The new major version Silverstack Lab 9 brings many improvements, including:

• New workflow interface that unifies offload, transcoding, backup wizards (and more); Allows to reduce repetitive tasks by chaining activities
• Interleaved Job execution for faster turnaround times
• EL Zone exposure assist and false color modes
• Undo

…and much more! Your Silverstack 8 libraries can be migrated easily.

For full details and the download link, click "Learn more...".

Silverstack Lab - 8.9.2

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Blackmagic RAW decoding crash (for certain resolutions)
• Fixed: Clips w/ renaming on offload - ALE showed undeterministic "Souce File Name"
  Consistently shows new file name now.
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.9.1

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Lens information not extracted for ARRI MXF clips

Silverstack Lab - 8.9

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

Changes

• New: Support for ARRI ALEXA 265 camera
• New: Support for ARRI ALEXA 35 Monochrome camera
• New: ACES 2.0 support for beta transforms
  Requires manual download of the beta transforms package.
• Improved: Blackmagic RAW decoding performance
  Significant boost of transcoding speeds with new transcoding pipeline.
• Improved: Added format option for date wildcards "yy-mm-dd"
• Updated: ARRI Image SDK to 8.3.1
• Updated: ARRI MXF lib to 4.3.5.0
• Updated: Blackmagic RAW SDK to 4.3.1
• Changed: Marked macOS 13 deprecated
  You can continue working on macOS 13 with this release, but support will be removed in one of the next releases.
• Changed: Minor changes in PFLA import in preperation for upcoming Livegrade versions

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Drop frame timecodes in DNx transcodes were not properly flagged
• Fixed: Monochrome TIFFs were shown with red color
• Fixed: Sources containing ASC MHL histories with directory hashes incorrectly lead to warnings in the Offload Wizard

Silverstack Lab - 8.8.5

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Changes

• Changed: Added ".Trashes" files to default ignore patterns
  Will ignore those hidden files when offloading as their presence on some sound cards leads to issues.
• Improved: Ready for upcoming Codex Device Manager updates

Bugfixes

• Fixed: AMF reference to file sequences did not follow spec
• Fixed: ShotHub library sync issues that could lead to corrupt cloud project
• Fixed: Ingesting 0 clips with DJI Cinema DNG importer lead to crash
• Fixed: Some ASC MHL creation issues did not result in failed state
• Fixed: Upload to Webgate.io did not replace existing proxies on Webgate

Silverstack Lab - 8.8.4

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Changes

• Prepared for macOS 15 Sequoia
  Intel systems are also supported now.
• Improved: Smart Folders allow to filter by "Shot Descriptors"
• Improved: Library size optimizations

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Failed transcodes on some macOS 15 systems
• Fixed: F-Stop was not extracted for some clips
• Fixed: Jump to previous/next cue point was sometimes not working
• Fixed: WAV and MOV files with unreasonable date values lead to ShotHub errors

Silverstack Lab - 8.8.3

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Changes

• Prepared for macOS 15 Sequoia on Silicon systems
  Intel systems with macOS 15 not fully supported yet.
• New: Support for Sony XAVC-H footage
  Requires installation of Apple's "Pro Video Formats".
• Updated: Blackmagic RAW SDK to 4.2
  Adds support for footage of Blackmagic's URSA Cine 12K LF & PYXIS 6K, some new Fujifilm and Panasonic cameras.
• Changed: Added ".Trashes" files to default ignore patterns
  Will ignore those hidden files when offloading as their presence on some sound cards leads to issues.
• Improved: Added alert before pasting looks on multiple clips

Bugfixes

• Fixed: ShotHub received incomplete list of clip resources or metadata in some scenarios
• Fixed: ShotHub sync timeout issues
• Fixed: Matching looks via ShotHub did not take over shooting day metadatum
• Fixed: Could not add new Slack channels anymore (outdated browser message)
• Fixed: Waveform creation and LTC extraction failed for XAVC-S clips registered with "Canon Cameras" importer
• Fixed: Crashes due to invalid audio mix
• Fixed: Crash when registering ARRI clips with unexpected LUT dimension
• Fixed: FCP and Premiere XML export sometimes showed incorrect sensor FPS and shutter angle
• Fixed: ASC MHL <creatorinfo> section and <metadata/> tag not conform with spec

Silverstack Lab - 8.8.2

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Changes

• Added: Warning if offloading via Codex Device Manager 7.3.0/7.3.1
  Known issues in the recent Codex Device Manager versions, make sure the _hde volume is complete before starting the offload wizard.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Crash toggeling scopes quickly
• Fixed: Crash on import of ARRI clips with LUT size 17

Silverstack Lab - 8.8.1

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Crash when trying to playback offline R3D clips
• Fixed: UI problem collapsing sections in transcoding preset panel

