Super-fast Media Management with the Media Server
Playback of Cloud Video Media via the Output Players required the Cloud Media Cache process to be completed in advance. With the new Media Server application we’re reducing the time it takes to prepare your Cloud Media for playback with up to 4 times.
The Media Server creates a new media library for managing everything related Cloud Media, with dedicated computing power (not shared with the Outputs) to make sure the video is ready for playback as fast as possible via parallel downloads.
Coming from the regular Cloud Media Caching system the Media Server will make sure that all existing media is migrated on start.
⬇️ Download the new application now:
Visual Radio Assist Cloud
Visual Radio Assist Cloud to manage your Visual Radio environment.
https://cloud.visualradioassist.live/studio/apps/download
[ Available for VRA Plus and up ]
New Visual Designer Text Properties
We are seeing the same custom CSS code being repeated many times; from text alignment, creating automatically sized background boxes for text or adding extra margins.
The latest Visual Designer updates help you kickstart the Visual Layer styling a lot more.
Text box sizing
In the default configuration text would have the maximum size of the layer boundaries. With CSS you would have a hard time overriding this to make things like automatically sized backgrounds possible.
With this update the “Box-Sizing” checkbox / opt-in makes this last scenario (and more) possible out of the box. Box Sizing makes sure that all layer styles are applied on the html element that is the text itself, instead of a wrapper the size of the layer.
Background color
Add colors to your layers without the need to write custom CSS!
Padding
Add padding around the text in an layer
Alignment
Vertical and horizontal alignment is improved and now also possible in the two possible directions; horizontal + vertical.
To stay clear from too opinionated CSS on your layers we’ve also disconnected the text alignment from this flex alignment.
Trick: box with color, text sized with padding
With all the new properties on the Visual Designer Text Layers it is just a matter of clicks to create the following graphic layer:
- Enable Text Sized Box
- Enable and Choose a background color
- Add some relative padding
- Align text in the vertical middle, with vertical alignment
You’ve just created a text box that automatically sizes on dynamic text length, for example for nowplaying titles. The max size is always the size of the Text layer.
Other bugfixes and improvements
We’ve worked on a lot of fixes to make the new 4.1 as stable as possible, offering all the new Playout capabilities.
- Zenon Media new format support
- Sony VISCA Protocol update
- AutomationLink complex metadata condition fixes
- ProppFrexx data parsing fixes
- Zenlex new meta fields support
- New Rack design and improved logging view performance
- NDI + SDI Output initialization process improvements
- Revisited Player Queue system; up to 4 times faster
- Output Players starting/shutting down are better visible in Cloud
- Duplicate a Visual
- Cloud Live Player bugfixes for continuous playback and restart after restart
- Revisited the variable chip system for more 1:1 WYSIWYG experience. All new properties are also respected in the dynamic Text Editor.
Internal changes
- Apps [4.1.1…4.1.14] - 224 changes
- Cloud [4.1.0…4.1.14] – 327 changes
- API [4.1.1…4.1.14] – 85 changes