Strawberry Changelogs

Server

Adobe CC Panel

Client

Proxy Encoder

NEW FEATURES

- Mutliple Open Projects & Sessions
  The “Multiple Open Projects” feature enables editors to open multiple projects simultaneously without having to connect them in a parent- subproject relationship. Sessions ensure, that users can save their current working state (currently open projects) on logout and load that state when they log back in.
- Deep Search Filters
  we have introduced new search features, enabling deep metadata searches and allowing for more complex search operations across projects and media assets. This helps editors find their assets and projects more quickly.
- New Proxy Encoding Preset
  Strawberry 6.2 offers a new proxy encoding preset called “Same as Source”. When enabled, all new proxy files will have the same resolutions as their HighRes counterparts. This new preset is recommended when Strawberry is used for approval workflows and remote editing via Skies.
- Automated Error Tracking
  Administrators can now configure Strawberry to automatically send error messages and exceptions to the Projective support team.

IMPROVEMENTS

- Bulk-Downloads for Proxy Files
  Strawberry users can now download multiple proxy files in a single download operation
- Folder Imports for Remote Editors
  The Skies Adobe panel now allows editors to import the contents of entire folders as editing proxies
- Bulk-Releasing of Gallery Assets
  Gallery managers can now release multiple Gallery assets in a single action
- Push Gallery Feedback to PAM
  Gallery managers can now push individual annotations of a Gallery asset back to it’s Strawberry PAM source asset. This way, reviewer feedback can be made available to the editor who originally submitted the asset to the Gallery
- Share via Email Links
  Individual review links shared via email can now be opened on multiple devices simultaneously
- Proxy Support for atypical Audio Files
  Strawberry can now generate proxy files from media assets that have a different number of audio channels in their audio tracks
- Notification for “Project Close” events
  Users can now receive notifications when other users close their projects. Additionally, these notifications are also available in the global event log, enabling Admins to measure the time that an editor has spent on a project on a given day
- Active Directory Security Groups
  Strawberry now allows filtering AD/LDAP users based on Active Directory security groups
- ACL ID Preference
  Strawberry now supports inheritance for POSIX ACLs and allows to set an ACL id preference for NFSv4 ACLs (uid or username)
- Support for CentOS 8 and RHEL8
  Strawberry can now be installed on the latest CentOS 8 and Red Hat 8 versions.
- Dependency Updates
  We have updated Ruby, NGINX, and many other dependencies

BUG FIXES

- We have fixed a bug that caused Indexer caching operations to not work properly
- We have fixed a bug that caused Indexer failures when umlauts were present in the Strawberry project name and in a name of an Adobe Premiere project file name within that Strawberry project
- We have fixed a bug that crashed the indexing process when Unicode incompatible metadata values existed for an asset
- The Audio codec is now shown in the metadata tab of media assets
- We have fixed various errors related to project deletions
- When downloading a proxy preview of an image sequence, Strawberry now downloads the proxy preview instead of a single frame of the sequence itself

New: A Skies remote editing panel extension is now available for Adobe Premiere
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/skies-remote-editing
New: Strawberry can now create editing proxies that can be used with Adobe Premiere
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/getting-started-with-remote-editing
New: "Share via Email" links can now be set to expire manually or automatically
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/security-settings
New: 2 new archive-related role capabilities have been introduced. \"Can retrieve individual assets from own projects\" and \"Can retrieve individual assets from other people's projects\"
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/role-capabilities-overview
New: Added support for one more XML sidecar format
Improvement: It is now possible to bulk-download proxy files from within web browsers
Improvement: Admins can now configure Strawberry to reset search tabs for all users on logout
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/search-settings
Fixed: Files ingested into ingest libraries did not appear in the user interface when no proxy can be created for them
Fixed: Proxy files can not be encoded for image sequences with brackets in their file names
Fixed: The settings button in the Adobe panel does not react when clicking on it
Fixed: When using multiple storages a race condition could prevent the release of Project AtomicCounter locks
Fixed: Deleted files are still visible in the Frontend even after the Indexer removed them
Fixed: Fixed a bug in the password strength check
Fixed: Share notifications for Gallery invites were not always sent via email'

