Azimuth Digital 0.7.1

• Quitting Azimuth closes everything it opened on this computer: the
  output and the operator screen too (it used to stay open, saying the helper
  was not reachable). On a Mac or Linux, closing the start script's Terminal
  window is quitting: the show is saved and the output and the operator
  screen close; before, they stayed open.
• On a Mac or Linux the start script starts the helper again if it ever stops
  by itself, as Azimuth Digital.exe does on Windows: at most three times in
  two minutes, saying why in its window. The output keeps playing and the
  operator screens reconnect; after such a restart Azimuth opens an operator
  screen only if none came back by itself (on Windows too, where a second one
  used to open).
• Linux: Start Azimuth (Linux).sh starts Azimuth on Ubuntu 22.04 and later
  (other distributions too), with Google Chrome or Chromium; it offers to
  download the Node.js it needs into the Azimuth folder, as the Mac script
  does. Converting needs the distribution's ffmpeg. See the manual's Linux
  section.
• Updates install from inside Azimuth, Windows, Mac and Linux: when a new version is
  out, its button at the top of the operator screen has Install and
  restart. Azimuth downloads the new version, checks its signature and that
  it starts, and installs it while Program is clear (on air it downloads and
  waits for End All). It restarts in a few seconds, the operator screen
  reloads itself and the output opens again; Media, Shows, Logs, config.json
  and tools are never touched. The version before is kept for 30 days:
  Settings › Info › Updates › Go back. From this version on; 0.7.0 is
  updated by hand once more.
• Settings replaces Output setup: one dialog with three tabs. Output has
  the displays, the test signal, the stats over the output and the audio;
  Remote has remote access, network control (Companion, PlaybackPro TCP
  and UDP, OSC) and monitor pictures; Info has a new media report (every
  clip in the show, its format and how this computer plays it), this
  computer, updates and the log, which moves here from its button in the
  top bar. Settings opens on the tab used last; the footer's load meters
  open Info.
• Settings › Output lists the displays on its own a few seconds after
  Azimuth opens (Chrome asks once to see them), so the operator only picks
  one: the Display box comes first, with Detect again.
• Each clip has its own fit: Fit, Fill, Stretch or 1:1 at the top of its
  Geometry tab, instead of one Fit for the whole output. Edit multiple sets
  it on many clips; Copy and Paste geometry carry it; Reset gives Fit. A show
  saved by an earlier version opens with every clip on the fit this
  computer had, so nothing moves; new clips start at Fit.
• The clip settings' Main tab shows how the clip decodes at the bottom, and
  In and Out sit in two columns above the fades.
• The playlist's Loop and Link durations are wide enough for -0.5 and -10.5
  (no spin buttons; the arrow keys still step them).
• Drag video, picture and sound files, or whole folders, from Explorer or
  Finder onto the playlist: they go where they are dropped. Files already in
  the media folder are added as they are; any other is copied into the media
  folder first (its row shows COPY and how far it is, and plays once the copy
  is in), keeping the folders dragged and never replacing a file ("(2)" when
  a name is taken). While a clip is on air, copies run at most 60 MB/s so
  playback keeps its disk. Two files of that name and size in the media
  folder: Azimuth asks which. A drop is one Undo step; a copied clip is
  checked like any clip added. A file dropped elsewhere on the operator
  screen no longer opens in its tab.
• The Media column counts every audio track: a clip with eight mono tracks
  shows "audio 8 ch in 8 tracks" (QuickTime files with more than two LPCM
  channels included).
• A config.json that cannot be read (a hand edit with a comma missing) is
  kept aside as config-unreadable-.json and the log says so, instead
  of being replaced with the defaults without a word.
• The Slate is gone: Set Slate in the Main tab, Ctrl+, OSC
  /azimuth/mark/slate and Companion's "Mark Slate" choice. Marking is In and
  Out, as before; a show saved with slates opens without them.
• Mac: the quick start, the manual, the README and the download page walk
  through allowing the start script on macOS 15 and later (Done, then
  Privacy & Security › Open Anyway), and say how to update on a Mac without
  losing shows: Finder cannot unzip over a folder, and replacing the old
  folder throws its shows away.

Azimuth Digital 0.7.0

Geometry in pixels, smoother playback with the GPU renderer, and exact loops.

• The Geometry tab can show a clip's geometry in the output's own pixels: the
  switch at its top changes between % and Pixels. Width, Height, Left and Top
  place the picture exactly: whole pixels typed in land exactly on those
  pixels, with both renderers. Keep shape, 1:1 (one clip pixel on one output
  pixel), Centre and Whole pixels help line clips up. Clips filmed on a phone
  held upright count as they are shown (portrait).
• The GPU renderer (Output setup › Picture › Renderer › GPU) now shows every
  frame for the same time: a 30 fps clip on a 60 Hz output is two refreshes a
  frame, steadily. Before, a frame now and then stayed on for three refreshes
  and the next for one, which showed as a small judder in slow pans.
• With the GPU renderer the sound now goes with the picture. Its picture comes
  a little later than Standard's (Azimuth draws it after the players hand over
  their frames), so the sound waits as long: about 45 ms at 60 Hz. Standard is
  unchanged.
• The last frame of a clip is shown for its full time before a loop, a link
  or the end, with both renderers (it used to be cut short).
• With the GPU renderer the clip that comes next starts on time too, so a loop
  takes exactly the clip's length and runs through the seam at the same
  cadence as the rest of the clip.
• "Frame gaps" in the status line now counts only frames that were not shown.
  With 50 and 60 fps clips it used to rise nearly every frame while every
  frame played.

