Release Notes - ftrack Review

• NEW Ability to upload large files (multi-part upload)
• NEW Reorder Sequence by dragging and dropping files in horizontal playlist
• NEW Support for audio-only files (.wav and .mp3)

March 20, 2023

• NEW Option to sort Vertical Playlist alphanumerically
• IMPROVED Update to drop-down menu style in player sidebar

March 6, 2023

• NEW Player volume settings remembered in local browser
• IMPROVED Default initial volume set to 80% max (from 100%)

February 8, 2023

• NEW On-demand unique watermarking (Pro)
• NEW Security permissions for watermarking, invites, and passphrase requirement (Pro)
• IMPROVED Faster loading of "Play All" and "Play Selected" sequences
• IMPROVED Loading of feedback for reviews with more than 20 notes
• FIXED Show frame headers and notes correctly when only using annotations on an item
• FIXED Handle notes with null frame number
• FIXED Error: Unable to export feedback as PDF from reviews page
• FIXED Error: Unable to drag and drop assets in library view
• FIXED Error: Resending invitations may send invitation to wrong review session

August 4, 2022

• CHANGED Review, Overview, Player: Updated localization for Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean.
• CHANGED Player: Added time, frame and page display and selection for participants in presentation mode.
• CHANGED Player: Compare mode controls are disabled for participants in presentation mode.
• CHANGED Automation, Storage: Demonstrating buy storage options to users by considering their subscription type.
• FIXED Review: Error when adding additional seats from users page

June 29, 2022

• NEW Presentation mode available with Review Pro.

• NEW Upload New Version in the vertical playlist.

• NEW You can now add additional seats to your subscription when new inviting users.

• CHANGED Updated library view with new player toolbar.

• CHANGED Disabled annotation tools for reference media in player compare mode.

• CHANGED Improved performance of when adding versions to playlist.

• FIXED Player info tab Empty state icon has the wrong size and color.

• FIXED Feedback sort options does not persist.

• FIXED File browser dialog gets prompted twice when changing thumbnail.

• FIXED Feedback sort menu gets cut off.

• FIXED Fixed missing collaborator avatars in player interface.

• FIXED Updates Available button in Review is visually broken.

• FIXED Guest without email still shows send button.

• FIXED Activity icons and avatar does not align correctly on the activities timeline.

April 20, 2022

• NEW Updated UI layout

• NEW Collapsible side bar for full width media window

• NEW Expand notes to see all annotations, saved frames, and attachments.

• NEW View feedback per frame to only see frames with annotations, or as a list to see a scrolling list of all feedback.

• NEW Coloured timeline markers reveal how recently feedback was posted.

• NEW Updated UI - more responsive notes and faster session loading

• NEW Drawings and sketches are now saved automatically to a frame without needing to hit post.

• NEW “Grab” annotated frames to capture their contents and add them to a note.

• NEW Guests now receive a prompt to join a synced session when it starts.

• NEW Ghosting -see annotations over multiple frames

• NEW Flip and flop functionality

• NEW "Jump to next/previous annotated frame" buttons

• CHANGED Resolution selection

• CHANGED Timecode counter

• CHANGED Volume control options

• CHANGED Drawing tools are enabled by default.

• FIXED Grouped assets now always show most recent by default

April 7, 2022

• CHANGED Removed the light theme in Review.

• CHANGED Display active media and navigation in player header when using mobile layout.

• FIXED Reduced risk of being unable to view large annotations when clicking on timeline markers or notes.

• FIXED Join sync button can be accidentally toggled when pressing space.

• FIXED The background color is wrong for guests.

• FIXED ftrack icon is not correct light color.

• FIXED Version upload indicator in the player is misaligned.

• FIXED The context menu icon in vertical playlist has wrong size and placement.

March 14, 2022

• FIXED Sync button gets disabled without explaining that sync limit is reached.

• FIXED Error when loading player after resorting playlist items and then replacing contents.

• FIXED New items added to playlist after resorting may not be visible until changing group by option.

March 3, 2022

• NEW Redesigned light and dark theme with updated color palette.

• NEW Filter in vertical playlist in sidebar.

• NEW Share tab in the player sidebar.

• NEW Settings tab in the player sidebar.

• NEW Approvals and interactions tab in the player sidebar.

• NEW Approvals for team members

• NEW Picker with search when importing versions to review.

• NEW Added on-screen zoom controls to Player.

• NEW Added "mute all participants" button to player interface.

• CHANGED Updated layout in player view - removed top navigation, new top bar, playing media and compare moved to bottom.

• CHANGED Review guests now have access to vertical playlist and approvals tab.

