As from SCS 11.6.0 you can optionally download an SCS setup file that includes the installer for LAVFilters (included with permission). If you do not already have the latest LAVFilters installed then we strongly recommend using the download with LAVFilters if you want to play any video file cues.
SCS 11.6.0 contains some significant new features, especially:
- Progress sliders in the Cue Panels now show an audio graph for Audio File cues and Playlist cues.
- Cue file templates are now available.
- An 'auto-trim' facility is now available in the Editor for Audio File cues.
- A new Load Production window provides an improved interface for opening existing cue files, or creating new cue files.
Full details are listed below.
New and Changed Features in SCS 11.6.0
- A new Load Production window is displayed, by default, on starting SCS. This contains tabs for opening an existing production, opening a 'favorite' production, creating a new production from a template, or creating a new blank production.
- Templates may now be created from existing productions (ie from existing cue files and associated device maps). The new Load Production window provides a facility for creating a new production from a template.
- The main window toolbar buttons 'New' and 'Open' have been replaced by 'Load' (to open the Load Production window) and 'Templates' (to open the Templates window, which provides facilities for creating and maintaining templates).
- The main window toolbar now contains a Device Map button in the Editing group. This provides a simpler way to select a different Device Map.
- Some keyboard shortcut defaults have been changed following the removal of 'New' and 'Open', and the addition of 'Load' and 'Templates'. New or changed keyboard shortcut defaults are 'Load' = Ctrl+L; 'Templates' = Ctrl+T; 'Options' = Ctrl+O; and 'Collect Production Files' (in the Editor) = Ctrl+K.
- A DMX Master Fader is available to allow you to adjust overall lighting levels. Specified DMX channels may be excluded from DMX Master Fader control.
- A DMX Display window is available to enable you to monitor actual DMX values (or percentage values) being sent to connected equipment.
- Bulk Edit now supports editing sub-cue fade-in and fade-out times (as used in Video/Image Cues and Playlist Cues)
- In Production Properties - Audio Output Devices and Video Audio Devices you can now select 'Default Sound Device' as the Physical Device. 'Default Audio Device' uses whatever device is assigned by Windows as the default device at the time SCS is started.
- A Display Option is now available to enable you to limit the number of screens that SCS uses. This is only expected to be of use during cue design where you may want to use a secondary screen for other purposes and therefore wish to prevent SCS from using that screen for video/image cues.
- Added extra Behringer X32 OSC command types for Control Send Cues: Mute/Unmute Aux Input, FX Return, Bus, Matrix Output, DCA Group, and Main (LR & M/C).
- When editing Audio File Cues there is now an 'auto-trim' facility that can be used to set the 'Start At' and 'End At' times.
- Progress sliders in Cue Panels in the main window now show audio graphs for Audio File Cues and Playlist Cues.
- The default colors for audio graphs (in the Editor and in Cue Panels) have been changed, and in particular the left and right channels are now, by default, the same color. However, when editing colors using the Color Scheme Designer you can choose your own colors for Audio Graphs, including a facility to revert to SCS 'classic' colors (left = green, right = red).
- MIDI Thru is now available. See Production Properties - Control Send Devices - MIDI for details
- Some additional Video File formats now supported.
- The installer for LAVFilters is now optionally included.
- SCS was not identifying some Enttec DMX OPEN USB devices due to a change in the name published by the FTDI driver.
- When using the 'Copy, Move or Delete a Range of Cues' to copy a Control Send cue that uses a MIDI file, the file pointer was not being set correctly for the new cue. Consequently, if the selected file in either cue was changed then this would affect both cues.
- A Toggle Hotkey state may be reset on the completion of a different toggle hotkey.
- If a Note Hotkey cue is playing (ie you have the relevant key pressed) and you then press and release another key, releasing that other key would stop the Note Hotkey. The fix applied also enables you to run multiple Note Hotkey cues simultaneously.
- Some videos played using the TVG library were jerky.
- Playlist Cues defined as Callable Cues could continuously repeat files.
- Fix applied to prevent a brief black screen appearing briefly between videos when the first video is set to 'pause at end' and the video playback library is TVG.
- Handles the conversion of superseded DMX Control Send devices and cues to the new Lighting equivalents.
- Fixed some drag'n'drop issues that could occur when dragging files from Windows Explorer or similar into the SCS Editor.
- Modified TVG video handling to release resources when videos are closed. This is particularly relevant for x86 environments.
- An ACK message sent by a PJ-Net compatible projector would cause an 'unknown command' message to be displayed in the status line.
- Video hotkey cues were not being pre-loaded whereas they should be if the Production Run Time property 'Do NOT Pre-Load Video Hotkey Cues' is clear (which it is by default).
- Using the mouse wheel over a slider (eg a level slider) would affect the setting of that slider, even if the slider did not have focus. Such operations should only affect a slider that has focus.
- Deleting a 'logo' image cue while the logo was being displayed did not clear the saved logo image.
- Fading still images to or from a 'logo' image will now cross-fade the images instead of cross-fading against black.
- An SFR cue to stop or fade out a cue did not stop a Control Send Cue that was playing a MIDI file.
- The DMX Display Window was not being updated if the selected Lighting device was the DMX Dummy Port.
