❗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

• New FREE and DOWNLOADABLE version Tachyon Learning.

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• Added Virtual Projector support in the 3D Scene.

• Added Composer clip support in Timeline.

• Added FBX support.

• Various UI improvements.