Azimuth Digital 0.6.3

Azimuth now tells you when a new version is out.

• Once a day (the first time half a minute after it starts) Azimuth asks
  GitHub whether a newer version is out. If there is one, a small
  "0.x.y available" button appears at the top of the operator screen; click
  it for what is new and the download. Nothing is downloaded or installed by
  itself and the show is never interrupted: you update when it suits you.
• The check sends nothing about you, the computer or your shows, and the
  answer is signed, so Azimuth only believes one that really comes from
  Azimuth Digital. Without internet it stays quiet and tries again the next day.
• Output setup › This computer › Updates turns it off, or checks at once.

Azimuth Digital 0.6.2

Easier on a Mac.

• "Start Azimuth (Mac).command" gets Node.js by itself: on a Mac without
  Node.js 20 or newer, it offers to download the current Node.js 22 from
  nodejs.org into the Azimuth folder (tools/node, about 50 MB). The download
  is checked against nodejs.org's checksums and Node.js's signature, needs no
  password and installs nothing elsewhere. A Node.js the Mac already has is
  used as it is.
• The script now comes out of the download ready to run: no more
  chmod +x in Terminal first. The first time, macOS may still ask to
  confirm it (System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway).
• Converting ProRes on a Mac no longer needs Homebrew: as on Windows, the
  Convert window offers to download ffmpeg the first time. It gets ffmpeg
  and ffprobe for the Mac's processor (Apple silicon or Intel) from Martin
  Riedl's FFmpeg builds into the Azimuth folder (tools/ffmpeg), checks them
  against the server's checksums and their signatures, and needs no password.
  An ffmpeg installed with Homebrew is still used if the Mac has one.

Azimuth Digital 0.6.1

Azimuth Digital now looks like an app of its own on Windows.

• Azimuth Digital.exe starts Azimuth: no black window. The Azimuth icon
  sits in the notification area, by the clock; right-click it for Open
  operator screen (or double-click it), Open output, the Azimuth and Logs
  folders, and Quit Azimuth. Starting it again while Azimuth runs just opens
  the operator screen. Closing the operator screen leaves Azimuth running.
• If the helper ever stops by itself, Azimuth starts it again and says so by
  the icon; the output keeps playing meanwhile.
• A new icon, on the program, the notification area, the taskbar and the
  operator, monitor and output windows. Windows (Task Manager, the firewall's
  first-run question, file properties) now names Azimuth Digital and Azimuth
  Digital LLC instead of Node.js.
• The helper's messages go to Logs\helper-console.txt.
  Troubleshooting\Start Azimuth with a console window.bat runs Azimuth the old
  way, with its messages in a window.
• The README in the download says the right version again.
• Updating from 0.6.0 or older: "Start Azimuth.bat" is no longer needed and
  can be deleted. Mac: nothing changes; start Azimuth with
  "Start Azimuth (Mac).command" as before.

Azimuth Digital 0.6.0

A folder browser for the media folder, sliders that follow the mouse, and
values you can type.

• Add clips and Locate: Browse… next to the media folder shows the show
  computer's drives, a few places (the Azimuth Media folder, the one in use,
  Desktop, Videos, Documents) and the folders inside the one you are in, with
  how many media files it holds. Click a folder to open it, Up or the path to
  go back, then Use this folder. Works from remote operator screens too. A
  folder inside the Azimuth folder is remembered relative to it.
• Geometry and Levels sliders follow a drag all the way. Before, each change
  rebuilt the panel, which replaced the slider under the mouse and ended the
  drag after a short move. The panel now only changes what changed.
• The value beside each slider (and beside Master in Output setup) is a field:
  type a value and press Enter or Tab, Esc puts it back, Up and Down step it
  (Shift: ten steps). Typed values stay within the slider's range and land on
  its steps.

Azimuth Digital 0.5.0

Audio meters, a wider playlist, and less overhead everywhere.

• Program audio meters on the operator screen, right of the Program transport:
  left and right output level with peak hold, the highest recent peak as a
  number, and a clip warning at 0 dBFS. Peaks are measured over the whole time
  between two updates, so short peaks are not missed.
• Playlist: the Section column is gone (set sections with Edit multiple; they
  still head the printed running order and the monitor page). The playlist is
  wider and Title and Media have more room.
• Monitor pictures are composed and encoded in a background worker on the
  output, and decoded and drawn in a background worker on the operator and
  monitor screens. In tests the output's playback thread does a fifth of the
  work it did with monitor pictures on, the operator screen less than half.
• The status sent to each screen ~15 times a second is a quarter of its size:
  the log and setup details go out only when they change. The operator screen
  only touches what changed.
• Windows show computers: the output keeps the display and computer awake
  (no "no signal" after a long hold on black), ignores keyboard and headset
  play/pause keys, sends pixel values unchanged regardless of the display's
  colour profile, uses the faster graphics chip on laptops with two, and
  Azimuth's Chrome windows run no updates or background downloads. The helper
  runs slightly above normal priority. The GPU load reading asks Windows for
  less, less often.
• Locate: a path being typed is no longer replaced when the media list
  refreshes (this also made a browser test fail now and then).