • Utilities: New "change frame rate" utility (inside the "project" category). It changes the frame rate of the project and allows to apply time stretching to tracks.
  • Windows 10: New support for Windows 10 notifications.
2020/Nov/18 Version 1.3.6 Beta 1
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET 4.8.
  • Watch folders are now disabled by default. You can enable this feature in settings/batch/watch folder.
  • The PAC export tag has changed. Please revise your tag if you used a W16 encoding.
Fixes:
  • EBU: Fixed crash importing corrupted EBU files.
  • Japanese: Fixed problem positioning single lines when using the "base descender" rest.
  • Karaoke: Fixed crash when creating karaoke with no "karaoke options" tag.
  • Render: Fixed problem indexing runs inside a line.
  • WebVTT: Fixed problem encoding HTML entities. Unicode characters were also encoded.
  • iTunes iTT: Fixed problem importing raised subtitles.
Improvements:
  • Commands: The "apply preset to track" command now allows to select the "preset link mode".
  • Dictionaries: Improved dialog when removing a dictionary. It now shows the dictionary path.
  • Dictionaries: Improved dictionary optimization. When removing duplicated words, now the case-sensitive one is kept.
  • Dictionaries: Small changes in the dictionary editor
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.17.1.
  • GUI: Improved antialias in bitmap controls.
  • GUI: The filter boxes now support words in any order and partial words.
  • Import: Imported tracks with empty names will now be corrected to "Track".
  • Japanese: Improved auto-aligning of rubies in lines with a single run. Now line alignment is considered.
  • Karaoke: New support to choose the effect mode for previous/next karaoke segments.
  • Karaoke: New support to choose the minimum and maximum effect value.
  • Karaoke: The "karaoke font color effect" tag has a new option to select whether or not to dissolve the color.
  • Monitor tool: Small changes in the monitor settings window.
  • Monitor tool: The magnifier's center point is now adjusted consireding stereoscopic.
  • Monitor tool: The displayed pixel information now supports stereoscopic.
  • PAC format: New option to export using any encoding.
  • Project editor: The font name control now allows to enter any font name (which allows to specify a font name even if it is not installed).
  • Reels: The reel wizard now displays the destination project.
  • Settings: The application log and project log settings are now in two different tabs.
  • Sony BDN: Now the font name is imported. The font name is resolved by analyzing the font file.
  • Sony BDN: Now the font path is imported.
  • Subtitler: The statusbar now displays information about the active playlist.
  • Subtitler: The statusbar now displays the project duration.
  • Subtitler: When dropping media files into the subtitler to create reels, now a dialog allows to select the destination project.
  • Tags: Improved "encoding encode support" tag. It can report now if the encoded text will differ from the original.
  • Tags: Improved "tate-chu-yoko (auto)" tag. It allows now to convert Latin numbers to Fullwidth.
  • Tags: Improved "tate-chu-yoko (auto)" tag. It allows now to specify lengths for words and numbers.
  • Tags: New option in the font path tag to set the path only if the current one is empty.
  • Tags: New option in the font path tag to set the path using the custom font's path.
  • TimedText: New language option to export ISO 639-1 codes.
  • Timeline tool: The context menu to create clips, now works even if the track is not focused.
  • Unicode: Improved generation of combined names for UniHan characters.
  • Utilities: Corrected wrong labels in the simplify nodes utility.
  • Utilities: New option in the simplify nodes utility to select how to set the keyframe value.
  • Utilities: The "set line alignment" utility now allows to remove any existing alignment before applying a new one.
  • Utilities: The "set line alignment" utility now allows to specify which text elements to tag/markup.
  • Watch folder: The folder structure window now counts only files ignoring settings files.
New features:
  • Clips scopes: New "raised" scope.
  • Commands: New "guess language" command. It analyzes subtitles' text and displays possible languages.
  • Comparer tool: New "text areas" comparer. It reports differences in text position and size.
  • Dictionaries: Dictionaries have now a "case-sensitive" option. When enabled, word matching will be case-sensitive (ditionary optimization too).
  • Dictionaries: Dictionaries have now a "sorted" option. Enable this flag if the words are sorted alphabetically. Word look-up will be much faster.
  • Flags: New "lyrics" flag.
  • Flags: New "right-to-left" flag.
  • Flags: New "vertical" flag.
  • Import: New error message when importing a font name which is not installed.
  • Import: New option to name imported tracks using the track's language. Using English name or ISO 639-1. (settings/import/import defaults).
  • Import: New option to remove imported font names (settings/import/default).
  • Markups: New option in the markups menu (subtitle editor) to add Japanese boten.
  • Monitor tool: New option to set a background color. This color layer is on top of the movie, so it can be used to dim the movie picture, increasing text contrast.
  • Overlays: New "karaoke" overlay. It displays the karaoke pointer.
  • Overlays: New "screen size reference" overlay. It displays a guide to simulate a different screen size/aspect ratio.
  • PAC format: Added Cyrillic PAC encoding.
  • Plug-ins: New Netflix plug-in. All Netflix functions have been moved into this plug-in. It is installed by default.
  • Project: Current time position is now saved insise the project file.
  • Project: New option to use the saved time-head position when opening a project (settings/project open/use saved time-head position).
  • Providers manager: New option to display all accepted Netflix glyphs.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New button to flag subtitles as right-to-left.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New button to flag subtitles as vertical.
  • Subtitle info tool: New button to flag subtitles as right-to-left.
  • Subtitle info tool: New button to flag subtitles as vertical.
  • Subtitler tool: New "track/content/guess language" menu.
  • Subtitles: New support for directly flag subtitles as right-to-left.
  • Subtitles: New support for directly flag subtitles as vertical.
  • Tags: New "allowed quotes (pairs)"" report tag. It reports subtitles with forbidden quotes, specifying a style pair.
  • Tags: New "allowed quotes"" report tag. It reports subtitles with forbidden quotes.
  • Tags: New "paragraph size (vertical text)"" tag.
  • Tags: New "replace digits"" tag. It converts digits from one language (Unicode block) to another.
  • Tags: New tag to disable custom font rendering.
  • Tags: New tag to remove the custom font.
  • Tags: New tag to remove the font path.
  • Text: Support for more hyphens: two-Em dash, three-Em dash, fullwidth hyphen-minus.
  • Text: Support for new kind spaces. "Japanese ideographic", "mathematical", "zero width No-break" and "Ogham" .
  • TimedText: New "Disney+" format.
  • Utilities: New "right-to-left" utility to set the right-to-left flag in subtitles.
  • Utilities: New "set directionality codes (right-to-left)" utility. Similar to the "set directionality codes" utility but with the option to select a codes pair.
  • Utilities: New "vertical" utility to set the vertical flag in subtitles.
  • Utilities: New generate nodes utility. It can create nodes for keyframes automatically.
  • Utilities: New option in the generate nodes utility. The "increase 0% to 100% (2 nodes)" mode creates a 0 to 100 ramp up.
  • Utilities: New option in the generate nodes utility. The "set value from highest node" mode sets the kayframe value using the highest node.
  • Video: New Newtek NDI player. It supports only video.
  • Watch folder: New option to enable automatic watch folder refresh using a timer.
  • Windows: Support for Windows October 2020 update (20H2).
2020/Oct/16 Version 1.3.5
Fixes:
  • Undo: Fixed problem adding grouped undo levels.
Improvements:
  • Clips scope: Removed the "with flags" clip scope.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.16.1.
  • Fonts: Improved function to resolve font names when importing files (Digital Cinema).
  • Fonts: Improved function to resolve font paths when importing files (Digital Cinema).
  • Languages: Improved conversion from Digital Cinema language code to BCP-47.
  • Settings: Duplicated categories are not displayed now.
  • System: Support for more kinds of quotes.
New features:
  • Tags: New replace quotes tag. It convert quotes from one type to another.
  • Unicode browser: New option to find characters by Unicode type.
  • Unicode browser: New option to find characters by value range.
2020/Oct/01 Version 1.3.5 Beta 8
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug measuring empty column panels.
  • Tags: Undocked tags showed the expander button.
  • Undo: Fixed bug undoing created clips. Clips could get the wrong index.
Improvements:
  • Explorer info tool: Tracks that are not renderable are dimmed.
  • Export: Improved export of text files (streams auto-flush).
  • Flags: Clips's protected flag is now passed to the render pipeline.
  • Flags: Track's master flag is now passed to the render pipeline.
  • Flags: Track's protected flag is now passed to the render pipeline.
  • Formats: Improved script export for many existing formats. Now using a new stream writer.
  • GUI: Clips that are not renderable are dimmed in the list tool.
  • Keyframe editor: New option to avoid nodes with a value outside the valid range ("settings/tools/keyframe editor/limit node values").
  • Keyframe editor: Small improvements in the GUI.
  • Keyframe editor: Values and units are now refreshed when the kind of keyframe is changed (in the parent track).
  • Lambda export: New "dash conversion" option. Useful when exporting using encoding Japanese 932 to make all dashes valid.
  • Render: Raised subtitles inherit down the raised flag.
  • SubStation Alpha: Encoding is now always exported, even when formatting is disabled.
  • Subtitle info tool: It displays the renderable status of clips.
  • System: Improved XML serialization of the render pipeline. User flags are included.
  • System: Improved XML serialization of the render pipeline. User variables are included.
  • Tags: The "keep text inside" has X and Y disabled by default.
  • Tags: The "variable Id" has been renamed to "variable".
  • Tags: The "variable" has been renamed to "custom variable".
  • Timeline info tool: Tracks that are not renderable are dimmed
  • Tracks: Removed "not master" track scope. The master track scope allows to invert the condition.
  • Tracks: The "type" track scope allows to invert the condition.
  • Utilities: The "fix separation" and "set separation" utilities allows to choose a mode. It is possible to modify the duration or next clip's time-in.
New features:
  • Clip scopes: New "custom flag" clip scope.
  • Clip scopes: New "flag" clip scope.
  • Commands: New "toggle custom flag" command.
  • Commands: New "toggle flag" command.
  • Communication: New option in "settings/communication/communication" to auto-start communications when the application is launched.
  • Element finders: New "focused marker" element finder.
  • Element finders: New "subtitles track below" element finder.
  • Element finders: New "track above" element finder.
  • Element finders: New "track below" element finder.
  • Element finders: New internal support to use element finders in utilities.
  • FFmpeg: New option to specify the location of the ffmpeg.exe file.
  • Flags: Improved integration of flags to the render pipeline.
  • Flags: New "credits" flag. You can use this flag in subtitles that contain the translator's name/company.
  • Flags: New "main title" flag. You can use this flag in subtitles that contain the title of the movie.
  • Frame rates: New internal support for frame rates 47.952 and 59.94.
  • GUI: New option to change the background of the monitor. Available in settings/interface/visual style.
  • Karaoke: New "merge paragraphs" option. It indicates if overlapping subtitles with karaoke will be considered as a single karaoke.
  • Keyframe editor: New D-pad control to move nodes.
  • Keyframe editor: New button to interpolate the node time position.
  • Keyframe editor: New button to interpolate the node value.
  • Settings: New editing/flags tab. It allows to create custom flags.
  • Settings: New option to confirm when removing a keyframe node (settings/interface/dialogs).
  • SubStation Alpha: New support to export karaoke.
  • SubStation Alpha: New support to export script comments in the file header.
  • Tags: New "clip with custom flag" report tag.
  • Tags: New "clip with flag" report tag.
  • Tags: New "custom flag On" tag. It allows to enable an custom flag.
  • Tags: New "custom flag" condition tag. It creates a condition if a custom flag is enabled.
  • Tags: New "custom flag" tag. It allows to enable, disable or invert a custom flag.
  • Tags: New "flag On" tag. It allows to enable a flag.
  • Tags: New "flag" condition tag. It creates a condition if a flag is enabled.
  • Tags: New "flag" tag. It allows to enable, disable or invert a flag.
  • Tags: New "font color by style" tag. It changes the color of italic/bold text.
  • Tags: New "line alignment (vertical text)" tag to set the alignment only to vertical subtitles.
  • Tags: New "paragraph vertical alignment (vertical text)" tag to set the alignment only to vertical subtitles.
  • Tags: New "set custom variable" tag.
  • Tags: New "set variable" tag.
  • Tags: New "track with custom flag" report tag.
  • Tags: New "track with flag" report tag.
  • Tracks: New "custom flag" track scope. It allows to work with a given custom flag.
  • Tracks: New "flag" track scope. It allows to work with tracks with a given flag.
  • Undo: New internal support for combine undo levels and add elements to selected levels.
2020/Aug/23 Version 1.3.5 Beta 7
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • Batch: Removing files from the ignore-file list caused a crash.
  • Markups: Some closed markups continued affecting the next text run.
  • System: Removing some temporal files caused Windows to show a dialog.
  • Utilities: Macros that do not modify any element did not advance the progressbar.
  • Video: The probressbar could be unaccurate when exporting several videos in the same run.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Removed function to expand/collapse jobs.
  • Batch: Saving a settings file removes the "source path" parameter, and other unnecessary fields.
  • Captions: Text converted to closed captions also considers the visibility flag of the text.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.14.0.
  • Fonts: The "copy font file" tag allows to specify the maximum files to copy. A warning is displayed if the limit exceeds.
  • Fonts: The "copy font file" tag has new options to select the fonts source.
  • Fonts: The "copy font file" tag has new options to treat italic/bold fonts as regular.
  • Grid: Changed the rows and columns limits. Row zero and column zero can be selected.
  • History tool: Improved design of undo levels.
  • Overlays: The "Hierarchy" overlay can display information about tags.
  • Overlays: The "Hierarchy" overlay displays only rendered elements.
  • Overlays: The default font size for all overlays is 3%.
  • Overlays: The font size for overlays can be between 1% and 20%.
  • Render: New support to have tagged text inside a markup span.
  • Subtitler: The workspace menu displays the name of the current GUI workspace, if any.
  • System: Support to display HResult errors as text, not as hexa values.
  • Tags: The "paragraph vertical" tag also aligns the paragraph horizontally to the right, and vertically to center, which is the default for vertical text.
  • Tags: Undocked tags use a new redesigned window.
  • Timeline tool: New option in timeline settings to display formatted text.
  • Timeline tool: The options to choose the kind of clip controls to show has been moved to settings/tools/timeline.
  • Tools: Ruby and boten are supported when displaying formatted text.
  • Tools: The settings to configure formatted text has been moved to settings/tools.
  • Undo: Executed utilities and macros create an undo level per project.
  • Undo: Improved management of undo levels.
  • Utilities: The "convert markups to tags" utility supports outline.
  • Utilities: The "insert lines" utility allows to select position mode.
  • Watch folder: The folder structure allows to edit the settings file.
  • Watch folder: The folder structure allows to open a folder.
  • Watch folder: The folder structure displays how many files each folder contains.
  • Watch folder: The folder structure displays the name of the settings file.
New features:
  • Batch: New watch folder menu in the Batch window.
  • Batch: New option to open a console window to monitor watch folder activity.
  • Batch: New option to show Windows notifications when the arriving files to the watch folder.
  • Batch: New option to show Windows notifications when the batch is completed.
  • Batch: New support to display custom names in each job.
  • Batch: The watch folder structure panel is opened in a separate window.
  • Commands: New "edit tags" command. It opens the new tags editor.
  • Digital Cinema: New option to import font effect. If the main font uses border or shadow, the imported project will have outline/shadows enabled accordingly.
  • Export: Text flagged as invisible is not exported.
  • Import: New option to enable/disable warning then importing Digital Cinema files and the font path is invalid. This option is available in settings/formats/digital cinema.
  • Import: New option to import language code and tag the project or track. This option is available in settings/import/post-process.
  • Markups: New {-outline} markup to remove the outline.
  • Markups: New {/outline} markup to disable the outline.
  • Markups: New {outline} markup to enable the outline.
  • Menus: New "edit tags" context menu.
  • SubRip: New option to use a empty line markup. This markup is exported instead of an empty line. Useful if you need to import back the file keeping the empty lines.
  • Tags: New "line position (grid)" tag.
  • Tags: New "line position offset (lines)" tag. It specifies the position offset in lines.
  • Tags: New "paragraph position (grid)" tag.
  • Tags: New "paragraph position offset (lines)" tag. It specifies the position offset in lines.
  • Tags: New "tag editor" window. It display more options to manage tags.
  • Tags: New "visibility (not forced)" tag to set the visibility of non-forced subtitles. Use this tag to remove/disappear all non-forced text.
  • Tags: New option in the "paragraph position offset (lines)" tag to change the offset direction based on the text's alignment.
  • Timeline tool: New support to display formatted text in subtitles.
  • Tools: New options to select which formatting to highlight, when displaying formatted text.
  • Tools: New support to display formatted text with paragraph flow indications.
  • Tools: New support to display formatted text with rubies and boten.
  • Undo: Support for collection of undo levels.
2020/Aug/02 Version 1.3.5 Beta 6
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • FFmpeg video: Fixed bug storing/retrieving the pixel format in tags.
  • WebVTT export: Fixed problem converting HTML entities.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Removed support for the "FFmpeg convert" tag.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.3.1.
  • Hardcopies: Removed support for the old hardcopies.
  • QuickTime plug-in: Removed support to export QuickTime reference movies.
  • System: Removed support for media decoders.
  • System: Removed support for media frame extractors.
  • TimedText: The "force span style" mode now exports more span attributes.
  • TimedText: The tts:textOutline attribute is now exported for version 1.0 too.
  • TimedText: The tts:textShadow attribute is now exported always if the text has shadows. No need to force span attributes.
  • Utilities: The "convert markups to tags" utility now supports shadows.
  • WebVTT export: New option to select if HTML entities are converted in exported text.
New features:
  • Markups: New "{-forced}" markup. This markup allows to flag part of the text as non-forced. For example, a subtitle with two dialog, where only one of them must be forced.
  • Markups: New {-shadow} markup to remove the shadow.
  • Markups: New {/shadow} markup to disable the shadow.
  • Markups: New {shadow} markup to enable the shadow.
  • Project import: New setting to remove imported shadows. Available in settings/import/default.
  • Project: New internal support to import shadows.
  • Tags: New "reverse text lines" tag.
  • TimedText: New "bottom top right left" regions mode. Similar to "bottom top" mode, but also exports right and left regions for vertical text.
  • TimedText: New support to import boxes.
  • TimedText: New support to import shadows.
2020/Jul/29 Version 1.3.5 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • System: Fixed problem collecting aggregated exceptions.
  • Tags: Fixed crash when adding the "FFmpeg video" tag to an exporter.
  • Video: Fixed crash when exporting video and FFmpeg stops.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: New setting to force IDR keyframes.
  • Installer: Some plug-ins are now disabled by default. If you want to install them, make sure you tick them during the installation process.
  • Installer: The "HandySaw" plug-in is now disabled by default.
  • Installer: The "Microsoft Media player" plug-in is now disabled by default.
  • Report: Error reports (when converted to text) are now grouped by project and track.
  • System: Improved display if exception messages.
New features:
  • Video export: New support to export AAC audio.
  • Video export: New support to export ALAC audio.
  • Video export: New support to export Opus audio.
  • Video export: New support to export PCM audio.
  • Video export: New support to export ProRes 422 HQ videos.
  • Video export: New support to export ProRes 422 videos.
  • Video export: New support to export ProRes 4444 XQ videos.
  • Video export: New support to export ProRes 4444 videos.
  • Video export: New support to export QuickTime Animation videos.
  • Video export: New support to export RGB 10-bit AVI videos for Blackmagic.
  • Video export: New support to export RGB 10-bit QuickTime videos for Blackmagic.
  • Video export: New support to export Uncompressed AVI videos.
  • Video export: New support to export VP9 videos.
  • Video export: New support to export Vorbis audio.
  • Video export: New support to export Windows Media Audio 2 audio.
  • Video export: New support to export Windows Media Video 8 videos.
  • Video export: New support to export YUV 10-bit QuickTime videos for Blackmagic.
  • Video export: New support to export YUV 8-bit AVI videos for Blackmagic.
  • Video export: New support to export YUV 8-bit QuickTime videos for Blackmagic.
Future Window 10 features:
  • Utilities: New OCR utility that can remap DVD colors.
2020/Jul/23 Version 1.3.5 Beta 4
Remarks:
  • Video: The export hardcopy feature has been removed. Now the export video function allows to export video with a background movie in a single pass. Video can be expoprted manually using the 'track/export video' menu, or using the 'export/FFmpeg video' or 'export/FFmpeg hardcopy' tags. This is work in progress. More formats will be added soon.
Fixes:
  • Monitor: Fixed crash when accessing disposed viewports.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Improved jump range in the "jump frames" to 3000 frames.
  • Commands: Improved jump range in the "jump seconds" to 3600 seconds.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.13.0.
  • System: Console windows now display errors and their inner exceptions.
  • Tags: The "set language code" tag now allows to set the Digital Cinema code.
  • Video: Improved function to export videos.
New features:
  • Export: New internal feature to be able to ignore subtitle comments while exporting.
  • Import: New option "apply subtitle formatting to lines". Available in "settings/import/default". It helps to put formatting tags on lines, instead of on subtitles.
  • Import: New option in "settings/import/post-process" to apply Japanese tags only to Japanese projects.
  • Import: New option in "settings/import/post-process" to tag reel index.
  • Render: New internal support for frame scopes.
  • Settings: New option in "settings/system/files" to specify the temporal directory.
  • Tags: New "ignore bytes" tag. It makes subtitle bytes (caption bytes) to be ignored at export.
  • Tags: New "ignore comments" tag. It makes subtitle comments to be ignored at export.
  • Tags: New "ignore reference text" tag. It makes subtitle reference text to be ignored at export.
  • Tags: New "ignore subpictures" tag. It makes subtitle subpictures to be ignored at export.
  • Tags: New "ignore text" tag. It makes subtitle text to be ignored at export.
  • Tags: New "outline size minimum" tag. This is useful when rescaling a project, to avoid too thin outlines.
  • Tags: New "reel index" conditional tag.
  • Tags: New "shadow blur (percent font)" tag.
  • Tags: New "shadow distance (percent font)" tag.
  • Utilities: New "change tag in projects" utility.
  • Utilities: New "change tag in tracks" utility.
  • Video: New "FFmpeg hardcopy" format.
  • Video: New "FFmpeg video" format.
  • Video: New function to create video slates. Slates can be added before or after a hardcopy.
  • Video export: New support to export H.264 videos.
  • Video export: New support to export H.265 videos.
2020/Jul/03 Version 1.3.5 Beta 3
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • Log: Fixed bug with application activities that were logged all the time, even when disabled in settings.
  • Overlays: Fixed bug highlighting blank spaces in the text formatting overlay.
  • Subtitle editor tool: A disposed subtitle editor could crash when displaying a subtitle, due to a delayed event.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Fixed wrong colors in the ruby editor.
  • Utilities: Fixed crash when displaying the utility report that includes deleted tracks.
Improvements:
  • Digital Cinema: Added new language codes.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.3.0.
  • FinalCut: New options to select how to export <displayformat>. These new options allow to force <true> or <false>.
  • Fonts: The "font path" tag now allows to set the path using a GUID.
  • Lambda export: Improved slicing of async subtitles.
  • Lambda export: New option to auto-renumber all subtitles. Useful when exporting async subtitles.
  • Lambda export: New warning when exporting discontinuous subtitle indexes.
  • Lambda: Improved export of italics.
  • Languages: Improved conversion from Digital Cinema language code to BCP-47. We use a new internal table to be able to also handle exceptions.
  • Overlays: The "text areas" overlay can now display areas indexes.
  • Projects: The file/open menu now allows to select several projects.
  • Shortcuts: The "show utility" shortcuts nows.
  • Tags: New option in the "raised mode" tag to convert raised text to vertical left or vertical right.
  • Utilities: The "apply preset" utility has been removed and replaced by three new ones.
  • Video: H264 and H265 workcopies and hardcopies are now exported forcing to YUV 4:2:0 pixel format.
  • WebVTT: New option to import files ignoring the first 'note' block.
  • WebVTT: New option to select how to export script comments. Now it allows to export them as a 'note' block.
New features:
  • FFmpeg: New settings to select which metadata to add to video files.
  • FinalCut: New option to select how to export <ntsc>.
  • Import: New option "apply line formatting to runs". Available in "settings/import/default". It helps to put formatting tags on runs, instead of on lines.
  • Media: New support to display profile and level, when displaying media information.
  • Render: New interlan support for run slicers. This feature allows to break text runs in graphemes, words, etc.
  • Subtitler: New menu to enable/disable the multi-project mode. The menu is under the workspace menu.
  • System: New internal function to flag items as obsolete. Obsolete items are tags, command, etc that may be removed.
  • Tag: New "tate-chu-yoko auto" tag. It detects tate-chu-yoko segments in the text, and formats them as such.
  • Tags: New "ruby position" tag. It reports rubies with wrong position.
  • Tags: New font vertical off tag.
  • Tags: The run slice mode tag now supports to slice runs at pipes |.
  • Utilities: New "apply preset to clips" utility.
  • Utilities: New "apply preset to projects" utility.
  • Utilities: New "apply preset to tracks" utility.
Window 10 plug-in:
  • Languages: The BCP-47 functionality is now inside the Windows 10 plug-in. Make sure you install this plug-in if you need to work with BCP-47.
2020/Jun/24 Version 1.3.5 Beta 2
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • System: Now template projects are ignored by the logging system.
Improvements:
  • Comparer: Comparison of multiple subtitles is now limited to 10 subtitles.
  • Comparer: Now text comparisons now consider line-breaks too.
  • Comparer: Now time-out and duration comparisons support block of subtitles.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.12.1.
  • GUI: Lists of files now display a tooltip to see the full path of the file.
  • Netflix: New support to export additional regions when a subtitle requires it.
New features:
  • Formats: New support to import and export SoftNI files.
  • Subtitle info tool: New option to display bytes (captions bytes).
  • TimedText: New option to import/ignore conditioned text. These are paragraphs that contain the <condition> attribute.
Window 10 plug-in:
  • Formats: New support to import WebP images.
  • Formats: New support to import and export HEIF images.
  • Formats: New support to import and export Jpeg XR images.
2020/Jun/08 Version 1.3.5 Beta 1
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
  • The "save track as hardcopy" menu will be discontinued soon. The "save track as video" menu can now export hardcopies in a single pass.
Fixes:
  • Formats: Improved detection of file formats. Some formats were not detected by file extension.
  • GUI: Subtitles have wrong background color in the custom format editor.
  • OCR: Fixed crash when opening the OCR tool.
  • Text analyzer: Fixed problem expanding the "modifications" panel.
  • TimedText: The "xmlns:ebutts" namespace is now added always, not only for Japanese.
  • Undo: Fixed crash when undoing disposed projects.
Improvements:
  • Batch: The default batch has been renamed to "local batch".
  • Batch: The batch now allows to render two extract waveform job simultaneously.
  • Batch: The batch now allows to render two workcopy job simultaneously.
  • Comparer: Added extra information in the grid's footer. Now it displays the number of clips with errors.
  • Comparer: Export to Excel now supports several clips per cell.
  • FFmpeg: Improved progress bar when exporting videos.
  • FFmpeg: Now when a maximum number of CPU threads is specified, threads for complex filters are also limited.
  • FFmpeg: Now when an ongoing video is cancelled, it is properly finalized to try to make a functional video.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.2.3.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.11.0.
  • GUI: Monitor watermarks now support project variables. For example the {ProjectTitle} variable.
  • GUI: Now folder textboxes allow to drop folders or links to folders.
  • GUI: The "save as hardcopy" menu has been removed from all context menus, and from the track editor.
  • Karaoke: The karaoke ball effect now supports right-to-left and vertical texts.
  • Media: New support to display pixel format, when displaying media information.
  • Netflix: Default file extension is now "XML".
  • Netflix: Disabled support to export "tts:fontShear" in spans (to meet the specs).
  • Netflix: New support to import and export "ebutts:multiRowAlign".
  • Netflix: Version 2020 exports XML files now without BOM (to meet the specs).
  • Overlays: The "text formatting" overlay now highlights spaces a little extra to be able to see zero-width spaces.
  • Overlays: The "text formatting" overlay now supports character advance.
  • Overlays: The "text formatting" overlay now supports all kind of spaces.
  • Projects: Removed warning when importing projects with a font that is not installed.
  • Render engine: Improved access to the canvas when working in multi-threaded mode.
  • Scantitling: Improved error detection in the Scantitling encoding.
  • System: Temporal files ca now be deleted to the recycle bin.
  • System: The system information window now displays if the application is in single-instance mode.
  • Tags: Improved layout in the "subpicture draw options" tag.
  • Tags: The "fix spaces advance" tag now allows to choose a modification for each kind of advance.
  • Tags: The "fix spaces advance" tag now offers several way to fix spaces.
  • Text: The "in-between" line scope now matches only if there are at least 3 lines.
  • Tracks rename: Now inactive tracks are collapsed, not faded.
  • Tracks rename: Now inactive tracks cannot be removed.
  • WebVTT: New option to select how to import positions.
  • WebVTT: New support to import position (line, position and size).
New features:
  • Aspect ratio: New internal function to guess the aspect ratio of videos.
  • Batch: New batch job "tasks". This kind of jobs are used to execute in the batch tasks that usually are executed in the subtitler. For example, export videos. These jobs can be executed only once, and the source project must remain opened.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte: New option to select how to export "AnnotationText".
  • Import: New post-process option to add a "ruby alignment" tag with auto alignment.
  • Import: New post-process option to add a "ruby position" tag with auto position.
  • Import: New post-process option to add the "italic to skew effect" tag.
  • Import: New post-process option to set the "paragraph size" tag.
  • Netflix: New options to import Netflix files. Some of them are similar to the TimedText one.
  • OpenXML: New tab in settings to configure how to export Excel Template files.
  • Render: New paragraph rest mode "base descent". It works as the "descent" mode but leaves rubies outside the display area.
  • Tags: New "italic to skew effect" tag. It applies a skew effect to italic runs. It automatically for horizontal and vertical Japanese text.
  • Tags: New options in the "subpicture draw options" tag to align the subpicture inside the display area.
  • TimedText: New option to import "tts:Shear" and "tts:fontShear" as italic.
  • TimedText: New setting to warn if Neflix is not exporting an italicized span.
  • TimedText: New support to export "tts:Shear" in paragraphs. And now "tts:fontShear" is exported only if needed.
  • TimedText: New support to import and export <initial> styles.
  • Tracks: The "save as video" menu now allows to choose a reel.
  • Tracks: The "save as video" menu now allows to send the job to the batch.
Future Window 10 features:
  • OCR utility: New support for right-to-left.
  • OCR utility: New support to select which lines to keep. This is useful for images with two languages.
Windows 10 Version 2004 (May 2020 update):
  • Languages: Added support for the new cultures "Mapuche", "Mapuche (Chile)", "Kalaallisut", "Kalaallisut (Greenland)".
  • System: Suppport to detect if the May 2020 update is installed.
Work in progress:
  • Track: The "export as video" feature is under development.
2020/Apr/29 Version 1.3.4
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • Excel: Fixed crash exporting Excel files without cell borders.
Improvements:
  • Digital Cinema: New option to import vertical position, but only for the bottom line.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.8.1.
  • Installer: The Blackmagic plug-in is not longer selected by default. If you need it, make sure you enable it during the installation process.
  • Subtitle editor: The bottom bars (flags and formatting buttons) are wrapped if the editor is not wide enough.
  • System: Improved information about plug-ins in the system information window.
  • Tools: Now when collapsing a floating tool, the window is minimized.
  • Utilities: The "Selected" utility now works with any kind of clip, not only subtitles.
New features:
  • Tags: New "remove line position" tag.
  • Tools: New option to show minimize/maximize bottons in floating windows. Available in setting/tools/tools
  • Tracks scope: New "master" scope, to modify only master tracks.
  • Tracks scope: New "not master" scope, to modify only tracks that are not master.
  • Utilities: New "remove line position" utility.
2020/Apr/20 Version 1.3.4 Beta 7
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • Comparer tool: Fixed visual problem when displaying few rows. Rows appeared stretched.
  • GUI: Fixed problem binding textboxes with single-line texts.
  • GUI: Improved padding in expandable panels.
  • Render: Improved measurement of composed graphemes.
  • Render: Improved measurement of right-to-left graphemes.
  • Scopes: Fixed crash when using subtitle clip scopes with non-subtitle clips.
Improvements:
  • Blu-ray: Automatic removal of "{" and "}" in imported OFS GUID's.
  • Blu-ray: New option to import a BDN and OFS, splitting the OFS at each clip.
  • Blu-ray: New warning when importing a BDN with an OFS that does not exist.
  • Blu-ray: New warning when importing a BDN with an OFS with wrong GUID.
  • Configuration: Improved detection of text values.
  • Go to: Improved layout.
  • Go to: New button to reset the options.
  • Import: Improved "import post-process" options. Now these options can be independent for each file format.
  • Import: New option to select how to remove line vertical position. It is possible now to keep the position only in the last line. Available in setting/import/default
  • OFS: New option to import an OFS splitting it at zeroes.
  • OFS: New option to import an OFS splitting it value change.
  • Overlay: The "element path" overlay has been removed, the "hierarchy" overlay can be used instead.
  • Overlay: The "proofing" overlay has been remaned to "text formatting".
  • Overlay: The "text areas" overlay now allows to display grapheme areas.
  • Overlay: The "text formatting" overlay can now highlight runs that are vertical, right-to-left, or tate-chu-yoko.
  • Overlay: The "text formatting" overlay can now highlight runs with modified advance.
  • Overlay: The "text formatting" overlay can now highlight runs with modified font style (italic, bold, underline, strikeout).
  • Overlay: The "text formatting" overlay can now highlight runs with ruby and boten.
  • Overlay: The "text outside" overlay now allows to show/hide the visual warning.
  • Overlay: The "text outside" overlay now allows to specify a tolerance.
  • Stereoscopic import: New option to remove keyframes with no stereoscopic (without nodes, or all nodes are zero). Available in setting/import/default
  • Stereoscopic import: New option to specify minimum and maximum duration for keyframes. Available in setting/import/default
  • Word: New settings to specify header and footers for Word Template files.
New features:
  • Configuration: New support to configure the watermark in the configuration file.
  • Formats: Several new Excel formats, to import and export Excel spreadsheets.
  • Markups: New "{fontname}" to change font name. It accepts a direct parameter, example "{fontname:Arial}".
  • Office OpenXML: New "Excel template (reference + empty)" format. It imports and exports spreadsheets, including an empty column to translate text.
  • Office OpenXML: New "Excel template (reference + text)" format. It imports and exports spreadsheets, including the reference text and translation text.
  • Office OpenXML: New "Excel template (text only)" format. It imports and exports spreadsheets.
  • Office OpenXML: New "Excel" format. It imports and exports spreadsheets. Columns are customizable.
2020/Apr/08 Version 1.3.4 Beta 6
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed problem playing system sounds. The 'question' beep did not work in some systems.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with scrollbars in nested panels.
  • Japanese: When importing boten, only the first glyph is used now. This will avoid to have too long botens.
  • Stereoscopic: Keyframes with thousands of nodes could hang up the timeline GUI. Now interpolated values are displayed only for keyframes with up to 1000 nodes.
Improvements:
  • Comparer tool: New sort mode "ordinal". It puts in the same row subtitles with the same ordinal number (first with first, second with second, etc).
  • Comparer tool: New sort mode "time overlap". It puts in the same row subtitles that overlap in time.
  • Comparer: The "formatted text" comparer now supports underline, font name and font size.
  • Japanese: Added support for boten glyph katakana middle dot.
  • Japanese: Boten rubies now use the new "Base" alignment as default.
  • Sony OFS: Added new warning when exporting an OFS without subtitles (without keyframes).
  • Sony OFS: Support to export stereoscopic keyframes that have a time offset.
  • Watermark: New option in settings to preview the watermark.
  • Watermark: New option to display any text in the watermark. This text can be build using variables.
New features:
  • Japanese: New "Base" alignment option. It aligns each ruby glyph on top of each ruby base glyph.
  • Project: New feature to post-process imported projects.
  • Settings: New options in "settings/import/post-process" to select which tags to add to imported projects.
  • Tags: New "boten to style" tag. It removes boten and applies a style to the text.
  • Tags: New "boten visibility" tag. It makes boten not renderable.
  • Tags: New "remove boten" tag.
  • Tags: New "remove ruby" tag.
  • Tags: New "style to boten" tag. It puts boten on texts with a given style.
  • Variables: New {ComputerIP} variable.
  • Variables: New {ComputerIPPublic} variable. If the public IP is not available, it inserts the local IP.
  • Variables: New {ComputerName} variable.
  • Variables: New {ComputerUserName} variable. It inserts the name of the current active user in Windows.
  • Variables: New {UserName} variable. It inserts the name of your current account, usually "Guest".
2020/Mar/29 Version 1.3.4 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Comparer: The "time-in" comparer now uses the tolerance value.
  • FFmpeg: Fixed bug creating hardcopies. FFmpeg could fail and return error code 1.
  • Fonts: Fixed crash when loading a system typeface with no file location.
  • GUI: Fixed console colors in non-dark themes.
  • Office OpenXML: Fixed bug importing Excel cells with inline texts.
  • Spell checking: Improved detection of errors even when words don't have a suggested correction. When using the Microsoft Word spellchecker.
  • Spell checking: Now spell-checkers are not launched if there are no subtitles to check.
Improvements:
  • Character picker: New option to always use the Unicode font to display the characters.
  • Commands: The "close project" command can be used now to create a shortcut.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.6.0.
  • Installation: The installer now clears the "communication" and temporal folders.
  • Newtonsoft: Updated to version 12.0.3.
  • Snapshots: New option to include the watermark in snapshots (monitor's current watermark).
  • System: The "clipart" folder is now created automatically (\ProgramData\{ApplicationName}\ClipArt).
  • System: The temporal folder is now created automatically.
  • Tags: The "text visual overlap" tag can now report text lines that overlap. Useful to report ruby text that overlaps another text line.
  • Tags: The "text visual overlap" tag has now an option to specify a tolerance.
  • Unicode: Updated to version 13.0.
  • Unicode: Updated to version 4.5.
  • Utilities: Improved functions to remove empty lines.
New features:
  • Tags: New "compare numbers" tag. It compares two texts and reports it their numeric values are different.
  • Workflow: New "same clip" twin mode. It matches a clip with itself.
  • Workflow: New "same track" track source mode. It finds clip's track.
2020/Mar/03 Version 1.3.4 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Character picker: Fixed problem highlighting buttons.
  • Character picker: Fixed problem scrolling the window. Now the window is auto-resized to avoid scrolling.
  • Commands: Fixed bug in the "add track" command when auto-creating a markers track. No track was created.
  • GUI: Fixed color of some buttons when no visual style is active.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with large margins in the timecode box.
  • GUI: Fixed strange bug resizing tabitems when DPI scaling is higher than 100%. The utilities window could crash.
  • List tool: Fixed problem with the scrollable size of the scrollbar.
  • Office OpenXML: Fixed bug importing italics. New support to turn off italics in runs even if a global style uses italics.
  • Track time conversion: Fixed bug drawing previewed clips with correct times.
  • Track time conversion: Fixed bug setting the anchors' time-in.
