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Change Logs:
ER 1.6.13 change log (last free version)
- New messages communication system, mainly for Windows systems but some changes affect macOS users as well.
- Updated FFmpeg binary.
- New Pin (Always-On-Top) mode in MediaER app.
- New TC stamping support, for now it only forward any existing TC data from the original media into the new one, but we are working on new features that will let you create your own unique TC stamping as well.
- General improvements and bug fixes.
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ER 1.5.97 change log
* A hotfix version that fixes some bugs in the new Download Manager that handles new versions download and install when a newer version exists on the web.
ER 1.5.96 change log
- Work (video quality preset) now a bit higher in bit-rate but more importantly the codec changed to High Intra@L4.1 which means no IPB no GOP so that every frame is a keyframe making it a better fit for playback (scrubbing) within your DAW/or NLE.
- For custom bitrate you'll be able to choose between IPB render (default) or no IPB (High Intra@L4.1), all other presets are not affected.
- the apps UI desktop position can be saved with all other settings via the settings window and will snap to custom position as soon as you open the app.
- Mac users no longer have to install FFmpeg manually via the Terminal utility, you simply download the app, open it and it will automatically install the FFmpeg assets if it can't find them on the local system.
- DNxHR now support both 8-bit and 10-bit color depth.
- Many under the hood improvements, fixes and more.
ER 1.5.87 change log
- Several fixes plus UI and UX improvements.
- Settings window has been reorganized to be more easy to understand.
ER 1.5.84 change log
macOM HotFix: application render engine was not working in version 1.5.83, Sorry for that !
Bug fixes and improvements for both Mac and PC.
ER 1.5.83 change log
All around small bug fixes and improvements.
New features:
- Added: WEV FF Path (CheckBox) in settings window, only in Windows applications. check the user guide from more info.
ER 1.5.81 change log
All around small bug fixes and improvements.
ER User Guide updates and corrections.
New features:
- Added: MediaER application > Video Trimming window, 2-pop audio removal and corresponding Settings window 2-pop amount preference.
ER 1.5.75 change log
This is just another maintenance build with same improvements to the drag behaviour.
Improvements:
- It is now possible to multi drag video files over the lower part of the main window where the audio replacement resides and the app will process all of them and not just one of them as it did before.
- Second improvement only affects macOS users. On mac systems up until now when a render of a file/s is done and you want to add another, the first drag of a new file/s was ignored/rejected forcing the user to re-drag the file/s to start a new process. This is now fixed thanks to Pål Svennevig from Nordisk Film Shortcut, Many thanks Pål !
ER 1.5.69 change log
This one is just a Hotfix with small fixes and workflow improvement in the new video trimming mode.
Thanks to your helpful feedback, keep it coming !
ER 1.5.68 change log
Bug fix:
- Minor bug fixes in all applications.
Improvements:
New features:
- Added: Video Trimming Mode In MediaER App, For more details see page 20 in the included ER User Guide.
ER 1.4.54 change log
Bug fix:
- All applications would let the user overwrite/destroy the original media if ‘Preserve Original File Name’ selected in settings window which would lead to irreversible loss - Fixed
- MediaER application show "OutOfBoundsException" error message if updated directly from a very old version to recent version - Fixed
- Progress percentage in some cases may show negative values - Fixed
Improvements:
- macOS GUI adjustments and some gereral all around improvements.
- Extract audio streams or separates Video and Audio streams from now being asked only once each session unless reset by choice with the new <Ctrl> + <Shift> + C hotkey or by clicking the ‘Extract Audio To Wav’ checkbox.
- In case of application malfunction from now on the app attempts to send an error report via the OS default mail client (if any). In case you encounter such event Please press the SEND button to help us improve the app in the future.
- MediaER Improved output video bitrate calculation according to video dimensions and selecte bitrate preset (Lower, Mail, Social media, etc.).
New features:
- Added: Now all applications in the ToolKit support the new Dark Mode appearance preference in macOS Mojave and beyond. if not in dark mode one can change the app color scheme by using the new <Shift> + D hotkey to toggles between two available appearance modes: darker or lighter.
- Added: "Close application when done" (or Shutdown computer), new CheckBox in the settings window - enables automatic application Quit (with 4 seconds delay), get activated only when all media creation processes are done. this check box can be selected (activated) even during process, so in case you see a process that is taking too long to end and expected to end long after you are no longer in front of the computer you can set it to automatically close the application (or the entire computer) when it is done.