• CHANGED Compare mode is now opened from player toolbar.

• CHANGED Approval statuses no longer displayed for online list.

• CHANGED Removed Manage review link from player - managing reviews is now via the new Settings tab

• CHANGED Added link to third-party licenses in use.

• FIXED Sync timeout for backgrounded tabs.

• FIXED Splash video loading race condition.

• FIXED Long user names in cards overflow layout

• FIXED Card titles do not have tooltips.

• FIXED Error when navigating to private projects.

• FIXED small UI layout inconsistencies like margins and font sizes.

• FIXED Approval icon layout issue on attachment overlay open in review player.

• FIXED Sync limit issue for collaborators in review player

• FIXED Collaborators cannot see attachments in a review

• FIXED Buttons in the Activity page are not aligned

• FIXED Deleting large projects in ftrack Review may cause timeout issue.

• FIXED shift-selection layout bug in Chromium browsers

• FIXED Download button in player toolbar is visible when turned off in Review Settings.

• FIXED Improved player error handling on non existent reviews

• FIXED Number of collaborators in review card not pluralized correctly

• FIXED Avatar missing from Review project sidebar when navigating to different sidebar menu.

July 22, 2021

• CHANGED Update Review player playlist design. Adds version selectors to redesigned horizontal playlists.

• CHANGED Add the possibility to choose from any color with a new color picker when making annotations in the player. The chosen color will be saved so that it will be used next time the user wants to draw something.

• CHANGED Added ability to see truncated parts of breadcrumbs in various places.

• FIXED Chrome IME bug in new notes editor.

• FIXED Scrollbar styling within new notes editor.

• FIXED Playlist version ordering in Player and Play All/Play Selection ordering issues.

• FIXED Can not post feedback when in sync with UI in Russian language.

May 19, 2021

• NEW Support for Korean language.

• NEW Added ability to export review PDF from the review card in the Project interface

• FIXED Annotation rendering issue.

• FIXED Chinese characters not displaying properly in PDFs.

• FIXED There is now an error message if a file can't be used as a project thumbnail.

• FIXED Dropping an asset on an invalid target when merging/versioning assets will no longer delete the asset.

• FIXED No primary dismiss action in share in reviews dialog.

February 10, 2021

• NEW Generate a shareable link to a client review.

• NEW Manage media from within a review. You can now upload or add media from the project library, sort and remove playlist items.

• NEW Review playlist will now be automatically updated for logged in users when new media is added or media finishes processing.

• NEW New option "Include thumbnails in emails" available from the Workspace preferences page. If disabled, no thumbnails will be included in notification and invitation emails.

• NEW Add search functionality in ftrack Review to make it easier to find users / projects / media / reviews.

• NEW You can change the playback speed of media

• CHANGED Improved drawing with smoother lines when using brush tool.

• CHANGED Update navigation structure in review and thereby change the users journey.

• CHANGED Improved presentation of media that is processing or unplayable and added the ability to download unplayable media.

• CHANGED Updated localization for Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.

• CHANGED You can now control the volume from the player toolbar.

• FIXED Poster images when videos are loading are displayed in low resolution.

• FIXED Can not see if additional resolutions are encoding.

October 1, 2020

• NEW Improved player interface that puts the media in more focus by giving it more screen estate.

• CHANGED Moved “laser tool” to player toolbar and changed order of tools.

• CHANGED Allow users to download images attached to notes.

• CHANGED Hovering over card and playlist item titles reveal truncated names in a tooltip.

• FIXED The spacing in the Version selector is off when there is only 1 version.

• FIXED Keyboard shortcuts heading gets cut off on smaller screen resolutions.

• FIXED Keyboard shortcuts are not specific to the users current platform.

• FIXED The description text in the "Version up" modal is not visible in the light theme.

• FIXED Opacity value in sync is sometimes a bit off between collaborators.

• FIXED Sync is a bit off in compare mode.

• FIXED Error is thrown sometimes when entering compare mode.

June 23, 2020

• NEW Add new compare mode, Overlay, where you can compare versions by changing the opacity.

• NEW Add "Leave review" button in the collaborator interface.

• CHANGED Transparent images now show a checkerboard pattern behind them.

• CHANGED De-emphasize the secondary media when giving feedback in compare mode.

• FIXED Player toolbar flickers and shows stale data when changing media.

• FIXED Comments written in Microsoft Edge does not contain an exported annotation for use in PDF export.

• FIXED Version numbers are not localized.

• FIXED Tooltip for download button in fullscreen mode of player is positioned wrong.

• FIXED User may appear as in sync when sync connection is dropped.

• FIXED Highlight the current step in the onboarding stepper.

