Product updates: 5th December 2023

Posted: 28/11/2023

More Editor UX/UI improvements

This release includes a major upgrade to the editor timeline behaviour to ease the process of adoption from those coming from other NLEs.

Blackbird has focused on a number of user interface design and functionality improvements aimed at easing adoption for those coming from other tools and speeding up operation of the existing workflows. The ultimate goal is to improve end user experience. 

Further improvements in January and beyond include new fade controls, new colour palette, revised trim handle positioning. In addition to these core usability and look/feel improvements, we are also enabling access to a greater level of control within the video effects in the platform with effects sliders and advanced keyframing of these as well as access to a full RGB colour adjustment effect.

The latest upgrade to the Blackbird platform is due to be released 5th December 2023.

This update will be made available during a maintenance window of 11:00-16:00 GMT (6:00-11:00 EST) on the day.

Editor UI/UX

Added timeline options, audio display preference (level or waveform view) and VU meter state (open/closed/position) to user defined layouts

Added timeline options for disabling autocentre and trim based play head repositioning

Web uploads now go to a default ‘File Uploads’ folder and subfolder with the date of the upload

Administrative tools

Site managers / admins can now empty an account recycle bin

Ingest and technology

Fix colour range on AVC-Intra export

Support for mounted storage for Blackbird video cache

Optimised logging data API filtering

Added option to ignore SEI recovery points to Zixi and SRT streams

Security and Compliance work

Numerous updates to backend and Edge infrastructure for latest python3 and Angular for long term supportability.