Improvements:
  • Commands: New option in the "go to" command to choose if the destination subtitle will be focused.
  • Commands: The "add marker" command now allows to specify the name and comments for the new marker.
  • Commands: The "snap node time" command can now snap to scene changes.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.4.0.
  • Go to: New options in the "go to" dialog to choose a time format for the time field.
  • Go to: New options in the "go to" dialog to navigate markers, keyframes, nodes and playlist.
  • Go to: The "go to" dialog now allows to enter relative timecodes. For example, +10:00 to jump 10 seconds forward.
  • Google translate: New option to limit the server requests.
  • Scantitling: New option to import files overriding the encoding.
  • Shortcuts: New option to sort the shortcuts by gesture (key combination).
  • Tags: The "convert language code" now allows to convert to uppercase.
  • Tools: New option in the "go to" command to auto-close the dialog. The dialog is closed after entering an index/timecode and pressing enter.
  • Track time conversion: The window is now a floating window, to allow to use the subtitler.
  • Utilities: The "snap nodes time" utility can now snap to scene changes.
  • Utilities: When an utility cannot be executed, now a brief error message is displayed.
New features:
  • Commands: New "go to keyframe node" command.
  • Commands: New "go to keyframe" command.
  • Elements: New element finder "all keyframes". It can be used to navigate between all keyframes.
  • Elements: New element finder "focused or higher track (markers)". It can be used to create markers in a higher track.
  • Plug-ins: New "Windows 10" plug-in. More details below.
  • Scopes: New "active" track scope. It allows to modify the active/focused track.
  • Scopes: New "all" track scope. It allows to modify all tracks.
  • Scopes: New "name" track scope. It allows to modify track with a given name.
  • Scopes: New "track scope" feature. It will allow to select tracks to improve current functionalities.
  • Scopes: New "type" track scope. It allows to modify tracks of a given type (subtitles, effect, markers, etc).
  • Scopes: New clip scopes to select subtitles with and without text.
  • System: New options in the configuration file to change the location of the application data folder.
  • System: New options in the configuration file to change the location of the plug-ins folder.
  • System: New options in the configuration file to change the location of the temporal folder.
  • Tags: New "replace language code" tag. It allows to detect a language code and replace it with another one.
  • Tags: New "set language code" tag. It automatically sets the language code taking the track's language and converting it to ISO 639-1/2 or BCP47.
Window 10 plug-in:
  • This plug-in requires Windows 10. Tested with Windows 10 release 1909.
  • This plug-in is not installed by default. You have to enable it during the installation process.
  • For the moment this plug-in adds limited functionalities. More features will be added soon.
  • It adds support for more than 400 BCP47 language codes.
2020/Feb/18 Version 1.3.4 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Languages: Improved BCP47 table. Some codes appeared twice because their language names were not identical.
  • Render: Fixed bug in the skew pixel effect. Now all the draw area is processed to avoid leaving pixels outside.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug exporting boten. Boten was exported as ruby span.
Improvements:
  • Languages: Improved conversion of Digital Cinema codes to BCP47
  • Languages: New option in the "convert language code" tag to convert to BCP47 neutral.
  • Languages: New option in the "convert language code" tag to use only the first Digital Cinema code.
  • Languages: New option in the "convert language code" tag to use only the second Digital Cinema code.
  • Tags: New direction option in the skew tags. Direction "horizontal back" skews the text backwards.
  • Tags: New option in the skew tags to automatically fix the text position.
  • Tags: New option in the skew tags to offset the text.
  • TimedText Netflix: Aded support to export textAlign.
  • TimedText Netflix: Improved ruby export. Now simple ruby is used instead of baseContainer.
  • TimedText Netflix: Support to import shear as italic.
  • TimedText: Improved export of boten (textEmphasis). Improved naming of known boten characters.
  • TimedText: Improved export of paragraph and line alignments.
  • TimedText: New setting to import 'shear' effect as italic.
New features:
  • Tags: New "line secondary alignment" tag. It aligns text lines relative to a base line.
  • Tags: New "paragraph flow Vertical" condition tag. It evaluates if the text is vertical.
  • TimedText: Added support to export using EBU extension. For the moment only the ebutts:multiRowAlign attribute is exported.
  • TimedText: New option to select how to export region area units (pixels or percentage).
Future Window 10 features:
  • Players: New NewTek NDI player. It streams the video and subtitles to a NDI connection. This player is not real-time.
  • Players: New setting to enable double-buffering for the video server.
  • Players: New setting to enable multi-threading for the video server.
2020/Feb/06 Version 1.3.4 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Utility: Corrected options names in the "remove lines" utility.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.2.2.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.3.0.
  • Monitor tool: New setting to select the kind of pixel information to display when moving the mouse over the monitor.
  • System: Added support to use colors in BAT batch files.
  • TimedText Netflix: Added version "2020" (non Beta). And removed versions "2019" and "2020 Beta".
  • TimedText: Improved merging of overlapping subtitles. Some conditions worked fine with Japanese, but were too strict for other scripts.
  • TimedText: New support to export textEmphasis (Japanese boten) using the character name, if the character used is a known one.
  • TimedText: Paragraphs now always have a region name, even when "position mode" is not set to "region".
  • Tracks rename: Redesigned "rename tracks" window. Now it can rename tracks using variables.
  • Typefaces: New support to identify bsln, DYNA, edt0, fdsc, Zapf tables.
  • Unicode: Improved management of unknown charaters. Unknown entry points are now added automatically to the Unicode table.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to refresh the monitor.
  • Commands: New command to toggle overlays in the monitor.
  • DVD: New tag to check exported DVD subtitles. The "Check SPU size" tag can report images with too many scan lines, too large data size, and too large scan line RLE size.
  • Font browser: New menu to list all installed fonts.
  • Formats: New detection format "Adobe Markers".
  • Formats: New import format "Final Cut Pro Interchange Markers". It imports FCP clip markers.
  • PNG: Exported PNG images are now validated. This is a workaround for the Windows PNG bug in Windows 7.
  • Tags: New tag to specify a territory code.
  • Variables: New export variable "{CommentsOneLine}". It inserts the subtitle's comments without line breaks.
  • Variables: New export variable "{TerritoryCode}".
  • Variables: New export variable "{TextReferenceOneLine}". It inserts the subtitle's reference text without line breaks.
  • Variables: New export variable "{TextReference}". It inserts the subtitle's reference text.
  • Variables: New variable "{ElementTerritoryCode}".
  • Variables: New variable "{ExporterFormatName}" that inserts the name of the format used in the exporter.
2020/Jan/28 Version 1.3.4 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Exporter: Removed false "nothing to select" message in the exporter editor.
  • Font viewer: Now it displays the original font path, even if the font is temporal.
  • GUI: Fixed margin of checkboxes when inside a horizontal panel.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with non-editable path controls that still allowed to drop files.
  • Languages: Digital Cinema code for Khmer has been changed to "km".
  • Languages: Improved names in some cultures. The name of the script has been added. For example, to differentiate between "Sindhi" and "Sindhi Arabic".
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Removed support in all Blackmagic mirrors to show video.
  • Export: The export preview now displays error messages as tooltips for failed tasks.
  • Export: The export report now allows to see the failed tasks.
  • Font compression: Added suppport for temporal fonts that do not have a file extension.
  • Font compression: Improved reporting when some mandatory tables are missing.
  • Font compression: New error message when trying to compress OpenType fonts, which are not supported.
  • Font compression: New option to check if the shape of characters have changed after compressing the font.
  • Font compression: New option to support alternative cmaps platforms (Mac and Custom cmaps) when Windows/Unicode ones are not present.
  • Font compression: Support for CMAP tables type 13.
  • Font compression: When a embedded bitmap table has been excluded from the font file, now all embedded bitmap tables are excluded too.
  • Font compressor tool: Improved function to analyze fonts. The report is tab separated, which can be pasted into Excel.
  • Font compressor tool: Improved function to compare fonts. Modified glyph shapes can be detected. The report is tab separated.
  • FontTools: New option to do not recalculate glyphs' bounding boxes.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.2.4.
  • Fonts: Improved detection of fonts installed for a single user (located in the \AppData\ folder).
  • Fonts: The default Unicode font is now "Unifont" if installed.
  • GUI: New setting to fix the position of progressbars when several are displayed at the same time.
  • GUI: The "document" dialog now allows to copy text to the clipboard keeping formatting.
  • NewTek NDI: Removed support in all NewTek NDI mirrors to show video.
  • Overlays: Grids now display values using a minimum font size of 10 pixels. Smaller fonts were difficult to read.
  • Project check: Improved project check window. This window shows errors detected when opening projects.
  • Render: Improved comparison of characters visually. Pixels are now compared in the active region, and ignoring antialias.
  • Screen saver: Screen savers can be launched now when inactivity is detected.
  • Subtitle editor: Improved layout.
  • Subtitle editor: New options to show/hide index, times, text count and reading speed.
  • Subtitle editor: The reading speed control now displays its value graphically.
  • Subtitle editor: The text count control is now aligned with the subtitle text.
  • Subtitle editor: The size of the tool now fits its panel.
  • System: Improved detection of rooted paths.
  • System: The temporal folder is now cleared when the application exits.
  • TimedText: Improved import of Smpte-TT files. The Smpte-TT import is now similar to the TimedText import. But the TimedText one presents more options.
  • TimedText: New option to export colors as "hexa (optional alpha)".
  • Tracks: Improved rename tracks window. New option to select the kind of track to rename. New option to find and replace.
  • Typeface viewer: A temporal copy of the font file is now created before displaying the typeface. To avoid creating a font collection if similar fonts are located in the same folder.
  • Typefaces: New support to identify ASCP tables.
  • Undo: New internal support to undo element names.
  • Unicode browser: Some small changes in the GUI.
  • Unicode: Improved management of surrogates.
New features:
  • Commands: New "save and close" commands to close a project always saving it.
  • Commands: New command and menu entry to rename exporters.
  • Font compressor tool: New tool to test-compress all fonts inside a folder .
  • Fonts: New setting to select the default Unicode font. This font is used to preview characters in the font viewer, Unicode browser, text analyzer and some providers.
  • Log: New log system that can track application activity and inactivity.
  • Mirrors: New option in the "stereoscopic" mirror to select how to fit the image inside the stereoscopic panel. The new "fit aspect" option allows to work with side-by-side 50%-50% movies.
  • Mirrors: New option in the "window" and "transparent window" mirrors to select how to fit the image inside the window.
  • Presets: New option in the presets editor to synchronize presets. It basically compares your presets against presets in a different folder, and allows to decide which ones to keep.
  • Programs: New font browser program in the hub. It allows to analyze fonts and repots if they support some features. It can check if the fonts support some given characters, font compression, and if characters support vertical render.
  • Settings: New option in "settings/system/files" to delete all temporal files automatically on exit.
  • System: New provider object that controls all temporal files.
  • Tags: New "normalization decomposition order" tag that reports graphemes decomposed in the wrong order.
Future Window 10 features:
  • Languages: The BCP-47 language table has now +400 languages.
Changes log 2019
2019/Dec/20 Version 1.3.3
Fixes:
  • Commands: Fixed crash when a "show mirror" command pointed to a non-installed mirror.
  • Import: Fixed bug closing tate-chu-yoko markups in imported files.
  • Keyframe editor: Fixed hard crash when moving nodes.
Improvements:
  • Digital cinema: New option to select how to export "DisplayType".
  • Digital cinema: New settings to warn when importing files with empty language.
  • Digital cinema: New settings to warn when importing files with empty movie/content title.
  • Digital cinema: New settings to warn when importing files with empty reel.
  • FFmpeg: New setting to create workcopies and hardcopies forcing the aspect ratio.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.2.1.
  • Import: New individual settings to remove horizontal and vertical position from imported subtitles and lines.
  • Stereoscopic: The stereoscopic mirror now preserves the selected video correction option.
  • Tags: The "missing tate-chu-yoko" tag has a new option to specify the maximum length.
  • Tags: The "missing tate-chu-yoko" tag now can ignore halfwidth and fullwidth characters.
  • TimedText: New import option to select how to process white spaces.
  • TimedText: New option to export files including the xml:space instruction.
  • TimedText: New option to select how to export text spans.
  • TimedText: New setting to warn when exporting spans with only spaces.
  • TimedText: New tab in the settings window to configure the format.
  • Utilities: The flush double utility has a new option to be case-sensitive.
  • Utilities: The set font color utility now adds markups to each text line, and avoids the closing markup.
  • Utilities: The function to flush duplicated chars supports now to remove chars even if they belong to different text runs.
New features:
  • Tags: New remove all effects tag to remove all pixel effects.
  • Tags: New remove all overlay effects tag to remove all overlay effects.
2019/Dec/10 Version 1.3.3 Beta 17
Fixes:
  • Export: Fixed bug detecting files to be overwritten.
  • GUI: Fixed problem displaying the 'password' textbox.
  • OpenXML: Fixed bug exporting docx documents with headers/footers.
  • OpenXML: Fixed bug exporting size of complex scripts (ex. right-to-left).
  • Report tool: Fixed problem displaying errors from tags that analyze entire tracks.
  • TimedText: Corrected import of timecodes in ticks when using decimated frame rates.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Improved detection of cards of model.
  • Blackmagic: The providers manager now displays the supported color spaces.
  • Digital cinema: New error message when exporting files with an invalid movie/content title.
  • Digital cinema: Tate-chu-yoko is now imported natively.
  • Font compression: Support to compress the 'mort' table.
  • Formats: Improved serialization of the Kio Interchange format.
  • Import: Improved function to merge overlapping subtitles. Now non-adjacent subtitles are also merged.
  • Render: Optimized image cropping.
  • Report: The "text contains" tag has now a new option to support variables.
  • Spell checking: New option to break works at non-breaking spaces (shift+space, zero-width spaces).
  • System: Icons have been optimized inside the exe.
  • TimedText: Improved import of position in <p>s that contain several lines.
  • Unicode: Improved UniHan table. Added more than 3000 characters.
  • Unicode: Updated to v12.1.
New features:
  • Effects: New effect tag to modify color dynamic range.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.2.0.
  • GUI: New two-state checkbox control.
  • Import: New option to import and merge similar subtitles.
  • Import: New option to select how to merge similar subtitles "same times and same styling".
  • Import: New option to select how to merge similar subtitles "same times" (overlapping subtitles).
  • Import: New support to import tate-chu-yoko natively (as tag or markup) from file formats that support it.
  • Import: Support for project pre-processors and post-processors.
  • OpenXML export: New option to override the font size for subtitle text.
  • OpenXML export: New option to specify default font size for body text, headers and footers.
  • OpenXML export: New option to specify the maximum font size allowed in documents.
  • Overlays: The "display areas" overlay now can display the areas of all rendered subtitles.
  • Render: Support to import text runs with different boten.
  • Report tool: New 'filters' panel to select which tracks and errors to display.
  • Report tool: New menu entry to show/hide the 'filters' panel.
  • Tags: New tag to report if a variable is undefined or empty.
  • Tags: New tag to report if a variable matches a value.
  • Tags: New tag to specify boten text from a list of standard boten glyphs.
  • Tags: New tag to specify luminance value (the tag does not modify the pixels).
  • TimedText: New option to export luminance.
  • TimedText: New option to import comments from inside of <p>'s (among spans).
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "display areas".
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "line X position".
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "line X/Y position".
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "line Y position".
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "paragraph X position".
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "paragraph X/Y position".
  • TimedText: New option to import region's text area as "paragraph Y position".
  • TimedText: Support to import textCombine (Tate-chu-yoko) natively.
  • TimedText: Support to import textEmphasis (boten).
  • TimedText: Support to import horizontal alignment (displayAlign) for vertical subtitles.
  • TimedText: Support to select how to import position (regions's text area).
  • Tools: The panel to select tracks now shows a diferent contact menu if clicked over a project or track.
  • Utilities: New utility to convert/normalize hyphens.
  • Utilities: New utility to convert/normalize spaces.
Future Window 10 features:
  • System: Support for desktop notifications.
2019/Nov/14 Version 1.3.3 Beta 16
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
  • This version has been compiled with the newly released Visual Studio 2019.
Fixes:
  • Custom formats: Fixed some wrong colors when using dark theme.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte: Corrected export of 'em' units for size, spacing and offset.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte: Corrected export of ruby size. It is now a decimal value, not percentage.
  • Digital Cinema: Corrected language table. Catalan appeared twice in the list.
  • Digital Cinema: When exporting in 'graphics' mode, the main <font> is included only if needed.
  • Netflix: Fixed allowed characters. Apostrophe was allowed only in Ukrainian.
  • Netflix: The "offset times to zero" option is now disabled by default.
  • Projects: Fixed serialization of empty groups of tracks inside folder tracks.
  • Render: Fixed bug assigning the right position in the "line stack positions (horizontal)" tag.
  • Spell checker: Fixed bug removing trailing punctuation in words.
  • TimedText: Fixed alpha value when exporting colors in hexa format.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug exporting text lines. An initial line-break was added.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Menus show their shortcut gesture only for the active shortcuts group.
  • Commands: Menus show their shortcut gesture only if the shortcut is enabled.
  • Dictionaries editor: Dictionary files can now be drag&dropped into the editor.
  • Export wizard: Improved detection of similar exporters.
  • Logging: Imported project logs are saved keeping all information.
  • Macros editor: New buttons to expand/collapse all utilities.
  • Macros editor: The utilities list now has a find box.
  • Monitor tool: The on-screen textbox now can receive commands/shortcuts that modify text.
  • Overlays: Improved guides in the "text alignment" overlay.
  • System: Concept "locutions" has been renamed to "speakers".
  • TimedText: New support to import position in <p>s with several lines.
  • TimedText: Text position is now imported per line, not per paragraph.
  • Utilities: The "text wrap" utility now supports variables for the "delimiters" and "join" fields.
  • Utilities: The fix casing utility now allows to specify sentence delimiters.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New option to specify the first text line to import.
  • Digital Cinema: New "mixed mode" to export all subtitles as image.
  • Digital Cinema: New "mixed mode" to export all subtitles as text.
  • Digital Cinema: New "mixed mode" to export as image all subtitles that have a subpicture.
  • Digital Cinema: New option to export languages using a language code.
  • Languages: New function to convert language codes from Digital Cinema to BCP-47.
  • Overlays: The "proofing" overlay now can display dialog speakers.
  • Report tool: New options to select which errors and error categories to display.
  • Settings: New "system/log" tab to configure application and project logging.
  • System: Added support to detect Windows' November 2019 update.
  • Tags: New "convert language code" tag to modify language codes from Digital Cinema to BCP-47.
  • Tags: The "convert language code" can now convert codes from Digital Cinema to BCP-47.
  • Tags: The "convert language code" can now convert codes to lowercase.
  • Text: New method to detect text dialogs "each line".
  • Text: New method to detect text dialogs "line starts with hypen".
  • Text: New method to detect text dialogs "lines have different alignment".
  • Text: New method to detect text dialogs "separated by empty line".
  • TimedText and Smpte-TT: New option to select how to export colors.
  • TimedText: New function to select how to export colors.
  • TimedText: New support to export colors as RGB and RGBA.
  • TimedText: New support to export colors as hexa without alpha.
  • Utilities: New selection utility to select clips using a matcher.
  • Utilities: New tag to copy subtitle text into reference text.
  • Utilities: New type of utilities "selection", which allow to select subtitles.
  • Utilities: New utility to convert from horizontal position to horizontal alignment.
  • Utilities: New utility to reformat dialogs.
  • Utilities: New utility to remove horizontal position (horizontal line stacking).
  • Utilities: New utility to remove vertical position (vertical line stacking).
Future Window 10 features:
  • Blackmagic player: Added support for stereoscopic output.
  • Blackmagic player: This player sends video and subtitles to a Blackmagic card.
  • Video server: Improved error messages.
  • Video server: New video server that supports subtitles overlay in stereoscopic.
2019/Oct/24 Version 1.3.3 Beta 14
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
  • This version has been compiled with the newly released Visual Studio 2019.
Fixes:
  • Find tool: Fixed progressbar when using a report preset.
  • GUI: Fixed error message when reporting zero time-ins.
  • List tool: Fixed bug refreshing the scrollbar.
  • Macros: Fixed bug using macro's and its utilities' clip scopes.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Fixed problem tagging line alignment. Tags could be duplicated.
Improvements:
  • GUI: New "clear" button in the find textbox control.
  • Macros: Improved "combined clip scope". Now it can combine more than two scopes.
  • Macros: Improved "combined clip scope". Now the scope matches only if all the sub-scopes match too.
  • Media player WPF: Added descriptions to three new possible errors.
  • Render: New option in settings/render to ajust the size of GridFit antialiased texts.
  • Settings: Relocated "show utilities report" option.
  • Subtitle editor tool: Improved functions to tag line alignment, now always based on project's default alignment.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New option in the "markups" menu to insert right-to-left markups.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New option in the "markups" menu to insert {rotation}.
  • Subtitle editor tool: New support to insert markups at the start/end of the lines and paragraphs.
New features:
  • Subtitle info tool: New setting to display only enabled tags.
  • Tags: New option to rename tags groups.
2019/Oct/15 Version 1.3.3 Beta 13
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8, but not mandatory.
  • This version has been compiled with the newly released Visual Studio 2019.
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Corrected orientation of the baseline in the "digital cinema" overlay.
  • GUI: Fixed bug with the context menu in floating windows.
  • Macros editor: Fixe problem scrolling the list of macros.
  • Macros: Fixed error message when displaying a macro in the macros editor.
  • Mirrors: Blackmagic and NewTek NDI mirrors are functional again.
  • Report tool: Fixed bug removing error groups manually by clicking in the "X" button.
  • Snapshots: Fixed bug opening the application settings to configure snapshots.
  • Subtitle info tool: Fixed crash when clicking in the errors icon.
  • Swift XIF: Corrected aggresive mode when importing timecodes.
  • Viewer: Magnifiers are functional again.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: New option in the Blackmagic mirror to output stereoscopic compositions.
  • Blackmagic: The three new mirrors store settings now in their own xml file.
  • Commands: New option in the "Reel media load" command to specify a target reel.
  • Digital cinema Smpte: Removed "em" size units for <rt> and <space> elements.
  • Display areas: It is now possible to use up to 100 display areas.
  • Encodings: Renamed UTF-16 encodings. Text "UTF-16" has been added to their name.
  • Export wizard: Improved export. Export tasks are now created exporter-by-exporter and track-by-track, to avoid mixing projects.
  • Export wizard: Improved export. Cloned exporters are now used, to avoid modifying the original exporters.
  • Export wizard: The preview window is now automatically closed when closing the wizard.
  • Export wizard: The preview window is now reused.
  • Export: Now export tasks are isolated from other tracks' tasks. This avoids post-process tags to duplicate tasks.
  • Export: The export report window now shows positive results in green.
  • Font copy: Removed optimization of duplicated copies. It is important to know if duplicated fonts are being created.
  • Fonts: The font file copy tag now supports to copy more than one font.
  • GUI: Improved progressbar 'optimized' mode.
  • GUI: Redesigned controls in the "element errors" dialog.
  • GUI: The "element errors" dialog is now updated if the element changes.
  • Macros: Removed option to disable utilities inside a macro.
  • Mirrors: Compositions can be created in 2D using a stereoscopic layout or 'dual channel stereoscopic'.
  • OCR: Removed support for multi-threading scanning.
  • Plug-ins: Removed error messages for Office plug-ins.
  • Project: New options in the project editor to customize the reading speed ('count punctuation' and 'count symbols').
  • Render engine: Improved queuing of render engines in single-threaded mode. It improves casting of stereoscopic subtitles.
  • Report tool: Improved design.
  • Report tool: New setting to auto refresh the presets combobox.
  • Snapshots: New support for 2D using a stereoscopic layout and 'dual channel stereoscopic'.
  • Stereoscopic: Faster export of stereoscopic side-by-side and top/bottom subtitles.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved render of stereoscopic side-by-side and top/bottom subtitles, support for bicubic interpolation.
  • System: Improved internal function to copy video frames in memory.
  • System: Updated obfuscation system to v7.0.
  • TimedText: Improved export of line alignments.
  • TimedText: New support to import text position in pixels or percentage.
  • TimedText: When importing files with X position, the resulting project uses "paragraph size = text".
  • Utilities: The "convert markups to tags" utility now supports right-to-left.
  • Utilities: The "convert tags to markups" utility now supports right-to-left.
  • Utilities: When opening an utility, now the first text field gets the focus.
New features:
  • Commands: New "Jump to reel" command to activate a reel.
  • Comparer tool: New button to add an "error flag" to subtitles in a column.
  • Export: The export preview now warns if file names are duplicated.
  • Export: The export preview panel now displays flags for duplicated files.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.2.1.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.0.2.
  • Fonts: New option in the font file copy tag to select how to find the fonts to copy.
  • Fonts: New option to copy fonts using the "project's file name + extension" name.
  • GUI: Now drag-and-dropping project files into the subtitler sorts them alphabetically before opening them.
  • Programs: New dictionaries editor.
  • Reading speed: New settings to apply text normalization before calculating the speed.
  • Reading speed: New settings to count graphemes instead of characters.
  • Report tool: New button to select all clips displayed in the report.
  • Stereoscopic: New option in the stereoscopic mirror to apply transformations to the video.
  • Stereoscopic: The stereoscopic mirror now displays a warning if no stereoscopic source is detected.
  • Subtitle info tool: New option to display error messages as list.
  • Subtitle info tool: New settings to choose how to calculate the text count.
  • Tags: New report tag "keyframe nodes separation".
  • TimedText: New option to import specifying a default screen size (extent).
  • TimedText: New option to select which text position to import (X and/or Y).
Future Window 10 features:
  • Audio: New function to detect installed audio devices.
  • Blackmagic: New support to video servers to output the video thru the card.
  • NewTek NDI: New support to video servers to output the video.
  • Video server: Media is now stopped only if the error is critical.
2019/Sep/23 Version 1.3.3 Beta 12
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed color of the "expand tool" button.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to API 11.4.
  • Reels: The reel wizard now allows to choose stereoscopic layout.
  • Smpte-TT: New option to export paragraph position ("origin" only, without "extend").
  • Tags: Improved downconversions in the "rescale project" tag (font size and line spacing).
  • TimedText and Smpte-TT: New option to select how to export displayAlign.
  • TimedText and Smpte-TT: New option to select how to export textAlign.
  • TimedText and Smpte-TT: The exported line alignment is now taken from the first text line.
  • TimedText: New option to select how to export paragraph positioning.
  • TimedText: Position can now be imported if "origin" is specified.
  • TimedText: Removed option to select how to import vertical position.
  • TimedText: Text alignment is now imported and applied per line, not per paragraph.
Work in progress:
  • Mirrors: Blackmagic and NewTek NDI mirrors are not ready.
2019/Sep/08 Version 1.3.3 Beta 11
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8.
Fixes:
  • Batch: Fixed issue reordering jobs inside the batch.
  • GUI: Fixed design problem with the separator control.
  • Subtitler: Fixed problem opening the "tools" menu.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Jobs are now edited in their own separate window. Now they cannot be expanded/collapsed.
  • Batch: Jobs now display an index number.
  • Font compression: New setting to disassemble only used font tables (was experimental setting before).
  • FontTools: Updated to version 4.0.
  • GUI: Experimental setting to adjust Media Plater WPF time span has been moved to settings/player.
  • GUI: Experimental settings to optimize progressbars have been moved to settings/gui.
  • GUI: Messages in the subtitler's statusbar now can manage multi-line messages.
  • GUI: Messages in the subtitler's statusbar remain on screen if the mouse is over it.
  • JSON: Json.net Updated to version 12.0.2.
  • Report: New tag to find text segments that must be formatted as tate-chu-yoko (Latin or numbers inside vertical Japanese).
  • System: Experimenta feature "use new font name combo control" has been removed.
  • System: Now export tasks know which other tasks are scheduled.
  • TimedText: Corrected calculation of shear percentages.
  • Unicode: New internal function to detect Latin characters.
New features:
  • Commands: New menu/command to rename several tracks.
  • Keyframe editor: New button to remove all nodes.
  • Markups: New "{raised}" markup to raise subtitles.
  • Netflix: New version 2020, which supports Japanese (TTML 2 and IMSC 1.1).
  • Tags: New "paragraph horizontal alignment (vertical)" tag to set the horizontal position of vertical subtitles (Japanese).
  • Tags: New "raised mode" tag to change the alignment/style of raised subtitles.
  • Tags: New tag to set the raised mode of vertical subtitles (Japanese).
  • TimedText: New option to import comments (before <p>, after <p>, and in the same line as <p>).
  • TimedText: Support to import/export decimated spaces using tts:letterSpacing (only em units).
Work in progress:
  • Mirrors: Blackmagic and NewTek NDI mirrors are not ready.
2019/Aug/27 Version 1.3.3 Beta 10
Fixes:
  • Batch: Fixed problem with the stop button in batch jobs.
  • OpenXML: Fixed bug closing OpenXML documents.
  • System: Fixed potential bug when checking if a directory exists.
Improvements:
  • Documents: New internal option to ignore colors when creating formatted documents.
  • Projects: Statistics can now be formatted as plain text.
  • Report: New option to delete from the subtitle the errors removed in the report.
  • Report: New option to show/hide the "populate" button.
  • Report: The "sort by element" mode now sorts considering track's name.
New features:
  • Batch: New batch job to create and save project statistics.
  • Projects: Statistics can now be exported as Word document.
  • Report: New option to show/hide the parameters panel.
  • Report: New panel to select which track to display in the report.
Work in progress:
  • Mirrors: Blackmagic and NewTek NDI mirrors are not ready.
2019/Aug/20 Version 1.3.3 Beta 9
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug populating long lists with scrollbars.
  • GUI: Fixed problem measuring controls inside column panels.
  • GUI: Fixed problem measuring controls inside dock panels.
  • GUI: Fixed problem refreshing size of stereoscopic panels.
  • Reels: Now when reels are created at the root of a project, they use any existing reel track.
  • System: Fixed bug detecting old dongles in x86 mode.
  • WebVTT: Fixed bug importing comments.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to version 11.3.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.2.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.44.
  • GUI: New stereoscopic panel that allows the monitor to display video with two stereoscopic channels.
  • Keyframes: New confirmation dialog prior to deleting a node.
  • Keyframes: New option in the "offset node time" command to allow nodes outside the keyframe.
  • Languages: The language code tag now allows to insert BCP 47 codes.
  • List: New option in the list tool to show/hide the reading speed.
  • Monitor: The "coordinate display" now supports stereoscopic images.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the BCP 47 codes.
  • Providers manager: The countries category has been renamed to languages regions.
  • Render: Improved serialization of some elements in the render pipeline (aspect ratio and screen grid).
  • SubRip: New option to specify screen size when importing.
  • SubRip: New support to import text positions.
  • System: Improved functionality to check public IP number.
  • System: Updated web links.
  • Text analyzer: The encoding is now applied to the text before displaying it.
  • Unicode: Added 30 new character categories.
  • Viewer: New internal function to copy a typeface glyph image to the clipboard.
New features:
  • Clips: New "keyframe finder" to locate a karaoke keyframe above the focused clip.
  • Clips: New "keyframe finder" to locate a twin karaoke keyframe above the focused clip.
  • Clips: New "keyframe finder" to locate a twin stereoscopic keyframe above the focused clip.
  • Clips: New clip scopes "with subpicture" and "without subpicture" which works with subtitles with/without valid subpicture images.
  • Digital cinema: New option to export languages as BCP 47.
  • Languages: New BCP 47 language codes table.
  • Stereoscopic: New option in the stereoscopic mirror to swap channels.
  • Stereoscopic: The stereoscopic mirror now swaps channels when the source also swaps.
  • TimedText: New option to export languages as BCP 47.
  • Tools: New "keyframe editor" tool.
2019/Jul/30 Version 1.3.3 Beta 8
Fixes:
  • Fonts: Fixed bug generating GUID tables.
  • GUI: Fixed bug measuring/arranging dock panels.
  • GUI: Fixed minor bug measuring windows' minimum sizes.
  • Monitor: Fixed problem releasing reels. The movie persisted in the monitor.
  • Render: Corrected calculation of vertical position in texts with modified vertical aspect.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Detected cards with simiar names are now numbered.
  • Export: Text areas are now calculated considering all paragraphs in a subtitle (not only the first paragraph).
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.1.4.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.43.2.
  • GUI: Removed options to close tools containers.
  • Import: When importing malformed XML files, the error message now displays the name of the XML file.
  • Mirrors: Blackmagic mirrors are now specific for each card installed.
  • Mirrors: Blackmagic mirrors have been divided by card features: stereoscopic or keying.
  • Providers manager: It now displays more information about tools.
New features:
  • Calculator: New option to link the value of time fields with active elements in the subtitler.
  • Commands: New command to collapsed/expand tools panels.
  • Elements: New "stereoscopic track" option for source tracks to target stereoscopic tracks in some tags and utilities.
  • FFmpeg: New options to add metadata to videos.
  • FFmpeg: New options to add stereoscopic metadata to videos.
  • GUI: New full screen mode.
  • GUI: New tools menu in the subtitler.
  • GUI: New option to collapse tool panels.
  • Overlays: New "triangles" grid.
  • Reel: New option to specify reel's stereoscopic layout.
  • Reel: Some small changes in the reel editor.
  • Render: New support for image runs, which allow to have images in the text. They replace text with an image.
  • Settings: New options to select if full screen mode will maximize the window.
  • Settings: New options to select which tools to keep visible in full screen mode.
  • Settings: New settings to create/remove user workspaces.
  • Tags: New "image run bitmap" tag to embed a bitmap and use it for an image run.
  • Tags: New "image run file" tag to specify the path of the image for an image run.
  • Tags: New "image run visibility" tag to show/hide image runs.
  • Tags: New "missing twin clip" tag to report clips without twins in a given track.
  • Tags: New "twin clip" tag to report clips/twins in a given track in different modes.
  • Tracks: New tool to rename multiple tracks (menu Track/Tracks/Rename tracks).
  • Variables: New "{TextArea}" variable to insert text position/size in custom formats.
Future Window 10 features:
  • Media: New Media player video server.
  • Player: New Media player UWP player. It uses the new Media player server.
2019/Jun/24 Version 1.3.3 Beta 7
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: The EffectSize is now exported without (em) units.
  • GUI: Fixed bug in the listbox control. Selected items were not highlighted.
  • Plug-ins: Fixed bug linking old providers in some plug-ins.
  • Tags: Fixed problem with a checkbox in the condition/Language tag.
Improvements:
  • Export wizard: New option to auto select exporters that are added manually.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.43.1.
  • Report: Report tags now support conditions.
  • Utilities: The offset scenes time utility can now modify scenes inside a time range.
  • WebVTT: New options to select how to export horizontal and vertical positions.
  • WebVTT: New options to select how to export raised subtitles.
  • WebVTT: Raised subtitles can now be imported.
New features:
  • Clip scope: New "text contains" scope to work with subtitles that contain a given text.
2019/Jun/12 Version 1.3.3 Beta 6
Remarks:
  • It is recommended to install .NET 4.8.
Known bugs:
  • Hard crash when rendering some Sinhala composed characters. Use the DirectWrite render engine instead.
Fixes:
  • AVI: Improved progressbar when exporting AVI files.
  • Comparer: Fixed problem scrolling to the last row of the grid.
  • Plug-ins: Fixed peoblem with missing assembly in the Google plug-in.
  • Undo: Fixed problem creating undo levels when trimming a clip manually.
  • Utilities: Fixed bug in the utility report when modified clips have no parent track (disposed clips).
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to SDK v11.2.
  • FontTools: New option to always display the shell GUI.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.42.
  • GUI: New "font size" control. It can show the size in pixels and points.
  • GUI: New setting to fix the size of locked tools.
  • GUI: Programs in the hub are now grouped by category.
  • GUI: Redesigned scrollbars.
  • GUI: Simplified buttons in the hub.
  • GUI: The color picker dialog now keeps its size.
  • Overlays: New text count overlay. It displays character count and reading speed
  • Presets: Changes in external presets are now notified.
  • Project rescale: The "project rescale" dialog is now deprecated.
  • Statistics: Statistics now displays all information in the logs.
  • Subtitle editor: New button to change the color of a text line.
  • Subtitle info: The text count field now counts characters using the reading speed settings. This is, it now ignores spaces, etc.
  • System: Improved function to detect .NET framework version.
  • System: New functions to convert icons to bitmaps.
  • System: Support for .NET 4.8.
  • System: Support for DPI awareness v2.
  • System: Support for Windows 10 May 2019 update.
  • Tags: New option in the rescale project tag to rescale the line spacing.
  • Tool: New internal function to override tools.
  • Tools: The "copy clips properties" dialog now allows to copy comments.
New features:
  • Calculator: New option to choose a time format for each field.
  • Commands: New command to clear the playlist.
  • FFmpeg: New function to extract frames from videos.
  • FFmpeg: Support for AMD H264/H265 hardware encoding for the frame writer.
  • FFmpeg: Support for AMD H264/H265 hardware encoding hardcopies.
  • FFmpeg: Support for AMD H264/H265 hardware encoding workcopies.
  • FFprobe: New function to extract thumbnails from videos.
  • Formats: New simple "CPL" import format.
  • GUI: New menu to hide tools's headers.
  • GUI: New notification system. Windows notifications can be issued when project/preset files have been modified outside Lemony.
  • Notifications: New "traybar" settings to customize notifications.
  • Project: New option to include the computer user name in the logs.
  • Projects: New option to always suggest project file name when saving.
  • Subtitle editor: New embedded image control that displays information about the embedded image and allows to embed/remove an image.
  • Tags: New effect tag to draw colored rectangles.
  • Tags: New effect tag to draw images.
  • Tags: New report tag "markups without parameters", which reports markups without mandatory parameters.
  • Time format: New "FFmpeg" time formatter.
  • TimedText: New option to select how to export right-to-left texts.
  • TimedText: New support to automatically add Unicode directionality codes in right-to-left runs.
  • Tracks: New commands/buttons to move tracks to top and bottom of the hierarchy.
  • Utilities: New utility to export subpictures.
  • Variables: New "{ElementTrackName}" variable to insert the name of a parent track.
2019/May/21 Version 1.3.3 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Captions: Fixed bug decoding some texts when importing SCC files.
  • Comparer tool: Fixed problem with colors in the "result" columns when using dark mode.
  • GUI: Fixed bug displaying maximum number of errors in progress bars.
  • GUI: Fixed crash showing the errors from a progress window while still working.
  • GUI: The string input dialog now is resized with the text.
  • Google translator: Updated API.
  • Import: Fixed bug importing green color markups. The resulting color is now lime.
  • Language codes: Fixed bug reading language tables from additional folders.
  • Macros: Fixed bug keeping track of the elements modified by macros.
  • Media: Fixed crsh when a media informator could not retrieve media information.
  • OpenXML import: Fixed bug linking text with Word Styles.
  • Settings: Fixed bug making the "export directory" empty.
  • Text analyzer: Fixed bug refreshing text after a text converter failed.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug calculating font sizes in cell percentage.
  • Timeline: Now editable clips can be moved without focusing the clip.
  • Utilities: Fixed bug. Changes where applied even to unselected projects.
  • Utilities: Undocked utilities now preserve the current parameters.
