Free Update for DV Rack SD to Version 2.1.1571.0 (11.7MB)

This update is recommended for all users. It contains the following change and program fixes:

Changed: Keyboard shortcuts for Vertical and Horizontal Flip, from CTRL+V & CTRL+H to ALT+SHIFT+V and ALT+SHIFT+H. This change was made to free up CTRL+V for its conventional assignment to the Paste function. (Note: You can customize these and most other accelerator keys by editing the Keyboard Shortcuts.txt file, which you?ll find in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Serious Magic\DV Rack version.)

Changed: HDD Space Display and HDD Record Stop values were inaccurate with some video streams, so these values have been changed from minutes to megabytes.

Fixed: On some computers with more than 1GB of RAM, DV Rack would stop updating the video after 30 seconds.

Fixed: Crash on opening a Field Monitor when the DV Rack window was sitting entirely on the second display.

Fixed: Clips recorded at 24PA had some interlaced frames.

Fixed: The Spectra 60 was sampling a point four pixels to the right of the tip of the mouse pointer.

Fixed: With the image flipped, the Spectra 60 would not work.

Fixed: Several entries in the Field Monitor Menu operated on a higher resolution than was displayed, so the arrow buttons appeared not to be working.

Fixed: When recording was paused, the Play button did not blink.

NOTE re: TIME LAPSE AND STOP MOTION RECORDING AND PAUSING/RESUMING RECORDING: These features are not supported with any 24P video.

ULTRA 1.25.2231.0 Update (11.0 MB)
This version 1.25.2231.0 contains the following feature improvement and bug fixes:

Feature Improvement - Virtual Sets can now reside on any location accessible to your computer. If you have problems with free file space on the drive where the ULTRA program resides, you may now move some or all of your virtual set data to another location.
Fixed - A B-source in the Glass Studio's "Glass Cam 1 (Medium)" shot was not positioned correctly.
Fixed - Several issues that could cause activation of ULTRA to be unsuccessful.
Fixed - The Field Priority setting for inputs would sometimes not take effect.

ULTRA 1.25.2231.0 Update (11.0 MB)
This version 1.25.2231.0 contains the following feature improvement and bug fixes:Feature Improvement - Virtual Sets can now reside on any location accessible to your computer. If you have problems with free file space on the drive where the ULTRA program resides, you may now move some or all of your virtual set data to another location.
Fixed - A B-source in the Glass Studio's "Glass Cam 1 (Medium)" shot was not positioned correctly.
Fixed - Several issues that could cause activation of ULTRA to be unsuccessful.
Fixed - The Field Priority setting for inputs would sometimes not take effect.

ULTRA 1.25.2231.0 Update (11.0 MB)
This version 1.25.2231.0 contains the following feature improvement and bug fixes:

Feature Improvement - Virtual Sets can now reside on any location accessible to your computer. If you have problems with free file space on the drive where the ULTRA program resides, you may now move some or all of your virtual set data to another location.
Fixed - A B-source in the Glass Studio's "Glass Cam 1 (Medium)" shot was not positioned correctly.
Fixed - Several issues that could cause activation of ULTRA to be unsuccessful.
Fixed - The Field Priority setting for inputs would sometimes not take effect.

ULTRA 2.0.2271.0 Update (18.1 MB)
This version 2.0.2271.0 contains the following feature improvements and bug fixes:

Fixed - The Virtual Shadows and Plus 90 features are now compatible.
Fixed - The "Field Order" property would not assigned properly for Quicktime Input clips.
extremely slow.
Fixed - The Input Preview monitor would not refresh properly when switching from a 4:3 input clip to a 16:9 input clip.
Fixed - Shadow values would not save in a session correctly.
Fixed - Saving in a 32-bit progressive format would cause the image to be squashed into the top-half of the frame.
Fixed - The loop point of included PAL animation file would stutter.
Fixed - Several problems with product activation.
Fixed - Rare crash when loading a session file.

