BLAM-3 3.2109 – Release Notes
BLAM-3.2109 – Release notes
Release Date: 07-09-2021
BLAM-3 SDK Version: 3.0.5.34
Core API and Workflow
- EDL endpoint can now return markers of source clips
- Subtitle, QC and Temporal
- New Video Technical Data field ‘Format Level’ now reported on look-up
- Text Sanitisation is now fully customisable
- Work Order Item Task
- New task type for raising as task on work order items
- Attempting to delete an Asset referenced by an EDL now throws an `IN_USE` exception
- New asset search fields*
- workOrderId
- workOrderReference
*requires search table rebuild to fetch historical data
User Interface Updates
- Workflow Builder
- Split Workflows toggle that can be set on a per workflow basis
- Workflow Monitor
- Blidgets now show an estimated completion time
- New `Trigger` button to immediately trigger workflows that can run without input data
- Context Menus
- Renamed `Delete` to `Soft Delete` to better reflect its behaviour
- Projects
- Live updates when a folder or its subfolders’ contents are updated
- Can now multi-select folders in the project view
- Can now drag and drop multiple assets when adding or removing from folders
- Work Orders
- Performance optimised for loading large amounts of work orders
- Pagination support added
- Live updates performance improvements
- Task flow now supports auto opening Work Order Items for editing
- Customisable page size and default history range on panel configuration
- Added new context menu options when interacting with items, can now `Find in Projects`, go to `Media` or `Metadata` panels by right clicking on the items directly
- New `Users` column in work order table for showing triggering user
- Tasks
- Pagination support added
- New support task type for Work Order Items
- Configuration
- Global configurations now separated in a new tab from Panel configurations
- Workspaces
- Now uses lazy loading for improved performance for large workspaces
- Video Player
- Now shows asset thumbnail if present but no browse file available
BLidgets
- Throw Exception
- Used to complete the workflow and mark as a failed state
- Copy
- Improved efficiency of copy operation when copying files on the same disk drive
- Publish to YouTube
- New BLidget for publishing video content directly in YouTube. Requires the Google credentials schema
- Object Rekognition
- Updated to supports detection for `Celebrities`, Content Moderation`, `Faces`, `Objects`, `Programme Segments` and `On Screen Text`
- Baton QC
- (Updated) Can be used with on-prem and cloud instances and automatically pulls in PDF reports as child assets
- Register ADI Package
- Can be used to import assets and metadata from ADI XML files
- Export ADI XML
- Can export an ADI formatted XML
- Has Children
- Brancher for assets that have child assets
- Translate
- Updated to support writing translations directly to subtitle markers
- Register Unmanaged In-Place
- Used for registering files in place on Network storage devices
- Render EDL (Media Convert)
- Now supports Dynamic Audio remuxing
- Essence Brancher
- Brancher based on an file’s BLAM `Tag`, `Type` or `Role`
- Get Work Order Item
- Gets the current work order item for use with raising tasks on work order items
- Get Work Order from Item
- Gets the current work order for us with raising tasks on work orders
- Create Work Order
- Generic BLidget that raises the defined work order and services on all input assets
- Process Work Orders
- Now supports Work Order Start Date’s set in the future, refreshes every hour for changes in the start date
- Can now complete an service workflow early by detecting for Completion Point BLidget
- Rename S3 Object
- Improved messaging when file has already be renamed to the same name
- Scene Detection (Requires FFprobe preinstalled)
- Can be used to output temporal or QC markers on detected scene changes
- Customisable threshold value is settable to change the luma sensitivity
- Generate Comment Thumbnails
- Can be used to generate thumbnails on temporal markers that have no thumbnail
- Has Merge History
- Brancher for assets that have previously been merged
- Excel Report Writer
- Can now export to a blank excel file without needing to specify a report template
- Wait
- Increased options down the 30s
- Titan File Microservice
- Updated to API 2.8
- Titan File Loadbalancer
- Updated to API 2.8
- Now supports priority based on FileStore (file location) and MicroService load
- Update Monday Board Item
- Now support multiple row identifiers
- Register Unmanaged
- Now supports scanning a specific folder by using the prefix option
Adobe Premier Panel
- Projects
- Live updates when a folder or its subfolders’ contents are updated
- Default loads with an empty search on projects tab
- Tasks
- Now uses lazy loading for improved performance for large workspaces
- Render
- Now supports concurrent render jobs
- Can now export BMP or PNG frames directly
- Finally added dedicated Premier Workflow Trigger type to filter out irrelevant workflows from the UI
SDK
- CURRENT_YEAR
- Returns the ‘yyyy’ of the current year
- FILE_LOCATION_DIRECTORY
- Returns the directory part of an files relative path / file key
- ASSET_FILE_ID
- Can be used to return the input files BLAM ID value