Improvements:
  • Comments: New comments dialog.
  • Comparer tool: Improved grid header.
  • Comparer tool: New settings to configure the colors of exported grids.
  • Configurer: New option to optimize how many items will be displayed in lists.
  • FFmpeg: ProRes 4:4:4:4 export now defaults to profile 4.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.1.3.
  • Find tool: New "quick resolve" option which stop matchers when a mandatory condition is not met.
  • Find tool: New setting to select if results will be truncated.
  • Find tool: Removed "selection" mode.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.41.2.
  • GUI: Dates are now always formatted in English.
  • GUI: Improved context menu in tools containers.
  • GUI: New settings to enable/disable beep sounds for different contexts.
  • GUI: Redesigned hub.
  • Import: Improved removal of invalid characters inside text runs. Now line-breaks are also removed.
  • JSON: Json.net Updated to version 12.
  • List tool: Font size is now specified in percentage.
  • List tool: The track selector now displays all kind of tracks (except reels tracks).
  • Media: New media detection to identify webm videos.
  • OFS: Error messages are now displayed when stereoscopic values are outside the valid range (-127 → +127).
  • Presets: New option in the editor to modify the preset's flags.
  • Presets: The "captions look" built-in preset is not longer available.
  • Reels: Reel number can now be parsed from file names in formats "_R#", "_r#", "Reel#" and "_Reel#".
  • Report tool: Changing the "show solutions" option now presers the current list.
  • Report tool: Font size is now specified in percentage.
  • Report tool: New setting to select if results will be truncated.
  • Report tool: The text report is now sorted using the selected grouping mode.
  • Spell checker tool: New setting to select if results will be truncated.
  • Spell checking: Entries in dictionaries are initialized on-demand.
  • Spell checking: Faster spell-checking when using dictionaries.
  • Spell checking: Font size is now specified in percentage.
  • Spell checking: Improved detection of case sensitive dictionary words.
  • Spell checking: Redesigned interface.
  • Subtitle info: New indicator to show if the subtitle has an embedded image.
  • Subtitle info: New option to display previous and next times.
  • Subtitle info: Redesigned layout.
  • Subtitle: The subtitle editor now allows to embed a bitmap, or remove it.
  • Tags: The tags that generate GUIDs now allow to select a generation mode.
  • TimedText: New line spacing "font percent" mode.
  • Tools: Simplified settings. Some options have been moved to the application settings/tools window.
  • Undo: New setting to enable/disable confirmations when cleaning the undo buffer.
  • Utilities: Faster loading of utilities. The parameters panel is now created when the utility is expanded.
  • Utilities: Improved undo in all utilities that add/remove tags.
  • Utilities: New option in the remove all tags utility to select a target element.
New features:
  • Clip scopes: New "From time-head to end" scope.
  • Comparer tool: New button to create a report from a column.
  • Comparer tool: New button to create markers from a column.
  • Comparer tool: New button to select the clips with errors in a column.
  • Comparer tool: New comparer that reports time-in deltas.
  • Comparer tool: The grid has now a footer.
  • Comparer tool: New option to export the grid as Excel document.
  • JSON: New JSON provider.
  • JSON: New functions to deserialize arrays.
  • Languages: ISO scripts now contain a simplified name.
  • Languages: Support for BCP-47 language codes.
  • Languages: Support to link the language with its ISO 15924 script.
  • Markups: New {color} markup to change font's color. It accepts parameters such as color name, [AAA,]RRR,GGG,BBB or [AA]RRGGBB.
  • OCR: New support for AI OCR engines.
  • OpenXML: New internal functions to measure and auto-fit columns and rows in Excel documents.
  • Overlays: New option in the grid overlay to display a "crosshair" guide.
  • Overlays: New option in the grid overlay to display a "golden ratio" guide.
  • Overlays: New option in the grid overlay to display a "rule of thirds" guide.
  • Overlays: New option in the grid overlay to display a "square" guide.
  • Utilities: New "remove empty lines" utility.
  • Utilities: Utilities that modify tags have now a new tag target option "all lines and all runs".
  • Utilities: Utilities that modify tags have now a new tag target option "subtitle and all text".
  • Utilities: New tag target option to add/remove tags to "all lines and all runs".
  • Utilities: New tag target option to add/remove tags to "subtitle and all text".
Future Window 10 features:
  • Media: New "UWP" media information extractor.
  • OCR: New support for Windows 10 OCR engines. More engines can be installed by adding Windows language packs.
  • Utilities: New OCR utility to scan subpictures (unattended).
2019/Mar/24 Version 1.3.3 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Explorer: Fixed problem displaing elements with long names.
  • Utilities: Fixed "add exporter" utility. Only exporter presets are selectable now.
Improvements:
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.39.
  • Tags: Improved rescale project tag.
New features:
  • Unicode: Updated to Unicode 12.
2019/Mar/18 Version 1.3.3 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Batch: Fixed bug saving the workcopy job frame rate.
  • Captions: Fixed bug displaying the table combobox in some tags.
  • Font compression: Fixed bug restoring typeface extensions.
  • GUI: Fixed aesthetic problem with disabled trees.
  • GUI: Fixed bug with some colors in tabs.
  • GUI: Fixed cleaning the find field.
  • Reel: Fixed crash removing a scene change.
  • Undo: Fixed bug adding undo items to a disposed project.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to SDK 11.0.
  • Commands: The "invert selection" command can be used now in shortcuts.
  • Custom formats: New options to include markups for bold, underline and strikeout.
  • Custom formats: Redesigned editor.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.38.
  • Import: Improved renaming of tracks when merging projects, in the import dialog.
  • Languages: Improved function to detect language names/codes in file names.
  • Pipeline: The pipeline analysis now breaks runs into graphemes, not characters.
  • Statistics: Projects and tracks now display log information.
  • Statistics: Tracks now display their source file name.
  • System: Images copied to the clipboard now preserve the alpha channel.
  • System: Improved error messaging when failing to create a directory.
  • TimedText: New option to import XML whitespaces that appear inside text spans ("Keep spaces inside text spans").
  • Tracks: Redesigned "set language" dialog.
  • Tracks: Tracks have now a new "source file" field that stores the original file used to import the track.
  • Variables: The {Text} variable now can include markups for bold, underline and strikeout.
New features:
  • Dictionaries: New option to import dictionaries directly.
  • Dictionaries: New property in dictionaries for right-to-left edition.
  • Export: All keyframes are now checked before exporting. Invalid durations are reported.
  • Images: New support to save Windows Media Photo images.
  • Monitor: New "delayed scrubbing" mode for the timebar control. It updates the player only after releasing mouse button.
  • Reel: New menu in the subtitler to add a scene change to the active reel.
  • Tags: New tag to snap exported keyframes to the next one.
  • Tags: The "Processor/Minimum separation (frames)" tag now reports if the resulting duration is invalid.
  • Timeline: New option to always center the time-head.
  • Timeline: New option to select the auto-scroll mode for playing and paused states.
  • Utilities: New "set duration" utility, to .
  • Variables: New system variable {DateDD} to insert the day.
  • Variables: New system variable {DateMMM} to insert the month name with three leters.
  • Variables: New system variable {DateMM} to insert the month number.
  • Variables: New system variable {DateYYYY} to insert the year.
  • Variables: New system variable {TimeHH} to insert the time hours.
  • Variables: New system variable {TimeMM} to insert the time minutes.
Future Window 10 features:
  • Images: New support to import WebP images.
  • Images: New support to import and export HEIF images.
  • Images: New support to import and export Jpeg-XR images.
2019/Feb/28 Version 1.3.3 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Plug-ins: Fixed bug loading a plug-in when the previous one crashed.
  • RichText: Fixed problem exporting the Georgia font as f2.
  • Workcopies: Fixed problem setting the default frame rate for the timecode.
Improvements:
  • Export wizard: It is now possible to add several exporters.
  • Export wizard: New button to hide exporters.
  • Export wizard: New context menu to select or remove exporters.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.1.1.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.37.3.
New features:
  • Spell checking: New "Word 2007" plug-in to add spell checking support for MS Word 2007 (only x32 bits apps).
  • System: The configuration file now allows to hide programs in the hub.
  • Tags: New "Change frame rate (round up)" tag. It changes the frame rate to 24 when 23.976 is used.
  • Tags: New setting to choose the default tags grouping.
  • Utilities: New add exporter utility.
  • Utilities: The utility report now displays the modified elements as hierarchy.
2019/Jan/28 Version 1.3.2
Fixes:
  • Custom formats: Fixed bug detecting if the format was custom or built-in.
  • Google translate: Fixed problem parsing encoding's name.
  • Media: Trappped errors when failing to create a media informator object.
  • Providers manager: Fixed crash displaying the available viewers.
  • Syste: Fixed bug displaying inner exceptions in error dialogs.
  • Tags: The convert text tag now selects the "none" converter by default.
  • Ultech: Fixed bug saving an enumerated parameter.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Command "Add new effect" can be used now in shortcuts.
  • Commands: Command "Add/remove clip tag" now allows to select a target.
  • Explorer: Disabled horizontal scrolling.
  • Explorer: New options to display or hide the comments, flags, protection and tags.
  • Explorer: The tags button is now displayed if enabled in settings, or if the element contains tags.
  • GUI: New settings to fade inactive projects when in multi-project mode.
  • Overlay: Improved measurement of text in the stereoscopic overlay.
  • Overlay: The stereoscopic overlay now uses 4 decimal positions
  • Plug-ins: The Office and Word plug-ins now display error messages if failing to load.
  • Programs: Improved function to create ID's for external progams. Blank spaces are now removed.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the "detect-only" script formats.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the "export" script formats.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the "import" script formats.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the available monitor overlays.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the available render engines.
  • Providers manager: New option to display the available video servers.
  • Render: New "Clips Intersect Same index" tag inheritance mode for tracks. In this mode, clips only affect underneath clips with the same index.
  • Ruby: The auto alignment feature now support fill distributed too.
  • Ruby: The auto alignment feature now works fine when rubies are created using markups.
  • Settings: Now an error message is displayed when failing to load the application settings.
  • Tags: Improved detection of unsupported characters in the SendText tag.
  • Tags: Improved list of supported characters by CaptiView.
  • Tags: Removed all options in the CaptiView. They are not longer needed.
  • Text analyzer: The encodings panel now shows the encoded text.
New features:
  • Element finder: New "Focused effect" clip finder.
  • Element finder: New "Focused or higher effect" clip finder.
  • Element finder: New "Focused or higher track (effects)" track finder.
  • Element finder: New "Focused or higher track (keyframes)" track finder.
  • Language codes: New custom language codes feature. It allows to load language codes tables from text files.
  • Settings: New tab to specify the folders for the custom language codes tables.
  • Tags: New tag to round the value of the stereoscopic separation.
  • Tracks: New tags inheritance mode to allow effect clips to only affect other clips with the same index.
2019/Jan/07 Version 1.3.1
Fixes:
  • Encodings: Corrected export of color blending of boxes and highlights against white paper.
  • GUI: Added scrollbar to the providers manager to be able to display large lists.
  • Hub: Removed Frost module. Not ready yet.
  • Players: Fixed auto resync function. Now players are not resynced when still resyncing.
  • Projects: Fixed "save all projects" command which reported a false failure.
  • Render: Fixed bug rendering right-to-left text with the DirectDraw engine.
  • Render: Fixed problem measuring rubies and boten, when using "fill" alignment.
  • Timecode: Fixed bug rounding the "milliseconds decimals" timecode (Kaltura).
Improvements:
  • CaptiView: Added support to check Latin-2 characters.
  • Commands: Command "paste clips from clip" allows now to paste tags.
  • Encodings: Exported documents (OpenXML and RTF) now use Arial as default font.
  • Explorer: Improved some graphic details in the project tree.
  • Explorer: New option to display an "edit" button.
  • Explorer: New options to individually display the "tag", "move", and "remove" buttons.
  • Font compression: Support to remove entire strike elements in EBLC tables.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.35.0.
  • GUI: Document reports now can display texts with underline, right-to-left and highlight.
  • GUI: Progress windows now appear centered on the parent window.
  • Installation: New user's manual in e-book format.
  • Installation: The help documentation has been renamed to "user's manual".
  • Installation: The installer now registers more file Kio extensions.
  • Installation: The installer now removes unused shortcuts.
  • Shortcuts: Command "paste clips from clip" can be used now to create shortcuts.
  • System: The about window now shows information about the activation.
New features:
  • Encodings: New "custom formatting" RTF encoding, which can be configured in the settings/encoding/RTF window.
  • Encodings: New "full formatting" RTF encoding.
  • Encodings: The RTF encoding can now export formatting: font name, font size, italic, bold, underline, highlights, boxes, right-to-left and language.
  • Markups: New {-box} markup to turn boxes off.
  • Markups: New {-b} markup to turn bold off.
  • Markups: New {-color} markup to restore the font color.
  • Markups: New {-i} markup to turn italic off.
  • Render: New Text Renderer render engine. It draws text using Window's Forms.TextRenderer.
  • Render: New visibility feature in the render pipeline which allows to disappear text.
  • System: The configuration file now allows to remove programs.
  • Tags: New bold off tag.
  • Tags: New italic off tag.
  • Tags: New visibility by language index tag which allows to disappear text with a given language index.
  • Tags: New visibility tag to set the visibility of elements.
2019/Jan/02 Version 1.3.0
Fixes:
  • Custom formats: Fixed "insert variable" problem. Wrong variables were displayed.
  • GUI: Fixed bug auto-closing the tags window.
Improvements:
  • Custom formats: Sample projects now can create sample segments.
  • Custom formats: The format editor window now remains opened when closing the formats manager.
  • Encodings: The RTF encoding now exports using font name and size.
  • Font compression: Option "compression mode" has been removed.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.34.2.
  • Formats: The Sonic text format now exports using encoding stream.
  • NewTek NDI: Updated to SDK 3.8.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New {KeyframesCount} variable.
  • Custom formats: New {SegmentDuration} variable.
  • Custom formats: New {SegmentTimeIn} variable.
  • Custom formats: New {SegmentTimeOut} variable.
  • Custom formats: New support for segment variables.
  • Font copy: New function to extract typefaces from font collections.
  • Font copy: New option to allow to copy font collections.
  • Font copy: New option to extract the typeface if the file is a font collection.
  • Formats manager: New option to select which subtitle formats to display.
  • Import: New option to select how to interpret imported time-outs (exclusive or inclusive).
  • Import: New option to select if time-out snapping may reduce durations.
  • Shortcuts: New option to display shortcuts by groups.
  • Tags: New export/processor to offset time-outs/durations before exporting.
  • Tags: New export/processor to select if exported time-out should exclusive or inclusive.
  • Variables: Added "scope" property to keyframe variables.
Changes log 2018
2018/Dec/16 Version 1.3.0 Beta 17
Fixes:
  • Automation: Fixed crash opening running instances of the application.
  • Custom formats: Fixed colors of previewed subtitles using the dark theme.
  • Custom formats: Fixed crash previewing when using OpenXML encoding.
  • Digital Cinema: Fixed bug retrieving the name of imported fonts.
  • Font compression: Macintosh CMAP tables are now ignored.
  • GUI: Fixed bug closing floaging pop-ups.
  • GUI: Fixed bug displaying some plug-in windows.
  • Typefaces: Global typefaces are now ignored.
Improvements:
  • Connections: Improved receivement of raw responses in HTTP protocols.
  • Digital Cinema: New error message when importing a font name that is not installed.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.33.
  • GUI: Dummy tags and utilities now display parameters in a scrollable panel.
  • GUI: Progressbars are now multi-threaded.
  • GUI: Progressbars are now optimized when running macros.
  • Plug-ins: Now beta releases do not show Microsoft plug-in errors.
  • Render: Pipeline report now contains user information.
  • Timecodes: New internal values to specify how timecodes are rounded.
  • Utilities: Custom and built-in macros are displayed in separate tabs.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New {Name} variable, to export clip's name.
  • GUI: New experimental setting to optimize progressbars (refresh less often).
  • GUI: Progressbars now support to display sub-processes.
  • Tags: New tag to apply a text converter to variable values.
  • Timecode: New "milliseconds decimals" time formatter.
2018/Nov/28 Version 1.3.0 Beta 16
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug detecting old Rovi dongles.
  • GUI: Fixed bug multi-selecting checkboxes in dialogs.
  • GUI: Fixed crash when application activation failed.
Improvements:
  • Batch: The "add" menu now shows jobs grouped by category.
  • Commands: The add effect command now allows to specify a target track.
  • Commands: The add keyframe command now allows to specify a target track.
  • Digital cinema: Improved function to resolve typeface names when importing fonts.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.1.
  • Fonts: Faster loading of fonts at start-up.
  • Import: New option to remove right-to-left flags in imported runs.
  • Import: Now removing right-to-left flags in runs also removes markups.
  • OpenXML: Improved right-to-left import. Runs now inherit it from paragraphs.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved stereoscopic separation offset command. Now it is possible to select a clip finder.
  • TimedText: Support to export <writingMode> in styles and regions.
  • Utilities: New option in the set language index (auto) utility to clear non-tagged lines.
  • Utilities: New option in the set language index (auto) utility to tag each line with diferent language.
  • Utilities: The set language index (auto) now supports 3 languages.
New features:
  • Finders: New keyframe finder to find upper stereoscopic keyframes.
  • Finders: New track finder to find upper stereoscopic tracks.
  • Finders: Some keyframe finders can now be used to find clips.
  • Font compression: New "subtitles source" option to include all subtitles in the exported project.
  • Font compression: New "subtitles source" option to include all subtitles in the exported track.
  • Font compression: New option to select the typeface index when compressing a font collection.
  • Fonts: Support to identify TTE fonts.
  • Tags: New language index conditional tag.
  • Tags: New {lang3} markup.
  • Viewer: New option to select the font collection index.
2018/Nov/14 Version 1.3.0 Beta 15
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug with disabled buttons which looked as enabled.
  • GUI: Fixed bug with floating windows staying behind the subtitler.
Improvements:
  • Export: Errors messages about invalid GUID's have been converted to just warnings.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.32.
  • GUI: Errors found when opening a project are now displayed in collapsable panels.
  • GUI: Improved progress bars.
  • GUI: New setting to auto collapse project report panels.
  • Installer: FontTools is now selected by default.
  • Karaoke: Ball size is now expressed in percentage, not pixels.
  • System: BAT files now report errors when exit code is not zero.
  • Tags: The rescale project tags now allows to select what to scale.
  • Tags: The rescale project tags now can rescale the stereoscopic separation.
2018/Nov/07 Version 1.3.0 Beta 14
Remarks:
  • Render: Old projects using character spacing may be rendered slightly diifferent.
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug selecting items in some kinds of lists.
  • OpenXML: Fixed bug detecting right-to-left flags in empty runs.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug importing default frame rates.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to SDK v10.11.4.
  • Commands: Cancelled commands are now not considered failed commands.
  • Digital Cinema: Support to export several decimated spaces.
  • Encodings: Improved secure encoding of texts.
  • Font compression: Changed the default value of tables to remove to none.
  • Font compression: Removed option to select default glyph name.
  • Font compression: Support to automatically keep reference glyphs.
  • Font compression: Support to ignore tables if all their content was removed.
  • Fonts: Improved internal function to find typeface's path.
  • GUI: Improved functions to display dialog windows.
  • Installer: Kio file extensions are now registered.
  • Keyframes: Improved merging of nodes. Nodes are added only in joining edges.
  • Render: Improved character spacing. Now the glyphs are spaced.
  • Render: Improved indexing of rendered runs.
  • Tools: Improved copy clips properties tool. Replacing tags now also works in block mode.
  • Utilities: New option in the optimize text utility to convert tabs to spaces.
  • Utilities: New option in the optimize text utility to normalize spaces.
New features:
  • Digital Cinema: New option to export timecodes in HMSM (milliseconds).
  • Digital Cinema: New support to import timecodes in HMSM (milliseconds).
  • Font compression: New option to add a signature to compressed fonts.
  • Font compression: New option to fix font's names.
  • Font compression: New option to select how to choose a typeface inside a collection.
  • Font compression: New option to select the characters source.
  • Font compression: New warning before exporting when trying to copy/compress unsupported fonts.
  • Font compression: Support to compress additional tables: EBDT, GVAR.
  • Import: New setting to remove tabs in imported texts.
  • Render: New support for negative character spacing.
  • Settings: New option to select the default right-to-left directionality codes.
  • TimedText: New option to select how to indent <p>.
  • TimedText: Support to export dynamic stereoscopic using <animate>.
  • TimedText: Support to export dynamic stereoscopic using <set>.
2018/Oct/19 Version 1.3.0 Beta 13
Fixes:
  • GUI: Corrected text color for dictionary entries, for the dark theme.
  • GUI: Fixed resize bug in the password dialog.
  • Render: Fixed problem displaying embedded subpictures.
Improvements:
  • Dictionaries: Dictionaries now contain the name of the language.
  • Dictionaries: Empty dictionaries can now be saved too.
  • Dictionaries: Improved dictionaries editor.
  • Dictionary editor: Improved function to add new words.
  • Dictionary editor: Improved function to edit existing words.
  • Dictionary editor: New option to add a new empty directory.
  • Dictionary editor: New option to add words by importing an external dictionary.
  • Dictionary editor: New option to optimize dictionaries.
  • Dictionary editor: New option to remove words.
  • Dictionary editor: New option to save a dictionary "as".
  • Dictionary editor: New option to sort word using the dictionary's culture.
  • Dictionary editor: New support to display all words, not limited to 5000 words.
  • Font compression: Support for reference glyphs ".null" and "ppem".
  • Font compression: Support to compress additional tables: COLR, EBLC, VMTX.
  • GUI: File dialogs now detect when the operation has been cancelled.
  • Overlays: Improved render quality of grid overlays.
  • Overlays: The grid overlay now displays the current screen grid or a custom one.
  • Screen grids: Grids of different types canbe drawn in different ways.
  • Tags: The aspect ratio tag has been renamed to reel aspect ratio.
  • XML: Faster functions to find child nodes.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to move a scene change.
  • Image cropping: New width fit mode "multiple of 2".
  • Screen grids: New grids to display display areas in percentage.
2018/Oct/02 Version 1.3.0 Beta 12
Fixes:
  • TimedText: Fixed bug exporting forced subtitles.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug importing times using the default frame rate.
  • TimedText: The "dropMode" attribute is now omitted when exporting IMSC.
  • TimedText: The encoding's name is now in uppercase.
  • Variables: Fixed bug replacing variables when having more than one paragraph.
Improvements:
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.30.
  • NewTek NDI: Updated to SDK v3.7.
  • Overlays: The "aspect ratio" overlay can now display pipeline's aspect.
  • Render: Screen sizes now contain information about their aspect ratio.
  • TimedText: Background colors with alpha zero are now exported as "transparent".
  • TimedText: New option to select how to export cell resolution.
  • TimedText: New option to specify aspect ratio.
New features:
  • Import: New setting to remove imported subtitle vertical alignment (raised subtitles).
  • Import: New setting to select the tagging mode for right-to-left.
  • Render: New support for aspect ratios.
  • Render: New support for screen grids.
  • Settings: New option to specify the default aspect ratio of projects.
  • Settings: New option to specify the default screen grid of projects.
  • Tags: New tag to specify a custom font name, even if not installed.
  • Tags: New tag to specify aspect ratio.
  • Utilities: New utility to convert comments to a single line.
  • Utilities: New utility to stretch times using two anchors.
2018/Sep/26 Version 1.3.0 Beta 11
Fixes:
  • CPL: Fixed problem with the width of the reels when displayed in timeline mode.
  • GUI: Corrected some dark theme colors in the time stretch tool.
  • GUI: Fixed resize control in the gadget window.
  • Images: Fixed bug disposing buffered images when still in use.
  • Tags: The "font file copy" tag uses now "last" priority.
Improvements:
  • Actors: The "actor condition" tag now supports actor name or actor number.
  • Actors: The "{actor}" markup now supports actor name or actor number.
  • CPL: Improved design of the CPL viewer.
  • Closed captions: The {ccrollup} markup now supports a parameters to specify the number of rows.
  • Comparer: New buttons to create a report will the results.
  • Comparer: New support to compare tracks from different projects.
  • Comparer: New support to display warnings.
  • Comparer: Now comparers have a default sorter.
  • Digital cinema: New "force zero" option to always export fading as zero.
  • Find: The "text contains" matcher now supports to select text scope.
  • Find: The "text matches RegEx" matcher now supports to ignore markups.
  • Find: The "text matches RegEx" matcher now supports to select text scope.
  • Find: The "text matches pattern" matcher now supports to ignore markups.
  • Find: The "text matches pattern" matcher now supports to select text scope.
  • Font compression: New error message when trying to compress an unsupported typeface file.
  • Font compression: New support to compress TTC typefaces.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.29.1.
  • GUI: New button in error messages to copy the text to the clipboard.
  • Karaoke: New option to have an extra border of the highlight.
  • Providers manager: Added support to display all the text converters.
  • Providers manager: New button to sort items by name.
  • Providers manager: Unicode blocks are now sorted by name.
  • Render: Subpicture areas are calculated now considering the anchor.
  • Render: Subpicture areas can now be calculated using imported bitmap size.
  • Render: The render pipeline now supports several actors.
  • Tag: New tag to add an actor to the collection of actors.
  • Tags: New behaviour in the tag priority menu.
  • Tags: New option in the "subpicture scale auto" to keep the aspect ratio.
  • Tags: Some "alignment" tags have been moved to a new "position" category.
  • Time stretch tool: Anchors can now be moved using the mouse wheel.
  • Time stretch tool: Improved GUI.
  • Time stretch tool: New indicator to see which anchor is active.
  • TimedText Smpte: New option to specify how to export copyright.
  • TimedText Smpte: New option to specify how to export desc.
  • TimedText Smpte: New option to specify how to export title.
  • TimedText: The SMPTE variant now allows to override header metadata.
  • Utilities: New option in the "embedd subpicture bitmap" to unlink the subpicture.
  • Utilities: New option in the "set subpicture anchor" utility to keep the subpicture position.
  • Utilities: New options in the remove transitions utility to remove tags and markups.
New features:
  • GUI: New textbox control that allows to insert closed captions commands.
  • Tags: New "change frame rate (from/to)" tag to convert times using two frame rates.
  • Tags: New "rescale project" tag to resize all text and design elements to a new screen size.
  • Tags: New text effect tag to apply text conversions.
  • Tags: New tag to report subtitles with too few lines.
  • Text: New text converter to obfuscate text.
  • TimedText: New option to export IMSC 1.0.1 and 1.1 (actually no difference from 1.0).
  • Utilities: New "align (auto)" utility to realign subpictures from one area to another.
2018/Sep/03 Version 1.3.0 Beta 10
Remarks:
  • Settings: Experimental feature "break runs when using GridFit antialias" has been removed.
Fixes:
  • Idx: Fixed bug padding final pixels.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Job editors now react to changes to the source path.
  • Font compression: New option to include decomposed variants.
  • Font compression: New option to include lowercase/uppercase variants.
  • Font compression: New option to include normalized variants.
  • Font compression: New option to include typeface's all characters.
  • GUI: New find textbox.
  • Keyframes: New buttons to jump to nodes in the keyframe editor.
  • Microsoft Translator: Updated language codes.
  • Render: Improved image croping in "visual alpha" mode and multi-threaded.
  • Settings: Several experimental features have been moved to regular settings.
  • System: The application supports now long paths ("longPathAware").
  • Tags: The default "area border" value for the "crop" tags is now 4 pixels.
New features:
  • Crop: New subpicture cropping mode "Subpicture area or Visual (alpha)".
  • Providers manager: New option to find items by name.
  • Script editor: Support to edit SubRip files.
  • Stereoscopic: New {3do} markup to specify a stereoscopic offset (in pixels) for a text run.
  • Word template: New settings to specify document colors.
2018/Aug/23 Version 1.3.0 Beta 9
Remarks:
  • TimedText: The copyright element now defaults to "empty", not to the current "author".
Fixes:
  • Font compression: Character decomposition is not in compatibility mode now.
  • Font compression: Fixed bug stopping the process.
  • Installer: Fixed problem removing unused x86 config files.
  • Spell checker: Fixed crash when failing to retrieve available languages.
  • Stereoscopic: Fixed bug when a channel could disappear in the monitor when changing stereoscopic mode.
  • Text: Fixed crash parsing words.
  • Unicode: Corrected Unicode version number from 10 to 11.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Job XML files now include information about the software version.
  • Batch: Jobs now always save their position index.
  • Blackmagic: The mirror now saves the last used options.
  • Blackmagic: Updated to SDK version 10.11.2.
  • Commands: The play loop command now allows to select the number of loops.
  • Copy properties: Improved function to copy a block of durations to subtitles with zero duration.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.0.2.
  • Font compression: Font analysis now reports characters to keep.
  • Font compression: Font analysis now reports optional characters to keep.
  • Font compression: New function to resolve glyph components.
  • Font measuring: New option for italic run left padding.
  • Font measuring: New option for line and run bottom padding.
  • FontTools: Updated to version 3.29.0.
  • Karaoke: The ball effect is now rendered over the text.
  • Karaoke: The ball effect nows uses the same stereoscopic as the text.
  • Karaoke: The highlight effect now supports to highlight run by run.
  • Karaoke: The highlight effect now uses the same stereoscopic as the text.
  • Karaoke: The karaoke tag now allows to turn on karaoke.
  • Mirrors: Monitor mirrors now reuse the image buffer.
  • Mirrors: The mirrors now save the last used options.
  • NewTek NDI: The mirror now saves the last used options.
  • NewTek NDI: The mirror now saves the settings in its own file.
  • Overlays: Enabled overlays are now highlighted.
  • Projects: The save project dialog now displays custom locations.
  • Providers: Cultures now display region names using ISO 3166-1.
  • Render: The size of the render buffer grows now proportionally.
  • Settings: New option to specify duration limits for effects.
  • Settings: New option to specify duration limits for keyframes.
  • Settings: New option to specify duration limits for markers.
  • Tags: The language code tag now supports Digital cinema territory codes.
  • TimedText: New option to omit font size.
  • TimedText: New option to omit line height.
  • TimedText: New option to specify regions mode.
  • TimedText: New option to specify styles mode.
  • TimedText: New option to specify how to export copyright.
  • TimedText: New option to specify how to export desc.
  • TimedText: New option to specify how to export title.
  • TimedText: New option to specify the extent units.
  • TimedText: New option to specify the ID of <p>.
  • TimedText: Now actors are exported as agents.
  • Typefaces: Improved detection of characters with missing geometries.
  • Variables: The {SubpictureArea} variable now accepts parameters for center points (CH, CV).
  • Word Template: New options to select how to export times.
  • Workcopies: It is possible now to select any frame size.
New features:
  • Digital cinema: New support for territory codes.
  • Export: New option in tag "keyframing" to slice subtitles at keyframe nodes.
  • Export: New option in the "save as script" dialog to keep the original subtitle numbers.
  • Export: New option in the Wizard to export keeping the original subtitle numbers.
  • Exporters: New option to auto edit new exporters.
  • GUI: New internal functions to highlight labels.
  • Hardcopy: New dialog to export a track or reel as hardcopy.
  • Karaoke: New bouncing ball effect.
  • Karaoke: New opacity effect.
  • Karaoke: New rotation effect.
  • Karaoke: New pipeline property to specify the effect amount.
  • Karaoke: New tag to choose the effect percentage.
  • Mirrors: New "transparent window" mirror, that allows to overlay subtitles on top of other windows.
  • Render: New stereoscopic emphasis mode.
  • Render: New category of effects "karaoke".
  • Render: New emphasis modes for different font colors.
  • Render: New run slice mode "by word and spaces".
  • Render: New surface to apply effects to highlights.
  • Settings: New function to find settings bu keyword.
  • Stereoscopic: New option to specify stereoscopic offset for emphasis.
  • Stereoscopic: New option to specify stereoscopic offset for highlights.
  • Stereoscopic: New stereoscopic mode "left only".
  • Stereoscopic: New stereoscopic mode "right only".
  • Tags: New condition tag to target runs by index.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate if a line is right-to-left.
  • Tags: New tag to auto flag lines as right-to-left based on its text.
  • Tags: New tag to specify ruby font size in pixels.
  • Variables: New {ElementCountryDCCode} variable to insert Digital Cinema territory codes.
  • Variables: New {ElementCountryISO31661A2} variable to insert ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 country codes.
  • Variables: New {ElementCountryISO31661A3} variable to insert ISO 3166-1 Alpha 3 country codes.
  • Variables: New {ProjectCopyright} variable.
  • Variables: New {ProjectDescription} variable.
  • Variables: New {ProjectEpisode} variable.
  • Word OpenXML: New settings to specify page margins.
  • Word OpenXML: New settings to specify page orientation.
  • Word OpenXML: New settings to specify page size.
2018/Aug/01 Version 1.3.0 Beta 8
Fixes:
  • Plug-ins: Fixed crash retrieving plug-in's methods.
  • Plug-ins: Fixed problem initializing the Word plug-in.
  • Project: Fixed bug when saving a project always got renamed to the suggested name.
  • System: Fixed bug parsing invalid directories.
Improvements:
  • Overlay: The karaoke overlay now allows to display the effect percentage.
  • Overlay: The karaoke overlay now allows to display the pointer.
  • Plug-ins: Improved description of exceptions when loading plug-ins.
New features:
  • Installer: New option to install a default clipart images.
  • Karaoke: New flow direction option to specify how to karaoke advances.
  • Karaoke: New flow mode option to specify how the karaoke is applied.
  • Karaoke: New font color effect.
  • Karaoke: New hightlight effect.
  • Karaoke: New outline effect.
  • Karaoke: New stereoscopic effect.
  • Karaoke: New tag to modify all karaoke options.
  • Screen saver: New setting to specify a logo image.
  • Undo: New option to undo clip's selections.
2018/Jul/27 Version 1.3.0 Beta 7
Fixes:
  • Font compression: Fixed problem copying typeface files with no extension.
  • Font compression: Fixed problem removing control characters.
  • Font compression: Fixed problem unescaping XML files.
  • Installer: Fixed problem copying the .NET installer.
  • Variables: Fixed bug resolving some variables that required pre-rendering.
Improvements:
  • Batch: The preset in the "render script" job is not mandatory.
  • CPL: New setting to ignore reel numbers when merging CPL's.
  • Clips: New option in the copy clip properties dialog to select the tags to copy.
  • Commands: New option in several set clip time commands to modify the current pinned clip.
  • Commands: New option in the pin clip command to modify the auto focus.
  • Commands: The merge selected menu is now enabled only when multi-selecting.
  • Commands: The split selected menu is now enabled only when multi-selecting.
  • Experimental: Removed experimental feature "Hide CPL debugging information".
  • Font compression: New menu to open the settings window.
  • Font compression: New option to display the shell window.
  • GUI: Element editor now use a better duration control.
  • Plug-ins: Removed elements in the Dexter plug-in not compatible with 64-bits.
  • Project: First time a project is saved is now saved as.
  • Project: The project's title field now supports custom variables.
  • Spell checker: New settings to select how to manage trailing punctuations.
  • Subtitle info: New options to show/hide information.
  • Subtitle info: Simplified design.
  • System: Now more shell processes can display their window, if enabled in settings.
  • Tags: The "reading speed" report tag now has no parameters.
  • Utilities: The "set duration by reading speed" utility now has no parameters.
New features:
  • Export: New tag to post-process text files. It can find/replace text in exported text files.
  • Font compression: New font compression tool available in the hub.
  • Formats: New internal functios and controls to open CPL's.
  • Reading speed: New option to select how to display the reading speed.
  • Reading speed: New settings to select the default values.
  • Settings: New option to specify default folder and file name for projects.
  • Tags: New tag to check reading speed with custom parameters.
  • Tags: New tag to report text lines outside a given size limit (in pixels).
  • Tags: New tag to specify reading speed count mode.
  • Tags: New tag to specify reading speed limits.
  • Tags: New tag to specify reading speed parameters.
2018/Jul/17 Version 1.3.0 Beta 6
Fixes:
  • Presets: Fixed box color in the captions look built-in preset.
  • Presets: Fixed invalid tag in the captions look built-in preset.
  • Presets: Fixed textbox color in the presets editor's preview.
  • Utilities: Fixed bug when closing opened color markups.
Improvements:
  • CPL: The CPL dialog now allows to change the first reel index.
  • CPL: The CPL dialog now allows to create markers.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.0.1.
  • Font compression: New setting to choose to copy the TTF file when compression fails.
  • Font compression: New setting to select the default maximum size for TTF files.
  • Font compression: Now only "Windows Unicode" mappings are loaded (CMAP).
  • Font compression: Support to specify source XML files.
  • Fonts: Installed typefaces are now loaded at start-up.
  • GUI: New internal options in the language combobox to only show Digital Cinema languages.
  • GUI: New internal options in the language combobox to only show Netflix languages.
  • GUI: New internal options in the language combobox to only show neutral languages.
  • Media: The Dexter media extractor has been removed due to 64-bit incompatibility.
  • Media: The media extractor now defaults to FFprobe if none has been selected in settings.
  • Settings: The default project duration is now expressed in minutes, not seconds.
  • Tags: Some conditional tags have been moved to the effect category.
  • Utilities: The "close opened markups" utility now allows to select the type of formatting to fix.
  • Utilities: The "convert HTML markups" utility now supports color markups.
  • Utilities: The "optimize markups" utility has now an option to remove unnecessary closing markups.
New features:
  • GUI: New file dialog to select typeface files.
  • Presets editor: New menu to open external presets (XML) for editing.
  • Presets: New setting to monitor changes in external presets.
  • Render: New feature to select the frame to evaluate when creating keyframes.
  • Render: New feature to select the frame to render when exporting images.
  • Settings: New tab in the configure dialog to select visual style.
  • Tag: New tag to select the frame to use when exporting keyframes and images.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate by the language.
  • Unicode: New internal functions create custom characters.
  • Unicode: New internal functions to add characters not included in the standard.
2018/Jul/05 Version 1.3.0 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • GUI: Now the multi-project mode does not fade projects in the import dialog.
  • Plug-ins: Fixed bug loading plug-ins.
Improvements:
  • Commands: New internal support to show custom success messages.
  • Font compression: New internal option to specify source projects and tracks.
  • Font compression: New option to specify source project files.
  • GUI: New internal functions to highlight elements with different styles.
  • Settings: Improved serialization of settings.
2018/Jun/27 Version 1.3.0 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug calculating 'EffectSize'.
  • Netflix: Fixed crash exporting multi-threaded.
  • Projects: Fixed crash when analyzing opened projects.
  • Settings: Fixed tag parameters stored using the wrong type.
  • Settings: Fixed utility parameters stored using the wrong type.
  • Viewer: Fixed bug counting compressed characters.
  • Viewer: Fixed bug hiding compressed characters, when viewing TTF files.
  • XML: Fixed bug saving parameters for the "duplicate clip" command.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: SDK updated to version 10.11.
  • Fonts: New experimental feature to retry to load typefaces after failing.
  • Fonts: TrueType tables are now sorted alphabetically.
  • Formats: The Word template format now has an option to select styling.
  • NetTek NDI: SDK updated to version 3.5.
  • Render: HSB colors now retain their alpha.