ULTRA 2.0.2271.0 Update (18.1 MB)
This version 2.0.2271.0 contains the following feature improvements and bug fixes:

Fixed - The Virtual Shadows and Plus 90 features are now compatible.
Fixed - The "Field Order" property would not assigned properly for Quicktime Input clips.
extremely slow.
Fixed - The Input Preview monitor would not refresh properly when switching from a 4:3 input clip to a 16:9 input clip.
Fixed - Shadow values would not save in a session correctly.
Fixed - Saving in a 32-bit progressive format would cause the image to be squashed into the top-half of the frame.
Fixed - The loop point of included PAL animation file would stutter.
Fixed - Several problems with product activation.
Fixed - Rare crash when loading a session file.

ULTRA 2.0.2271.0 Update (18.1 MB)
This version 2.0.2271.0 contains the following feature improvements and bug fixes:Fixed - The Virtual Shadows and Plus 90 features are now compatible.
Fixed - The "Field Order" property would not assigned properly for Quicktime Input clips.
extremely slow.
Fixed - The Input Preview monitor would not refresh properly when switching from a 4:3 input clip to a 16:9 input clip.
Fixed - Shadow values would not save in a session correctly.
Fixed - Saving in a 32-bit progressive format would cause the image to be squashed into the top-half of the frame.
Fixed - The loop point of included PAL animation file would stutter.
Fixed - Several problems with product activation.
Fixed - Rare crash when loading a session file.

Visual Communicator 1.7.1415.0 Update (39.0 MB)
This version 1.7.1415.0 update contains many new features, feature improvements, and bug fixes, and brings all Adobe® Visual Communicator® 1.x software users up to the latest version. Users of VC Studio may have already received some of these improvements in earlier updates, and improvements to VC Studio or VC Pro specific features will only be available to users of those versions.
NOTE: A few users of older versions of Visual Communicator that had older system requirements may find that Visual Communicator will no longer run after applying this update. This will most likely be caused by a computer that is running an outdated version of Microsoft's DirectX library. To get the latest version of this library (this 1.7.1415.0 update requires at least DirectX version 9.0b), you can either use the Windows Update feature available via your computer?s Start Menu, or you can point your Internet browser to:
www.microsoft.com/directx
Updating DirectX should solve any problems. If it does not, contact Technical Support for further assistance.

