2021 Release Notes - iconik Help Documentation

2021-11-04

New web uploader widget
- Setting transcode priority
- Adjusting permissions to match collections or private
- Context aware uploads
- New role, Web can top level upload, to allow uploads to the top level (All existing groups with upload enabled will be migrated to include this role)
Possibility to filter files that are not on a specific storage in search
New configuration options

Better audio proxy quality (192kbit/s)
Archiving could fail when an asset was archived multiple times from the same collection structure
Downloads of previous asset versions now works again
Audio metadata is now correctly extracted
QT metadata is now correctly extracted
Proxy generation on Ubuntu 20.04 will handle raw formats
- To use the same procedure in Ubuntu 18.04, install dcraw and replace the line
<delegate decode="dng:decode" command=""ufraw-batch" --exposure=auto --silent --create-id=also --out-type=png --out-depth=16 "--output=%u.png" "%i""/>

with

<delegate decode="dng:decode" command=""./opt/cantemo/iconik_storage_gateway/transcode_raw_image.sh" "%i" "%u.png""/>

in /opt/cantemo/iconik_storage_gateway/delegates.xml and create /opt/cantemo/iconik_storage_gateway/transcode_raw_image.sh with
```
#!/bin/bash

FILENAME="$1"
PPM_FILE=${FILENAME%.*}".ppm"

dcraw -w "$FILENAME"
convert "$PPM_FILE" "$2"
```

Transcription in more languages
- The default Rev.ai transcription now supports 26 more languages. The list now includes Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish

Metadata Categories
- You can define subcategories for assets and collections to show different metadata views.
Asset warnings and blocking
- Via metadata fields, you can set a warning message on assets. This could be used to indicate for example usage rights restrictions.
- Via a boolean Metadata Field you can block the ability to share and download an asset.
- Both of the above also works in bulk edit, and of course via API
Better quality proxies
- Options to create 1080p proxies in higher bit rates
Improved Recycle Bin
- Recycle bin now also shows deleted files and formats
AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration support
Parsing links in comments to make them clickable.
ISG / Edge Transcoder
- Ability to override Proxy and Keyframe storage. See ISG Advanced Options

Better scheduling for transcodes
ISG
- Ability to transcode and transfer manually created files
- Archiving of multi-file formats (e.g. Red) now creates the correct representation on the archive storage
Next/Previous links in the Asset page when coming from Saved Search
Selecting Speaker in Transcriptions
Upgraded Python and associated libraries.
Not showing Delete option to users that can't delete
Adding required metadata views in group settings
Show required metadata views for required fields when uploading
Old values for dropdowns are now readonly.
Corrected aspect ratio for keyframes for anamorphic video

Inherited ACLs
- Collection content can inherit ACLs from parent collections automatically
ACL Templates
- With ACL templates you can define more complex default permissions for uploads and scanned storages
New Files panel on the asset page
- Better layout
- Possibility to upload custom formats and proxies
Split transcription segments
- When the AI has misidentified speakers you can now split segments of transcriptions in to new ones
Webhook for downloading assets
Duplicate metadata views and fields
New metadata field type: Email
When copying a collection structure, it now allows duplicate files by default
Detailed user report on the stats page
Shares
- Shares can now be updated after they have been sent
- The Share URL is available to copy on the asset page for existing shares
Cloud scanner
- New option to ignore aggregation of identical files via pattern
- New option to just aggregate files on the same storage
ISG
- Possibility to re-map a collection structure, when moving a mapped-collection out of the Storage Gateway collection.
- Job Priority support for transfers and transcodes
- New option to ignore aggregation of identical files via pattern
- New option to just aggregate files on the same storage
Adobe Panel

New transfer queue manager to improve performance
Job updates for transfers are more reliable
Saving transcriptions as text uses correct start timecode
Better error messages for failed SAML logins
ISG
- Stability improvements
- Better management of Collection structures. Deleted mapped collections informs the ISG that the associated folder is to be re-mapped.
Adobe Panel
- Uploads are more reliable

ISG (Version 2.4.2)
- Handle more pixel limits options for ImageMagick, since latest version defaults was interpreted as too low even though it wasn't
ISG (Version 2.4.1)
- Fixed an issue where MacOS asked for password every restart
- Fixed some wording in the Windows installer