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Recently we released CinePlay 1.5.1, a minor update to our professional Mac media player.
The biggest change in this version is that the app now displays more detailed metadata. CinePlay will now show all of the fields that are shown in tools like QT Edit and uses QT Edit's metadata database to give the fields more user-friendly descriptive names.
We've also made it so that clicking or navigating to a marker in the player window also selects that marker in the Markers window.
Other changes include:
CinePlay is a powerful playback and note-taking tool for video professionals. To find out more, see the feature list, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download the free 15-day trial. Kollaborate customers get cloud functionality in CinePlay free of charge.
We recently released Pro Media Tools 1.7, a major update to our suite of media management and processing tools.
Timeline Tricks can now strip audio and/or video transitions from FCP 7 XML files, which can be useful before outputting an OMF or AAF for sound mixing.
Edit Detector and Video Check can now export marker EDLs to DaVinci Resolve.
To import the EDLs into Resolve, right-click the timeline in the Media or Edit window, then go to Timelines > Import > Markers from EDL.
You can now easily clear the file list in Batch Renamer by clicking the Clear button and can set this to occur automatically after processing in Preferences.
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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.
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The latest version of our iPad note-taking app, Cut Notes 2.4.9, can now import markers into DaVinci Resolve. Here's how to do it:
Cut Notes is an iPad note-taking app for video and audio professionals. It syncs to timecode in common apps and helps your minimize the time spent looking down when making notes on a screening. To find out more, see the feature list, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download it from the App Store. There is also a free cloud-only version for Kollaborate customers.
Another year is over so let’s look back on the past 12 months.
Kollaborate - We made lots of enhancements to our cloud workflow platform over the year including Workflows to setup automated actions when approving files, File Requests for users outside the project to upload files, User Roles replaced the old Positions system, color coding, batch downloading, auto-advance to the next file and many minor tweaks and UI improvements.
Pro Maintenance Tools - Our suite of maintenance and repair tools gained support for salvaging ProRes 4444 XQ, VST2 and VST3 plugin support, support for trashing custom Premiere cache locations and improved FCPX compatibility.
Pro Media Tools - Our suite of media management tools had many updates to our Auto Transfer offloading tool including automatic reel number detection, more options for customizing metadata, new List metadata type, performance improvements and many minor tweaks.
In total we released over 40 updates for our products.
Our most-downloaded app was Preference Manager but our most-used app was Post Haste. Our most popular paid tool was Pro Maintenance Tools. Our most popular iOS app was Video Space Calculator. The number of Kollaborate subscribers increased by 40% and the number of daily logins doubled.
Over 500,000 unique visitors visited digitalrebellion.com and our products were downloaded over 150,000 times.
The most popular blog posts in 2017 were:
2018 will be a big year for us and we are planning some major new Kollaborate features in addition to at least one new product. We are planning major overhauls of several of our apps and intend to bring them to additional platforms. You can keep up to date with new products, features and tips by subscribing to this blog, following us on Twitter or Facebook or by subscribing to our mailing list.
Last week we released Pro Media Tools 1.6.1, a minor update to our suite of media management tools for video professionals.
Our camera offloading tool Auto Transfer now has a new metadata type - List. This allows you to specify a series of items, separated by commas, and force the user to choose one of these without being able to enter custom values. I use this in my workflows to send video and audio to different folders.
Additionally in Auto Transfer, you can now choose in preferences whether to include the camera ID in auto-detected reels (e.g. A011) or just have it be a numeric value (e.g. 011).
We've also added support for detecting volumes from DJI drones.
By default our QuickTime metadata editing tool QT Edit uses times in your local timezone. This is appropriate for most workflows, especially when adding timecode tracks from the creation time of the file, but some users have requested support for UTC timezone instead, irrespective of the local timezone. You can now force UTC in preferences.
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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.
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Last week we released Kollaborate Server 2.6, a major update to our self-hosted cloud workflow platform for video professionals.
This update contains some important new features but many of the best changes are the smaller ones. We really smoothed and polished a lot of things in this release and many tasks are faster and easier to accomplish than before.
Select a group of files, then hit the download button next to one of them to download all of them at the same time. This works on the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Click the circle arrow to the left or right of the player to automatically advance to the next file in the folder after the current one finishes.