Silverstack Lab - 8.8

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

Changes

• Migration: Changed internal library structure, requires migration of project
  Old projects can be migrated, but migrated projects are incompatible with older versions of Silverstack.
• Minimum System Requirement: MacOS 12
  MacOS 13 or 14 recommended.
• New: ProRes RAW support
  New importer in offload wizard. Automatically decodes into camera vendor's log space and applies appropriate rec709 LUT.
• New: ProRes RAW decoding colorspaces
  Options: HLG / Rec. 2020, S-Log3 (Cine), D-Log, and more.
• New: ACES Custom IDT
  Support for CLF files (custom LUT format) as custom input device transforms.
• New: Support for Canon EOS C400 camera
  Including new XF-AVC S and XF-HEVC S codecs.
• New: Support for REDCODE RAW clips with extended highlights
  Opt-in extended highlight processing via Preferences>Formats>RED Cameras.
• New: Support for Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF camera
• Improved: ASC MHL Hash Manifests
  Adds support for injection of creator info and ignore patterns. Set via Settings>Copy&Jobs>ASC MHL>⋯.
• Improved: ZoeLog metadata importer
  Allow custom matching; Prefer "Take Origin" column for date matching.
• Improved: Cleanup of temporary library backup files
  Previously required restart to clean up.
• Improved: MP4 scanning speed
• Changed: ShotHub account credentials now stored as tokens
  Credentials will be converted on startup, might require re-login via web form.
• Updated: ARRI Image SDK and MXF lib to 8.2.0 / 4.1.15
• Updated: RED R3D SDK to 8.5.1
• Updated: Codex HDE Decoder SDK to 5.2.9
• Updated: Canon CRM SDK to 2.9 R3
• Updated: Blackmagic RAW SDK to 4.0

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Offload wizard file sequence size preview
  Was in rare cases shown incorrectly as some petabytes.
• Fixed: Offload wizard templates with file renaming pattern was sometimes unintentionally reset
• Fixed: Contact print report page break issue in macOS14
• Fixed: DJI thumbnail metadata information unnecessarily occupied space in library
• Fixed: Library restore mechanism could move thumbnails away from original project
• Fixed: Wildcard preview was sometimes not updated
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.7.2

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

Changes

• Added: QTake import option "match by first n characters of clip name"
  Allows matching with slightly differing clip names between OCN and QTake (e.g., Alexa 35 HDE footage).
• Added: New EDL import option
  Allows matching EDL-reelname with Silverstack clipname.
• Added: Focal length in Resolve CSV export
  
• Updated: ZLCF extraction
  Added support for newer camera sensors.
• Changed: Marked macOS 12 deprecated
  You can continue working on macOS 12 with this release, but support will be removed in one of the next releases.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Streamdeck actions could hang
• Fixed: Decoding failed for some clips at the end
• Fixed: Look matching changed the decoding colorspace setting of certain RAW footage
• Fixed: Sorting in combined clip transcoding was unexpected sometimes
• Fixed: Audio syncing multiple (single-track) WAVs to one video clip
  Multi-match did not sort all tracks as expected.
• Fixed: ARRIRAW decoding artifacts on some Intel machines
  Forces non-parallel decoding on Intel machines, can result in lower performance on those systems.
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.7.1

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Used incorrect default RAW processing parameters for some ARRIRAW clips
  Resulted in an incorrect look. Use "Clip>Recreate Thumbnails" to fix the thumbs of clips ingested with 8.7.

Silverstack Lab - 8.7

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Changes

• New: Support for X-OCN footage from Sony Burano
• New: Support for ARRI custom color management looks
  Can extract up to 3 LUTs from Alexa 35 clips: CMT, DRT SDR, and DRT HDR.
• Improved: Ci Media Cloud upload performance
• Improved: Scanning time of Venice 2 footage
• Improved: Minor transcoding improvements for certain formats
  Can improve performance of, e.g., certain XAVC flavors on systems with strong CPUs (e.g., Intel MacPro).
• Added: Metadata extraction of "ND Filter" for R3D footage
• Removed: Sidecar file special handling in Blackmagic RAW importer
  Removed binding of .sidecar files to respective clips in offload wizard and library due to changes of BMD's folder structures.
• Updated: ARRI Image SDK 8.1.0 / MXF Lib 4.1.7.0
• Updated: Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.6
• Updated: RED R3D SDK 8.4.0
• Updated: Sony RAW SDK 5.0.0 / SMDK 4.24.0

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Creating reports could change library table layout
• Fixed: Report layout configuration sometimes not persisted
• Fixed: Automatic volume selection in "Offload (Last Mounted Volume)" feature was not always reliable
• Fixed: Look matching wizard could unintentionally import metadata
  Could happen when unchecking the wizard's "Import metadata" checkbox after having visited the metadata preview step already.
• Fixed: "Zoom to fit" sometimes not working on macOS 14
• Fixed: "Sort Bins by…" menu broken on macOS 14
• Fixed: Tangent panel actions "Select Next Node" and "Select Previous Node" swapped
• Fixed: ARRIRAW monochrome footage not displayed correctly in ¼ decoding resolution mode
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.6.5

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

Changes

• Added: "LUT Nodes" and "SAT Nodes" available as burn-ins
• Added: "Sensor FPS" available as path wildcard for offloads
• Improved: LockitNetwork metadata importer
  Import into metadata fields "Custom 1-6" with adjustable mapping via LockitNetwork

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Erros setting up SDI video output not reflected in UI
  Could lead to black internal player without notification.
• Fixed: Very large backups could lead to crash
  Could run into system limitation of allowed file handles.
• Fixed: Grading while in full-screen player did not updated view instantly
• Fixed: Tangent panel commands "Previous Frame" and "Next Frame" did not work
• Fixed: Look library's look name field sometimes lost focus while editing
• Fixed: Look library scroll position was not restored
• Fixed: Could not add new Slack channels anymore (outdated browser message)
• Fixed: Transcoding presets with custom width or height set to "0" lead to crash
• Fixed: Camera orientation metadata field not shown correctly
• Fixed: Some MPEG-2 clips from old cameras failed transcoding at last frame
• Fixed: Premiere XML export did not link multi-part clips and image sequences properly
• Fixed: 3-Thumbnails report did not respect in/out points for thumbnail generation
• Improved: Generic clips importer metadata extraction
• Removed: LockitNetwork importer "Slate Additional" incorrectly mapped to "Crew Unit"
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.6.4

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Changes

• New: Ready for macOS 14 "Sonoma"
• Changed: Marked macOS 11 deprecated
  You can continue working on macOS 11 with this release, but support will be removed in one of the next releases.

