2022

2022-12-13

Feature:

• Licenses calculation for "show" in Magine where the license information is taken from the episodes.

• Added validation rules for Age limit

• A new page to manage the Ages to use in Delta Core age limits

• Added possibility to set the age limit for countries in Info Task

• In Magine export set pgAge to the Age limit from Delta Core

• Brand settings. Add setting for Rating countries

• Vimeo export version 1. Change country filter from GBR to Export country in settings

• Validate the Amazon rating using the Platform allowed ratings table

November 

2022-11-29

Feature:

• When creating a movie or series, we now have a description for the ExtId and ExtId_2 fields which can describe the usage for each customer.

• When manage the cast for an asset in Info task we made it more clear that the order of the cast can be changed. Some exports support an ordered cast list, not all.

Drag the cast up and down using the handle on the side.

Fix:

• Correction of issues with the subtitle update in Magine

2022-11-22

Feature:

• Magine Export, Subtitle update. Delta now checks if the asset was delivered in the old ingest model at Magine. If the older version was used Delta redeliver the video during a subtitle update. Otherwise Delta just posts a the updated subtitle in the new Magine API endpoint for subtitles.

• ID in Details. In the Rights details Delta now displays the ID for the asset.

• Create Studio. When creating a new movie or an series/season/episode and you not find the studio need, you can now create the studio with in the creation view.

Fix:

• Magine Export, Images. Correction of the API call to update assets. In the previous version the existing images in the Magine platform could been be removed during update.

• Short Publish Date. When setting the Short publish date for the Amazon export and the asset has been delivered, Delta reset the short publish date flag. Unfortunately, Delta did that a bit too early, now the reset of the flag is done once the Delivery to Amazon has reached Delivered status AND the start date is passed.

• Delete Ratings. In the list of Ratings used for the brand you can delete unused ratings. If the rating was used by an asset marked as deleted in Delta, then it was not possible to delete. Now Delta accepts to delete Ratings that are used by deleted assets. If you try to delete a rating which is currently in use, then get an error message with the ID of the asset using the rating.

• License changes in log. In the Asset log Delta did not show if the start- or end-date was set to TBA instead a date time was logged which was misleading.

• Database time out. We fixed an issue where there can be a time out in the DB query when displaying the Content page.

2022-11-15

Feature:

• Help text. There are now more ?-icons with help text in Rights and in Task Info tab

• Magine Export. We have added support for a new image type "Sixteen-nine-title"

• Clear filter. When you filter/search for asset a "Clear filter" button will be highlighted. It also an indication saying the you not see all assets.

Rights view

CheckIn view

Tasks view

Export view

• Remove Trailer. In the Task Media tab it is now possible to remove a faulty ingested trailer video.

• CheckIn trailer. Only feature video can be checked in for episodes, trailers are blocked. (exports only can have a trailer for a Movie asset, not a episode asset)

• CheckIn validation. If the video file is "Truncated" the show an error message and refuse to check it in. We trigger on the flag in MediaInfo saying "IsTruncated": "Yes". In the Checkin view there is a link to the full MediaInfo analysis.

Fix:

• Invite user. When inviting new user there was a confusing check box for inviting external users, which now are removed.

• Export view. Only the image export type is displayed. Each image has a link to details and a remove button.

2022-11-08

Feature:

• Info Task. The duration for the asset is always generated from the analysis of the feature video file. Therefore we made the duration non editable in the info task and removed the validation. It can be 0 while marking the Info Task as done. It will later be updated when the video is fully checked in.

Fix:

• Info task. the language version of title and summary did not always load on the page unless you reload the page. This is now resolved.

2022-11-01

Features:

• CheckIn views.

  • When you go to the checkin views we will directly trigger a check for new files.

  • Status filters are now implemented in both views.

  • "Ready for check in". We have removed the Check Box to only show videos that are ready for check in. Instead you can use the status filters.

