ContextualAudioEditing (CAE)

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.