Powerful and reliable broadcast playout on Apple hardware: Version 3.5 - RELEASED!

With version 3.5 of our playout solutions just:live and just:play, we have introduced native Apple Silicon and macOS Monterey support, underpinning our repeated commitment to the Apple platform safeguarding our customer’s investment in our solutions which is paramount to us. This means that all our playout solutions will run natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel-based Mac hardware. As for our ingest solutions, version 3.5 will still support macOS Catalina (10.15.x) and macOS Big Sur (11.x) to ensure full deployment flexibility.

Among many usability improvements and stability enhancements that will benefit daily operations, version 3.5 of just:live and just:play feature native UHDp60 playout support for qualified AJA and Blackmagic Design devices on Apple Silicon hardware, extended HTTP events to include both GET and POST methods to support more web services, full support for frame-accurate SCTE104 Splice Events, which can be played out by scheduling them on an optional Event layer by inserting SCTE-104 events into the VANC data of the SDI output signal., a new channel configuration panel with an additional “Failover” tab allowing you to define the event presets that should be executed when the channel is in either “Primary”, “Redundant” or “Failover” state, support for hardware genlock for AJA devices and reference LTC timecode to sync the master time via audio input or AJA’s LTC input port, an improved handling to restore window positions and last but not least a new version 5.0 of our real-time graphics template creator composition:builder with native Apple Silicon and macOS Monterey support.

For additional information, please visit:

https://www.toolsonair.com/products/playout/

or

https://www.toolsonair.com/products/playout/whats-new-in-justplay-and-justlive/ respectively.