New: Enforce content security policy
New: Capability only allows users to submit assets to a gallery that they are a member of
Changed: All installations need a new v6 license
Changed: Users are forced to log into the application after changing their password
Changed: "Share" links can only be opened by one user/browser at a time
Fixed: Scroll position is reset in in-project search when project attributes change
Fixed: Incorrect timecode for assets with and without drop-frames framerates
Fixed: Frontends not loading in Chrome 80+

NEW FEATURES

Galleries
Skies Beta
Asset Expiration
In-App PDF Preview
Support for macOS Catalina
Support for the Quobyte File System

CHANGES TO PROJECTS, MEDIA ASSETS & PROXY FILES

It is now possible to create “Custom Metadata Sets” for media assets
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/managing-asset-metadata-sets
Users can now “bulk-add” metadata to media assets
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/viewing-and-changing-asset-metadata
We have increased the visual quality of streamable proxy previews by introducing hard-coded variable proxy bitrates (VBR)
https://manuals.projective.io/v60/en/topic/resolutions-and-bitrates
Starting with the Strawberry 6 update, Strawberry will create two streaming proxies for each HighRes media asset. The first proxy is the standard proxy that is used for internal (LAN) streaming while the second proxy is an encrypted version used when streaming via the Skies cloud infrastructure
If your current proxy resolution is set to 640×360, then the Strawberry 6 update will automatically increase it to 1280×720. This change will ensure that all new proxy files will be ready for approval workflows via the SKIES cloud infrastructure. if you don’t want your proxy files to be encoded in a resolution higher than 640×360 you can manually downgrade the resolution from the Strawberry Admin panel after the update.

CHANGES TO THE SEARCH ENGINE & THE SEARCH INDEX

Searching through markers from within the annotation view now also searches through user names
Administrators can now filter users by their role
.stream & .lck are now on the factory deny list for assets

CHANGES TO USER ACCOUNTS

Users can now change their passwords within their personal user settings or via an email reset link. For this reason, new users are now prompted for an email address
Users now see a warning when they attempt to login with the same credentials as another user who is already logged in
Strong passwords are enforced for users who are attempting to login to Strawberry via SKIES

CHANGES TO THE USER INTERFACE AND THE VIDEO PLAYER

UI: Parent- & Subprojects are no longer shown inside the expanded project. Instead, they are now shown inside a dedicated tab.
UI: Preview thumbnails of proxy files can now be as large as 216x121px, compared to 144x81px in previous versions.
UI: The proxy thumbnail now indicates what kind of metadata an asset has
Video Player: Videos can now be paused or played back just by clicking on the video preview. It is no longer required to click on the related button.
UI: Admin can now set custom hyperlinks for the Strawberry logo and for the “help” button inside the Admin panel

BUG FIXES

We have fixed a timecode calculation bug that occurred with drop frame material
The “Subscribe to Asset” button was not shown in the asset “Info” tab
When a file is moved inside a project, that file appeared in the new and in the old location
Avid .mxf files names starting with the numbers “1337” caused problems when closing a project (Classic Mode only!)
Selecting multiple assets by using a “lasso” did not work in the asset view
When deleting a project in some previous version, proxy files have not been deleted along with it. We have fixed that bug and also added a script that removes proxies of deleted projects retrospectively
We have addressed “FailedLockAcquisition” errors

CIFS ACLs: Enable inheritance to avoid the need to chmod the project contents
Frontends: Show full asset name in tooltip shown in project contents list view
Fixed: Renaming a custom metadata select field option applied the new name to all projects/assets using that select field
Fixed: AtomicCounter never reset itself
Fixed: Sequences with very long integer ranges could not be indexed
Fixed: Errors in indexer batch cleanup could cause projects/libraries to get locked thus not be indexed anymore
Fixed: Indexer was unable to delete multiple image sequences in one operation

