24.3 Release Enhances Delivery Workspaces and Adds Advanced Subtitle Versioning

Ghent, Belgium, 7th May 2024 – Limecraft released the latest version of its platform – 24.3 – which includes enhancements to the content supply chain (‘Delivery Workspace‘) solution – improving the communication flow between content suppliers and recipients – and adds valuable features to the subtitling fabric that will make it easier for subtitle professionals to adapt and modify subtitles for use across other distribution channels. Also, we surfaced important functionality to configure and use thesauri, which is key to establishing company wide nomenclature and error proofing data collection. Finally, we made a few ‘quality of life’ improvements to the content sharing functionality.

Delivery Workspace

This update brings two valuable enhancements to our recently introduced Delivery Workspace solution.

Firstly, users can now see a new Activity Feed that essentially acts as an audit trail, showing all of the activity around a piece of content. An example is shown below.

Secondly, we are introducing the ability to add optional comments to all key exchanges (e.g. submit, approve, reject) between content suppliers and recipients, helping to provide additional context.

Automated Subtitle Conversion and Versioning

Further to customer requests, this update also includes support for an extended list of subtitle formats (including PAC, TTML,…) and provides some powerful new advanced processing options, especially for those active in versioning and localisation.

• Truecasing, also called capitalisation recovery or capitalisation correction.
• Speaker segmentation, thereby adding colour to subtitles for different speakers.
• Synchronisation, snapping subtitles to shot changes where appropriate.
• Adjustment of imported subtitles for different frame rates and time code offsets.
• Removal of blank subtitles, if needed.

All of these functions can be used as options upon import of a Master Subtitle Template, or used as part of the post-editing process after the subtitles have been imported first.

💡 More info about automated subtitle conversion and versioning on the knowledge base.

Activating Thesauri

Thesauri are like special kinds of dictionaries used to organise data. Thesauri are lists of subjects, organised as categories and subcategories of subjects, synonyms, etc. Larger companies opt to manage their naming conventions centrally (aka using one or more thesauri), because it allows people to search efficiently for the right fragments of content.

In Limecraft terminology, it is therefore important to manage thesauri on the level of the account, which automatically makes them available in all the workspaces associated with the account. They can subsequently be used in such a workspace, e.g. by activating a custom metadata field using a thesaurus to control the values. Doing so, input data will be validated at the source.

💡More info on activating and managing thesauri on the knowledge base.

Improved Content Sharing

The ability to share content within remote teams via secure links allows you to engage with third parties without leaving your trusted workspace. With release 24.3 we are introducing a new list view for shared content, and users can toggle between this and the existing thumbnail view using the top left button on the overview screen. The review status for each shared item can be seen within the list view, and items can be sorted within both the list view and thumbnail view.

When using the player to view shared content, users can now also toggle between several different timecode formats – see the full release notes for more details.

💡 To access the full release notes, click here.

For a deeper dive into this release, why not join our next webinar on 13th May? Click here to register.

As always, we look forward to receiving any feedback on this update. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@limcraft.com and we’ll be happy to help.