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Registered users with current update plans (including users who purchased or upgraded their SCS license during the last 12 months) may now download SCS 11.7.1 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 11.7.1

• You can now set up Primary and Backup instances of SCS using the new Functional Mode option.
• SCS Cue Markers can now be set in Audio File Cues, and these markers can be used as triggers for other cues, using the new 'On Cue Marker' auto-start activation position.
• The Video Driver Settings under Options includes a new checkbox for correcting the display sizes of video images on external screens where Windows Display Scaling has affected the sizing.
• The Set Position Cue now optionally accepts relative times, eg -2.000 seconds.
• Video files that contain a 'rotation' property of 90, 180 or 270 degrees will now have that rotation setting applied, provided TVG is the selected Video Playback Library (which it is by default). Typically this means that videos such as cell phone videos that are vertical instead of horizontal will be displayed correctly, ie vertically.

Bugs Fixed

• If a sub-cue is marked as disabled then the parent cue may never 'complete'.
• The Editor now checks that a DMX device and port are not used for both input (Cue Control) and output (Lighting).
• Concatenated network cue control commands were not being separated (ie network cue control commands separated by |).
• Network cue control commands with unknown cue numbers would cause a memory error.
• The use of faders on a connected BCF2000 or BCR2000 control surface would cause a thread assertion failure.
• Repositioning a video set to auto-repeat could cause a deadlock.
• Using the same ASIO output channels across multiple SCS audio output devices would cause the audio to be played on all associated ASIO channels.
• The default editor keyboard shortcuts for 'Add Memo Cue' and 'Add Memo Sub-Cue' were incorrect and clashed with the corresponding Control Send shortcuts.
• When the Display Option for Toolbar Buttons is not set to 'All buttons' then the menu displayed at the top of the main window was being constantly rebuilt whenever the master fader or the DMX master fader were moved. This caused flickering and other performance issues.
• If a DirectSound audio device is not available, then a warning is displayed in which you can choose to ignore the device. SCS was not handling that 'ignore' request correctly, and now if you choose to ignore an audio device the output is re-routed to the Windows default sound device.
• A 'Fade All' (eg Shift/Esc) would ignore the 'fade all time' set in Options for hotkey cues, externally activated cues, and callable cues.
• If SCS had been registered on your computer under a different Windows user login and you then tried to upgrade the SCS license (eg from Standard to Professional) then SCS would fail to record this change due to the Windows file access permissions policy. SCS now enables the new SCS registration information to be accessible and updateable by all Windows users (assuming, of course, they have access to a valid SCS Authorization string, etc).
• In a MIDI Control Send Cue, playing a MIDI file could raise the message "cannot play the MIDI file because the MIDI port is already in use".
• The option to 'Display all MIDI input messages' was not displaying MSC messages.
• Closing SCS 11.7.1 is much faster than 11.7.0, especially for productions with many audio file cues.
• Audio File Cues with a cross-faded loop, and with the number of times set that the loop is to be played, could incorrectly count through the loops, typically incrementing the count twice, eg 1, 3, 5, etc instead of 1, 2, 3, etc.
• Removed a call to a TVG function that disabled Aero in Windows 7 and Vista environments, as calling this function seemed to have a devastating effect on the time taken to open a video file in those environments.
• If a cue was set auto-start relative to the 'previous cue' but that cue was disabled, that could cause a memory error.

Notes

• In 11.7.0, SCS would use WASAPI (Windows Audio Session API) instead of DirectSound, provided WASAPI was available. However, some device drivers fail with WASAPI so in 11.7.1 you can now select WASAPI instead of DirectSound, and DirectSound is reinstated as the default audio driver.
• Please note that if you use Lighting Cues then there is a major change in SCS 11.7 to the way in which you set up these cues. The change is NOT backward-compatible to 11.6, so if you save with SCS 11.7 a cue file that contains Lighting Cues then earlier versions of SCS (eg 11.6.2.1) will not handle these Lighting Cues correctly. This applies to not only the cue file (the .scs11 file) but also the associated device map file (the .scsd file).

Remote App
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 display?ing? 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

Help File in Italian
A PDF Help File in Italian is now available on the Member Download page (translation by Marco D. Bellucci).

Some SCS features may not be available in all license levels. Please check the 'Feature Comparison' section of the Help for details.

I have just re-uploaded SCS 11.7.1 as the 'Primary/Backup' feature in the original upload did not fully handle a 'Go' command issued by the SCS Remote app. The 'Primary' processed the 'Go' but did not pass the request through to the 'Backup'. Now fixed.

This latest version has a build date (visible under Help / About) of "2018/07/11 17:18".