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    Hi all

    We are delighted to announce that Mistika Ultima 8.8 is here! ? 

    The Release Notes & Change Log of this new version can be found HERE. You can also check out what is new in Mistika Ultima 8.8 in this Video.

    *Please note that you have to be connected to the internet in order to upgrade your system to the latest version.

    **If you cannot connect to the internet, please follow the instructions described HERE.

    Enjoy Mistika Technology!

    Hi Stefan

     

    Many thanks for reaching out.

    You can check this tutorial which explains more about Stereo Stitching in Mistika VR: https://vimeo.com/233521636

    You can also check the Stereoscopic alignment on our Quick Guide of Mistika VR: https://bit.ly/2Xa4YwY

    If you need additional assistance you can open a ticket on our support portal: https://support.sgo.es/support/home and our technical team will be more than happy to help you.

    Kind regards.

    Hi Guest

    Many thanks for reaching out.

    I would kindly ask you to open a ticket on our support portal: https://support.sgo.es/support/home usually this is the fastest and easiest way to get your problem solved.

    Simply click on the "New Support Ticket" button in the upper right corner and our technical team will be happy to assist you.

    Kindest regards,

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    Hi VR Community! Mistika VR 8.8.8 is Now Released and the Release Notes are available as well.

    As usual, all the exciting new features, improvements and presets are free of charge for all existing Mistika VR Users as a part of the SGO Loyalty Rewards Program. Also, this functionality will also be available in the Evaluation version.

     

    New features & New Presets:

    1.Insta360 Pro2 camera support: Mistika VR is now able to stitch Insta360 Pro 2 footage at the highest level of precision due to the newly incorporated Insta360 Pro 2 calibration libraries.

    2. Kolor Autopano Giga integration*: Mistika VR can open APG with a set of frames exported, and read the calibration from the .pano file created by APG.

    3. PTGui 11 support: The new format is supported. MistikaVR now implements the new “fisheye factor parameter” introduced by PTGui 11.

    4. Vuze XR camera support: Single movie with dual video track supported.

    5. Vuze XR camera presets for VR1803D and VR360 modes added.

    6. Detu Max camera preset added.

    7. PiSoftTech Pilot Era camera preset added.

    8. Insta360 One X camera preset added.

    9. ZCam K1 camera 2120x1248 resolution preset added.

    10. 360Rize SeaDak camera preset added.

     

    * The complete guide on how to use Autopano Giga files in Mistika VR can be found here: https://bit.ly/2L8b7nU

    Improvements:

    • Licensing stability improvements.
    • Improvements in the Project Settings Editor

    Fixes: 

    1995 To cancel Edit mode in the Project Manager window was not allowed.

    1970 Making too much zoom in the timeline was causing troubles on some occasions.

    1979 Loading pointer was shown in the Relink Window.

    1978 The Relink window was inaccessible when changing a project with offline media.

    1976 ProRes rendered files was not containing metadata for color information.

    2032 Anti Aliasing issue has been fixed.

    2021 An environment was not replacing a new name after a relinking process.

    2030 The camera order on the import process was incorrect.

    2034 Render option to MP4 is now added in the video render menu.

    2043 The Activation tool was not recognizing the license server and internet connection.

    2050 The automatic launcher system after installing a license first time was creating some issues.

    2072 Keyframing edge points feature is back.

    2089 PTGui 11 support: Any Lens model can be imported without any problem.

    PTGui11 support: Fisheye parameter import fixed.

    Cache green bar drawing fixed.

    Hi all, As promised, Mistika VR 8.8.7  Release Notes are now available. As usual,  all the exciting new features, improvements and presets are free of charge for all existing Mistika VR Users as part of the SGO Loyalty Rewards Program. After the Official release, this functionality will also be available in the evaluation version.  

    New features:

    1. Keyframe animation: Long requested by the users, finally coming!

    • Every parameter of the stitching can be now animated.
    • To enable animation, select a parameter and use the “add keyframe” from its contextual menu. Any further modifications to this parameter at different times will automatically add new keyframes.
    • The output camera heading and edge point positions can be animated dragging over the image, once they were converted to animated.
    • For the selected parameter, keyframe marks will be shown in the timeline bar.
    • The keyframes in the timeline bar can be moved in time using ctrl+drag on them.
    • Selecting the keyframe marks in the bar will snap the time position precisely to that of the keyframe.
    • There are now “next key” / “prev key” buttons in the toolbar.

