Kollaborate Server 3.6 - Jan 5 2022

Breaking Change: Kollaborate Server now supports directly sending emails via  a user-supplied SMTP server. This is now the recommended way of sending emails. If you configured email sending through the mailserver Docker container (which has now been removed), you will need to go to the Configure page in the Admin Area to set it up again.

Additionally, our Email Routing service is now deprecated and will shut down in March 2022. We recommend customers upgrade to 3.6 and switch to the new SMTP sending feature before this date. (We will be contacting affected customers separately with more details.)

Server-Specific Changes:

• Direct SMTP email sending
• The default workflows for new projects can be customized from the Admin Area
• Admin Dashboard - Only calculate average encoding time for files from the last 24 hours
• Admin Dashboard - Fixed an issue where clearing the render queue doesn't requeue jobs correctly
• Admin Dashboard - Added the ability to clear failed encoding jobs only
• Fixed an issue where errors wouldn't be shown when creating a new user from the Admin interface
• Roles has been moved to the main navigation bar
• You can now override the "From" name shown in emails from the Configure page (by default it is the site's name)

Other Changes:

• Player - Show video codec and track information in the Metadata pane
• Set language on a per-file basis (this can be done from the Edit Metadata page for the file)
• Team - Shows a padlock icon next to a user if they have Multi-Factor Authentication enabled
• Uploads - Show remaining upload count in page title
• History - Show file move events on the History page
• Share - Show the file upload link's description to users when uploading
• Player - Added n / p shortcut keys to go to next / previous file
• Fixed an issue causing potential conflicts with similar folder names
• Files - Various page performance improvements when navigating and uploading files
• Files - Fixed strange behavior when interacting with a file immediately after upload (e.g. favoriting or Quick Look)
• Player - Disabled browser player download button on mobile
• Files - Fixed page scrolling unnecessarily when dragging in files to upload
• Player - Fixed an error when subscribing / unsubscribing to a file
• Various minor fixes, code modernizations and refactorings

We've had some enquiries from customers about the Log4j vulnerability currently causing havoc across the internet. Log4j is a Java library and none of our products or backend processes use Java. Therefore, none of our products, including customers' self-hosted Kollaborate Server installations, are affected by this security flaw. (Self-hosted customers could still be vulnerable if they run other software on their servers that uses Log4j.)

Kollaborate Server 3.6 is out now - a major update to our self-hosted workflow platform.

Direct SMTP email sending

Kollaborate Server can now send emails directly using a user-supplied SMTP server, which is much more user-friendly than the old system utilizing Postfix. If you were using Postfix with a previous version, you will need to add your SMTP server information in the Configure page of the Admin Area to resume sending emails with version 3.6.

Your email provider will be able to supply information about connecting to their SMTP servers, or alternatively you can use Gmail or Amazon SES. Note that if you have two-factor authentication switched on with your email provider, you will likely need to set up an App-Specific Password for Kollaborate Server; your provider will be able to provide more details on this if it is necessary.

This is now our recommended way of sending emails from Kollaborate Server so we are also deprecating the Email Routing subscription service. This service will shut down in March 2022 (the exact date depends on your billing renewal date) and we have contacted affected customers about this directly. To avoid disruption, customers should upgrade to 3.6 and setup their SMTP information before the shutdown date.

Customize Default Workflows

The default workflows added automatically when creating a new project can now be customized from the Admin Area. Setup rules for automatically color coding files or complex approval chains that will be applied when the project is created.

(It should be noted that actions requiring specific files (such as adding a watermark image) cannot be set in default workflows as those files won't exist in new projects.)

Codec and track information in player

The Metadata tab in the player now shows information about the video codec of the original file and the audio track configuration. This information will not show for older files but will be gathered for all files uploaded from now on.

Set language on a per-file basis

The audio language setting is used to determine which caption language to show by default. Previously this could only be set on a project-wide basis but now can be overriden for specific files. This can be done from the Edit Metadata page.

