Changelog

Enhanced Video Player Stability & Live Broadcasting Improvements

This release focuses on improving the reliability and user experience of video playback and live broadcasting features. The video player has been enhanced with better event handling and autoplay logic, while several issu…

Interactive Data Source Selector

Adding dynamic data to your Visuals, such as RSS feeds or API-based content, has long been possible in Visual Radio Assist. These external data sources can be configured, mapped to output variables, and used across your…

Loop over Media Selection

The Playlist Layer now supports looping over media metadata fields from folders, making it easier to display titles, filenames, and custom metadata in your visuals. This enhancement allows for more dynamic content loops…

New in Media: Metadata Fields

You can now define and use your own metadata fields for media assets. These fields are configurable by station managers. Once defined, every media asset will include these fields for easy access and consistent tagging.

New: All VRA settings in one place

Over the years, Visual Radio Assist has grown with new features and configuration options. As a result, settings were spread across different sections—Output Settings, Visual Settings, Core Settings, and more. While this…

New in Visuals: Re-usable Graphics Templates & Visual Thumbnail

We’ve heard from users that duplicating visuals for each broadcast can be a hassle. If you find yourself repeatedly creating the same graphics, there’s now a better way.

New Outputs Overview and Output Player Controller

We’ve updated the Outputs Overview in Visual Radio Assist to give you a clearer view of what’s currently playing. Active output players are now displayed more prominently, allowing faster access and better monitoring of…

New in Visuals: Folder selection in Slideshow Layer

A new update to the Slideshow Visual Layer in Visual Radio Assist now allows you to select an entire folder instead of individual images. Upload your images to a folder in the Media Hub, and they will automatically play…

New: Macro Triggers & Dashboard buttons

This release introduces a new trigger type to Visual Radio Assist: Macro’s! We’ve also added new Dashboard Panels for quick Camera Angles and Macro access, improved stability of Episode switching in the Output Playouts a…

Introducing Media Source Types

Media can now be categorized with Media Source Types across the entire platform, including Outputs, Visuals, Broadcaster Associations, Visual Variables, and Scheduling. This new feature helps users organize uploaded medi…

Extra flexibility for Visual Variables in Playout

We’ve revamped the possibilities of manually controlling your layer in- and out transitions. If you want to profit from the powers of GSAP you can now connect events to individual layers to have more control over the com…

Visual Designer QoL improvements

This week we’ve worked on several qualitty of life improvements of the Visual Designer and other media workflows in Visual Radio assist.

Playout Rundown Composer

With the Episode version of the Visual Radio Playout you can preview all upcoming shows live to make sure they look good. And if you want to prepare rundowns with graphics outside of the 5 upcoming shows it is now possib…

Media Asset Management in Visual Radio with the updated Media Hub

The latest updates of VRA change the way you experience media workflows, with the introduction of the new Media Hub. Below is a breakdown of the key adjustments:

Program Host Condition and Blackmagic Videohub Support

It is now possible to use the Program Host of the current onair program as a condition in all places where conditions are applied; Output Rundowns, Items, Visuals, Automations and Audio Triggers.

Preparing the new mediastorage experience

The Media Hub is now equipped with several new functionalities to streamline media management:

Playout shortkeys and QoL improvements

Release 4.2

Release 4.2. is packed with all the changes over the last couple of months, read more in our full blogpost.

Pre-release 4.2.0

Leading up to release 4.2.0 we’re making the last improvements and fixes in version 4.1.46, checkout the full 4.2.0 release on https://visualradioassist.live/blog/releasing-4-2-show-based-graphics-rundowns .

New Tags for resource

Version 4.1.45 introduces a range of updates across the frontend, server, and backend components of Visual Radio Assist. This release focuses on enhanced media tagging, improved user experience, stability, and error hand…