New: Allow to modify the "artifact exist" action for existing archive strategies
New: Libraries configured without an existing ingest path will not be cleaned anymore
Frontend: Projects are now sorted based on the last database modification time, not the last interaction time
Preditor: Improved the accurateness of the in-sequence clip volume slider
Fixed: Linking assets to a project created notifications for mentions in descriptions and markers
Fixed: Deleted assets were not always properly pruned from the search table
Fixed: Metadata updated by the indexer was not reflected in the frontend to due missing cache invalidation
Fixed: Description tab in the annotation view is not visible in FireFox'

Note: Reset saved search tabs and log out all users
New: Status flag names can now be edited via the Admin panel
Frontends: Closing the advanced search settings now resets the search options to the defaults
Frontends: Find projects and assets via the projects status flags
Fixed: Renaming a project does not properly update its proxies
Fixed: Searching for quoted terms did not work for all attributes
Fixed: Default role for new users is not selected in new user creation modal
Fixed: "Mark all notifications as read" button does not work for all notifications
Fixed: Access rights only given to visible users/teams when creating a project

Fixed: Manually subscribing to an asset is no longer possible
Fixed: When the number "10" is present in the Timecode, an additional zero appears in front of it
Fixed: The video progress bar is not visible when in full-screen mode
Fixed: File retrieval requests for archived assets cannot be canceled
Fixed: It is not possible to mention users when editing an existing annotation
Fixed: Clicking on the name of the open project does show more projects than necessary
Fixed: Archiware P5 archive plans ID's are not saved in the database
Fixed: Minor database migration issues
Fixed: "Edit already exists on the server" message being shown for new edits

Fixed: Certain project metadata are not shown when in list view
Fixed: Directories inside projects are not sortable by name
Fixed: Previewing proxies in full screen mode does no longer work with Chrome 71
Fixed: When attempting to drop an asset into a Preditor sequence, the "drop zone indicator" does not snap to a sequence track
Fixed: Database migration can fail if the old database includes many generic files
Fixed: Administrators can remove an edit that still has a project open
Fixed: A bug in the Nginx configuration causes the Preditor logo to disappear
Fixed: Archive and retrieval operations fail on symlinked strawrage root

Adobe Panel: When importing a Preditor sequence into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, the sequence file and its related media assets are now imported into a dedicated "sequence bin"
General: When limiting the asset search scope to a specific metadata field (e.g. "Markers"), the user interface only shows assets that have metadata in that specific field
Shared Edits Mode (SEM): POSIX permission updates can now optionally be disabled when a project is being synced by the user or automatically
Fixed: The "Rename Project" button is enabled even if multiple projects are selected
Fixed: Frozen projects can be mounted in Shared Edits Mode (SEM)
Fixed: Filtering assets by a specific file type does return unrelated file types