  • Settings: New internal functions to serialize settings.
  • Shortcuts: Duplicated shortcuts only report error when they are inthe same group.
  • Shortcuts: Now shortcuts are sorted considering group's name.
  • System: New internal option to log shell commands.
  • Utilities: The remove lines utility now allows to select how many lines to remove.
  • Word OpenXML: New support to export for Word v15 (2003) and v16 (2016).
  • Word OpenXML: New support to export highlights.
  • Word OpenXML: New support to export outlines (only for Word v14 or newer).
  • Word OpenXML: New support to export shadows (only for Word v14 or newer).
New features:
  • Font compression: The font file tag now allows to compress fonts.
  • Installer: New options to install FontTools.
  • Render: New internal function to convert bitmaps to gray-scale.
  • Settings: New option to select default highlight color.
  • Settings: New options for CPL's.
  • Settings: New options to choose how to compress fonts.
  • Settings: New options to select how to export OpenXML documents.
  • Settings: New options to select how to import OpenXML documents.
  • Shortcuts: Shortcuts can now have a group, with any name.
  • Tags: All tags can now follow conditions.
  • Tags: New support for condition tags. These tags create conditions that other tags must meet.
  • Tags: New support to have several priorities selected.
  • Tags: New tag to specify outline size in percentage.
2018/Jun/12 Version 1.3.0 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • System: Fixed bug detecting names of running processes.
  • GUI: Fixed bug adding empty lines to text reports.
  • Media: Fixed crash on Windows 7 when using the Dexter plug-in, in x64 mode.
  • Media: Now the default media informator is replaced by the next one if it crashes.
Improvements:
  • Fonts: Improved function to detect 'compressed' characters in a TrueType file.
  • Console: New button to copy all text.
  • Right-to-left: Added new detection mode "Always right-to-left".
  • Right-to-left: Added new detection mode "Never right-to-left".
  • Right-to-left: Added new detection mode "By characters or by directionality".
  • Right-to-left: Added new set mode "Set all lines".
  • Right-to-left: Added new set mode "No line".
  • Clipboard: New support to store times.
  • System: New internal support for dummy clips.
  • Reels: Scenes can now be added even if no scene file has been loaded.
  • Reels: The editor has now a dedicated tab for scene changes.
  • Reels: The media info window now displays the number of loaded scene changes.
  • Plug-in: Removed error messages when loading plug-ins in Beta mode.
  • Tags: New menu entry in the editor to reset the priorities.
  • Providers manager: Captions now are grouped by table.
  • Providers manager: Commands now are grouped by category.
  • Providers manager: Utilities now are grouped by category.
  • Providers manager: Unicode characters now are grouped by block.
  • Providers manager: Commands now are grouped by category.
  • Providers manager: New category to display available players.
  • HandySaw: Updated to version 4.6.
  • System: Internal support to select HTTP protocol version.
  • Settings: New tab in the system category to find system files.
  • Shortcuts: The default shortcuts now include "space" to play/pause.
  • Shortcuts: The default shortcuts now include "left arrow" to back one frame.
  • Shortcuts: The default shortcuts now include "right arrow" to step one frame.
  • Font compression: Files are now compressed only if larger than the given size (640 KB).
  • Fonts: Now fonts with empty names are not loaded.
  • Unicode: Updated to version 11.0.
  • Settings: New control to select the default Media encoder.
New features:
  • Reels: New options to copy and paste scene changes to the clipboard.
  • Plug-in: Now failed plug-ins are loaded as dummy plug-ins.
  • Tags: New condition tag to evaluate actor's name.
  • Render: New feature to slice runs by graphemes.
  • Render: New feature to slice runs by words.
  • Tags: New tag to select run slice mode.
  • Shortcuts: New feature to assign a group to shortcuts.
  • Commands: New command to toggle the active shortcuts group.
  • GUI: New menu entry to select the active shortcuts group.
  • Fonts: New support to view OpenType (otf) fonts.
  • Fonts: New support to view TrueType collection (ttc) fonts.
  • Commands: New command to clear the image on the monitor.
2018/May/30 Version 1.3.0 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Settings: Fixed bug in the FFmpeg wizard. Settings were applied only after some modification.
Improvements:
  • Typefaces: New dedicated provider for typefaces.
  • Typefaces: The typeface viewer can now display tables, Unicode blocks and supported characters.
New features:
  • Typefaces: New internal support to store temporal typefaces.
  • Viewer: New support to display typefaces (TTF files).
2018/May/22 Version 1.3.0 Beta 1
Remarks:
  • This version requires .NET framework 4.7.2
Fixes:
  • Font copy: Fixed bug removing duplicated copy tasks.
  • Images: Error while loading images are now trapped.
  • Installer: Fixed bug copying the .NET installer to the desktop.
  • Offset: Corrected behaviour for the "offset content" in utilities and commands.
  • PAC: Corrected quote character (+34, +28).
  • Quick find: Fixed bug selecting the found text.
  • SCC: Corrected error messages when exporting overlapping captions.
  • Scenes: Fixed bug detecting intersections of scene changes.
  • Smpte-TT: Fixed bug exporting region names.
  • Spelling consult: Fixed HTML escaping of words.
  • System: Fixed bug detecting if a file was read-only.
  • System: Fixed bug finding files on disk using Explorer.
  • System: Fixed bug returning default items in providers.
  • TimedText: The default textDecoration value is now "none".
  • Waveform: Fixed accumulated delay in drop frame waveforms.
  • Workcopies: The default frame rate is now the one used in the reel, not the one in settings.
Improvements:
  • Captions: Removed unnecessary attributes exported in the Timed Text Captions format.
  • Captions: The "remove subtitlesd without text" option now removes subtitles with no visible text, even if CC bytes are present.
  • Custom formats: New option to apply a text conversion to exported text.
  • Experimental: Removed "Final Cut Pro Interchange: Export 23.976 as NDF" option.
  • FFmpeg: Support to burn drop frame timecodes on workcopies.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 3.4.2.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 4.0.
  • Final Cut: New option to select the case of exported boolean values.
  • GUI: Input dialogs are now not auto-resizable.
  • GUI: Some small design improvements to the find tool.
  • GUI: The "fix windows positions" setting now also affects programs, not only dialogs.
  • Help: Improved function to retrieve help's GUI context.
  • Import: New "settings" button in the Import window.
  • Installer: FFmpeg x32 has been removed.
  • Installer: New options to install the x32 (x86) version too.
  • Key generator: It is now possible to hide the test panel.
  • Keyframe editor: New button to add a node.
  • Keyframe editor: New button to delete all nodes.
  • OpenXML: Microsoft OpenXML library Updated to version 2.8.1.
  • Overlays: Improved text rendering for the Reference text overlay.
  • Plug-ins: The Kinect plug-in is not available anymore.
  • Plug-ins: The Lemony 4 plug-in is not available anymore.
  • Presets: DVD presets now have the "subdirectory" tag enabled by default.
  • Project: When saving a project, the folder is now automatically created if it does not exist.
  • Right-to-Left: Imported subtitles are now tagged by line, not by paragraph.
  • Right-to-left: Imported runs are now not tagged if they contain directionality codes.
  • Scenarist: Custom headers now accept values with empty parameters. For example, to have an empty directory.
  • Settings: Now the network access settings can be enabled individually.
  • Smpte-TT Captions: Exported regions now contains origin, extension and background.
  • Stereoscopic calculator: The graphic is now drawn using GDI+.
  • Stereoscopic calculator: Visual acuity units changed to meters.
  • System: Most files are now opened in "read/share" mode.
  • System: New functions to display exceptions adding an error message.
  • System: New wrapper for the Sentinel dongle.
  • Text: New line scope "all but first", "all but last", "ends with", "first half", "second half".
  • Timeline: New settings to specify the auto-scoll margins (tolerance).
  • Translators: New support to work with languages not included as Windows culture.
  • Unicode: Blocks have now an ID.
  • Unicode: Characters now contain block information.
  • Unicode: Improved CJK classification.
  • Unicode: The Unicode browser now displays up to 500 matches.
  • Utilities: New button to undock an utility.
  • Utilities: New option in the time offset utilities to keep the nodes in place.
  • Variables: It is possible now to prepend a text to their existing value.
  • Variables: New tag to apply modifications to variables' values.
  • Variables: The "variable (by Id)" tag now allow to choose a "set" mode.
  • Variables: Variables of type "element design" are now evaluated using the active exporter.
  • Workcopy: New frame sizes: 720x480 and 720x576.
New features:
  • Clips scope: New "Without tags" scope.
  • Commands: New command to offset the value of all nodes in a keyframe.
  • Communication: Added internal support for HTTP clients.
  • Find: New matcher to find subtitles containing any given character.
  • Find: New matcher to find clips with a given transition duration.
  • Find: New selection mode "Select other".
  • Google: New Google translator.
  • Google: New utility to translate text using Google translator.
  • Highlight: New feature to highlight text.
  • Markups: New markups to emphasize text "{e}" and "{/e}".
  • Markups: New markups to highlight text "{h}" and "{/h}".
  • Plug-ins: New Google plug-in that includes all Google integrations.
  • Project: New "read-only" property in projects.
  • Render: Comments are now added to the render pipeline.
  • Report: New tag to report scene changes near clip's limits.
  • Report: New tag to report characters not supported by CaptiView.
  • Report: New tag to report characters not supported by SendText.
  • Right-to-left: New settings to auto format right-to-left texts when importing.
  • Shadows: Added "linear" shadow mode.
  • Shadows: New support for shadow modes, to specify the technique used to draw the shadow.
  • System: Added compatibility with Windows 10 April 2018 Update.
  • System: Application now support .NET framework 4.7.2.
  • System: Kio is now compiled using the "Any CPU" option.
  • System: Kio now runs in 64-bit mode in x64 Windows.
  • Tags: New "Right-to-left line" markups {lrtl} and {/lrtl}.
  • Tags: New "Right-to-left line" tag.
  • Tags: New shadow mode tag.
  • Tags: New tag that contains all the options for boxes.
  • Tags: New tag that contains all the options for outline.
  • Tags: New tag that contains all the options for shadows.
  • Tags: New tag to report Arabic/Hebrew text without right-to-left directionality.
  • Tags: New tag to report quantities separated by a given character.
  • Tags: New tag to specify emphasis mode.
  • Tags: New tag to specify highlight color.
  • Tags: New tag to turn off right-to-left font.
  • Text conversion: Added two new convertors to escape and unescape HTML text.
  • Text: New directionality code "{lrtl}".
  • Utilities: New "Language" category.
2018/Mar/06 Version 1.2.8
Fixes:
  • Batch: Extracting of Blu-ray Sup scripts can now be cancelled.
  • FFmpeg: Fixed crash when reading empty console lines.
  • GUI: Corrected "Do yo really" typo.
  • GUI: Fixed bug in clip scope comboboxes. Scopes that require parameters were also displayed.
  • GUI: Fixed bug showing the name of a missing font.
  • GUI: Improved function to cancel closing windows.
  • GUI: Now the text input dialog does not save its size.
  • Overlay: Fixed bug in the markers overlay. When displaying multiple tracks, markers appeared repeated.
  • TimedText: Now <p> attributes are inherited by children nodes.
  • TimedText: Now the timeBase is not exported when it is empty.
  • Viewer: Fixed XML viewer. Some values were displayed twice.
  • Viewer: Fixed visual problem. Images could lose details (LayoutRounding).
  • Workcopy: Fixed bug with the "file exists already." warning.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to SDK version 10.9.11. This version of Desktop Video supports keying up to UHD 60p.
  • Command: Command copy clips properties now can be used in shortcuts.
  • Export: The export track as dialog now allows to enable "analyze".
  • Export: The export track as dialog now support to select report presets.
  • Export: The export track as dialog now supports 2 presets.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 3.4.1.
  • Final Cut: New option in the graphic exporter "sequence <in> <out> mode".
  • Go to: The initial index is now the selected clip's index.
  • Go to: The initial timecode is now formatted using the selected time formatter.
  • Go to: The initial timecode is now the current time position.
  • Monitor: DPI scalingImages are now scaled by DPI.
  • Netflix: New option to select export language.
  • Netflix: Support to export right-to-left text.
  • Netflix: Support to omit timeBase when exporting.
  • Netflix: Updated Netflix languages table.
  • Overlays: New positioning options for the Comments and Markers overlays.
  • Presets: The "basic" report preset now also checks time discontinuity.
  • Programs: New internal function to bring windows to the front.
  • Project statistics: Added support to report subtitles with fades.
  • Project statistics: Added support to report unique characters.
  • Right-to-left: Added new directionality codes pairs. It is possible now to omit the closing code.
  • Settings configuration: Improved controls and navigation.
  • Settings configuration: New panel to configure shortcuts.
  • Snapshots: Improved behaviour of the "overwrite" option.
  • Snapshots: Improved options in the snapshot command (shortcut).
  • Snapshots: New option to add an index number to snapshot images.
  • Snapshots: New option to allow to overwrite snapshot images.
  • Stereoscopic calculator: Added required visual acuity value.
  • System: Improved file watchers and folder watchers.
  • Tags: The line position offset tags now allow to specify absolute values.
  • Tags: The paragraph position offset tags now allow to specify absolute values.
  • Time formats: The frames time formatter now internally support units.
  • TimedText: New error message when the language code cannot be found.
  • TimedText: Optimized exporting of background color for spans.
  • TimedText: Support to export language names using Netflix codes.
  • TimedText: Support to export several regions (one per display area) and link each <p>.
  • TimedText: Support to import and export timecodes expressed in frames.
  • Viewer: Images are now scaled by DPI.
  • Viewer: It is possible now to drag&drop into the Viewer files without file extension.
  • Viewer: New internal functions to send files to the viewer.
New features:
  • Clips scope: New comments scope.
  • Export: The export preview now allows to send files to the viewer.
  • GUI: New experimental setting to disable the new font comboboxes.
  • GUI: New option to show a taskbar icon.
  • Japanese: Added 2 new boten characters (U+2022 and U+25E6).
  • Languages: New language detection mode "markups".
  • Markers: New error category.
  • Projects: New warning when opening read-only projects.
  • Providers manager: New option to display ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 languages.
  • Right-to-left: Added support for left-to-right directionality codes.
  • Settings: New option to enable opening files using the viewer.
  • Settings: New option to only display basic encodings.
  • Settings: New options to create and remove users.
  • Settings: New tab to configure frame rates.
  • Tags: New Numbers (value range) tag to report numbers inside a given range.
  • Tags: New Time discontinuity tag to report subtitles not sorted by time.
  • Tags: New tag to add directionality codes to LTR and RTL lines and runs.
  • Tags: New tag to remove lines with a given language index.
  • Tags: New tags category report/numbers.
  • TimedText2: Support to export tts:letterSpacing.
  • TimedText2: Support to export tts:textOrientation.
  • TimedText: Support to export tts:fontShear attributes.
  • TimedText: Support to export tts:textOutline attributes.
  • TimedText: Support to export tts:textShadow attributes.
  • Utililty: New convert text utility "Remove diacritics".
  • Utility: New utility to swap languages (swap text lines).
2018/Feb/02 Version 1.2.8 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Comments: The comments edit dialog now accepts empty comments.
  • Custom formats: Fixed problem saving the export subpicture settings.
  • Export: Fixed bug exporting empty keyframes.
  • GUI: Fixed bug positioning icons when drag&dropping files, when using DPI scaling in Windows.
  • Lambda: Fixed bug recognizong the continuation and tate-chu-yoko commands.
  • Reels: Fixed bug displaying the background image.
  • Render: Fixed problem rendering vertical ruby left-aligned.
  • Settings: Corrected combobox for the "encodings/ignore alignment" setting.
  • System: Fixed bug detecting the type of clip collections (affected merge function).
  • Workcopy: Fixed file not found problem in the workcopy dialog.
Improvements:
  • BDN: New option to import the reference text.
  • BDN: New option to import the text bytes.
  • Files: Color palette information is displayed now only if the palette contains colors.
  • Final Cut Pro: Boolean values are now exported as boolean, not text.
  • Final Cut Pro: New option to select how to export the <ntsc> value.
  • Formats: Improved error detection when importing files.
  • Formats: New option to select how to import fades.
  • Formats: Now all formats export the project title using title 2 if any.
  • GUI: Settings are now grouped by category.
  • Overlays: The proofing overlay now allows to highlight text outside the safe area.
  • Programs: Programs now contain a type.
  • Programs: The hub now sort the programs by type.
  • Project: Improved element path naming. Support for paragraphs, lines and runs.
  • Project: Improved functions to detect when opening unauthorized projects.
  • Provider: New function to add buttons and sub-buttons dynamically.
  • Provider: Now caption tables display all codes.
  • Provider: Now captions are divided by table.
  • Provider: Now variables are sorted.
  • SAMI: Now the ltr direction is not exported.
  • SubRip: New option to select the right-to-left codes to use.
  • Tags: The "Box on (subpictures)" now allows to apply boxes only if the box flag is enabled.
  • TimedText2: New support to export boten as <textEmphasis>.
  • TimedText2: New support to export tate-chu-yoko as <textCombine>.
  • TimedText: Now <writingMode> is always exported for vertical paragraphs.
  • Utilities: The remove italic utility now allows to select to remove markups and/or tags.
  • Variables: The {ProjectTitle2} variable now uses Title when empty or not specified.
  • WebVTT: New option to import decoding HTML entities.
  • WebVTT: New option to select the right-to-left codes to use.
New features:
  • Commands: New "Statistics" command to display basic project information.
  • Commands: New Analyze render pipeline command. It displays debugging information about the current subtitle.
  • Editing: New settings to allow to paste HTML, RTF and/or XAML formatting.
  • Export: New "analyze" option in the export wizard.
  • Export: New "analyze" option in the exporter editor.
  • Export: New setting to auto close the export wizard.
  • Export: The export wizard now allows to select a clips scope.
  • Find: New matcher to find subtitles that report preset.
  • GUI: New experimental time formats: Audio 44100, Audio 48000, TimeRef, Flicks.
  • GUI: New menus to display statistics for a projects and tracks.
  • HTML: Added support for 7 new entities for directionality codes.
  • Overlays: New markers overlay.
  • Render: Added new directionality codes: isolate and HTML entity.
  • Render: New internal draft text renderer.
  • Render: New internal function to clear the monitor image.
  • Settings: New options to choose which settings to save on exit.
  • System: New functio to detect Windows 10 update type (service pack).
  • System: New internal functions to work with variables even when disabled.
  • Tags: New individual tags for fade-in and fade-out.
  • Tags: New option to copy font files using Title 2 as file name.
  • Tags: New option to generate font paths using Title 2 as file name.
  • TimedText: The tts:writingMode value is now exported in styles and spans.
  • Utilities: New utility to remove transitions (fades).
  • Utilities: New utrility to change the selected flag in clips.
  • Variables: New keyframe variable {Title2}.
Changes log 2017
2017/Dec/03 Version 1.2.8 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Digital Cinema: Fixed bug importing nested color attributes.
  • Final Cut Pro: Fixed problem using the selected export parameters in stereoscopic graphic mode.
  • Monitor: Fixed bug displaying background images. The surface was always hidden.
  • Timecode: Fixed bug formatting drop-frame timecodes using milliseconds.
  • TimedText Smpte: Fixed crash resolving text areas while exporting.
  • TimedText: Fixed problem importing spaces surrounding spans.
  • Ultech: Fixed bug exporting using the selected position units.
  • XML writer: Boolean casing is now also applied to element values.
Improvements:
  • Digital Cinema: Imported color attributes are now ignored when the color is solid white.
  • Export: New internal option to remove indexes from image filenames.
  • Export: New keyframe ID type "Index (formatted)".
  • Final Cut Pro: New option to export adding timecodes as comments.
  • Final Cut Pro: New option to export selecting the clip ID and clip name.
  • GUI: Numeric controls now allow to use the up and down keys to change the value.
  • Lambda: New option to export selecting index and subindex.
  • Lambda: New option to export selecting format profile (Netflix).
  • Lambda: New option to export simultaneous subtitles (auto slice).
  • Lambda: New option to export timecodes including duration.
  • Lambda: New option to export timecodes with colon.
  • Lambda: New support for 82 commands.
  • Lambda: New support to export 3 kinds of dashes.
  • Lambda: New support to import and export half-width spaces.
  • Reels: Improved creation of reels from an image file. The image is not longer set as video.
  • Reels: Now when creating a reel from a file, the dialog allows to select different kinds of media files.
  • Skew: New skew condition "Italic Tate-chu-yoko".
  • Swift: new option to import Swift files removing the boxes.
  • Tags: The conditional skew tag now ignores tate-chu-yoko when modifying vertical text.
  • Time formatters: New "Lambda" formatter.
  • Time formatters: New "SubRip" formatter.
  • Time formatters: New "SubViewer" formatter.
  • Time formatters: New "WebVTT" formatter.
  • Time formatters: New formatter for HH:MM:SS.Milliseconds separated by a period.
  • TimedText: Added support to import "tick" timecodes.
  • TimedText: Added support to import/export "milliseconds" timecodes.
  • TimedText: Attribute "itts:forcedDisplay" is now recognized at import.
  • TimedText: Improved import of ids and conversion to subtitle index.
  • TimedText: The "Ignore indenting" option is now disabled by default.
  • Ultech: Added new "pixel pairs" positioning option (does exactly the same as the "auto" option).
  • Ultech: Positioning errors are not reported now when exporting positions in units.
  • Variables: New timecode formatting mode "HMSMillisecondsPeriod".
New features:
  • Export: New experimental feature (Use original subpicture area when not creating images).
  • Markups: New {opacity} markup.
  • Render: New image crop mode "Subpicture area" which crops using the original subpicture area.
  • Tags; New effect tag "Fix spaces advance" to correct spaces with modified advance.
  • TimedText: New option to export selecting TimedText version.
  • TimedText: New option to export text splitting lines (one <p> per line).
  • TimedText: New option to export using IMSC1 extensions.
  • TimedText: New option to import stereoscopic (disparity).
  • TimedText: New support for TimedText v2 (experimental).
  • TimedText: New support in TTML2 to export opacity.
  • TimedText: New support in TTML2 to export stereoscopic (disparity).
  • TimedText: New support in TTML2 to import and export ruby: simple and complex.
  • TimedText: New support to import nested spans.
  • TimedText: The IMSC1 extension now can export altText.
  • TimedText: The IMSC1 extension now can export forcedDisplay.
2017/Nov/05 Version 1.2.8 Beta 2
Remarks:
  • Microsoft Windows Defender may report a virus in Lemony (Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.C!cl). This is a false positive. Make sure you update your virus definitions to v1.257.74.0 (2017-Nov-03).
Fixes:
  • Digital Cinema: The "rotate" elements were imported twice.
  • Digital cinema: Removed warning when importing empty fade durations.
  • FFmpeg: The progressbar could crash when displayed the progress of a crashed FFmpeg.
  • GUI: Fixed bug in the preset combobox when filtering presets by "usage".
  • GUI: Fixed crash when opening the monitor for the first time with the DPI fix option enabled.
  • GUI: Fixed problem retrieving window areas when minimized.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with confirmation settings "Open dropped projects" and "Import dropped files".
  • Render: Corrected render speed calculation. Now all glyphs are calculated, except white spaces.
  • WebVTT: Fixed problem with timecodes. Now fractions are separated by a period.
Improvements:
  • Digital cinema: Added new options to export font effect prioritizing border or shadow.
  • GUI: Improved error messaging when failing loading a video.
  • GUI: Now media is paused before closing the application.
  • GUI: Support to save positions of minimized windows.
  • GUI: The "About" window now allows to read the EULA.
  • GUI: The insert markup button now disables the markups that require selected text.
  • GUI: The insert markup button now supports the {advance} markup.
  • GUI: The text input dialog now allows to display a label.
  • Installer: New option to install the NewTek NDI plug-in
  • Installer: Old unnecessary plug-ins are now disabled by default.
  • Installer: The EULA is now in PDF format.
  • Macros: Macro "Time range (frames)" has been removed. Use "Time range" instead.
  • Media: Improved function to find reel's video, waveform, scenes and background.
  • NewTek NDI: Removed audio dependencies.
  • Overlays: The safe areas and display areas are now rendered per clip.
  • Project: The reading speed fields now show units.
  • Reading speed: The text is now counted by graphemes, not characters.
  • Scenarist: Custom headers now support variables.
  • Sony BDN: New option to select how to export the <AutoCrop> value.
  • Sony BDN: New option to select how to export the <AutoSize> value.
  • Sony BDN: New option to select how to export the <Width> <Height> values.
  • Sony BDN: New option to select how to export the <X> <Y> values.
  • Sony BDN: New option to select the case of boolean values.
  • Sony BDN: New option to select the language name. Language codes can be used now.
  • Sony BDN: The Client attribute now takes its value from the "Client" variable.
  • Sony BDN: The Content attribute now takes its value from the "Content" variable.
  • Sony BDN: The WorkOrder attribute now takes its value from the "JobId" variable.
  • System: The application version now includes the build date.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New variables to insert subpicture file names: {SubpictureFileName} and {SubpictureFileNameOriginal}.
  • Digital Cinema: The "rotate" elements are now imported adding {rotation} markups.
  • GUI: New string list control that supports variables.
  • Images: New TimedText image format. It allows to load images embedded in a TimedText file.
  • Import: New option to select how to set the imported track's name.
  • Languages: New internal functions to create custom language tables.
  • Markups: New {rotation:xx} markup.
  • Markups: New {r} markup to break runs.
  • Render: New property to rotate text runs.
  • Settings: The configure tool now includes a page to configure FFmpeg.
  • Tags: New "Rotation" tag to rotate text runs.
  • Tags: New tag to set font size in pixels conditioned by language.
  • Variables: New "{LanguageCode}" variable for custom formats.
  • XML: New internal option to select the case of boolean values for a XML writer.
2017/Oct/16 Version 1.2.8 Beta 1
Remarks:
  • The crop fit tag has been modified. Stored values may be lost.
Fixes:
  • GUI: Corrected some colors in the dark theme.
  • Media: Corrected data rate factor when retrieving media information using Windows shell.
  • Projects: Trapped errors when creating a stream to open a project.
  • System: Fixed bug with shell processes exiting after 10 seconds.
  • Ultech: Fixed problem exporting erase events.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Improved memory management. Secondary empty buffer is not needed any more.
  • Blackmagic: New "Composition" render mode.
  • Crop: The "crop" tag now allows to specify "X fit", "Y fit" and "Height fit".
  • Effect: The fint and replace text effect now supports variables.
  • Export: New XML writer.
  • Export: New function to evaluate if runs can be exported.
  • Export: The change frame rate tags now also modify segment's start and end.
  • FFmpeg: New option to export video selecting unconstrained video and video bit rate.
  • FFmpeg: New option to export video selecting GOP.
  • FFmpeg: New option to export video selecting adding an audio file.
  • Frame rate: Improved frame rate conversion. Anchors are now stretched if needed.
  • GUI: Improved internal functions to display keyframes in messages.
  • GUI: Pop-ups now display a progress wheel if it will take a while to display.
  • GUI: Pop-ups now do not auto-close when showing a large list of items.
  • Images: Improved memory management when loading UYC images.
  • Japanese: Improved function to import Japanese spaces. Support for 25% spaces.
  • Media: FFprobe now can retrieve .wav files duration.
  • NewTek NDI: Added support for render modes.
  • NewTek NDI: New "Composition" render mode.
  • NewTek NDI: Support for tally.
  • Plug-ins: Support to show extra information about the plug-in.
  • Projects: When opening a project, now disabled tags are also analyzed.
  • Render: Improved quality when resizing exported images (Resize images tag).
  • Shortcuts: New option in the Offset duration shortcut to scrub to the last visual frame.
  • SubRip: Added support to export positions.
  • SubRip: Position commands ({\pos}) are now removed when importing.
  • Swift XIF: The customer name field has been removed. Now to specify the customer use the client variable tag.
  • System: Improved functions to retrieve components versions.
  • Tags: New condition grouping mode.
  • Tags: New condition sorting mode.
  • Tags: New effect sorting mode.
  • Tags: Some tags have been moved into the new effects category.
  • Ultech: New warnings when exporting invalid image positions.
  • Ultech: Support to specify units for the image position.
  • WebVTT: New option to export alignment.
  • WebVTT: Now script comments are also exported.
  • WebVTT: Timecodes are exported always expressing hours.
  • WinZip: Support to detect WinZip x64.
New features:
  • Crop: Support to specify X fit, Y fit and height fit.
  • Digital Cinema: Added list of studio codes.
  • Digital cinema: Support to export <space>.
  • Export: New tag to change frame rate using 2 anchors.
  • Export: New tag to time strech using 2 frame rates (from/to).
  • GUI: Added internal support for list separators.
  • GUI: The tag editor now allows to group tags by condition.
  • Japanese: New option to import only non-negative Japanese spaces.
  • Overlay: New DVD overlay to display color remapping information on the monitor.
  • Overlay: New comments overlay to display comments on the monitor.
  • Players: New "Timer" player. It allows to playback subtitles without any media.
  • Plug-ins: New NewTek NDI plug-in to stream subtitles via network.
  • Render: New experimental feature to render effects even when no subtitles are visible.
  • Screen saver: New screen saver that only blurs the subtitler window.
  • Shortcuts: New dialog to select commands.
  • Shortcuts: Redesigned shortcuts editor.
  • Tags: New Add paragraph text effect tag. It renders a custom text on screen.
  • Tags: New Add subtitle text effect tag. It renders a given subtitle on screen.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate display area index.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate line index.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate customer name.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate frame rate.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to evaluate variable values.
  • Tags: New conditional tag to merge conditions.
  • Tags: New tags categories "effect" and "condition".
  • Tags: Tag to set ther value of a condition.
  • Variables: New "ElementComments" variable.
  • Variables: New "ElementTextReference" variable.
  • Variables: New episode variable.
2017/Sep/07 Version 1.2.7
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed problem correcting positions for windows with negative X value.
  • Providers manager: Fixed problem highlighting buttons.
  • Text: Fixed bug removing line alignment tags using textbox shortcuts.
  • Text: Fixed crash while copying line alignment from one subtitle into another.
Improvements:
  • Effects: Now text effects can modify paragraphs too.
  • Effects: Now effects can create renderable objects.
  • Formats: Now custom formats do not include "(custom)" in their names.
  • Formats: When saving a custom format now the suggested filename is the name of the format.
  • GUI: New internal function to filter items in pop-up dialogs.
  • Tags: The "Add text" effect tag now supports to add text for the whole text and each line.
  • Tags: The "background/foreground image" tags now have an option to do not draw the image.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to create an exporter by selecting a file format.
  • Digital cinema: New option to select how to export StartTime.
  • Import: New experimental feature to parse timecodes truncating the FF part.
  • Markups: New "{displayareaindex}" markup to specify the display area to use.
  • Screen saver: New sensibility settings to choose how to stop the screen saver.
  • Time conversion: New tag to change frame rate using the HMSF method.
  • Twin finder: New option "exact" to match clips with exact times.
  • Variables: New variable {ElementLanguageCode} to insert language code.
  • Waveform: New setting to specify the waveform style.
2017/Aug/19 Version 1.2.7 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Removed em units for font effect size in version Smpte 2014.
  • GUI: Corrected default highlight color for buttons.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed problem loading default shortcuts.
  • System: Corrected sign in negative UTC times.
  • TimedText: Corrected writingmode lrtb.
  • Viewer: Fixed bug closing the progress window when detecting file format.
Improvements:
  • Dictionaries: Line-breaks are now corrected before importing dictionaries.
  • Dictionaries: The dictionary file dialog now displays the default dictionary folder as quick access.
  • Exporters: Menu "open folder" in the preview, now opens the folder and finds the file.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 3.3.3.
  • Final Cut Pro: New experimental feature to export 23.976 as drop frame (<displayformat>).
  • Frame rates: Added internal frame rate 240 fps.
  • GUI: Numbers expressed in "columns" now use only "cols".
  • Icons: Trapped errors when converting icons.
  • OpenXML: Updated to version 2.7.
  • Posterization: New options to select to modify the alpha and/or color.
  • Project check: Now when a font is not installed the name is displayed, not a combo.
  • Project check: Redesigned error report when a project is opened.
  • Spell checker: Improved functions to load "dic" dictionaries.
  • Spell checker: Improved functions to load dictionaries.
  • System: Added milliseconds information to log files.
  • Tags: The Font name custom tag now doesn not report errors if the font is not installed.
  • Timebox: Improved "send/receive time position" from timeline.
  • TimedText: Added internal support to export div metadata.
  • Unicode: Updated to version 10.0.
New features:
  • Calculator: Opened calculators now inherit time format and frame rate from the current project.
  • Dictionaries: Added extra information to saved dictionaries (author, creator, etc).
  • Explorer: New menu entry to remove all exporters.
  • Export: New export/processor tag to fill gaps with empty keyframes.
  • Export: New export/processor tag to remove empty keyframes.
  • Exporters: New command to remove all exporters.
  • OFS: New option to select how to fill the gaps between subtitles when exporting.
  • Ovelay: New overlay that displays comments.
  • Providers: Added option to see the installed dictionaries.
  • Reference text: New option to find reference texts in the track above.
  • Spell checker: New spell checker that uses the installed dictionaries.
  • Spell checking: New option to specify a secondary dictionary folders.
  • Tags: New markup {fontsizepoints} to specify fonts size in points.
  • Tags: New option in the Font name custom to only use it if the current font is not installed.
  • Tags: New option in the Font name custom to only use it if the font is installed.
  • Tags: New tag to specify fades in seconds.
  • Tags: New tag to specify fonts size in points.
  • Tags: New tag to specify screen size in inches.
  • Tags: New tags to specify transition in and transition out in seconds.
2017/Jul/24 Version 1.2.7 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug clicking-and-dragging icons.
  • GUI: Fixed crash when showing the trimming guides.
  • GUI: Fixed disabled "editable" panel in the monitor settings window.
  • GUI: Now trimming guides are scaled according to the zoom factor.
  • System: Fixed bug retrieving application's path for web applications.
Improvements:
  • Digital Cinema Smpte: New option to export the time offset as <StarTime>.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte: The <StarTime> element is now exported only when not zero.
  • Digital Cinema: New option to export the time offset as comment.
  • Final Cut Pro: New option to select how to export the <in><out> elements.
  • Find: The "scope" matcher now supports all scopes.
  • GUI: New internal settings to set the color of the trimming guides.
  • Macros: All clip scopes are now supported.
  • Reels: Improved function to calculate reel duration.
  • Tags: New button in the tags editor to remove the category.
  • Timeline: New setting to enable/disable range selection using the mouse.
New features:
  • Clips scope: New "time range" scope that supports HMSF times and can be used in macros.
  • Export: Exporters can now analyze subtitles before exporting.
  • Presets: Tags loaded from a preset now get a group name (same name as preset).
  • Settings: New settings to configure how exporters analyze projects.
  • Tag: The tag options button now displays the group name and allows to change it.
  • Tags: The tags editor now can display tags sorted by group.
  • Variables: New custom variable "{ProjectClient}".
2017/Jul/03 Version 1.2.7 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Formats: Fixed crash when detecting file formats multi-threaded.
  • Overlay: Fixed labels overlaps in the Digital cinema overlay.
  • Overlay: Fixed problem in the DVD overlay when a palette had more than 16 colors.
  • Panasonic SPI: Fixed problem applying the selected encoding while exporting.
  • Render: Corrected sub-pixel precision in animations.
  • Streams: Fixed limitation reading parsed lines. Encodings can now be used.
  • GUI: Corrected some colors for the dark theme.
Improvements:
  • Commands: New command to launch the screen saver.
  • Digital cinema: When importing a file, the display area changes horizontally only if horizontal position is imported.
  • Digital cinema: When importing a file, the display area changes vertically only if vertical position is imported.
  • List: The track buttons now have a limited width.
  • Overlay: In the Digital cinema overlay, horizontal labels now follow the line's alignment.
  • Overlays: The stereoscopic overlay now supports images.
  • Panasonic SPI: Added support to select encoding in image-based formats.
  • Text editor: New internal functions to display buttons for text alignment.
  • Utilities: The text wrap utility now allows to specify the first line to wrap.
  • Utilities: The track/clear tags utility has been renamed to "track/remove all tags".
New features:
  • GUI: New screen saver function to run own screen savers.
  • Interface: New setting to enable touch functionalities.
  • Markers: New context menu to rename markers.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to animate separation in percentage (screen width).
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to animate separation in pixels.
2017/Jun/20 Version 1.2.7 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Export: Fixed problem stopping processes when a video export was cancelled.
  • Fonts: Fixed bug pairing fonts and typefaces, when the face name is not standard.
  • Monitor: Fixed bug enabling the stereoscopic settings.
  • Navigation: Fixed bug in the play/pause command. The "mode" parameter showed wrong options.
  • PAC: Fixed bug correcting italics/spaces when importing.
  • Report: Fixed issue in the outside safe-area. Opacity affected how visual pixels where detected.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed bug listing shortcuts with no command assigned.
Improvements:
  • Blackmagic: Updated to SDK 10.9.3.
  • Digital cinema: New "Digital cinema code (single)" language option, which exports only the first language code.
  • FFmpeg: New setting to speed up H264/H265 hardcopies.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 3.3.1.
  • Final Cut Pro: The "<in>/<out>" option now has the opposite behaviour.
  • Final Cut Pro: The option to specify the <in>/<out> is now available for the text export too.
  • Interface: Changes in Windows DPI are now detected.
  • Interface: Monitor preview is now DPI-adjusted automatically when movinng the window into another computer monitor.
  • Monitor: The monitor preview now adjusts the DPI using Windows' DPI scaling factor.
  • PAC: New option to export optimizing italics and spaces.
  • Reel: The media info dialog now displays information about the scene changes.
  • SCC: Improved debugging messages about gaps.
  • SCC: Improved error messages when captions overlap.
  • System: Shell comments now auto-exit after 10 seconds.
  • System: System information managed objects now removes extra spaces.
  • System: The file browser control now supports to receive dropped file shortcuts.
  • Track: The track editor window now contains a button to "save as script".
  • Track: The track editor window now contains a button to "save as video".
  • Tracks: The default tag inheritance is now "none" for all markers tracks.
  • Tracks: The default tag inheritance is now "none" for all reference tracks.
New features:
  • FFmpeg: New FFmpeg internal component.
  • Final Cut Pro: New option to specify paths compatible with DaVinci on Mac (file:///Volumes/).
  • Markups: New experimental feature to render markups using priorities. Allowing tags to override markups.
  • Scene changes: New option to use FFmpeg to extract scene changes.
2017/Jun/01 Version 1.2.7 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Character picker: Fixed potential crash when finding characters.
  • Monitor: Now it is possible to undock the monitor only if the kind of player contains a movie.
  • GUI: Corrected some colors for the dark theme.
  • Render: Fixed bug measuring texts. Regular runs could be considered as bi-di.
Improvements:
  • Netflix: New options to select base time and time conversion.
  • DVD: New option in the DVD remap tag to use box/outline/shadow mapping.
  • DVD: New option in the DVD remap tag to use shadow mapping.
  • Digital cinema: Now <ContentTitleText> is imported and used as project title.