Improvement ? Updated the activation to be more forgiving in some hardware configurations.
Fixed ? Using the same title multiple times would not allow text of those titles to be modified independently.
New feature - Audio microphone throughput to speaker functionality exposed on Audio Setup tab, for full screen output usage.
New feature - Sources previewed from the content folders can be left on screen when loading shows, or editing in general. This is useful for Full Screen Output. Select "Manually Stop Preview Sources" on the application settings dialog to enable this feature. If the file is a video, it will now automatically loop.
New feature - DV camera input resolution can be set to full 720x480, which is useful for improving the quality of Full Screen Output. Unselect new performance setting "Use Half-Resolution in Preview Window for DV Cameras" to enable full resolution input.
New feature - The Publisher and Live Streaming can now output Real 10.
Improvement ? Better audio performance for sound chipsets with inaccurate oscillators, such as certain AC97 chipsets found on Toshiba laptops.
Improvement - Setting project tab home now establishes a new default project location (where projects are created, loaded, and saved). Doing a "Save As..." also sets the project home to the chosen location.
Improvement - When upgrading from Visual Communicator Pro 1.5.X to Pro 1.7.X or Studio 1.7.X, a shortcut to the old projects directory is placed in the user's "My Projects" view. This allows access to old shows created with Pro 1.5.X.
Improvement - HTM and HTML files now can be opened in an external browser from the media libraries.
Improvement - Non-administrator users are now able to run VC without issues.
Improvement - Web Publishing now accepts relative paths for content in such a way that you can review your movie locally without first downloading it on your web server.
Improvement - The Chapter Indexes are now fully functional using Netscape with a Windows Media video.
Improvement - After publishing is successful, the Publisher does not need to rerender the video when publishing again to a different type, such as in an Email or Embedded Web page.
Improvement - Removed insert action menu item.
Fixed - Corruption of first tray or other trays in a project.
Fixed - Audio handling cleaned up to remove echoing effect.
Fixed - Corrected action tray rendering issues for known problematic video cards.
Fixed - When the user pauses a running show (either on the director tab by pressing "Pause" or via the "Pause Teleprompter Effect"), hitting the "Stop" button on the Director tab will cause the Pause button to reset.
Fixed - Crash if you close VC or re-enter publishing before camera refreshes, after exiting the publisher beforehand.
Fixed - KeyBkgd effect camera assignment would get lost when content was assigned to the tray.
Fixed - Manually Stop Preview Sources could leave audio repeating.
Fixed - Advanced V-Screen window does not show settings of currently selected V-Screen when the active input is changed with the dialog open.
Fixed - Previewing a title graphic sometimes leaves the old graphic in the show after the title is edited.
Fixed - Microphone audio missing from published output file, even though the show reviews correctly.
Fixed - Sometimes a clip's audio gets out of sync with its video in the published output file.
Fixed - Microphone audio pass-through & streaming sometimes goes mute after Live Streaming settings dialog and Performance dialog is accessed.
Fixed - Audio sync problem with two-pass publishing.
Fixed - Clearing all the actions would not always refresh the teleprompter window.
Fixed - We now always enable XP theme that StarDock uses. This fixed the tooltips and some other dialogs such as the Copy Dialog (appears when many files are copied to a bin folder).
Fixed - Publishing web pages for UNIX® servers (such as Linux®) would at times look like some content was missing. We now ensure that all the filenames are created in lowercase.
Fixed - Two problems in selecting different options in the Web Links action window were fixed (selections would not always stick, and the Parameter edit box & Target selection box would at times stay disabled).
Fixed - Sometimes a custom title graphic (PG) file locks up VC.
Fixed - The "Custom Compression Settings" dialog for RealMedia wouldn't show the proper selection for the audio and video codecs.
Fixed - The backgrounds will now properly appear in Netscape & Mozilla.
Fixed - The "Web Links (smaller video on the top)" pages are now properly centered.
Fixed - Publishing with the mode "No Web Links (larger video without markers)" and a "Target Browser Resolution" of 1,024x768 would generate too small a video area (512x384 instead of the intended 640x480).
Fixed - "Pause Camera When Offscreen" flag on Advanced dialog of Video Setup tab stopped functioning, so camera frame rates on Windows 2000 systems stopped running smoothly.
Fixed - When republishing a show with all choices except to a hard drive and changing the custom profile settings, the output video would not be re-rendered.
Fixed - The Publisher would not rerender the output video when republishing a show, after rerecording the show or if in the Publisher you customized the profile settings.
Fixed - The "Pass-Thru To Speakers" audio setting is not checked when enabling Live Streaming and it would become enabled after selecting different audio inputs. Pass-Thru now stays disabled and checked whenever Live Streaming is enabled.
Fixed - Publishing to a Web Page must happen twice before the NoRender flag can work.
Fixed - The Real Custom Profile was updated to the Real 10 Version and didn't get copied from Bin\NewUserProfiles.
Fixed - The Clip Attributes were not being written into the Published Windows Media (wmv) video in some cases.