New: Visual Frame Highlighting & Task Completion
New: Customizable User Interface Branding
New: Media Composer Marker Export
New: Improve search index update speed and responsiveness by replacing Manticore Search and MariaDB with PostgreSQL
Adobe Panel: The proxy preview and the asset description field are now in separate tabs
Adobe Panel: Automatically close proxy preview when switching between search tabs
Adobe Panel: Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019 and After Effects CC 2019
Adobe Panel: Maintain folder structure when importing Assets into a selected Bin
Admin: It is now possible to define a “Default Team for New Users” which helps to define “PAM entry points” for AD/LDAP users
Archive: Better archive and retrieval error resilience
General: It is now possible to detach archived subprojects from their parent
General: The video preview inside the annotation view now uses the full space of the frame it is in
General: Additional playback speed steps for the video player when pressing the “L” key multiple times
General: More bulk-selecting options in the Admin panel
Communications System: New dedicated notification for “Folder Copy to”
Preditor: Undo/Redo function for timeline changes
Search : Separate search filters for xmp, xml and technical metadata fields allow for more granulated searches
Shared Edits Mode (SEM): Implementation of NFSv4 ACLs
Shared Edits Mode (SEM): Configurable default ACL permissions on project creation
Shared Edits Mode (SEM): Strawberry system folders are now inaccessible to standard users by default
Shared Edits Mode (SEM): Trash Folder Protection
Watch Folders: The performance of Ingest Libraries has been improved
Watch Folders: It is now possible to choose from a variety of file integrity checks for ingest libraries
Fixed: Attempting to link of a folder with an image sequence does not link the sequence
Fixed: Adobe markers are not updated when linking an asset that already exists in the target project
Fixed: Table header hiccups when switching between list view and grid view
Fixed: Custom asset metadata is not being copied along with the source asset
Fixed: Linking assets from an external library always copies even if linking the file would have worked
Fixed: Wrong media file size is shown when an XML sidecar is associated with the file
Fixed: External libraries appear as empty when the mount point to the external storage is inaccessible
Fixed: License validation does not work properly in Centos 7 environments
Fixed: “last modified” value for projects is not being displayed in Shared Edits Mode
Fixed: Admin users are unable of removing project access from the project creator
Fixed: Image sequence burn-in label says "jpg" when it actually is “dpx”
Fixed: The installer does not properly update MediaInfo to the latest version
Fixed: Markers show “<br>” instead of an actual line break
Fixed: The CLI command “Fix proxies that remain in progress” exits with a “no method “error
Fixed: Force closing a project in Shared Edits Mode (SEM) from the Admin panel does not close attached subprojects
Fixed: "show/hide assets with this extension only” does not work for in "in-project" search
Fixed: Exporting a sequence as an .AAF file results in an “undefined method” error
Fixed: Users with no access to certain projects are able to gain access to those projects via subprojects
Fixed: Projects retrieved from the archive in Shared Edits Mode (SEM) do not get the proper permissions set once the retrieval has been completed
Fixed: Copy To does not ignore MacOS system folders and other special folders
Fixed: Metadata view in user front end is sometimes cut off
Fixed: Metadata values can not be selected for copy & paste purposes
Fixed: Proxy file creation fails for .mxf files that only include audio
Fixed: ViewFarm worker changes can not be properly managed via the Admin Panel

Add API key-based authentication method
Allow to mark annotations as completed (Requires the enhanced version of the "Communications System")
Allow renaming projects
Add new Archiware P5 archive strategy which is faster and supports retrieving single files from the archive (requires P5 >= 5.5.5)
Add Avid compatible asset annotation export
Frontend: Show timecode overlay and video controls also in full-screen mode
Show a warning before deleting Custom metadata fields, sets and dropdown values that are in active use by projects and assets
Unlock search indexer on startup to fix indexes not being updated after a crash
Add MergeSphinxIndexJob to increase the update performance of the search index
FIX: Wrong timecode causes XLS annotation export to fail
FIX: Asset indexer never finishes when running into a symbolic link "loop"
FIX: Asset retrieve notification not working
FIX: subproject folder "leaking" into the main project
FIX: encoding issues when extracting umlauts from MXF clip names
Frontend FIX: Prevent resize issues when leaving full screen

Add Slack integration for the Communications System
Switch from Sphinx Search to Manticore Search
Improve API documentation
Allow Administrators to change and override the default notification settings for new users or all users
Allow assigning projects to users in the "Manage Users" section of the Admin panel
Create edits automatically if they don't exist in Shared Edits mode
Improve project deletion performance
Showing Warnings when switching a library to the watch folder type "external"
FIX: Removing a subproject triggered a status update notification
FIX: "Edit directories missing only on some storages." in Shared Edits mode
FIX: MacOS: Lost permissions to the project volume after adding a template to it
FIX: Do not send asset deletion notifications when a project is deleted
Frontend: "Copy to" and "Link" asset operations no longer block the Frontend
Frontend FIX: Sections in the admin panel contracting without user interaction
Frontend FIX: Opened project name being cut off in the Windows Client
Frontend FIX: Prevent user & teams in project list from losing focus
Preditor FIX: Prevent proxy preview window from resizing unnecessarily