  • Final Cut Pro: New option to specify the <in> and <out> elements.
  • Final Cut Pro: Support to override the image folder inside the XML.
  • Final Cut Pro: Support to select how to export image paths inside the XML.
  • Final Cut Pro: The new options allow to export XML's compatible for DaVinci Resolve.
  • Hardcopies: The default audio encoding mode is copy.
  • Hardcopies: The default video encoding mode is unconstrained.
  • Hardcopies: The option to delete subtitle overlay files has been removed.
  • List: The track selector panel do not display reels tracks.
  • Logs: The project log now includes the Windows' name.
  • Presets: New Scenarist DVD preset that use dynamic color remapping.
  • Presets: The Scenarist DVD presets have been renamed.
  • Projects: Improved loading of recent projects.
  • Render: Markups are now applied respecting tag's priority.
  • System: Improved function to detect if .NET 4.7 is installed.
  • System: Improved function to launch detached shell processes.
  • Tag: New Color remap DVD tag that allow to specify a base palette and use E1 and E2 for text.
  • Tracks: Menu track/save as has been renamed to "save as script".
New features:
  • Commands: New command to add a stereoscopic track.
  • Commands: New command to find reel's scene changes file.
  • Commands: New command to find reel's background file.
  • Commands: New command to find reel's video file.
  • Commands: New command to find reel's waveform file.
  • Coverage: New text coverage option "All or part of the text".
  • List: New option to select a clip follow mode.
  • Presets: New exporter preset for Final Cut Pro DaVinci Resolve.
  • Projects: New internal function to open projects from a stream.
  • Subpictures: New experimental feature to enable subpicture embedding.
  • Subpictures: New experimental utility to embed subpictures in subtitles.
  • Subpictures: New experimental utility to remove embedded subpictures from subtitles.
  • System: New internal functions to change format extensions based on selected parameters.
  • System: New option to automatically pre-load all subpictures when a project is opened.
  • System: New option to remove all pre-loaded subpictures when a project is closed.
  • Tracks: New menu to export a track as hardcopy.
  • Tracks: New menu to export a track as video (with transparent background).
  • Undo: Subtitle bitmaps are now undoable.
2017/May/01 Version 1.2.6
Fixes:
  • Commands: Fixed bug in the toggle italics context menu.
  • EBU: Fixed bug exporting colors.
  • GUI: Corrected some colors for the dark theme.
  • Project: Fixed problem deserializing log entries.
  • Swift: Corrected imported line positions. Now they are not applied to the baseline.
  • Swift: Fixed bug reading canvas size.
Improvements:
  • Comparer: Improved display of differences for text comparers.
  • Comparer: The plain text comparer now compareres by grapheme.
  • EBU: Added support to colorize only part of the text (color restore support).
  • Files: Improved detection of reel numbers in file names.
  • Formats: New support to import line positions in pixels.
  • Magnifier: Small changes in the information text.
  • Magnifier: The pixel information is now updated when the image changes.
  • Netflix: New option to export including the font color attribute.
  • Settings: Redesigned settings manager dialog.
New features:
  • Colorize: New mode in the colorize tag which allows to select the blend method for each channel.
  • Commands: New command to remove subtitle's position.
  • Comparer: New formatted text comparer.
  • Custom formats: New variable {Comments}.
  • Custom formats: The editor now supports subtitles with comments.
  • GUI: New internal function to watermark the monitor with custom icon and IP number.
  • List: New option to disable the auto selection of track.
  • List: New option to display a track selector on top of the list.
  • List: New option to stop following the active clip.
  • Monitor: New function to swap the stereoscopic channels.
  • Monitor: New function to undock the video.
  • Overlays: New options for the grid overlay to draw safe area grids.
  • Render: Grids now support units as pixels.
2017/Apr/17 Version 1.2.5
Fixes:
  • Batch: Fixed crash calculating maximum number of threads.
  • Commands: Corrected false error in the offset clips shortcut.
  • Export: Fixed priority problem with the resize images tag.
  • Fonts: Trapped error when a typeface crashes.
  • GUI: Corrected some colors for the dark theme.
  • GUI: Fixed binding problem with editable comboboxes.
  • Media: Fixed bug detecting media properties in Windows Creators Update.
  • Script editor: Fixed crash when reloading a null file.
Improvements:
  • Custom formats: Now they have a default icon.
  • Digital cinema: New option to choose if script spans will specify font size.
  • Digital cinema: New option to select frame rate when importing interop files.
  • Export: New warning when previewing an exporter if files have an invalid path.
  • Overlays: Improved refresh of the render time overlay.
  • Plug-ins: Now plug-ins contain information about author and company.
  • Presets: Preset files now include information about their creation.
  • RTF: The RTF encoding now supports streams.
  • Scenarist: The custom directory field now allows variables.
  • Script editor: New option to specify an anchor.
  • System: New internal functions to override the DataFolder path.
  • Utilities: Macro files now include information about their creation.
New features:
  • Custom formats: New variable {IfRaised}.
  • Custom formats: The {Language} variable now supports DigitalCinemaCode formatting.
  • Custom formats: The {Language} variable now supports ISO6391N formatting for neutral languages.
  • Lambda: New option to specify how to import dashes.
  • Lambda: New support to export tate-chu-yoko.
  • Lambda: New support to import paragraph vertical alignment.
  • Project: The project file now can include a copyright notice.
  • Project: The project file now can include the author name.
  • Scenarist: New header mode "custom attributes".
  • Scenarist: New options to specify which event attributes to export.
  • System: New support to detect Windows' release version.
  • Variables: New variable to insert project's copyright notice.
2017/Mar/21 Version 1.2.4
Fixes:
  • Log: Fixed issue with the new log system in olders applications. The XML element has been renamed.
  • Reel wizard: Fixed bug displaying project size, when the size was invalid.
  • SubStation Alpha: Effect name is now included in each event.
Improvements:
  • Activation: Added a paste button to most of the activation windows.
  • CPL: New option to disable the use of a file for merging/splitting.
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 3.2.4.
  • Formats: The Panasonic subtitle information format now supports comments.
  • GUI: Fixed minimum sizes of input dialogs.
  • GUI: New internal functions to have different fonts for the GUI, translated texts, and reference texts.
  • Languages: Improved loading of available languages.
  • NetFlix: Subtitles that use top region are now imported as raised.
  • Render: New internal function to guess the screen size from an aspect ratio.
  • SubStation Alpha: New option to turn off text formatting at export.
  • System: Faster launch.
  • System: The send error report functio now supports to save reports locally.
  • Waveform: Improved drawing of the waveform when zooming in.
  • Word: New internal functions to add tables to Word documents.
New features:
  • Formats: New DVD support for the Panasonic subtitle information format.
  • Subpictures: New utility to round subpicture positions.
2017/Mar/13 Version 1.2.3
Remarks:
  • Projects saved using this version will use the new log system, and lose all previous log entries.
Fixes:
  • GUI: The file control now evaluates the color when changing browse mode.
  • Media: Fixed bug when auto-resyncing reels with time-in greater than zero.
  • Smpte-TT: Fixed bug including ttp:timeBase in the header.
  • Viewer: Fixed bug cleaning viewers.
Improvements:
  • Comparer: Changed default column width to 140 pixels.
  • Comparer: New option to always show the subtitle text.
  • GUI: New tab in the project/track editor to see the log.
  • List: Markers now display the duration.
  • Project: The default minimum log entries is now 20.
  • Smpte-TT: Added tts:showBackground attribute to regions.
  • Spell checker: A progress wheel now appears when retrieving MS Word's languages.
  • Spell checker: Now the first overridable language is auto-selected.
  • Spell checker: Small changes to the GUI.
  • System: Removed experimental feature "MediaPlayer, adjust frame accuracy (24 FPS)".
  • Tag: New tag to set the forced flag on.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to open the report tool with a given preset selected.
  • Final Cut Pro: New format to export stereoscopic projects using 2 sets of images.
  • Project: New log entries in the project and tracks.
  • Settings: New settings to selec which information to save in the project log.
  • Spell checker: New experimental feature to support words that end with period.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to choose how to name stereoscopic scripts and images.
  • Viewer: New TimedText viewer. It displays the embedded images inside a Smpte-TT time.
2017/Mar/06 Version 1.2.2 Beta
Fixes:
  • Export: Fixed bug resizing images of different tracks. Tasks were duplicated.
  • FFmpeg: Fixed bug converting videos of different tracks. Tasks were duplicated.
  • GUI: Fixed bug highlighting the active clip.
  • GUI: Fixed bug when showing an error.
  • GUI: Fixed default size of the batch settings window.
  • GUI: Fixed minimum sizes of all tool settings windows.
  • Merge: Fixed bug merging clips. The merge text option was ignored.
  • Network: Fixed settings to block internet services.
Improvements:
  • CPL: Improved CPL import.
  • Export: The export wizard now has context menus to select/deselect elements.
  • GUI: Internal functions to have a GUI with a custom font.
  • GUI: Internal functions to have a cuatom font for reference text and translation.
  • GUI: New internal support to display relative paths.
  • GUI: New internal switches to select which information to display in the list tool.
  • GUI: New internal switches to select which information to display in the timeline tool.
  • Spell checker: Improved functions to retrieve MS Word dictionary languages.
  • TimedText: New option to export overriding tts:backgroundColor in styles and regions.
  • Utilities: The renumber relative utility now allows to select a reference track.
  • Viewer: The list oif viewers now appears sorted.
New features:
  • Clip scope: New active scope to work with the actived clip in tracks.
  • Commands: New join next command, to join the next subtitle with the active one.
  • Commands: New joins selected command, to join subtitles fitting their times.
  • Spell checker: New setting to automatically populate the supported languages.
  • Utilities: New Copy text from utility.
  • Utilities: New Copy times from utility.
  • Viewer: New CPL viewer.
2017/Feb/13 Version 1.2.1
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed problem with some blurry texts.
  • GUI: Paths are now resolved before opening a file dialog.
  • Navigation: Fixed bug jumping to the time-out of a clip.
  • Navigation: Fixed problem jumping to time-outs.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed bug displayinmg parameters for the Offset node value command.
  • Subtitles: When merging subtitles now the text is merged using the order of the subtitles.
  • TimedText: Fixed bug exporting the selected ttp:timeBase.
  • TimedText: Fixed parameter that allowed to export images in text-only formats.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Internal function to get command's category.
  • FFmpeg: Improved calculation of durations. Now all streams are considered.
  • Find: Improved matcher to find italics. Now it is possible to select a coverage.
  • GUI: Improved transparency of disabled buttons.
  • Import: New setting to remove right-to-left flags in lines without RTL characters.
  • Netflix: New option to select specs version.
  • PAC: New option to optimize spacing when importing.
  • Projects: The auto focus opened projects function now only works with subtitles.
  • Report: New tag to report protected clips.
  • Report: The Disabled clip report tag has been replaced by Not r.
  • Scopes: New clip scope to wotj with renderable and not renderable clips.
  • Shortcuts: Improved function to sort shortcuts alphabetically.
  • Timeline: Markers comments now show a tooltip.
  • Timeline: The length of the markers comments is now limited.
  • Times: The time stretch decimal precision is now 8 decimals.
  • Tracks: The save as dialog now remembers the last used file name.
  • Undo: Clip's flags (Renderable, Protected) can now be undone.
  • Undo: Track's flags (Renderable, Visible, Protected) can now be undone.
  • Utilities: The Time stretch Frame rates utility now displays the factor to be used.
  • Utilities: The Time stretch Numeric now allows to choose frame rates.
New features:
  • Formatting: New internal functions to find text formatting.
  • Markers: Markers now can have a duration.
  • Netflix: Support to export using the March 2017 specs.
  • Render: New support for renderable flag. It makes clips and tracks invisible for the render pipeline.
  • Settings: New option in the settings window to manage settings.
  • Smpte-TT Text: New option to export different kinds of regions.
  • Smpte-TT Text: New option to export omitting the <p> IDs.
  • Smpte-TT Text: New option to export selecting position units.
  • Tags: The Report_ClipDisabled has been replaced by the new tag Report_ClipRenderableNot.
  • TimedText: New option to export TimedText files converting times based on the timeBase.
  • TimedText: New option to import TimedText files converting times based on the timeBase.
  • Utilities: New utility to change clips' renderable flag.
  • Variables: New option to choose how to set a value (set, replace, append, etc).
  • Variables: New support for metadata variables.
2017/Jan/25 Version 1.2.0
Remarks:
  • Framework .NET 4.6.2 is now required.
Fixes:
  • Custom formats: Fixed bug entering text in the replace texts field.
  • Digital cinema: Exported sub/superscripts now do not include the size attribute.
  • Exporters: Fixed bug dropping an exporter into a new project. Now the link to selected elements is removed.
  • GUI: Green highlights were displayed in red.
  • Monitor: Watermarks are now displayed only in graphical players.
  • Render: Fixed problem drawing vertical text. They appeared some pixels lower.
  • Text: Fixed bug when setting the alignment of a second line. The text selection was lost.
  • Timed Text: Fixed problem importing the file's title.
  • Timeline: Fixed bug auto-scrolling while modifying a clip partially outside the timeline.
  • Utilities: Fixed Find replace custom markups utility. Now the closing text can be empty.
Improvements:
  • Activation: New paste button in key activations.
  • Activation: New function to force activation dialog to appear.
  • Character picker: New option to display the picker as pop-up or dialog.
  • Character picker: New options in the settings window to select which characters to show.
  • Character picker: Now it is possible to display the recently inserted characters.
  • Character picker: Now it is possible to find characters by name.
  • Character picker: The shortcut now includes new options.
  • Commands: Added "confirm" option to the remove marker command.
  • Custom formats: Improved detection of block start.
  • Custom formats: New support for "Milliseconds" and "HMSMilliseconds" timecodes.
  • Custom formats: Support to break blocks at empty lines (just use an empty block start).
  • Custom formats: The subtitle preview now can display italic and bold markups.
  • Digital cinema: Added language codes for Khmer and Lao.
  • Digital cinema: Improved CPL import. Namespaces are now ignored.
  • Digital cinema: New export options to specify how to resolve the font italic.
  • Digital cinema: New export options to specify how to resolve the font weight.
  • Files: Improved functions for working with dropped files.
  • Files: Now waveform and scenes files can be dropped, to assign them to a reel.
  • Formats: Imported fontsize markups now rounds the size to 2 decimals.
  • Navigation: New option in the go to command to jump by time or by clip.
  • Navigation: New option in the jump command to jump by time or by clip.
  • Network: New setting to turn off remote IP address retrieval.
  • Network: New setting to turn off internet pinging.
  • Network: New setting to turn off network features.
  • OpenXML: New experimental feature to turn off the RTL flag when importing non-RTL languages.
  • Project: Project analysis now allows to remove non-existing paths.
  • Project: Project analysis now reports dummy tags.
  • Settings: New option to confirm when removing a keyframe.
  • Settings: New option to confirm when removing a marker.
  • Settings: Settings files now contain a version number.
  • Shortcuts: Shortcuts now show an error if the command has invalid parameters.
  • Snapshots: New setting to specify the image name.
  • Snapshots: Now more variables are supported for the directory and file name.
  • System: Improved functions to retrieve the versions of the installed .NET frameworks.
  • System: New functions to detect if running an upgraded version for the first time.
  • Timed Text: The generic TimedText importer now can import subpicture path and position.
  • Tracks: New settings to auto expand and auto collapse tracks.
  • Translator: Updated to the Microsoft's new Translator Text API.
  • Unicode browser: Improved function to find characters by name.
  • Waveform: The waveform extraction tool now allows to change the volume.
  • Workcopies: Support for some new frame sizes: Original and 50%.
New features:
  • Activation: Support for new SafeNet dongles.
  • Clip scopes: New scopes to work with protected and unprotected clips.
  • Commands: New command to duplicate a clip.
  • Export: Exported images now include metadata information (author name).
  • GUI: New entry in context menus to duplicate clips.
  • GUI: New entry in the clips menu to duplicate a clip.
  • Hardcopy: New encoders FFmpeg nVidia encoders.
  • Installer: New option to install FFmpeg and HandySaw DS.
  • Installer: New option to install individual plug-ins.
  • Project: New menu entry to duplicate a project.
  • Reels: New reel wizard. It is displayed when creating a reel from a media file.
  • Render: New option in the font measuring tag to offset vertical texts.
  • Ruby: New inline layout. It displays the ruby next to the base.
  • Settings: New network tab.
  • Settings: New option to choose if metadata in images will be written.
  • Workcopy: New encoders FFmpeg nVidia encoders.
Changes log 2016
2016/Dec/21 Version 1.1.13
Fixes:
  • GUI: Corrected some colors for the dark theme.
  • GUI: Fixed bug finding utilities. They appeared without parameters.
  • Report: Fixed bug when trying to apply disposed solutions.
Improvements:
  • Exporter: New save as button in the exporter editor.
  • Formats: New internal function to check files before importing.
  • Log: Projects now log dates always in English.
  • Markers: New markers are now not flagged as break by default.
  • Markers: Now markers and markers tracks have a category.
  • Monitor: New option to undock the overlay parameters.
  • Presets: Improved overlay controls in the preset preview window.
  • Renumber: Automatic renumbering is now used also when deleting clips.
  • Serialization: XML files now save decimals using point, not comma.
New features:
  • Clipboard: New menu to paste clips starting from the current clip.
  • Clipboard: New option to paste clips, only time, duration and/or text.
  • Formats: Added detection for format "CHK".
  • Go to: New option in the go to window to focus clips.
  • Go to: New option in the go to window to select the source of the clips.
  • Protection: New protected property in clips and tracks.
  • Smpte-TT: New option to export images embedded in the XML.
  • Undo: The undo engine now can undo the protected status.
  • Utilities: New utility to change the protected status in clips.
  • Workspace: New internal function to enable protection in projects.
2016/Nov/21 Version 1.1.12
Fixes:
  • Compression: Fixed bug updating the progress control while compressing files.
  • Digital Cinema: Fixed bug in the Digital Cinema overlay, displaying x-position of vertical texts.
  • Digital Cinema: Fixed bug rounding font sizes.
  • Formats: Fixed typo in the header of SPI files.
  • GUI: Corrected some colors in the dark theme.
  • GUI: Fixed bug calculating dialogs' minimum size.
  • GUI: Fixed bug restoring a timebox after showing an error.
  • GUI: Fixed problem focusing the HMSF timeboxes.
  • GUI: Fixed problem focusing the first textbox in a dialog.
  • Render: Fixed bug pre-rendering combined tracks.
  • Render: Fixed bug resolving paragraph's flow in combined tracks.
  • System: Fixed crash when pasting images in text fields.
  • Tracks: Fixed crash when trying to render a disposed track.
  • Waveform: Fixed crash when moving a clip with the limit trimming option enabled.
Improvements:
  • Aspect ratios: Improved list of aspect ratios.
  • Clips: Improved renumbering functions. Now clips are renumbered sorted by time.
  • Digital cinema: New experimental option to check the XML before importing.
  • Digital cinema: New option to remove ruby at import.
  • Digital cinema: New option to select how to import <space>.
  • Digital cinema: New warning if the language code cannot be resolved when exporting.
  • Final Cut Interchange: New option to import subtitle text from the name element.
  • Font measure: Improved tag to add padding and remove bearings.
  • GUI: New internal options to hide buttons from the subtitle editor.
  • GUI: New option to display the timehead on top.
  • GUI: Now the paste plain text is always visible.
  • GUI: The subtitle editor now displays controls for time-in absolute.
  • GUI: Timeboxes now accept the up and down keys to add/subtract a frame.
  • Import: Updated list of invalid characters.
  • Languages: Updated and corrected list of Digital Cinema language codes.
  • Render: New option to render keyframe's clips as a single clip.
  • Report: Improved time separation tag. It finds the next clip based on its times.
  • Smpte-TT: Improved header in the Smpte-TT Text flavor.
  • SubRip: Improved import. Extra empty lines now can be ignored.
  • SubRip: Improved import. Skipped line are now reported.
  • Subpictures: The Subpicture scale auto tag now supports absolute values.
  • Tags: The resize images now displays an error is no images are found.
  • Tags: The Font measure (italic) tag has been removed.
  • Unicode browser: New option to copy characters to the clipboard.
  • XML: New experimental option to remove namespace attributes.
New features:
  • Digital cinema: Support to import <space>.
  • Formats: New option to optimize markups at import.
  • List: New entries in the subtitle's context menu to reorder the subtitle.
  • Monitor: New internal function to watermark the monitor.
  • Network: New internal function to find computers in the network.
  • Render: New option to modify the advance of runs.
  • Settings: New option in the configuration wizard to enter user settings.
  • Settings: Some settings have been moved to the new user tab.
  • Tags: New processor tag to stretch times numerically prior to export.
  • Tags: New processor tag to stretch times to compensate frame rate's decimation (23.976 and 29.97).
  • Tags: New tag and markup to modify the advance property.
  • Tags: New tag set font size expressed in captions cells.
  • Tags: New tag set font size expressed in cells.
  • Tags: New tag to set the font to monospaced.
  • Utilities: New convert HTML markups utility.
  • Utilities: New utility to sort and renumber clips in tracks.
  • Variables: New Job ID variable.
2016/Oct/24 Version 1.1.11
Fixes:
  • Batch: Fixed bug when adding workcopies jobs without closing the creation window.
  • Blackmagic: Fixed bug retrieving deck's name.
  • Cheetah: Fixed bug imported time-outs. All time-outs were snapped, not only undefined ones.
  • Compression: Fixed bug resolving folder names.
  • Digital Cinema: Language codes are now exported in lowercase.
  • Export: Fixed bug overriding script extensions.
  • Fonts: When copying a font file, now the folder is folced to be created.
  • Formats: Fixed 4 characters in the PAC encoding table.
  • Frame rate: Corrected some calculations for rate 29.97 ND frame.
  • GUI: Fixed behaviour. When a progress window was closed it could bring to front its owner.
  • GUI: Fixed problem consuming drop events in path controls.
  • OpenXML: Improved detection of BiDi texts when importing.
  • Providers manager: Fixed problem displaying neutral cultures.
  • Reels: Added scene changes are now sorted by time.
  • Report: Fixed bug checking overlaps.
  • System: In the system info, it is not longer an error if the log file is not present.
  • System: QuickTime is not longer a required component.
  • Video: Corrected functions to read video properties, in Windows 10 Anniversary.
Improvements:
  • Batch: New option to auto clear the file-list after adding jobs.
  • Blackmagic: Improved mirror. Added support for stereoscopic frame packing.
  • Blackmagic: Improved reading of card's video modes.
  • Blackmagic: Support for several cards.
  • Clips: Clips now can obtain a reference text from several master clips.
  • Clips: Improved merging of comments and reference text. Duplicates are avoided now.
  • Command: New command to find the time-head in the timeline.
  • Command: New command to set timeline's scale.
  • Commands: Command jump to clip (by time) now allows to select a scope.
  • Commands: New option in the Snap node time command to snap to clip's edges.
  • Commands: The offset node frame command now does not allow to overlap another node.
  • Digital cinema: New language name option, to export using the neutral language name.
  • Digital cinema: The Smpte format now supports to export several fonts.
  • Duplicate clips: New option to create the new clips from the timehead's current position.
  • EDL: New option to choose a event name when exporting Premiere EDL.
  • Export: Improved keyframe names. Now the timecode is included.
  • FFmpeg: Additional details about FFmpeg are displayed in system info and providers windows.
  • FFmpeg: Changed nVidia codec names to the new ones.
  • FFmpeg: New functions to retrieve its version number.
  • Fonts: New options in the font file copy tag to specify which fonts to copy.
  • Fonts: New tag to specify a fixed GUID for a font.
  • Formats: Improved Text only import options.
  • Formats: The default encoding for the Sonic text format is now UTF-8.
  • GUI: Improved auto focus. Now it prioritizes the focused clip.
  • GUI: Improved wizard panel. New button to skip without applying changes.
  • GUI: New internal option to choose if textboxes auto-select the text when getting the focus.
  • GUI: New option to choose a different folder picker dialog.
  • GUI: Now when the monitor is editable the textbox get the focus.
  • GUI: Subtitler tools can now be reordered or closed only when lock tools is disabled.
  • GUI: The color picker now displays ARGB and hexa values.
  • Hardcopies: New setting to delete the source video if the conversion succeeded.
  • Hardcopies: New setting to delete the target video if the conversion failed.
  • Hardcopies: Support to offset the input file, using reel's time offset value (experimental).
  • Import: New setting to do not add a language tag to imported tracks.
  • Netflix: Improved glyph report. Duplicated invalid glyphs are now reported only once.
  • Netflix: Improved tag to report invalid glyphs. New option to select scope.
  • Overlays: New Text areas overlay now has more metrics options.
  • Projects: Improved serialization of empty tracks (keyframes and reference).
  • Report: The Clip time overlap tag now allows to choose if times will be checked against previous/next clips.
  • SCC: New option to export time-outs in "auto" mode. Depending of the captions's "paint mode".
  • SCC: New option to select how to export time-outs.
  • Settings: New wizard to reset the settings.
  • Spell checker: Improved error messages when unable to create a spell checker.
  • Subpictures: The subpicture scale tag now allows to have absolute/relative scaling.
  • System: Improved custom places. Now dialogs default to the first custom place.
  • System: Improved custom places. Now only existing ones are displayed.
  • System: Improved sorting of system folders. Now default folders are first in the list.
  • System: New function to detect if connected to internet.
  • System: Now BAT files beep when finished.
  • System: Support to recognize when running on Windows Server.
  • Tags: New option in the Font file copy tag to include/exclude fonts from tracks.
  • Text: The HTML tag converter now supports <sub>, <sup>.
  • Time: Improved formatting and parsing of timecodes.
  • Timed text: New internal functions to export each text line in its own <p>.
  • TimedText: Now the frame rate is detected when importing TimedText Smpte files.
  • Timeline: New setting to change the time-head follow mode.
  • Timeline: The timehead now appears in front of all the tracks.
  • Unicode: Unihan and Unicode tables updated to version 9.0.
  • Variables: Custom variable now accept system variables.
  • Workcopies: New option to auto select the timecode's frame rate.
  • Workcopies: New option to use audio copy.
  • Workcopies: New support for frame size 1024x576.
New features:
  • Blackmagic: New settings tab.
  • Blackmagic: New support for LiveKey.
  • Captions: Captions parameters are now evaluated at paragraph level, which allows the use of markups.
  • Captions: New support to use markups to customize captions.
  • Captions: New tag {ccpainton} to set the captions' paint mode to paint-on.
  • Captions: New tag {ccpopon} to set the captions' paint mode to pop-on.
  • Captions: New tag {ccrollup} to set the captions' paint mode to roll-up.
  • Commands: New command to save a project as a template.
  • Commands: New command to set the playback speed.
  • Export: New post-process tag to resize exported images.
  • Export: New option to auto-select all (enabled) exporters in the export wizard.
  • Frame rates: New internal support for 59.94, 90, 119.88 and 300 fps.
  • GUI: New control to enter masked passwords.
  • GUI: New menu to save a project as a template.
  • GUI: New option to fix windows' positions. Preventing them to appear outside the desktop area.
  • GUI: New support for visual styles.
  • Hardcopies: New support to render just a segment of the movie.
  • Keyframes: The keyframe editor now allows to offset the time of a node.
  • Languages: New table of Netflix languages.
  • Languages: New tag to use the neutral variant of a language.
  • Matchers: New matcher to find subtitles with a given number of lines.
  • Monitor: New support to set playback speed.
  • Providers: New option in the providers manager to see the supported time formatters.
  • Render: New support for strikeout style.
  • Settings: New list settings to reduce the list while playing.
  • Settings: New list settings to show subtitles with formatted text.
  • Settings: New monitor settings to display play speed controls.
  • Settings: New option to auto-select the first error in the report tool.
  • Settings: New option to select if disabled clips will be displayed semi-transparent.
  • Settings: New option to select the maximum number of messages to display in a progress window.
  • Settings: New option to show/hide descriptions in the GUI.
  • Smpte-TT: New option select how to export text/images positions. Using regions or origin+extent.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to render subtitles in stereoscopic: Checkboard, LbL, SbS, T/B.
  • Subpictures: It is now possible to change subpicture's aspect ratio.
  • System: New setting to disable all internet features (and connection attempts).
  • Tags: New tag to set subpicture's aspect ratio.
  • Tags: Several tags have been improved to support strikeout.
  • Tags: new tag to apply the strikeout style.
  • Utilities: New tag to modify the paragraph's position offset.
  • Utilities: New tag to remove the paragraph's position offset.
  • Utilities: New utility to apply the strikeout style to subtitles.
  • Utilities: New utility to stretch nodes.
  • Utilities: Several utilities have been improved to support strikeout.
  • Workcopies: New option to add a watermark.
2016/Jul/31 Version 1.1.10 Beta 7
Fixes:
  • Batch: The analyze script job now shows report presets.
  • Commands: Fixed small bug calculating
  • Cultures: Fixed bug creating the Azerbaijani DC language, in Windows 7.
  • Cultures: Fixed loading of K'iche' culture, in Windows 7.
  • Digital Cinema: New experimental option to correct the "one second fade" issue when exporting Interop files.
  • Export: Fixed bug exporting empty segments.
  • Font: Fixed bug grouping Arial font family.
  • Formats: Fixed crash exporting Kaltura files.
  • GUI: Fixed crash when clicking on a report item for the second time.
  • GUI: Fixed problem centering windows on screen.
  • Languages: Fixed bug finding a language with no name, which always returned invariant.
  • Markups: Fixed bug inserting subscript/superscript markups. It always asked for the base text.
  • Players: Fixed resize problem with Ax players (Media player, QuickTime).
  • Subpictures: The align subpicture utility now works fine with anchored subpictures.
  • Subpictures: The offset position utility now works fine with anchored subpictures.
  • Subpictures: The set position utility now works fine with anchored subpictures.
  • System: Fixed bug pre-loading images. The active track could not be found.
  • System: Fixed problem finding the location of MS Word and MS Excel.
  • System: Fixed problem resolving folder names.
  • Tags: Fixed problem with controls in the Match regex tag.
  • Text optimize: Fixed bug when flushing double spaces before a markup.
  • Waveform: Catched additional errors when drawing a waveform.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Improved management of the job list. Support for thousands of jobs.
  • Batch: Job parameters are now displayed only if the panel is expanded (experimental).
  • Batch: New menu to 'ignore' all jobs.
  • Batch: New menus to manage jobs.
  • Batch: New option in the analyze script to do not create empty reports.
  • Batch: The analyze script job now considers design tags.
  • Blackmagic: Now all available display modes are listed, even if they are not supported.
  • Boxes: New option to merge boxes. To avoid semi-transparent boxes rendered on over other semi-transparent boxes.
  • Captions: New option in the captions overlay to enable/disable auto time-off.
  • Captions: New option in the captions overlay to re-stream all the bytes.
  • Captions: New option in the captions overlay to show/hide errors.
  • Captions: New option in the captions overlay to show/hide guides.
  • Captions: New option in the captions overlay to show/hide the write buffer.
  • Dialogs: New option in the elements dialog to create a report.
  • Digital Cinema: Added Azerbaijani to the list of languages.
  • FFmpeg: The system info window now displays the FFmpeg version.
  • Fonts: New option in the copy font tag to rename the font using the script's name.
  • Fonts: New option in the copy font tag to rename the font using the track's name.
  • Frame rate: Some frame rate names have been changed.
  • GUI: Subpicture position are now displayed with 2 decimals.
  • GUI: The document dialog now saves its size and position.
  • Hub: The recent files panel has been removed. It can be reactivated as experimental feature.
  • Languages: Support for the Quichua language.
  • Markups: Now markup parameters are not procesed when empty.
  • Microsoft translator: New settings to configure the connection.
  • Overlays: The Digital Cinema overlay now displays the subpicture positions relative to bottom.
  • Plug-ins: The dexter plug-in now includes the stdole library.
  • Providers: Blackmagic cards now display all available display modes.
  • Providers: Installed graphic cards are now listed in the devices category.
  • Report: New tag to report overlaps per track.
  • Report: Removed option to select preset scope for the report tool.
  • Ruby: New internal support to create controls in the textbox to enter ruby texts.
  • Settings: New option to confirm before ignoring all batch jobs.
  • Settings: New option to hide built-in presets.
  • Settings: New option to specify the default display area.
  • Settings: The default transition (fade) duration is now 2 frames.
  • Shadows: Support to have shadows just in a segment of text, not the entire paragraph.
  • Smpte-TT: When exporting, now the "m608:programName" attribute is taken from the "program", if defined.
  • Smpte-TT: When exporting, now the "ttm:copyright" attribute is taken from the "copyright", if defined.
  • Smpte-TT: When exporting, now the "ttm:desc" attribute is taken from the "description", if defined.
  • Stereoscopic: The monitor now supports side-by-side layout.
  • Stereoscopic: The monitor now supports top/bottom layout.
  • Stereoscopic: The default stereoscopic mode is ow checkerboard.
  • SubRip: New option to convert HTML entities while importing.
  • Subpictures: Importing of subpicture positions now supports decimals.
  • Subpictures: The align subpicture utility now accepts to specify a margin.
  • Subpictures: The offset position utility now allows to specify position units.
  • Subpictures: The set position utility now allows to specify position units.
  • Subtitle editor: The subpicture anchor is now displayed.
  • System: Added build date to the about window.
  • System: Dependency IWshRuntimeLibrary has been moved into the Dexter plug-in.
  • System: The image buffer now stores files by default, not images.
  • Tags: New shadow off tag.
  • Tags: The double spaces report tag now allows to ignore leading/trailing spaces.
  • Tags: The sort keyframes tag now allows to select sorting modes.
  • Tags: The transition affect tag now allows to restore the opacity.
  • Tags: When finding tags, now tag displays the color of its category.
  • Time: New time formatter HMSF Period, which separates frames with a period (00:00:00.00).
  • Timeline: New settings to select which handles to display when in editable mode.
  • Timeline: Small changes in the look of the markers.
  • Tools: Redesigned subtitle info tool.
  • Tools: The subtitle info tool now displays subpicture information.
  • Tracks: The save as dialog now preserves the last used export parameters.
  • Utilities: New options to present the utilities in different ways.
  • Variables: Some language variables have been renamed: ElementLanguageISO6391, ElementLanguageISO6391N, ElementLanguageISO6392.
New features:
  • Batch: New menus to reschedule, ignore and remove jobs.
  • Batch: New option to find and filter jobs (searching for the file path).
  • Batch: New option to limit the number of jobs displayed in the panel.
  • Batch: New option to select (mark) jobs.
  • Batch: New option to select jobs.
  • Boxes: New option to draw boxes in subpictures.
  • Boxes: New option to draw outlines around boxes.
  • Captions: New option to calculate column position based on text's pixel position.
  • Captions: New option to calculate row position based on text's pixel position and stacking lines.
  • Captions: New option to calculate row position based on text's pixel position.
  • Commands: New command insert markups to insert markups around the selected text.
  • FFmpeg: New bitrates for workcopies, up to 16000 kbps.
  • FFmpeg: New setting to speed up H264/H265 encoding.
  • FFmpeg: New support for nVidia accelerated H264 and HEVC encoding (works with drivers v365.19 or v368.69).
  • FFmpeg: New workcopy preset H264 nVidia.
  • FFmpeg: New workcopy preset H265 nVidia.
  • FFmpeg: The ProRes -qscale is now specified for video and audio separately (-q:v -q:a) to avoid warnings with movies with no audio.
  • Formats: New support to export Smpte-TT (Graphic).
  • Formats: New support to export Smpte-TT (Text).
  • Formats: Support to detect some new propietary file formats.
  • Formats: Support to import and export Gelula files.
  • Monitor: New button to fix the video player (in monitor settings).
  • Report: New tag to report double spaces.
  • Report: New tag to report leading/trailing spaces.
  • Settings: New option to auto-deselect all clips when opening a project.
  • Subtitle: The subtitle editor now allows to edit the subpicture.
  • System: New feature to buffer files instead of bitmaps (experimental).
  • Tags: New aspecth tag to set the horizontal aspect.
  • Tags: New to specify bow outline color.
  • Tags: New to specify bow outline size.
  • Tags: New to turn on box merging.
  • Tags: New to turn on box outlines.
  • Variables: New custom variable "copyright".
  • Variables: New custom variable "description".
  • Variables: New custom variable "program".
2016/Jun/02 Version 1.1.10 Beta 6
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed aesthetic problem with menus with custom colors.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with text color in element comboboxes.
  • Render: Fixed problems aligning tate-chu-yoko runs.
  • Render: New experimental feature that fixes a bi-di font measuring bug.
  • Ruby: Fixed bug arranging vertical texts with ruby.
  • Speech recognition: Fixed bug detecting installed languages.
Improvements:
  • Boten: The boten markup now supports to specify the boten text {boten:a}.
  • EBU: New support to export double line-breaks.
  • GUI: Improved sizing of the add utility to macro dialog.
  • Markups: Improved internal functions to remove markups. Now markups with parameters can be removed too.
  • Markups: New {lang2} markup to mark a line as secondary language.
New features:
  • Captions: New tag to report errors encoding closed captions characters.
  • Digital cinema: Images are now imported using anchors.
  • Encoding: New tag to report characters not supported by a given encoding.
  • Font: New support to remove glyph bearings.
  • Overlays: New metrics options for the text areas overlay.
  • Subpictures: New command to pre-load all subpictures in the current track.
  • Subtitle editor: New button to insert markups (experimental).
  • Tags: New tag to change font color to language 2.
  • Tags: New tag to change font name to language 2.
  • Tags: New tag to change font size to language 2.
  • Tags: New tag to remove run bearings. Called Font measuring (auto remove bearing).
  • Tags: Tag Font measuring now have options to remove bearings.
  • Utilities: New utility to remove language index.
  • Utilities: New utility to set language index by selecting a method.
2016/May/25 Version 1.1.10 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug exporting "none" font effect.
  • Markups: Fixed bug closing the fontsizedc markup.
  • Navigation: Removed short stumble when jumping to the next clip while playing.
  • Ruby: Corrected bug measuring ruby when using character spacing.
  • Ruby: New experimental feature to correct alignment of vertical runs with ruby.
  • Spruce: Fixed export. Commas are now separated by tabs, not spaces.
  • Utilities: Fixed crash in the Set font name utility.
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Option Convert pixel format for workcopies is not longer experimental.
  • Frame rates: The frame rate combobox now can display only some frame rates.
  • GUI: The system information window now stores its size and position.
  • Images: The UYC image format is now supported to save as images.
  • Overlay: The reference text overlay now allows to choose the text position.
  • Render: New support to tag texts with a language index.
  • Report: Now tag Clip time inside range allows to specify a reel number.
  • Report: Tag Word with partial formatting now can report partially colored words.
  • Scenarist: Export to version 2 and 4 now use two different tags.
  • Scenarist: New option to override the header of the script.
  • Scenarist: New option to set the subpicture number padding.
  • Scenarist: New option to set the event spacing.
  • Settings: New option "Display only basic frame rates" to hide advanced frame rates.
  • SubRip: Improved export of drop-frame timecodes.
  • System: Improved function to find OneDrive's local path.
  • Timecode: New experimental feature Convert frames to milliseconds using rate.
