Draft 1.2.3¶
Draft 1.2.3 is included with Deadline 7.0.0.54.
This version of Draft will not work with Deadline 6 or earlier.
What’s New¶
New License File Required
This build requires a new version 1.2 license. Please contact sales@thinkboxsoftware.com for an updated Draft 1.2 license file.
Compatibility
Updated Windows builds for compatibility with Deadline 7’s installer (updated from VC90 to VC100 runtime library).
Updated Python compatibility to 2.7.
Updated simple_slate_h264_burnins_with_proxy.py and simple_slate_h264_with_proxy.py sample scripts so that they work properly with Deadline 7.
Scripts written for previous versions of Draft should still work fine with Draft 1.2.
Encoding and Decoding Video
Updated FFmpeg to version 2.3.
Added support for webm files: vp8 video codec, vorbis audio.
OpenColorIO
Use config.ocio and ColorSpaces / Roles to create OCIO color processors for color correcting images.
Create OCIO color processors directly from your favourite LUT files… see http://opencolorio.org/FAQ.html for the full list of LUT formats supported.
New OCIO lut sample script in the samples directory.
ASC CDL
A fully standard-compliant implementation of ASC CDL LUTs. (The clamping steps in OCIO’s ASC CDL implementation is not currently standard-compliant.)
New ASC CDL sample script in the samples directory.
Unicode
Draft now supports unicode filenames and text annotations.
Note: We need to modify the DraftParamParser.py library so that unicode strings aren’t mangled in the Deadline / Draft boundary, but once they’re in, Draft handles them properly.
Licensing Improvements
Draft licences are now more flexible. Most Draft features require only that a license be present. Actual checkout of licensees now happens only while videos are being encoded or decoded.
“Lost connection to license server” no longer pops up dialog boxes on Windows.
Bug Fixes¶
Fixed a crash when encoding movie with audio.
Improved error messages when trying to open an exr file that isn’t there.
Fixed error messages so they no longer appear as “unidentifiable C++ exception” in Mac OS 10.8.