Visual Communicator 1.7.1415.0 Update (39.0 MB)
This version 1.7.1415.0 update contains many new features, feature improvements, and bug fixes, and brings all Adobe® Visual Communicator® 1.x software users up to the latest version. Users of VC Studio may have already received some of these improvements in earlier updates, and improvements to VC Studio or VC Pro specific features will only be available to users of those versions.
NOTE: A few users of older versions of Visual Communicator that had older system requirements may find that Visual Communicator will no longer run after applying this update. This will most likely be caused by a computer that is running an outdated version of Microsoft's DirectX library. To get the latest version of this library (this 1.7.1415.0 update requires at least DirectX version 9.0b), you can either use the Windows Update feature available via your computer?s Start Menu, or you can point your Internet browser to:
www.microsoft.com/directx
Updating DirectX should solve any problems. If it does not, contact Technical Support for further assistance.
Improvement ? Updated the activation to be more forgiving in some hardware configurations.
Fixed ? Using the same title multiple times would not allow text of those titles to be modified independently.
New feature - Audio microphone throughput to speaker functionality exposed on Audio Setup tab, for full screen output usage.
New feature - Sources previewed from the content folders can be left on screen when loading shows, or editing in general. This is useful for Full Screen Output. Select "Manually Stop Preview Sources" on the application settings dialog to enable this feature. If the file is a video, it will now automatically loop.
New feature - DV camera input resolution can be set to full 720x480, which is useful for improving the quality of Full Screen Output. Unselect new performance setting "Use Half-Resolution in Preview Window for DV Cameras" to enable full resolution input.
New feature - The Publisher and Live Streaming can now output Real 10.
Improvement ? Better audio performance for sound chipsets with inaccurate oscillators, such as certain AC97 chipsets found on Toshiba laptops.
Improvement - Setting project tab home now establishes a new default project location (where projects are created, loaded, and saved). Doing a "Save As..." also sets the project home to the chosen location.
Improvement - When upgrading from Visual Communicator Pro 1.5.X to Pro 1.7.X or Studio 1.7.X, a shortcut to the old projects directory is placed in the user's "My Projects" view. This allows access to old shows created with Pro 1.5.X.
Improvement - HTM and HTML files now can be opened in an external browser from the media libraries.
Improvement - Non-administrator users are now able to run VC without issues.
Improvement - Web Publishing now accepts relative paths for content in such a way that you can review your movie locally without first downloading it on your web server.
Improvement - The Chapter Indexes are now fully functional using Netscape with a Windows Media video.
Improvement - After publishing is successful, the Publisher does not need to rerender the video when publishing again to a different type, such as in an Email or Embedded Web page.
Improvement - Removed insert action menu item.
Fixed - Corruption of first tray or other trays in a project.
Fixed - Audio handling cleaned up to remove echoing effect.
Fixed - Corrected action tray rendering issues for known problematic video cards.
Fixed - When the user pauses a running show (either on the director tab by pressing "Pause" or via the "Pause Teleprompter Effect"), hitting the "Stop" button on the Director tab will cause the Pause button to reset.
Fixed - Crash if you close VC or re-enter publishing before camera refreshes, after exiting the publisher beforehand.
Fixed - KeyBkgd effect camera assignment would get lost when content was assigned to the tray.
Fixed - Manually Stop Preview Sources could leave audio repeating.
Fixed - Advanced V-Screen window does not show settings of currently selected V-Screen when the active input is changed with the dialog open.
Fixed - Previewing a title graphic sometimes leaves the old graphic in the show after the title is edited.
Fixed - Microphone audio missing from published output file, even though the show reviews correctly.
Fixed - Sometimes a clip's audio gets out of sync with its video in the published output file.
Fixed - Microphone audio pass-through & streaming sometimes goes mute after Live Streaming settings dialog and Performance dialog is accessed.
Fixed - Audio sync problem with two-pass publishing.
Fixed - Clearing all the actions would not always refresh the teleprompter window.
Fixed - We now always enable XP theme that StarDock uses. This fixed the tooltips and some other dialogs such as the Copy Dialog (appears when many files are copied to a bin folder).
Fixed - Publishing web pages for UNIX® servers (such as Linux®) would at times look like some content was missing. We now ensure that all the filenames are created in lowercase.
Fixed - Two problems in selecting different options in the Web Links action window were fixed (selections would not always stick, and the Parameter edit box & Target selection box would at times stay disabled).
Fixed - Sometimes a custom title graphic (PG) file locks up VC.
Fixed - The "Custom Compression Settings" dialog for RealMedia wouldn't show the proper selection for the audio and video codecs.
Fixed - The backgrounds will now properly appear in Netscape & Mozilla.
Fixed - The "Web Links (smaller video on the top)" pages are now properly centered.
Fixed - Publishing with the mode "No Web Links (larger video without markers)" and a "Target Browser Resolution" of 1,024x768 would generate too small a video area (512x384 instead of the intended 640x480).
Fixed - "Pause Camera When Offscreen" flag on Advanced dialog of Video Setup tab stopped functioning, so camera frame rates on Windows 2000 systems stopped running smoothly.
Fixed - When republishing a show with all choices except to a hard drive and changing the custom profile settings, the output video would not be re-rendered.
Fixed - The Publisher would not rerender the output video when republishing a show, after rerecording the show or if in the Publisher you customized the profile settings.
Fixed - The "Pass-Thru To Speakers" audio setting is not checked when enabling Live Streaming and it would become enabled after selecting different audio inputs. Pass-Thru now stays disabled and checked whenever Live Streaming is enabled.
Fixed - Publishing to a Web Page must happen twice before the NoRender flag can work.
Fixed - The Real Custom Profile was updated to the Real 10 Version and didn't get copied from Bin\NewUserProfiles.
Fixed - The Clip Attributes were not being written into the Published Windows Media (wmv) video in some cases.

