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VERTIGO SUITE 5.3 SERVICE PACK 1 Release Notes M852-0303-531 2016-06-20 Notices Copyright and Trademark Notice Copyright © 2016, Grass Valley Canada. All rights reserved. Belden, Belden Sending All The Right Signals, and the Belden logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc. or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions. Grass Valley, Miranda, Vertigo Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Grass Valley Canada. Belden Inc., Grass Valley Canada, and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein. Terms and Conditions Please read the following terms and conditions carefully. By using Vertigo Suite documentation, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Grass Valley hereby grants permission and license to owners of Vertigo Suite to use their product manuals for their own internal business use. 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Document Information Title Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 Release Notes Software Version Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 Part Number M852-0303-531 Revision History Date Description June 20, 2016 First publication i Table of Contents 1 Introducing Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1. 1 What’s new in Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 . 2 New features in 5.3 SP1 . 2 Fixes in 5.3 SP1 . 2 What’s new in Vertigo Suite 5.3 GA . 3 New features in 5.3 GA. 3 Feature enhancements in 5.3 GA. 3 Fixes in 5.3 GA. 4 2 Installation and Upgrade Procedures . 5 Preparing to install or upgrade Vertigo Suite . 6 Network requirements. .6 Client workstation specifications. 7 Platform and database considerations . .7 Accessing the Vertigo Suite installation files . 8 Accessing Vertigo Suite user documentation . 8 Installing Vertigo Suite using the Vertigo Setup Wizard . 9 Installing Vertigo Suite using the unattended deployment. .11 Acquiring and validating licenses . .13 Uninstalling the Vertigo Suite software. .13 Downgrading from Vertigo Suite 5.0 (or higher) to 4.10 . .13 Xmedia Server Pro-e4 integration procedures . .15 Replace the Virtual Database on the XMS-Pro-e4 . .15 Create a backup copy of the SQL Server 2008 R2 database . .16 Restore the SQL 2008 R2 database in SQL 2014 on the Xmedia Server Pro-e4 . .16 3 Known Issues and Limitations . 19 4 Devices and Software Supported by this Release . 21 Contact Us . 23 ii Table of Contents iii Introducing Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 Vertigo Suite 5.3 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is a cumulative, full-version of the Vertigo Suite software, in that it contains all the features and fixes from the initial 5.3 release and supplemental releases since. As such, it can be used for new installations, for upgrading from one major and minor release to another, or for updating the same release stream. Notes • The Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 installer is only accessible from the “Downloads for Broadcast Products” section of the Grass Valley Web site. See Accessing the Vertigo Suite installation files, on page 8 for more information. • All user documentation supporting Vertigo Suite software and hardware products is now available in the “Documentation Library” on the Grass Valley Web site. See Accessing Vertigo Suite user documentation, on page 8 for more information. 1 Introducing Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 What’s new in Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 What’s new in Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 New features in 5.3 SP1 The following table identifies the new features that were introduced in the Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 release. Item # Description VXM-807 Vertigo Xnews and the Xmedia Server now integrate with the Ross Inception News - Newsroom Computer System The MOS protocol is used to communicate the creation, modification and deletion of segments and rundowns between the Xmedia Server and Inception News. Xnews can now be opened within the Inception News client to create shared and embedded pages and to schedule them in segments and rundowns. You can also use the Vertigo Suite’s Work Order Management system to create work orders and jobs and process them through the approval workflow. See the Xnews User manual and the Xmedia Server Configuration Guide for more information. Fixes in 5.3 SP1 The following table identifies the bug fixes that were addressed in the Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 release. Item # Description VXM-792 Pages created using the Producer API did not have a valid thumbnail A valid thumbnail was not created for pages created using the Producer.App.SavePage method of the Producer API in Xbuilder or Xplay. Calls to the Producer.App.SavePage method now generate a valid thumbnail. VXM-795 The XG became unresponsive when playing a clip and the "Force Textures Power of 2" setting was enabled The XG became unresponsive when playing a clip and the "Force Textures Power of 2" setting was enabled on the XG Dashboard. After a fix, the XG operates as expected in these conditions. VXM-813 In Xplay, a call to Producer.App.ErrorMessage could cause Xplay to become unresponsive Xplay would sometimes become unresponsive if a call to Producer.App.ErrorMessage had a message string containing the % character followed by the letter S. Now the message containing the % character is printed and Xplay operates as expected. 2 Vertigo Suite v5.2 Release Notes What’s new in Vertigo Suite 5.3 GA The following sections identify the new features, enhancements and bug fixes that were addressed in the Vertigo Suite 5.3 GA release. Since Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 is a a cumulative, full-version of the Vertigo Suite software, these items are also relevant to the SP1 release. New features in 5.3 GA The following table identifies the new features that were introduced in the Vertigo Suite 5.3 GA release. Item # Description VXM-695 Added support for timecode for timestamping command on the XG XG supports timestamps generated from a timecode card in all supported framerates. Feature enhancements in 5.3 GA The following table identifies the feature enhancements that were introduced in the Vertigo Suite 5.3 GA release. Item # Description VXM-741 Added Base URL field to Xstudio’s Social Media Data Sources The Base URL field was added to the Data Manager’s Schema Settings page, when defining a social media data source. The Base URL field displays the URL used to retrieve data from the social media provider. In most cases, the default URL is accurate should not be edited. If the social media provider changes the address from which the social media data is retrieved, you can edit the URL. You can also use the Restore Default button to return to the default setting. See “Creating a social media data source” in the Xstudio User Manual for more information. VXM-758 Added the ability to delete a propagation location On an Xmedia Server that has been configured as a propagation hub using distributed work orders, it is now possible to delete a propagation location even if that location is offline, or is unable to respond to the hub. When such a situation arises, you are informed of the problem and are given the option to proceed with the delete of the propagation location. See “Propagation guidelines” in the Xmedia Server Configuration Guide for more information. VXM-759 The “Propagate to all associated locations” command has been added in Xplorer Right-clicking an asset or a category in Xplorer now offers the “Propagate to all associated locations” command. This command allows you to propagate to all locations that are associated to that asset, category or parent category. 3 Introducing Vertigo Suite 5.3 SP1 Fixes in 5.3 GA Fixes in 5.3 GA The following table identifies the bug fixes that were addressed in the Vertigo Suite 5.3 GA release. Item # Description VXM-536 Deleting a propagated category does not remove the category from the recipient Xmedia Server If a propagated category is deleted on a propagating Xmedia Server, the category will also be deleted on the recipient Xmedia Server. See “Propagation guidelines” in the Xmedia Server Configuration Guide for more information. VXM-707 File Ingest Server Monitoring window stops working when removing a server whose status is "not connected" The File Ingest Server Monitoring window would stop working when the Remove Server button was used to remove a server whose Connection Status was "not connected". This issue has been resolved. VXM-710 Grouped Scene objects were transformed incorrectly during a Save As operation Settings associated with the layout of grouped Scene objects were incorrectly changed when the Save As operation was used to create a new copy of the template. This issue has been resolved. VXM-724 Imagestore, LGK and DSK devices could become cluttered with unsupported video clips Video clips in formats that are not supported by Imagestore, LGK and DSK devices are no longer published to these device types. VXM-726 Despite having been ingested into the system, assets with names VXM-739 containing unsupported characters fail to playout To resolve this issue, the following asset naming conventions and rules are enforced during the ingest process: • Whitespace characters at the beginning or the end of the file name are automatically removed upon ingest • Supported characters include: alphabetic characters, numbers [0-9], space, underscore (_), dash (-), pound (#) Trying to ingest a file whose name contains invalid characters causes the ingest to fail.