What is new in Reeltime Lite?
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Version
What’s new in version 1.5?
Frame lines
- Frame lines filter: Configure and view precise frame line overlays on live and playback signals, ensuring exact previews of framing and composition during recording and reviews.
- ARRI FLLIT XML & ASC FDL import: Import and display your production’s frame line definitions from ARRI FLLIT XML and ASC FDL files for consistent framing across departments.
Video I/O device support
- Fixed video output formats for AJA Video I/O: Setting a fixed output format prevents signal loss when using wireless systems and ensures stable video output at all times. Furthermore, setting your output’s refresh rate to a higher frame rate reduces latency (e.g., output 24 fps signals at 60 Hz reduces overall system latency by one to two frames for processed feeds).
- 4K support for AJA Io 4K Plus: Capture and output 4K/UHD (6G) signals simultaneously for full-resolution monitoring on professional hardware.
UI/UX improvements
- Audio ellipsis menu in toolbar: Quickly access mute controls, audio source selection, or open audio settings directly from the toolbar.
- Start playback at best-rated range: Automatically cue the best-rated in/out range in a clip for playback, streamlining the review of the most relevant actions.
- Size column in recording settings table: Displays the total size of each media folder, helping track used disk space at a glance.
Filters and compositing
- Crop filter: Revised crop filter, including a new top/bottom/left/right mode, provides precise control over each edge, allowing more flexible, and intuitive reframing, especially useful for non-centered crop definitions. For simplicity, the crop filter's rotation parameter was removed and is now available in the “Transform” filter.
- Overlay Settings: The new “Fit to Canvas” mode fixes overlay foregrounds to a 16:9 canvas, ensuring all overlays, including metadata and frame lines, are applied correctly across the whole image for SDI output.
- Anamorphic de-squeeze filter: The new “Fit to Canvas” mode and scale slider give precise control over de-squeezed images, making it easier to combine them with overlays while maintaining the proper ratio.
- Fit to canvas filter: Automatically adapts imported media in other aspect ratios to the output canvas, allowing overlays on the entire viewer area, with a customizable canvas color.
- Custom text in metadata overlay: Enter your own text directly into metadata overlays to label overlays according to your production’s needs.
- Filter presets: Save and recall filter configurations via the new preset system, making it easy to reuse favorite filter settings across projects.
- Lock filter option: Lock individual filters to prevent unintended changes during live sessions or playback.
Frame lines filter
Define, import, and adjust frame line overlays for accurate framing.
This new filter lets you overlay customizable guides on any live or playback signal, supporting image composition that meets your production’s requirements. Add up to four different frame lines, each with individual geometry and appearance. You can import ARRI Frame Line & Lens Illumination Tool XML or ASC FDL files to apply the exact frame lines specified by your post-production supervisor or camera department. The “Adjust All Frame Lines” option allows you to scale and position imported frame lines correctly on your SDI signal, for example, when the image is surrounded by an OSD containing camera metadata.
Fixed video output format
Ensure stable video output and minimize latency.
You can now set a fixed output format for AJA, Blackmagic, and DELTACAST video I/O devices, independent of the incoming signal’s format and frame rate. This ensures stable, continuous output even if the input drops or changes during camera moves, battery swaps, or wireless interruptions. Plus, increasing the output refresh rate can reduce latency. For instance, sending a 24 fps input signal out at 60 fps cuts added latency from 2–3 frames to about 1. The result is a more responsive feed that stays smooth, reliable, and well in sync with audio, which is crucial when monitoring performance close to the actors where lip-sync issues stand out immediately.
A detailed list of all changes can be found in the Reeltime changelog.
What’s new in version 1.4?
