ContextualAudioEditing (CAE)

CAE is still in Beta, please use this build of CAE in none productive systems only!

Release Highlights:

• New clipboard feature for CAE
• New functionality to open projects from Content Manager
• Improved preformance
• ***In the next release of MTEv8*** ability to open CAE files in MTE

Dependencies

• Best used with Content Manager 2.6.89.3 or newer
• Content Manager must be using the Waveform generation and LowRes workflows
• Optional:
  • To fully benefit from CAE, transcription service is recommended - but not necessary
  • We can adapt CAE for any transcription service - as long as it uses modern APIs
  • In the case of non-modern APIs, special requests for evaluations are required 
  • CAE is delivered as a Docker Image, for any customer with a running Docker registry.

New Feature

• "Auto" update of Docker image via Container registry
• Complete view should display left and right audio channel overlayed
• Allow to save project to DigaSystem
• Allow to open CAE project from DigaSystem
• Add a new drop mode "Insert" in EAO
• Open MTE from CAE via BrowserBridge (step 1)
• CAE Accessibility: Run Accessibility Insights on CAE to list all problems
• Switch CAE version to 0.8.x
• DX: Add devcontainer definition for CAE
• E2E: Take over Cypress tests
• Remove all icons from menus
• Option to add content at head position (as an alternative to adding it at end of timeline)
• Proof-of-concept for CAE project versioning
• Show project name
• Set color for a track element
• Create area for clipboard
• Allow to add stuff to clipboard by drag and drop from file system and DigaSystem
• Add stuff to clipboard by a "create clip" option
• Drag and drop items from clipboard to timeline or text area
• Clipboard content is persisted when saving project
• Clipboard content is restored when loading a project
• Remove clip from clipboard
• Allow user to rename clip in clipboard
• Use EAO new medium.title with meaningful info
• CI: Re-introduce Cypress tests
• CI: Auto-generate changelog on build
• Replace buttons according to the design system
• Add a clipboard-service to CAE which holds the data model for the clipboard
• Preventing cut" in shuffle mode when dropping a clip in the middle of another one
• Allow to play one audio at a time
• Make CreateClip shortcut changable in Options/Shortcuts
• Optimize create clip when clip is completely inside existing medium
• Adapt clip styling to have spacing and clip look and feel nearer to design
• Change all Logo assets in CAE to new logo
• CAE: Save project to a new entry (DigaSystem)
• When creating a clip use the same color as the element on the timeline had (if it is not crossing track elements)
• When creating a clip from FS or DS use a color from color rotation
• When inserting a clip from clip area into timeline use the clip color
• Adjust CAE app to design definition
• Decrease whitespace between clip-icon and wave
• Crossfade & overwrite buttons need to be adjusted
• New logo in the toolbar should get more whitespace around it

Fixed Issues

• OIA-423 - SAFARI: Waveform disappears on drag action
• OIA-466 - Performance: opening zipped cae project is extremely slow
• OIA-489 - SAFARI: decoding audio data returns null promise in Safari v15.x
• OIA-512 - EAO crashes with IndexSizeError when trying to record in Safari
• OIA-1801 - Loading project in CAE does not show waveforms
• OIA-1834 - sometimes "hangs" during save project to DigaSystem
• OIA-1855 - EAO.renderAudio(...) can take very long but we are missing a progress callback/event
• OIA-1864 - Importing a project with DigaSystem references after EAO upgrade fails
• OIA-1867 - Imported local file at head pos seems to be not correctly saved/opened in project
• OIA-1899 - Shuffle mode not working correctly when it was pre-selected
• OIA-1900 - Adapt AutoZoom100 so that it does not auto zoom on shift-drop
• OIA-1982 - Opening a project over an existing one should ask for approval from the user
• OIA-1983 - "Save project to DigaSystem" should be disabled for empty project
• OIA-1991 - CAE Accessibility: color-contrast does not meet ratio thresholds
• OIA-2096 - Opening a project with invalid zip data is endlessly showing load animation
• OIA-2107 - Progress is not displayed in productive version only in dev version
• OIA-2111 - CAE Display error message when login fails
• OIA-2112 - Opening invalid CAE project from DigaSystem hangs
• OIA-2115 - Safari: Opening a project via menu doesn't work
• OIA-2128 - Safari: Import audio doesn't work
• OIA-2138 - Cleanup: remove JSZip leftovers
• OIA-2149 - Read logging level from settings.json and apply it LoggingService
• OIA-2151 - Use LoggingService instead of console.log everywhere
• OIA-2162 - it is hard to follow our text cursor while playing
• OIA-2203 - Safari: cannot change shortcut for OpenProject to "6"
• OIA-2209 - EAO: level-meter impacts renderAudio performance
• OIA-2217 - Open project from filesystem does not reset DigaSystem project reference
• OIA-2248 - Wrong silence detection
• OIA-2252 - Search stopped working after I cut out a sentence with the search word in it
• OIA-2253 - Double audio artefact in rendering
• OIA-2378 - Clip prelisten does not show play icon when end of audio is reached
• OIA-2381 - Clipboard is not reset starting a new project
• OIA-2406 - Clips created from text/timeline inside CAE cannot be removed/renamed
• OIA-2410 - Playout via shortcut does not work.
• OIA-2416 - Audio artefact when playing clip on clipboard
• OIA-2428 - Clips still visible after logout-login
• OIA-2429 - Removing clip from clipboard, after it has been placed on timeline, creates an invalid CAE project
• OIA-2430 - Deepgram transcription option appears to be hard-coded
• OIA-2442 - When a medium has no used clips any longer, it's still in the CAE project
• OIA-2494 - Clips play a totally incorrect segment of audio in test project
• OIA-2505 - Always save and load .cae projects (and never .json)
• OIA-2532 - Color rotation index is not saved
• OIA-2536 - Search chevrons should be disabled, when search is inactive
• OIA-2544 - The head in text area does not move to the beginning when using transport button
• OIA-2560 - Shortcut for "Save Project" does not work.