• Collections. Now the ID is displayed and if it is an episode we show the serie, season titles with the episode title

• Play duration is now always set by the mezzanine file and the field in Info task is not editable

• Error message in the upper right corner will be displayed until you close it. Give more time to read and the possibility to include the text in a support ticket.

Fixes:

• Sometimes the Delta system has a faulty message, a green bar with a message that there is a new deployment.

October 

2022-10-18

Feature:

• The license validation and error messages are improved. The extension of an active license window is now possible. If you have to confirm changes of licenses that might un-publish the asset in an export.

Fixes:

• When setting one export's mode and go to another export view, the export mode you see was cached from the first export. Now it's fixed.

• When you go to the Rights detail view and try to go back to the Rights grid you had to click the back button twice. Now it's fixed.

2022-10-13

Feature:

• Navigation. The top menu has been updated and the grid in Rights view have been changed

  • The title in rights grid links to the rights details.(instead of the content details)

  • A new icon for a link to the Content details

Content Details

• Magine Export. The export are now making use of the subtitle API for exporting and updating subtitles in the Magine Platform. No re-transcoding is needed the update the subtitle when the API call now is in place.

• Media task Checkin video. If you mark the media task as Done while the video file still is in progress for checkin, it will not go back to "To Review" when the file is fully checked in and the proxy files is created.

2022-10-04

Feature:

• Media Task. The player in media detail page can now play subtitles.

Click the CC button and select language. The play can only play the SRT or VTT subtitles so far.

On the detail page you also find a list of the subtitles for the asset. The player will only play the first track.

Fixes:

• Fix for an issue where administrators not could delete a user.

September 

2022-09-26

Feature:

• We now support the ITT subtitle format in Delta core and in the Amazon export.

• When inviting new users, there is new feature to re-invite. Sometimes the email get lost or the security token expire.

Fixes:

2022-09-22

Feature:

• CheckIn. Filter for ProRes video files. Sometimes they can not be used as mezzanine files, but been added by mistake. Now there is a setting for each brand to allow ProRes or not.

Fixes:

• Task view. Info tab. The slow loading when several languages are present is now improved.

• Task view. Media tab. The Mezzanine file is now a more clear link to the detail page with the Proxy player.

• User Administration. Access setting fixed for Comcast export users.

• CheckIn view. Re-try button of failed assets are now added.

2022-09-20

Fixes:

• In Rights view: Take a Series in to "Preparing" was not fully working when first taking Series and then Season and then Episode levels.

• Comcast export. The end date has always be 2 days ahead. Fixed cases where we sent passed end dates.

2022-09-05

Features:

• Amazon Global export with trailer for season.

  • The season asset can not have a Trailer in Amazon, but a episode 0 can be delivered as a trailer with extra "promotion-flags"

  • In Delta Core you can now create a episode 0 for a season and add metadata, images and video like any other episode and it will be delivered to Amazon Global as a promotion trailer with episode #0. ( Add the trailer video as a Feature(not Trailer) to the episode in this case)

• Multi language in Amazon Global export

  • Localized information like title, synopsis can now be exported from Delta Core for each export language.

  • Localized images can be delivered for each language. Amazon require image files for each language even if the image not has text and not really bound to language.

• Ratings has been improved

  • You can now set, besides the rating code, the rating system and region the rating belong to and if the rating can be use for any asset or just Movie or Series

  • In the Info task you can now set multiple ratings for an asset.

  • Current exports look ONE for a rating code for the country the export is configured for.

  • Amazon Global export can now deliver multiple ratings where code, region and rating system are within the metadata.

• CheckIn. There is a new CheckIn page for mezzanine files

  • In the view you see all files, without first selecting an asset. If you find a file to CheckIn, you are able to lookup an assets to attach the file to, "Checkin"

  • You find the page in the top menu between Rights and Tasks

  • In the new CheckIn page you can filter on status.

  • You will be able to re-try failed asset.

