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Pure bug fix release.

Fixes include:

• Fixed cruicial bug/crash when monitoring growing files.
• Fix stills encoder bug when extracting single image.
• Fix potential race condition bug when several nodes are parsing same media source.
• Fixed rare API bug when submitting huge JSON bodies.
• Fix a color scheme bug in manager when showing bypassed nodes.
• Fix all running workflows restarting when stopping just one.
• Fixed a bug that could cause FFAStrans to not clean up old jobs/logs.
• Fixed some agressive enumration of history records.
• + Several other minor fixes.

Pure bug fix release.

Fixes include:

• Fixed some illegal characters when parsing mac alias
• Fix occational double registration of new monitored files
• Fix loudness analyser not storing correct real peaks data
• Fixed rare error that sometimes caused retried jobs to not start
• Fix audio files getting double length when converting to video formats
• Update BMX to include fix for wrongly flagged aspect ration on some MPEG-2 formats.
• Fixed rare bug that sometimes cause FFAStrans to not continue with jobs containing priority splits.

Pure bug fix release.

Fixes include:

• Fixed SAR was not set when auto cropping IMX source in the A/V Decoder
• Fixed Interlace analyze node reported bogus results
• Fixed wrong progress on video analyze node
• Fixed rare issue where priority branches did not end properly
• Fixed issue that in some conditions caused a job queue to build up
• Fixed A/V Decoder not properly decoding some broken MPEG2
• Removed bogus 4:4:4 AVI option in the Uncompressed encoder node
• Removed too strict variable check when submitting jobs via API

Pure bug fix release (1.4.0.1 – 1.4.0.4).

Fixes include:

• Fixed continously growing files being picked up too early
• Fixed multiple hosts picking up the same growing file
• Fixed loudness analyser not returning correct channel layout
• Fixed error in priority splits
• Fixed stills decoder having malformated color conversions.
• Fixed rare crash on badly formated time code
• Fixed a file locking anomalie
• Fixed a handle leak in the queuer

Finally, long overdue, a new version that does not only focus on fixes and improvements but a set of new nice long awaited features.

Changes include:

• New core features:
  • Hosts group: Group hosts into different named groups and assign nodes or/and workflows to them
  • Job slots per node: Assign a higher number of job slots to a node in order to better “allocate” resources on the executing host
  • Cron scheduling support for monitors
• New functions:
  • $dateweek(): Calculate week numbers
  • $timecalc(): Time calculator
  • $waccess(): For testing write access
  • $owner(): For getting owner of a file
  • $asplit(): Split/format array into a string
  • $ffconcat(): For creating a “ffconcat version 1.0” string
  • $shortcut(): For parsing Windows shortcuts and macOS alias files
• New variables:
  • %i_v_precharge%: Get precharge value from MXF files
  • %s_options%: System variable for advanced altering of job behavior
  • %f_pix_aspect%: Pixel aspect ratio as float
  • %s_frame_rate%: Represent frame rate as num/denum string
• New API method:
  • GET /jobvars/ for getting final value of user variables after job end
• Improved processing speed, quality and color precicion for all encoders
• Huge database I/O optimizations for thos with larger farms
• Dolby E decoding in the “A/V Decoder” (Experimental)
• “Forget missing files” are now supported by all applicable monitor nodes
• Support the new frame properties in AviSynth+
• Support Mac alias in the “Folder” monitor and improved Windows shortcut support
• Improved support for encoding files with cover art
• Properly support audio buffer files > 4GB in the “A/V Decoder”
• Support reading stdout/err in command executor as unicode
• Support XDCAM-EX 35 720p in the “XDCAM-HD” encoder
• Support multiple selection in the status monitor
• Inbuilt status monitor now shows history pages instead of one huge list
• Improved “Color conversion” filter
• Improved navigation in the status monitor using arrow keys
• Improved up-time reliability
• Native support for “ffconcat version 1.0” input sources
• Native support for reading IMF files
• Support writing 64 bit audio files in the “Extract audio” node
• Support UTF-8 formated mail bodies in “Send E-Mail” node
• Playlist support in “YouTube” decoder and save list to variable
• Clear complete work cache dir from FFAStrans Manager
• Support SinPowResize kernel in “Resize” filter
• Improved automatic cleaning of log and work files
• FFAStrans will now archive job logs and keep them for an extended period
• Fix several long path issues in monitors and FTP delivery
• Fix slow opening of long workflows
• Fix comparing negative number not working in the “Conditional” node
• Fix graphical artifact when moving too far out on a large workflow
• Fix some number like strings being strictly regarded as number
• + Lots other minor fixes and improvements

Bug fixes, improvements and minor features update.

Changes include:

• Added 4:4:4 profile (XQ) to the ProResKS encoder.
• Added “MXF (BMX)” wrapper option to the Panasonic P2 monitor.
• Added option for removing farming settings when exporting workflows
• Added PUT method for updating existing workflow through API
• Added user option to read from STDERR and/or STDOUT in the “Command executor” node.
• Improved general robustness when executing many jobs at the same time.
• Reduced general priority on sub processes in order to not halt system.
• Fixed some special case FTP monitor issue that caused files to not be downloaded properly.
• Fixed framerate bug when encoding to BMX (MXF)
• Fixed an issue where setting %s_source% to “” (nothing) resulted in some erratic behavior.
• Fix some job retry issues.
• Fix audio config crash in the DV encoder.
• Fixed rare memory leak issue.
• Fixed MOV bug in the DNxHD encoder
• Fixed a problem with the A/V Media decoder created zero-length clips.
• Fixed an issue that caused some image sequences to not be properly parsed
• Fixed a problem where plugin processors GUI got stuck behind manager window.
• Fixed a bug where the “Fade” filter ignored audio/video enable/disable
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Custom FFmpeg” encoder to not work properly when using custom ffmpeg mapping.
• Fixed an API issue where history was not always correctly returned.
• Fixed an issue causing some AviSynth based video filters to not work properly on older CPUs
• Fixed a flaw with priority connections in conjunction with executing on error.
• ++ Several other minor improvements and fixes

Pure bug fix release.

