R2 2025 Release notes

News, updates, and changes in Composer R2 2025 ("Red Bull")

Composer R2 2025

Release date 2025-04-25, version: 2.2.9245.15730

News and Improvements:

  • CrystalSpeech audio operator - A highly efficient Noise Cancellation Operator optimized for voices. By using AI, this new operator will remove background noise from your audio source in real-time. Check out the Crystal Speech Tutorial to try it out.

  • Web Page Input - Up to 10x performance gain. Support was added to capture audio from the web page. Added an autostart option (default on)

  • Image Classification operator - Image Classification is an advanced AI feature that analyzes images and video frames to identify and categorize objects based on their visual characteristics. The operator is compatible with Yolo 8-12 models in ONNX format. Try the Image Classification Tutorial to get familiar with the operator.

  • ASIO Device Capture - This new input provides support for ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output). By using ASIO, Composer can use any audio source compatible with ASIO. One such example is Dante digital audio.

  • ASIO Target - Output audio to any ASIO-compatible device.

  • Point Tracker Operator - A new tracker that can be used to track movements caused by camera changes or changes in the set. The built-in auto-compensate feature can be used to automatically compensate for position changes.

  • Automatic Gain Operator (Video) - a new operator for automatic gain control for video.

  • UDP Target - added support for generic UDP messages.

  • Video Delay Operator - improved performance. Up to 10x performance gain when using 4K+ resolutions.

  • RTMP-Target:

    • Added support for configurable output buffer size and allowed frame skipping when the buffer size approached the limit.

    • Changed the send_buffer_size to 512KB. This can improve ingest performance and stability when ingesting to servers with high latency or high network jitter.

  • Audio Monitor - added support for triggering an error on "dead-audio"

  • Lock Screen—Performance mode: Improved performance in locked state, added information on the number of congestive frames.

  • CAV Input:

    • Added support for moving one frame forward or backward (next/previous frame)

    • Added support for keyboard shortcuts for a CAV Input that is selected: ALT+P: Toggle Play/Pause, ALT+RIGHT: Next frame, ALT+LEFT: Previous frame.

  • Input & Scenes list: added support for re-ordering inputs using CTRL+UP/DOWN.

  • Scene Layers: added support for re-ordering layers using CTRL+UP/DOWN.

Bugfixes:

  • Speech To Text - Text was not appropriately cleared when starting and stopping the operator

  • Connectors - animated properties could get an unexpected end value.

  • Decklink Capture: the UI did not always show a warning if the video input frame rate mismatched the project frame rate.

  • The Script Operator could sometimes render an exception when loading a new project or exiting Composer.

  • The Smart Search function did not work correctly with Audio Inputs and Scenes.

  • The LE version did not work unless the number of scenes with targets was 2.

Other changes:

  • Chromium - Updated to version 132.3.11

  • Decklink Target V2 and V3 have been deprecated from the UI. However, projects using V2 or V3 will still work. For new projects, use V4.

  • Web Page Renderer (Chromium, WebGL) has been depricate from the UI. However, projects using the input will still work. For new projects, use the Web Page Renderer (Chromium) input.

  • When creating a new project, the framerate of the previously running project will be used.

  • If Audio Preview is enabled in the desktop version, it will remain enabled when a new project is opened or created.

  • Assets Filder: added support for searching in the documents/Composer/Tutorial/Media folder.