  • You might have many files in "Process_Done" status that you don't like to check in for some reason, then it is good to delete them. See the Trash bin icon.

• Export file names as change

  • Amazon Global files will have Brand in the start of the file name they not get mixed between brands on the Amazon side.

August 

2022-08-16

Fixes:

• Fix for CheckIn error, when checking in mezzanine file with variable bitrate in the audio track.

2022-08-09

Features:

• Multi language metadata for assets

  • In Brand settings you can now set default language and add languages to include in the Info Task.

  • In the Info task you manage localized language data as titles, summaries and customSlug

  • In coming releases the multi language will be implemented in the exports. first will be Amazon Global

Fixes:

• Magine Export. Mapping rating codes to ages when rating code not contain a number.

• Fix for "Creating a new series gives an error the first time, and works the next time."

July 

2022-07-26

Fixes:

• Magine Export. Set the correct language code on the properties in posted json.

• Content page. Fix link to Proxy for mezzanine file so it can be played

2022-07-21

Features:

• Comcast export. Configurable list of accepted rating codes are now used to validate the ratings delivered to Comcast. If non-accepted rating are used the the asset will fail in the export.

  • Valid rating for movies G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17.

  • Valid rating for Series TV-Y, TV-Y7, TV-G, TV-PG, TV-14, TV-MA

• Comcast export. Rating used in Delta Core can be mapped to other values before they are exported to Comcast.

• Comcast export. The export is update according to request from Comcast to never have an end date set earlier than 2 days (48h) the the current date / time. ( Comcast can not unpublish directly and only read the RRS feed in Delta once a day)

June 

2022-06-09

Features:

• Amazon classic Avails. Adding "SDP" to the LicenseRightsDescription column if the asset has "Short Publish Date" set in Delta.

• If an asset not has "Short Publish Date" set when the export started (Asset has Preparing status in Delta) you cloud not force out a change to have a faster publishing date then 30 days. Now you can. In asset status in Delta you can modify the "Short Publish Date" for as early publish date as possible in the Avails.

• New option. Collections can now be used to deliver key words for the Amazon Classic carousels.

• New option. Subscription package can be managed for the initial delivery to Magine

Fix:

• It was not possible to change the order of seasons in Rights. Now it works.

May 

2022-05-24

Features:

• When adding or removing content in the Collections, automatically push changes to the platforms. The push will be done when the new collection version are published.

• Thumbnail images from the mezzanine file are now displayed in the file detail page in tasks.

• Batch job feature for SysAdmin and file processing. Two batch jobs are created so far:

  • Add MediaInfo and Thumbnails for all Mezzaninen files that has it set.

  • Create proxy files where they are missing.

Fix:

• Correction for Rev order flow that give a wrongly error message.

2022-05-10

Fix:

• The validation of the subtitle timing compared with the video file duration did not log the warning to Asset log.

2022-05-03

Fixes:

• After sync using Asset.StatusChangeDate and snapshot is equal set new VodExport.StatusChangeDate so next sync not need to validate the snapshot once more in coming syncs.

• Issue with rating NR. Amazon Global do not accept NR as rating for MPAA and TVPG system. NR is now removed from the accepted rating codes in Delta

April 

2022-04-26

Features:

• Add NetX image feature to Amazon Global export.

• Ingest of subtitles where file name has ID in the file name.

• Improved Mezzanine video export so it can be done several times, to different persons.

• Add "custom slug" to the info task. Will be under the localized title, if enabled. The custom slug could then be used in exports to platforms for having better URL to the asset for the end users. Brand settings: Customer Admin is able to enable/disable the editing of the custom slug. Delta will validate the slug so the format works well as a part of a URL and that is unique from the brand.

• Magine export. Optionally the "Custom Slug" can be exported as Magine's "customId".

• REV subtitle order now can be used for trailer subtitles as well.