Visual Communicator 1.7.1415.0 Update (39.0 MB)
This version 1.7.1415.0 update contains many new features, feature improvements, and bug fixes, and brings all Adobe® Visual Communicator® 1.x software users up to the latest version. Users of VC Studio may have already received some of these improvements in earlier updates, and improvements to VC Studio or VC Pro specific features will only be available to users of those versions.
NOTE: A few users of older versions of Visual Communicator that had older system requirements may find that Visual Communicator will no longer run after applying this update. This will most likely be caused by a computer that is running an outdated version of Microsoft's DirectX library. To get the latest version of this library (this 1.7.1415.0 update requires at least DirectX version 9.0b), you can either use the Windows Update feature available via your computer?s Start Menu, or you can point your Internet browser to:
www.microsoft.com/directx
Updating DirectX should solve any problems. If it does not, contact Technical Support for further assistance.

Improvement ? Updated the activation to be more forgiving in some hardware configurations.
Fixed ? Using the same title multiple times would not allow text of those titles to be modified independently.
New feature - Audio microphone throughput to speaker functionality exposed on Audio Setup tab, for full screen output usage.
New feature - Sources previewed from the content folders can be left on screen when loading shows, or editing in general. This is useful for Full Screen Output. Select "Manually Stop Preview Sources" on the application settings dialog to enable this feature. If the file is a video, it will now automatically loop.
New feature - DV camera input resolution can be set to full 720x480, which is useful for improving the quality of Full Screen Output. Unselect new performance setting "Use Half-Resolution in Preview Window for DV Cameras" to enable full resolution input.
New feature - The Publisher and Live Streaming can now output Real 10.
Improvement ? Better audio performance for sound chipsets with inaccurate oscillators, such as certain AC97 chipsets found on Toshiba laptops.
Improvement - Setting project tab home now establishes a new default project location (where projects are created, loaded, and saved). Doing a "Save As..." also sets the project home to the chosen location.
Improvement - When upgrading from Visual Communicator Pro 1.5.X to Pro 1.7.X or Studio 1.7.X, a shortcut to the old projects directory is placed in the user's "My Projects" view. This allows access to old shows created with Pro 1.5.X.
Improvement - HTM and HTML files now can be opened in an external browser from the media libraries.
Improvement - Non-administrator users are now able to run VC without issues.
Improvement - Web Publishing now accepts relative paths for content in such a way that you can review your movie locally without first downloading it on your web server.
Improvement - The Chapter Indexes are now fully functional using Netscape with a Windows Media video.
Improvement - After publishing is successful, the Publisher does not need to rerender the video when publishing again to a different type, such as in an Email or Embedded Web page.
Improvement - Removed insert action menu item.
Fixed - Corruption of first tray or other trays in a project.
Fixed - Audio handling cleaned up to remove echoing effect.
Fixed - Corrected action tray rendering issues for known problematic video cards.
Fixed - When the user pauses a running show (either on the director tab by pressing "Pause" or via the "Pause Teleprompter Effect"), hitting the "Stop" button on the Director tab will cause the Pause button to reset.
Fixed - Crash if you close VC or re-enter publishing before camera refreshes, after exiting the publisher beforehand.
Fixed - KeyBkgd effect camera assignment would get lost when content was assigned to the tray.
Fixed - Manually Stop Preview Sources could leave audio repeating.
Fixed - Advanced V-Screen window does not show settings of currently selected V-Screen when the active input is changed with the dialog open.
Fixed - Previewing a title graphic sometimes leaves the old graphic in the show after the title is edited.
Fixed - Microphone audio missing from published output file, even though the show reviews correctly.
Fixed - Sometimes a clip's audio gets out of sync with its video in the published output file.
Fixed - Microphone audio pass-through & streaming sometimes goes mute after Live Streaming settings dialog and Performance dialog is accessed.
Fixed - Audio sync problem with two-pass publishing.
Fixed - Clearing all the actions would not always refresh the teleprompter window.
Fixed - We now always enable XP theme that StarDock uses. This fixed the tooltips and some other dialogs such as the Copy Dialog (appears when many files are copied to a bin folder).
Fixed - Publishing web pages for UNIX® servers (such as Linux®) would at times look like some content was missing. We now ensure that all the filenames are created in lowercase.
Fixed - Two problems in selecting different options in the Web Links action window were fixed (selections would not always stick, and the Parameter edit box & Target selection box would at times stay disabled).
Fixed - Sometimes a custom title graphic (PG) file locks up VC.
Fixed - The "Custom Compression Settings" dialog for RealMedia wouldn't show the proper selection for the audio and video codecs.
Fixed - The backgrounds will now properly appear in Netscape & Mozilla.
Fixed - The "Web Links (smaller video on the top)" pages are now properly centered.
Fixed - Publishing with the mode "No Web Links (larger video without markers)" and a "Target Browser Resolution" of 1,024x768 would generate too small a video area (512x384 instead of the intended 640x480).
Fixed - "Pause Camera When Offscreen" flag on Advanced dialog of Video Setup tab stopped functioning, so camera frame rates on Windows 2000 systems stopped running smoothly.
Fixed - When republishing a show with all choices except to a hard drive and changing the custom profile settings, the output video would not be re-rendered.
Fixed - The Publisher would not rerender the output video when republishing a show, after rerecording the show or if in the Publisher you customized the profile settings.
Fixed - The "Pass-Thru To Speakers" audio setting is not checked when enabling Live Streaming and it would become enabled after selecting different audio inputs. Pass-Thru now stays disabled and checked whenever Live Streaming is enabled.
Fixed - Publishing to a Web Page must happen twice before the NoRender flag can work.
Fixed - The Real Custom Profile was updated to the Real 10 Version and didn't get copied from Bin\NewUserProfiles.
Fixed - The Clip Attributes were not being written into the Published Windows Media (wmv) video in some cases.