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Result curves were missing in scopes
• Fixed: License reactivation in daily activation mode sometimes failed with "Mismatch of client and server time"
• Fixed: Opening look matching or LockitNetwork wizard while multiple bins were selected did not list clips from all bins
• Fixed: Revealing job details could lead to UI hang
• Fixed: Audio sync wizard could unintentionally import metadata
  Could happen when unchecking the wizard's "Import metadata" checkbox after having visited the metadata preview step already.

Silverstack Lab - 8.6.3

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

Changes

• Improved: Progress bar behavior for resumed and retried jobs

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Occasional crash switching to LUTs of larger dimension
• Fixed: Alexa 35 ARRIRAW decoding artifacts on some Intel machines with macOS 13.5.x
  Forces non-parallel decoding on Intel macOS 13.5+ machines, can result in lower performance on those systems.
• Fixed: Failing uploads to Webgate.io
• Fixed: Rare problem activating licenses
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.6.2

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Memory leak in multi destination transcoding
• Fixed: Playback crashes sometimes when previewing look
• Fixed: SDI-out dislocated for ProRes clips with resolution 4448x3096
• Fixed: General info categories sometimes collapse unexpectedly
• Fixed: ShotHub sync requires re-entry of credentials
• Fixed: Some shortcuts not working
  Fixed "File>Seal>Folder", "File>Show Clips Clips and Documents", "File>Show Clips Only", and items in "File>Import"

Silverstack Lab - 8.6.1

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Crashes in playback on Intel systems with macOS 11.x
  Fallback to legacy 3DLUT pipeline on all macOS 11.x systems
• Fixed: "Unknown Error" transcoding to MP4
• Fixed: Performance issues transcoding to H.264 in some situations
• Fixed: Table layout chooser not working properly
• Fixed: Thumbnail of cropped anamorphic clips shrinks to bottom left
  Use "Clip > Recreate Thumbnails" to fix broken thumbnails
• Fixed: Processing of 8 bit full-range video clips defect
  Use "Clip > Recreate Thumbnails" to fix broken thumbnails
• Fixed: Slack integration not working properly
• Fixed: Cannot export multiple looks at once
• Fixed: Transcoding to some DNx codec variants fails
• Fixed: EDL import can lead to crash
• Fixed: Potential problem in Stream Deck plugin

Silverstack Lab - 8.6

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

Changes

• New: Stream Deck integration
  Control Silverstack Lab with Elgato Stream Deck devices. Introducing quick offload (last mounted volume) and other convenient actions
• New: LockitNetwork metadata importer
  Import script/continuity metadata from the LockitNetwork cloud service
• New: Optional daily license activation mode
  A convenient option for using the same license on multiple devices on different days
• Improved: Decoding performance of H.264/H.265 and ProRes codecs
  Significant performance boosts for many video codecs (e.g., XAVC, XF-AVC, MXF-ProRes) on Apple Silicon systems with video and/or ProRes decode engines
• Improved: ARRIRAW proxy decoding performance
  Boost of decoding speed with new ½ and ¼ resolution modes
• Improved: Color accuracy for (YUV) video formats
  Better color accuracy for playback and transcoding with revised 16 bit video processing pipelines
• Improved: ProRes ½ and ¼ decoding quality
  Better color accuracy when using 8 bit ½ and ¼ decoding resolution modes
• Improved: AWS S3 upload
  Support for upload of multi-part clips and better support for self-hosted "S3 compatible" server
• Improved: Burn-Ins with dynamic metadata
  New burn-in wildcard tokens for custom arrangement of dynamic metadata fields (e.g., Video/Audio TC, Tilt/Roll, Focus Distance)
• Improved: Still image export preset management
  On/Off switches for easier use of multiple export presets for different activities.
• Improved: AMF Export with UUIDs
  Unique identifiers for referencing batch-exported AMFs and their ALE index
• Added: Support for monochrome ARRIRAW (and HDE) clips
  Some flavors of monochrome ARRIRAW require setting a hidden pref to activate the monochrome processing mode. Contact our support in case you are interested.
• Added: Transfer header info metadata to library functionalities
  Automatic import or manual take-over of special metadata fields to Silverstack's custom fields
• Added: Option to force H.264/H.265 (AVC) decoding to CPU
  Using the CPU instead of the video decode engines might perform better on systems with many CPU cores (e.g., Intel MacPro). Try checking the option in the Copy&Jobs preferences.
• Added: SDI video output full/legal signal range selection
• Added: SDI video output RGB-YCbCr conversion matrix selection
• Added: Quick Entry field "Episode" in Scene/Shot/Take HUD
• Changed: 3D LUT node processing
  New implementation for faster processing at equal quality
• Changed: LUT interpolation mode
  New default: Tetrahedral; Removed: legacy interpolation mode for better image quality
• Changed: Hidden pref for forcing "a" instead of "h" in Alexa 35 HDE clip names
  Due to new default behvior of Codex VFS. Contact our support in case you want the "a" option back.
• Updated: ARRI Image SDK 8.0.0 / MXF Lib 4.1.4.0
• Updated: Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.1

