Major update with many improvements

Highlights:

• Exhibit stickers

• Automatic transcript syncing with ProSync

• Color-coded notebooks

• Better searching and filtering options

• Built-in license activation management

• More scrolling designation text options

• More presentation status bar options

• More export options

• Dozens of bugs fixed

New features:

Documents and Annotations

• Exhibit sticker tool

• Add option on pages to mark parent document as admitted

• Add Arial Narrow as font option for annotations and stickers

• Add 'Create new document from selection' for copying treatments or pages to new doc

• Allow adding foldered media files as standalone docs

• Show better error when failing to open a PDF

Audiovisuals

• Seek video by entering timecode (hotkey Ctrl+J)

• Add option to strip MP4 Edit Lists when optimizing video

• Add option to automatically strip MP4 Edit Lists when adding media

• Make Shift+V also work for non-depo video

Media Bar and Notebooks

• Color-code notebooks

• Add search filters for Documents and Audiovisuals in media bar

• Add option to clear names when editing multiple

• Add a warning when deleting children of notebook media, that it will be removed from the parent everywhere

• When editing multiple IDs, add option to only find and replace only the first match

• Presentation and Viewer

• Add pref setting for mousewheel scrolling without holding ctrl key

• Add toolbar button for Hide Video command

• Show AV clip name in presentation status bar

• Make Blank hotkey only apply to the active pane

• Make Blank hotkey work in viewer when focused

• Hide 'Toggle Toolbar' button by default on viewer toolbar

• Show designation ID in presentation status bar

Designations and Transcripts

• Add automatic syncing for transcripts

• Add hotkey for seeking to beginning of video in sync tool

• Allow up to 30 transcript lines when presenting designations

• Add Q/A check to des wizard to warn if designations do not begin/end at a prefixed transcript line

• Add option to turn off on-the-fly linking with X+ID

• Outdent speaker captions when presenting transcript text

• Add 'Copy warnings to clipboard' button to Des. Wizard for Q/A warnings

• Change "Non-video transcript" captions to "Unsynced transcript"

• Double-click a line in sync tool to begin playback

Reports

• Add 'Include today's date' option on report cover page

• Add unparseable lines to objection error list

• Import / Export

• Export transcripts to MDB

• Export Media Files for documents and audiovisuals

• Add support for importing Justice Premier transcripts

• Add Date Admitted option to exhibit list export

• Add split options for designation video export: all, auto-advance, none

• Strip extra whitespace when reflowing text during ascii transcript import

• Import .SRT closed captions as sync file

• When importing list/script, only prompt to update if the list ID exists

• Include date in exhibit list export filename

Licensing

• Add native license management UI rather than linking out to portal

• When local license is active, don't wait for online validation before letting user in

Other

• Add SKU-specific default settings

• Add default _exports and reports folder when case is created

• Add _native folder when creating a case

• Add startup flag to suppress system info queries

• Add checkbox outline to checkable menu items

• Add option to purge case log when optimizing database

• Add log to database of all modifications by user ID

• Save preferences xml to a place accessible to all users on the system

• Remove auto-detect option from h/w accelerated playback

Bugs fixed:

• Using Fill Bates Numbers on many docs, 350K+ pages causes app to hang for several minutes

• Export designation list option should not show on notebook right-click

• Video export dialog may not show Original/scaled option setting

• Notebook sort option should be grayed out if the notebook is empty

• Waveform does not account for audio stream offset

• Objection reports are blank when created in Word .docx format

• Add Media shouldn't show "copying" message when files are already in case folder

• Reset link does not work for Scrolling Text color in prefs

• Closing the viewer during playback should pause video if not on-air

• Print dialog may hang after opening a few times

• Designation editor should only allow linked pages and treatments, not doc IDs

• Error when tuning designations: Index was outside the bounds...

• Designation report may not show link IDs if document was linked instead of page

• Error when using long paths in manual sync tool

• Untuned designations should pull their start/stop times from the transcript lines at playback

• Error importing transcript with trailing integer-delimited IDs in name: Object reference not set...