Visual Communicator 2 Version 2.5.1679.0 Free Update (42.4 MB)
WARNING
This update includes a new method of recording audio input to help eliminate synchronization problems. Due to this new method of timing, previously recorded shows cannot be published until they are re-recorded. If you need to re-publish a show that was recorded with a previous version of Visual Communicator, press the ?Clear Recordings? button on the ?Project? tab before re-recording.

This update contains many bug fixes, and new features.

New Feature - Publishing to Vlog -- This feature allows the functionality to publish your video to our 3rd party hosting provider Playstream and easily integrate with your favorite blog site such as TypePad, Blogger, MySpace, WordPress and many others!
New Feature - Publishing to Flash - Save videos to your local hard drive in Flash FLV or SWF format.
New Feature - Screen Grab - You can now do screen grabs of whatever is in the preview window. Just press CTRL+BACKSPACE and this folder will be created:
"My Documents\Visual Communicator\My Output\My Screen Grabs\SHOW_NAME"
...where SHOW_NAME is the name of your current show. All screen grabs will be in JPG format at the resolution of your preview window. The default setting for your preview window is 320x240 which will be your default resolution for a screen grab. Press CTRL+F (PERFORMANCE SETTINGS in the SETTINGS menu) and go into to CUSTOM and click ENABLE HI-RES PREVIEW for a 640x480 JPG image. The files will be sequentially numbered and called "GrabN.jpg" (N = grab number).
Improvement - Alternate audio input options - You now have the option (on cards that support it) to record audio using an improved and more accurate method. This option is selectable in the Setup/Audio tab, and should help eliminate problems that some users were experiencing with audio drift or some sync issues. If you are not having sync problems you can continue to use the "more compatible" method.
Improvement - Alternate camera handling options - You now have the option to never pause, or stop the camera. This helps with some camera compatibility where camera's would either not display or "lock up" with a static image. The problem would occur if the camera driver did not handle being put in a pause or stop mode, this setting is to compensate for that. Please note that this will increase the CPU usage on your machine depending on the camera used, and possibly raise the minimum requirements when using this option, since camera will be running all the time.
Improvement - Improved camera support - Some cameras were outputting bad timings, and would cause VC to never get a good frame. It will now ignore timing from a camera if recieving 5 seconds of frames with bad timing.
Fixed - Audio could be out of sync on Review (but would be fine after publishing).
Fixed - Crash when previewing an effect, while another is active - This bug occured mostly when a OTS effect was being previewed, and double clicking on an effect to preview it.
Fixed - Lockup when canceling a publish - Sometimes a lockup would occur when trying to cancel a publish, and would require you to end task and restart VC.
Fixed ? Many activation issues have been resolved.
Many other minor bug fixes.

