---------- 5.11.0 ( 5.10.0 ) 04.12.2023 ---------- IMPORTANT! Operation of genlock for the 722 and 788 boards was modified. Now video is synchronized according to standard in specific VBI area but not to beginning of frame. For users whose genlock is enabled for board input it could be necessary to edit a genlock delay. ===== General (+) Added support of 10-bit video formats. P010/P210/Y210, IYUV/I420/YV12 are restricted now. #### FD940 (Forward ÒN/TT/ÒÀ/ÒP) (!) Fixed error appeared at non-standard signal receiving (1280 õ 1600 resolution) at HDMI connection to FD720 and FD940 boards inputs. #### FD722 (Forward ÒN/TT/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Now improved operation of genlock. (+) Now appeared support of the FD722 v.5.0 board. #### FD788 (Forward ÒN/TT/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Now improved operation of genlock. (+) Now appeared support of the FD788 v.2.0 board. #### FDConfig2 (Forward ÒN/ÒÒ/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Added a possibility of configuring input of different data in 8-bit or 10-bit format for new FDExt (FD722, FD788, FD922) boards. Click the "Other…" button. Specify "Ignore top VNI lines (don't transfer data by PCI bus)" or "Limit active video by 8 bits only (ignore 9-10 bits)" in the "Data transfer limits" window. (+) Added a display of eye diagram for input signals as indicator of their quality for the FD722 and FD788 boards. The "Eye diagram" submenu is added into the "Advanced preview" menu of "Service". After enabling double-clicking submenu a preview window appears. (+) Added settings ("Black Level", "White Level", "Gamma" and "Saturation") of video inputs for the 720 and 940 boards. (!) Fixed error when dialog window for processing sound for the 720 board was disabled. (!) Fixed error of growth of unlimited RAM consumption at synchronization according to NTP protocol. ===== The OnAir program and related applications #### OnAir3 (Forward ÒÒ/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Added the "Check and prepare files in parallel" option to "Settings" on the "Video files preparation" tab. If this option is disabled then background checks at preparing the next file are not performed. It allows reducing maximal load on disk and processor. (+) Added a possibility to start execution of .bat or .exe files from page of executed commands - the "New shell file command" button. (+) Added the "For "Wait particular time" command highlight time gap more than X seconds" option to "Time options". If this option is enabled then line with a rest time in schedule is highlighted in green. (+) Added the "Enable adding page item to schedule by one click" option to "General". (+) Added the "Disable click of focused element by button" option to "General". (+) Added a possibility of control of editing comments by keyboard keys in schedule. (+) Added the "Confirm save to *.air format" option. The option regulates appearance of message about the fact that part of information (coloring) from schedule is lost at saving it in old format. (+) Added the "File page sections" button that allows hiding and displaying file pages and remaining necessary ones only. (+) Added the "Wait all finish on timeout" command of waiting GPI events (Autodetect plugin). (+) Now possible a display of movie category in schedule (X+) to specify age limitation via the TSF_Age title script - in "Settings", on the "General" tab, the "Show movie rating in schedule" option with a possibility of setting a color of categories display. (+) Added a possibility of displaying playback properties from SLIni playback settings files on file pages. (+) Added the "Use double click to edit schedule fields" setting to "General" settings. (!) Fixed error when a delay at preparing of video file for playback appeared in case if a rolling crawl was displayed in schedule. (!) Fixed error appeared at playback of MPEG files of M2V format after their editing via TrimEditor. After this one static frame at playback is displayed. Now for large files (more that 100 MB) after their first playback a file of index with .slffmi extension in folder is generated. (!) Now changed order of preparing title objects. Now they are prepared in schedule even if its execution is stopped. (!) Fixed error appeared at converting of logged SLLog into a text file. Teletext: (+) Added support of different languages for teletext generator from SRT files. #### SLTitleMonitor (Forward ÒN/TT/TA/ÒP) (!) Fixed error when display of title objects on image distorted at switching. #### SLMediaInfoServer (TT/ÒÀ/ÒP) (!) Now optimized (accelerated) scan of files. #### FDPreview (Forward ÒN/TT/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Added the "Start another instance" command into system menu, duplicated by pressing Ctrl + R keys combination or selecting input/output of any board from menu at released Ctrl. In this case additional program instance with selected board input/output display is launched immediately. #### SLEngSettings (Forward ÒN/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Added Multiplexer setting that allows selecting what multiplexer to use - designed by MainConcept company or by SoftLab company at working with multiplexing in graphs. #### SLLogListenerConfig (Forward ÒÀ/ÒP) (!) Fixed error when extra symbols in theme of message appeared. (!) Fixed error appeared at sending message if theme in Russian language is specified. #### SLGPIGroupConfig (!) Fixed error appeared at including quotation marks and