New Features
Interactive Player
Schedule end of life for old player versions. You'll be able to continue using our older players past their end of life dates, but no support will be given for them. There will no longer be any development work or fixes done on players past their end of life date. Article
Add chapters to player overlay
Player updated with latest JWPlayer code
When Autoplay is turned on, videos start muted
Scene Tools 2.1 Released
Full track matte support in scene comps. Use static comps in track matte pairs. Article
Video layers can now be placeholders. Article
IDM files are now smaller
The academy has been updated with all Scene Tools features
API Improvements
When asking for scene metadata, all available fields are given in response
When asking for storyboard metadata, the name of the storyboard is also given
When generating videos, multiple outputs of the same type without a unique suffix will now fail
"check_status_url" has moved to be inside each output's link object instead of on the top level of the response
Storybuilding Suite
Set audio start time moved to the advanced audio properties button
In "Generate Videos" the Storyboard dropdown menu also shows Storyboard ID
There's now a Stop button when previewing audio
You can now lock an example storyboard in a scene library
Hovering over a parameter name in the parameter choice drop down menu shows the full name of the parameter
It is now possible to use an asset in a storyboard from all scene libraries
Bug Fixes
Player
Player on mobile didn't show the timebar and player controls when video was set to auto start. Fixed
Closed Captions didn’t start automatically when playing a video on mobile devices. Fixed
Vertical player now works on iPhones
Scene Tools
In After Effects, audio was distorted when making an audio layer a placeholder. Fixed
On the Mac the system info panel was empty. You get to the system info panel by clicking the Idomoo logo on the Scene Builder panel. Fixed
API
"Starttimeoffsetuniquescene_id" didn't always work. It does now
Calling for a storyboard's metadata now returns parameters relating to logic as well
Uploading a scene that's larger than 400 Mb now results in an error
The thumbnail link in the storyboard information response was not accessible. It now is
Using Metadata API to list all scenes did not show scenes that were uploaded through API. Now they are shown as well
Asking for lists to be organized in descending order did not work. Fixed
Uploading a scene into a newly created scene library sometimes returned an error. Fixed
Storybuilding Suite
Customers had problems scheduling reports with an SFTP. Fixed
Searching whilst using Replace Scene is clearing all scenes from the interface. Fixed
Copying the API key in the Settings panel wasn't working. Fixed