    2. Insta360 Pro calibration tool now included. The “use Insta360 Pro calibration” is not simply a calibration import, like in the previous release. This tool actually calls the calibration tool provided by Insta360, for the frame you are viewing in the moment of using it. This allows an easy selection of a good calibration frame, as the calibration results can be seen immediately applied in MistikaVR.

    3. Insta360 One now supported:

    • New Flip Horizontal parameter added, necessary to support Insta360 One camera.
    • New preset for Insta360 One added.
    • KanDao QooCam presets added, for both VR3D180 and VR360 mode.

     

    4. Vertical Alignment tool: The Experimental tool allowing precise human-assisted alignment especially for VR180 shots, where there are not yet good automatic tools available.

     

    Improvements:

    Much faster loading of the timelines: Storyboard icons are now saved with the timeline, and restored at the load, avoiding a costly access and recalculation of all the shots in the timeline just to recreate the storyboard.

    Reorder Kandao utility now supports Obsidian Go camera.  

     

    Fixes:

    • 1385  Tiny planet output camera mapping fixed.
    • 1539  Progress bar of audio render now shows correct “fps” values.
    • 1556  The rendered clip numbers now do match the shot numbers in the storyboard.
    • 1571  Overlapping license & media offline pop up message issue.
    • 1607  “Inject VR Metadata” now works in “render all shots” mode.
    • 1641  Project manager overlapping window in full-screen mode.
    • 1671  Progress bar: Calculation of estimated remaining time is now more precise.
    • 1672  Persistence of storyboard icons is broken (all products).
    • 1675  If more than 32 cameras are added, an edge point appears, is impossible to remove.
    • 1587  Problem when importing files from a path with symbols in the name.
    • 1632  Keyframes disappears after stabilization.
    • 1638  SGO icon is cropped in the installer window.
    • 1642  Vuze media change the format and fps of the active project.
    • 1648  Reorder Kandao utility does not work with some files structures.
    • 1650  No spaces in the project name allowed.
    • 1652  Issues with image stack importation.
    • 1538  GUI scaling issues in UHD.
    • 1655  Refresh issue in Clip Stack icons.
    • 1659  Import Kandao calibration tool does not work with merged sequences.
    • 1657  Wrong information in the color grading tools.
    • 1658  Pressing enter in the render window opens the config codec.
    • 1661  cmd hotkeys related to OSX does not work.
    • 1664  Merge tool does not work with GoPro files.
    • 1665  Viewer does not come back to B&W Anaglyph after a positioning action.
    • 1662  Doesn't work if User is not admin in Windows systems.
    • 1680  Mistika VR - FPS is wrongly shown in the VE.
    • 1682  Import Kandao Calibration does not say anything when it fails.
    • 1667  At the start, loading an autosave, the “load” points to autosave folder, not to DATA.
    • 1666  Progress bar of audio render shows very low "fps" number.
    • 1561  When stepping in the storyboard using shift+ left/right arrow, there is a small window flashing in the corner.
    • 1733  License server crash.
    • 1813  The installation of the Mistika VR plugins is missing (Paint, Title y Warp).
    • 1638  SGO icon is cropped in the installer window.
    • 1648  Reorder Kandao utility does not work with some files structures.
    • 1655  Refresh issue in Clip Stack icons.
    • 1787  Custom presets for resolution projects disappear when restarting Misitka VR.
    • 1679  Crash when launching the License Server.
    • 1661  cmd hotkey-related to OSX does not work.
    • 1855  H265 lossless codec in 8K does not work in Premiere Pro. The lossless mode is a bit problematic because it can generate very high bitrates, which exceed the format specifications. Using quality or bitrate constrained versions of the nVidia HEVC codec, should work.
    • 1845  IN and OUT wrong behavior.
    • 1877  Autoload the last environment used.
    • 1780  Missing .vrenv extension with Chinese characters.
    • 1734  Edge point keyframes not refresh.
    • 1927  Canon Raw files cannot be loaded.
    • 1838  Timeline zoom reset when using IN/OUt marks.
    • 1689  Process with yellow marks does not start when selecting the last frame in a shot.
    • 1665  Viewer does not come back to B&W Anaglyph after a positioning action.
    • 1587  Problem when importing files from a path with symbols in the name.
    • 1710  Show one input mode could show a black image if left only or right only cameras used.
    • 1963  Some camera icons are lost after disable an input camera in Stereo shots.
    • 1969  The SGO Activation tool does not open without a license.
    • 1710  Show One Input option shows a black image in one of the eyes in VR 180.
    • 1844  A installation fails when trying to install an older version.
    • 1952  Audio exported file wrongly labeled.
    • 1972  Style.ccs file is removed in the SGO Activation tool when uninstalling an app and others SGO apps are kept in the system.
    • 1945  Kandao calibration tool does not work properly in Windows OS.
    • 1658  Pressing enter in the render window opens the config codecs window.

