24.8 Release: Improving Content Delivery, Restricted Comments, Edge 7.0 : Limecraft

Ghent, Belgium, 17th December 2024 – The Limecraft 2024.8 release marks the final milestone of an ambitious eight-release roadmap in 2024, introducing powerful new features designed to elevate media production and content delivery processes. Highlights include the integration of video review and verification within Delivery Workspaces, ensuring seamless quality control between producers and broadcasters, and possibly a next step in your journey to eradicate copy-and-paste. Additionally, Restricted Comments enhance collaborative review by offering secure, role-specific feedback sharing.

The rollout of Edge 7.0, built on the Electron framework, promises superior stability, cross-platform compatibility, and a smoother user experience. Subtitling capabilities are expanded with new export settings and support for Irish and Welsh transcriptions. Lastly, the updated media player now includes intuitive shortcuts and improved playback controls. This release reflects Limecraft’s continued commitment to radically simplify complexity and fostering smarter collaboration.

Table of contents

1. Blending Delivery Workspaces with Review and Verification

Content delivery is more than just sending files; it’s also about aligning metadata conventions and quality control across stakeholders. Limecraft’s enhanced Delivery Workspaces ensure streamlined, transparent, and reliable processes for order fulfilment and servicing.

We’re excited to announce that this release delivers video review and verification as part of the Delivery Workspace. This life saving feature further streamlines content delivery for producers and broadcasters, reducing the time between order confirmation and fulfilment more than ever before.

What’s New?

To date, video review and approval were tasks typically associated with production processes. With this update, the Delivery Workspace now includes a built-in system for review and verification, ensuring that submitted video content meets quality standards before it is stages for distribution.

How It Works

This new capability addresses a common challenge: sometimes Limecraft doesn’t directly receive video files, especially when they’re delivered peer-to-peer between producers and broadcasters. To bridge this gap, we’ve developed a cloud connector that broadcasters can run on their hardware. This allows Limecraft to create proxies — smaller, review-ready versions of video files — without changing the way producers already deliver their content.

Here’s a simplified breakdown of the process:

Content Upload: Producers deliver video files directly to broadcasters, just as they normally would.
Creation of a Proxy: the broadcaster’s hardware runs Limecraft Cloud Connector, automatically generating a proxy version of the video.
Review and Approval: the proxies is automatically linked to the right items in the Delivery Workspace. Producers, broadcasters, and 3rd party service providers can now review the content in a secure online environment and without the the need for additional review tools.
Feedback Loop: Comments and approvals happen within the Delivery Workspace, ensuring clear communication.

What’s in It for You?

If you are a Limecraft customer using the Delivery Workspace, here’s why this matters. No more juggling multiple platforms or manually uploading files for review. Everything happens within one unified workspace. The cloud connector eliminates the need for manual intervention to generate reviewable video proxies. This boils down to a shorter turnaround time and a more efficient workflow.

Producers, broadcasters, and service providers can now review content at the click of a button. No complicated setups or redundant exports. Having an integrated review and approval process ensures that everyone stays on the same page, reducing miscommunication and potential errors.

Ready to experience a simpler, smarter way to deliver or receive content? The upgrade is now live, get in touch to get a deep dive!

2. Restricted Comments

In any production or delivery workspace, effective collaboration hinges on clear communication during review and approval. Comments are an integral tool for exchanging feedback, verifying content, and streamlining production workflows. However, not all comments are meant for every viewer. This is where Restricted Comments come into play.

Restricted Comments allow users to control who can see specific comments based on elevated access permissions. This feature ensures that sensitive or context-specific feedback is only visible to relevant team members, such as project leads, legal teams, or executive reviewers.

⚠️ Restricted comments are not enabled by default, Restricted Comments must be activated first by the Workspace or Account Admin. To learn more about activating the use of Restricted Comments, please have a look at the applicable section in the knowledge base.

Why It Matters

By leveraging Restricted Comments, you can balance open collaboration with privacy and security, ensuring feedback reaches the right people while safeguarding sensitive information:

Enhanced Security: Protect sensitive or confidential feedback from unintended exposure.
Contextual Clarity: Share detailed, role-specific instructions without cluttering the general comment stream.
Improved Collaboration: Foster open discussion while maintaining control over sensitive communications.

How it Works

Assuming Restricted Comments are activated by your production workspace administrator, upon commenting, the user can select the access level for each comment. “Restricted Comments” marked as such are only visible to people that have elevated access permissions.

Editing Comments and Changing the Restriction Level

Assuming you have sufficient permission to do so, comments can be retroactively manipulated to change the restriction level, either per individual comment of in batch. More info about editing comments on the knowledge base.

3. Edge 7.0

We’re excited to announce the rollout of Edge 7.0, built on the Electron framework, as part of Limecraft’s 24.8 release. This major update addresses several known issues while establishing a robust, future-proof foundation for continued innovation.

What’s New in Edge 7.0

1. Enhanced Stability: The transition to the Electron framework resolves numerous performance bottlenecks and stability issues reported in earlier versions. Expect smoother performance and reduced application crashes.

2. Future-Proof Technology: By leveraging Electron’s cross-platform compatibility and modern development environment, Edge 7.0 sets the stage for continuous feature expansion and seamless updates.

3. Improved User Experience: You’ll notice a more responsive interface, quicker load times, and an overall enhanced user experience tailored to meet your evolving needs.

What You Need to Do

By upgrading to Edge 7.0, you gain access to a powerful, secure, and scalable platform designed to support your content production and management needs today and in the future.

Updating to Edge 7.0 is simple. You can download and install via the download page, also accessible via your production workspace. License keys remain active: there’s no need to reapply or renew your license keys—everything stays intact.

4. Transcription and Subtitling

4.1 Extended STL Export Settings

With this 24.8 release, Limecraft supports a wide range of subtitle export features for applicable formats, including Display Format (Open Captions or Teletext format), horizontal and vertical text adjustment, timing units, etc.

💡 More info on the different options for exporting subtitles on the knowledge base.

4.2 Transcription in Irish and Welsh

Thanks to our partnership with Speechmatics, we have now activated several new languages for transcription, including Irish, Welch, Maltese and a range of Arabic language flavours.

💡 More info on languages supported for transcription on the knowledge base.

5. Improved Player

This release deprecates a number of (redundant) player controls, and adds others including a step forward by 5 seconds button.

We’ve also added some shortcuts to allow expert users navigating the content more efficiently. A full overview of the hotkeys on the knowledge base.

Full Release Notes

To access the full release notes, which includes some additional enhancements not listed above, please click here.

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.