- Added: 48,64,96 and 448 kbps audio bit rate support added to the Drop-down List in MediaER compressed audio options.
- Added: When using the Replace audio procedure, In case you already selected PCM audio bit depth once, holding <Shift> key while dragging a new video in which you wish to replace the audio serves as bypass mechanism for audio bit depth Reselection.
- Added: Social media dimensions and appropriate bitrates added to MediaER and Social media forced sizes in ProResER App. Note that those media dimensions can not apply in the other apps because Avid DNxHD, DNxHR, DVD and Blu Ray does not support non standard video dimensions.
- Added: Invert first audio channel polarity, new CheckBox in MediaER settings window, Check this in case Left - Right Audio channels are 180 degree phase reversed.
- Changed: User's unique Suffix is now preserved throughout the entire session unless reset or changed by the user at some point during the session, read more about it in the user guide (search for sub-section 17, under any application main window section).
ER 1.4.42 change log
Bug fix:
- Apps in MacOS did not accept image sequences (file extension: .tif .tiff .png .tga .exr .gif) - Fixed
Improvements:
- Auto fixing audio offset issues Improved algorithm, now introduces in-phase accuracy correction processing most popular mp4 'Advanced Audio/Video coding' (to max +48 sample offset, but never introduces negative results as you might have seen elsewhere...)
- Some gereral all around improvements, nothing special though.
New features:
- Added: User Guide
- Added: in MediaER, ProResER, DNxER - Deinterlace check box: Converts any interlaced input media into a non-interlaced form.
Clarification: deinterlacing may introduces some quality loss, but on the other hand if you convert interlaced media into progressive form without deinterlacing you might get jagged video output due to printing flipped odd/even fields order that cannot be corrected afterwards.
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ER 1.4.38 change log
Note: this update introduces new Windows installer, Because of the big changes it might be wiser to remove the previous version via Windows Control Panel Add/Remove Programs, then install with the installer from the .zip file, it designed to recognise and update older versions, just not always doing the best job at it.
Bug fix:
- During app launch and loading user presets potential app crashing in very rare cases - Fixed
- If both 'Video Rotation' and 'Force Size To -' are selected in certain situations output video would have wrong dimensions - Fixed
Improvements:
- Improved error reporting and logging mechanism
- Changed: In-app newer version detection and download mechanism.
- Thinner progress-bar (Windows only)
- All around GUI cosmetic changes.
- FFmpeg Assets moved to 'Program Files' folder and are now get validated within the app via Absolute Windows Environment variable call (that been added to the new installer) and not being checked on a specific expected folder as before, which means that from now on you can actually move the FFmpeg assets virtually anywhere you choose as long as you point the Windows environment variable 'Path' to the correct path.
- Windows installer now adds "MediaER" as Post Process in Steinberg's "Export Audio Mixdown" window so you can now export an audio from Steinberg's products and send it directly into MediaER with one click.
- New Windows installer (Digitally Signed).
- Some GUI text sizes adjustments, affects only Mac UHD screen users.
New features:
- Added: Conform Video Frame Rate (another frame rate conversion method - Optional CheckBox in settings window)
- Added: Link to ER Media ToolKit web page (by clicking bottom right audiospot Logo)
- Added: 'Video Transport Stream' file extension .ts (TS files are often saved as multiple files on a DVD, i.e. "moviename1.ts,")
ER 1.4.27 change log
- Major update for Mac users ! -
Bug fix:
- Some rare video properties cause the apps hard crashes, Fixed
- Only in MediaER app. small GUI text caption improvement and minor navigation bug fixes.
Improvements:
- Brand new progress bar engine and algorithm, the previous one didn't work as expected under MacOS and had occasional glitches in Windows.
- Various all around improvements.
New features:
- Added: Check For Software Updates CheckBox (In all applications at the bottom of the setting window).
- Added: In MediaER, ProResER and DNxER apps you can now preserve the original file names without the additional text after it. To enable this option go to Settings screen and check the new "Preserve Original File Name" checkbox.
1.4.16 change log
Bug fix:
- Small GUI Bug fix (affected apps: DNxER, BRxDVD, ProResER)
- In MediaER app the new "Add Audio Stream" option wrongly became the default action instead of "Replace Audio" option - Fixed
Improvements:
New FFmpeg Engine
1.4.12 change log
Bug fix:
- All around improvements and minor bug fixes.
Improvements:
- Various GUI improvements.
