Release Date: January 25th, 2024
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We’re happy to present you with RV 2024, the first RV release to be based on the Open RV open source project. RV 2024 has been built and packaged to align with Open RV wherever possible. Differences remain in areas like video I/O and codecs due to licensing constraints.
IMPORTANT:
- RV 2024 no longer supports Port Audio on Linux. [SG-30565]
- RV 2024.* will be last release to support CentOS
- RV 2024 no longer have the option to prompt License Manager. See documentation on how to use RV with legacy standalone license.
Improvements
New Supported Operating Systems
- RV 2024 requires macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later. [SG-31055]
- RV 2024 is now also compatible with Rocky Linux 9. [SG-31898]
- See RV requirements page for the list of supported operating systems.
New Functionalities
- 10-bit display output format is now available on Mac. Enable it in RV > Preferences > Rendering. [SG-33142]
- Improved error reporting for cases where the Player cannot load the media. [SG-31791]
- The new ShotGrid App Session Launcher is now the method to authenticate and license RV. [SG-31626]
- RV now outputs its session logs to disk. [SG-31068]
- The available debugging options for RV are now listed with the --help option when you launch the application from command line. [SG-30895]
- When you unload or uninstall a package using the Preferences panel, RV now informs you about packages that require the removed package to function properly. [SG-30562]
- The x264 encoder is updated with the latest version, and now supports encoding H.264 in 10 bits. [SG-30293]
SDK and API Updates
- RV 2024 has been refreshed to comply with the CY2023 VFX Reference Platform (https://vfxplatform.com/)
– RV is compiled with gcc 11.2.1 on Linux. [SG-31054]
– Boost library was updated to version 1.80. [SG-31058]
– Visual Studio tools for application were updated to version 2022. [SG-31056]
– OCIO has been updated to OCIO v2.2.1. Note that OCIO rendering is still using the legacy api… [SG-29427]
- SGTK in RV has been updated to v0.20.30. [SG-33761]
- FFmpeg has been updated from 4.2.1 to 4.4.3. [SG-31980]
- The R3D SDK has been updated to version 8.4.0. [SG-31899]
- Qt was updated to version 5.15.14. [SG-31010]
- Python has been updated to version 3.10.12. [SG-31057]
- BMD Desktop Video Application was updated to latest: 12.5.1. [SG-29837]
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue which will adjust the Info Strip tool to scale with selected resolution when outputting on broadcast monitor. [SG-33324]
- We have updated RV’s PYTHONPATH to prioritize bundled items and remove non-existent entries. This resolves clashes with user site directory installations and improves package search efficiency by avoiding slow network paths. [SG-33266]
- Fixed an issue which would cause the RVIO tool to fail loading media on CentOS 7. [SG-33119]
- Fixed an issue about frames not keeping their relative positions when comparing two ShotGrid versions in RV. [SG-32967]
- Fixed an issue where “Open Media from ShotGrid” property was not persisted in RV prefs… [SG-31702]
- Fixed an issue where the “Fit Window to First Media Loaded” option would be bypassed if RV_PROGRESSIVE_SOURCE_LOADING environment variable is enabled. [SG-31696]
- Fixed a crash which would occur when creating a new viewable stack from the layers of a source in the Session Manager. [SG-31611]
- Fixed an issue related to the BMD Decklink Device Profile where no matter which sub-device was selected in RV, RV was always using the first one. Note that this fix resulted in the BMD DeckLink sub-device(s) to be persisted under a different name. This means that any pre-RV2024 Blackmagic video output settings might have to be redone in RV2024 if their names differ.
Example:
In RV 2023, the Blackmagic video output RV prefs are stored under:
“BlackMagic/DeckLink Pro 8K”
whereas in RV 2024, the Blackmagic video output RV prefs are stored under:
“BlackMagic/DeckLink Pro 8K(1)”. [SG-31560]
- Fixed a potential crash when loading a multi-files source with mixed availability.
Example: audio file present on local storage but associated video file missing from local storage. [SG-31545] - Fixed an issue where Participants in a Live Review session would not get playback update once enabling the audio scrub option. [SG-31350]
- Fixed an issue where EXR sequences would show corruption in the Player if the sequence in question was incomplete. [SG-30350]
- Fixed issues where RV was not able to load incomplete EXR files. [SG-32846]
- Fixed an issue where using the -noPrefs argument was inadvertently resetting preferences. [SG-29680]
- Fixed an issue where drag and dropping a Version from SG to RV would return an error and not load the media. [SG-26567]
- Fixed an issue where the BMD output broadcast would show corruption when using a 4K timing with a RGB 12-bits output format. [SG-26122]
- Fixed an issue where rvpush would fail to merge clips if the tag name contained special characters. [SG-25834]
- Fixed an issue where the ShotGrid menu would not appear in other instances of RV running on the same platform. [SG-25485]