    Hi all, We are happy to Release the new version of Mistika VR 8.8.5 to all Mistika VR customers. The latest Mistika VR version is already available free of charge to all existing customers. You can Download it from your downloads page https://www.sgo.es/my-account/downloads Your license should support this new feature, as all existing customer licenses have been upgraded, but if you can not see the functionality, please, contact support at support.sgo.es What is coming in this new version 8.8.5 from beta version: New features:

    • Stabilization now has the “Prioritize Front” option. This allows the user to hint the system which direction of view is important, and stabilize it more precisely at cost of the opposite (back) direction. Also, improves on shots where back direction is best ignored because it contains something not intended to be stabilized, like the person hand carrying the rig, for example. Also, stabilization is now robust to large changes in the pole regions, especially common with drone shots.
    • Shot now can be selected by simple mouse click in the storyboard shots list). No Shift+click required anymore.
    • Preset added for the iZugar Z6X3D-C rig
    • Preset for ZCamS1Pro_2880X2880 updated to enable stereoscopy
    • Application added for renaming KanDao time-lapse shots so they can be imported by MistikaVR as image sequences
    Fixes:
    • Projects and renders now can be stored in folders containing square [ ] and round ( ) brackets
    • KanDao movies with 1900×1500 resolution produced green border on their right margin, now fixed
    • Undo for Delete and Duplicate shots now works correctly
    • The top menu bar entries were updated to match the options available form the option pulldowns and contextual menus in other parts of the GUI
    • Drag&Drop of multiple movies now sorts the cameras alphabetically to assure the cameras order is the expected one
    • .pts files import crash fixed when shapes were used in PTGui
    • By default, ProRes encode now uses all CPU cores available, instead of being fixed at 8 cores.
    • Now, if frame rate is changed with Mistika VR GUI already open, the change will be applied to the renders, without need to exit and enter.
    • Now, if you select another project with MistikaVR already open, the file browser will change to showing the files of the selected project.
    • Autosave now works with Cyrillic characters in the file name
    • If importing twice from PtGui, the file browser path were wrong on the second import
    • Render to Prores 444+alpha did produce empty movies
    • The autosave timelines now use the .vrenv extension so they can be easily loaded
    What is coming in this beta version: New Presets
    • Detu F4 Plus
    • Panasonic GH5 x2 with Entanyia 250 lens
    New Features / Improvements
    1. New “Stabilize” pulldown menu containing the new stabilization features.
    2. "One Click" Stabilization.
    3. “Stabilization->Follow Overall Heading” toggle.
    4. “Stabilization->Follow heading after x frames”.
    5. Re-apply stabilization.
    6.  Edge Points menu options are now in an independent pulldown.
    7. Storyboard Clone Shot. Use right mouse click over an icon to access the “Clone Shot” option. The chosen shot will be duplicated, allowing mainly to experiment with multiple versions of the same shot.
    8. VR 180 support.
    9. SBS VR180 Stereo visualization mode added to the visualization pulldown.
    10. Left/Right VR180 Stereo render mode added in the Render->Stereo pulldown.
    Fixed bugs: fix-1395 Error rendering to MP4 in batch with audio in movie. fix-1527 File Naming issues with cyrillic types. fix-1550 In&Out render marks were lost if importing a preset after setting these. fix-1440 Impossible to see the project structure when it is changed. fix-1555 WORK path lost after upgrading versions. Aditional info about the version: The Stabilization is the main new feature and the reason of this version. There is whole new “Stabilize” pulldown for this functionality set, next to the “Positions” pulldown. The Stabilize pulldown contains following entries: Stabilize: this is the one-click command. It will:
    • Bake in the Output camera setting to clear it for placing the stabilization information.
    • Scan the range defined by the time marks for overall scene movement.
    • Apply the stabilization according to the “follow” setting.
    “Follow Overall Heading” toggle: If it is checked, the stabilization will only try to compensate the camera shake, but respect the overall heading of the rig, so the camera 1 will stay generally centered. This allows stabilizing the camera moving in a curved route, like a car driving around. If the toggle is unchecked, the stabilization will try to keep the view as steady as possible, however, it can get confused by one side of the scene advancing while other not, making the scene gradually roll or tilt. “Follow heading after x frames”: This is the number of frames the stabilization will settle on a new camera heading. Low number means swifter following, but possibly less smooth results. Large number means slower time of reorientation. “Re-apply stabilize”: This will re-apply instantly the last stabilize using new setting for the “follow” toggle and value, without a need of a rescan. To reset the stabilization, in the output tab, use the “Reset all values” option. How to use The Stabilization: Set the render marks to delimit the stabilization time range. Then, level the horizon approximately on a frame representative of the range to stabilize, so the stabilizer gets a reasonably leveled horizon to start with.  Run the Stabilize command, and after, level the horizon again, it will be applied on top of the stabilization. During the Stabilization scan, it may be a good idea to switch off the Optical Flow parameter toggle. Normally It would likely make little difference and would slow down the scan. Stabilization should be normally run after aligning your scene and matching the colors. Important Note: This functionality will not be included in the Evaluation Version until the final release is done. ------------------------------------------------------- MAINTENANCE RELEASE Fixed bugs:
    • 1583 Crash if a preset is drag & dropped twice
    • 1572 Refresh issue after stabilizing a sequence
    • 1534 Time bar right click works frequently on second try only
    • 1581 Crash when importing more than 32 cameras
    • 1592 Autosave could crash MistikaVR. This may explain some crashes during longer renders, or when MistikaVR was left unused for a while.
    •   1582 Now the path is correct when you save sequence for the first time
    • 1534 Set dragged flag only in drag event.
    • 1581 Fix to compile ReorderKandao on OSX
    Improvements:
    • Max number of cameras increased to 64
    • OZO preset updated: more precise lens distortion, cleaner back seam in stereo.
    • iZugar Z4XL preset added.
    • ZCam K1Pro preset added.
     