New features:
- Added extract multiple audio streams in MediaER app.
- Added: In MediaER app you can now add your selected audio file as an additional stream to all existing audio streams by checking the new '+' sign (checkbox) that from now on will appear each time you press 'Replace Audio' radio button. (as always the audio stream format will be auto-adjusted to comply with the selected video container requirements)
ER 1.3.29 change log
Bug fix:
- In all flavors of the ToolKit minor bug fixes.
Improvements:
- Various GUI improvements including progress bar accuracy improvement.
New features:
- Under Windows the ToolKit supported so far only ASCII Character Set (on Mac OS there were no limitations) which meant when using the ToolKit on Windows: you could only work with files and folder trees ASCII characters formatted all the way through. we are glad to announce it is no longer the case, from this version forward the app's Windows version supports Unicode.
- Under macOS you can now use Mouse Wheel to scroll up and down above all listboxes. (in Windows version you could always do that, no change)
- Added new member to the ToolKit: BRxDVD for instant DVD and Blu-Ray media creation.
- Added: Create video from Image Sequence in all flavors of the ToolKit, just set target FPS (Image Sequence FPS) in settings window: 'Output video frame rate per second' and after that you can drop on the app the first image of the sequence. Note: sequence need to start at 0 and to be longer than 4 seconds, leading zeros are essential as well. example formatting: image_000.tif , supported image formats are - tif, png, tga, exr, gif
ER 1.3.22 change log
Bug fix:
- In all three versions of the app:
- Auto Audio Sync Fix got broken after last update while implanting Multi Audio Stream support, Fixed, you can now convert videos safely again, knowing the converter keep audio synchronisation.
- Anamorphic formating had unwanted behavior in some cases, Fixed.
- If a user chose LetterBoxing and Rotating input video in the same process/run the app would only Rotate the video without LetterBoxing the video, Fixed.
Improvements:
- Multi Audio Stream support further improvement.
- Replace audio in video algorithm improvement.
- Window installer/updater further improvement.
New features:
- All input media specifications reading and diagnostics before render begins rewritten completely to improve accuracy and speed resulting in ~400ms less pre-process diagnostics and better process applied due to better diagnostics accuracy.
- Added m2ts video support.
- In ProResER app, Added Interlaced/Progressive support (valid only when using 'Quality' mode combined with 'Force Size To'), for those who need to keep interlacing with their videos or to Fake interlaced media in progressive input by duplicating fields and flagging/tagging the output media as Interlaced.
- After adding Interlaced support the reasonable thing to do was to add support for TV formats - SD PAL (720x576) and SD NTSC (720x480) which are the most common users of Interlaced videos, so now you can force any input media into PAL TV and NTSC TV (consult drop down list tips for full options).
ER 1.3.17 change log
Major bug fixes:
- Window installer did not update previous installation correctly, it mistakenly recognized previous build as same build so users had to uninstall > reinstall in order to properly update version, sorry for that, Fixed.
- When clicking an item in the created media list (along with modifier keys), in certain cases could result in app crash, Fixed.
- In rare cases the progress bar could 'go nuts' do to incorect progress data from the encoder, Fixed.
- MediaER only, when using 'Fixed video mode' and 'Fixed audio mode' if not converting the video to H264 and using 'Replace Audio' the procedure for MOV / MXF extension was broken, Fixed.
- MediaER omly, M4P, M4V files were 'mistreated' by the system and in some cases reported Error 1 (incorrect audio), Fixed
New features:
- In the ProResER app, added processing priority toggle (Speed/Quality), the 'Speed' option based on a very high quality generic encoder that delivers quick results , the 'Quality' option is a much slower encoder that delivers YUV 10-bit colour depth on all ProRes profiles plus it register under both Mac and Windows 'apl1' the Apple vendor ID for ProRes encoding. Note that the 444 profile will always use the slower option even if you set the slider to speed because the faster encoder does not support Alpha channels.
- Added multiple audio streams support in ProResER and DNxER apps - the affected processes are: Extract Audio to Wav (both options) and all ProRes/DNxHD-HR conversion types that do not include replacing audio. Note, audio replacement will remove any existing audio streams from the video file.
- In MediaER app, added option to use any video as your audio replacement in another video file, just drag any video onto the main app window while holding ctrl+shift and you'll see the droped video appear in the audio replacement position, now you can drop the second video as you normally would and MediaER automatically starts incorporating the audio from the first video with the picture from the second video.