For high resolution input: PRO/STUDIO

Requirements for Live Streaming: STUDIO

Requirements for Full Screen Output: STUDIO

Visual Communicator 2 Version 2.5.1679.0 Free Update (42.4 MB)
WARNING
This update includes a new method of recording audio input to help eliminate synchronization problems. Due to this new method of timing, previously recorded shows cannot be published until they are re-recorded. If you need to re-publish a show that was recorded with a previous version of Visual Communicator, press the ?Clear Recordings? button on the ?Project? tab before re-recording.

This update contains many bug fixes, and new features.

New Feature - Publishing to Vlog -- This feature allows the functionality to publish your video to our 3rd party hosting provider Playstream and easily integrate with your favorite blog site such as TypePad, Blogger, MySpace, WordPress and many others!
New Feature - Publishing to Flash - Save videos to your local hard drive in Flash FLV or SWF format.
New Feature - Screen Grab - You can now do screen grabs of whatever is in the preview window. Just press CTRL+BACKSPACE and this folder will be created:
"My Documents\Visual Communicator\My Output\My Screen Grabs\SHOW_NAME"
...where SHOW_NAME is the name of your current show. All screen grabs will be in JPG format at the resolution of your preview window. The default setting for your preview window is 320x240 which will be your default resolution for a screen grab. Press CTRL+F (PERFORMANCE SETTINGS in the SETTINGS menu) and go into to CUSTOM and click ENABLE HI-RES PREVIEW for a 640x480 JPG image. The files will be sequentially numbered and called "GrabN.jpg" (N = grab number).
Improvement - Alternate audio input options - You now have the option (on cards that support it) to record audio using an improved and more accurate method. This option is selectable in the Setup/Audio tab, and should help eliminate problems that some users were experiencing with audio drift or some sync issues. If you are not having sync problems you can continue to use the "more compatible" method.
Improvement - Alternate camera handling options - You now have the option to never pause, or stop the camera. This helps with some camera compatibility where camera's would either not display or "lock up" with a static image. The problem would occur if the camera driver did not handle being put in a pause or stop mode, this setting is to compensate for that. Please note that this will increase the CPU usage on your machine depending on the camera used, and possibly raise the minimum requirements when using this option, since camera will be running all the time.
Improvement - Improved camera support - Some cameras were outputting bad timings, and would cause VC to never get a good frame. It will now ignore timing from a camera if recieving 5 seconds of frames with bad timing.
Fixed - Audio could be out of sync on Review (but would be fine after publishing).
Fixed - Crash when previewing an effect, while another is active - This bug occured mostly when a OTS effect was being previewed, and double clicking on an effect to preview it.
Fixed - Lockup when canceling a publish - Sometimes a lockup would occur when trying to cancel a publish, and would require you to end task and restart VC.
Fixed ? Many activation issues have been resolved.
Many other minor bug fixes.