• Typo in Customize Toolbar menu

• Notify user if license de-activation fails due to being offline

• Exporting clips with Name filename option should not include ID

• Exhibit list - After turning on 'selected notebook only' to export a list from a notebook, then going back to export from elsewhere, nothing exports

• Add media delimiter occurence is not sticky

• Error when opening PDF: The document has no pages.

• Add clip time entry should allow blank for hours

• Sorting on Last Modified should fall back to creation date if not set

• Error importing certain CMS transcripts: Unable to read transcript line

• Image export fails if _exports folder does not exist

• Find/Replace transcript text shows incorrect number of replacements made

• After manual synching, the transcript pane and tuner may not show new sync times

• When importing an unsynched transcript and prompting to copy video, it fails to also associate it

• Editing a designation page/line out of range causes repeated Assertion failure 'isLinesValid' errors

• Objection report may have empty column when 'Include only the first time' is used

• Add Selection in transcript pane should not clear search

• When printing, Only print annotations does not include clips

• Native files in notebooks don't sort correctly if they're in subfolders

• Play/pause hotkeys don't work for video preview on transcript pane

• Designation editor should pause if it is closed while playing video

• Startup may hang while querying system information

• Obj report error file/line does not get included when saving errors

• Printing with New Job per Document should break up jobs by notebook entry, not doc

• Media Bar search does not show highlighters for designation results

• Crop-zoom annotation may have incorrect layout when shown in horizontal split

• Shifting transcript pages back and forth can cause gaps in page numbering

Fix Update: 4.4.1053

• Fixed an issue causing a false positive with some virus scanners

Fix Update: 4.4.1050

• Fixed issue with graphics card detection on app startup

Fix Update! 4.4.1045
Fixed: App may hang when starting up
Fixed: Some network printers don't show when printing
Fixed: Error when using the designation editor or transcript pane: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Fixed: When replacing docs, name and admitted status may get cleared out
Fixed: Load printers when printing rather than at startup

1 New Feature and 15 fixes since v4.4.974

• New: Allow a default settings XML file to be placed in machine storage

• Fixed: Error opening case on NAS: Unable to write to the case folder

• Fixed: Error when opening case: attempted to write to readonly database

• Fixed: Startup may hang due to WMI system queries not responding

• Fixed: Exporting WMV to video may not show picture

• Fixed: Replacing a doc by re-adding with a different filename copies with old filename

• Fixed: Suppress errors during waveform generation

• Fixed: Hotkeys don't work on floating panes

• Fixed: Exhibit list export may hang on a large case

• Fixed: Exhibit list export doesn't show progress and can't be canceled

• Fixed: Video export fails with error: Generic error in an external library

• Fixed: Zoomed depo video exports unzoomed

• Fixed: Hidden video shows on exported designation videos

• Fixed: Edits to printed labels may not get saved

• Fixed: Objection report placeholder columns may get populated if path is set

• Fixed: Multiple text annotations on a page may not show correctly

1 new feature and 27 fixes since v4.4.906
What's New:
• New: Allow annotations on AV clips
• New: When opening a case, automatically mark the case database as writeable
• New: Add friendly error message when case folder is not writeable
• Fixed: Media Bar search should show partial document ID matches before pages
• Fixed: Media Bar search can be slow on a large case database
• Fixed: Media summary is slow to calculate for 1000s of docs
• Fixed: Media summary may show incorrect page count when multiple documents are selected
• Fixed: Notebook search may not find native files
• Fixed: Default hotkeys using comma may get unassigned
• Fixed: Opening a large case database may be slow
• Fixed: Deleting a lot at once may take a very long time
• Fixed: Stopping 'Get media info' in Media bar has no effect
• Fixed: Stopping slow delete operation has no effect
• Fixed: Stopping slow media bar search has no effect
• Fixed: Error showing media script: Index was outside the bounds of the array
• Fixed: Error exporting designation video: Device failed -17
• Fixed: Media summary shows wrong linked document IDs
• Fixed: Error searching media bar: An item with the same key has already been added.
• Fixed: Optimize video may cause rotated video to become stretched
• Fixed: Error opening old case: SQL logic error, no such column DisplayOrder
• Fixed: Exported clips do not show video annotations
• Fixed: When properties pane is open, admitted date/time may change unexpectedly
• Fixed: Copying a notebook entry may insert at the wrong position
• Fixed: Add Media popup should allow dupes when bulk renaming
• Fixed: Editing transcript ID does not update XML and may revert to old ID
• Fixed: Network printers don't show when printing
• Changed: Suppress logging of waveform generation
• Changed: Turn off auto database optimization when opening a case

