What's new in OnTheAir Video 4 & OnTheAir Video Express 4
Updated
New features
OnTheAir Video Express and OnTheAir Video
Full Compatibility with macOS Big Sur (11.0).
Universal application for better performances on Apple M1 Silicon computers.
Full compatibility of NDI with Apple Silicon computers.
Updated compatibility with video cards (AJA, Blackmagic-Design, Deltacast) most recent SDK
Video Preview + Audio Vu-Meters: A window allows you to preview what OnTheAir Video is playing out.
New features in playlists:
Automatic Folder-based Playlist: Select a folder with media files, and OnTheAir Video will automatically populate the playlist with the content of the folder. Add a file, it will be added to the playlist automatically. Delete a file, the file will be removed from the playlist.
Added the ability to select a default playlist that will automatically be opened at startup.
Shuffle playback: As with music playlists, the next clip will be randomly played.
Rename clips: Sometimes your file names are cryptic, now you can rename the clips in the playlists, so it says something more obvious. Also useful if you have split a clip in 2 with two different parts.
Auto-update modified clips: If a media file has been modified (replaced or deleted in the Finder for example), it will automatically update in the playlist.
New "Clip end behaviour": Cue next clip.
Added the ability to select a clip to "Play next", so OnTheAir Video can chain to any clip in the playlist.
Added an "auto-cue" feature. When using the cue mode, the next clip will be automatically cued after a specified duration.
Added the ability to add "Comments" in a playlist.
Added the ability to Disable Clips, so they don't play but remain in the playlist for later use.
Added the ability to replace a clip's media file with a drag-and-drop. Hold the command key down while drag-and-dropping over a clip
Added the ability to select a "Hold to black", instead of "Hold last frame" (in defaults preferences)
Added the ability to set a color to comments (right-click on a comment in the playlist)
Added the ability to select more "Remaining times". Previously when right clicking on the remaining time in a playlist, you could select "Clip" or "Playlist". Now you can also have the remaining time until the next "Live", next "Comment", next "Selection", or the next item with an "Auto Start Date/time", or the "Auto" feature will be either a Live or an item with an "Auto Start Date/time", depending on which one is the most recent.
You can now set an out point on a clip that is currently playing (note that modifying the in point will be possible, but will only have an impact the next time the clip plays obviously)
Added support for new codecs: AV1, AVC-Intra 200, DNxHR, SpeedHQ.
Added options to the "Natural" resize mode so you can choose if you want the frame to position in the center of the frame, top left, top center, etc... Previously it was only center of the image.
Added HyperDeck emulation, so you can control your playlists directly from the ATEM Software Control application
Added the support for more than just MIDI notes. When right clicking on a clip, you can now select the event type to either monitor or output: Note, After Touch, Control Change, Program Change, Channel Pressure, Pin Wheel, and set the channel and Parameters. When "learning" the input, you can manually set it up, or still just press the MIDI device button to automatically assign it to the clip.
New "Timing windows":
Added more countdowns: Next "live", next "clocked", next "comment", next "selection" to allow to display more information.
Added the audio countdown announcements. Get a voice telling you when the remaining time is 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2.
New controls in inspector timeline:
Right-click on the "Current Position" field to select if you want to display the clip timecode or the elapsed time.
Enter a TC in the "Current Position" field to go to that position.
Enter for example +3000 to go 30 seconds forward the current position. Or -25 to go 25 frames backwards.
OnTheAir Video ONLY
Improved CG capabilities
Built-in CG: (Requires the Dynamic Graphics Overlay Option) Additionally to still images, you can now import CG Projects in OnTheAir Video to be overlaid on top of the video playback.
In version 4.5 a new window with all your CG projects that you can control can be displayed.
Added the concept of "SuperSources" to be able to do Squeezebacks (or L-shape types of graphics).
Added the ability to animate text items when updating their values through the REST API.
QR code generation from text
Added the ability to send image as base64 data through the REST API
Transitions: You can use either built-in transitions such as cross-fades, or custom transitions (made with your own movies with an Alpha Channel).
New Actions:
Actions are now more than AppleScripts. We have direct actions, which don't require to write an AppleScript anymore. Simply select what you want to control - ATEM, Routers (VideoHub, Ross, GVG), MIDI, Bitfocus Companion, HTTP Request,...). This makes it much simpler and efficient. An Actions editor allows you to create custom actions and macros.
Actions can now be relative to the start, end, in, or out point. This is very useful if you need to start an action X seconds before the end of a clip.
Actions can now have a "custom" icon (instead of the standard A). This helps to better identify what kind of action has been added.
Added the ability to copy actions from one clip to another. Simply hold the option and command keys down, when drag and dropping a clip on to another one.
Secondary Audio Output: Additionally to the video output on the selected video device, you can now also output to another available audio output on your Mac. Works with CoreAudio, so supports the audio devices that are available for macOS (including Dante or MADI).
Added support for 10bit and HDR output.
New Scheduling features:
Schedule editor is now in the application, with a completely revamped "Calendar Style" type of user interface.
Repeated events. If you have a schedule that is the same every week, this will make your life easier. Repeated events can be disabled in case you just don't want them to run temporarily.
Scheduled playlists can now be automatically randomized when opening, or playback shuffled.
Schedule window: Automatically filter to show only the events of the current day.
Schedule window: You can choose which columns to display. This is important mainly for the start times and durations shown:
Theoretical Start Time and Durations (shown by default): include the duration of offline clips, as well as the preset duration of the playlist. This is used to display what will be the duration and start times of playlists once all the clips are online, and the playlist expected duration is met. This is for macro scheduling, ahead of time.