For high resolution input: PRO/STUDIO

Requirements for Live Streaming: STUDIO

Requirements for Full Screen Output: STUDIO

Visual Communicator 2 Version 2.5.1679.0 Free Update (42.4 MB)
WARNINGThis update includes a new method of recording audio input to help eliminate synchronization problems. Due to this new method of timing, previously recorded shows cannot be published until they are re-recorded. If you need to re-publish a show that was recorded with a previous version of Visual Communicator, press the ?Clear Recordings? button on the ?Project? tab before re-recording.This update contains many bug fixes, and new features.New Feature - Publishing to Vlog -- This feature allows the functionality to publish your video to our 3rd party hosting provider Playstream and easily integrate with your favorite blog site such as TypePad, Blogger, MySpace, WordPress and many others!
New Feature - Publishing to Flash - Save videos to your local hard drive in Flash FLV or SWF format.
New Feature - Screen Grab - You can now do screen grabs of whatever is in the preview window. Just press CTRL+BACKSPACE and this folder will be created:
"My Documents\Visual Communicator\My Output\My Screen Grabs\SHOW_NAME"
...where SHOW_NAME is the name of your current show. All screen grabs will be in JPG format at the resolution of your preview window. The default setting for your preview window is 320x240 which will be your default resolution for a screen grab. Press CTRL+F (PERFORMANCE SETTINGS in the SETTINGS menu) and go into to CUSTOM and click ENABLE HI-RES PREVIEW for a 640x480 JPG image. The files will be sequentially numbered and called "GrabN.jpg" (N = grab number).
Improvement - Alternate audio input options - You now have the option (on cards that support it) to record audio using an improved and more accurate method. This option is selectable in the Setup/Audio tab, and should help eliminate problems that some users were experiencing with audio drift or some sync issues. If you are not having sync problems you can continue to use the "more compatible" method.
Improvement - Alternate camera handling options - You now have the option to never pause, or stop the camera. This helps with some camera compatibility where camera's would either not display or "lock up" with a static image. The problem would occur if the camera driver did not handle being put in a pause or stop mode, this setting is to compensate for that. Please note that this will increase the CPU usage on your machine depending on the camera used, and possibly raise the minimum requirements when using this option, since camera will be running all the time.
Improvement - Improved camera support - Some cameras were outputting bad timings, and would cause VC to never get a good frame. It will now ignore timing from a camera if recieving 5 seconds of frames with bad timing.
Fixed - Audio could be out of sync on Review (but would be fine after publishing).
Fixed - Crash when previewing an effect, while another is active - This bug occured mostly when a OTS effect was being previewed, and double clicking on an effect to preview it.
Fixed - Lockup when canceling a publish - Sometimes a lockup would occur when trying to cancel a publish, and would require you to end task and restart VC.
Fixed ? Many activation issues have been resolved.
Many other minor bug fixes.

For high resolution input: PRO/STUDIO
Requirements for Live Streaming: STUDIO
Requirements for Full Screen Output: STUDIO

The Adobe® Acrobat® 3D 7.1.0 update addresses a number of customer issues and security vulnerabilities. Adobe recommends that all Acrobat 3D 7.0 users apply this update.

For more information regarding issues addressed in this release, see the Release Notes.

This multilingual update is available in the following language versions: English, French, German, and Japanese.

The Adobe® Acrobat® 3D 7.1.0 update addresses a number of customer issues and security vulnerabilities. Adobe recommends that all Acrobat 3D 7.0 users apply this update.

For more information regarding issues addressed in this release, see the Release Notes.

This multilingual update is available in the following language versions: English, French, German, and Japanese.

The Adobe® Acrobat® 3D 7.1.0 update addresses a number of customer issues and security vulnerabilities. Adobe recommends that all Acrobat 3D 7.0 users apply this update.
For more information regarding issues addressed in this release, see the Release Notes.
This multilingual update is available in the following language versions: English, French, German, and Japanese.

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.2 update adds native support for the Sony XDCAM range of cameras, including disc-based XDCAM and XDCAM HD cameras, and the newer SxS-based XDCAM EX cameras. This release also includes improved handling of MPEG streams (for example, HDV video), along with error detection and other important bug fixes. Recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users.

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.2 update adds native support for the Sony XDCAM range of cameras, including disc-based XDCAM and XDCAM HD cameras, and the newer SxS-based XDCAM EX cameras. This release also includes improved handling of MPEG streams (for example, HDV video), along with error detection and other important bug fixes. Recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users.

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.2 update adds native support for the Sony XDCAM range of cameras, including disc-based XDCAM and XDCAM HD cameras, and the newer SxS-based XDCAM EX cameras. This release also includes improved handling of MPEG streams (for example, HDV video), along with error detection and other important bug fixes. Recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users.

The Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 3.2 update adds native support for the Sony XDCAM range of cameras, including disc-based XDCAM and XDCAM HD cameras, and the newer SxS-based XDCAM EX cameras. This release also includes improved handling of MPEG streams (for example, HDV video), along with error detection and other important bug fixes. Recommended for all Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 users.