STORM 1.0v2 - Released

[Dan A]

The Foundry is pleased to announce the availability of STORM 1.0v2.

This patch release addresses a number of stability issues and also one new feature and one feature enhancement.


STORM 1.0v2 can be found here:

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/storm/


New Features

• Storm now supports the RED Rocket Breakout Box, allowing you to output 4K images to 4K monitors or projectors.

Feature Enhancements

• Tape Name metadata is now included when you export DPX files. Tape Name information assists conforming in some 3rd Party applications.The Foundry Storm 1.0v2

Bug Fixes

• It was possible to remove both the audio and video tracks from a clip, resulting in a blank Bin clip.
• Overlapping multi-track Timelines were not reading tracks in the correct sequential order, from the ’top’ downward.
• EXR and DPX exports defaulted to 8-bit precision, resulting in clipping.
• XML files exported to Final Cut Pro did not handle multi-track audio correctly.
• Importing and conforming XML containing merged tracks from Final Cut Pro added ’Merged’ to the file name instead of retaining the basic RED clip name.
• Removing audio tracks from multiple Bin clips simultaneously was causing Storm to crash.
• Grid view in the Media Pool was clipping column names in the right-click context menus.
• Dragging-and-dropping saved Looks onto multiple clips was causing Storm to crash.

Regards,
The STORM Team

[Johnny Friday]

Dan,
will this address the Rocket Monitoring issue?

**Will Report back if Redrocket external monitoring bug is smashed!

downloading now.

[Gunleik Groven]

Nice!

Looking foreward to playing with this

G

[Dan A]

Dan,
will this address the Rocket Monitoring issue?

**Will Report back if Redrocket external monitoring bug is smashed!

downloading now.

Hopefully!

[Yasar Yagci]

Great Software .. I am testing it.

[Greg M]

still no Epic support?

[Johnny Friday]

Damn! I fired up and pulled in a new project or reel.....automatically i saw the rocket and monitor enabled....played first clip....all went perfectly. Crossed my fingers; held my breath and double clicked a second clip (all clips 4096x2304 @ 29.97fps @ 16:9).....all rocket emblems then became disabled.

It seems to LOVE the first clip AND i can go back to the first clip and it plays with Rocket acceleration and monitor enabled ,BUT only that first clip.....any others i loose rocket accelration and monitor

I can't be the only one eh?

[Johnny Friday]

Also Dan....
....seems that ALMOST everytime i close out Storm...and I'm asked if i want to save my production....i say no....then when Storm Quits i get the Error: Storm quit Unexpectedly...send report---i choose yes....etc....Anyway, wanted to mention that since i get that error almost everytime i am quitting storm.

[Paul Brickel]

still no Epic support?

Hi Greg,

The EPIC SDK remains in beta and relies on different RED Rocket drivers. We are working closely with RED and will adopt support in the mainline STORM product when the SDK is ready.

Regards,
Paul

[Dan A]

Damn! I fired up and pulled in a new project or reel.....automatically i saw the rocket and monitor enabled....played first clip....all went perfectly. Crossed my fingers; held my breath and double clicked a second clip (all clips 4096x2304 @ 29.97fps @ 16:9)

Which setting in the Viewer's Monitor Output settings did you try? Can you try both DVI/HDMI and SDI and see if they both give the same behaviour?

.....all rocket emblems then became disabled.

This should be the case for all Rocket icons except the active Viewer when using the Monitor Out. The icon becoming inactive in the active viewer is the worrying one.

It seems to LOVE the first clip AND i can go back to the first clip and it plays with Rocket acceleration and monitor enabled ,BUT only that first clip.....any others i loose rocket accelration and monitor

It does seem odd. I would still like to get a hold of some of your footage. I spoke to Daniel in Support and he mentioned that he had had trouble downloading it. We should be able to send you a hard drive and if you could load the footage onto there that would be great.

I can't be the only one eh?

Slightly tricky to say. Unfortunately I think you are possibly the only person with your exact setup at the moment. We are going to see if we can get hold of a AJA breakout/converter box. I was really hoping the 4k Red Break Out Box fix would resolve your issue. Back to the drawing board!


thanks,
Dan