Full screen output devices
- Full screen output devices: Distribute signals directly from your Mac’s HDMI and Thunderbolt ports, e.g., for using computer displays and TVs as low-latency video monitors
- Converter integrations: A quad view mode for full screen output devices allows to output a 4K HDMI/DisplayPort signal and split it into four independent HD-SDI outputs, e.g., via the AJA HA5-4K converter, or similar devices
Filters
- Transform filter: Transform a signal with scale, rotation, and offset parameters
- Anamorphic de-squeeze filter: De-squeeze signals shot with anamorphic lenses
- Tally filter: A tally filter allows to apply an on-screen tally to indicate the current operation state (Record, Record Rehearsal, Live, Play, Pause) in various styles
- Metadata overlay: Revised metadata overlay filter with “Tally State” option
- Filter setting control: Adjust the values in filter setting text fields with the arrow up/down keys of your keyboard
- Reset filter parameters: Reset a filter’s parameter to its default value by double-clicking on the parameter’s label
Recording & playback
- Full screen viewer: Open the main viewer’s signal in full screen via a dedicated menu item, keyboard shortcut, or Stream Deck controller action
- Set playback speed: Choose a playback speed multiplier from various factor presets or enter a custom factor (e.g., for simulating a slow-motion shot)
- Cancel recording: Cancel an ongoing recording with dedicated menu items, keyboard shortcuts, or Stream Deck controller actions
- Auto-play after recording: Enable the auto-play option with a customizable delay in the recording settings
Routing
- Switch output slot source: Change the source for the selected output slot with dedicated menu items, keyboard shortcuts, or Stream Deck controller actions
- Switch video input/output routing: Interactively change the video input/output routing with dedicated “Select Input” and “Select Output” menu items, keyboard shortcuts, or Stream Deck controller actions
Metadata
- Rehearsal mode: Activate the rehearsal mode to apply a customizable rehearsal prefix in the slate info for the upcoming take(s)
- Clip labels: Assign colored clip labels with customizable label names
- Clip label auto-assignment: Automatic assignment of clip labels for recorded takes, rehearsals, composite recordings, created stills, and imported media
Export
- Library image export: Export images from media items in the library, including the option to export the marker positions of clips as individual stills
- Viewer image export: Export images directly from the viewer to a default location or a custom location via a save dialog
- AirDrop images: Share images from the viewer or the library’s media items via AirDrop
- Export report: Export your library’s info as a PDF report with thumbnails
- Export metadata: Export your library’s metadata as CSV
- Export toolbar button: Use the export button in the global toolbar to export images, share images via AirDrop, PDF reports, and metadata
Setup & configuration
- Slot setups: A “Slot Setups” window allows you to save and restore a slot setup, including configured devices, etc. (accessible via a menu item and a button in the slot manager)
- Clone system: A “Clone System” wizard walks you through transferring a Reeltime system to another computer
Performance
- 4K support: Significant performance improvements for higher resolution video signals enable comprehensive support for 4K/UHD setups
More features
- Drag and drop clips onto slots: Load clips from the library’s clips table into input or library slots via drag and drop
Full screen output devices
Transform standard displays into low-latency monitors.
Reeltime’s new integration for full screen output devices enables direct signal distribution to connected HDMI and Thunderbolt monitors via your Mac’s built-in ports. Thus, standard computer displays or TVs can also serve as reliable, low-latency monitors on set. You’ll experience only 1-2 frames added delay compared to a direct camera-to-monitor feed. For a cost-effective multi-monitor setup, the quad view mode allows you to output a 4K signal via HDMI or Thunderbolt, which can be split into four independent HD-SDI outputs using converters such as the AJA HA5-4K or similar devices.
Export images, reports, and metadata
Keep teams aligned on set and beyond.
New export capabilities offer versatile options to support better-informed decisions and enhance collaboration from set to post. Easily export images directly from the clip library or viewer, including the option to save marker positions as individual stills for precise reference. Share images instantly via AirDrop with your team on set to speed up communication and review. Create detailed PDF reports with thumbnails for clear project overviews, or export your library’s metadata as a CSV file for efficient data management. A new global export toolbar button consolidates all these options - from image export, AirDrop sharing, to report creation - into one convenient, always-visible access point.
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