Fixed: Callout connector style of None gets reset when you relaunch
Fixed: Cue step back from the beginning of a designation should step backward from end of previous
Fixed: Cue step forward into next designation may not set correct position
Fixed: Error exporting video: could not find any MFT for the given media type
Fixed: Extraneous database overhead when deleting records

Fixed: Add Media throws error when multiple characters are set for delimiter: String must be exactly one character
Fixed: When update fails due to UAC elevation failure, explain and let user try again
Fixed: Add "Enter you license credentials to reactivate" when deactivated due to error 9400

Fixed: When selecting media in media bar, Getting Media Info takes longer than it should, causing lag
Fixed: Error when designations have duplicate media IDs on export: An item with the same key has already been added...
Fixed: Error selecting designation with missing transcript XML: Sequence contains no elements
Fixed: Activating license may fail with error: UnauthorizedAccessException
Fixed: License activated by admin may not get auto-activated for other users

121 fixes, 64 other improvements since 4.3.709
as of v4.4.870 (A15)

Highlights

• Presenting: Mark media as admitted, use Publish Lock to prevent publishing unadmitted material

• Media Bar:  Better search results, new filter options, Search results now show in notebook hierarchy

• Documents:  Faster image exporting, more optimization options

• Audiovisuals:  Better waveform support, more playback options

• Designations:  Unlimited highlighters, hide video per-designation, find/replace transcript text

• Transcripts:  Find and replace all text, export as text

• Reporting:  Objection report improvements, designation reports with page/line only

• Preferences:  Change scratch folder, customize playback speeds, more A/V and designation text options

• Licensing:  Activation now applies to all users on a machine, new failsafe if server outage occurs

• Runtime:  Update from legacy .Net Framework 4.8 to modern .NET 8 runtime that's self-contained

Media Bar

New: Color code or star admitted exhibits

New: Add option to match exactly when searching media bar

New: Add sort option for Admitted date

New: Add option to manually sort multi-deponent lists when sorting by pageline/highlighter

New: Media bar - Add search filters for scripts, links and notebooks

New: Add checkbox to "Optimize PDF" for rasterizing pages into new PDF (not foldered images)

New: Sorting media bar by date should default to "Sort Newest to Oldest"

New: Add "remove duplicate media" right-click option to notebooks - and remove auto-dedupe from Target Notebook

New: Add Fill/Clear Bates options to AV

Fixed: After turning off Show ID and Name, Show ID gets turned back on automatically but has no effect

Fixed: Selected media may get obscured when media info panel expands in media bar

Fixed: Media in script may not show duration summary when selection is changed quickly

Fixed: AV clip tuning may not be set correctly for clips duplicated in a script

Fixed: Renumber IDs command does not report progress correctly

Fixed: Media Bar - Name sort should work same as ID

Fixed: Copy/pasting media in script does not copy auto-advance wait time

Fixed: Pages and AV segments should not be expandable when added to notebook from scripts

Fixed: Don't show auto-advance wait time for designation lists

Fixed: Error when deleting clips: Count not find part of the path...

Fixed: Transcript rename error incorrectly states that only letters and numbers are allowed

Fixed: Media bar search results may not reappear after the search phrase is changed

Fixed: Optimize Video should not be available on Clip records

Fixed: Copy Clip/Annotation Info should be unavailable for segments/pages with no children

Fixed: Imported annotations failed to detect changes in pane layout

Fixed: Auto-advance options shouldn't be available on right-click menu for single desigantions in notebooks

Fixed: Open sidebar button should be grayed out if there's nothing to open (eg no notebooks)

Fixed: Bulk edit IDs should not allow spaces and other invalid ID chars

Fixed: Bulk edit ID/rename allows you to set duplicates

Fixed: Optimized PDF and Video should get new Created Date assigned in Windows

Fixed: Bates import may fail while checking dupes with overlapping assignments in text file

