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We earlier released Preference Manager 4.2, a major update to our free NLE preference management tool.
In this version we've added support for the new Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 update and also tentative support for the Lightworks beta for Mac.
We've also made several other changes and bug fixes, the full list of which is available here.
Preference Manager is an essential free tool for video professionals. To find out more read the user manual, watch the overview video or download it free.
We're pleased to launch Marker Import for Windows, a free application for importing your Cut Notes and Kollaborate notes into Adobe Premiere Pro for PC.
Much like the current Mac version, it can remove existing markers from the sequence and even offset markers if the timecode is incorrect.
Both the Mac and PC versions of Marker Import are free downloads from the sidebar on the Cut Notes site or Kollaborate Resources page. A user manual with a usage tutorial is available here.
Earlier this week we released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.22, a minor update to our suite of troubleshooting and repair tools for your NLE.
Compressor Repair can now fix instances of the common "Unable to submit to queue" error in Compressor 4.1. This is a better solution than Apple's official advice because you do not lose custom settings and destinations.
Housekeeper can fix an issue occurring for some users who upgraded from OS X 10.6 to a later version of OS X and can no longer use the playback controls in QuickTime Player X.
We've also simplified the Media Salvage user interface. The Output Format dropdown now only shows codecs and frame size and frame rate settings are now set in the columns to the right.
The full list of changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.22 is here.
Pro Maintenance Tools is an essential toolkit for maintaining, optimizing and troubleshooting your editing system. To find out more see the feature list, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download the free 15-day trial.
Yesterday we released Pro Media Tools 1.2.1, a minor update to our suite of media management tools.
We've overhauled flash frame detection in Video Check, which not only offers more reliable detection but also allows you to manually specify the maximum length of a flash frame to search for. Also, when showing a flash frame in the results view, the length of the flash is now specified.
QT Edit can now import timecode from a range of files in a batch. Go to File > New Batch and import a range of files that you want to apply timecode to. Then select the "Create timecode track from QuickTime movie" Quick Task and browse for a folder containing movie files with identical filenames to those in the batch.
This functionality is very useful for situations where you've processed dailies with another application that has stripped the timecode out of the files and need to restore the timecode back again.
There were a few other minor changes in this version which you can read about here.
Pro Media Tools is an invaluable toolkit to help editors and post production professionals enhance their media management workflows. To find out more view the feature list, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download the free 15-day trial.
We've just released Cut Notes 2.2, CinePlay for iOS 1.3 and corresponding versions of Cut Notes: Kollaborate Edition and CinePlay: Kollaborate Edition.
You may not notice much of a difference in the UI but both apps have received a significant architecture overhaul under-the-hood which should result in improved stability, performance and memory usage.
Cut Notes has also received a minor facelift to make it more iOS 7-compatible, alongside an overhauled Kollaborate login dialog which allows you to configure Kollaborate Server directly from the dialog instead of having to exit to go into the iOS Settings app.
CinePlay features a new Downloads window that displays ongoing downloads in a central location while you continue to navigate within the app. We've also improved Kollaborate integration by allowing you to download Kollaborate files for offline viewing and play back earlier revisions of a file.
For more details on the changes please see the Cut Notes changelog and CinePlay changelog.
We're pleased to introduce our newest product, CinePlay for Mac. CinePlay is intended as a professional alternative to QuickTime Player X. It plays back modern video formats and offers masks, safe areas, timecode overlays, markers and more.
Mask video to a variety of aspect ratios.
View 4:3 and 16:9 safe areas over video.
As well as timecode overlays, you can display timecode in a resizable window. If you're on a multiple-monitor setup you can drag it to a different display to prevent timecode from distracting the client.
Set colored markers and export them to FCP and Avid marker lists.
See all of your markers or Kollaborate comments in a separate window.
Output Mackie and MIDI Timecode for syncing to other devices or applications like Cut Notes.
Set in and out points and trim the video or transcode to a different codec.
Remotely control CinePlay from your iOS device with Editmote.
CinePlay is integrated with Kollaborate. Use the built-in Kollaborate browser to navigate through your project, then double-click a video to play it.
Markers you add will appear instantly for others as comments. Any comments someone else makes on the same video while you are watching it are shown as Notification Center alerts.
CinePlay is an essential tool for video professionals. There's a 15-day trial available and Kollaborate cloud functionality is free to make it easy to share videos with clients. CinePlay is available for an introductory price of $29 and is the first product to use our new online licensing system.
To find out more, see the feature list, read the user manual or download the free 15-day trial. We're keen to hear feedback to help us develop the application further, so please let us know how it fits in with your workflow.
We've just launched our new account portal that allows you to easily view and manage your Digital Rebellion application licenses.
Registration is quick and easy. If our system detects that you have software licenses registered to the email address you signed up with, it will send you an email with a link to confirm your address. Once you've confirmed it, you'll be able to view all of the registration information for each product you own.
If you have different products registered to different addresses, you can easily link them to your account by confirming that you own the other address. If you no longer have access to the old address, please contact us and we'll help you link it up to the new account.
Furthermore, we will be switching to an online registration system for all new products and major updates to existing products. This makes registering and licensing our products easier because you will be able to license applications simply by entering your email address and password.
No shipping products are yet using the new registration system but because there are likely to be a number of questions about this change we've prepared an FAQ below.
Q. Does the new licensing system mean you are switching to a rental model?
A. No, our licenses are still permanent, it's just a change to how you register the application on your computer.
Q. Do I need internet access to register?
A. Yes, you will require an internet connection at the point of registration.
Q. Must my computer constantly be connected to the internet in order to use the application?
A. No, this is not necessary. You will need to connect periodically and we're not yet sure of the exact grace period but it is likely to be once every few months.
Q. Am I locked out of the software if I forget my password?
A. No, a password is only required if you want to register or unregister the software. If you forget your password you can reset it here.
We've just released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.20, a minor update to our suite of tools to maintain, optimize and troubleshoot your editing system.
Changes in this version include:
Pro Maintenance Tools is an essential toolkit for maintaining, optimizing and troubleshooting your editing system. To find out more see the feature list, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download the free 15-day trial.
We've just released updates to our video storage space calculators Video Space Calculator 1.1.1 for iOS and version 1.0.5 for Mac.
This update adds the following new codecs to both apps:
This takes the total number of supported codecs to over 80.
Video Space Calculator is a useful tool for estimating the final size of an encoded file or the number of video hours available on a particular disk. It is available from the Mac and iOS App Stores.
Yesterday we released Pro Media Tools 1.2 with several new features and tweaks.
You can now add, modify and delete metadata for a range of files at once. Any changes you make will apply to every file in the batch.
Other changes include automatically opening files in a batch if you select more than one and chapters are now displayed with their positions in timecode rather than seconds.
Adobe Premiere Pro is a lot fussier about the formatting of XML than FCP 7 so we've now created a separate export option for Premiere XML markers.
We've made several improvements to Render Watcher to make it more compatible with the latest versions of Adobe Media Encoder and Compressor.
Pro Media Tools is an invaluable toolkit to help editors and post production professionals enhance their media management workflows. To find out more view the feature list, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download the free 15-day trial.
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