Helmut 4.7 is out now!

You can update your Helmut version now!

Highlights of release 4.7 :

• Add reduced HelmutIO project for rendering process during After Effects export
• Improve Vidicore nodes
• Fix project index for large premiere projects
• Fix occurrences of wrong character encoding at various locations
• Add multisite support for EFS nodes
• Further improve performance of Dashboard view and reduce MongoDB CPU utilization
• Template path now accepts wildcards

Here are the details:

New Features

• Added „PATCH“ method to HTTP node.
• Improved the timeout settings and status verification of the Diva nodes.
• Added a boolean field „Vidispine Wildcard“ in VidiCore Get Item ID By Relative File Path Action V3.
• Added an optional string field „Storage ID“ in VidiCore Get Item ID By Relative File Path Action V3.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the DELETE /assets API call.
• Fixed an issue where two indexing streams ran concurrently on the same client or container, leading to asset mix-ups.
• Fixed an issue where the Client Project Index on Windows failed to delete prproj files in the temp folder.
• Fixed an issue where the HTTP Request Action ignored the content-type in the response header.
• Fixed an issue where markers with carriage returns wouldn’t sync.
• Fixed multiple issues where umlauts triggered caused problems.
• Fixed the AME node „Running and is timed out: true“ error during long sequence exports.

Improvements

• Added a new reduced HelmutIO project file for more efficient rendering in After Effects exports.
• Updated EFS nodes to work seamlessly with the Editshare Multisite Service.
• Reduced the size of metadata objects in job, project, and asset objects.
• Updated the Premiere Path Settings Action node description  to align with the terminology used in the latest Premiere versions.
• Optimized MongoDB’s CPU utilization.
• Implemented „Skip metadata sync“ & „Skip markers sync“ switches in Cosmo Change Asset Action, Cosmo Add Proxy To Project Action, and Cosmo Change Project Asset Action to enhance synchronization performance.
• Introduced an option to bypass SSL checks for HTTP Action.
• Enhanced the FX frontend to pre-resolve the helmut templates path in preferences.