    Hi all, Here you have the main changes in Mistika 8.6.9. Please remember you can always find the whole 8.6 release notes here

    Change Requests:

    - CHANGE REQUEST: ColorGrade KeyIn/KeyOut modified: Adds points only at the visible elements (Primary/Bands/Key etc).

    - CHANGE REQUEST: ColorGrade "Proportional" now shows a green dot when active to make it more obvious that it is a key by itself

    - CHANGE REQUEST: Users have reported audio sync problems caused by this situation: A Pipe Units value higher than the frame rate does not make sense, but it easy to set by mistake and it can cause audio sync problems. Now mConfig will reduce pipe units automatically if a lower frame rate is selected in the video settings.

    - CHANGE REQUEST: Newer jpeg2000 libraries have been included, with provides important render speed increase. (up to 50% faster)  

     

    Bugs Fixed:

    - FIXED BUG: Failure to output audio at 8K with two Corvid. Fixed

    - FIXED BUG 1230: Keyframing problems when working with multiple shapes. Fixed

    - FIXED BUG 1415: Render output with wrong frame rate metadata in some formats. Fixed

    - FIXED BUG 1460: Mistika Ultima - A key selection with 3D Keyer cannot be copied in other shot. Fixed.

    - FIXED BUG 1487: Using Keyer tool when trying to select a value over 1.0: fixed

    - FIXED BUG 1504 & 1160: Bugs related to ColorGrade HLS ranges fixed

    - FIXED BUG: Failure to output audio at 8K with two Corvid. Fixed

    - FIXED BUG: ColorGrade selector did not work when picking directly on an RGB10 clip. Fixed.  

     

    Enjoy Mistika!

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