Colour management arrives — OCIO v2 and ACES, with per-clip input colour spaces so scene-linear renders, finished graphics and reference movies can sit on one timeline without fighting each other. Alongside it, a round of playback, caching and timecode work for mixed MP4 and EXR projects.
Colour management
- New OCIO v2 and ACES colour-management support.
- New Studio display and view transforms are loaded directly from the active OCIO configuration.
- New Per-clip input colour-space controls for mixed-colour workflows.
- New Auto (recommended) mode picks a sensible interpretation for standard media and scene-linear EXR files.
- New Display-referred sRGB keeps finished PNG, JPG and graphic overlays looking right inside an ACES workflow.
- Improved Standard MP4, PNG, JPG, TIFF and ordinary EXR media stay on the fast display path when advanced colour processing is unnecessary.
- Improved Colour-space controls show the selected clip’s interpretation more clearly.
- Improved Mixed ACES, scene-linear and display-ready media can be reviewed together without forcing one interpretation on every layer.
Playback and Contact Sheet performance
- Improved Contact Sheet playback with large projects and mixed media.
- Improved Playback performance when MP4 movies and EXR sequences are loaded together.
- Improved GPU texture-upload buffering, for smoother multi-layer playback.
- Improved Background EXR caching now works in smaller, less disruptive batches.
- Improved EXR cache warming no longer restarts repeatedly as the playhead moves.
- Improved Large stacks of standard media avoid unnecessary colour-processing work.
- Improved Layer selection, layer movement and timeline-panel resizing stay responsive on large projects.
- Fixed Frame-rate drops when cached movies were combined with EXR sequences.
- Fixed Stuttering when the same EXR sequence was duplicated across several Contact Sheet tiles.
Cache behaviour
- Improved Cache scheduling now behaves the same whether movies, EXRs or other image formats are loaded first.
- Improved Mixed-format projects cache without needing a particular import order.
- Improved The project cache indicator stays continuous and reflects cached timeline coverage accurately.
- Improved Duplicate layers reuse frame data that is already available instead of repeating the work.
- Fixed Fragmented cache-progress indicators in mixed MP4 and EXR projects.
- Fixed EXR background loading interfering with real-time playback after the visible frames were already available.
EXR sequences
- Improved EXR sequence duration and playback information now describe the complete sequence rather than a single image.
- Improved Opening one numbered EXR frame continues to detect and load the complete sequence.
- Improved Large EXR sequences and duplicated EXR layers play more smoothly in Contact Sheet mode.
- Fixed Incorrect sequence timecode near the end of an EXR frame range.
- Fixed Adjacent frames occasionally showing a large and incorrect jump in time.
- Fixed Sequence-relative frame numbering and time display for sequences starting at a non-zero frame number.
Timecode
- Improved On-screen timecode uses the actual project frame rate.
- Improved Current time and total duration stay consistent across movies and image sequences.
- Improved Timecode formatting is shared consistently between playback and review output.
- Fixed Incorrect timecode calculations caused by rounding fractional frame rates to whole numbers.
- Fixed Adjacent frames showing inconsistent or impossible time differences.
Installer and licensing
- Updated EULA version reference and effective date.
- Updated Third-party component inventory.
- Improved Build identification, so an installed version can be identified precisely when reporting an issue.