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  • Fixed: ASCII transcripts with page break characters may fail to import

  • Fixed: ASCII transcripts with lines prefixed with time may fail to import

  • Fixed: Unable to activate new license after remotely deactivated

  • Fixed: CMS import fails with error: 'invalid transcript line format. unable to parse line'

  • Fixed: Designation video marked as hidden may export to XML as visible

  • Fixed: Exported video may show zoomed-in designations as unzoomed

  • Fixed: Advancing through designations may be sluggish after upgrading from 4.5.1278

  • Fixed: Transcript report may be formatted incorrectly when transcript lines per page varies

  • Fixed: ProSync may fail when source has multiple audio streams

  • Fixed: Video may fail to load when system locale is set outside of English/US

  • Fixed: Splash screen can't be navigated using keyboard only

  • Fixed: Licensing popups can't be fully navigated with keyboard

7/10/2026 - 4.5.1409

4/17/2026 - 4.5.1355

New: ProSync - Add recurring freebies for Pro and Team subscribers

2/1/2026 - 4.5.1278

Fixes

  • Fixed: Exhibit stickers may not print from other apps

  • Fixed: UI becomes unresponsive after app is inactive

  • Fixed: Editing designation in transcript pane may not update playback position in tuner

  • Fixed: Error changing designations while presenting: Exception of type 'OnCue.LockTimeoutException'...

  • Fixed: Error removing lines from designation: Assertion failure: splitIndex is between 0 and 432, inclusive

  • Fixed: CMS import may set incorrect video duration for multi-video transcripts

  • Fixed: MDB import may set incorrect video duration for multi-video transcripts

  • Fixed: Properties pane may unnecessarily save changes causing increased database I/O

1/16/2026 - 4.5.1265

Hotfix Build

  • Fixed: Scrolling text begins at wrong line when presenting designations

  • Fixed: Transcripts loaded for multi-video depos may use incorrect timecode offsets

  • Fixed: MDB import may set timecode beyond end of video segment

  • Fixed: MDB export for multi-video transcripts may use incorrect timecode offsets

  • Fixed: MDB export may use incorrect decimal separator for timecode

1/12/2026 - 4.5.1260

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

1/7/2026 - 4.5.1255

Fix Update: 4.4.1053

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

6/19/2025 - 4.4.1053

Fix Update: 4.4.1050

  • Fixed issue with graphics card detection on app startup

6/16/2025 - 4.4.1050

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

6/13/2025 - 4.4.1045

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

5/30/2025 - 4.4.1033

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

4/4/2025 - 4.4.974

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

1/24/2025 - 4.4.906

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