  • Variables: Now custom variables are not replaced in the subtitle text.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to offset clips.
  • Export: The Track/Save as function now supports to export images.
  • Report: New tag to report characters with a given width type (fullwidth, halfwidth, etc).
  • Report: New tag to report subtitles with a given number of dialog interventions.
  • Report: New tag to report subtitles with missing dialog interventions.
  • Ruby: New support for layouts: furigana, bopomofo, kumimoji.
  • Ruby: Support for kumimoji.
  • System: New internal functions to retrieve disk drives, partitions and volumes.
  • System: The system information now displays disk drives information.
  • Tags: New markup {charspacing} to specify character spacing.
  • Tags: New markup {langindex} to specify language index.
  • Tags: New tag to specify ruby layout.
2016/Apr/27 Version 1.1.10 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Blu-ray: Fixed bug exporting frame rate in OFS files.
  • Blu-ray: Fixed crash in the OFS viewer.
  • Formats: Fixed bug cloning formats.
  • Formats: Fixed crash when trying to detect very large files.
  • GUI: Corrected problem with menu separators in Windows 7.
  • GUI: Fixed some bugs with multi-threaded progress bars.
  • Hardcopies: Fixed bug exporting multiple hardcopies. AVI files were scheduled several times.
  • Import: Fixed bug importing subscript and superscript as tags.
  • Overlays: Fixed bug refreshing overlays in mirrors.
  • RegEx: Fixed crash when a RegEx timed out.
  • Render: Corrected bug merging areas.
  • Script editor: Fixed crash in Excel mode.
  • System: Fixed bug when writing to the log file multi-threaded.
  • Undo: Fixed bug restoring tags. Some tag were disconnected from their owner.
  • Utilities: Fixed bug removing bold formatting.
  • Workcopies: Fixed bug retrieving dialog's settings.
Improvements:
  • Blu-ray: Added support to export stereoscopic with PNGs + OFS.
  • Blu-ray: Improved stereoscopic calculation for OFS files, now it is calculated per subtitle.
  • Colors: New gray mode in the color picker.
  • Commands: Command Format text with markups can now toogle markups.
  • Commands: Command Format text with markups supports now markup parameters.
  • Commands: New command to copy the selected text in the textbox.
  • Commands: New command to format the selected text in the textbox with markups.
  • Commands: New command to paste text into the textbox.
  • Digital cinema: New support to import text colors.
  • Effects: New colorize mode "brightness blend".
  • Export: New internal function to avoid having double underscore in image file names.
  • Export: New warning before exporting if duplicated files will be created.
  • Export: New warning if there are tasks with errors.
  • Fade: New experimental feature to calculate fading in a different way (first frame has opacity 0%).
  • GUI: Improved support for multi-threading in progress windows.
  • GUI: More dialogs now save position and size.
  • GUI: Some improvements in how progress bars step.
  • Import: New settings to enable multi-threaded format detection.
  • Magnifier: New support to display overlays.
  • Markers: New markers can now be auto-renumbered.
  • Media: Improved reading of media properties in Windows 8 and Windows 10.
  • Navigation: Jumping to next clip while playing now ignores pre-roll if outrun.
  • Render: New experimental feature to correct text measurements with GridFit antialias.
  • Safe area: The text outside safe area tag now supports different modes.
  • Script editor: Empty Excel cells are now ignored.
  • Settings: New internal functions to hide settings.
  • Settings: New option to auto focus new reels.
  • Settings: New option to change project duration when a new reel has been added.
  • Settings: New option to change project frame rate when a new reel has been added.
  • Settings: New option to change project screen size when a new reel has been added.
  • Settings: New option to select if media frame rates will be confirmed when creating a new reel.
  • Stereoscopic: New option to invert sterescopic values when importing.
  • Tags: New tags to position paragraphs in absolute coordinates (pixels or percent).
  • Tags: The text outside safe area tag now supports to check subpictures.
  • Tags: The text outside safe area tag now supports to check visible pixels.
  • Time stretch: Improved First and last utility. Now the anchors are optional.
  • Time stretch: Now stretch factors can be less than 0.5 and greater than 2.0.
New features:
  • Export: Tasks now support errors. Which are reported before exporting.
  • Import: New option to import text positioned in rows mmoving the lines.
  • Import: New option to import text positioned in rows mmoving the text.
  • Overlay: New option in the grid overlay to display PAC grid.
  • RegEx: New regex variable to find optional spaces or tabs.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to offset the stereoscopic separation in a given line.
  • Subpictures: New support for subpicture anchors.
  • Tags: New markup to change font size in Digital Cinema points {fontsizedc}.
  • Utilities: New utility to set subpicture's anchor.
2016/Mar/23 Version 1.1.10 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Colors: Fixed problem converting RGB colors to HSV.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with the numeric control and their default value.
  • RegEx: Now errors are catched when evaluating a pattern.
Improvements:
  • Boxes: Improved internal function to detect if boxes are visible.
  • Colors: Description is added to custom colors only if the preset contains several colors.
  • Colors: Improved color picker.
  • Colors: The DVD remap tag now allows to select up to 256 colors.
  • Commands: New internal command to display all the config files.
  • Export: Improved preview. Taks with errors now display a red icon.
  • FFmpeg: New exprimental feature to use the new AAC encoder (FFmpeg 2016-Feb-15)"
  • GUI: Input dialogs now save size and position.
  • GUI: Now preset comboboxes can display different kinds of presets (flags).
  • GUI: The toggle overlay command now works on all opened monitors.
  • Monitor: The snapshot tab has been removed from the monitor settings dialog.
  • Presets: New option to enable/disable preset folders, in the settings window.
  • Report: The safe area tags now support to specify a stereoscopic tolerance.
  • Settings: New option in the application configuration dialog to reset overlays.
  • Settings: New option to select default font size in points.
  • Settings: New option to select if outline is enabled by default.
  • Settings: New option to select if shadows is enabled by default.
  • Settings: New options to select default safe area.
  • Settings: New options to select default fade in/out.
  • Settings: Reorganized settings window.
  • Shadows: Improved function to calculate shadows' visible areas.
  • Snapshots: Snapshots are now configurable in the settings/media dialog.
  • Softitler: Added support to remove [P] when importing.
  • Spruce: Improved format detection. Added support for larger headers.
New features:
  • Colors: Now custom colors are created from presets flagged as color source.
  • Presets: New color source flag for presets.
  • Tags: New children root tag to modify the hierarchy root when retrieving renderable clips.
  • Tags: New colorize tag to change colors.
  • Tags: New text case tag to report text segments with a given casing.
  • Tags: New tag to set transition and fade at the same time.
  • Tags: The colorize tag now supports the color burn mode.
  • Tags: The colorize tag now supports the hue/saturation blend mode.
  • Utilities: New utility to find/replace custom markups.
2016/Mar/03 Version 1.1.10 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug exporting in-line formatting.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with extra spaces in separators.
  • System: Fixed problem requieving some exception messages.
  • WebVTT: Fixed problem with bad padding in timecodes.
Improvements:
  • Overlays: It is possible now to select the opacity of the safe area overlay.
New features:
  • Overlay: New Digital Cinema grid that displays 10% and 5% cells.
  • Overlay: New grid that displays 5% cells.
2016/Feb/21 Version 1.1.10 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Compression: Fixed bug resolving the files to compress. Some compressed files were re-compressed.
  • Protection: Fixed problem protecting the QuickTime plug-in.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed problem with some show utility shortcuts that lose their parameters.
  • System: Fixed performance issues related to memory release.
  • Variables: Fixed problem displaying the variables button.
Improvements:
  • Character picker: New option to hide common characters.
  • Character picker: New option to show characters for the current language.
  • Clip scope: Improved design clip scope.
  • Commands: Added the reaction time to the set time-out command.
  • Commands: New command to insert a given text into the subtitle editor.
  • Commands: New internal functions to replace obsolete commands.
  • Commands: The add marker command can now be a shortcut.
  • Commands: The add marker command now allows to auto-create a track.
  • Compression: Invalid paths are now flagged as invalid.
  • DVD remap: New option to select how to convert soft pixels.
  • Export: Improved export confirmation dialog.
  • Export: The export finished dialog now displays the elapsed time.
  • Export: The preview now allows to disable tasks.
  • Export: The preview now decorates invalid files.
  • Export: The preview now sorts all tasks by priority.
  • GUI. The numeric control now accepts cursor up/down to change the value.
  • List: New options to select which controls to use in edit mode.
  • Matchers: The subtitle with italic matcher has been removed.
  • Monitor: Improved on-screen text editor. Better resizing and aligning.
  • Project: The project editor now allows to enable shadows.
  • Settings: The default box color and shadow color are now semi-transparent.
  • Shortcuts: Improved functions to retreieve gestures for commands with different parameters.
  • System. New functions to display recursive error messages.
  • Tags: The directory size check tag now checks all folders in the export session.
  • Tags: The directory size check tag now reports errors is no size has been selected.
  • Timeline: New master handle that can move several clips at once.
  • Timeline: New options to select which controls to use in edit mode.
  • Timeline: New settings to configure the master handle.
  • Timeline: New settings to configure the snapping.
  • Timeline: New visual guides while trimming.
  • Timeline: Now trimming a clip also respects the neighbors' limits.
  • Timeline: Snapping works now with surrounding clips and other tracks.
  • Utilities: New internal functions to replace obsolete utilities.
  • Workcopy: Removed all 4:3 screen sizes.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to fix time-out and add a new clip.
  • Effects: New anti-alias edge effect. It smoothes text edges.
  • Effects: New pixel effect to draw outlines.
  • Effects: New pixel effect to render solid antialias (for DVD).
  • Presets: New Scenarist DVD presets that use pixel effects instead.
  • Snapshot: New option to send snapshots to the clipboard.
  • Workcopy: New screen sizes for Digital Cinema 1280x.
2016/Feb/04 Version 1.1.9
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug exporting image entries.
Improvements:
  • GUI: New +/- buttons.
  • GUI: New experimental function to be able to force close progress windows.
  • GUI: The new play 50% and play 200% buttons are hiden bu default.
  • Plug-ins: Improved functions to manage expirations.
  • Scenarist: New option to include/omit subtitle, tv_type and base_time.
New features:
  • Digital cinema: New option to export as images only flagged subtitles.
  • Export: New menu in the export preview to find the source clip.
  • Export: New option to show in the export preview selected subtitles too.
  • Find: New matcher to find subtitles with baseline inside a given range.
  • Keyframes: New command to offset all nodes times in a keyframe.
  • Offset: New option in the offset time-in shortcuts to also offset keyframe nodes.
  • Reel: Improved media info command.
  • Tags: New tag to set an user flag.
2016/Feb/01 Version 1.1.8 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Clips: Fixed bug resolving nodes when merging keyframes.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug importing HPos in images.
  • Flags: Fixed bug resolving hierarchical not renderable flags.
  • Fonts: Fixed bug retrieving the name of typefaces with no English name.
  • GUI: Fixed bug in expanders panels. The bold style affected the whole panel.
  • GUI: Fixed bug in some panels not scrolling.
  • GUI: New experimental feature to avoid background windows to show in front.
  • GUI: New function to avoid mandatory comboboxes to be empty.
  • Import: Fixed problem in the import dialog, connecting the encodings browser and the list of files.
  • Languages: Corrected some ISO 639-1 language names.
  • Media player WPF: New experiment feature to fix a calibration problem with 24-FPS movies.
  • Media: Fixed crash when loading media from a URI with invalid formatting.
  • OpenXML: Added upport to import text from unknown OpenXML elements.
  • OpenXML: Improved import of empty lines.
  • Project: Improved wizards to avoid assigning empty languages.
  • Settings: Fixed bug retrieving some folder names: presets, templates, macros.
  • Timecode: Fixed bug displaying durations of several hours.
  • Undo: Fixed bug adding tags to the undo buffer. Tags could raise events.
  • Undo: Fixed bug undoing removed clips. They could get in the wrong order inside the track.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Command edit comment now supports markers too.
  • Commands: The internal ID of command edit comment has been changed.
  • Digital Cinema: Format DLP Cinema has been renamed to Digital Cinema DLP Interop.
  • Digital Cinema: New option to omit the EffectSize attribute when exporting.
  • Export: New experimental feature to render images using keyframe's original time.
  • Fonts: Improved functions to retrieve typeface names.
  • Fonts: Italic bearing is applied now without having to add a tag.
  • Fonts: The default italic slant angle has been changed to 11°.
  • GUI: New experimental feature to reduce the number of clips in the list while playing.
  • GUI: New internal functions to change the color of the GUI text.
  • GUI: New internal support for combined messages.
  • GUI: The auto focus clip function now ignores disabled clips.
  • History: Composed undo levels now display all the sub-levels.
  • Installer: The installer now creates a link to the log file.
  • JSON: New internal functions to deserialize JSON.
  • Languages: Added more languages to the digital cinema list of codes.
  • List: The list now can indicate of a marker is "break" enabled.
  • Magnifier: The position and size of the window are now saved.
  • Markers: New markers are created now with no name.
  • Markers: The default size of markers tracks is now 40 pixels.
  • Matchers: The subtitle comments matcher now supports markers.
  • Media: New setting to always create new reels inside project/tracks.
  • Menus: New internal functions to disable menus.
  • Monitor: New option to select what to do when double-clicking the monitor.
  • Monitor: The "render all frames" option has been moved to the settings window.
  • Plug-ins: New configuration file to disable plug-ins
  • Provider manager: Now it is possible to display several kinds of language names.
  • Report: The comments match pattern tag now support markers too.
  • Report: The has comments tag now support markers too.
  • Scopes: The content scope now supports markers comments.
  • Select: Commands to select from current time position to start/end can now be shortcuts.
  • SubRip: When importing, opened markups are now continued to the following lines.
  • System: The memory release setting for HD now also covers 2K.
  • Tags: New options in the change frame rate tag to select an anchor.
  • Text: The text color dialog now displays named colors.
  • Timeline: Now when moving keyframes with the mouse, the nodes keep their position.
  • Ultech: Fixed Y positions when exporting interlaced images.
  • Utilities: The add comment utility now supports markers.
  • Utilities: The clear comments utility now supports markers.
  • Utilities: The optimize comments utility now supports markers.
  • Variables: The variable tag now allows to enter markups too.
New features:
  • Actors: New support to specify actors.
  • Application: New support for config files.
  • Commands: New Edit track comments command.
  • Commands: New command to edit an element.
  • Effects: New antialias edges pixel effect.
  • Effects: New antialias pixel effect.
  • Effects: New opacity pixel effect.
  • Effects: Support for new surface. Effects can now be applied to just subpicture.
  • Effects: Support for new surface. Effects can now be applied to just the boxes.
  • Effects: Support for new surface. Effects can now be applied to just the outline.
  • Effects: Support for new surface. Effects can now be applied to just the shadow.
  • Effects: Support for new surface. Effects can now be applied to just the text.
  • Explorer: New setting to auto-expand all nodes.
  • Export: The export preview now displays relative paths as absolute (experimental).
  • Formats: New support for import and export WebVTT files.
  • GUI: Disabled clips appear now semitransparent in the timeline (experimental).
  • GUI: New setting to specify the DPI of the monitor preview.
  • Languages: New support for ISO 639-3 language codes.
  • Languages: New support for ISO-15924 language scripts.
  • Languages: New support for Netflix allowed glyphs.
  • Markers: Now markers support comments.
  • Monitor: New setting to disable overlays if the video is playing.
  • Monitor: New setting to disable stereoscopic if the video is playing.
  • Navigation: New command to return to the last focused clip.
  • Player: New experiments feature to playback movies at 50% and 200%.
  • Plug-ins: Now plug-ins can be blocked using a config file.
  • Project: New function in the project editor to change frame rate converting times.
  • Providers manager: New option to see the files in the windows/fonts folder.
  • Render: New experimental feature to render subpictures in separate layer.
  • Report: New tag to report if a character has too many diacritics.
  • Report: New tag to report if subtitle is disabled (not renderable).
  • Screen: Added screen resolutions 8K Flat and 8K Scope.
  • Tags: New tag to check the total size of rendered files in a directory.
  • Tags: New tag to report glyphs not allowed by Netflix.
  • Tags: New tag to report keyframes with invalid nodes.
  • Tags: New tag to report keyframes with nodes outside the keyframe.
  • Tags: New tag to resize subpictures numerically.
  • Tags: New tag to scale subpictures, in percentage.
  • Tags: New tag to specify language code.
  • Tags: New tags to open and close an actor span.
  • Text analyzer: It is now possible to specify a conversion to the text.
  • Text converters: New lowercase text converter.
  • Text converters: New uppercase text converter.
  • Tools: New setting to disable auto focus clip when playing.
  • Tools: The subtitle info tool is now configurable.
  • Undo: New internal functions to group undo levels.
  • Utilities: New utility to inherit opened markups to the next text line.
Changes log 2015
2015/Nov/19 Version 1.1.6
Fixes:
  • Hardcopy: Fixed bug saving the selected encoder.
  • Script editor: Fixed crash when converting times.
  • Speech recognition: Fixed problem when resizing window.
  • Tracks: Fixed bug trying to calculate the duration of disposed tracks.
  • Waveform: Fixed crash when drawing waveform overlays.
  • Viewer: Fixed problem displaying the color palette the first time.
Improvements:
  • Digital cinema: Language names are now in lowercase.
  • Digital cinema: It is possible now to set a custom language code using user variables.
  • Digital cinema: When importing a font, now it tries to find it in the windows/fonts folder too.
  • Fonts: The default italic slant angle has been changed to 16°.
  • Formats: The default text encoding for Adobe Encore files is not UTF-8.
  • Render: Text layer size has been enlarged to 32 pixels, to avoid glyph cropping.
  • Report: The 'focused' clip scope now works with the report tool.
  • Tags: Improved font measuring tag.
  • Utilities: The 'focused' clip scope now works with utilities tool.
  • Utilities: The repair nodes utility now allows to select what to repair.
  • Utilities: The repair nodes utility now can remove nodes outside the keyframe.
  • Variables: New custom user variable language.
New features:
  • Settings: New options to release memory when rendering HD or 4K images.
  • Unicode browser: New option to browse by Unicode block.
  • Subpictures: The subpicture draw options tag now supports position scaling.
  • Subpictures: New tag to auto scale subpictures.
  • Merge: The merge command now allows to select how to merge tags.
  • FFmpeg: New option to skip validation when creating workcopies and hardcopies.
  • FFmpeg: New option to send the shell command to a bat file.
  • Providers: Support to display information about the digitizer device.
2015/Oct/27 Version 1.1.6 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Improved font import. Now empty fonts are not imported.
  • E-mail: Catched more errors when creating e-mails with Outlook.
  • Memory: Fixed performance slow down, due to continuous memory release.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Command element: toggle custom flag has been renamed to clip: toggle custom flag.
  • Digital cinema: Now the font name is resolved reading the ttf font.
  • FFmpeg: Added new bitrate options for workcopies (4000 kbps and 6000 kbps).
  • FFmpeg: Added new screen sizes options for workcopies (720p and 1080p).
  • FFmpeg: New experimental feature to automatically use pixel format 4:2:0 for workcopies.
  • GUI: The create workcopy dialog now saves the last used values.
  • Tags: The renderable off tag can now be applied to any element, also subtitles.
  • Render: New experimental option to release memory continuously when rendering images.
  • Report: New tag to report text lines with partial formatting.
  • Report: New tag to report text paragraphs with partial formatting.
New features:
  • Formats: Format Kio Interchange now supports font name.
  • Projects: New option to auto analyze imported projects.
  • System. Internal support for temporal files.
2015/Oct/18 Version 1.1.5
Fixes:
  • Boxes: Fixed bug rendering boxes. Sometimes they were not displayed.
  • Clip scopes: Fixed bug finding a registered clip scope.
  • Render: Trapped errors when capturing the monitor image.
  • Markups: Fixed bug italizicing a text in italics. Double markups could be created.
  • Media player: New experimental option to compensate media player's time position inaccuracy at 25 FPS.
  • Render: Trapped additional errors when rendering large images (4K).
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Updated to version 2015/Oct/15.
  • Find: Support for scopes in the find dialog.
  • Find: New command/shortcut to jump to the previous/next match in the find dialog.
  • Fonts: New functions to measure fonts and texts (experimental).
  • Fonts: The default font has been changed to Arial,not Arial Unicode.
  • Fonts: New functions to find the best Unicode font installed (supports Arial Unicode, Lucida Sans, Unifont).
  • GUI: The slide control now has up/down buttons.
  • Render: Improved support to render complex languages, such as Khmer (Windows 8 and 10 only).
  • Unicode: Database updated to version 8.0.
  • Unicode: Added property to characters to identify the original database (Unicode or Unihan).
  • Word: Improved error messages when failing to import a docx file.
New features:
  • Colors: New internal support for user colors.
  • GUI: Improved color control. Now it is possible to select a color by name.
  • Languages: New internal support for language elements.
  • Languages: Support for the new Windows 10 cultures (Kashmiri, Latin, Papiamento, etc).
  • Project: The project editor now allows to change the line spacing.
  • Line spacing: Support to specify the line spacing in different units.
  • Providers manager: New option to display Unicode characters.
  • Providers manager: New option to display Unicode blocks.
  • Settings: New option to specify the edition font.
  • Subtitler: New menu to renumber subtitles.
  • Overlay: New internal function to draw the text bearing.
  • Tags: New tag to specify line spacing in pixels.
  • Tags: New tag to specify line spacing in screen percentage.
  • Tags: New tag to to specify the text formatter for DirectWrite text.
  • Tags: New tag to change the render engine user to draw text (GDI+ or DirectDraw).
2015/Sep/22 Version 1.1.4 Beta 6
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed problem scrolling pop-up controls.
  • Mail: Fixed problem adding line breaks to the mail body.
  • Word: Fixed problem importing Word Template text format. The text was imported as "reference text".
Improvements:
  • FFmpeg: Experimental feature Resize video using filter chain has been approved.
  • GUI: The save track as dialog now remembers the last format used.
  • Lambda: Improved export of vertical text. Now markups in the text are considered.
  • Tags: The attribute tags have been reorganized in more categories.
  • Timeline: New setting to invert the scrolling direction.
  • Timeline: New setting to scroll the timeline, instead of the time-head.
  • Variables: Variable {ProjectJobId} has been replaced by {ElementJobId}.
New features:
  • Clip scope: New focused scope to affect focused clips.
  • Clip scope: New scope to work with subtitles with a given font size.
  • Commands: New command to toggle an user flag.
  • Digital cinema: The digital cinema export tag now allows to enter a time offset.
  • Export: New experimental feature that renders keyframes at their original time-in.
  • Flags: New support for user flags. Elements can be marked with several kinds of flags.
  • Mail: New internal functions to send mails with attachments.
  • System information: Added new information.
  • System information: New option to e-mail the system information.
  • Tag groups: New group for line spacing tags.
  • Variables: New tag to set the value of a variable by selecting a known name.
  • Variables: New variable {ProjectScreenSize} to insert the screen size.
2015/Aug/27 Version 1.1.4 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Blackmagic mirror: Fixed refresh button. It only worked when auto refresh was enabled.
  • Images: Improved bytes-to-image conversion, to avoid potential crashes.
  • GUI: Fixed bug overriding custom controls in the timeline.
  • GUI: Fixed problem displaying progress messages. Errors with two lines were truncated to one.
Improvements:
  • Clips: Now created clips are auto renumbered.
  • Blackmagic mirror: Improved display modes combo. It displays now if the mode is progressive or interlaced.
  • Blackmagic mirror: New render mode option, to select which image to send to the Blackmagic device.
  • Blackmagic mirror: Updated to SDK 10.4.3.
  • Blackmagic mirror: Window position is now saved.
  • Render: The line stack tag now supports relative positions.
  • Ultech: Improved file detection.
  • Ultech: New option to select screen size when importing.
New features:
  • Captions: New option to export scc files adding report information to the file.
  • Settings: New option to auto renumber new clips and their siblings.
  • Settings: New option to select if subindexes will be used when renumbering.
  • Settings: New option to specify facility and station name.
  • Variables: New variables FacilityName and StationName.
  • Utilities: New utility to align subpictures.
2015/Aug/11 Version 1.1.4 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Render: Fixed bug merging areas.
  • Render: New experimental feature to round shadow positions (only Windows 8 and 10).
  • Shortcuts: Fixed problem aligning text lines using Ctrl+L/R/E.
  • Word: Fixed bug importing text runs with line-breaks.
Improvements:
  • Digital cinema: When exporting smpte format, the ReelNumber is not exported if it is zero.
  • FFmpeg: Support to export H265+AAC hardcopies.
  • FFmpeg: Support to export H265+AAC workcopies.
  • GUI: Improved aesthetic details in numeric fields.
  • Report: Improved solutions when reporting time overlaps.
  • Settings: New button to reset all settings.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved keyframe nodes optimization. Now the precision can have decimals.
  • Timeline: Mouse scrolling is not an experimental feature any more.
New features:
  • Frame rate: New frame rate 72 FPS.
  • System: New experiment function to enable advanced frame rates.
2015/Aug/03 Version 1.1.4 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed aesthetic details in Windows 7.
  • Lambda: Fixed exporting. Now the header indicates the proper drop frame.
  • Render: Fixed problem merging empty areas.
  • Timeline: Fixed bug moving clips in the timeline. The time-in was not absolute.
Improvements:
  • Fonts: Improved functions to find the typefaces of a font.
  • Fonts: Tag font copy now allows to select the font's path.
  • Fonts: Tag font copy now allows to select the typeface's GUID.
  • Fonts: Tag font path now allows to select the typeface's GUID.
  • Fonts: Typefaces have now own GUID.
  • GUI: New internal function to group items in enum lists.
  • GUI: The message dialog now
  • Lambda: Improved italics export. When all runs are italicized, the italic marker is used instead.
  • Shortcuts: Shortcuts disabled for text editors work now on all textboxes.
  • System: New functions to do system diagnostics when launching the application.
  • System: New internal functions to do system diagnostics.
New features:
  • Lambda: Support to export synchronous subtitles.
  • Lambda: Support to export the continuation marker.
  • Utilities: New renumber relative utility. It renumbers using a subtitles track as source for the indexes.
2015/Jun/29 Version 1.1.4 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed bug stopping animation in collapseble panels.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with expanders alignment in Windows 8.
  • Plug-ins: Fixed privileges issues.
  • System: Fixed problem retrieving assembly information.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Jobs that are started manually now are executed multi-treaded.
  • Digital cinema: Now the "urn:uuid:" is removed automatically from imported image paths.
  • Digital cinema: The new image positioning export is not longer an experimental feature.
  • Keyframes: In the keyframe editor, keyframes are refreshed when a node is modified.
  • Lambda: Added support for command "horizontal bottom".
  • Lambda: Unrecognized commands are now reported showing their original text.
  • Monitor: New internal functions to change player.
  • Overlays: New internal functions to pre-render subtitles.
  • Overlays: New internal functions to specify the default parameters.
  • Overlays: The digital cinema overlay now displays subpictures only if they have a valid image.
  • Overlays: The digital cinema overlay now supports effects.
  • Render: The new paragraph stacking is not longer an experimental feature.
  • Tags: Tag keep text inside now can resolve the stereoscopic by evaluating all nodes in a keyframe.
  • Tags: Tag keep text inside now offers auto margin option.
  • Timeline: Now simple controls display more information via tooltip.
  • Waveform: Now the waveform is redrawn when scene changes are changed.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to clear the value and nodes in a keyframe.
  • Commands: New command to offset a keyframe value.
  • Commands: New command to remove a keyframe value.
  • GUI: New internal functions to freeze tools.
  • Monitor: New setting to select a mode to scale the monitor.
  • Timeline: New simple mode. It displays simplier clips, only with index and time.
2015/Jun/22 Version 1.1.4 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • EBU: Fixed bug decoding dates. Invalid dates caused a crash.
  • EBU: fixed bug encoding dates.
  • Font: Fixed bug measuring text when the vertical aspect was different than 100%.
  • Keyframes: Fixed bug when jumping to a node and no keyframe was found. A new keyframe could be created.
  • List: Fixed bug when in editable mode with effects, keyframes, and markers not showing the times.
  • Office: Fixed problem importing Word template files. Empty translations were replaced by reference texts.
  • Overlays: Corrected problem in the stereoscopic positioning the graphic under the text.
  • Render: Fixed bug measuring right-to-left text. The bearing was compensated twice.
  • Render: Fixed bug positioning subscript and superscript.
  • Render: Fixed crash when measuring empty boten.
  • Render: Workaround to solve GDI+ problem to measure right-to-left text ranges.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Improved snap to scene command. If no reel is active, the closest higher in hierarchy is used.
  • EBU: Improved export. New options to customize the file header.
  • Encodings: The RTF formatted encoding can now import font sizes.
  • Fonts: Added support to know font format (ttf, otf, etc).
  • Fonts: Added support to know if a font is GDI or WPF.
  • GUI: Now when dropping movies into the subtitles, the new reels are creates in the active reels track.
  • Import: Added cancel button to the import dialog.
  • Installer: The uninstaller is not placed in the application folder, not in the Windows folder.
  • Keyframes: Improved simplify nodes function. First/Second and Penultimate/Last nodes are also optimized now.
  • Keyframes: The list tool now displays a more detailed description of the nodes.
  • Lambda: Added support to import boten.
  • Lambda: Added support to interpret full-width Japanese digits.
  • Lambda: Improved error messages when importing.
  • Lambda: Improved subtitle detection.
  • Markers: Now markers display index and name in different fields, in the list.
  • Overlays: Some improvements in the text areas overlay to avoid showing text over the subtitle.
  • Overlays: The stereoscopic overlay now uses Arial font.
  • Overlays: The text areas overlay now supports width and height.
  • Overlays: The button to save the current overlay settings as default.
  • Overlays: When an overlay is created, now it uses the saved default settings.
  • Paste: Improved paste times from clip function. The sort option could affect the paste order.
  • Providers: Now the countries display their associated LCID's.
  • Reels: Waveform extraction is now async.
  • Reels: Waveform extraction now displays the processed time position in the progress.
  • Render: Improved rendering of subscript and superscript. Now it is achieved by resizing the font, not by changing its aspect.
  • Render: The clip scope tag now ignores tracks tagged as not renderable.
  • Settings: Option Remove subtitles with no text now keeps subtitles that have bytes or a subpicture.
  • Settings: Some settings in the file tab have been moved to the media tab.
  • Spell checker: Now exceptions are trapped when creating spell checkers.
  • Undo: Added support to undo created keyframe nodes.
  • Utilities: The simplify nodes utility now allows to convert single nodes to keyframe value.
  • Utilities: The simplify nodes utility now allows to remove single nodes.
New features:
  • Batch: New batch job to validate files against a schema.
  • Copy properties: New option to copy reference texts. Different sources are available.
  • Explorer: New settings to allow double-clicking on reels and exporters to use them.
  • Find: New matcher to find keyframes with a given amount of nodes.
  • Formats: New setting to automatically remove all invalid characters in imported subtitles.
  • GUI: New full screen mode. Avaialble only via shortcut.
  • GUI: New possibility to set a waveform background color.
  • GUI: The keyframe editor now allows to edit the keyframe value and nodes.
  • Keyframes: New ID types special for Digital Cinema.
  • Keyframes: New option to add nodes to a keyframe, and round its value if it has been interpolated.
  • Keyframes: New options in the simplify nodes utility to optimize the first and last nodes.
  • Keyframes: New rounding mode round or middle, which rounds to 0, 1 or middle point (0.5).
  • Keyframes: When merging keyframes, nodes are preserved, and new ones are created at inflection points.
  • Lambda: Added support resolve nested formatting.
  • List: New setting to change the font size of the list.
  • Overlays: New Digital Cinema overlay. It displays line positions and guides.
  • Overlays: New overlay grid option to draw a EBU Open subtitling grid.
  • Overlays: New option in the safe area overlay to dim the image outside the safe area.
  • Render: New ruby alignment full distributed. Same as full but adds extra spaces to both sides.
  • Render: Now boten uses the new full distributed alignment as default.
  • Report: New tag to report subtitles with sub-indexes.
  • Schemas: Support to add schemas (folder C:\ProgramData\[Program]\Schemas).
  • Snapshots: New setting to select if the new image will be opened.
  • Snapshots: New setting to specify an application to use to open the image.
  • Tags: New keep text inside tag that repositions the text if it is outside the safe area (or other area).
  • Timeline: New children mode that allows to display tracks from different projects.
  • Utilities: New utility to create keyframe nodes from scene changes or markers.
  • Utilities: New utility to offset the time position of scene changes in a reel.
  • Workspace: New settings to customize the auto focus clip function.
2015/May/18 Version 1.1.3
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed problem exporting font size. It is now exported without decimals.
  • FFmpeg: When creating hardcopies, the last frame of the overlay is not repeated to the end of the movie.
  • Text editor: Fixed bug when removing style from a text. Existing tags were not removed.
  • Tracks: Fixed problem with the save as function. In the file name, spaces were replaced with underscores.
  • Utilities: Fixed optimize text utility. The flush function could remove empty lines too.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Improved workcopy job. Now it is possible to configure it.
  • Batch: New internal functions to add batches via plug-ins
  • Batch: The workcopy job has been divided in 3 different jobs.
  • Copy properties: New option to work with all tracks in all projects.
  • EBU STL: New option to do not import boxes.
  • FFmpeg: Added border to the timecode in workcopies.
  • FFmpeg: Hardcopies now resize the video to the canvas.
  • FFmpeg: It is now possible to set the number of threads to zero, in the settings window.
  • Formats: New global setting to remove boxes from imported files.
  • Formats: New support to convert imported box markups into tags.
  • GUI: The tag combobox now displays the tag category.
  • Import: Dropped links into the file list are now resolved.
  • Import: When importing keyframes, no nodes are created if there is only one.
  • Overlay: Improved render of rectangles. Removed extra pixel in some widths and heights.
  • Overlay: The text areas overlay can now display the Y Bottom value.
  • Programs: The hub can be auto-minimized when launching a program via command line
  • Project: Improved adjust duration function. Reels lengths are now considered too.
  • Render: Improved calculation of text areas.
  • Render: Improved image cropping (experimental feature).
  • Render: New setting to enable multi-threaded image cropping.
  • Scantitling: New option to replace unsupported characters when exporting.
  • Settings: Some of the graphic settings have been moved to the media tab.
  • SubRip: New function to add right-to-left codes when exporting.
  • Tags: The export offset tag now allows to select if the start/end of the segment will be also offset.
  • Tags: The segment fit tag now allows to offset the end of the segment.
  • Utilities: Improved Remove tag utility. Support for more markups.
  • Utilities: Improved optimize text utility. Better detection of in-between lines.
  • Utilities: The Copy text to reference utility has been removed. Use Copy Reference Text from instead.
  • Utilities: The converta markups to tags utility now supports to keep existing tags.
  • Utilities: The keyframe node utilities now support to modify the keyframe value.
New features:
  • Batch: New internal functions to implement network batches.
  • Formats: New support to import and export Softitler files.
  • Formats: New support to import runs with boxes, not only lines.
  • Keyframes: Now keyframes can have a value, additional to the nodes.
  • List: New option to display formatted text (experimental feature).
  • List: New option to highlight text runs that have a style.
  • List: New option to select edit mode.
  • Settings: New option to specify the default stereoscopic simplify degrees tolerance.
  • System: New setting to send all console output to the log file.
  • System: New setting to send all progress messages to the log file.
  • Tags: New tag to set the font size in Digital Cinema points.
  • Timeline: New option to display/hide keyframe tracks.
  • Timeline: New option to select edit mode.
  • Undo: New functions to undo created presets.
  • Utilities: New Copy Reference Text from utility to set the reference text from different sources.
  • Utilities: New utility to round keyframe values.
2015/Apr/08 Version 1.1.2
Fixes:
  • Digital Cinema: Fixed import. Font sizes in spans were not converted to pixels.
  • Digital Cinema: Fixed problem converting points to/from pixels.
  • Focus: Fixed problem when a reel or exporter was removed and remained active in the monitor.
  • PAC: When importing apostrophes are normalized now before quotes to avoid creating double apostrophes.
  • Render: Fixed bug rendering top aligned text, when the paragraph rest was baseline.
  • Text areas: Fixed overlay. Box information was displayed even when there was no boxes.
  • Utilities: Fixed crash when creating an show utility command using a non-installed macro.
Improvements:
  • Batch: New settings to set the default Auto update list and Auto update watch.
  • Batch: The default job setting can be set now to null.
  • Console: The console output is now created in the desktop.
  • Digital Cinema: The global font size is now imported and applied to the project.
  • Digital cinema: Removed warnig when exporting without a valid GUID.
  • Digital cinema: When exporting, the anchor parameters now also affect images.
  • Digital cinema: When importing, the remove font size value is now taken from settings.
  • DirectWrite: Improved text measurement.
  • DirectWrite: The Font measuring tag now allows to set the text formatter mode.
  • Editing: Tagged text lines now preserve their tags after being edited.
  • Elements: New internal functions to detect when a parent element is disposed.
  • FFmpeg: New option to remove the original AVI efter a conversion.
  • FFmpeg: New option to specify the number of threads to use.
  • FFmpeg: New option to speed up ProRes rendering (using -qscale).
  • FFmpeg: Now when AVI conversions finish, the original AVI is deleted.
  • FFmpeg: The FFmpeg preset has changed name to FFmpeg convert.
  • FFmpeg: When converting an AVI file, the progress now shows the current time.
  • FFmpeg: When converting an AVI file, the target file is now deleted first.
  • GUI: Faster auto focus clip function.
  • GUI: New internal functions to disable shortcuts.
  • GUI: Now the auto focus clip function selects no clip if there is none at current time position.
  • GUI: Text links now react to the left button, not any more to the right one.
  • Images: New image cropping function (experimental feature).
  • Import: The import dialog now allows to sort the files by name.
  • Import: The insert button now also inserts exporters.
  • Navigation: The play/pause command now allows to select the start point.
  • Navigation: The play/pause command now allows to specify a pre-roll.
  • Players: Optimized buffer for TCP players.
  • Players: Time positions are now cached, when no movie is loaded.
  • Render: Added sub-pixel support for save areas and display areas.
  • Render: The paragraph rest property now considers ruby.
  • Settings: Removed obsolete setting show shell errors.
  • Shortcuts: Improved internal functions to generate the default shortcuts.
  • Shortcuts: New shortcut to swap focus between two tools.
  • Toshiba: Scripts now support comments.
  • Utilities: New option in the offset base time utility to specify the current base time.
  • Utilities: New option in the offset to utility to calculate offsets per track.
  • Video player: Now the video player uses project's frame rate if not reel has been loaded.
New features:
  • Digital Cinema: New options to import X position as fixed position or offset.
  • Digital Cinema: New options to import Y position as fixed position.
  • Digital Cinema: New tag that allows to enter a list of fixed positions for text lines.
  • DirectWrite: New support for underline.
  • Formats: New internal functions to post-process imported projects.
  • Hardcopy: New hardcopier to export WMV videos.
  • Overlays: The grid overlay now can display a screen percentage grid.
  • Render: Improved line stacking (experimental).
  • Render: New support to set the DPI of the render canvas.
  • Settings: New setting to enable multi-threaded image cropping.
