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Tracker is now available for masks as well. Please see Masks paragraph in the User Guide.
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The No Clipping option is now active by default and its state ripples through when creating Scaffolds. Please see the
Source Transform paragraph in the User Guide.
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Added option to load and render Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files. You can load an SVG file in the Matrix where it
will show as a scaffold. Please see the Texture paragraph in the User Guide.
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Note that this functionality is only available on NVIDIA Fermi cards on Windows.
SYSTEM - SCRIPTING, SPA
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Update on Custom Commands settings that now offer the option to an xml file with data of all selected shots(and
optionally a LUT per selected shot. Please see Custom Commands in the User Guide.
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Added Staging Area items to XML export/import. Please see XML Scripting in the User Guide. Note that only items that
were explicitly added to Staging are included - not all items used in a composite.
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Update of SCRATCH PLUG-IN API (SPA) for developing SCRATCH plug-ins.
Other Features and Fixes
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Added support for the Tangent TUBE API with supports for the new Element panels. Please see Controls Surfaces in
the User Guide. Note that default mappings for the Element panels are not yet available on the first release of this
version. For the panels to work you need firmware version 1.15 and Tangent HUB software version 0.1.3, revision 2.
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Added a Select All function in the Search dialog to select all clips found on the current CONstruct. Please see the Search
panel in the User Guide.
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Added work around for NVIDIA dual screen bug when using HDMI as second screen; Enabling the SConfig variable
NV_DUALHEAD_BUG invoke the work-around.
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New version of the AVID AMT library available for rendering AVID compatible DNxHD MXF from SCRATCH. Please
download the library from here.
VERSION 6.0 [July 2011]
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Warning: Projects loaded in 6.0 might not appear the same when loaded back in v5.2. The setup of the Hue-Hue
curve in the Matrix has been updated and is not always backward compatible.
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When opening a v5.x project this version you must Upgrade the Project Database. After upgrading you still can load the
database in a v5.x version of SCRATCH but settings and grades might differ or be lost.
LICENSING & INTRO SCREEN
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SCRATCH has a new License scheme with two products; SCRATCH® - the full version and SCRATCH Lab™. Please see
the Products Features Difference Matrix paragraph in the User Guide for the difference between the products.
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The ways you handle license files has changed in the version. Rather than copying a license file to the settings folder you
load the license in the License Dialog of the Start-up Screen of SCRATCH. Please see the Licensing the Software
paragraph in the User Guide.
MAC OS X VERSION
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Both SCRATCH® and SCRATCH Lab™ are also available on OS X.
MULTI LAYER TIMELINE
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Added a Multi-Layer Timeline (MLT) context to be able to overcome the slot-boundaries of a CONstruct.
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The MLT is implemented using sub-CONstructs and layers on the Main Output node.
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The Editor was extended with a Tracks view.
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To be able to easily navigate through the shots of the different Tracks, the Player navigation was updated.
STAGING, LAYER STACK AND STRUCTURE VIEW
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To improve organization, manageability and navigation through complex compositions:
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a new Staging module as an extra data-management dimension to the CONstruct.
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the Layer Stack and Structure View - composite tree view.
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