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[MADben]

Hi!

We just released the v6 BETA 4 with numerous fixes, improvements and additions,

We hope you all enjoy discovering this future v6 Any feedback or bug report are welcome too !

Thanx !

The MAD Team.

MadMapper 6.0 Beta 4 Release Notes

ADDITIONS
+ Allow renaming MIDI & OSC tracks
+ When a timeline takes control over a parameter, show its name in any other timeline disabled track
+ Added "Delete Time" option when right clicking time header (top horizontal header in timeline editor)
+ Preserve conductor / timelines export settings
+ Export Timeline suports m4a for audio output (mp3 is limited to mono or stereo)
+ Video Cursor can be styled (Cross or Circle)
+ Added keyboard shortcuts for object-tabs (media, video surfaces, laser surfaces, etc)

IMPROVEMENTS
* Auto scroll when moving playhead on view extremities
* Shift+Click in time header to select a range of time
* More precise message on disabled timeline track (ie "Parameter has been modified by MIDI Control")
* Show error message when timeline export fails
* Execute timeline track when editing keyframes in paused mode, even when Timeline Edit mode is active

FIXES
- Bezier keyframe before a keyframe of another type was ignoring next keyframe bezier handle
- Fixed smoothness when animating Line Surfaces active segment settings
- Fixed possible issue showing timeline cell setting popup
- Fixed possible issue changing global bpm settings
- Fixed DMX output issue when using a DMX Output and rescaling it
- Duplicating a selection of handle was removing last source selection item in some cases
- Middle mouse on time horizontal header was not handling "scroll and drag"
- Fixed collapsing / expanding nodes in subtimelines edited from conductor
- Fixed changing parameters of a multiselection of montage clips
- Fixed video export after changing timeline FPS
- Fixed audio distortion issue on windows when playing multiple tracks (from timeline, module, movies)
- Fixed possible issue after deleting montage clip and removing clip media from bin
- Fixed Video Output exports blocked after 12 minutes
- Fixed export resolution on Windows
- Fixed renaming fixture while some sliders are animated
- Fixed audio when exporting conductor with timeline player tracks
- Fixed issue if an error occurs reading ISF header in an ISF visual shader file + handle "CUBE_MAP" in image types
- When using a loopback in a Montage Track, it wasn't updated when timeline was not playing
- Fixed startup issue on macOS 11 / Mac Intel
- Fixed undoing fixture slider value change
- Fixed potential issue when drag&dropping from Library

[Lumenarius]

MadMapper 6 Beta 5 is pretty awesome. The Timeline/Conductor feature was pretty cool.

The Timeline/Conductor feature makes it pretty easy to make an actual show with multiple layers of video content as well as others like audio, OSC, and more.

I made a short video showing how I made use of this to achieve a show workflow that is suitable for our installations.

https://youtu.be/Ja_JI988BLI

Below is some feedback and possible bugs I found while using it:

1) Pause Button for Timeline? When you press the spacebar while a Timeline/Conductor is currently playing it will pause the playback. Good. However, when you press the spacebar again the playhead will go back to either the very beginning or where the red playback line is. This is not ideal because we want to simply pause and then play the Timeline/Conductor from where it just was. Is there a better way to do this? Adding a pause button instead of just Play and Stop might be a good solution.

2) Layers of video? For our shows we need at least x2 layers of video. One for the underlying video and another for transitions with an alpha transparency channel. I did not see a way to have more than one video track on top of each other in a Montage so I made x2 Montage tracks. However, a surface can only look at a single Montage track so what I did was overlay the x2 Montage tracks in a "Pre-Mix" virtual output with "Publish Internal Loopback" enabled and then had the surfaces look at this source. This worked nicely but I am not sure if it is the most optimal way to do it.

Overall these features make MadMapper a much more robust tool for creating shows that make use of multiple layers and medias. We are looking forward to the alpha version to see how we can use them in our installations.

Keep up the great work!

[Oaktown]

In MadMapper 6 Beta 5, , changing the values of X and Y or the rotation in the Input section doesn't do anything but changing the size of the surface works. It seems to be the same issue in Beta 4.

Also, if I try to change the rotation of a surface input, it doesn't do anything but if try to change the size of the surface after it does something weird.