• FIXED Review expiry date label is displayed using the API name.

• FIXED Annotations did not always appear to all in sync, when revisited.

• FIXED Can not see annotations on PDFs while in compare mode.

• FIXED Hovering over images shows a pointer cursor when clicking has no effect.

• FIXED Safari fails to start video playback when in sync in some situations.

• FIXED The styling in the compare header is a bit off.

• FIXED Holding shift while dragging does not show grabbing cursor.

• FIXED Displaying native size is not applied when in compare mode.

• FIXED Selecting the already playing version breaks the page.

June 10, 2020

• CHANGED Updated localization for Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.

• FIXED Status is reset to seen if previously changed when loading a review.

• FIXED Can not play media when sync connection is not established.

• FIXED Start sync button is shown before establishing connection to sync server.

May 20, 2020

• NEW Reviews with sync - Review media in sync with collaborators.
  When in sync, all participants look at the same media and frame. Feedback and changes appear in real-time and and annotations are automatically saved as drafts.

• NEW Compare versions of the same asset side by side.

• NEW Add playback support for high-resolution media with a standard of 1080p.

• NEW Allow changing video resolution in player.

• NEW Now possible to buy Review Pro for more sync participants, increased storage and 4k video support.

• CHANGED Add spinner to asset card in uploading state.

• CHANGED Updated text in dialog for adding collaborators to a review.

• CHANGED Change versions of an asset in library from player header instead of sidebar.

• CHANGED Simplify user experience for empty states.

• FIXED Some text in ftrack Review that have grammatical errors.

• FIXED Clicking on the already selected menu item causes issues with the video frame rate.

• FIXED Feedback without any text comments and drawings can be posted.

• FIXED Annotation tools closes when clicking on the frame tag in a note.

• FIXED Resizing screen to a narrow window causes an error.

• FIXED Error when playing review before media has finished encoding.

• FIXED Images smaller than the viewport are scaled up.

April 14, 2020

• NEW Redesigned player full screen mode with the ability to control playback.

• NEW Annotate when giving feedback from Library without first creating a review

• NEW Added setting to disable notifications for collaborators.

• CHANGED Videos do no longer auto-play when changing media.

• CHANGED Annotation tools are no longer reset when changing media.

• CHANGED Display warning if there are more than 200 comments on one media.

• CHANGED You can no longer select to give feedback in one review from Library, all comments from Library are internal only.

• CHANGED The feedback box is now centered on large resolutions.

March 27, 2020

• NEW Passphrase protection for review sessions. When enabled, your collaborators will need a passphrase to enter the review session.

• FIXED Download button appears on Android devices when playing the media in full screen.

March 24, 2020

• CHANGED Added keyboard shortcut for closing the annotation tools.

• FIXED Switching media more than an hour after loading the review may cause errors displaying it.

• FIXED Team members list disappears briefly when managing project access.

• FIXED Unable to post reply to comments in review on mobile.

March 17, 2020

• NEW [Feedback] New laser annotation tool. Useful for highlighting parts of the image without saving the annotation.

• NEW [Localization] Add support for Russian localization.

• CHANGED [Feedback] Improve performance when posting feedback in a Review.

• CHANGED [Feedback] The default annotation color has changed to be unique for each collaborator.

• CHANGED [Feedback] Annotation drafts are now shown as timeline markers.

• CHANGED [Feedback] Annotations are no longer cleared automatically, but can be do so explicitly with a new button in the toolbar.

• CHANGED [Player] Updated design of time format menu to match playback menu.

• CHANGED [Localization] Updated localization for Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.

• FIXED [Player, Mobile] The player timeline is hidden in the mobile layout.

• FIXED [Player] Clicking on the playlist or comment frame tags may jumps to the wrong frame if the video sequence contains a variable frame rate.

• FIXED [Player] No tooltips for player toolbar icons.

February 19, 2020

• NEW Play back specific videos in sequence by selecting "Play selection" playback mode.
  CHANGED Added media type icon to each item in playlist in the review player, as well as a new icon if item has multiple versions.

• CHANGED Improved performance when managing reviews that have a lot of content.

• FIXED Duplicate items may appear in Library and "Import from library" modal if there are more than 25 assets.

• FIXED A version which is not the latest may be displayed when managing a review with more than 100 objects.

• FIXED Activity tab in library fails to load if asset has been renamed.

• FIXED The checkboxes on the items in different dialogs does not work to click on.

• FIXED The version selector doesn't sort correctly when there are 10 or more versions of the review session object.

• FIXED The play review button is visible for empty reviews.

• FIXED The download button is missing from the internal review player.

• FIXED Links in activity feed to review media are broken.