New and Changed Features in SCS 11.5.2
- Multiple Hotkey Banks are now available. The first bank is labeled 0 and is common, ie hotkey cues for bank 0 are always available. Other hotkey banks (labeled 1-12 or less, depending on your license level) are mutually exclusive. For example, you can have hotkey A in banks 1, 3 and 6, and they can have different assignments in each of these banks. Only one hotkey bank is 'selected' at any time, apart from bank 0 which is always 'selected'.
- Lighting Cues may now include comments in individual DMX Item lines.
- Lighting Cues with a cue activation method of hotkey 'note' or 'toggle' now blackout the designated DMX channels when the hotkey is released (for 'note' hotkey) or the cue is activated whilst currently playing (for 'toggle' hotkeys). Same applies to the corresponding 'external activation' methods.
- For video file playback using TVG, SCS now checks if the FFDSHOW Video Codec or the LAV Video Codec is installed. For formats other than wmv it seems that these Video Codecs are more reliable than those supplied with Windows, so if neither of these Video Codecs is available then SCS now displays a warning message (which can be permanently dismissed by selecting 'do not tell me this again').
- UHD / 4K monitors now better supported for SCS window displays.
- In MSC Control Send Cues added support for 'Open/Close Cue List' and 'Open/Close Cue Path'.
- An earlier change that interpreted 'Return' as 'Tab' within the Editor caused problems when setting up or maintaining a Memo Cue. SCS now treats 'Return' correctly when focus is on the memo control.
- Removing a Lighting Device from Production Properties would throw an error.
- Panning of a mono file to a stereo output where the output device has more than two channels was not possible if the BASS Mixer was not selected. That is now fixed provided you are using Windows Vista or later.
- Resuming a fade-out hibernated cue with a fade-in would ignore the fade-in.
- When adding Image Cues the second and subsequent images may not have successfully displayed when the cues were played from the main window in that same session. (They were displayed OK after restarting SCS or reloading the cue file.)
- Fixed a problem that prevented 'gapless' playlists from playing gapless.
- When only one device map exists, the 'Delete Device Map' button in Production Properties should have been disabled. Clicking the button when only one device map existed would throw an error.
- When sending MTC (MIDI Time Code), a thread lock could timeout causing a delay in the MTC sequence.
- Fixed an error in editing Playlist Cues - the transition fields should have been disabled when the currently-selected playlist item is blank. Trying to set a transition field on such an item would cause a memory error.
- Video/Image fade outs initiated by MIDI cue control messages were ignored.
- When using SoundMan-Server (SM-S), fade in levels could briefly exceed the target level due to the gain level being sent to SM-S.
- Error messages displayed when editing a Video/Image Cue could be repeatedly displayed if the message dialog was positioned over the video/image preview control.