backslash (\) in title. ====== Programs for preparing of broadcasting #### TGA2AVI (TT/ÒÀ/ÒP) (!) Improved program performance at working with 4K resolution. #### SLBlockEditor (Forward ÒN/ÒÒ/ÒÀ/ÒP) (!) Accelerated load of project at working with a folder randomly. (!) Optimized general work with files. #### SLAudioNormalizer (Forward ÒN/ÒÒ/ÒÀ/ÒP) (!) Fixed error appeared at fault program close at its remote work via Remote Desktop. #### SLLoudnessMMeter (Forward ÒN/ÒÒ/ÒÀ/ÒP) (+) Added the "Hide Title" setting into context menu. (+) Added the "Enable logging at start" and "Start Program with Windows" settings in the "Properties" dialog on the "Logging" tab. (+) Added a possibility of launching several program instances via shortcuts with properties. "C:\Program Files\ForwardT Software\Tools\SLLoudnessMMeter\SLLoudnessMMeter.exe" #N. ====== Titling system (+) Added Web2 new title element basing Chrome browser with a support of dynamic page update. (+) Added new type of PowerPoint title element designed to display presentations in PPT and PPTX formats. (+) Added the "Transparent edges" property to display background under image when MovieList title element is scaled with saving its aspect ratio. (+) Added the "Enable metadata transfer" and "Enable Multi-Language Audio" settings to "Video2" title element. (+) Added the TS1_NewsRollCrawl script designed for subtitling news in rolling crawl. (+) Added the TS1_EventCountDown script designed for displaying countdown counter. (+) Added the Promo6_0_1_0_0 script designed for displaying program title. Also there is a possibility of displaying countdown counter in format of clock and/or playback indicator. (!) Fixed error appeared at work of TS1 Header title script on Burman language when at the end of each advertisement tag of comment displayed. (!) Fixed strobe in the Video2\NDIVideo elements with Entire Image option. (!) Optimized work of AnimLogo and Video2 elements in UHD resolutions. ====== PostPlay signal delay system #### PostPlay2 (Forward ÒP) ====== PostPlay #### FDPostPlayCapture (Forward TP) (+) Added support of high speed (200 fps) Panasonic EVA1 camera. (+) Added a possibility of deinterlacing at video capturing. (+) Restart of capture in case of an error is enabled by default in program settings. (+) Added a possibility of selecting mode of display in title of the main window in program settings. #### FDPostPlayPreview2 (Forward TA/TP) (+) Added a possibility to export multichannel audio from storages in MP4 (FFMPEG) and MOV (Apple ProRes) files formats. (+) Added a possibility to export video from interlaced storage to progressive scan video - the "Deinterlace video, change frame rate (fps): 25 => 50" setting is added to export window. (+) Added "Selected Clips to one File..." and "All Clips to one File..." commands to the "Storage/Export to AVI/MPEG/MXF/MP4/ProRes " submenu. ####SLAudioDucker ***New*** (+)Software sound mixer. Possibility of setting a fixed delay with frame accuracy relative to the input audio line. Automatic change of sound level across different audio lines. Automatic background sound for the translator's voice. ====== SLIngest signal record system: (+) Added a mode of record preliminary preparation that allows eliminating delay in start of record. Added the "Wait" button that must be pressed before start of recording. (+) Added the "Cut" button by pressing which record to current files for all channels in the same frame is finished and record to the next file from the next frame starts. (+) Added a possibility of splitting video file at its recording by GPI event. (+) Added a possibility of sending GPIOut signal at start and end of recording. Added the "Enable output GPI for "Input Start"" and "Enable output GPI for "Input Stop"" parameters to "Settings", in the "GPI control" folder. (+) Added support of recording a multichannel audio to video file in MP4 (FFMpeg) and Apple ProRes formats. ===== Forward ÒS (SLStreamerPro / SLStreamerLite) (+) Added a possibility of receiving SRT stream in the SRT Listener mode. "SRT Server" SRT mode property is renamed to "SRT Listener" and the "SRT Streamer" property is renamed to "SRT Caller" accordingly. (+) Added support of Passphrase phrase for encrypting via SRT protocol. (+) Added support of receiving SRT streams by DNS name. (+) Added the streamid parameter for receiving SRT stream. (+) Added a possibility of specifying interval for Service Description Table (SDT), Network Information Table (NIT), Time and Date Table (TDT), Time Offset Table (TOT) tables in output device of the SL RTP/UDP stream. (+) Added a possibility of generating a Packetized Elementary Stream (PES) each frame or each semi frame on your choice - the "Wrap each field in PES" property in output device of the SL RTP/UDP stream. (+) Added the #EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tag to media playlist title generated by HLS Segmenter. The tag is provided by Apple HTTP as a standard for cases when #EXT-X-DATERANGE record of tag is specified. (+) Added a possibility of specifying time marks in transport streams with a reference to system time so that time marks in different graphs on different PCs are approximately the same. (+) Added support of 4:2:2 10 bit format in MC H.264 encoder. (!) Fixed error when sound in some HLS streams was not detected. (!) Fixed error of unregulated bitrate in MC UHD HEVC encoder. (!) Fixed error of graph start with preprocessor and scte35 pid. ====== ForwardOfficeFull #### FDOfficeMovie (+) Added more detailed