2021

2021


September


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July 

Cast Order

In the info task it is now possible to order the cast by “drag and drop”. Only saved cast can be moved to a position. there is a “handle” in the space between first and last name.


Custom Data fields

2021-07-14 New feature for adding custom data. Under the menu “customer” the user with “Customer Admin” access rights can add extra custom data fields for the assets metadata. At this point we have 2 types, text string and URL.


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You can set a name for the field and for which asset type it will be used. You specify if it is a mandatory for the asset and if there can be several data values for each asset “Multifield”.

With “Deleted” you choose to not use the field any longer the metadata ( but we do not delete, we just hide it. just in case…)

The custom data are in the Info tab in tasks under the Cast

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Other kinds of data fields will be implemented later. The CustomData are also available in the API.

June 


Short publish date

2021-06-29

New feature to mark a title with “Short Publish Date” to be used for the Amazon Classic export. For titles with this marking will be published at Amazon without the 30 days ahead notis the Amazon normally request. If start date is passed then the start date in the Amazon Classic export will be “tomorrow”. If the start is in future then the start date will as is in the Rights view. ( without extending the start date to 30 days ahead)


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Note : At the same time we added Focus and Express as two new flags for the asset in Rights UI. The logic for those will be implemented in coming release. 

Magine Export

Delta export to Magine can now update asset by checking the Magine API for the latest changes in Magine. In this way we do not overwrite changes made in Magine.

The Subtitles can now be exported and updated.

Trailers can also be exported

Comcast Export

We have agreed with Comcast to pull the RSS feed from Delta so new and updated assets are processed once a day in the end of the office hours. The export lock the export for new updates by showing the “Platform status” InProgress for 48 hours and then unlock by setting “Platform status” to Delivered.

Amazon Export

When asset are unpublished, then we follow a new routine to set the end dates. Setting the End date to “To Morrow”.

When license window is closed and the asset is in the export but not fully delivered Status (Coming or New) we will set the end date in the Avails document to “To Morrow” and also move the start date to “To Day” so it will be removed by Amazon.

New feature to send images by email with right size and with names following the Amazon naming standard to be ingest in Amazon NetX portal.

Remove Asset

You could only remove assets that was in Planning status. Now the asset can removed from Delta in the rights view if it not published in an export.

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Image Types in Export

All the different image types has be confusing in the exports. In the Export view there is the name of the Image Type in Delta and the image type that the platform use so you now can see both.

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Country names to local names

A translation for production countries set in Delta to have the country in local language. Now used in the Magine export.

May


FVOD in Amazon

We have added support for Free VOD in the Amazon export. When the FVOD license are ending, the export will do an extra check if there is active SVOD license window for the asset before un-publishing.

Culture codes for subtitles

In subtitle task you can now set the culture code while uploading so the language version will be more correct and precise. With culture code you can tell if it is American English (en-US) or Great Britain English (en-GB). Both versions will have the language set the English. In the Brand setting you can now select the “Default Subtitle Culture codes”. You can select multiple codes to use in the task / subtitle view 

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April


Comcast export

A number of changes has been done in the Comcast export


Orange export

New requirement from Orange regarding images and metadata format



Improvements


March



Downloadable reports

In the landing page we start to collect reports that can be downloaded from Delta

FVOD

A new license type to make the content Free during a license period. 

We can also configure an export to prefer the FVOD license over the paid licenses.


FVOD Sling/Dish


We have removed the Paid/Free toggle button from the Sling/Dish export. You can now see the License type selected for the asset in the export details.

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If the License type is Free, then the asset will get the special Ribbon TRUE ROYALTY TV Sneak Peek to indicate it free and no other Ribbon can be set.


FVOD Comcast

We can now set the Comcast export to “Prefer” FVOD over SVOD.

When an asset is exported with Free license it will get a new tag in the RSS feed

<channelstore:metadata name=”limited-view”>True</channelstore:metadata>


Comcast export


If an asset is to be unpublished due to new license with passed end date, or removed license or the export is dis-allowed in Rights. In the case we not will send a License end date set to “tomorrow” on the Comcast request. Comcast can not unpublish asset which has a end date in the past.


Validate start date

If some move the start date from past to future for an asset the been published at Comcast it now will go into validation error since you are not allowed to unpublish asset at Comcast by pushing the start date into the future. ( the asset has to be un-published first)


Rights


A new rule to prevent user to move start date for license from past into future for asset in Ready status. Does not make sens to unpublish exported asset by changing start date to future.


Global License


Magine, Orange and Amazon Global export can now handle Global license.

Comcast, Amazon classic, Sling, Roku and Vimeo are still to update for Global licenses.


Magine Export

A new export to Magine are implemented which can export Movie, Show and Episod.

In export it can be Video, Subtitles, Images and Metadata.

Updates are still to be implemented


January