Stack and Container Layers
Did you ever spend too much time aligning layers exactly on the same X-axis, or did you try to clip animations for a nice fly-in effect?
With the new Stack and Container Layer types you can group and add sub layers in the Visual Designer.
Container
The container creates a simple wrapper around the layers you drag into the Container Layer. This enables you to make more use of grouped animations or visibility conditions instead of manually repeating the same action for every single layer.
Stack
The stack is a Container on steroids, adding extra automatic alignment help for the layers you add to the Stack. With this alignment every sublayer will automatically be aligned in a vertical- or horizontal direction.
Check out the all-new Visual Designer documentation for more information about these new layer types!
Auto- height and width
With the Text Sized box option from update you could get more creative by automatically sizing the background box in text layer.
We’ve added this functionality to a more generic level, enabling more layer types to make use of auto sizing, which wraps the layer size boundaries around the layer’s content. Even if this content changes. This is great if you want to use the layer in a dynamic sized Stack, which essentially is a big text-sized box with multiple items then!
Pixel vs Percent based layer sizing
The existing layer position and sizing system was always based on a fixed scale for the Untitled. With the introduction of Stacks we’ve added relative sizing to layers as well with “Percent” based width and height.
This allows Layers to be sized relatively to their parent, for example a Stack with a width of 400px, which will make a layer with size 50% essentially 200px (on canvas, but relative on the real output)
Cloud Live Improvements
With the new Cloud Live improvements we made sure that the initial Live connection works in even more network situations.
We’ve also added a countdown timer for the initial live actions to indicate that the live track is being initialized first before playback.
API Data Source Links
Improved API Data Source Link XML/RSS handling (including support for namespaced data)
The API Data Source Links are now live-tested with feedback when you add them
Browser-live Links support RSS and XML feeds as well
Toggle
enabledstatus per Api Data Source
Other bug fixes and improvements
Toggle Studio Onair state from Server Advanced panels
Inactive to Active Output Player state fixes
Video Switcher vMix Authorization support
Date time in several video media overviews
Improved Playout Variable editors / upload actions
When Video Media is available locally the Visual Player will also buffer from a local source (faster) instead of external Cloud.
Better support for Vector images (like svg) in the Visual Designer
Improved Rack close behaviour
Ticker speed improvements
Cloud Live connection recovery fixes to allow nonstop recovery
Output Player Dynamic items (like NPClipAssist) improved buffer sequence, preventing a specific no-play racecondition
Fixed an issue causing logging out errors on some Output pages in the Cloud