Fixed: Media bar search ordering should be based on relevance, not arbitrary DB order

Notebooks

New: When showing items added to target notebook, use all trees where notebook is expanded

New: Show notebook search results in actual notebook heirarchy

Fixed: On-the-fly impeachments get auto-added to target notebook with a 'Missing media' caption

Fixed: Notebooks can't be copy/pasted into the root level

Fixed: Notebook search may not match correctly on Native file names

Fixed: AV Clips imported from notebook shouldn't get re-added to segment if they exist

Presenting and Viewer

New: Add options for pres. status bar: Hide ID, show milliseconds on time

New: Add prefs option for color of Redact (R) tool

New: Automatically prompt user to optimize docs that are slow to load (popup, banner, etc)

New: Publishing designation with no video should auto-publish as text only

New: Prevent system from sleeping while presentation is open

New: Add a way to set resolution of images when using Copy/Save as Image in Viewer pane

New: Add option to revert display names to default

Fixed: When pages are deleted from a doc, the first/last media links in viewer do not update

Fixed: When a display is disconnected, other displays may lose their assigned names

Fixed: Native file popup remains when selecting designation list in viewer

Fixed: Updating a saved annotation in presentation doesn't update it if its also loaded into the Viewer pane

Fixed: Change native file instructions from 'media bar' to 'notebook'

Fixed: When changing media in a script, both old and new IDs briefly show at the same time in status bar and viewer

Fixed: Viewer toolbars, errors, and scrubber should reset when case is closed

Fixed: Line, Arrow, Freehand do not render correctly with Blend Mode other than Normal

Fixed: Setting Arrow thickness to None throws "object reference" error

Audiovisual Playback

New: Add 1.5x playback speed option

New: Add prefs setting for playback speed increments

New: Add "Clear screen when playback completes" for AV media

Fixed: Blanking at end doesn't work for full AV segments, only clips

Fixed: Undo caption when zooming AV shows "Undo Zoom Page"

Fixed: Waveform does not render for some encodings and container formats

Fixed: Video playback should not begin when publishing a split-screen page next to a clip

Fixed: Go to beginning button does not work when playing in reverse

Fixed: Reverse playback doesn't update frames but does update time

Fixed: Make scrubber labels more visible against waveform

Designations

New: On scrolling designation text, allow setting to zero emphasized lines in prefs

New: Add hotkey for toggling link split-screen on the fly

New: Add option to hide video per-designation

New: Add option to turn off doc links globally, like scrolling text

New: Allow adding more designation highlighters

New: Find/Replace all occurences of text in a transcript

New: Allow on-the-fly impeachments to be saved to target notebook

New: Add path/browse link to "Missing Video" popup when preview or publishing from Transcript Viewer

New: Allow saving designations zoomed in, and zooming on the fly

New: Add hotkeys (up/down) for scrolling transcript published as text

New: Add pref setting for text style of unsynched text in transcript pane

Fixed: Des. Editor allows setting link page/line out of range

Fixed: Error when scrolling text takes more space than available on the screen: "Assertion: height is non-negative"

Fixed: After unpinning transcript, it may not change until a new list is selected

Fixed: Prevent editing designation range to another video segment

Fixed: Make the Designation Editor usable with less vertical space (scrollbar?)

Fixed: When it opens, the transcript pane should show the active trancript in the tree or tuner if there is one

Fixed: Designation dashboard may not show the first time you publish

Fixed: Editing link pg/ln may not update tune point to the correct time

Fixed: When previewing designation tuning, the buttons may shift in the UI

Fixed: When replacing media, treatments/clips from original may not show until refresh

Fixed: Transcript search may not match unsynched text

Fixed: If the tuner is closed with unsaved changes, the user should be prompted to save immediately rather than later when the selection changes

Fixed: Transcript pane text may not automatically update with new highlighters when they're imported from prefs

Fixed: Prev/next designation buttons in dashboard don't show hotkey on the tooltip

Fixed: Don't allow preview option on unsynched transcripts

Fixed: When changing untuned link to first designation line, time should include min. offset

