What is new?

Library Organization

Keep Your Library Alphabetically Sorted.

You can now automatically keep your Silverstack library folders and bins sorted by name or date.

This helps you to get a good overview of your library content with just one glimpse and makes it easy to spot problems like e.g. missing reel numbers.

Custom Naming Schemes

Control Stills and Report Names with Metadata Wildcards.

New naming scheme options for reports and still exports allow to automate file naming with the familiar metadata wildcards.

This enables you to create a still library with significant file names that can include e.g. timecode and slate references. Like this tedious manual renaming becomes obsolete.

Separate Copy and Verification per Job

Finish Copying First, Verify Afterwards.

Silverstack now allows to schedule separate copy and verification jobs for one offload procedure: Finish the copying of files first to work with them from your destination as soon as possible.

The verification process takes place independently and can also be postponed to any time afterwards.

Verification States

Successful Verification at a Glance.

Each registered file copy now holds a verification state that informs clearly about defective or unverified copies and also a completely successful verification.

As the verification state accumulates up to the bins and folders, the overall status of the verification can be identified in the library outline. A defect can be traced down to the affected copy following the indicating icons.

Dynamic Metadata

Frame Exact Reference for Lens Settings.

Trigger the extraction of dynamic metadata to reference certain lens and camera settings of a clip on a frame per frame level. Scrub through clips or monitor metadata changing live during playback (Silverstack XT only).

Dynamic metadata extraction is supported for ARRIRAW, ARRI ProRes, REDRAW, SONY RAW/X-OCN and SONY XAVC clips.

Existing clip reports also benefit from the extended support of dynamic metadata as each clip automatically receives lens data for the first frame.

Reports With Three Thumbnails

Enhanced Clip Reference With Multiple Thumbnails.

By including three thumbnails per clip you can add another layer of valuable information to your reports.

The content of each clip can now be referenced in more detail across the span of the entire clip, giving the production team an even better overview of the current production status.

Reordering and Suspension of Jobs

Optimized Flexibility for Your Copy and Transcoding Tasks.

The new reorder and suspension functionality for scheduled copy and transcoding jobs gives you full flexibility to maintain an optimized task order at any point. Reorder scheduled jobs via drag and drop or suspend running jobs to automatically be interrupted after the next file finishes.

The fine grained control over your order of operations is completed by a new queue visualization. Squeezing in a new card at the top of the copy queue or moving your workstation without loosing copy progress are only two common tasks that now became much easier.

Transfer of Project Settings

Easily Start New Projects with Your Custom Settings.

Prepare custom project settings that can be exported and imported in Silverstack. Within seconds you are set up to work with the same folder structure, offload templates and smart folders you use every day.

Create your own default project template and also transfer it to other machines. This gives you more flexibility and the freedom to take your Silverstack setup with you to every new job.

Audio Clips

Manage and Playback Sound Files with Metadata.

Silverstack reads extended metadata such as timecode and slate information from BWAV files and other formats, and automatically groups together track files that belong to one clip. You can playback multi-track audio clips (solo and grouped) and individually adjust level and panning for the stereo-mixdown.

In addition to that, Silverstack XT allows to manually sync audio to a video clip by setting slate markers in video and audio.

Transcoding

Export H.264 and Apple ProRes Files for Review.

Silverstack's transcoding engine has been improved to be much faster and also comes with new features. Choose from typical burn-in options or apply a watermark or overlay to the transcoded clips.

All transcoded clips are managed in Silverstack's library and are available to the powerful management features of Silverstack such as backup, report, or playback.

Silverstack XT also allows to create multiple, custom transcoding configurations, that can even be run simultaneously in one transcoding job.

Tons of Improvements

Workflow Support for Adobe Premiere and New Window Configurations.

Silverstack adds export of metadata to Adobe Premiere to the list of supported post production tools. Open a clip lists from Silverstack together with metadata directly in Premiere.

Silverstack comes with easy access to different window configurations, that are tailored to certain activities on set, such as management, QC, or color grading. Window configurations get all the user interface elements out of the way that are not needed and put the focus on the user's current task.

In addition Silverstack XT allows to place user interface elements such as the clip collection on a second display. For improved QC, Silverstack XT now offers a side-by-side mode of the player, that can display two clips simultaneously.

Improved Dailies and Transfer Features

Speed up your entire data management process.

Silverstack's newest version offers new and customized functionalities to transfer clips including ASC-CDL color and media metadata to Assimilate Scratch, AVID Media Composer or DaVinci Resolve (Resolve 12.5 or later now with CSV transfer).

Benefit from the new look support for transcoding options and make color metadata part of your exports.

Travel Drive Sealing

Set the Basis for a Complete and Consistent Data Transfer.

Silverstack 5.2 introduces the possibility to „seal“ entire travel drives. The sealing functionality extends the widely used MHL checksum technology and allows Silverstack to make a full inventory list of a drive.

It is possible to verify the consistency and completeness of the data at any time later with our free tool Pomfort SealVerify. Learn more...

Extensive Clip Analysis

Work with Silverstack and ScopeBox.

Silverstack XT's newest version integrates with Divergent Media's ScopeBox application which offers a variety of software emulations of classical video scopes like waveform and vectorscope plus some new ways to visualize your signal.

In combination with Silverstack XT it enables measurement and analysis of the clip assets in your Silverstack XT library. Use it for example to check your media for clipping or get instant analysis feedback on color manipulations.

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Color Grading and Look Library

Streamline your look workflows.

The latest version of Silverstack comes with extensive color grading functionalities. Manipulate looks interactively with typical grade controls, create an individual grade for each clip and build a Look Library to manage looks for an entire project.

For a better integration import single looks or whole look archives from LiveGrade Pro. The Matching Wizard automatically applies these looks to the according clips in Silverstack's library.

HD-SDI Output

Take QC to the next level with the best possible quality.

For an enhanced QC experience Silverstack XT 5 now enables HD-SDI monitoring with a 10-bit color depth. The new miniplayer is a convenient local visualization of the current output while you can browse the clip library and organize your media. Advanced support for additional image sequence formats helps e.g. to playback and transcode timelapse sequences.