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v1.1.3

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Important Information

GV Director software requires 4.0 of the .NET Framework. Later versions are not compatible.

The installation of the AD Tool on the panel is NOT supported.

New Feature

You can now view available disk space information and clear logs to free additional disk space in the System Information screen.

Resolved Issues

The following resolved issues are provided for GV Director version 1.1.3:

Table 1. GV Director Software Problems Corrected in Release v 1. 1.3
Area Description ID
GVD Control Surface Analog audio settings do not persist after a reboot. DE9453
GV Composer Some Composer created Compound effects do not play properly. DE9724
GV Composer

Export from Composer appears to succeed even if the export destination is full.

DE11344
GVD Control Surface

Can't delete saved buttons file.

GVD-7301
GVD Control Surface Transition durations do not get persisted. GVD-7270
GVD Control Surface Sub effect creation allows user to steal existing sub effect name. GVD-7295
GVD Assistant Director Tool Assistant Director tool needs admin rights to run on PC. GVD-7167
GVD Control Surface Black 'boxes' appear in graphics in place of text. GVD-7012
GVD Assistant Director Tool Assistant Director tool effect selection goes away after first edit. GVD-7013
GVD Control Surface Mistyped Router information causes system shutdown. GVD-7275
GV Composer Dynamic numbers in text fields could show from right to left or left to right in no particular order. DDC-767
GV Composer Creation of 720p ANI files resulted in Composer crash. DDC-134
GV Composer Animated transitions contain a fixed duration. DDC-139
GV Composer

Players in Composer did not always get updated when refreshing them.

DDC-136
GV Composer Players in Composer did not show the preview when using a legacy ANI file. DDC-135
GV Composer Using a particular font resulted in system and Composer crash (Mac) or Error popup (Win). DDC-128
GV Composer

Extreme amount of log lines when using cross conversion, that eventually could result in system freeze.

DDC-233
GV Composer Critical memory corruption results in system restart. DDC-1171
GV Composer Amount of players per channel increased to 400 and render inputs to 800. Converted player pool lock to light-lock. DDC-4350
GV Composer Clean feed is not shown using production pack from Composer 1.7.5. DDC-4426
GV Composer Legacy 720p5994 ANI file did not play on GVD. DDC-4431
GV Composer Pinning live audio results in audio ticks. DDC-4423
Table 2. Known Software Problems
     
GVD Control Surface LTC causes boot to take 7 minutes instead of 3. The workaround – disconnect LTC; connect after boot GVD-7326
Table 3. GV Director Software Problems Corrected in Release v 1. 1.2
Area Description ID
GVD Control Surface Embedded audio packet placement in the SDI stream is causing some equipment to drop the audio completely (1080i@50). DE11647
GVD Control Surface A display issue occurred when a physical button has an effect mapped to it on page one and two and the user presses the shift button. GVD-6781
Table 4. Known Software Problems
Area Description ID
GVD Control Surface Analog audio settings do not persist. GVD-367
GVD Assistant Director Tool GVAD: Effect selection highlight goes away after first parameter edit GVD-7013
GVD Control Surface As an operator I would like a way of recovering system disk space. GVD-7167
GVD Control Surface As an operator I'd like to be able to see available log partition disk space. GVD-7168
GVD Control Surface Transition durations do not get persisted. GVD-7270
Table 5. GV Director Software Problems Corrected in Release v 1. 1.1
Area Description ID
GVD Server

Potential server instability.

DE11012
GVD Server

Potential server delays.

DE11087
GVD Server

Occasional multi-client disconnect.

DE9238
GVD Control Surface

Router source name display issues.

DE10934
GVD Control Surface

Transition in the Event list executes the transition instead of just assigning it.

DE10950
GVD Control Surface

Routing not working when rotary dial set on any position other than 1.

DE11031
GVD Control Surface

Panel Master Menu ignores touch, after reconnect cancel.

DE11234
GVD Control Surface

Client Exception on File Transfer

DE11293
GVD Control Surface

Router connection issues.

DE10694
GVD Control Surface Router connection keeps dropping silently DE10694
GVD Control Surface

Pressing the 'Register' button on the UI does not attempt to re-register a router.

DE11297
GVD Assistant Director Tool When resizing windows in the assistant tool, the text field and names of the scene parameters do not scale. DE11203
GVD Control Surface

Known Issue: Assigning the 'black' source to a PIP (picture in picture) effect leaves the previous player.

DE10649
GVD Control Surface

Stage stuck in blinking mode when used to bring panel out of sleep mode.

DE10782
GVD Control Surface

Using the ‘stage' button to bring GV Director control surface out of ‘sleep’ mode will cause the panel to lock up.

DE11342
GVD Assistant Director Tool

Within the Event List if the user drags the same item into the list they will currently have to select a separate item just prior.

DE11282
GVD Assistant Director Tool

Textbox size currently static; changing to dynamic so that the user may utilize the whole area.

DE11283
GVD Assistant Director Tool

Adding single delete to the onscreen Event List in addition to the keyboard delete key.

DE11284
GV Composer

Introduced variable text line height to prevent chopping off ‘diacritics’

DE10943
GV Composer

Disabled cross conversion functionality which could slow down preloading of templates under certain circumstances (e.g. using interlaced animations in a progressive project)

DE11547
Table 6. Software Problems Corrected in Release v 1. 1.0
Area Description ID
GVD Server Changing the Ethernet configuration for port 0 between a fixed IP- address and a dynamically assigned IP-address (DHCP) failed under some circumstances. DE9783
GV Composer In some cases GV Composer would not start correctly on appropriately spec'd Apple Mac computers. DE8249
GVD Control Surface Analog audio input metering was missing from the control surface GUI. DE6470
GVD Server Recording in HD formats would result in an MXF header file with incorrect aspect ratio settings. DE9988
GVD Server Uploading production packs from the control surface to the server that contains spaces in the production pack name failed. DE8327
GVD Server Certain types of RSS feed were not compatible with GV Director. DE8199
Table 7. Software Problems Corrected in Release v 1.0.6
Area Description ID
GVD Server Stills used in picture-in-picture effects do not work unless the still has been used full frame prior to its use inside the effect. DE9281
GVD Server Operators could specify a blank IP address for the frame, thus rendering it inoperable. DE9382
GVD Server Certain use of RSS could introduce instability into the system. DE9311
GVD Control Surface Pressing the Stage button on the panel to bring it out of sleep mode can crash the panel software. DE9384

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