What’s New in 2.1

• Shots Stack

• UX/UI

• Rendering

• Bug fixes

• Code and architecture

Shots Stack UI

Added a new manipulation mode for the shot clips: the keys of the camera and of the Storyboard Frames can now be offset when the clip is moved and scaled when a clip handle is manipulated with the modifier key Shift pressed.

• Added an info component

• Added a Preferences setting to make the shots stack starts at the specified lane

• Set the first lane to 1 instead of 0 to see the keys of the Summary lane

UX/UI

• Improvements on the Continuous Draw Mode

• Revamped the UI of the Animated Frame Transformation to minimize UI ambiguities

• Added shot name in the Render panel, near Current Shot label

• Refactored the Duplicate Shot dialog box and added a checkbox for color variation

• Added a button to set the time range to shot or take range in the Frame Range toolbar

• Improved the Storyboard Frame Editing Mode button

• Separated key mappings per category

• Added a Preferences parameter to toggle the vertical arrows used to navigate from shot to shot

• Made the up arrow go to next shots by default instead of previous ones

• Added a key map for activating the draw mode on a current shot

Rendering

• Made the playblast temp directories different from the rendering directories

Bug fixes

See the change log on GitHub for an exhaustive list.

• Fixed occasional bug in duplicate cameras and duplicate takes

• Fixed rendering issues on Mac OS due to backslash character conflicts in path names:

  • Shot videos where not rendered

  • Playblast was all black

  • Open in File Explorer buttons were not working

Code and architecture

• Improvement of the API code, samples and documentation