  • Settings: New tab in the settings window to configure FFmpeg.
  • Shell: New setting to select the priority of shell processes.
  • Shortcuts: Duplicate your shortcuts file and name it "Shortcuts Default.xml" to use them as default.
  • Shortcuts: New shortcut to save projects backups.
  • Tags: New tag to set the DPI.
  • Undo: It is now possible to undo created exporters.
  • Utilities: New HMSF time stretch conversion.
  • Variables: Two new variables to insert first subtitle's time-in and last subtitle's time-out.
2015/Mar/04 Version 1.1.1
Fixes:
  • Crop: Corrected size calculation when cropping images using screen mode.
  • Crop: New crop mode none.
  • Dictionary: Fixed crash when removing a dictionary.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed problem with the EffectSize attribute. The value has no units now.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed problem with uppercases. The ID attribute is now in uppercase.
  • Excel: Fixed crash when importing empty RGB colors.
  • Macros: Fixed bug loading macros. Macros without a scope got the all scope automatically.
  • Media: Improved decimal precision when calculating time position.
  • Render: Fixed problem with the tag priorities. Exporters did not override project's properties.
  • Scantitling: Fixed some characters in the encoding.
  • Settings: The experimental features has been moved to the system tab.
  • Shell: Fixed bug cancelling processes when multi-threading.
  • Shortcuts: Fixed problem selecting a scope in the go to and jump shortcuts.
  • Split: Fixed problem focusing a splitted clip, when the auto focus clip mode was enabled.
  • Subtitle editor: Fixed problem with the index field, when editing non-subtitle clips.
  • Timeline: Fixed problem with time-head dragging. Some clicks where processed twice.
  • Undo: Fixed problem undoing paragraph offset tags. Auto-created tags were not removed when undoing.
  • Word: Fixed bbug importing docx files. The text was imported as BiDi when the bidi attributes were not found.
  • Workcopies: Fixed mpeg-4 extension.
  • Workspace: Fixed problem focusing tracks. When focusing a new track, the monitor did not refresh.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Dropping files into the batch window now releases the Windows desktop.
  • Clips: The add clip command now allows to specify a reaction time.
  • Copy clips: The copy clips properties now allows to copy flags and tags.
  • DECEMate: Now the DECEMate plug-in also works if the files are installed in C:\Program Files\DECEMate or C:\Program Files (x86)\DECEMate.
  • Digital cinema: PNG files without file extension can now be loaded.
  • Effects: Improved de-ghosting effect. Now the effect cannot be applied to an image twice.
  • Explorer: The editable option has been divided in: menus, controls and drap & drop.
  • FFmpeg: Now the FFmpeg plug-in also works if the files are installed in C:\Program Files\FFmpeg or C:\Program Files (x86)\FFmpeg.
  • Find: Improved panels in the find tool.
  • Formats: It is now possible to select a W16 encoding when exporting PAC files.
  • Formats: New support to import text position offset.
  • Formats: Now format Kio interchange does not serialize unused text positions.
  • GUI: Improved TCP/IP console. Faster text display.
  • GUI: Improved internal functions to auto-focus of textboxes.
  • GUI: TCP/IP console windows now have a button to enable/disable top most.
  • GUI: The subtitler can now display times expressed in cineticks.
  • GUI: The subtitler now resolves file links, when they are dropped into the subtitler.
  • Go to: Now the go to can jump to keyframe nodes.
  • Go to: The go to dialog now supports all kinds of scopes.
  • HandySaw DS: Now the HandySaw DS plug-in also works if the files are installed in C:\Program Files\HandySaw DS or C:\Program Files (x86)\HandySaw DS.
  • Hardcopy: The ProRes encoders now use ALAC audio.
  • Import: When importing a project, it is now possible to select to import presets and exporters.
  • Lambda: Improved import. Formatting can now be imported using tags.
  • Macros: Reording macro's utilities now highlights the save button.
  • Overlay: Improved text areas overlay. The values are now drawn always inside the screen.
  • Presets: Improved FFmpeg 1080 preset. The segment tag has been removed.
  • Renumber: All renumber functions now remove subindexes.
  • Report: The report tool allows now to select an exporter.
  • Shell: Improved console and errors capture.
  • Shortcuts: Improved loading. Now unsupported shortcuts only get disabled, not removed.
  • Shortcuts: The show go to dialog shortcut now allows to select a text field to focus.
  • Skew: New option to auto select a better antialias for the affected runs.
  • Skew: New option to turn off the italic in the affected runs.
  • System: Improved cancellation of threads.
  • System: Improved memory management. It is now possible to render 4K images using several processor threads.
  • System: The maximum number of parallel threads has been raised to 64.
  • Tags: New tag to report unallowed symbols.
  • Tags: New tag to report unallowed values.
  • Tags: New tag to report words with partial formatting.
  • Time: Improved functions to calculate a project duration.
  • Time: Improved functions to calculate best base time for a project.
  • Timecode: Improved cineticks parsing.
  • Timecode: Improved functions to parse timecodes. Improved integer rounding.
  • Undo: Now then undoing clip indexes, subindexes are also restored.
  • Unicode: New preliminary support for symbols.
  • Unicode: New preliminary support for values (characters with a value).
  • Utilities: Improved frame rate detection.
  • Utilities: New project category.
  • Utilities: The break lines utility now allows to break at several Unicode line-breaks.
  • Utilities: The change frame rate utility has been moved to the project tab.
  • Utilities: The markups to tags utility now supports boxes.
  • Utilities: The tags to markups utility now supports bold and underline.
  • Word OpenXML: It is now possible to export empty cells with formatting.
  • Workspace: Improved focusing. When jumping to a clip, if no project is selected, the first project is now activated.
New features:
  • Batch: New job to decode EBU files (convert to a human-readable format).
  • Digital cinema: New options to import X/Y positions.
  • DivX: New DivX Converter plug-in. It adds functionalities to create hardcopies.
  • Effects: New conditional skew effect. It can apply a skew effect only to certain italicized texts.
  • Explorer: New option to display extra controls to edit elements.
  • Find: New finder to find subtitles with a given duration range.
  • Frame rates: New frame rate 250 fps.
  • Hardcopies: New option to export HEVC videos, via ffmpeg plug-in.
  • Hardcopies: New option to export ProRes 4444 videos, via ffmpeg plug-in.
  • Images: Image files can now be indentified by content, not only by file extension.
  • Keyframes: New command to delete all keyframe nodes.
  • Keyframes: New command to reset the keyframe nodes.
  • Keyframing: The keyframing tag now allows to create keyframes at nodes (between 2 dynamic nodes).
  • Report: New internal experimental feature that allows tags remove errors created by other tags.
  • Screen: Added new 4K screen sizes: flat and scope.
  • Shell: New internal functions to display shell messages in progress controls.
  • Shortcuts: New internal function that allow to use a XML resource as default shortcuts.
  • Shortcuts: New option in a shortcut to disable it in text boxes.
  • Shortcuts: New up/down buttons to reorder shortcuts.
  • Subtitle editor: It is now possible to edit a sub-index.
  • System: New internal functions to perform computer benchmarks.
  • Tags: New tag to offset line positions by pixel or percentage.
  • Tags: New tag to offset the position of a specific line in a paragraph.
  • Tags: New tag to report elements with tags.
  • Tags: New tag to report text with markups.
  • Tags: New tag to report text with numbers.
  • Tags: The FFmpeg save tag now can export Apple Animation videos.
  • Undo: New support to undo exporters.
  • Undo: New support to undo presets.
  • Undo: New support to undo clip/subtitle flags.
  • Utilities: New copy properties utility. It does the same as the copy clip properties dialog.
  • Utilities: New utility to fix project's time span (base time and duration).
  • Utilities: New utility to remove characters.
  • Workcopies: New option to export HEVC videos, via ffmpeg plug-in.
2015/Jan/04 Version 1.1.0 Beta 1
Remarks:
  • Hardcopies: Exporters with hardcopy tags created with previous versions will not work in this version.
  • Hardcopies: You will need to remove the old tag and add a new hardcopy tag.
  • Macros: Clip scopes have changed. Macros that use unsupported clip scopes will be changed to scope All.
Fixes:
  • Blackmagic: Improved plug-in. Trapped some errors.
  • Captions: Fixed problem encoding disassembly captions. Text could become uppercased.
  • Clips: Fixed problem renumbering new clips.
  • Custom formats: Fixed crash when importing empty text blocks.
  • Digital cinema: Corrected underline typo for SMPTE files.
  • Errors: Fixed problem applying the bad duration solution.
  • Menus: Fixed problem with some disappearing menus.
  • Mirror: Window's background color is black again.
  • Render: Improved functions to avoid creating a drawing canvas with invalid size.
  • Spell checker: The spell checker tool now displays sub-tracks in folders.
  • Superscript: Fixed problem positioning superscript when combined with ruby.
  • Tags: Fixed typo in the clip duration tag.
  • Tate chu yoko: Fixed crash when measuring text.
  • Tate chu yoko: Narrow runs could be rendered over stretched.
  • Ultech: Fixed problem exporting the last time-out.
Improvements:
  • Activation: Password activations now create the activation folder if it does not exist.
  • Batch: If the batch contains workcopy jobs, it becomes limited to a single thread.
  • Batch: Now batch jobs can auto limit the number of simultaneous jobs running.
  • Batch: Now export directories are only applied to a job if they contain a valid text.
  • Blackmagic: Improved plug-in. New support to display status and errors.
  • Blackmagic: Improved plug-in. New warning when closing the settings window.
  • Blackmagic: Plug-in updated to Blackmagic SDK 10.3.
  • Captions: New disassembly source option. It allows to interpret the subtitle text as disassembly.
  • Captions: The captions inc format now does not require to specify the channel when importing.
  • Captions: The default channel is now 2.
  • Debugging: When writing a log file, the program folder is now created, if it does not exist.
  • Dialogs: The equalize times dialog has been renamed to copy properties.
  • Digital cinema: The underline attribute is now omitted if the text is vertical.
  • EBU STL: Improved calculation of rows for the in-vision kind.
  • Editing: Text formatting (italic, bold and underline) are now tagged using the selected choice in the settings/edition.
  • Export: Improved internal render tasks. Tasks can now generate files in different folders.
  • Font path: The font path tag now allows to generate paths.
  • GUI: Improved icons in the subtitler's status bar.
  • GUI: New internal functions to create controls inside panels.
  • GUI: Now file and directory controls can display an error flag.
  • Hardcopies: Improved parameters. New options to select unconstrained video, audio copy.
  • Hardcopies: New preset for HD 1080 (for AVI pverlay).
  • Installation: FFmpeg updated to version 2014-Nov-11.
  • Installation: System files are now created at first run, not by the installer.
  • Macros: Now if a macro utility has a scope, the scope is combined with macro's.
  • Macros: The macro editor now refreshes the macros after saving as.
  • OCR: New option to select how to tag the resulting text.
  • OpenXML: Improved bidi import.
  • OpenXML: New option to be able to export right-to-left reference texts.
  • OpenXML: Word 2007 export now supports paragraph alignment.
  • Overlays: The text areas overlay now allows to select which lines to display.
  • Plug-ins: New internal option to run plug-ins efter the user settings have been loaded.
  • Plug-ins: Now errors are trapped during plug-in finalization.
  • Preview: The export preview now displays image files using a monospaced font.
  • Programs: Improved subtitler close confirmation dialog. Now it is possible to also close the opened projects.
  • Progress: Improved messaging. Now large texts can be expanded.
  • Providers manager: New header that displays name and items count.
  • Providers manager: New options to display installed scopes, mirrors, workcopy engines and more.
  • Render overlay: The grid overlay now can display column and row numbers.
  • Render overlay: The grid overlay now can render an EBU grid.
  • Report: Selected items are now highlighted.
  • Scantitling: Improved text encoding. Graphemes with diacritics are encoded as a single character when possible.
  • Settings: The default name for exported images now includes an underscore (_).
  • Shell: New internal options to run shell commands quietly.
  • Speech recognition: It is possible now to start a recognition without choosing a reel.
  • Startup: New internal routines to lauunch applications.
  • Subpictures: The subpicture size is now always imported, when possible.
  • System. Improved function to detect the installed NET versions.
  • System: Improved system information dialog.
  • System: Log files are now saved to the desktop, if the application crashes while being initialized.
  • System: Some shell commands now hide their window.
  • Tagging: New "none" tagging option.
  • Tags: Added delay time to the find tag field. It makes it more responsive.
  • Tags: The Japanese tags group now includes 3 tags.
  • Tags: The image extension tag supports variables now.
  • Tags: The line alignment report tag now also considers markups.
  • Tags: The paragraph flow vertical tag now does not change the font to vertical.
  • Undo: Creating an undo level with times now also store keyframe nodes times.
  • Utilities: Time conversion utilities now also modify keyframe nodes.
  • Workcopies: New warnings, when some file does not exist or will be overwritten.
  • Workcopy: The workcopy job is now cancelled if the frame rate cannot be detected from the media file.
New features:
  • Captions: New encode utility that allows to select all available parameters.
  • Clip scopes: New clip type scope, to work with clips that are of a given type (subtitle, effect, etc).
  • Clip scopes: New content scope, to work with clips that have some content (text, bytes, etc).
  • Clip scopes: New design scope, to work with clips that contain italics.
  • Clip scopes: New flags scope, to work with clips that have flags (italic flag, uppercase flag, etc).
  • Clip scopes: New index range scope, to work with clips that are inside a given index span.
  • Clip scopes: New position scope, to work with clips that are raised.
  • Clip scopes: New time range scope, to work with clips that are inside a given time span.
  • Clip scopes: Support for new types of scopes that accept parameters.
  • Clips: New copy clips properties dialog. It allows to copy times and text (old equalize times dialog).
  • Commands: New close all command. It closes all unmodified projects.
  • Commands: New keyframe target to address the current focused keyframe or the first keyframe above.
  • Commands: New save all command. It saves all opened projects.
  • Commands: New command to create monitor snapshots.
  • Digital cinema: It is now possible to use a UUID for font paths.
  • Effects: New skew pixel effect.
  • Effects: Pixel effects can now be drawn on the entire screen or by text run.
  • Export: New create images tag. It allows to disable images export.
  • Export: New subpicture area source tag. It allows select which subpicture position/size to export.
  • Font copy: New option in the Font file copy tag to choose the destination file name.
  • Frame rates: New experimental frame rates: 50 fps, 60 fps and 100 fps.
  • Hardcopies: New list of encoder.
  • Hardcopies: New option to specify a file name suffix.
  • Import: New error message if imported subtitles contain invalid characters.
  • Import: New support to import subtitle position and lines position.
  • Keyframes: New option to set the kind of value that new nodes will get (same as previous or next node, default, or interpolate).
  • Media: New support to detect matroska videos.
  • Progress: Improved messaging. Error message can now be sent to a log file.
  • Progress: Improved messaging. New button to display all errors in a separate window.
  • Providers manager: New function to display image formats.
  • Providers manager: The providers manager now displays the installed typefaces.
  • Render: New experimental function, to render text runs in a separate buffer.
  • Settings: New option to allow to export tracks without subtitles.
  • Settings: New option to ignore imported subtitle position and line position.
  • Settings: New options in the settings/export tab, to control blank spaces and uppercase.
  • Settings: New options to enable/disable experimental features.
  • Settings: New options to turn on/off most of the confirmation dialogs.
  • Speech recognition: It allows to create a new track with subtitles, using a waveform as input.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to factorize the stereoscopic separation.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag to limit the stereoscopic separation values.
  • Subpictures: New internal function to measure the resulting size of a SPU chunk.
  • System: New internal functions to detect second instances of applications.
  • Tags: New button in tag editors. It allows to select priority, undock och get help.
  • Tags: New buttons to move a tag to the top/bottom of the list.
  • Tags: New tag to report invalid transition (fading) values.
  • Templates: New internal template to create sample projects.
  • Utilities: New repair nodes utility. It removes overlapping nodes and sorts them by time.
  • Utilities: New simplify nodes utility. It removes unnecessary nodes.
  • Utilities: New trim nodes utility. It creates edge nodes and removes nodes outside the keyframe.
  • Utilities: New utility to remove all tags in an clip.
  • Utilities: New utility to remove text lines.
  • Variables: New variable {ElementSubpictureOriginalExtension}. It inserts subpicture's original extension.
  • Workcopies: New list of encoder.
  • Workspace: New function to display messages in the subtitler's status bar.
  • Workspace: New internal functions to hightlight elements in the explorer.
Changes log 2014
2014/Nov/03 Version 1.0.13 Beta 7
Fixes:
  • GUI: Fixed problem with progress bars, which could finish a task and display a "stopped" message.
  • GUI: Fixed problem with some colors and textures.
  • OCR: The OCR now traps more errors.
  • Scantitling: New characters added to the encoding table.
  • Viewer: Fixed problem with the auto fit button, which appeared checked by default.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Improved command messaging. Messages can now be displayed in the status bar.
  • Custom formats: Now when importing custom formats can convert markups into tags.
  • Digital cinema: New option to select the Smpte version (specs).
  • EBU STL: Improved export. Now the exported alignment is retrieved from the first text line.
  • Explorer: New option to display the number of tracks.
  • Find: New matcher to find
  • Menus: Improved internal functions to refresh menus.
  • OCR: Scanned text is now auto optimized (optimize runs).
  • OpenXML: Improved line-breaks import. Line-breaks inside runs were not recognized.
  • Presets: Built-in presets that export images now have the subdirectory tag enabled by default.
  • Settings: New system tab in the settings dialog.
  • Settings: New function to release memory.
  • Tags: Undocked tags now display the name of the parent element.
  • Text: New internal functions to detect different styles of text case.
  • Time formatters: The HH:MM:SS:FF format now supports frame rates higher than 100 fps.
  • Viewer: Custom frame rates are now truncated to 4 decimals.
  • Workcopy: Trapped errors when detecting frame rate in source file.
New features:
  • Digital cinema: Format updated to specs 428-7/2014.
  • Digital cinema: New independent options to export ZPosition, VariableZ and LoadVariableZ.
  • Digital cinema: New option to export grouped similar stereoscopic values.
  • Digital cinema: New support to import and export LoadVariableZ.
  • Find: New matcher to find texts with a given case.
  • Frame rates: New experimental frame rates: 96 fps and 120 fps.
  • Mirror: New command to open a mirror.
  • Overlays: New command to display an overlay.
  • Presets: New build-in presets for Digital Cinema Smpte, for text, graphics and stereoscopic.
  • Spell checker: New option to select the dictionary language in the spell checker.
  • Stereoscopic: New setting to specify the default stereoscopic mode.
  • Tags: New option to change the tag priority.
  • Tags: New tag to export image files without file extension.
  • Tags: New tag to export image files without index.
  • Tags: New tag to set export keyframe's ID.
  • Tracks: New tags inheritance mode: Effects (track and clips).
2014/Oct/07 Version 1.0.13 Beta 6
Remarks:
  • Settings: After installing this version, your settings in the editing tab may be reset to their defaults.
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug exporting sub/superscripts. An aspect attribute was unnecessarily included.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed bug. The stereoscopic mode combobox did not show up.
  • Menu: Fixed problem with menu Clip/Remove. Now it does not display parameters.
  • OCR: Fixed bug calculating areas. A crash occurred when trying to read pixels outside the image.
  • Scantitling: Fixed problem encoding/decoding some color commands.
  • Workcopies: Fixed bug when encoding using the batch. Now _workcopy is added to the file name to avoid overwritings.
Improvements:
  • Dialogs: The save track as dialog now considers the selected encoding to display the extension.
  • Dialogs: The save track as dialog now respects the file extension that the user selected.
  • Digital cinema: New support to export language names as dual language mode.
  • Digital cinema: New support to import language names formatted as dual languages.
  • Digital cinema: Support to import and export subscript and superscript.
  • Encodings: Improved Word OpenXML import. New support for line breaks, tabs, symbols.
  • Encodings: Improved Word OpenXML import. New support to import and export ruby.
  • Encodings: Improved Word OpenXML import. New support to import and export subscript and superscript.
  • Find: New buttons in the find tool to select matched subtitles.
  • Find: Now the find button in the find tool does not ask for confirmation (only in some systems).
  • Hardcopies: The hardcopies preset now uses a percentage based font size.
  • Import: The import dialog can be minimized now.
  • Monitor settings: The overlays and mirrors appear now sorted by name.
  • OCR: Added support for images in IDX and SUP files.
  • OCR: Improved support for cropped images. The image position is now used to calculate the vertical alignment.
  • OCR: The OCR now uses the images buffer (if enabled).
  • Overlays: New option in the stereoscopic overlay to select the position of the data.
  • Overlays: New option in the stereoscopic overlay to show/hide the graphic.
  • Overlays: New option in the text areas overlay to display x-center values aligned with the center of the screen.
  • Overlays: The hierarchy overlay now displays the element type too.
  • Settings: In the settings dialog, all encoding related settings have a new tab.
  • Shortcuts: The shortcuts panel now allows to expand or collapse all shortcuts.
  • Subtitle editor: The text edition field now supports to display right-to-left text.
  • Unicode browser: New support to display Unicode codes above $FFFF.
  • Unicode: Updated Unicode data to version 7.0.
  • Utilities: Improved default values for utilities Set line alignment and Set vertical alignment.
  • Utilities: The markups to tags utility now supports underline and script (subscript and superscript).
  • Utilities: Utility Convert markups to tags supports now other styles and text flows.
  • Work encoding: Improved line-breaks in the Word OpenXML encoding.
  • Workcopies: An error message is displayed now when the source and target movies are the same.
  • XML: Serialization encoding has been changed from UCS-2 Big Endian to UTF8.
New features:
  • Commands: New command and menu entry to rename tracks.
  • Element finders: These new objects allow to customize which element will receive a command action (shortcuts).
  • Find: New finder to find text that matches a RegEx.
  • Import: Improved text import. Invalid XML characters are automatically removed.
  • Presets: New setting to select how to create tags for new presets.
  • Settings: New settings to choose how encodings will tag imported plain text.
  • Shortcuts: Some shortcuts (stereoscopic related) allow now to select a target.
  • System: New function to detect if NET 4.5.2 is installed.
  • Tags: New tag to override the script extension at export.
  • Tags: new tag to reverse the order of the text (paragraphs, lines, runs, characters).
  • Tags: New tag to set paragraphs' flow back to normal (disable right-to-left and vertical).
  • Tags: New tag to turn off right-to-left font.
  • Tags: New tag to turn off vertical font.
  • Unicode: Added support for Unihan. +20,000 CJK characters.
  • Utilities: New option in the text convert utility, to remove invalid XML characters.
  • Workcopies: Added support to create Mpeg-1 videos with Audio Layer II.
  • XML: New internal functions to find invalid XML characters in the Unicode table.
2014/Aug/27 Version 1.0.13 Beta 5
Fixes:
  • Custom formats: Fixed problem supporting encodings from plug-ins.
  • Element editor: Fixed problem re-selecting the previously selected tab.
  • Export preview: Fixed bug. If a tag did not create any files, an empty folder could be displayed.
  • Open Office: Trapped errors when opening Word and Excel documents.
  • Plug-ins: Fixed bug initializing some plug-ins.
  • Tags: Fixed bug in tag Merge keyframes by time. Time-outs were calculated wrongly.
  • Time conversion: Fixed bug applying time conversions. When applying the same conversion, only the first time worked.
  • Time conversion: Fixed crash when closing the time conversion dialog. An integer overflow occurred.
  • Word: Fixed bug exporting Word documents. Right-to-left text inside cells could become italicized.
Improvements:
  • Comparers: Improved Duration comparer. It now displays the time difference.
  • Comparers: Improved sorting.
  • Custom formats: Changes in the format (made outside the formats editor) are now applied automatically.
  • Custom formats: Formats now support to load a global icon (icon.png).
  • Custom formats: The format editor dialog now has the auto preview option disabled by default.
  • Custom formats: The format editor now displays the format's icon.
  • Custom formats: The format editor now uses the selected frame rate to preview export.
  • Digital cinema: Now empty lines are not exported.
  • EBU STL: Improved frame rate export. Now 23.976 and 29.97 are exported as 23 and 29.
  • Encodings: The Word OpenXML encoding now supports bold and underline styles.
  • Frame rates: New algorithm to detect frame rates, when importing.
  • Import: New function to filter out invalid XML characters when importing.
  • Keyframes: Improved keyframe creation. Exported images now use the same keyframes as scripts.
  • Resolution: Some improvements to support image resolutions bigger than 4K.
  • Settings: The configuration wizard now also allows to reset the GUI.
  • Tags: New option in tag Merge keyframes by time to select merging mode.
  • Text position: Small aesthetic changes in the text position dialog.
  • Time conversion: Conversion factors are now limited to values from 0.5 to 2.0 to avoid errors.
  • Documentation: New topics added.
New features:
  • Comparers: New comparer for Time-in and time-out.
  • Custom formats: New variable {TextFormatted} to insert formatted text, in combination with the Word OpenXML encoding.
  • Digital cinema: New internal functions to import horizontal and vertical positions.
  • Digital cinema: New support for subscript and superscript.
  • Export: The preview panel now can displays file sizes.
  • Fonts: New font file copy tag that can copy the .ttf typeface file, and check its size.
  • Fonts: New functions to measure font's x-height.
  • Fonts: New support for subscript and superscript.
  • Hardcopy: New internal functions to burn subtitles on videos.
  • Keyframes: Keyframes now have an ID. Which is an unique GUID.
  • Presets New built-in preset to export hardcopies.
  • Presets: New preset to create an exporter to export burned subtitles (hardcopies).
  • Rhozet: New internal functions to import horizontal and vertical positions.
  • Speech recognition: New experimental functions to create clips from a waveform file.
  • Speech recognition: New support for all installed Microsoft speech recognizers.
  • Tags: New {file size check} tag. It can report rendered files that are outside a given size range.
  • Tags: New export tag to export burned subtitles (hardcopies).
  • Tags: New markups {sub} and {sup} to turn on subscript and superscript.
  • Tags: New tag to change/remove the file extension of exported images.
  • Tags: New tag to report errors encoding Blu-ray TextST subtitles.
  • Tags: New tags to set the font size for subscript and superscript.
  • Tags: New tags to turn on subscript and superscript.
  • Variables: New {GUID} variable. It allows to include a GUID in file names.
  • Variables: New {Null} variable. It allows to enter empty texts.
  • Variables: New available time formats for variables: Frames, HMSFColon, HMSCineticks, Feet35.
  • Workcopy: New support to burn timecode.
2014/Jul/30 Version 1.0.13 Beta 4
Fixes:
  • Digital cinema: Fixed problem saving fade mode parameter.
  • Duration: Fixed problem when offsetting the duration with auto focus clip enabled.
  • EBU: Fixed problem exporting total number of disks and disk sequence number.
  • Find: Fixed problem in the find dialog. It hangs if no matches were found in wrap mode.
  • Preset: Fixed problem with the AVI CC export preset. The draw options tag is now enabled.
  • Spell checker: Improved GUI. With large lists of tracks some buttons could disappear.
Improvements:
  • Batch: Batch jobs now process only subtitle tracks.
  • Batch: Improved file format detection when dropping several files.
  • Blackmagic. Updated API to SDK 10.1.1.
  • Blackmagic: Classes now support interfaces.
  • Captions: Removed obsolete parameter caption source in the captions draw options tag.
  • Digital cinema: Support for new font attributes: italic, script, underlined, weight.
  • Digital cinema: The built-in presets now use the automatic font path tag.
  • Encodings: The SubRip default encoding has been changed to UTF-8.
  • Find: The find dialog now displays a message if no matches were found.
  • Formats: Fixed problem exporting using the selected encoding in several formats: SubRip, Encore, DVD Studio, Avid SubCap.
  • Formats: Plug-ins now sort added formats.
  • GUI: Now password controls do not expose the password, and have an option to reveal it.
  • Import: New internal functions to use the import dialog as modal dialog.
  • Memory: New forced garbage collection after spell checking, report and export.
  • Players: Improved QuickTime and Media player refreshing timing.
  • Tags: Tag Offset to start at hour now allows to select zero hours and offset to same hour as reel number.
  • Timers: Improved internal timers. Timers now wait to finalize before they tick again.
  • Titra: Improved import. Now blocks with only empty lines are ignored.
New features:
  • Attributes: New element attribute "category".
  • Belle Nuit: New support to export italics, bold and underline.
  • Commands: New deselect all command.
  • Comments: New support to import comments for tracks.
  • Connections: New internal support for connections.
  • Connections: New support to create and display console windows.
  • Devices: New support to register devices.
  • Encoding: New Microsoft Word OpenXML encoding. It allows to import and export files in docx format.
  • Excel: New internal function to import Excel documents.
  • Excel: New internal functions to import and export Excel documents.
  • Font path: The font path tag now allows to automatically set the font's path.
  • Fonts: New internal functions to find a font's source file.
  • Players: New setting to improve the speed of graphic overlay in ActiveX players (QuickTime and Media player).
  • Providers manager: Now it also displays the registered devices.
  • Stereoscopic: New settings to specify default separation and value limits.
  • Tags: New merge keyframes processor tag.
  • Tags: New sort keyframes processor tag.
  • Templates: New support for project templates.
  • Timeline: New deselect all menu in timeline's context menu.
  • Titra: New support for timecodes expressed in frames (HH:MM:SS:FF).
  • Tracks: New tag inheritance method effects (clips only).
  • Variables: New {ElementReel} variable.
2014/Jun/18 Version 1.0.13 Beta 3
Fixes:
  • Clone: Fixed bug duplicating (pasting) clips. Subtitles could lose their text.
  • Cultures: Fixed problem linking digital cinema languages with system cultures. Some cultures are new in Windows 8.
  • Custom formats: Now clicking in the edit button in a subtitle block works. Even if auto preview is turned off.
  • Custom formats: Some text fields did not allow to enter spaces.
  • Find: Fixed crash when finding text in empty subtitles.
  • Find: Fixed problem finding some characters at the beginnig of the text. Due to the Windows ignorable characters.
  • Presets: Fixed problem importing presets in projects. Name and Id were not imported properly.
  • Presets: Fixed problem with several built-in presets that got the same ID.
  • Subtitle editor: The selection of text was not accurate. For example, when auto-selecting a text found using the Find dialog.
  • Timeline: Fixed problem saving the show collapsed setting.
  • Utilities: Utilities were displayed in a single list, not in tabs.
Improvements:
  • Clone: Improved clips pasting.
  • Commands: Shortcuts show utility now autoselectes scope selected if the current track has selected clips.
  • Find: The find dialog now selectes the found text in the subtitle editor.
  • Paragraph offset: Now the paragraph offset tag does not set absolute offsets, it now accumulates it.
  • Project check: Automatic project error checking now skips disabled tags.
  • Project check: Missing media files are now tried to be found inside the media folder too.
  • Report utility: New generate documents to report subtitles and groups of errors.
  • Report utility: The generate documents button now reports only the displayed errors.
  • Timeline: The timeline zoom shortcut now also scrolls to keep the time-head visible.
  • Utilities: The utilities tabs now allow to expand or collapse all utilities.
  • Utility: The real-time offset utility now supports limit trimming and snap.
New features:
  • Activation: New internal functions to support different kinds of dongles.
  • Cut: New functions to cut subtitles. This is, copy and delete.
  • Digital cinema: New option to select how to export the fade information.
  • Export: Now when exporting, the date modified property in folders is updated.
  • Hub: New option to auto minimize the hub after opening the subtitler.
  • Navigation: New command/shorcut to jump to the previous/next clip, relative to the time-head position.
2014/Jun/02 Version 1.0.13 Beta 2
Fixes:
  • System info: Fixed aesthetic detail.
  • Settings: Fixed problem with default index padding. The value could become zero after upgrading to a newer version.
  • Duplicate: Fixed problem pasting clips from one kind into a track of another kind.
  • Word: Fixed problem with missing spaces in exported Word documents.
  • Text utility: Fixed problem creating subtitles from plain text. 2 paragraphs were created, instead of 2 lines.
  • Timecode: Fixed bug. The timecode parsing now rounds fractions of frames to the next lowest integer.
  • Paragraph offset: The paragraph offset percent tag now allows negative values.
  • Digital cinema: The value for the horizontal position has now the right sign.
  • Keyframes: Fixed bug. The keyframe values did not scale with the timeline.
  • Digital cinema: Removed the unnecessary last variable-z value.
Improvements:
  • GUI: New function to optimize menus visually.
  • PAC export: Now some unsupported characters are replaced by supported ones (spaces, quotes, apostrophes, parenthesis).
  • Graphic path import: Several formats have been improved regarding fixing paths for imported subpictures. Ultech, Belle Nuit, Toshiba.
  • First index error: This error now presets two new soutions: go to first subtitle, and remove first subtitle.
  • Paths: New internal functions to support for FTP paths.
  • Settings: The export dialog now saves its position and size.
  • Settings: The exporter wizard dialog now saves its position and size.
  • Digital cinema: Improved export. New internal functions to calculate the stereoscopic and decide how to export it.
  • Tags: Tag Design_AnimationPositionOffset has been renamed to Design_AnimationPositionOffsetPixels.
  • Subpictures: Now the paragraph position offset also affects the position of the subpictures.
  • Subpictures: Improved functions to find fix subpictures paths when importing.
  • Utilities: Utility tabs now can refresh the list of utilities.
New features:
  • Reports: New support for passive solutions. Error solutions that do not remove the error.
  • Variables: New variable {ExporterName}.
  • Variables: New variable {CustomElementExportPath}. It can be configured via plug-in to modify export paths.
  • Variables: New support for customizable variables via plug-in.
  • Variables: Variables can now resolve exporters.
  • Word import: All Word formats now have a swap text option.
  • Plug-ins: New HandySaw DS plug-in. It allows to interact with HandySaw DS to extract scene changes.
  • Commands: New command (shortcut) to display an utility.
  • Formats: New import/export format Panasonic Subtitle Information. It supports text and graphics, as well as ruby.
  • Digital cinema: New export option. It allows to use static stereoscopic instead of variable when all values are the same.
  • Digital cinema: New stereoscopic option ZPosition (first). To export static stereoscopic using the first dynamic value.
  • Screen sizes: New sizes for Digital Cinema Flat and Scope.
  • Cultures: Added support for Windows 3-letter language names.
  • Cultures: Added support for digital cinema language names.
  • Cultures: Added support to detect if the language is right-to-left.
  • Cultures: Added support to detect if the language is neutral.
  • Tags: New paragraph stacking tag. It allows to stack subtitles when several tracks are rendered together.
  • Tags: New font name by language tag. It allows change the font name based on subtitle's language.
  • Utilities: New internal support to display only one utility.
2014/May/02 Version 1.0.13 Beta 1
Fixes:
  • Commands: Fixed bug. Commands could display their result twice. Not executed commands are now ignored.
  • Commands: Fixed bug. Resulting clips after splitting became frozen.
  • Commands: Fixed bug. The offset duration command did not rendered the right frame, so the subtitle was never displayed in the monitor.
  • Commands: Fixed bug. The offset time-in command did not rendered the right frame, so the subtitle disappeared in the monitor.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed export. Fixed problem exporting vertical positions. Baselines.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed import. Removed extras line breaks that may appear because of the VariableZ element.
  • Digital cinema: Fixed import. Stereoscopic values where converted from percentaje to pixels based on screen height, not width.
  • Formats: Improved PAC import. Some PAC files may contain some invalid 0x00 characters. They are now removed automatically.
  • Overlays: Fixed bug. Overlays could become duplicated.
  • Reels: Fixed bug. Audio scrubbing could produce a noise if the reel had a time-in different than zero.
  • Render: Fixed bug. Fixed issue calculating right and bottom values for rectangles.
  • Speech: Fixed bug. The .NET could crash when trying to retrieve the installed recognizers.
  • Spell check: Fixed bug. The application could crash when removing a spell check result.
  • System. Clipboard errors are now trapped.
  • Timecode: Fixed bug. The timecode parsing now rounds fractions of frames to the next highest integer.
  • Viewers. Fixed bug. Fixed problem with the color formatting button in the XML viewer.
Improvements:
  • Commands: Improved commands. Commands to modify keyframes and nodes are now undoable.
  • Commands: Improved execution. Commands now return better return values when they fail.
  • Commands: Now commands have a category.
  • Digital cinema: Improved export. Paragraph offsets are now considered to calculate the final position.
  • Digital cinema: Improved export. New options to specify horizontal and vertical text anchors.
  • Digital cinema: Improved import. New option to ignore the font size.
  • Digital cinema: Improved import. New option to invert the imported stereoscopic values.
  • Digital cinema: Improved stereoscopic export. New option to ignore zpositions that are zero.
  • Digital cinema: Improved stereoscopic export. Three new modes: single minimum, single maximum and variable.
  • Formats: Improved Kio interchange export. Run color and font size are now exported only if specified.
  • Formats: Improved Kio interchange. Support for horizontal line alignment.
  • GUI: Improved message dialog.
  • Keyframes: Improved UI. Now in the timeline, keyframes auto-adjust the values panel.
  • Keyframes: Improved UI. Now in the timeline, keyframes display all nodes and interpolated values.
  • Overlays: Improved text areas overlay. Now it allows to select the items to show, style, and metrics.
  • Presets. Improved function to find a preset based using language name.
  • Programs. Improved start-up. Files specified in the command line can now be passed to a program.
  • Projects: Improved import. Now runs are be optimized in opened projects too, if the option is enabled in settings/files.
  • Projects: Improved save. The new safe mode saves projects using an intermediary temporal file to avoid data loss.
  • Providers manager: Improved plug-ins list. Plug-ins with errors are now displayed in red.
  • Recent: Improved GUI. Now when opening a recent file the subtitler is opened.
  • Render: Improved opacity. Negative opacities could create black pixels.
  • Render: Improved paragraph position offset. Now it is possible to offset the text in percent (of the screen size).
  • Shortcuts: Improved checking. Duplicated shortcuts are reported only is they enabled.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved overlay. Now the stereoscopic overlay allows to change the font size.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved overlay. Now the stereoscopic overlay displays the separation in percentage.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved track. New option to interpret keyframe values to stereoscopic percent separation.
  • Stereoscopic: Improved UI. Keyframes now display nodes and curves.
  • System: Improved check updates function. Fixed problem with line breaks.
  • System: Improved updates check. It is now possible to retrieve compilation information and comments.
  • System: Improved updates check. It is now possible to retrieve information for several products.
  • Tags: Improved font path tag. It allows now to use variables.
  • Tags: Improved import. New internal functions to auto substitute old (obsolete) tags with new ones.
  • Tags: Improved UI. Tag controls now can display details about their parameters.
  • Viewers. Improved display. Now viewers support auto refresh.
New features:
  • Commands: New command to add keyframe nodes.
  • Commands: New command to jump to a specific keyframe node.
  • Commands: New command to offset keyframe nodes position.
  • Commands: New command to offset keyframe nodes values.
  • Commands: New command to remove keyframe nodes.
  • Commands: New command. New command to marge a clip with the previous one.
  • Commands: New shortcut to offset paragraph position.
  • Commands: Now shortcuts are sorted by category.
  • Keyframes: All commands and utilities have been replaced by new ones.
  • Plug-ins: New internal function to disable plug-ins at start-up.