FIX: Trash deletion in shared edits mode
FIX: Do not send duplicated notifications when being mentioned in a description/annotation notification.
FIX: Modified files sometimes do not update the assets size/video/image/audio attributes
FIX: Mandatory asset custom metadata field prevent project creation
FIX: Premiere metadata extraction not working for clips imported from a share via the media browser
FIX: Large xmp: Thumbnails XMP metadata values causing assets not being indexed
FIX: Template deletion in the admin panel
FIX: Editing dropdown custom metadata fields in the admin panel
FIX: Annotation replies not being synchronized to other clients in real time
FIX: Archive tooltip not being updated properly
FIX: sb metrics command on new installations
Allow sorting annotations by different attributes
Make switching between assets in the frontend smoother

The Communication System
New Search Tabs and Advanced Search
Asset-Based Custom Metadata
Proxy files created with Strawberry 5.4 now include all the individual audio tracks from their high-res media asset.
Avid-style bin locking for Windows
The Strawberry user interface got a big facelift. We renewed all project and asset icons, redesigned the project list and implemented dozens of smaller tweaks to further enhance usability & visual clarity.
We restructured the Admin panel to create extra room for the new feature settings
Avid Media Composer™ 8.9 or newer has introduced the requirement of project .avp files to have the same name as the folder they are in. This causes issues with .avp files stored directly inside our standard “project” folder, leading to an Avid “Cannot open Project” error. We changed the automatic folder naming to comply with this new Media Composer requirement
Preditor now has a “snap to timeline” function. Additionally, we optimized its video caching capabilities for smoother editing.
The download of annotation .PDF’s does no longer require an email address. PDF’s can now be downloaded via the new notification feed
Users can now toggle between list and grid view on the fly, regardless if they are in the global project list, asset list or even inside an individual folder.
Project names now can now have a minimum length of two characters. Additionally, the project name field for new projects is no longer mandatory when the checkbox “Create Project Name from Metadata” is enabled.
We updated the Javascript render engine for the Strawberry client application to create a smoother user experience
We optimized the way in which Strawberry sends & pulls information to & from its database, leading to notable performance improvements in regards to file indexing
The Strawberry 5.4 client application requires at least macOS 10.11 (El Capitan). MacOS 10.9 (Mavericks) & 10.10 (Yosemite) are no longer supported
The Strawberry 5.4 Adobe CC panel extension requires at least Premiere Pro CC 2017 and After Effects CC 2017
FIX: We fixed a bug that caused a “Failed to save project on storage” error because of missing trash folders
FIX: We addressed an issue that caused the Sphinx search daemon to crash under certain conditions
FIX: We fixed a bug that prevented the download of the annotation .PDF file

Added: (macOS) support for macOS 10.15 Catalina
Added: (macOS) client, installer and uninstaller are now notarized by Apple
Added: (macOS 10.15) request for the user to allow "Full Disk Access"
Added: (macOS) pamFS file system which is incorporated inside the client bundle
Added: (macOS) Apple Privileged Helper Tool for performing elevated permissions' actions
Added: (macOS) remove mount directories even when there are still trash files inside e.g. "Icon\r"
Added: (macOS) file references as an alternative to pamFS mounts
Added: display client version in the installer
Updated: (macOS) certificates that the application is signed with
Updated: fix full screen problems
Updated: allow numbers in file extensions used for opening editing applications
Updated: other small improvements
Removed: (macOS) SAN Enabler option from the installer (pamFS integrated in the bundle)