Bugfixes

• Improved: Alexa 35 HDE scanning time via Codex VFS
• Fixed: Very long scanning times for MP4 files (e.g., XAVC-S) in offload wizard
  Results in some XAVC-S lens metadata not being extracted per default, opt-in deep scanning in XAVC-S format preferences.
• Fixed: ProRes clips on Intel machines with the latest macOS versions led to crashes in ½ and ¼ decoding resolution mode
• Fixed: Full-screen player needed to be clicked into before accepting arrow key navigation
• Fixed: Look library thumbnails occasionally not created on recent macOS versions
• Fixed: Sony RAW ingest took unnaturally long
• Fixed: Issues creating ASC-MHL in some multi-user scenarios
• Fixed: 3D LUT export mentioned Livegrade as creator
• Fixed: Crop 2,39:1 did not work with some region settings in the system settings
• Fixed: Rare deadlocks when canceling offload jobs with many files
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.5.2

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Timecode from DNx transcodes sometimes not correctly ingested in library
  Only when transcoding setting "limit to in/out points" was used, also affected ALE
• Fixed: New installations of Silverstack per default ingested clips without look
• Fixed: ARI+ARX ARRIRAW flip property sometimes not read correctly
• Fixed: Applying looks from library could apply invalid decoding colorspace
• Fixed: Kinefinity ProRes footage with multistream-non interleaved audio track configurations could lead to crash in playback

Silverstack Lab - 8.5.1

Thu, 04 May 2023

Changes

• Added: Anamorphic desequeeze option 1.6

Bugfixes

• Fixed: ARRIRAW clips with 29.97fps lead to crash
• Fixed: Random color shifts in DJI CinemaDNG
• Fixed: Some XAVC-S clips fail to transcode
• Fixed: Some XAVC-S clips playback very slowly on Intel systems
• Fixed: Volume playback priority not respected in edge cases
• Fixed: JPEG image sequences displayed in linear colorspace
• Fixed: "Develover cannot be verified" warning after downloading Silverstack
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.5

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

Changes

• New: Upload to Sony's Ci Media Cloud
  Upload via file request URL, track upload progress and pause&resume in jobs view, include links in reports
• Added: Support for Sony MXF ProRes footage (Venice 1&2)
• Added: Support for DJI Cinema DNG footage
  Including custom RAW settings and decoding color space
• Improved: ARRIRAW performance
  Significant boost, especially on M1 Ultra systems
• Improved: Sony X-OCN performance
  Improved performance with new Metal pipeline
• Improved: AMF look export with ALE
  Add an ALE index to your look export that references AMFs with clip names
• Improved: LogC4 ARRIRAW decoding available for all ARRI cameras
• Improved: Re-introduced dynamic metadata extraction for ARRI QuickTime ProRes footage
• Improved: Audio extraction for Sony FX-3 footage with particular audio configurations
• Updated: ARRI Image SDK and MXF lib to 7.1.1/4.1.1.0
• Updated: Rendering pipelines for non-RAW MXF clips and particular (minor) formats
• Changed: Consolidated remaining ARRI importer
  Only one importer for all ARRI cameras and formats in offload wizard

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Offload job remaining time display (HDE offloads)
• Fixed: Transcoding to particular custom resolutions failed in Metal pipeline
• Fixed: Duplicate detection for Alexa 35 HDE clips
• Fixed: Transcoding jobs were waiting for upload jobs in some situations
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.4.4

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

Changes

• Changed: Maximum resolution for H264 transcodings now 8k
• Changed: Project FPS of Phantom clips now editable
  Fallback project FPS can also be configured in format preferences

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Performance issues and hangs in grid view playback
• Fixed: Hang when expanding/collapsing large folder trees
• Fixed: Changing smart folder predicate did not properly update result
• Fixed: Alexa 35 HDE offloads with verification behavior "Separate (per Job)"
• Fixed: Sealing with Lost&Found items
• Fixed: AWS S3 upload with files >50GB
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.4.3

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

Changes

• Improved: Allow editing of the project fps for Phantom clips

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Metal based ARRIRAW transcoding can produce duplicate frames
• Fixed: Wrong sensor fps extracted for certain ARRI MXF clips
• Fixed: Changing the decoding colorspace setting does not apply directly to clips already loaded in the player
• Fixed: Transcoding wildcards are not available in the Chinese localization

Silverstack Lab - 8.4.2

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Crash when ingesting certain .arx clips
• Fixed: MHL creation can fail with some path configurations
• Fixed: Phantom clips are decoded with wrong colors
• Fixed: Playback view and mini player do not update the timeline if selecting multiple folders
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

Silverstack Lab - 8.4.1

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Opening the mini player lead to crashes
• Fixed: Very large files could not be uploaded to S3
• Fixed: Regular library backups caused migration backups to be deleted
• Fixed: Migration for ARRI Amira Clips
• Fixed: Playback grid view was not updated in some cases
• Fixed: Transcoding preset without names could lead to crashes
• Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts "." and "," for audio slipping
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