• Update Exports when licences are reaching start or end dates in one of many regions. Some platforms only has one start and end date for the asset even if is published for several regions, so delta figure out the first license start date and last end date for all regions when exporting. What we added now is feature that daily check if one of the regions not has a valide license window any longer so delta can update the platform with a changed set of regions for the asset.

Fixes:

• Remove the button to export source media file in the content page.( the source file was used to checkin a mezzanine video. The source file not stored in Delta and can not therefore be exported)

• Unpublished series changing from Unpublished to New in Amazon Classic even if there was no season or episode to re-publish. The is now fixed.

2022-04-12

Features

• Set unpublished in export with help of end date and time zone for export. Each export has now a timezone setting so we can set the asset to Un-Published status at the right time depending on where the content is published. Before we used UTC time.

Fixes

• When updated sixteen-nine image in Magine, the poster image was removed from Magine.

• Wrong Image are shown in Magine export.

2022-04-06

Features

• Rev. subtitles. We now have full integration with Rev. As an option you can order captions from Rev direct from the subtitle task. It require that there is a proxy for video in Delta. Rev | AI Speech to Text Transcription Service

• Tasks can now have a deadline. The task list can be sorted by deadline. The deadline is set when you take the asset to "Preparing". The tasks list give a warning if you are close to deadline and an alert if the task has passed the deadline.

• CheckIn of video. Improved speed. If video is found in CheckIn, then start the process to analyze and creating thumbnail images direct without waiting for scheduled task.

• If Magine API is not responding during export we will now get clear log message in the export view.

• We have scaled down the images in the Export view for a faster load time.

• Brand setting, the "Default subtitle culture codes" is improved to multi-select culture-codes

Fixes

• If information at all are saved for an asset then it did pass the validation and task could set to Done.

• The export graph in the home page did show for Amazon export, assets that just added to the Avails doc as exported. Now we show fully exported asset in the graph.

March

2022-03-29

Features

• Updated the Tasks status change action so only one click is needed to set to Done.

• For mezzanine proxy set different audio bit rate depending on audio channels stereo and 5.1

• ComCast export. Comcast Merlin-Tags will be populated in the feed based on Category mapping in Delta.

• Search for title in rights. When hit a series or a season you might not see all the children for the asset. In this release you will get information about how many children there is and an option to show all.

Search for "Louis" in Rights.

Fixes

• Subtitle time diff warning

• Show Viewable link do not work in Magine - fixed

• Validation of Info Task in ValidationService: Added validation of the existence of localized language data.

2022-03-17

• Only known subtitle file formats can be uploaded [srt, vtt, dfxp,scc ]

• Comcast export, we have remove "Re-publish" button since it has no use.

• Comcast export. Changed limitedView values from "True/False" to TRUE/FALSE" as requested by Comcast.

• Rights. When adding country licenses it was possible to set the country to "World". we have removed World as an optional country. Global license should be used instead.

2022-03-03

Features:

• Audio track language can be set after verification. In the mezzanine details you can select "Verified Language" and the MediaInfo will be update during export ( if the file is transcoded during export)

• When audio tracks not set in MediaInfo will be set to “und” - undefined in Delta.

• Limit the file extension to CheckIn as mezzanine files. Default we take in .mp4 and .mov

• There is a new report for total play durations of all active content. You find the report in the Delta home page in the lower right corner.

• Subtitles. There are now  2 types Captions and subtitles in the upload selection.

• CheckIn has got Improved logging.

• Exports has got improved logging

• Rights has got improved logging

BugFix:

• We have tried to fix the issue for some Mac-Chrome users that can not upload images.

Exports:

• For Amazon Global we can now have different rating systems for movies and series.

BugFix:

• When adding a new Export we create the Category mapping

• Amazon exports did not fully unpublish the series level when all episodes were unpublished.

Maestro ( orchestrator )

• Graceful stop feature

• Showing Engine ID’s for jobs in task list

• New deploy pipeline