Fixed: Transcript viewer may not update after highlighters are edited/imported

Fixed: Hitting ESC should cancel out of the designation wizard

Fixed: Pause indicator may wrongly reappear on designation after changing tuning

Fixed: Copy Transcript Lines without Page/Line may format unprefixed lines incorrectly

Transcript Synching

New: Manually edit timecodes when synching

New: Manual Sync - Allow shifting timecode (using [/]) on multiple lines at once

New: Manual Sync - Allow clearing timecodes from multiple lines at once

New: Add "shift pagination up/down by x" to sync tool

New: Add line numbers to sync error popup in sync tool

New: Add segment indicators to transcript in sync tool

Fixed: In sync tool, when unsynched line in a different segment is selected, video position is not correctly set

Fixed: Edit transcript text dialog may have inconsistent text indentation

Fixed: Unsynched segments shouldn't get removed when saving changes in Sync tool

Fixed: Increase transcript sync times to double-precision

Fixed: Error editing transcript text with unsynched media segment: Index out of range

Fixed: Transcript sync tool may incorrectly set offsets for newly added segments

Fixed: Transcript sync tool may fail to show error message when saving with invalid sync

Fixed: After syncing lines in multiple segments, first transcript line of video may get duplicated

Fixed: Manual sync may set timecode incorrectly when synching segments out of order

Fixed: Manual sync may incorrectly show out-of-order sync indicator for lines in added segments

Fixed: Manual sync may fail to set page/lines for added segments

Fixed: Manual sync tool may not find video if extension does not match

Fixed: Sync tool should keep fewer transcript backups

Fixed: Manual sync tool may not let you start synching in the middle of an unsynched range

Fixed: Don't set sync point if video position is out of valid range

Reports

New: Obj report should warn of responses do not match objection pg:ln range

New: Obj report should show error if a response column is added without a objection column

New: Save export, report output paths to case settings

New: Show warning, not error, when objection report includes objections for a depo not in the current list

New: Add text encoding auto-detect when importing transcripts from text and obj report files

New: Add option for page/lines without text on designation report

Fixed: Designation report does not list linked docs for split-pane pages

Fixed: Objection report - Non-breaking space in objection causes them not to be included

Fixed: Objections TXT file with C2A0 (non-breaking space) cause line to be ignored. Should be replaced with space.

Fixed: Objection report should not show blank objections if column is missing from objection file

Fixed: Transcript highlighter priority by Highlighter order is reversed

Import and Export

New: Add "only selected notebook" checkbox to Exhibit List options

New: Add timecodes to ascii transcript export

New: When exporting images from notebooks, add option to exclude full docs that are in notebooks

New: Doc image export should export rasterzed pages directly when using original media dimensions

New: Add list/script checkboxes for exhibit list export

New: Export transcript to ascii with page/lines

New: Add option to include only admitted docs/AV in exhibit list export

New: Add prompt to create highlighters when importing new IDs

New: Include highlighters in XML export

Fixed: CMS transcript with dot in the deponent name may fail to import

Fixed: Line numbers with leading zeros don't get ignored when included in the transcript text

Fixed: When importing a non-OnCue transcript XML, notify the user that it is in fact a non-OnCue xml file

Fixed: Transcript import may truncate deponent name with accent characters

Fixed: Importing CMS may fail with error: "Specified argument was out of range..."

Fixed: CMS Import may assign wrong ID to first transcript line of video

Fixed: Error importing single-page transcripts: Sequence contains no elements

Fixed: Exporting video with zero length should give better error than "At least one input file must be specified for concatenation"

Fixed: Video export with hidden depo video may drop audio

Fixed: Video export fails with error: Cannot load cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain

Fixed: Export popup does not save "Designation Line Format" setting

Fixed: Image export popup settings aren't saved after relaunch

Fixed: Can't set transcript date before year 1800 when importing

Fixed: Video export using Intel QSV may fail due to incorrect audio/video bitrates

Add and Remap Media

New: Add Media - Add delimiter option for "Nth space"

New: Remap media popup should auto-associated all segments when a new one is chosen, matching on filename pattern

New: Add option to ignore files with errors on Add Media popup

Fixed: When adding media using space as ID/Name delimiter, ignore leading spaces in filename