Silverstack Lab - 8.4

Wed, 01 Feb 2023

Changes

• New: Custom RAW development settings
  Adjust RAW settings like ISO/WB/Tint for ARRIRAW, REDCODE RAW, Sony X-OCN, and Canon CRM footage
• New: RAW decoding color space
  Choose decoding color space for ALEXA Mini LF, Sony X-OCN, and Canon CRM footage
• New: ASC-MHL hash manifest histories
  Activate in "Copy & Job"-preferences to create or continue ASC-MHL histories during offload and backup
• New: Transcoding with automatic decoding quality
  Chooses decoding quality automatically based on source and target resolution
• New: Support for Alexa 35 HDE workflow with Codex Device Manager 7.0 Beta
  On-the-fly HDE compression during offload via VFS, metadata extraction, and playback
• New: Support for Venice 2 - Firmware 2
  New Raw formats; Custom LUT extraction
• New: Support for AMF import without IDTs
• New: More checksum methods available for offload and verification
  Added C4ID, XXH3, XXH128 algorithms. Please note these checksum methods are not compatible with Sealing.
• Improved: Verification Speed
  Better speed on M1 systems through platform-specific optimizations; Faster file size check methods
• Improved: Sony X-OCN and Canon CRM default color space and gamut
  Now processed with "as shot" color space and gamut per default
• Improved: ARRIRAW processing now also available via Metal API
  Faster processing on modern systems
• Improved: Metadata extraction for certain cameras/formats
  More and better metadata extracted for, e.g. ARRI ALEXA 35, Sony FX-3, DJI (ProRes), Canon CRM
• Improved: Codex VFS scanning
  Checked for complete initialization before starting offload wizard
• Improved: More transcoding job parameters available in job detail view
• Changed: REDCODE RAW footage import
  Applying "as-shot" grading (ignore custom REDCINE-X grading) on import; Forcing IPP2 color pipeline
• Changed: Consolidated importer for ARRI Cameras
  Removed redundancies and updated metadata extraction
• Changed: ARRI ALEXA 35 custom LUT extraction
  Now applying creative log2log-LUT and log2rec709-LUT separately
• Changed: Better handling and transparency for resource inconsistencies of multi-part clips
• Changed: Abstraction of decoding quality modes for all formats
  No more format-specific settings; Use "Auto Select"-mode or manually choose one decoding preference for all formats. Existing presets are updated to "Auto Select" mode.
• Changed: ALE ASC_SOP column
  Removed space character between SOP blocks
• Changed: Metadata fields EI/ISO, White Balance, and Tint
  Not manually editable anymore; Renamed with suffix "(clip)" to differentiate versus new "(current)"-fields which reflect custom RAW settings
• Changed: New columns in main table and reports
  Custom RAW settings: "EI/ISO (current)", "WB (current)", "Tint (current)"; New Hashes: "C4ID", "XXH3", "XXH128"
• Changed: Renamed columns in main table and reports
  "XXHash 64 BE" → "XXH64"; "EI/ISO" → "EI/ISO (clip)", "White Balance" → "WB (clip)", "Tint" → "Tint (clip)"
• Changed: Removed columns in main table and reports
  "XXHash 64" (redundant with former XXHash 64 BE), "Device ID" (redundant with Recorder ID)
• Updated: Sony RAW SDK and SMDK to 4.1.0 / 4.22.0
• Updated: Canon CRM SDK to 2.8
• Updated: ARRI Image SDK and MXF lib to 7.1.0 / 4.0.46.0p
• Updated: Amazon AWS SDK to 1.9.379
• Removed: Dynamic metadata extraction for legacy ARRI MOV clips
  Not compatible with latest ARRI SDKs anymore
• Migration: Changed library structure, requires migration of project (also on ShotHub)
  If synced with ShotHub, the migration excludes older Silverstack versions from syncing with this cloud project
• Minimum system requirement: macOS 11.0

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Grid view - potential crash when extending selection
• Fixed: ScopeBox App integration not working when using Metal API
• Fixed: Resolve export - could not export with footage offline
• Fixed: Job size of queued "second run" jobs not correctly displayed
• Fixed: Failed Webgate.io upload can lead to crash in some situations
• Fixed: Cue point editing sometimes automatically escaped
• Fixed: Audio reading problems for some ARRI ALEXA 35 footage
• Fixed: "Sync Audio" button not visible when internal tracks available
• Fixed: Path wildcards not always resolved in Japanese and Chinese translation of UI
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes, stability, and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.3.4

Wed, 07 Dec 2022

Changes

• Improved: DaVinci Resolve CSV export
  Added new column "Shoot Day" and option to configure data in column "Reel Name" (Reel Name, Clip Name or Source File Name)
• Improved: QTake XML import
  Can import more information: Episode, Focal Length, Shooting Day, Location, Actor, Director
• Added: Anamorphic desqueeze factor "1.85"
• Added: Burn-in wildcard "Shutter Angle"

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Separate verification jobs unexpectedly slow on some volumes
  Can improve speed of separate verification jobs - as in LTFS backups or offloads with verification behavior "Separate (per Job)"
• Fixed: Focal length not extracted from some Alexa 35 clips
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.3.3

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Changes

• Prepared for MacOS 13 Ventura

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Audio issues on macOS 13 with some formats
• Fixed: General info edit panel "Zeiss Lens Correction" UI broken
• Fixed: Minor bug with special characters in slating fields

Silverstack Lab - 8.3.2

Tue, 18 Oct 2022

Changes

• Changed: Transcoding preset output resolution now allows up to 16k
• Added: Burn-in wildcard "Look Source Name"
• Updated: Japanese translation for some UI elements

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Clips from certain Sony FX-3 devices cause crash during scanning
• Fixed: RED transcoding and playback issues on multi-GPU systems
• Fixed: Manual audio-video synchronization (via slate markers) invalidated when syncing the library with ShotHub in certain cases
  Auto audio-sync (via timecode) was not affected. Contact support@pomfort.com if you need help restoring the audio-video synchronization in your library.
• Fixed: Verify wizard did not display correct job size in certain scenarios
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.3.1

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Some ARRI Alexa Mini LF ProRes clips not supported by latest ARRI MXF lib
  Added fallback to old ARRI MXF lib for those clips
• Fixed: Sync of some ShotHub projects might fail due to invalid LUT data being processed