information about GPI events to match parameters specified in event configurator. Added the "Full name of GPI", "Name of command", "Behavior for timeout" bars. (+) Added the "Change password" menu item. Now user can change his password to enter program individually by specifying old and new passwords and confirming the new one. (+) Removed the "Save" button in edit block form in FDOfficeList and in edit video card form in FDOfficeMovie. The button functions as the default "OK" and the "Apply" buttons now. (+) Added sorting by date and time release for clips release report. (!) Fixed error of adding files with external multichannel audio (by several external wav-files) and .srt subtitle files to clip database. (!) Fixed program operation after classifying clips by selected feature - after restarting classifying state was not saved. (!) Fixed error when additional pauses at switching among blocks in Forward Office appeared. (!) Removed the "Apply" button after adding clips to database. (!) Now status of titles is analyzed at switching among blocks in order to avoid unnecessary pauses in schedule. #### FDOfficeList (!) Added command of simultaneous playback of file if there is GPI command in schedule block and if the "as SLBlock" option is enabled. (!) Fixed error when adding block to schedule with the "as SLBlock" option enabled all advertisements became the same SLBlock with the advert.SLBlock name. (!) Fixed error when time of general block finish did not match end time of the last block in schedule. (!) Fixed error when at creating schedule for programs and ad units release their duration was rounded up to a larger value within 1 second. (!) Fixed error when "Consolidated report" and "OnAir Certificate" reports were not generated. #### FDOfficeUpdater (+) New version of HASP key driver in FDOffice is added. The haspdinst.exe updated file is in the C:\Program Files\ForwardT Software\ForwardOffice\FDOfficeUpdater folder. ###FDOfficePlugins ***New*** The FDOfficePlugins component is released for users that need separate options. ====== Forward Goalkeeper/Forward Referee (+) Added indicator of data entry into storage status to the main window of ReplayMachine Console/FDReferee slow motion replay manager. The indicator is green at usual record into storage and red in case of bugged record. (+) Added a button for setting pause at specified record place in storage to the main window of ReplayMachine Console slow motion replay control program (slow motion replay speed is 0%). The same command is added to the "Playback" menu and is duplicated by "hot" key (i.e. "Insert") on keyboard. (+) Added a possibility of creating event mark automatically when playing time is stopped in the main window of FDReferee Video Goal system control program. Added the "Automatically mark event on game stop, with title and colors:" setting in the "Events" tab of the "General" settings group, in the settings dialog for automatical creation event tags (Automatization... button). (+) Added the "Don't show hours in time of events (show only min:sec)" setting in the "Events" tab of the "General" settings group of the main window of slow motion replay control program. (+) Added the "Large Event List" command to the "Events" menu of the main window of slow motion replay control program. (+) Added the "Playlists" bar to list of events in the main window of the ReplayMachine Console control application to display in what playlists this event is present. (+) Added indication of receiving data from scoreboard in the main window of the FDReferee application. (+) Added the "Display Event Bar" and "Display Scroll Bar" commands to the "View" menu into the main window of FDReferee and ReplayMachine Console control programs. (+) Added the "Enable changing playback position with jog wheel in pause" setting to "General Settings" dialog, on the "Replays" tab. (+) Added a possibility of setting number of current game period manually in SLSBInfo program designed for monitoring integration with game scoreboard - the "Period" command in menu. (+) Added the "Show archives with reverse order in list" setting in context menu of Storage Manager application for working with archives of game records. (+) Added a possibility of opening storages with different video formats simultaneously in the ReplayMachine Console. (+) Added field where it is possible to modify play time of event mark in the FDReferee program in event editing window. (+) Added a display of countdown time during slow replay in the FDReferee program. (+) Added a possibility of switching camera automatically when switching to input video preview mode in the FDReferee program. (+) Added deinterlacing when displaying "live" video from camera on board output in the FDReferee program. (+) Added a possibility of scrolling video back and forward by frames on output board with 0% speed of slow motion replay in the ReplayMachine Console program. (+) Added a possibility of scrolling time ruler and change view scale via scroll bar in the RelayMachine Console/FDReferee program. (+) Added the fadeIn/fadeOut sound option at start and stop of replay in the ReplayMachine Console program. (!) Fixed error of incorrect calculation of match time when game goes into overtime. (!) Fixed error when playing fragments on board operating in the Fill+Key mode sound indicator in the main control program did not display any activity. (!) Fixed error of receiving timeout time on the last minute of period when working with Swiss-Timing refereeing system.