Real Start Time and Duration (can be shown with a right-click on the columns): only include the duration of the clips that are online.
If the Schedule is modified by a third party application, it is automatically reloaded. There is no need to "Reload" the schedule manually anymore.
Added the ability to "Loop" an event => you can loop multiple playlists.
Added the ability to set a preset duration to a playlist, so you can know if you are having overrun and underrun
Added the ability to add a timed start of a clip in a playlist directly. Set its auto-start date/time. If the playlist is opened, and that the clip is after the currently playing clip (to make sure it is chronological), it will start playing at the specified date/time.
New Traffic (paid) option: If you are working with a traffic software (such as WideOrbit, ProTrack,...), OnTheAir Video can import WOS, BXF and SCD playlists, and generate as run logs reports for these traffic solution, making it a prefect Master Control Playout solution.
New MOS integration (paid) option: When using OnTheAir MOS Gateway, you can now connect OnTheAir Video to your favorite newsroom solution (ENPS, iNews, Octopus).
New compatibility with Cuez by Tinkerlist for your new production
Validation report: Generate a report for a playlist to print (with offline clips, offline actions, ...). This is very useful for long playlists, to have a quick overview of possible issues.
New EPG (paid) option: Create EPG tags, assign them to clips, and export EPG to XMLTV and TVGuide.
Streaming input: Supports HTTP, RTMP and TCP video input to play a web stream easily. Just add a "stream clip" to your playlist, enter the HTTP, RTMP or TCP url and start playing it back. Stream clips can be previewed in the inspector. You can either use a "real" live signal, and even play a VOD file from a web server.
Countdown until next Live event: In the "Timer" window, you can now show how long there is until the next live event
Improved Subtitling features:
Support for OP47 Subtiltling. (Requires the CC option). It is supported either in an MXF file with OP47, or using SRT or .STL sidecar files.
Support for .SRT sidecars files with Closed Captioning. (Requires the CC option)
Burn in subtitling. When using .SRT sidecar files, we will overlay the CC on top of the video (Requires both the CC and Dynamic Graphics Overlay options)
Support for SCTE-35 triggers. (Requires the CC option). You can send SCTE triggers in both SDI and NDI outputs, and also monitor an input to trigger an action when a SCTE trigger is detected.
REST API: OnTheAir Video is now coming with a full REST API that allows to control it remotely from a webpage:
Check the API simply by, on the same Mac that runs OnTheAir Video, type the following url in a browser: http://127.0.0.1:8081/api.html. Note that it can also be reached remotely if you change the IP address.
You can also create your own custom pages that would be served by the application. For this, simply place your pages here: /Library/Application Support/Softron/OnTheAir Video/WebResources
There is no installer anymore. Just drag and drop the application to the Applications folder.
Scrubbing in long GOP video clips in the inspector has been improved.
4K decoding performances improvement
Improved remote editing of playlists and schedule. Now when you edit the xpls playlist document from another computer, OnTheAir Video will properly reload it, even if it is currently playing. If the currently playing clip is deleted from the playlist, it will stay in the playlist, keep on playing, and be removed from the playlist once done.
Warnings and Important modifications
OnTheAir Video Express and OnTheAir Video
Playlists: Once you have saved your playlists with OnTheAir Video 4, if you try to open them with OnTheAir Video 3, a copy of it will be opened and you will have to save it again. The reason is that there are new "attributes" that don't work anymore (such as Comments, graphics items, transitions, etc...)
The playback preferences are different than the one of OnTheAir Video 3. So if you switch from one to the other, make sure to change them (which video device is used and the format) in both versions.
When starting OnTheAir Video, it will now show a warning: "Full Disk Access is not enabled". This is not mandatory, but it helps to have less warnings when OnTheAir Video need to access video files in your storage.
Changes in the playback start times in chain mode:
when the playlist is playing, and the "auto-update start times" option is enabled, the duration of the offline files will not be counted in the start times, so you will know exactly when the following clips will start.
after a clip was started, it will keep the time at which it started playing.
OnTheAir Video ONLY
The Schedule file is no longer a .txt file, it is now a XML file by default. The 'old' .txt file will automatically be converted to a XML. If you are using a third party tool to create your Schedules, .txt schedules can still be imported, but changes made to it in the user interface will only be saved to the XML. We advise you to change to the new XML format (JSON is also supported). Contact us for more info and help.
The as-run-logs have been moved by default to the same location as the technical logs. The reason is we wanted to have one less window asking to get access to the "Documents" folder. If you had a different folder set than the default one, it will be maintained there, but if you did not modify the default location, they will be moved.
Actions are not only AppleScripts anymore, thus there could be issues when going back and forth between version 4.2 (or later) and earlier versions of OnTheAir Video which were using different actions.
As there is no installer anymore, this implies that:
Actions Folder has now moved to "/Library/Application Support/Softron/OnTheAir Video/OnTheAir Video/Actions/". It is not located next to the application anymore. We will copy your current actions to the new location, but we will not delete them from the current location so if you still use OnTheAir Video 3 this will still work. But remember this if you want to modify the Actions later to look in the correct location.
OnTheAir Tools is not installed by default (it's not needed to create schedules anymore, only for the "Log analyser" tool, so it can still be downloaded from our website.
AppleScript examples are not installed (the ones to be used as Actions, or to control OnTheAir Video). They can be downloaded from our website.
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