Silverstack Lab - 8.3

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

Changes

• Added: Support for ARRI Alexa 35
  Added support for Alexa 35 LogC4 footage in ARRIRAW, HDE, and ProRes format; Added ARRI LogC4 IDT and preset LUTs
• Improved: RED R3D decoding performance
  Significant playback and transcoding performance boosts, especially on powerful systems (up to 5 times faster transcoding on M1 Ultra)
• Improved: Canon CRM decoding performance
  Significant playback and transcoding performance boosts, especially on powerful systems (up to 2 times faster transcoding on M1 Ultra)
• New: Import of ACES Metadata Files (AMF)
  Including Common LUT Format files (CLF)
• New: Job status per volume in offload menu
  Quickly check the states of all jobs requiring a specific volume; Activate the enhanced UI in the general preferences
• New: Volume last seen info (via ShotHub)
  Shows in volume view which user was the last one to have a drive connected and when (only for projects synced with ShotHub)
• Improved: RED clips (IPP2) grading with in-camera look
  Take over CDL and LUT from clip metadata for manual grading ("Edit Look")
• Improved: Support for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6k G2
• Improved: Support for Canon EOS R5
• Improved: Metadata extraction with Sony A7s importer
  More information about used codec; Added support for Sony FX-3
• Improved: Main table column selection menu
  Added "Reveal" button (scrolls main table to position of column); Added related search keywords (e.g. also find "Tilt" column when searching for "Roll")
• Improved: General info filter field
  Retrieve fields with related search keywords (e.g. find "White Balance" when searching for "Tint")
• Improved: Header info tab keeps scroll position when switching clips
• Changed: Increased maximum read buffer size used during copy and verification of file sequences
  May improve copy performance of file sequences on some network shares and raid systems
• Changed: ALE placeholder for empty shot/take fields
  Was: '?' (question mark), changed to ' ' (blank) for better workflow with AVID
• Changed: Option "Use Metal API"
  On by default to benefit from major improvements
• Updated: Japanese user interface
• Updated ARRI Image SDK to 7.0.3 / ARRI MXF lib 4.0.43.0
• Updated RED R3D SDK to 8.3.1
• Updated Canon CRM SDK to 2.8
• Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.6
• Migration: Changed library structure, requires migration of project (also on ShotHub)
  If synced with ShotHub, the migration excludes older Silverstack versions from syncing with this cloud project
• Deprecation: Silverstack 8.3.x is the last version with support for macOS 10.15.7

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Crashes in Volumes view
• Fixed: File sequences with zero bytes showed up as 105 TB
• Fixed: Table could not be reorganized in empty project
• Fixed: Minor crashes linked to using Chinese / Japanese user interface
• Miscellaneous smaller bug fixes, UI and stability improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.2.4

Tue, 30 Aug 2022

Changes

• Improved: SDI out via Kona 5 supported up to 60fps UHD
• Improved: FXCPXML export includes synced audio clips with offset and mono files
• Updated: ShotHub upload wizard supports new team selection

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Trashed items showed up in volume resources
  Could lead to issues with volume sealing
• Fixed: Clip library sync with ShotHub was not triggered automatically in some situations
• Fixed: Rare problem with handling of multi part clips in copy jobs
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.2.3

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

Changes

• Added: "Shooting Day" now available for smart folder predicates
• Added: Burn-in wildcards for clip's "Shooting Day" and "Crew Unit"
• Improved: PDF Report "Resources" column sorting
  File paths of resources now listed in order of creation date (as in resources panel)

Bugfixes

• Fixed: ALE "Source File" and potentially "Tape" column of transcoded clips showed transcode's file name rather than OCF's name
• Fixed: ARRIRAW LUTs not correctly extracted when reading from Codex VFS
• Fixed: Metadata scanning and ingesting errors with some Sony card readers (timeout)
• Fixed: Verified state of folders sometimes not updated when moving bins between folders
• Fixed: Scopes potentially not displayed correctly when using Metal API
• Fixed: CSV export column "Resources" did show count rather than file paths
• Fixed: PDF/HTML export column "Missing" and "Playable" not populated
• Fixed: Applying looks from look library (or copy&pasting them) did sometimes not update playback view instantly
• Fixed: Switching between clips in Grid/Wipe view sometimes showed slight "fading" effect when using Metal API
• Fixed: "Audio TC Offset" for footage with non-integer FPS and manual slipping potentially miscalculated by 1 frame
• Fixed: "Take over metadata" settings in look and audio matching not remembered independently
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.2.2

Thu, 19 May 2022

Changes

• Changed: S3 Upload - removed support for upload of "split clips" (certain camera formats)
  Not working properly yet, will re-introduce in a later version

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Offload rename sorting did not sort as expected
• Fixed: Hang or "Resource Offline" during playback in some situations
• Fixed: Memory release in knee node

Silverstack Lab - 8.2.1

Thu, 12 May 2022

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Duplicate file names alert when trying to offload multi-part clips