  • Project: New command to auto fix the base time.
  • Projects: New auto backup option.
  • Settings: New option to select default language.
  • Stereoscopic: New tag. New tag to specify separation based on screen width percent.
  • System: New internal FTP functions.
  • Utilitites: New utility to factorize keyframe nodes values.
  • Utilitites: New utility to offset keyframe nodes position.
  • Utilitites: New utility to offset keyframe nodes values.
  • Utilitites: New utility to remove all nodes in keyframes.
2014/Apr/07 Version 1.0.12
  • Commands. Command ID Export_ProcessorTimeStretch has been renamed to Export_ProcessorTimeStretchHMSF.
  • Commands. Improved time offset shortcuts. Several shortcuts now support video scrub.
  • Commands: Commands jump to previous/next match in Find tool has been merged into a single one: Go to match.
  • Commands: New shortcuts to zoom in/out the timeline.
  • Digital cinema: Improved stereoscopic. New parameter to invert the sign of the Z position.
  • Digital cinema: Improved stereoscopic. New parameter to select the number of decimal places.
  • Digital cinema: Improved stereoscopic. New parameter to select the stereoscopic mode.
  • Export. Fixed bug in Save track as function. A NET exception could occur if the directory was empty.
  • Export. Improved "continue" dialog. Now it displays the number of files that will be overwritten.
  • Formats. Improved Belle Nuit format. Now it can import the frame rate value.
  • GUI. Improved dialogs. Now their size. Improved "continue" dialog. Now it displays the number of files that will be overwritten.
  • Monitor. Improved settings. New button to reset the focus values.
  • Overlays. New proofing overlay. It visually marks empty lines and empty spaces.
  • Plug-ins. Fixed bug in Save track as function. A NET exception could occur if the directory was empty.
  • Plug-ins. New option to add own menus to the subtitler.
  • Project. Improved log. Now when importing a project, an import entry is added to the project's log.
  • Providers manager. Now it displays the installed speech recognizers.
  • Stereoscopic. Improved stereoscopic calculator. Fixed some value limits.
  • Stereoscopic. Improved stereoscopic calculator. Now the viewer distance is expressed in centimeters.
  • Tags. Fixed problem binding the reading speed check tag.
  • Tags. Improved line alignment check tag. Now it allows to check a custom alignment or track's.
  • Tags. New pixel effect tag: remove isolated pixels. It allows to change the color of isolated pixels.
  • Text. New setting to auto optimize text runs. It solves some spell checking issues.
  • Timeline. Improved settings. New button to reset the focus values.
  • Tools. Improved report tool. New setting to auto select the best preset.
  • Tools. Improved timeline. Keyframes can now be editable too.
2014/Apr/04 Version 1.0.11
  • Commands. Command Project duration fix is not undoable.
  • Commands. Fixed synchronize manually command. In some circumstances the command could run twice.
  • Commands. Improved send word. Additional errors are now trapped.
  • Commands. Improved messages. Commands can now show errors in the status bar or dialogs.
  • Formats. New support for import and export Belle Nuit files.
  • GUI. Aesthetic improvements for Windows 8.
  • GUI. Fixed out of memory issue. Caused by a dead lock when displaying some dialogs.
  • GUI. Fixed issue detecting if the current monitor was playing or not.
  • GUI. Improved reading speed control. Now it displays the speed graphically. Units are now specified in the project.
  • GUI. Improved drag & drop. The desktop is now released when files are dropped.
  • GUI. Improved drag & drop. When a folder is dropped into the subtitler, its files are precessed instead.
  • Import. Improved import. New dialog informs is project's duration need to be fixed efter importing subtitles.
  • Plug-ins. New logo for the FFmpeg plug-in.
  • Providers manager. Now it displays the categories alphabetically.
  • Reading speed. It is now possible to specify reading speed values in the project.
  • Reading speed. New option in settings to reverse the reading speed graphic.
  • Reel. Fixed bug. When the media frame rate was changed, the waveform kept the previous rate and could stop playing. It could cause noises.
  • Reel. Improved reel calibration. Now the reel calibration dialog does not modify project's base time.
  • Render. Fixed bug. An extra spacing appeared after italicized runs.
  • Subtitler. New menu entry to add a new empty reel.
  • System. Fixed bug reading registry keys. Lack of permission could cause a crash.
  • System. Fixed problem detecting available updates.
  • System. Improved system specs dialog. Some crashes are now trapped.
  • System. Improved listing of plug-ins in the system info window.
  • Tag. New index discontinuity tag. It reports subtitles with discontinuous indexes. The current available tag reports tracks, not subtitles.
  • Tags. Fixed index discontinuity tag. The solutions always renumbered from 1.
  • Tags. Improved offset to start at tag. It is possible now to keep the separation between the first subtitle and the marker.
  • Tags. Improved offset tags. It is possible now to offset segments independently.
  • Time conversion. Fixed bug. The timeline had red color.
  • Utilities. New text targets: none, comments append.
  • Variables. New {OneDrive} variable. It points to the local OneDrive folder (if any).
  • Waveform. Improved clip handle. Reduced size of the grip control for better waveform visibility.
  • Waveform. Improved clip handle. The handle is 4 pixer wider now, to display the complete waveform the clip covers.
2014/Feb/25 Version 1.0.10
  • Batch. Fixed bug. The applicationn could crash when updating a disposed job.
  • Batch. Improved configuration dialog. It is possible now to manage settings files.
  • Batch. New ignore list functionality. It allows the watch to ignore newly rendered files.
  • Batch. New dialog to edit the ignore list.
  • Batch. New function to auto dispose completed watch jobs.
  • Captions. New tag to set the roll-up row.
  • Captions. New tag to set the roll-up size (number of lines).
  • Commands. Command apply preset is now undoable.
  • Custom formats. Fixed bug. In the format editor the save menu was not displayed.
  • Export. Improved add exporter from preset function. It allows to select how to link with the preset.
  • Formats. Fixed problem exporting percentage position in Smpte-TT Rovi files.
  • Formats. Format NuTxt JSON now supports different line breaks and entities.
  • GUI. Fixed bug. Auto-updated preset comboboxes lost focus when updating.
  • GUI. Fixed bug. Fixed crash when loading dialog position settings.
  • GUI. New function to preserve the caret position in the exit box.
  • GUI. New setting to disable shortcuts in floating tools.
  • GUI. The pinned property in floating windows is now saved.
  • GUI. The wrap option in the find dialog is now enabled by default.
  • HTML. Fixed bug decoding entities. Ampersand could be removed.
  • Macros. Improved editor. New menu entry to save macros as.
  • Magnifier. The background is now refreshed when it changes in the source.
  • NuTxt. Fixed problem decoding captions. No tables were registered.
  • OCR. Fixed bug. Multi-threaded OCR could crash.
  • OCR. Fixed bug. Removed glyphs caused a crash when trying to create null images.
  • Overlays. New experimental proofing overlay. It displays blank spaces and empty lines.
  • Plug-ins. Updated FFmpeg executable to version Feb/26.
  • Presets. Fixed problem with the file watcher. Changes in the preset xml file were not reported properly.
  • Presets. Improved presets linking. Now linking the same preset to several tracks does not duplicate the preset.
  • Presets. New dialog to save presets. It allows to edit the preset before saving.
  • Project. Fixed bug. When opening a project, presets' tags might not be loaded.
  • QuickTime. Trapped some errors.
  • Report. Improved list. Resolved groups of errors are automatically removed from the report.
  • Report. New tag to report raised subtitles.
  • Spell checking. New word consult: Wiktionary.
  • System. Improved execution of external exe files. Now processes run asynchronous and can be stopped.
  • Tags. New process tag that allows keyframes to have their original index.
  • Unicode. Updated database to version 6.3.
  • Utilities. Improved function to remove double spaces. It can remove double spaces even if they are in different runs.
  • Utilities. New utility to add directionality codes to text (RTL and LRT Unicode control codes).
  • Utilities. New utility to apply a preset to tracks.
  • Utilities. New utility to remove all tags in tracks.
  • Utilities. New utility to remove directionality codes.
  • Utilities. Improved Convert text utility. New options to encode/decode JSON entities.
2014/Jan/30 Version 1.0.9
  • Activation. Improved messages in the activation dialog.
  • Batch. File shortcuts in the watch folder are now resolved.
  • Batch. Fixed watch folder. A crash occurred when deleting the folder while scanning it.
  • Batch. Improved watch folder highlight control.
  • Batch. Improved watch. It ignores now additional hidden system files.
  • Batch. Improved controls. Now the Report errors option is hidden if no preset has been selected.
  • Batch. Improved job controls. Improved title and removed description.
  • Batch. New Configuration dialog to customize the batch.
  • Batch. New button to stop, close and clear the batch.
  • Calculator. New function to swap timecodes.
  • Calculator. New operation factor. It allows to calculate the factor between two timecodes.
  • Command. Improved jump to clip command. It is possible now to jump to clip's time-out position.
  • Commands. Fixed problem jumping to previous/next clip. In slow system the clip was not displayed in the monitor.
  • Commands. Improved subtitle split. New option to select separation mode and focus.
  • Commands. New commands to set/remove the line horizontal alignment.
  • Equalize times. Fixed crash when using the intersect block mode.
  • Export. It is possible now to set to zero the amount of digits in subpicture names.
  • Exporters. Improved text position dialog. New cancel button.
  • Exporters. Improved text position dialog. New option to show the aspect ration in the monitor.
  • Find. New wrap around function. It continues the search when the end of the track is reached.
  • Find. New option to make the window topmost.
  • Formats. Fixed TimedText import. Files with frame rate 23.976 could be imported as 24.
  • Formats. Fixed bug in import dialog. Items in the formats list could become disabled with no reason.
  • Formats. Fixed some controls in Scenarist SCC import.
  • Formats. Improved SubRip export. New options to export underline and color.
  • Formats. New support to import/export DVD Studio Pro text files.
  • GUI. New support for file shortcuts. Shortcut files can be dropped now into the subtitler, batch and other controls.
  • GUI. The project error dialog is modeless now.
  • Import. Improved import dialog. Files dropped into the subtitler are passed to the dialog without auto-detecting again.
  • Macros. Fixed bug in Convert to frame rate macros.
  • Macros. Improved controls. Now the macros list separates build-in and custom macros.
  • Macros. New built-in macros to stretch time.
  • Magnifier. Improved GUI. Better communication between the mirror and parent window.
  • Magnifier. Now it also displays the background image.
  • MS Media Player. Fixed crash when seeking position.
  • Plug-ins. Improved error trapping.
  • Plug-ins. Updated Blackmagic API to SDK 9.7.7.
  • Presets. A progress bar is displayed now when refreshing presets.
  • Presets. Improved preset editor preview window. It stores the auto fit state.
  • Projects. Improved error reporting. When opening a project, errors in tags are displayed too.
  • Render. Improved speed when exporting. The render engine was slow releasing its memory.
  • Screener. New auto fit function.
  • Screener. New function to configure closed captions.
  • Screener. New function to take snapshots.
  • Screener. New support to display closed captions on screen.
  • Settings. Fixed bug. Two different tools tabs were displayed.
  • Settings. New settings to remove formatting when pasting clipboard text.
  • Shortcuts. Improved shortcut controls. The header of the control is not editable now.
  • Shortcuts. New shortcuts are now auto-expanded.
  • System info. It displays the installed mirrors too.
  • System. Improved system information. It can detect now the right version of Office 15.
  • Tags. Fixed GUID tag. The tag could report a false error when empty.
  • Tools. Improved explorer tool. Now newly created elements are auto revealed in the tree.
  • Tools. Improved report tool. Now results are displayed always sorted.
  • Tools. Improved clips and icons. Flag icons now appear in own row for better visibility.
  • Utilities. Improved Change case utility. New option to select casing mode.
  • Utilities. Improved optimize elements utility. Now runs with similar style (tags) are merged too.
  • Utilities. New text case conversion option Uppercase first letter.
  • Variables. New variable {ElementSubpictureOriginalFileNameNoIndex}. This variable works as {ElementSubpictureOriginalFileName} but removes the digits at the end of the name.
2014/Jan/02 Version 1.0.8
  • Batch. An icon now indicates when the watch folder has detected changes.
  • Batch. Fixed bug when sending a project to the batch. The exporter ID was not specified.
  • Batch. Improved batch list. Render project jobs are not editable now.
  • Batch. Improved watch. Now it ignores all system hidden files, thumbnail files and settings files.
  • Batch. Improved watch. Now it ignores all files created by the batch.
  • Batch. Improved workcopy job. It is possible now to specify a destination folder.
  • Batch. New button to enable/disable to watch folder.
  • Captions. New option to specify field. Used only when exporting Smpte-TT files.
  • Commands. Improved clip split. When the caret is at the end of line, the text is split at next line.
  • Compressions. New WinZip plug-in. WinZip functionallities have been moved into a plug-in.
  • DECEMate. Improved batch job. Errors during the analysis are displayed.
  • DECEMate. Improved batch job. New option to select report type.
  • Dialogs. Improved project errors dialog. The dialog can be closed now by pressing Esc.
  • Export. Improved file path creation. Additional invalid characters are now filtered.
  • Export. New option in the save track dialog to choose a clip scope.
  • Exporters. Improved text position dialog. New option to temporarily turn off color remapping.
  • Exporters. Improved error messages when letterbox detection fails.
  • Exporters. New save exporter as command and context menu entry.
  • Formats. DLP Cinema. New option to do not render images.
  • Formats. DLP Cinema. New option to render 8-bit images.
  • Formats. Fixed bug in PAC format. Markups were exported inside parenthesis.
  • Formats. Fixed PAC encoding. Imported ÿ are now converted to spaces.
  • Formats. Fixed TimedText import. A false error reported that no frame rate was found.
  • Formats. Netflix. Updated to specs 1.4.
  • Formats. New import and export format NuTxt JSON.
  • Formats. New import and export format NuTxt Online.
  • Formats. TimedText. Attributes are now avaluated hierarchically and in order of appearance.
  • Formats. TimedText. Text alignment is now imported.
  • GUI. Tool settings windows now preserve position and size.
  • GUI. Improved auto line-break in subtitle text editor. Text lines above the current line are not wrapped now.
  • GUI. Improved close dialog. It is possible now to save modified projects when closing the subtitler.
  • GUI. Improved focus. When a track becomes active, its project is now forced to get active too.
  • GUI. Improved reading speed controls. It is possible now to choose units.
  • GUI. Improved time labels. Now it is possible to copy the timecode from some time labels.
  • Key generator. Improved GUI. Panels are now scrollable.
  • Microsoft translator. Improved utility. The Microsoft translator utility does not require any account information now.
  • Microsoft translator. New Key generator integration. It is now possible to create temporal access tokens.
  • Microsoft translator. The DLL plug-in file now has its own .config file.
  • Microsoft translator. Updated activation. It supports now temporal access tokens.
  • Microsoft translator. Updated activation. It supports now the new activation system, using the Client ID and Client Secret.
  • MS Word spell checker. Now errors are trapped when creating a MS Word window.
  • Players. New support for Windows Media player.
  • Plug-ins. New internal support to execute plug-ins at different stages of the initialization.
  • Plug-ins. The Providers manager shows plug-in errors now.
  • Presets. New Digital Cinema export presets, for text and graphics.
  • Presets. New Netflix presets, for export and report.
  • Presets. New Right-to-left preset.
  • Presets. New Scenarist SCC export preset.
  • Project. Tracks can now content comments.
  • Report. New support to calculate reading speed in words per minute.
  • Scene changes. Improved scene snapping. New option to snap time-in and time-ou at the same time.
  • Tags. Improved saving. When saving tags as a preset, the name of the source element is now preserved.
  • Time. Fixed frames-to-milliseconds conversion.
  • Translator. Improved translation utility. Subtitles without text do not report any error now.
  • Undo. Support for tracks' comments.
  • Utilities. Improved word wrap. Maximum lines is now respected.
  • Utilities. New utility to remove comments from tracks.
  • Utilities. New utility to set track languages based on keywords in its name.
  • Variables. Improved core. Variables are now resolved per keyframe, and not per track.
  • Variables. Improved core. Variables support keyframes now.
  • Variables. New {ExportDirectory} variable. It allows batch jobs to export into the default export folder.
  • Variables. New variable that returns subtitle's original subpicture file name.
Changes log 2013
2013/Nov/25 Version 1.0.7
  • Captions. Improved encoding. New option to override caption codes with "no commands" {}.
  • Captions. Improved overlay. Errors converting characters are now displayed too.
  • Captions. New function to decode captions and render the text on screen.
  • DASH. New format. Support for import and export. Still beta.
  • Export. New option in the save track dialog to choose a preset.
  • Final Cut. Fixed bug. The application could crash when batch converting into Final Cut XML with no font size specified.
  • Formats. Fixed bug. Some formats did not preserve all parameters.
  • Formats. New internal support for import-only formats.
  • GUI. Improved disposal of menus.
  • GUI. Improved video controls. New buttons to jump to previous/next clip.
  • GUI. Small changes in the user interface.
  • Help. Added error message when any help document is found.
  • Kaltura. New format. Support for import and export.
  • Languages. Improved detection of language based on file name. Support to detect token such as SP, SPMX, ES, ESP, SPA.
  • Macros. New capability to specify a clip scope in macros and their utilities.
  • Netflix TT. New format. Support for import and export. Still beta.
  • Presets. New DoStudio preset.
  • Reels. New command (and shortcut) to add a new scene change at current time location.
  • Reels. New command (and shortcut) to remove the scene change at current time location.
  • Report. Improved detection of malformed markups.
  • Report. New report tag to report texts with malformed markups.
  • Scantitling. Improved format detection.
  • Scene changes. New utility to snap times to scene changes.
  • Shortcuts. Now only enabled shortcuts are checked for errors.
  • Snap. Improved snap function. It allows now to move the subtitle or just snap the edges.
  • Sony BDN. Fixed bug in the script header. In some versions of Windows the frame rate could be expressed with a decimal comma instead of a decimal point.
  • Spruce. Fixed bug. The selected export encoding was ignored, 1252 was always used.
  • System. Support to detect is NET 4.5.1 is installed.
  • Time equalizer. Fixed bug. The application could crash when finding twins.
  • Utility. Fixed visual bug. The renumber utility hid the index value.
  • Waveform. Fixed bug. The application could crash when opening non-existing wav files.
2013/Oct/23 Version 1.0.6
  • Captions. Fixed problem creating disassembly code. Extra padding were added.
  • Captions. Improved encoding. Hierarchical properties are now used.
  • Captions. Improved text import. In-between empty lines are not removed now.
  • Cheetah asc. New import/export format.
  • Cheetah cap. New import/export format.
  • Formats. Several new detection formats added.
  • Formats. New option to only auto-detect supported formats.
  • Mirror. Fixed crash when closing the mirror window.
  • Reels. New prompt when creating a reel with a different frame rate.
  • Scenarist SCC. New option to import captions analyzing the entire stream.
  • Timecode. Fixed problem parsing timecodes expressed in feet.
  • Titra. New import/export format.
  • Ultraviolet. Updated best practices (from draft to final).
  • Undo. New support to undo after adding tag groups.
  • Undo. New support to undo cleared tags.
  • Updates. Fixed crash checking updates with older versions of Kio.
  • Utilities. New type of time conversion anchor: zero.
  • Utilities. New time conversion utility that specifies the source and target frame rates.
  • Word. Improved docx file creation. New option to choose compatibility with Word 2007.
  • Tested and approved for Windows 8.1.
2013/Sep/25 Version 1.0.5
  • Asian spacing. Improved way to choose the space to use.
  • Batch. Fixed problem when adding multiple files. All new jobs shared the same format.
  • Batch. Now custom jobs are also listed when drag-and-dropping files.
  • Captions. Improved error messages. When overwriting cells their text is reported.
  • Debug. Fixed aestetic problem. Long error messages do not take the whole screen.
  • Design. New design dialog. It allows to easily change the design of a track.
  • Digital Cinema Smpte 428-7. New format for import and export.
  • Digital Cinema. Fixed problem importing positions.
  • Digital Cinema. Fixed problem with reel numbers.
  • Digital Cinema. New option to specify the screen resolution when importing.
  • Digital Cinema. Support to import subtitles with seveal images.
  • DLP Cinema. New support to import language information.
  • EBU. Improved language ID selection when exporting.
  • EBU. New option to override the frame rate when importing.
  • Export. Fixed bug. Spaces where replace by underscore also in script/video file names.
  • Export. Fixed problem in export wizard, selected tracks were ignored.
  • GUI. Aesthetic change. Project checkboxes do not show the cero clips label.
  • GUI. Fixed problem loading default values for dialogs. Specifically the left property.
  • GUI. The option to auto-focus the first subtitle when opening a project.
  • Import. Fixed bug. Right-to-left runs became also vertical.
  • Import. Fixed problem creating formats. Format's parameters were not reset.
  • Import. New method to import vertical position for some formats "Auto raise & empty lines".
  • Import. The import dialog allows now to drag & drop tracks.
  • Lambda. New function to report unrecognized commands when importing.
  • Languages. Improved behavior in the track language dialog. Consult the documentation.
  • Log-in. New function to select the target folder when creating a new user.
  • Macros. New internal functions to allow creation of built-in macros.
  • Multi-threading. Fixed bug with multi-threaded color remapping.
  • OpenXML. Improved export. Docx files support now line alignment.
  • Overlay. New overlay to display grids in the monitor.
  • PAC. Fixed problem importing texts with italics. An extra space was added.
  • Presets. Fixed problem loading preset descriptions.
  • Presets. New built-in preset for Final Cut + Images.
  • Presets. New built-in preset that makes text look like captions.
  • Render. Improved code to avoid crash when rendering removed clips.
  • Render. The character spacing value is now used in the image rendering.
  • Ruby. New option to auto set the ruby alignment, based on the run's position in the line.
  • Ruby. New option to auto set the ruby position.
  • Ruby. New option to let the ruby overhang over adjacent runs.
  • Ruby. New parameter to modify the ruby character spacing.
  • System. New feature to check for updates at start-up.
  • Tags. New tags groups for font style and line alignment.
  • Time conversion. Fixed crash when the time factor got an infinite value.
  • Tracks. Fixed problem with ghosted menu to create reference tracks.
  • UltraViolet. Fixed problem exporting the origin value or cropped images.
  • UltraViolet. Support for specs 1.0.7.
  • UltraViolet. Support to apply best practice parameters.
  • Waveform. Trapped some errors when calculating amplitudes.
  • Waveform. Trapped some errors when working with illegal frame rate values.
2013/Aug/22 Version 1.0.4
  • Batch. New support for custom jobs. Jobs can be saved to create new kinds of jobs.
  • Batch. The jobs list is now optimized when there are more than 5000 jobs.
  • Captions. New options to override commands.
  • DECEMate. New DECEMate plug-in. Adds a batch job to analyze UltraViolet subtitles.
  • DECEMate. New DECEMate plug-in. Adds a tag to analyze UltraViolet subtitles.
  • Documentation. New section about captions.
  • Documentation. New section about OCR.
  • Documentation. Revised and updated topics.
  • Equalize times. New twin mode to find blocks of intersecting clips.
  • Equalize times. New twin mode to work with the entire scope.
  • FFmpeg. The FFmpeg plug-in now supports FFProbe to extract info from media files.
  • Final Cut Pro Interchange. Corrected line-breaks when exporting.
  • Final Cut Pro Interchange. Corrected version number in the header.
  • Final Cut Pro Interchange. Improved font size and vertical position export.
  • Final Cut Pro Interchange. New option to export aspect, tracking, leading, subpixel.
  • Final Cut Pro Interchange. New option to export italicized runs using tags.
  • Final Cut Pro Interchange. New option to export text as outline text effect.
  • GUI. New confirm dialog when closing tabs.
  • GUI. New feature to change the background texture.
  • GUI. Parameters dialogs are now modeless.
  • Lambda. Added extension txt.
  • Lambda. The encoding was ignored when exporting.
  • Macros. Added new built-in macros.
  • Magnifier. New warn when the magnifier is not compatible with the current video player.
  • MultiSubtitler Text. New option to force import as single language.
  • MultiSubtitler Text. Support to import subtitles without a separation.
  • Presets. Added new built-in presets.
  • Presets. New support for nested presets (preset inside a preset).
  • QuickTime. The player could crash when the movie files did not exist.
  • SCC decoder. New option to include decoding errors in the text file.
  • SCC. New option to export scc files adding erase (time-out) commands.
  • Shortcuts. New command to apply/remove a preset to a clip.
  • Subtitles. Fixed problem reading text from disposed subtitles.
  • SubViewer. New format. Support for import and export.
  • Tags panel. The link preset button allows now to use any preset.
  • Tags. New code to avoid crash with nested tags and presets.
  • Tags. New report tag to indicate the allowed punctiation.
  • Tags. Title tag supports variables now.
  • TimedText. Value tts:extent is now used to guesss the screen size of imported files.
  • Timeline. Context menus can be called now on empty areas too.
  • Timeline. Optimized refresh. Clips deletion caused continous refresh.
  • UltraViolet. Cropped images export is now supported (only when fragmenting is enabled).
  • UltraViolet. Improved import of subpictures. Image path is now auto fixed.
  • UltraViolet. Support for new attributes in spans: color, fontFamily, fontSize.
  • Variables. Faster solving of variables.
  • Workspace. Removed elements now lose focus, to avoid working with unexisting elements.
2013/Jul/31 Version 1.0.3
  • Fixed batch. Duplicated jobs could point to wrong file.
  • Fixed batch. Not all jobs were loaded when re-launching.
  • Fixed captions. Extended characters were reported as overwrites.
  • Fixed decimals. In some systems a decimal comma appeared instead of decimal point.
  • Fixed EDL. The selected image format was not saved.
  • Fixed font measurement. Fonts that do not support regular style caused a crash.
  • Fixed GUID tag. The static option was not saved.
  • Fixed overlays. Fixed problem with the size of baselines.
  • Fixed presets. Re-saved presets not longer appear dubble.
  • Fixed progress bars. Some progresses appeared on windows behind.
  • Fixed rendering. Recursive presets caused a crash.
  • Fixed Set frame rate utility. It crashed when added into a macro.
  • Fixed Sony BDN. Fixed problem importing nodes inside effects.
  • Fixed SubRip. Fixed decimal point problem.
  • Fixed time formatters. Negative times could appear with double minus sign.
  • Fixed timeline. Removed sub-tracks remained in the timeline.
  • Improved activation. New function to detect clock rollbacks.
  • Improved auto line-break. It breaks only when working at the end of the text.
  • Improved AVI export preset. Keyframing at transitions is enabled by default.
  • Improved AVI export. New option to tuen on/off bytes padding.
  • Improved batch. New job controls.
  • Improved batch. Settings files have been standarized to support job duplication.
  • Improved BDN import. Fading is imported and create tags.
  • Improved DLP Cinema. Encoding name is uppercase, and text elements are single-lined.
  • Improved DLP Cinema. New option to express fading in ticks when possible.
  • Improved DLP Cinema. New option to offset the reel number.
  • Improved DLP Cinema. New option to reset the times to zero hours when exporting.
  • Improved DLP Cinema. New option to set the position precision, anchor, and decimal places.
  • Improved DLP Cinema. New warn when reels exceed the maximum size.
  • Improved documentation.
  • Improved EBU. Hierarchical formatting is now exported.
  • Improved export. New process tag to offset subtitles to a given hour.
  • Improved exporter editor. Element tree is always scrollable.
  • Improved exporter. Better error reporting when creating tasks.
  • Improved exporter. New option to export only flagged tracks.
  • Improved find tool. New option to short-circuit evaluations.
  • Improved find tool. The current exporter is used to search.
  • Improved frame rate conversion. The frame rate utility allows to select a to/from frame rate.
  • Improved import. Better calculation of project duration.
  • Improved import. New option to auto apply presets to imported tracks.
  • Improved language dialog. It displays now the element's name.
  • Improved line spacing. Improved accuracy to two decimals.
  • Improved macros editor. Floating utilities window.
  • Improved macros editor. Improved design.
  • Improved macros editor. Warning when leaving a macro unsaved.
  • Improved macros. They have now an unique ID.
  • Improved macros. Support for external icons.
  • Improved monitor. New option to hide the render when in edit mode.
  • Improved obstacles. New tag to just modify the obstacle solution.
  • Improved obstacles. New tag to just modify the stereoscopic parameters.
  • Improved PAC. Hierarchical formatting is now exported.
  • Improved paste function. Pasted clips are now sorted by time.
  • Improved player. New option to adjust the alpha threshold for AX players (QuickTime).
  • Improved presets editor. Warning when leaving a preset unsaved.
  • Improved QuickTime. The player is now always forced to auto fit.
  • Improved reels. Select reel menu now allows to release a reel.
  • Improved rendering. Subpictures are now affected by the opacity value.
  • Improved Scantitling. Improved creation of file header when exporting.
  • Improved Smpte-TT Captions. Origin and extend values are now exported.
  • Improved Sony BDN. Effects are now imported.
  • Improved split function. Text is splitted at current word.
  • Improved stereoscopic. New de-ghosting pixel effect.
  • Improved stereoscopic. New shortcut to set the separation.
  • Improved stereoscopic. New shortcut to set the text alignment.
  • Improved stereoscopic. New tag to offset the separation a given amount of pixels.
  • Improved stereoscopic. New tag to re-align the text.
  • Improved SubRip. Support to import and export bold style and line alignment.
  • Improved subtitle editor. New options to show/hide flags, formatting and separation.
  • Improved subtitler. Nicer status bar.
  • Improved tag panel. New option to add groups of tags.
  • Improved tags panel. New option to link an element to a preset in 3 different ways.
  • Improved tags panel. New toolbar.
  • Improved text areas overlay. New option to display numeric values.
  • Improved text editor. New button to paste plain text.
  • Improved time conversion. The dialog now stores size and displayed panels.
  • Improved time conversion. The dialog window does not lock the subtitler.
  • Improved TimedText export. Language and alignment are now exported only if needed.
  • Improved TimedText export. New option to override values: Background, FontSize, LineHeight, more.
  • Improved TimedText export. New option to specify CellResolution.
  • Improved TimedText import. New option to ignore XML WhiteSpaces.
  • Improved TimedText import. New option to merge paragraphs with identical time.
  • Improved TimedText. Improved inheritance of attributes.
  • Improved times pasting. Removed false warning when amount of times and clips were different.
  • Improved tracks. New option to flag tracks.
  • Improved UltraViolet export. File sizes are reported only when segmenting.
  • Improved utilities. New utility to flag tracks.
  • Improved utilities. Utility Sort clips by time is undoable now.
  • Improved variables. Get variable can translate enums.
  • Improved variables. Removed decimal point when inserting frame rates in paths.
  • Improved variables. Removed warning when optional formatting was not specified.
  • Improved variables. Three new variables to insert language name ISO formatted.
  • Improved XML parser. Values can be imported ignoring casing.
  • New command. New context menu entry to sort sub-tracks by name.
  • New function to check for updates.
  • New icons.
  • New M-PNG AVI export format.
  • New QuickTime plug-in. Adds support for QuickTime player.
2013/Jun/14 Version 1.0.2
  • Fixed aesthetic problem with macros in the utilities tool.
  • Fixed crash in script editor, when reading empty Excel cells.
  • Fixed crash when starting the batch and the watch could not find settings.
  • Fixed Lambda import. Removed bracket in imported ruby, all commands are now interpreted.
  • Fixed problem calculating overlaps when exporting caption files.
  • Fixed problem calculating the visual start for captions. Double commands and empty buffers are now considered.
  • Fixed problem changing setting Default maximum lines per paragraph.
  • Fixed problem duplicating inserted presets.
  • Fixed problem exporting EDL. Durations have been fixed.
  • Fixed problem exporting PAC files. Corrected sub-index values.
  • Fixed problem exporting Scantitling files. Now long text lines are truncated automatically.
  • Fixed problem marking a reel as active.
  • Fixed problem modifying the subpicture path. Illegal path characters caused a crash.
  • Fixed problem optimizing time-outs in Ultech scripts.
  • Fixed problem reporting font fallback in empty subtitles.
  • Fixed problem with magnifier displaying information about palletized images.
  • Fixed problem with uppercase toggle command, which modified the italic flag instead.
  • Fixed problem with watch folder. File to process was the same as the settings file.
  • Fixed problem with Wrap text utility. Some newly added spaces caused a crash.
  • Fixed problem with extra spaces after a send word command.
  • Fixed problem with frame rate 30. High values caused a crash.
  • Fixed problem with option override script extension.
  • Fixed solution for reading speed errors. They appear only if they modify the subtitle.
  • Improved auto detection of encoding. Unicode exceptions now reject the encoding.
  • Improved back/foreground images. Opacity can be changed.
  • Improved batch. Removed message dialogs when jobs are done.
  • Improved batch. The batch folder is now cleared when all jobs are removed.
  • Improved box fitting. All fit modes work now, even when using markups.
  • Improved caption decoding. Triple commands are now simplified too.
  • Improved captions encoding error messages.
  • Improved captions overlay. Captions from the write buffer are drawn marked.
  • Improved captions overlay. It is now possible to select the captions buffer to render.
  • Improved captions performance. Encoding and decoding supports multi-threading.
  • Improved Digital Cinema import. Support for image position.
  • Improved Digital Cinema import. Support for several and none font nodes in the root.
  • Improved display area control. Now it accepts two decimals.
  • Improved EBU Latin encoding. It supports now Turkish ı.
  • Improved EBU TT export. Support for multiRowAlign.
  • Improved EBU import. Added option to fix double line-breaks.
  • Improved exporter's add format function. It allows now to add video formats.
  • Improved Find tool. It allows now to specify the maximum number of items to show.
  • Improved GUID tag. It allows to assign a GUID dynamically.
  • Improved image index position value range. Zero is not allowed now.
  • Improved import dialog. Panels sizes are now saved.
  • Improved iTunes export. Removed option to export forced subs.
  • Improved jump to clip shortcut. It allows now to jump to the focused clip.
  • Improved layout in time conversion dialog.
  • Improved macros. It is possible now to add a description.
  • Improved markups to tags utility. It supports now to convert line alignment markups.
  • Improved naming of exported stereoscopic subpictures.
  • Improved PAC detection.
  • Improved parameters panels. Some of the disabled controls are now hidden to save space.
  • Improved plain text import. Empty lines can now separate subtitles.
  • Improved plain text import. New options to limit characters per line, and lines per subtitle.
  • Improved preset refresh. Comboboxes display new presets, without having to restart the application.
  • Improved Project fix dialog. New option to auto find missing files.
  • Improved providers manager. The font viewer now preserves the font style and sample text.
  • Improved Report matcher in Finder. Tags appear sorted alphabetically.
  • Improved Scenarist SCC import. New option to select how to handle durations.
  • Improved scrollbars in text edition box.
  • Improved separation report tag. The interval is now optional.
  • Improved Smpte-TT Flash export.
  • Improved subpicture draw options tag. It allows now to stretch the images, to adjust their aspect.
  • Improved subpicture draw options tag. It allows now to uncrop images from any source size.
  • Improved Swift XIF export. New support for add-ons.
  • Improved Synchronize manually shortcut. It supports now setting times by holding and release.
  • Improved TimedText export. Support in some formats to set backgroundColor in spans if boxes are enabled.
  • Improved TimedText parser. Styling from div and region is now considered.
  • Improved UltraViolet import. Support to import subpicture events.
  • Improved utility time stretch numeric. New button to select factor.
  • Improved utility time stretch source frame rate. New option to automatically select an anchor.
  • Improved wider line finder. It is possible now to measure by characters.
  • New batch job. It allows to add files using the same settings as the last job.
  • New box flag to turn on boxes in subtitles.
  • New built-in presets for all Cinevator modes.
  • New button in the exporter/reel editor to enable use.
  • New command control that can be used in toolbars.
  • New entries in providers manager to display tags and plug-ins.
  • New formats Cinevator and Cinetitle.
  • New function in all CC formats to import row number.
  • New function in some comboboxes. The delete key removes the selection.
  • New function to remove a scene change.
  • New function to save scene changes.
  • New logos for plug-ins.
  • New menus and commands to create exporters from preset files.
  • New option to import SCC files and split entries with several captions units.
  • New presets for Encore DVD.
  • New render all frames option for the monitor. Faster playback and preview when disabled.
  • New screen sizes prests for Cinevator.
  • New tag captions channel. It just changes the CC channel.
  • New tag captions paint mode. It just sets a new paint mode.
  • New tag to draw images as background or foreground.
  • New tag to report render speeds.
  • New tag to report invalid UltraViolet subtitles. Checks glyph buffer limits and rendering rate.
  • New tags to append text to base file names for scripts, images and videos.
  • New utilities to set track language and spelling language.
  • New utility to decode CC bytes into text, reference text or comments.
  • New utility to move subtitles to the actual visual start of its caption bytes.
  • Removed confirm dialog in viewer when clearing the list of files.
  • Removed frame rate 30 DF.
  • Several aesthetic UI fixes.
  • Tag Caption encoding options has been moved to Design / Captions.
  • The activation window now displays the features sorted alphabetically.
  • The renumber command now requires confirmation.
  • UltraViolet export have segmenting turned off as default.
2013/Apr/23 Version 1.0.1
  • New utility to copy reference text to subtitle text.
  • New utility to remove font size tags.
  • New utility to insert text.
  • New finder to find subtitles with a given reference text.
  • New option to import Swift files ignoring font size.
  • New option in utilities tool to display only subtitle tracks.
  • New option in report tool to display only subtitle tracks.
  • New option in report tool to change font size.
  • New options in the application settings to configure how subtitles are imported.
  • New subtitle format FAB.
  • New subtitle format Ultech.
  • New subtitle format Timecoded data services.
  • New subtitle format Brightcove.
  • New image format uyc, uncompressed and RLE.
  • New support to crop images fitting the width.
  • New command (shortcut) to jump to scene changes.
  • New command and menu entry to spell-check a track.
  • New option in providers manager to display available commands.
  • New spell check consult for the free dictionary.
  • New menu to globally turn on/off audio scrubbing.
  • New option to display tooltips in menus.
  • New command to snap to scene changes.
  • New function to disable a shortcut.
  • New option for the monitor to select the time position to render.
  • New video player media element.
  • Improved add/remove/change tag utilities. Now they allow to select a target.
  • Improved extra spaces tag. Better error reporting and solutions.
  • Improved reporting of time separation errors.
  • Improved utilities to remove line alignment.
  • Improved audio scrubbing.
  • Improved PAC import. Row position can be imported, and auto-raise subtitles.
  • Improved layout in the stereoscopic mirror.
  • Improved set time utility. It allows now to set absolute time-ins.
  • Improved context menu in the export preview control.
  • Fixed problem selecting image format for Toshiba files.
  • Fixed problem showing some encodings in combo-boxes.
  • Fixed problem with justification in the edition box when the subtitle was emtpy.
  • Fixed problem with semi-colons in NTSC BDN files.
  • Added list of commands to the documentation.
2013/Mar/01
  • Version 1.0.0.
2013/Jan/01
  • Version RC 2.
Changes log 2012
2012/Dec/01
  • Version RC 1.
2012/Nov/01
  • Version Beta 1.
Changes log 2010
2010/Jun/01
  • Planning.