Fixed: Replaced docs get "(2)" added to filename instead of using original name

Fixed: Foldered pages should not get renamed when added, should be ordered numerically

Fixed: Replaced docs should not have name/bates cleared out if none are set on replacement

Printing

New: Adjust print label size presets to be larger

New: Add info tool tip explaining slip sheets

Fixed: Printed barcode replaces underscores with spaces

Fixed: When printing, 'Only print annotation' checkbox is not sticky

Fixed: Printing media from within notebook should use the media ID for the job name

Fixed: Print dialog may fail to activate after printing AV

Preferences

New: Add pref to change temp/scratch folder location

New: Add warning to H/W accelerated playback that it may cause slow loading

Fixed: Settings xml should not contain empty tags for missing values

Fixed: Assigning keypad + as Hotkey doesn't work

Fixed: Hotkey reference guide is missing background image and logo

Fixed: Rename 'case highlighters' to 'designation highlighters'

Fixed: Preferences text boxes should not allow user to enter extremely large numbers

Fixed: Preferences should not use E notation for showing numbers

Fixed: Database polling interval states that it accepts -1 value but does not

Licensing

New: Add means of license activation during server outage

New: Save license file in ProgramData as well as user's appdata, so that admin can activate for regular users

Database

New: Ignore leading zeros when retrieving/searching by name

Fixed: Database recovery leaves behind ".recovered" file even if it is irrecoverable

Fixed: Database Tools show unhelpful "Operation is not valid..." error if no db path is entered

Fixed: Can't retrieve a record by Name.Page if its name is all numbers

Fixed: Shorten shared case activity notification threshold to 15 minutes

Other

New: Make Retrieve by ID popup blink when it receives keystrokes

Fixed: Change "Retrieve by ID" caption to read "Type an ID, Name, or Bates then enter"

Fixed: Retrieve by ID should support Cancellation and not prevent case closure

Fixed: Properties pane does not let you edit the filename after changing extension to .ppt 

Fixed: Files pane list does not refresh when refresh button is clicked

Fixed: Include skipped updates in list when maually checking for updates

Fixed: Error changing multi-select list box: Assertion: index is between...

Fixed: Importing list XML with split-screen annotation with same ID as existing single-page annotation may cause duplicate IDs

Fixed: Hovering over publish button when ribbon is collapsed causes binding error to be shown

Fixed: Can't advance media script with arrow after deleting items

Fixed: Scrolling text may show blank line when continuous text is turned on with 9 lines

Fixed: When importing transcripts, count all lines per page and use the most common

Fixed: Adding designation that span pages might unexpectedly split if lines-per-page is wrong

Fixed: Remove Overlaps and Merge Page-to-Page should not use "lines per page" setting on transcript

Fixed: CMS imported with extra lines on first page throws off page count

Fixed: When replacing multiple files that conflict with same existing ID, they may not get unique IDs assigned

Fixed: Adding foldered media with multiple dots in the folder name truncates incorrectly

Fixed: Add to Notebook submenu should not list native files

Fixed: Split-screen AV is blank when printed from the AV tree

Fixed: Video export fails with error: "OpenEncodeSessionEx failed: unsupported device"

Fixed: Change default video renderer back to VMR-9

Fixed: Media bar tab may not collapse correctly, showing blank space

Fixed: Error when replacing docs: LockTimeoutException

Fixed: Error when making lots of changes at once on a case shared on a NAS: 'SQL logic error'

Fixed: Error deleting split-screen annotation: 'The file is in use...'

Fixed: Saving annotations may fail with error: 'The process cannot access the file...'

New: Allow downgrades/rollback via updater

Fixed: Time labels don't hide when blanking presentation

Fixed: Target notebook may fail to auto-scroll to the bottom when manually adding to it

Fixed: Video export may fail with error: 'Cannot load nvEncodeAPI64.dll'

Fixed: Transcript XML import fails with error: 'Object reference not set...'

Fixed: Error working in designation editor: "information for developers..."

Fixed: Video export may have poor quality

Fixed: When video is blanked in presentation, X+ID to show a doc may fail and cause audio to continue playing

Hotfix: Video export fails with error 'dl_fn→cuda_dl→cuInit(0) failed’