Silverstack Lab - 8.2

Thu, 12 May 2022

Changes

• New: Direct upload of files to AWS S3
• New: Support for ACES version 1.3.0, including “Reference Gamut Compress” parameter
• New: “Knee Curve” node for creating simple “knee” and “toe” curve adjustments
• New: Load Common LUT Format (CLF) files in ACES LMT node
• New: LUT Interpolation Preferences
  Choose between different interpolation methods, including tetrahedral interpolation for improved color accuracy
• New: New ACES look metadata fields
  “ACES Input Transform”, “ACES Input TransformID”, “ACES Output Transform”, “ACES Output TransformID”, “Reference Gamut Compress” and “LMT Nodes”
• New: GPU acceleration for Canon RAW now also on M1 (with Metal API)
• New: ALE export options
  Options to export camera letters lowercased and to leave “Name” column blank - for better matching in some AVID workflows
• Improved: ALE export performance
• Improved: ALE export value mapping
  “Cue Points” now listed with more information; Made “Tracks” column more consistent with “TRK” for OCF; “FPS” header was sometimes not correctly filled
• Improved: Library Sync via ShotHub
  More robustness in unreliable network conditions; Improved UI; Better handling/communication in case of errors; Fixes and improvements under the hood
• Improved: Rename on offload feature
  New Option to sort clips by timecode, creation date, or file name before adding unique number
• Improved: Export to Final Cut Pro X
  Updated to FCPXML v1.9; Transfer clips, bins or folder structure as event and projects including synced audio clips to Final Cut Pro X
• Improved: Metadata information “Soundroll” is added DNx transcodes' MXF container
• Improved: Panasonic Varicam input now correctly ingests full range clips
• Improved: Sony a7S input now correctly ingests full range XAVC-MP4 clips
• Improved: Zoelog import wizard
  New option to set a time offset; Shows more metadata information for easier resolving of multiple matches
• Changed: macOS 10.15.x now marked as deprecated
  Still works, but support will be removed in one of the upcoming releases
• Changed: Removed “Tape” column from library table (redundancy with “Reel/Tape”)
• Changed: Removed option to deactivate RED GPU debayer
• Changed: Reset switch to use legacy ARRI SDK v6
• Changed: Vectorscope UI adapted to Livegrade
  Boxes for the main colors indicate 100% saturation in the video scopes
• Updated RED R3D SDK to 8.2.2
  Fixes image artifacts, color shifts and crash/hangs for special clips in specific configurations

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Chinese and Japanese user interface - filters did not work correctly in jobs and volumes list
• Fixed: Display issues of ARRI-ProRes clips with sensor-crop in Metal API
• Fixed: Positioning of images in oversized crop container
• Fixed: Artifacts in last line for some CRM clips at half and quarter res
• Fixed: ALE was sometimes missing FPS information in header
• Fixed: Exporting multiple still image presets with project settings was not possible
• Fixed: Extraction of empty dynamic metadata could overwrite static metadata in library with blank values
• Fixed: Failing of still image export for specific clips
• Fixed: Looks sometimes incorrectly labeled as “modified”
• Fixed: Possible crash when editing metadata in general info
• Fixed: Possible verify error when offloading .ais files
• Miscellaneous smaller bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.1.2

Thu, 31 Mar 2022

Changes

• Updated Sony RAW SDK to 4.0.0
• Added: Support for Venice 2 footage
• Added: Extraction of anamorphic factor for Sony RAW clips
• Improved: Chinese user interface
  Fixed: Cascading copy checkbox did not work correctly; updated a few translations

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Sony RAW clips in cine colorspace displayed with non-cine SG3-to-s709 LUT
  Previously ingested clips had slightly different look
• Fixed: Thumbnails not updated after look matching via PFLA
• Fixed: Edit button for "Tape/Reel" in gerneral info missing for audio clips
• Fixed: Custom switch for overwriting "Project FPS" did not work anymore
• Fixed: Some rotated clips (portrait format) crashed in playback
• Fixed: ARRIRAW .ari/.arx clips with noise reduction in metadata could lead to crash
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.1.1

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Creating clip report with 3 thumbnails could lead to crash
• Fixed: Metadata editing in some fields of general info defect
• Fixed: Generic CSV Metadata export not working with column "Dynamic Metadata"
• Fixed: Shortcut "⌘ + ⌫" could move bins to trash even when library window in background (e.g. offload wizard open)
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes

Silverstack Lab - 8.1

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

Changes

• New: Input-depended offload settings
  Automatically apply input specific offload settings by associating templates with input devices
• New: All remaining formats now decoded and encoded natively on Apple Silicon
• New: ZoeLog CSV metadata import
• New: Support for Livegrade looks with FilmLight BLG grading mode
• New: UI available in Chinese
• Improved: ARRIRAW and CRM decoding performance on most systems
• Improved: R3D decoding, and DNx & ProRes encoding performance on newer Apple Silicon hardware
• Improved: Thumbnail caching during grading
• Improved: Volume management for running and queued tasks (ejection prevention)
• Improved: For all ARRIRAW file types, extracting LUT from clip metadata (for manual grading) now available
• Improved: Ingest of mixed ProRes/ARRIRAW cards (Mini LF) makes both clip types appear as clips
• Added: More static metadata fields available for burn-ins (Lens data, Tilt+Roll, CDL)
• Added: Adobe XML export option to derive "Tape Name" from "Video Clip Name"
• Added: Tooltips for all metadata fields in main table and "General Info"
• Changed: Library database structure
  Will prompt before migrating old project to new structure
• Changed: ARRIRAW processing
  May lead to slight color shifts in comparison to clips ingested in former Silverstack versions
• Changed: Default settings
  Metal API decoding / encoding activated on all systems; RED GPU decoding activated on M1 systems
• Changed: Shortcuts
  Toogle sidebars with ⇧ + [1, 2, 3], double-click on title bar to maximize application window
• Changed: Main table and general info tab
  Adjusted some value formatting for more consistency
• Changed: CSV export (resolved some inconsistencies and bugs)
  Date Format now Generic ISO8601; "Focal Length" includes "mm" suffix; "Focus Distance" formatted as in table (metric/imperial); "White Balance" includes "K" suffix; "Duration" rounded to full seconds without decimal places; "Grading Mode"/"Verification State"/"Remote Resources" human-readable strings; some bool values formatted as "Yes"/"No"/""; decimal separator consistently '.'
• Changed: Ignore patterns
  Moved hardcoded ignore of hash files in specific subfolders ("*/md5/*.md5" and "*/sha1/*.sha1") to cusomizeable ignore patterns
• Changed: Total clip count in project chooser does not count items in trash
• Updated ARRI Image SDK to 7.0.0-rc6
  ½ and ¼ decoding resolution no longer available for ARRIRAW
• Updated RED R3D SDK to 8.2.1
• Updated Blackmagic RAW SDK to 2.2
• Updated Canon CRM SDK to 2.7
• Updated DNx SDK to 2.7.2

