We’ve got some exciting news… our Life Tributes Fall 2015 Beta Release is available for download! We’ve made some very important and beneficial improvements to the software, allowing you to continue creating memorable experiences that wow your families time and time again.
Ready to see what this Fall 2015 Beta Release has to offer? Just CLICK HERE to request access to this update and see for yourself the exciting changes that were made, including…
Improved Audio: All Tribute Videos now have improved audio quality. You now also have the opportunity to hear the original audio from the custom videos you add.
Improved Webcast Reliability: Our webcasting feature now offers better compatibility with capture devices, up-to-date connection status reports, more reliable upload processes, and more self explanatory error messages.
Custom Music: Operating the interface of the music selection feature is now much better and faster. We also upgraded the detection and handling of unplayable files.
Improved DVD Authoring: Have a reliable and improved experience when it comes to authoring your Life Tribute DVDs.
Better Printing Support: You can now maintain the aspect ratio of your images when resizing, simply by pressing SHIFT while resizing the image. We’ve also added minor fixes and support for specialized DVD label printers.
f1Connect Integration: We’ve improved the way that Tribute Videos and photos are uploaded to f1Connect. Instead of automatically uploading Tribute Video photos to a timeline, you now have the ability to preview all the pictures in Life Tributes before posting them, preventing visual upload errors.
More Features: The recent Beta Release update also features a number of other improved support functions, including proper DPI support on high resolution screens, and the support of multiline funeral home names.
Full List of 2015 Beta Changes
Webcasting
- Added streaming connection status reporting to Life Tributes webcasting
- Added necessary support for any 3rd party webcast encoders
- While a webcast is in progress, Life Tributes will now show custom message when attempting to shut down your computer.
- While a webcast is in progress, Life Tributes will now prevent you from turning off the display.
- Improvements to better handle client IP changes.
- Fixed an error that shut off the scheduled webcast date when setting it for the first time.
- Fixed an error that caused webcasting crashes and deletion.
- Added a feature which creates a fallback FTP upload for webcasts
- Improved error messages and UI handling when a webcast upload fails
- Suggestion to always add the DV splitter to the graph when using DV capture device.
- Added an improvement to the camera busy error message that’s displayed
- Added a improved message for the webcasting error “0x800705AA”
- Improved the support of capture devices with "Audio Out" pin
Tribute video
- Added HQ audio resampling feature
- Added the ability to mix audio from user video clips
- Improved “show timeline item” index in photo/motion/text/video editor
- Added the ability to fade out the last picture to white if there's an ending clip
- Added support for version in .mp4 video filename (previously the server error upload locked the file)
- Improved the action of starting Instant Preview or Tribute Generation with too many items in timeline
- Created a workaround to pictures turning 100% white after the fade in
- Audio
- Improved the loading speed of custom music
- Fixed the error which caused the Music list to be filled twice when opening music panel for the first time
- Fixed the duration cache from not being updated for new .mp3
- Moved unplayable music files to a different folder
- Suggestion to avoid putting unplayable files in the custom music folder
- Added the ability to upload just the music used by the project, not the entire library
- Improved the handling of iTunes files
- Added the allowance of only compressed music files
DVD burning (Tribute & Webcast)
- Added the ability to remember the last burner used
- Added the ability to show both DVD menu screens when previewing the DVD theme
- Added support for asking every time for copy protection type
- Fixed crashes when clicking on the Home button while generating DVD or uploading tribute video
- Added force source filter for known file formats in webcast conversion and audio resampling
- Fixed the DVD builder from failing with project names containing non ASCII characters
Printing
- Added the ability to press SHIFT while resizing print items, in order to have them maintain their aspect ratio
- Added support for page ranges in tribute book print dialog
- Fixed the last line of Order of Service error when selecting and replacing it with something else
- Fixed the Tribute Book Page 7 checkbox error which hid all the elements for DateTime, Location, Officiating, and Bearers
- Fixed transparency from being removed from images added to DVD printing material
- Added the ability to print disc label on specialized disc duplicator printer
- Fixed the crash when deleting custom tribute book layout
f1Connect integration
- Fixed unlinked projects appearing linked to the f1c case of the previously created linked project
- Synced timeline items to f1C only when uploading or burning the tribute video
- Deleted generated burn disk images that were stored in other computers when required
Misc.
- Added several fixes related to windows text size (DPI)
- Replaced a pair of double quotes with curly double quotes instead of apostrophes
- Improved handling of some reported errors
- Added support to specify where to break Funeral Home name into a new line
- Fixed projects cache crash with badly formatted folder in projects dir
- Triggered automatic project save after adding pictures to timeline from scanner
- Fixeded crash at startup when checking if another LT process is running
- Sorted Carriage contracts by date and then by contract number
- Fixed ListViewCustomPaint's AllowColumnReorder = false blocking click on column headers to sort them
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