News, updates, and changes in Composer R2 2023

Composer R2 2023, Version 1.6.8581.17147
Release date: 2023-06-30

• Added support for the high-performant video format CAV (Composer Audio Video Codec)
  •  Added a stand-alone Transcoder and Player for CAV files.
  • Added a new input supporting playback of CAV-files, including support for embedded cue points.
• Added a Video Delay operator
• Added RTMP input support
• Added Text input support. (Please note that text output might differ between platforms)
• Added support for pushing Alarms to Slack.
• RTMP-target: added support for configuring a video player URL and open the URL in a browser.
• BlackMagic DeckLink Capture v3: added pause functionality.
• Added a monitoring endpoint for Prometheus compatible systems.
• Added a new chroma keyer: HSV Range Keyer. This keyer is similar to the HSV Keyer, but with support for tuning the HSV selection in a more detailed manner.
• Added UDP Message Target for sending UDP messages over the network. Supports the OSC protocol.
• Added support for automatically reloading of image sources if an image has been modified.
•  Added a Color Adjust Operator that supports Gain, Gamma, Lift, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, RGBA adjust and inverting RGB or the Alpha channel.
• Added support for logging of RTMP input statistics. Activate Extended logging to enable this feature.
  
  

Desktop only: 

• Added Import Media as a new application menu item. Supports Still Images, Movie Clips and CAV files. Imported media will automatically be selected, expanded and the preview icon will be autogenerated.
• If the project has been changed since last time it was saved, the user will get a notification when exiting the application.
• Added project autosave feature. If activated, a modified project will be automatically saved as a .bak file. Autosave interval is 5 minutes.
• Video analyser: added a "skin-tone-line" to the Vector Scope.
• Added Inputs and Connectors will automatically be expanded in the GUI.
• Added support for Duplicating a Scene, including the scene layers, the operators on each layer, and the scene targets.
• License information window: Added plugin summary: licensed plugin and the maximum number of instances of each plugin.
• Added support for exporting a clean LUT file (Misc submenu)
• HSV-keyer: added support for enabling/disabling garbage matte
• Added support to add an input to a scene via right-mouse-click menu (popup menu)

Runtime version only: 

• Linux:
  • Changed default ffmpeg.rootpath to "/usr/local/lib" in the .vindralcomposerruntime file. See Linux platform

Bugfixes:

• Web Page Renderer (Chromium) could sometimes lock the application during exit.
• NDI Target could fail after stop/start
•  Face Detector operator:
  • Fixed a bug in the API used for fetching the last detected face. The bug caused the API to always return the image from the first found Face Detector, and TargetId was not respected by the API.
  • Fixed a memory leak that could render an error after the operator have been running for a long time.
• The Copy Operators did not render unique operator Id:s which could lead to connectors not working as expected.
• Open Recent file did not work property for projects stored in the Projects folder, located in the Application root folder.
• Fixed a media file playback bug that caused some clips to be rendered incorrecly.
• RTMP Target rendered the wrong Audio PTS when running a RTMP output without an active audio layer.
• Connectors could cause an exception if the Api command invoked the Scene/Details property
• Under Linux/WSL, still Images, video clips, garbage matte images and LUT images using absolute url:s did not always load correctly.

Other changes:

• NDI Target: the autogenerated channel name changed from "Composer [Hostname] [Channel name]" to "Composer-[Channel name]"
• Application version changed from 1.5.x to 1.6.x

Important notice (Windows 11)