New and Changed Features in SCS 11.8.0
- For SCS Professional Plus and higher license levels, VST Effects Plugins are now supported for Audio File Cues. This enables you to add EQ, reverb or any of the other multitude of features available in 3rd-party VST Effects Plugins. Note that currently this feature is available in Audio File Cues on BASS audio streams, which are created when using the BASS audio driver. In a later version we plan to provide other points at which VST Plugins may be called, such as for each audio output device.
- Lighting Devices and Lighting Cues now support Fixture Types. Fixture Types in SCS are entered and saved in Production Properties. For each Fixture Type you specify the number of channels and a description for each channel - which could be a single letter (eg R, G, B or W) or a brief description (eg Pan or Tilt). The design of the Lighting Cue screen in the Editor has been improved to include the list of Fixtures required for the Lighting Cue, and then for each Fixture you can set the required values for each channel, where the channel description is displayed. For example, you can easily adjust the color, intensity, direction etc using the sliders against the named channels. Note: Cue files created with SCS 11.7.1 or earlier that have Lighting Devices and Lighting Cues cannot use the new Fixture Types as this new feature affects many parts of the new design. So the Lighting Devices and Lighting Cues in these cue files will continue to be processed as before. The Help file contains additional info for 'Pre SCS 11.8' cue files.
- Video/Image Cues now support Video Capture Devices, such as live feeds from video cameras. The devices are defined in Production Properties.
- In Options / Video Driver Settings you can now make minor Screen Adjustments to the size, X position and Y position of the target screen areas of your secondary screens.
- Linear Time Code (LTC) Cues are now available for SCS Platinum users (only), provided SoundMan-Server is also installed. SoundMan-Server is required because LTC is sent using a SoundMan-Server timecode generator. The MIDI Time Code (MTC) Cue type has been enhanced to accept LTC where available. (MTC is still available for SCS Professional users and just requires an appropriate MIDI interface.)
- A Time of Day Clock can be displayed, and a Countdown Timer can be set and displayed. These are available from the View menu on the main window.
- In Audio File Cues you can now adjust the relative levels of multiple level points in the graph. A 'Graph Help' pop-up is displayed if you hover the mouse pointer over the new question mark on the left of the graph. In keeping with convention, selecting multiple level points for this adjustment is achieved by using Ctrl-Click on each required level point. This means that Ctrl-Click is no longer available for adjusting the level or pan of a single level point, so that feature is now handled by Alt-Click. The Graph Help pop-up explains this.
- The 'uninstall' process has been enhanced to better clean up after uninstalling.
- Some performance improvements, particularly with regard to auto-starting cues.
- The 'near end warning' was not handling a cue being manually started part-way through.
- If an Audio File cue has more than 4 devices then due to a timing conflict in the GUI updating procedures a warning message could be displayed regarding the incorrect setting of a level slider.
- Setting an SCS Cue Marker would not always take effect before closing the Editor.
- Inserting a cue would not resync the internal list of SCS Cue Markers, which could result in an 'on cue marker' activation being ignored.
- Fixed the format of Control Send network OSC messages that contain no type tags to include an empty type tag string.
- Ignores incoming OSC messages that are not recognized by SCS, which can occur particularly when an X32 digital mixer is connected and SCS also has the mixer assigned as a Cue Control device. Previously, various actions on the X32, such as moving a fader, could cause an 'Unknown Command' error to be displayed on the SCS status line.
- Clicking on an auto-start cue in the main window could cause that cue to start immediately instead of being temporarily changed to manual-start.
- In cue panels, the 'Next Manual Cue' status would not always be cleared after 'Stop All' or after some cue list navigation.
- When adding a video-cue or video sub-cue and adding a place holder and then click on Audio Device, an Invalid Memory Access error would occur.
- When using 'Collect Production Files', if the same file was used in more than one cue then only the first cue that used the file would be updated to show the new (collected) location of the file.
- Deleting cues at the end of your cue list and then undoing the change could throw a 'Subscript out of range' error.
- Editing a Lighting Cue with a chase and then switching to another Lighting Cue could throw a 'Subscript out of range' error.
- If a cue has more than one sub-cue where the first sub-cue is an Audio File sub-cue and a later sub-cue has a non-zero relative start time, and the user clicks on the Audio File's progress slider to reposition the sub-cue, then the count down time for the later sub-cue would not be correctly calculated if the Audio File sub-cue had a non-zero 'start at' time. This could cause the later sub-cue to 'complete' immediately.
- The enabling and disabling of transport control buttons in the cue panels was sometimes incorrect for sub-cues other than the first sub-cue of a cue.
- A change to the relative start time of a sub-cue was not immediately displayed in the associated cue panel.
- Importing cues from a cue file that contains more than 200 cues or sub-cues could cause a 'subscript out of range' error.