Other Changes

• Admin Dashboard - Only calculate average encoding time for files from the last 24 hours
• Admin Dashboard - Fixed an issue where clearing the render queue doesn't requeue jobs correctly
• Admin Dashboard - Added the ability to clear failed encoding jobs only
• Fixed an issue where errors wouldn't be shown when creating a new user from the Admin interface
• Roles has been moved to the main navigation bar in the Admin Area
• You can now override the "From" name shown in emails from the Configure page (by default it is the site's name)
• Uploads - Show remaining upload count in page title
• History - Show file move events on the History page
• Share - Show the file upload link's description to users when uploading
• Player - Added n / p shortcut keys to go to next / previous file
• Fixed an issue causing potential conflicts with similar folder names
• Files - Various page performance improvements when navigating and uploading files
• Files - Fixed strange behavior when interacting with a file immediately after upload (e.g. favoriting or Quick Look)
• Player - Disabled browser player download button on mobile
• Files - Fixed page scrolling unnecessarily when dragging in files to upload
• Player - Fixed an error when subscribing / unsubscribing to a file
• Various minor fixes, code modernizations and refactorings

Kollaborate is an essential cloud workflow platform that allows you to share files with clients and team members while integrating with Digital Rebellion apps and services. Kollaborate Server allows you to host the platform in-house on your own servers and storage. To find out more, see the Kollaborate Server overview or register for the free cloud trial (Server trials are available on request).

CinePlay 1.7.1 - Nov 18 2021

• Fixed an issue that could cause annotations embedded in exported frames to be misaligned

CinePlay: Kollaborate Edition 1.8 - Oct 4 2021

• Compatibility with videos in Photo Library on iOS 15
• UI improvements
• Stability improvements
• Minor bug fixes and tweaks

CinePlay for iOS 1.8 - Oct 4 2021

• Compatibility with videos in Photo Library on iOS 15
• UI improvements
• Stability improvements
• Minor bug fixes and tweaks

Kollaborate Encoder 1.6 - Oct 2 2021

• Upgrades the Docker container to use Ubuntu 20.04
• Upgrades ffmpeg to 4.4
• Fixed an issue where it couldn't get a response from the web server if a redirect occurred (such as from http to https)
• Fixed several issues that could cause temp files to not be cleared out afterwards
• Minor bug fixes and tweaks

Kollaborate Premiere Panel for Windows 1.0.5 - Sep 23 2021

• Compatibility with cookie policy changes in recent Premiere versions

Kollaborate Premiere Panel for Mac 1.0.5 - Aug 16 2021

• Compatibility with cookie policy changes in recent Premiere versions

Pro Media Tools 2.1.2 - Aug 6 2021

• QT Edit - Show number of channels for audio tracks in Info pane
• QT Edit - Fixed an issue where audio tracks would be incorrectly listed as multi-channel
• QT Edit - Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking on a track
• QT Edit - Fixed an issue where the progress bar may not show progress when saving large files
• QT Edit - Fixed an issue where the preview movie wouldn't update when enabling or disabling tracks
• QT Edit - Fixed an issue where updating a track's metadata may update metadata for the main movie instead
• Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Kollaborate Server 3.5.1 - Jul 26 2021

• Player - More options for entering timecode including missing out the colons or using "." to mean "00"
• Player - Added up/down arrow key shortcuts to move between markers
• Player - Show comment side bar when pressing the M key in full screen mode
• Share - Added option to reset view / download / upload count
• Share - Added option to show list of other recipients when emailing out links
• Comments - Fixed an issue that could cause comments to be incorrectly ordered
• Files - Fixed an issue where you can't search for more than one tag
• Files - Don't show deleted files in file browser
• Files - Fixed an issue with dropdown menu not being removed properly, causing menu clicks to not work the second time
• Files - Prevent deselection of file when clicking dropdown
• Files - Down arrow with no files selected now selects first non-dept file
• Player - Make marker bar appear in full screen
• Player - Fixed an issue where user couldn't go to prev comment if the playhead was beyond the last comment
• Player - Improved the reliability of displaying annotations
• Player - Release focus on comment box when it is hidden in full screen
• Share - Allow tables to scroll horizontally on mobile
• Share - Disable context menu over text fields
• Tasks - Fixed broken status icons in various circumstances
• Adobe Panel - Markers are now clamped to frame start position
• Adobe Panel - Fixed markers being out of range when importing from a non-video or audio file
• UI - Fixed extreme table header wrapping on mobile if the column is very narrow
• Upload - Fixed an issue where logged in users couldn't upload to file request links
• Database Export - Better memory usage for large databases
• Performance improvements
• Several crash / exception fixes
• Continued work on transitioning over to our new backend
• Various small tweaks, fixes and optimizations

