Dataton Announces Availability of Watchout 6.4 with support for MPCDI files

This award-winning multi-screen production and playback software incorporates numerous improvements and fixes in this new version, already released for download.

The main novelty of Dataton Watchout 6.4 is the import of MPCDI files (Multiple Projection Common Data Interchange) calibration data for screens and projectors, to which are added task folders, custom CUE colors, among other improvements.

Helper timelines can now be grouped and organized into folders in the task window. The order of timelines and folders affect the stacking order when rendered. In addition, drag-and-drop tasks to change their order and place them in folders have been redesigned to be more intuitive.

Watchout 6.4 also allows you to set custom colors on the cleats, either in different types of tacos through the Preferences dialog box, individually in their corresponding dialog box.

Other improvements are that the Pre-roll Manual can now be applied to all types of media tracks, not just video and audio; that it is possible to open a capture card control panel on Dataton's media servers -Watchpax and Watchmax-, where applicable, as well as that the task window can also be locked to prevent unwanted changes in the stacking order, shooting conditions, Etc.

In the version 6.4 tracks are always rendered and prelaminated, regardless of opacity, which result in smoother reproduction on tracks that fade. HAP video can use more than sixteen logical CPU cores if encoded with more than sixteen fragments, which can increase HAP video performance on high-end media servers.

Overall performance has also been improved on Windows media servers 10 to resolve some cases of irregular reproduction, as well as the process of entering or exiting full-screen mode, along with NDI performance and stability (upgrade to NDI 3.8)

Another highlight is that an issue with version preloading has been fixed 6.3, and production software remains unaltered if a virtual display device is removed while using the corresponding media in a media cue.

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