If the file has a lower-quality playable proxy, you will now be given the option of which file to download when clicking the download button in the player.
You can now give the Approve / Reject buttons in your workflows custom titles, allowing you to make it clearer what pressing a particular button will actually do.
Projects now show the icon of the most recent file that everyone can access. This only applies to files outside of departments.
If you click a file to view it and then press the Back button to go back to the Files page, Kollaborate now goes back to exactly where you were instead of going back to the top of the Files page. This is really useful if you were 20 pages deep.
We overhauled Quick Look to be more polished and responsive and increased the screen space it takes up so you can see your files better.
Large images are now displayed more prominently in the player and the image full-screen view has been redesigned and polished.
Additionally, we've improved support for animated GIFs, which now have frame rate, duration and hoverscrub thumbnails.
We've made a variety of security improvements. These will largely not be noticeable but one noticeable change is that you will need to re-login the first time after this update. After that the site will automatically log you in in future as normal.
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).
Last week we released Kollaborate 2.6, a major update to our cloud workflow platform for video professionals.
This update contains some important new features but many of the best changes are the smaller ones. We really smoothed and polished a lot of things in this release and many tasks are faster and easier to accomplish than before.
Select a group of files, then hit the download button next to one of them to download all of them at the same time. This works on the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Click the circle arrow to the left or right of the player to automatically advance to the next file in the folder after the current one finishes.
If the file has a lower-quality playable proxy, you will now be given the option of which file to download when clicking the download button in the player.
You can now give the Approve / Reject buttons in your workflows custom titles, allowing you to make it clearer what pressing a particular button will actually do.
Projects now show the icon of the most recent file that everyone can access. This only applies to files outside of departments.
If you click a file to view it and then press the Back button to go back to the Files page, Kollaborate now goes back to exactly where you were instead of going back to the top of the Files page. This is really useful if you were 20 pages deep.
We overhauled Quick Look to be more polished and responsive and increased the screen space it takes up so you can see your files better.
Large images are now displayed more prominently in the player and the image full-screen view has been redesigned and polished.
Additionally, we've improved support for animated GIFs, which now have frame rate, duration and hoverscrub thumbnails.
We've made a variety of security improvements. These will largely not be noticeable but one noticeable change is that you will need to re-login the first time after this update. After that the site will automatically log you in in future as normal.
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. To find out more, see the overview or register for the free trial.
We recently released an update to Kollaborate Transfer that should significantly improve the speed of batch processing.
Encoding behavior has been changed so that it will no longer wait for a file to finish uploading before encoding the next file in the list. Encoded files now enter a Waiting state and will start uploading immediately upon the previous upload finishing. This can reduce total queue time significantly for large batches or long videos.
Additionally, we have now switched over to the accelerated upload system we recently activated on the cloud. This boosts upload speeds for everyone but is most noticeable for customers outside of the US.
Other changes:
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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. To find out more, see the overview or register for the free trial.
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We've just released a major new update to our Kollaborate Server self-hosted workflow platform for video professionals, with a lot of new features and important changes. This follows on from the update we recently released on the cloud.
Workflows are an extremely powerful new feature that tells Kollaborate to perform certain tasks on a file when it is assigned a specific workflow. The tasks can range from labelling or marking the file to moving it to a specific folder. It's an easy way of quickly sorting files so they are easier for your team to access.
They are also the new way of getting file approvals from other people on your team. This is considerably more powerful than before and allows you to target specific people or departments as being able to approve files, rather than everyone with approval rights. You can also specify that every single marked person must approve the file before it is considered approved, as opposed to the old system where it was approved simply by the first person to approve it.
Each approval workflow has options for running another workflow when it is approved or rejected, so you could for example run another workflow to automatically highlight approved files and move them to an Approved folder. It also means you can chain approvals together so that an approval on one workflow triggers another approval workflow, allowing a file to filter up to higher members of your team for a decision before it is finally approved.
Another way you could use this is to implement milestones. So Milestone 1 would move the file to a particular project or department, someone works on the file and they then assign it Milestone 2, which moves it onto someone else to work on. Then they assign it Milestone 3 which asks a manager to approve it and then if it is approved it is automatically assigned an Approved status which moves the file to an Approved Files folder.
