If you are looking for the Release Notice for SCS 11.7.0 then please click here. Unfortunately the bulk email that was sent out for 11.7.0 had not been updated with the new Forum Topic link. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Here is the older notice regarding 11.6.1:
Registered users with current update plans (including users who purchased or upgraded their SCS license during the last 12 months) may now download SCS 11.6.1 from the Download page of the Member Area.
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.
New and Changed Features in SCS 11.6.1
- Lighting Cues now support Chase.
- SCS now handles authentication of PJLink projectors (for Control Send Network Devices). To properly support this, changes have been made to how you set up the Production Properties for a PJLink or PJNet network device. The previously-displayed array of 'incoming messages...' is no longer displayed for PJLink and PJNet devices, but just a single new field for the Password is displayed.
- The Current Information display (available under Help in the main window) now also shows aggregate times of cues containing audio file sub-cues, video/image sub-cues or playlist sub-cues.
- If you want a less abrupt stopping of audio in Stop All then you can now achieve this by holding down a shift key when activating Stop All (eg by pressing Shift/Esc). This will cause a 'Fade All' instead of a 'Stop All'. The 'Fade All' time is set in General Options and the default is 1 second.
- The Audio Graph Color Scheme now has separate graphics for the colors to be used as the 'playing' colors.
- Added Copy and Paste buttons to Lighting Cues in the Editor, primarily to allow you to copy the DMX Items from one chase step to another chase step. However, Copy and Paste can also be used for non-chase lighting cues.
- When adding video/image cues in the editor, if multiple files are selected then SCS now asks if you want multiple video/image cues or a single video/image cue ('slideshow'). Previously SCS did this for 'drag-and-drop' but when using the toolbar button SCS always added a single cue, regardless of how many files were selected for the cue.
- An SFR cue set to fade out a paused video cue would close the video cue immediately and also leave the image displayed.
- An image set to display partially outside the target area (eg because of increasing the 'size' property) would previously limit the display to the bounds of the target area. This no longer occurs if the 'Use 2D Drawing Library for Still Images' option is selected because SCS will clip the displayed image if necessary.
- If an ENTTEC OPEN DMX USB or equivalent device is used for Lighting Cues then SCS needs to constantly refresh DMX channel values sent to the device. This is not necessary with the DMX USB PRO or DMX USB PRO MK2 as these devices handle DMX refreshing internally. SCS now implements DMX refreshing for OPEN DMX USB devices or equivalents. A DMX Refresh Rate property has been added to Production Properties / Devices / Lighting. This property is only displayed for OPEN DMX USB or equivalent devices.
- Changing the selected Time Profile could cause SCS to lock up.
- Copying and pasting a sub-cue into a cue that has a MIDI/DMX Cue number would cause that MIDI/DMX Cue number to be cleared.
- Increasing the display time of a still image could fail to take effect.
- A cue set to auto-start n.nn seconds 'after cue file loaded' would be temporarily set to manual start if the cue file was not the first cue file opened after starting SCS.
- Sometimes a linked cue would fail to link, resulting in the cue not starting when the primary cue in the linked set was started. This mainly affected linked cues where the 'end at' time was set.
- The 'other info' in cue display panels was not always refreshed on navigating around the cue list. 'Other info' includes information such as fade-in and fade-out times.
- Using hotkeys in SCS 11.6.0 could cause the Windows 'default beep' sound to play if set in the Windows Sound Scheme. This error (now fixed in 11.6.1) occurred only in 11.6.0, not in earlier versions of SCS.
- In Production Properties / Live Inputs, the 'Inputs' drop-down list was not populated.
SCSremote is an application to remotely control SCS with an Android Smartphone or tablet. SCSremote can control basic SCS functions such as playing cues, navigating between cues, adjusting master level, and displaying cue times and progress. It is available to download from Google Play. SCSremote has been developed by Simone Guisti and any queries on this should be directed to simone@rockopera.it
Some SCS features may not be available in all license levels. Please check the 'Feature Comparison' section of the Help for details.