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Editing bin names sometimes not possible
• Fixed: Missing production info on some reports with specifc combination of settings
• Fixed: Offload wizard showed incorrect size estimation for HDE offloads
• Fixed: Occasional crash when offloading a very large amout of files
• Fixed: Look issues with certain R3D clips in IPP2
• Fixed: Crash when opening Silverstack application with secondary user account on macOS
• Fixed: Plackback and JKL bugs/hangs
• Fixed: New slating shortcus introduced leading '0' in "Scene"/"Shot"/"Take"
• Fixed: ProRes codec appeared with slightly different name on new M1 Pro/Max machines
• Fixed: Empty LUT name for some ARRI clips
• Fixed: Specific invalid RED format preference combination lead to crash
• Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.6

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

Changes

• Improved: Indication in grading panel when LUT from camera file is used for ARRIRAW clips

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Some ProRes clips on M1 Pro/Max systems appeared cropped in playback and transcodes when using half or quarter decoding resolution
• Fixed: Transcoding issues (stuttering) when using multi-preset transcoding with Metal enabled
• Fixed: Could not open files with multiple video streams (e.g. clips from some DJI Drones)
• Fixed: Library folder tree A-Z sorting issues on some systems
• Fixed: Cue Point type could not be changed occasionally
• Fixed: PSLA Import could lead to inconsistencies of displayed project name
• Fixed: Frame.io uploads were sometimes not added as remote resources to library
• Miscellaneous playback and transcoding fixes and improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.5

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

Bugfixes

• Fixed: BRAW some metadata not correctly imported
• Fixed: Sony FX-3 timecode not correctly imported
• Fixed: Canon C300/C500 Mark III white balance not correctly imported
• Fixed: Import and copy/paste looks with reset curves node
• Fixed: Smart folder count did not respect "Show Clips Only" setting
• Fixed: Bug syncing resources to ShotHub
• Miscellaneous minor fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.4

Wed, 01 Dec 2021

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Check for updates could cause crash
• Fixed: "Every Frame Playback" and JKL not working on macOS 12
• Fixed: Possible frameline inconsistencies on SDI-out for special clips when using reduced decoding resolution
• Fixed: In certain cases switching between clips in playback view could cause crash
• Fixed: Grading of Cinema DNG could lead to hang
• Fixed: RED "IPP2 for Custom Looks" was not enabled by default in SST 8.0.x
• Miscellaneous minor fixes and UI improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.3

Wed, 24 Nov 2021

Changes

• Added: Support for Venice tilt and roll metadata
• Improved: Drylab export wizard now excludes trashed items
• Improved: Relinking supports clips that were renamed on offload

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Slack notifications login page
• Fixed: Enabled metal pipeline led to display issues with some clips
• Fixed: Enabled metal pipeline led to inconsistent waveform for some clips
• Fixed: Some DNxHRs were displayed stretched and off-color
• Fixed: Special BRAW clips could lead to hang or crash
• Miscellaneous minor fixes and improvements

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.2

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

Changes

• Improved: Performance of HDE offload speed on SAN storage systems

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.1

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

Changes

• Added: Enable Metal Graphics
  Added checkbox to "Use Metal Graphics", account preferences > copy + jobs > transcoding

Bugfixes

• Fixed: Update of playhead position in audio detail view
• Fixed: Pan of audio track did not work and influenced pan of other tracks
• Fixed: Audio track selection when switching clips
• Fixed: Crop value was not formatted in PDF reports
• Fixed: Application crashed when adding cuepoint via playback-hud
• Fixed: possible failure when transcoding to multiple formats

Silverstack Lab - 8.0.0

Tue, 12 Oct 2021

Changes

• New: Library Sync via ShotHub
  Keep a shared project clip library in sync across multiple Silverstack applications via ShotHub
• New: ShotID for referencing clips on ShotHub
  Forward the ShotID or burn it as QR code into transcodes to reference the clip's metadata on ShotHub via web interface
• Added: Multiple Audio Slate Markers
  Sync multiple video clips with the same or different claps on one audio clip
• Updated: Metadata Import Wizards
  Preview of changes before importing metadata from other applications, more options to adjust import, better mapping to Silverstack's metadata
• Improved: Support for more slating systems
  Different systems (Standard/American/All) with individual configuration and actions
• Added: File renaming during offload
  (for selected cameras and formats)
• Improved: Library layout condensation
  Option to show all columns with metadata or hide empty columns
• Improved: Custom Fields and Labels
  Can now be named for each project individually
• Added: Metal support
  Improves the performance of ProRes processing on certain systems
• Added: RED GPU decoding
  Can improve processing speed of R3D files on system with low CPU performance (opt-in)