BLAM-3.2012 – Release Notes
BLAM-3.2012 – Release Notes
Release Date: 09-12-2020
BLAM-3 SDK Version: 3.0.2.7
BLAM-3 Core
- Subtitles: subtitle data is now stored in its own table, discrete from the general, audio, and video temporal data.
- Watchfolder Restrictions: disk-based watch folders can now be restricted to run on specific workflow engine instances
- File Technical Metadata: Material Package UMID
- Document Technical Metadata: “Additional Data” property added which is a free form dictionary of key-value pairs assignable to Document assets in BLAM
- Avid Interplay File Store: new file store type Avid Interplay which can track the location of BLAM assets within Avid Interplay
- Development Support: Public PythonSDK now available to support the development of BLidgets using Python
UI Updates
- Subtitles Panel: new panel added for viewing and editing subtitle data on a time-line basis
- Search Panel: copy to clipboard for an advanced search query
- Metadata Panel: new “Tags” metadata field type
- QC Panel: new editorial comments tab for registering time-stamped comments
- Workflow Builder Panel: new error message displayed when trying to save a workflow blueprint which contains errors
- Tasks Flow: tasks can now be configured to navigate and filter results on the WorkOrders panel
- Video Player, Select Audio: the video player now allows .wav files which are child assets to be selected and played instead of the embedded audio
- Recording Panel: various UI improvements to support Quantel sQ and Ateme TITAN Recorder functionality
- File Access Restrictions: downloading of master files can now be disabled globally through configuration
- Triggers Panel: extended selectable options for triggering workflows on a schedule
- Workspaces: Right-click to rename or show asset count, single click to clear Workspace content
- Search Panel: dividers can now be scrolled up/down by new arrow buttons
BLAM-3 Core BLidgets (Fixes and Improvements)
- QC Brancher: Branches on QC metadata values
- Temporal Brancher: Branch on temporal metadata values
- WebVTT Writer: Generates a WebVTT from stored subtitle data
- Transcode (Preset): extended transcode options to include Avid DNxHD 36, 120, and 185; can now burn in a logo by selecting any BLAM image asset tagged as “Logo” from the drop-down
- Set Start Timecode: new blidget for burning in a new timecode to AV files
- Get Workflows: Retrieves workflows, can be chained with excel report writer BLidgets to generate automated reports
Connector BLidgets (Fixes and Improvements)
- Transcribe AWS: can now save the output directly to a WebVTT subtitle file
- Amazon Object Rekognition: new blidget that connects to amazon’s object rekognition service
- Telestream Flip: Controls to Telestream Cloud Flip service
- Create Group AAF: Creates grouped video AAF sequence files
- Convert EDL to AAF: Converts a BLAM EDL to AAF sequence file for use in Avid or Adobe Premiere
- Create Master AAF: Creates Master Clip AAF file
- Register Files AAF: Reads and matches/registers referenced source media in BLAM, can be used to checkout sequences from Avid
- Check-in AAF: Checks in AAF files into Avid Interplay
- Move Asset Avid: Moves Avid Assets to the designated folder within Avid Interplay
- Delete Asset Avid: Delete Avid Asset from Avid Interplay
- Search Asset Avid: Search for and return the matching BLAM asset from Avid Interplay
- Register Asset Avid: Registers Assets directly from an Avid Interplay folder into BLAM
- Cross-Region Copy S3: Copy S3 objects between S3 regions, all S3 BLidgets are region locked by default
- Atomise Asset: Atomise input media into Avid DNxHD 36, 120, and 185 Op Atoms for checking into Avid Interplay
Fixes:
- Audio Information number fields are now nullable
- Saving a workflow blueprint should now succeed on the first click attempt
- Fixed a bug that could cause BLidget errors on windows based systems when the BLidget polling state information was very large
- Tasks Panel now correctly shows the user name of whom has checked out the task
- Login page now remembers the last selected login service selected from the drop-down