Changes include:

• Fix progressive closed GOP encoding in the XDCAM-HD not working.
• The “Video quality” node would sometimes return a bogus “inf000000” value.
• The “Video quality” would fail if source or ref was IMX-D10 content.
• The “%s_cache_record%” variable was not correctly populated.
• Fix the “Sequence” monitor disregarding the “Recurse” setting.
• The “Sequence” monitor would sometimes not work due to an invalid input option being set.
• Two succeeding encodings on the same branch could fail if using the inbuilt encoders.
• Fix minor issues with properly recognizing some pixel and color formats when processing.
• The loudness table in “Audio extract” encoder gui did not set a value.
• A few other minor edge case issues addressed.

Pure bug fix release.

Changes include:

• Fixed potential endless loop in “A/V Decoder” node.
• The XDCAM-HD encoder would sometimes stop encoding on very complex content.
• Fixed an issue where sources with yuvj420p pixel format would sometimes lead to failed encoding.
• Fixed an issue that caused bad frame rate conversion on small fps difference between source and output.
• Fixed an issue where host settings was not properly saved.
• Fixed error message on multiple immediate retries from failed node..

Finally a new version that does not only focus on fixes and improvements but has a lot of new nice features to present.

Changes include:

• New workflow features:
  • Sub splits: This feature enables sub connected splits (brown) to always finish before the main splits (black).
  • Workflow connection: Enables you to forward a job to another workflow.
• New functions:
  • $lookup() and $lookuprep() for table lookup and lookup replacement.
  • $sort() for sorting an array or a string.
  • $split() for splitting a string into an array.
  • $count() for counting occurrences of a string or single character.
  • $foreach() for dynamically executing operations on an array
  • $string() for formatting strings like printf in C.
  • $xxhash64() for 64 bit version of xxhash.
• New node: “For each”: Will loop through an array of values and dynamically create a new split/branch for each index.
• New variables:
  • %s_start_tc_alt% for alternative start TC taken from creation date of media.
  • %s_gamma% for gamma curve of media
  • %s_chroma_loc% for chroma location of media.
  • %i_gmt_bias% for the local GMT bias.
  • %s_version% for current running FFAStrans version.
  • %s_last_error% for retrieving last viable error message.
• New API methods.
  • GET /workflows/status for getting current status
  • POST /workflows for importing FFAStrans exported workflows.
  • POST /presets for importing FFAStrans exported presets
  • POST /user_variables for importing FFAStrans exported user variables
  • GET /history now supports ?start and ?count for getting custom range
• All encoders now support applying custom or inbuilt LUTs.
• All encoders now support setting and converting full/limited video range.
• Huge speed improvement when muxing to BMX MXF as FFAStrans no longer creates an intermediate file before remuxing.
• Added search function in the variables selector.
• Added free text search function for workflows and nodes.
• The XAVC node now support class 300 and 480 in UHD.
• The AVC-Intra node now support class 2K and 4K.
• Added option to use user variables as framerate in “ProRes” and “DNxHR” encoder nodes.
• Added user selectable quality tunings to the the “XDCAM-HD” node.
• Added “Writing library” mode to the “ProRes” encoder node for improved compatibility in some scenarios.
• Added HLG and PQ signaling to the “H.264” encoder.
• Added option to save complete VMAF json to a variable in the “Video Quality” node.
• Added access to the user variables from main manager menu.
• Added user selectable zero padding to unique output file names in the delivery nodes.
• The header section in “HTTP communicate” node now supports using variables.
• The “%s_original_path~n%” variable now supports minus notation for retrieving path names from the right side.
• The “%s_recursed_path%” variable now support the same notation type as %s_original_path~n% with %s_recursed_path~n%.
• Added option to export job logs from inbuilt status monitor.
• The “Hold” node now supports arrays as list of files.
• Updated to use the new maintained yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl.
• Changing a variables/static name now automatically updates all applicable workflows.
• Expanded the $exists() function to support path recursing and returning a file list in array.
• Added support for adding data to an existing array using the $jsonput() function.
• Fixed issue where the “H.264” encoder produced corrupt MXF files.
• Fixed various bit depth issues in the “H.264/5” encoders.
• Fixed “Generic MPEG” was forced to 16:9 aspect.
• + Lots of minor changes and improvements.

Pure bug fix release.

Changes include:

• Growing files functionality was broken.
• Running workflows without any nodes would crash.
• Time stamps had the wrong notation when GMT was +00.00
• Fixed rare crash with inbuilt status monitor when applying action to a finished job.
• First time initialization of user variables would sometimes crash.
• Loudness input field did not always parse variables correct.
• Fix rare bug that could cause status monitors to miss data.
• Fix wrongfully hardcoded 16/9 aspect in the generic MPEG encoder.
• The API url /workflows/<wf_id>/user_variables did not always produce correct reply.
• The API url /tickets url could in some cases return an invalid json.