Pro Media Tools 2.1.1 - Jul 7 2021

• Edit Detector - Performance improvements
• Edit Detector - Fixed issue where exported clips may not have timecode tracks
• Edit Detector - Fixed issue where frame data could become corrupt
• Timeline Tricks - FCP 7 sequence XML can be used instead of the entire project
• QT Edit - Fixed an issue where importing audio tracks from another movie may not work correctly
• General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

 

Preference Manager 4.5.2 - Jun 16 2021

• Stability improvements

Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4 - May 7 2021

• Compatibility with M1 Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur
• Autosave Manager - Improved compatibility with recent versions of Adobe Premiere
• Corrupt Clip Finder - Added a column to show the reason a clip was flagged up
• Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate folders to appear
• Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugin installer creation could fail if there were a lot of plugins in the installer
• Plugin Manager - Improved the robustness of plugin installer code signing
• Plugin Manager - Shows an option to launch the Apple error log URL in your browser if plugin installer notarization failed
• QT Repair - Fixed several issues where errors could be flagged up for QuickTime movies that were unusual but nonetheless valid
• UI and icon improvements
• Lots of minor tweaks and polish

Compressor Repair 2.4 - May 7 2021

• Compatibility with M1 Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur
• Minor bug fixes and tweaks

Preference Manager 4.5.1 - May 7 2021

• Minor bug fixes and stability improvements

Kollaborate Plugin Pack 1.1.7 - May 6 2021

• Fixed an issue that could cause the start timecode to be incorrect when exporting from Premiere

Kollaborate Plugin Pack 1.1.6 - Apr 30 2021

• Support for M1 Macs and macOS Big Sur
• Fixed an issue that could cause Premiere exports to have incorrect frame rates
• Minor fixes and tweaks

Pro Media Tools 2.1 - Apr 8 2021

• Support for M1 Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur
• Auto Transfer - Overhauled UI icons
• Auto Transfer - Various small usability improvements
• Auto Transfer - Checksum Validator - Fixed an issue where the previous results would interfere with the current results when running a checksum operation twice
• Edit Detector - Added support for exporting as QuickTime reference movies
• QT Edit - Added a "Use gamma value" option in the Encoding Attributes > Color > Custom dialog to take the transfer function directly from the Gamma attribute
• QT Edit - Enforces a .mov file extension on exported files if the user didn't specify it
• QT Edit - Lots of improvements to metadata handling
• QT Edit - Lots of bug fixes and polish
• Video Check - Support for checking audio files
• General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

Post Haste for Mac 2.7.1 - Apr 7 2021

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the built-in software updater from working, which could prevent notification of new software updates. This issue did not affect users who had installed our app suites as an external software updater gets installed that overrides the built-in one. Please download and install this update manually from https://www.digitalrebellion.com/posthaste if it is not appearing directly in the app.
• Fixed an issue where the warning icon next to the path preview could become misaligned

Pro Media Tools 2.1 is an important new update to our suite of media management tools.

M1 Mac and Big Sur support

The suite natively supports Apple Silicon processors and works well on macOS 11 Big Sur.

Auto Transfer

Our camera offloading tool, Auto Transfer, has had a UI refresh with new icons that look better on Retina displays, as well as a lot of small tweaks to improve the intuitiveness and usability of the software.

Edit Detector

Edit Detector can now export each shot to a separate QuickTime reference movie, meaning that you can have applications see each shot as a separate file without taking up a lot of disk space.

QT Edit

QT Edit received a lot of bug fixes and polish in this release, particularly around metadata handling.

We also added a new "Use gamma value" option when specifying a Color attribute manually, which takes the transfer function directly from the Gamma attribute. In other words, if someone asks you for a movie tagged with 1-2-1 color, this is how to achieve that.

Video Check

Video Check can now open audio-only files and check them for peaks (previously only video files could be opened).

Pro Media Tools is an essential toolkit for media professionals. To find out more, view the feature list, read the user manual or download the free 15-day trial.