Viz Trio 4.3.0

Release Date: 2024-11-08

These are the release notes for Viz Trio version 4.3.0. This document describes the user-visible changes that have been done to the software since release 4.2.1.

Release Highlights

Viz Trio 4.3 introduces a new and experimental Scene Importer functionality that aims to dramatically decrease the time it takes to import multiple scenes by leveraging Vizrt Graphic Hub REST interface, reducing the time it takes to import to seconds. Users might be required to delete the objectified scenes (GEOMs) from previous imports.

Customers using Viz Pilot Edge will appreciate the fact that now the Viz Pilot Edge window is hosted in Viz Trio, allowing a much faster editing of data elements when it is read.

Additionally, we are adding official support for Vizrt Graphics Hub Image Library extension.

New Features

  • Preview version of Scene Import using Graphics Hub Rest API instead of intermediate loading to a local preview engine (TRIO-6287).

  • Viz Trio now hosts a native process of Viz Pilot Edge (TRIO-6340).

  • Added official support for Graphics Hub Image Library Extension (TRIO-6279).

Improvements

  • Template view component reimplemented for speed, functionality and communication efficiency (TRIO-6229).

  • Status bar component reimplemented for speed and functionality (TRIO-6239).

  • The Licensing dialog now supports the open-ended options Any Local Container and Any Network Container (TRIO-6007).

  • The API command page:read_subpage from classic Viz Trio 2.x was reintroduced (TRIO-5365).

  • If Graphics Hub is missing the default Transition scenes, then the client will now auto-import and add these on startup (TRIO-5852).

  • It is now possible to filter a custom page view, based on a selected channel (TRIO-5894).

  • Tab field list is now filtered to the selected variant instead of showing all tab fields from the master template (TRIO-6388).

  • New API command gui:post_render_set_output_path adds the ability to set Output Path via script when performing the Rendering VideoClip action (TRIO-6282).

  • It is now possible to copy a page to another show, and select to overwrite existing pages of same name or to auto-generate new page names (TRIO-5890).

Fixed Issues

  • Switching database fields with a custom database led to an exception being raised (TRIO-6225).

  • It is now possible to unlink database fields by selecting the value <no database linkage> in the dropdown control (TRIO-6226).

  • Viz Trio commands are now logged out as expected, according to the documentation (TRIO-6228).

  • Options Collapse All and Expand All, are part of Tab field context menu again (TRIO-5527).

  • Set and Stop options for Control Clock now properly update the run state of the control, and the preview accurately reflects it (TRIO-5704, TRIO-5705).

  • Performing the menu action Move Pages to Group, no longer changes the ordering of the pages selected (TRIO-6351).

  • In the Page Editor, selecting Edit Show script allows to successfully select open unit scriptlibrary (TRIO-6320).

  • When the option Delete all pages in a show is set to true, it is not possible to select all pages in page view and delete the pages in one action (TRIO-5354).

  • Opening the Pilot Data Server dialog, brings it up in-front of the main client (TRIO-6334).

  • The API command page:set_property is now moved to list of approved external commands (TRIO-6350).

  • Ability to sort Macros by command, key and description was reintroduced (TRIO-6295).

  • The page view UI issue after creating a new page using a script, was corrected (TRIO-6313).

  • Thumbnails in page list, playlist and master template list, are now synced with the selected concept (TRIO-6370).

  • Formatted text type string control is now properly supported (TRIO-6362).

  • Corrected issue that could prevent events from being triggered on pages (TRIO-6312).

  • Showscript function OnInitializeShow is now properly triggered when performing the action initialize against a show (TRIO-6364).

  • Variant scenes properly show all relevant tab-fields (TRIO-6383).

Licensing

Viz Trio 4.3 requires a WIBU software license.

Hardware Requirements

In general, Viz Trio hardware requirements should match the hardware requirements for a preview version of the Viz Engine. See the Viz Engine Release Notes for supported hardware. 

Software Requirements

For Database connectivity with Excel files (.xls, .xlsm, .xlsb and .xlsx), you may need the following to be installed if Microsoft Office is not installed on the machine:

Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable (accessdatabaseengine_X64.exe). It can be downloaded from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920.

Recommended Versions

Operating Systems

  • Windows 10

Server

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2022

Software 

  • Viz Engine 5.3.0

  • Viz One 7.3.2

  • Graphic Hub 3.9.2 (optional with Graphic Hub REST 2.9.2)

  • Media Sequencer 5.6.1

  • Pilot Data Server 9.1.0

  • Viz Pilot Edge 3.1.0

Previous Versions

In accordance with the Vizrt Global Support Handbook section Software Lifecycle, support for older versions ends 24 months after a subsequent minor or major version is released.

With this release, earlier versions of Viz Trio will no longer be supported after 2026-11-08.

At the date of this release, Viz Trio 4.0.x will no longer be supported from 2024-11-14.

Support for Viz Trio 4.1.0 ends on 2026-04-02.

Documentation

Documentation for Viz Trio is available at the Vizrt Documentation Center:

Support

Support is available at the Vizrt Support Portal .