Changes & Improvements in MediaShout 7.6.5
- NEW FEATURE - New Christmas Sample script included
- This release includes a new bundled script which contains sample cues and media for the Christmas season!
- This release includes a new bundled script which contains sample cues and media for the Christmas season!
- NEW FEATURE - Title page formatting now stored with templates (both Main and Stage)
- Any changes which you make to the formatting of Lyric title pages may now be saved to a template and will be applied along with the template. [Note: The Title page must be selected at the time the template is saved for this formatting to be saved with the template. All five Title page elements must remain in place.]
- Any changes which you make to the formatting of Lyric title pages may now be saved to a template and will be applied along with the template. [Note: The Title page must be selected at the time the template is saved for this formatting to be saved with the template. All five Title page elements must remain in place.]
- NEW FEATURE - Stage default template applied when using Lyrics or Bible Fire mode
- When you are using the Fire mode in either the Lyrics or Bible windows, instead of the Stage display always mirroring the Main display, now the Stage display is formatted using the default Stage template. This provides a more traditional Stage formatting for 'Fire mode' cues, and it also allows those using the Stage output as a stream feed to have custom formatting on that output during Fire mode use.
- When you are using the Fire mode in either the Lyrics or Bible windows, instead of the Stage display always mirroring the Main display, now the Stage display is formatted using the default Stage template. This provides a more traditional Stage formatting for 'Fire mode' cues, and it also allows those using the Stage output as a stream feed to have custom formatting on that output during Fire mode use.
- IMPROVEMENT - Improved Cue timer functions - Various
- Several functions of the timers in v7 were not functioning in the most helpful (or intended) manner. (We have tried to make the timer functions more logical and intuitive, but please let us know if any of these changes have a negative affect on your use case and how we could improve them further.)
- Timer progress (the value the timer had counted to) was being saved in scripts and restored when reopened. That was almost universally unhelpful, so that no longer happens. When you open a script, the timer values will be reset to their original set values.
- Timers would automatically start running when you reset them. This no longer occurs. The timer will reset and wait for you to start it when you want to.
- Changing the visibility of a timer (making if visible after it was hidden) will no longer automatically start the timer. (Simply changing the visibility of a timer should not assume that you want it to start running right away.)
- The reset control was disabled when a cue was stopped, preventing a user from resetting it before firing the cue. Now, you can reset the cue before firing it so that the timer will be at its initial value when the cue is fired.
- Several functions of the timers in v7 were not functioning in the most helpful (or intended) manner. (We have tried to make the timer functions more logical and intuitive, but please let us know if any of these changes have a negative affect on your use case and how we could improve them further.)
- FIXED - Embedded page breaks in Lyrics library sometimes caused an extra blank line
- Embedding page breaks into the Lyric library using the |PageBreak| tag often caused extra blank lines to be present in the resulting cue. That should no longer be the case.
- Embedding page breaks into the Lyric library using the |PageBreak| tag often caused extra blank lines to be present in the resulting cue. That should no longer be the case.
- FIXED - Dual Bible cue page preview text sourced from secondary translation
- Bible cues which contained dual translations were creating page preview text using the secondary bible instead of the Primary one. Now the Primary translation is used for those page previews.
- Bible cues which contained dual translations were creating page preview text using the secondary bible instead of the Primary one. Now the Primary translation is used for those page previews.
- FIXED - Using some keyboard shortcuts caused skipped pages to be fired
- Some pages which were skipped within cues were being fired unintentionally when the user advanced using certain keyboard shortcuts.
- Some pages which were skipped within cues were being fired unintentionally when the user advanced using certain keyboard shortcuts.
- FIXED - Crash when using an old script with misformatted timer info
- Some earlier builds appear to have stored timer values incorrectly, and using those scripts led to the application crashing. This release will not crash when those conditions occur.
- Some earlier builds appear to have stored timer values incorrectly, and using those scripts led to the application crashing. This release will not crash when those conditions occur.
Hopefully this has helped you get started with the new fixes and features in MediaShout 7. If you have any questions about these, or anything else with the software, please reach out to our support team and they would be glad to assist!
(2024-12-18, DF)