# TACHYON - V11.1 Release Note

## Timeline

* **The preload media option is now disabled by default.**
* **Timeline Editing**: Shortcut to trim clips to fade-in/out points.
  * Trim using Ctrl+Shift+\[ or Ctrl+Shift+] to consider the beginning or end of a transition. 
* **Snap playhead to fade in/out values.** 
* **Visual cue when a clip snaps to the playhead.** 
* **Visual cue when a region snaps to the playhead.** 
* **New DMX clip icon.**
* **Display icon when the media clip is linked to a fixture.** 
* **New media clip icons.** 
  * Icon for media type (image vs. video). 
  * Icon if frame blending is enabled.
* **Ability to frame selected clips from Clip Properties using the shortcut \[F].** 
* **Improved Clips Cache now evaluates all clip types.**
* **Added the ability to specify universal cross-fade delay threshold.** 
* **Photon's new synchronization mechanism supports Nvidia Gsync,** allowing perfect multi-server frame accuracy and smoother playback**.**

## Color Management

* **REC2100 colorspace and PQ curve** **are now supported for color transformation**, allowing for even more accurate and vibrant colors.
* **The Color Picker is now an independent module**, making it more user-friendly and streamlined. It can directly be accessed with a simple shortcut: \[Alt+Y].

## UV

* **UV Preview with Hierarchy rendering:**
  * Users can now preview an assembled version of UVs inside a hierarchy of objects. This tool lets users see the UV clusters of each object that makes up a hierarchy rendering and allows them to snap the texture to clusters independently.
* **UV conversion and realtime splitting improvements** (automatic media slicing for multi-server super high-resolution playback):
  * Added splitting support for Virtual Projector and LED screen 
  * Added LED preview and timeline preview splitting support.

## File Management

* **Export CSV**
  * Now includes an index column.
  * Export CSV index starts at 1.
  * "Hide original" option is now considered.
* **New File Manager filters:**
  * File Sequence: Groups .seq files and their associated VCI files. 
  * Converted: Groups only converted VCI files. 
  * Originals: Groups only imported original files. 

    Ignores and disables the hide originals toggle automatically.
* **New LED splitting on conversion support.**
  * The systems can automatically crop the required slice of video at conversion for each playback machine based on its connected LED processor coverage.
* **Notch blocks now appear in used/unused Filters.** 
* **P2P version 2023.** 
  * New and improved high-performance internal transfer engine for File Manager is now P2P v3, resulting in significantly better performance on high bandwidth networks.

## 3D Scene

* **Improved 3D object transparency rendering.** 
* **Virtual Projectors performance optimization.**
  * Introducing vertex clipping mechanism to reduce the amount of pixels rasterized.
* **FBX SDK update to 2020.3.1.**

## UI/UX

* Greatly improved Font Rendering. 
* **Redesigned Scalable interface (4k compatible) with redesigned iconography.** 
* **Maximizable windows now have a dedicated indicator icon and can restore the original size.** 
* **Added instant search in all combo boxes.** 
* **Keyframe Editor now follows the zoom factor.** 
  * Improved shortcuts consistency.
  * Albion Monitoring shortcut is now ALT+SHIFT+A ● Profiler shortcut is now ALT+P.
  * Undo Manager is now ALT+SHIFT+U.

## IO

* **Projector control:**
  * Introducing a new basic control feature for the Christie HS series.
* **Network Show Control:**
  * The GET\_SYSTEM\_STATE command will now provide the current task's percentage (%) in its reply. 
  * The new REMOVE\_MEDIA command can now delete media from the Media Library, including files in playlists and the content folder. 
* **DMX:**
  * DMX layer control of "media index" now starts at 1.

    0 means "No Media". 
  * DMX layer control performances using a "media index" with many media files are greatly improved. 
  * DMX Show Control value is now applied to its linked parameter only on value change. 
  * DMX timeline control of "region index" now starts at 1. \
    0 means "Do Nothing."

## Logs

* **Improved logs when PHOTON connects or disconnects from projectors.** 
* **Improved log messages in case of errors when pressing on "NVIDIA Control Panel" from the Settings window.**
* **Improved "Log Manager" internal networking pipeline.**
* **Prevent overzealous logging from PJLink projectors.**
* **Reduce the number of log entries for missing VCI / VCD files.**
* **Complain only once about excess cameras in a project.**

## Shadow

* **You can save a project using the Shadow module without recording other actions.**
  * The project will be saved in a shadow session if no recording types are selected (e.g. mouse, PSN...)

## Network Assistant

* **A new option to delay the startup of VNA to allow all system resources to complete boot.**

## TACHYON

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* **Added Virtual Projector support in the 3D Scene.**
* **Added Composer clip support in Timeline.** 
* **Added FBX support.**
* **Various UI improvements.**