That's just an example - you can set it up however you like and it's extremely flexible.
We have lots of plans for this in future and are keen to know how customers plan to incorporate this feature into their workflows.
Need some files from a vendor but don't want to add the person to the project? Send them an upload link. Upload links work just like sharing links but show a file upload page instead of a video player.
The Team page has been completely overhauled. Each department now has a text box at the bottom that allows you to type in an email address to invite a team member. This is a considerably quicker and simpler way of setting up your team than the previous version.
Positions have been replaced by Roles, which apply a set of default permissions to a user. In a future update you will be able to add your own roles.
Inviting new users to the service is easier than before. Rather than assigning the user a default password, they now receive an activation link. Upon clicking the link they will be asked to choose a password for their account. We feel this is a more user-friendly way of doing things that should result in fewer forgotten passwords. You can also choose to manually send a user the activation link rather than having Kollaborate send it if you want to add a personal message.
Another change is that departments are no longer required to have users inside them. This is useful if you just want a private storage area for Admins, as they are not required to be part of a department to see inside it.
Don't want to receive alerts from a specific project but still receive alerts from others? You can now mute it. Hover over the project on the Projects page and click the bell icon next to its name.
You can now view SRT subtitles in the video player. Here's how to do it:
We plan to support additional caption formats in future.
The Admin Dashboard shows you statistics about your installation including software versions and configuration information. It can also alert you to problems that have occurred.
A full list of changes is available here after logging in.
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).
We've just released a major new update to our Kollaborate cloud workflow platform for video professionals, with a lot of new features and important changes.
Workflows are an extremely powerful new feature that tells Kollaborate to perform certain tasks on a file when it is assigned a specific workflow. The tasks can range from labelling or marking the file to moving it to a specific folder. It's an easy way of quickly sorting files so they are easier for your team to access.
They are also the new way of getting file approvals from other people on your team. This is considerably more powerful than before and allows you to target specific people or departments as being able to approve files, rather than everyone with approval rights. You can also specify that every single marked person must approve the file before it is considered approved, as opposed to the old system where it was approved simply by the first person to approve it.
Each approval workflow has options for running another workflow when it is approved or rejected, so you could for example run another workflow to automatically highlight approved files and move them to an Approved folder. It also means you can chain approvals together so that an approval on one workflow triggers another approval workflow, allowing a file to filter up to higher members of your team for a decision before it is finally approved.
Another way you could use this is to implement milestones. So Milestone 1 would move the file to a particular project or department, someone works on the file and they then assign it Milestone 2, which moves it onto someone else to work on. Then they assign it Milestone 3 which asks a manager to approve it and then if it is approved it is automatically assigned an Approved status which moves the file to an Approved Files folder.
That's just an example - you can set it up however you like and it's extremely flexible.
We have lots of plans for this in future and are keen to know how customers plan to incorporate this feature into their workflows.
Need some files from a vendor but don't want to add the person to the project? Send them an upload link. Upload links work just like sharing links but show a file upload page instead of a video player.
The Team page has been completely overhauled. Each department now has a text box at the bottom that allows you to type in an email address to invite a team member. This is a considerably quicker and simpler way of setting up your team than the previous version.
Positions have been replaced by Roles, which apply a set of default permissions to a user. In a future update you will be able to add your own roles.
Inviting new users to the service is easier than before. Rather than assigning the user a default password, they now receive an activation link. Upon clicking the link they will be asked to choose a password for their account. We feel this is a more user-friendly way of doing things that should result in fewer forgotten passwords. You can also choose to manually send a user the activation link rather than having our system send it if you want to add a personal message.
Another change is that departments are no longer required to have users inside them. This is useful if you just want a private storage area for Admins, as they are not required to be part of a department to see inside it.
Don't want to receive alerts from a specific project but still receive alerts from others? You can now mute it. Hover over the project on the Projects page and click the bell icon next to its name.
You can now view SRT subtitles in the video player. Here's how to do it:
We plan to support additional caption formats in future.
The site has also had a complete architecture overhaul where every single page was modified and optimized. We're also running on faster servers and cache data more aggressively which should result in the site being faster than before.
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. To find out more, see the overview or register for the free trial.
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