New Features
Video Preview (Processing tab)
- "Video Preview" button above the raster drops a still image behind the screens so you can see where your LED panels would land in your content and screens go to skeleton outlines so the picture reads through
- Five sample images are built in (SMPTE bars, Lab Colors, Color Magnifier, Building, Turtle) and "Load image…" adds your own. Imported images are kept in a library and stay available in every project. Special thanks to Joshua Tomlinson for his image contributions, you can check out his other photos at https://www.joshuatakes.com/
- Four fit modes allow you to manipulate video preview content: Centered 1:1 (default, pixel for pixel accuracy), Fit, Crop, and Stretch. The inspector reads out how much of the image is cropped away or scaled/stretched amount so you can see live what your processors scaling function will do to your video source
- "One canvas across processors" lays the image over the whole wall instead of one raster — each screen shows the slice its physical position would receive, which is how you spot a processor mapped to the wrong part of the content
Product Library
Unilumin Upad III2 90° Corner - 90° outside corners built from LEFT and RIGHT cabinets
Bug Fixes
- Opening a project file on Windows now actually opens it. Double-clicking any .ledproject previously launched RasterLab to the welcome screen and stopped there
- In macOS the app added a second menu with the same name beside it, two "RasterLab" entries in the menu bar appeared, removed the custom added menu item that was meant for Windows release only
- Screens added to an existing group are wired in. A group only re-routed when its FIRST screen changed, and joining a group didn't touch the screen already in it so every screen dragged into an existing group was silently never wired
- Screens within a group utilizing different LED products no longer overlap in the wiring diagrams
- "Treat as one screen" no longer stair-steps a port between two screens in a screen group, now properly wires one column and then snakes correctly to the next column
- Manual Y-cable patching fills properly on auto-route, fixed an issue where leg assignments per column were not consistent and were improperly assigning to the opposite leg, also works between screens in a group when "Treat as One Screen" is enabled
- Screens in a group can no longer disagree about frame rate or bit depth. A group runs off one processor output, so those settings now move the whole group when you change them and older projects and snapshots carrying a member that drifted are repaired the moment they're opened (the group's own majority setting wins)
- Logo and SMPTE bars have a uniform default size: sized by panel (like the title pill) instead of by screen width, so narrow and wide screens of the same product match — capped to fit small screens. Applies to the editor, group layout and every PNG export
- Processing-tab processor PNGs: each screen prints its own raster coordinate (e.g. 576, 0) instead of (0, 0), and every screen's logo, title pill and SMPTE bars sit centered at the standard size (no more stair-step from hand-dragged offsets)
- Summary "Export Per Processor" now exports each real processor exactly as the Processing tab shows it — it was slicing the group layout left-to-right and putting the wrong screens in each file; files are named with the real processor number
- Screen names in grouped power diagrams move above the circuit badges when Y-cables are on (they were overlapping)
Saving and Backups
- Auto-save is back after having been lost in time. 60 seconds after your last change the project saves itself to the file it came from, and "Auto-saved 2:34 PM" appears briefly in the top-left of the tab bar. Every edit restarts the countdown, so it saves in a pause in the work rather than mid-edit
- Every save now also keeps a dated copy in a backups folder on this machine for your peace of mind. A project deleted or damaged in iCloud, Dropbox or Drive can still be recovered from it. The last 20 versions of each project are kept, and File → Open Backups Folder opens them
Feature Updates
- Zoomed-in Signal and Power canvases can now be navigated. Previously, zooming in put everything but the middle of the wall outside the viewport with no way to reach it. ⌘/Ctrl +/− everywhere now lets you zoom in and out of Grid preview in the Screen Editor, the Wiring tab editor, and Producer(AC) Mode Canvas; ⌘/Ctrl + two-finger scroll also allows you to dynamically zoom in and out of these viewports
- Panel numbers run in one sequence across a "Treat as one screen" group. Members were each numbered from their own corner, so two vertically-stacked 6×1 screens both printed 1.1–1.6, now prints top 6x1 1.1-1.6 and bottom 6x1 prints 2.1-2.6
- The gear list mistakenly quoted one processor per screen instead of counting real processors listed in the Processor tab, gear list now properly reads existing processors
- Video preview settings are saved with the project. A processor left previewing the Turtle image at Crop opens that way next time instead of resetting to SMPTE bars at Centered 1:1 — the image, the fit, the resolution you told it to treat the image as, and "One canvas across processors" all come back, per processor
- Significantly expanded Live Monitor control of Helios processors with a much larger depth of health and connectivity monitoring and control
- Curves are now limited to one full turn (360°) concave or convex
- LivePremier Push renamed LivePremierLab and moved, with Live Monitor, into a new Tools menu (Engineer mode)
Processor Layout (PDF summary)
- Cloned processors now print as one raster instead of two with a legend that lists each screens color and name and processor assignments for easy visibility
- Frame rate, bit depth and the pixel clock (E2 capacity / Analog Way capacity) moved off the screen grids and onto the processor page
- Exported processor PNGs include the clone partner's screens as dimmed ghosts, the same way the Processing tab's composite view shows them. "Export PNG" now follows the Composite/Isolated button, so Isolated exports this box's screens alone
ROE Sapphire — brick-layered frame system
- Sapphire screens are now quoted with their real hardware: the 2x2 Frame and 1x2 Frame. Brick layering every frame row is 2 panels tall and alternate rows shift by one panel, with 1x2 frames squaring off the row ends. The panels themselves stay in normal columns, so pixel maps, signal and power wiring are unchanged
- Screen weight now includes the frames and bars, not just the panels (e.g. an 8 × 6 flown wall: 216 kg of panels + 136 kg of frames + 50 kg of bars)
- Summary PDF adds a "Brick Frame Layout" page section: a drawing of every Sapphire screen showing each 2x2/1x2 frame, the hanging/stacking bars on the rigging edge, and a hatched half-row when a screen has an odd number of rows