What's new in Spot 5

New Features:

1. Encode subtitle files to video and output in MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or Flash FLV format

2. Upsample video files to DVD MPEG-2 format

3. One-click Quick Encode

4. Link subtitle files to video

5. Read first embedded timecode in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files

6. Most recently used media file list

7. Zoom feature and view menu (mono, stereo, left, right) added to audio waveform

8. Faster sync video with subtitles

9. Audio on fast forward

10. Full screen timing information

11. New subtitle display format renders subtitles within the video stream

12. Subsampled BMP and PNG bitmap output for broadcast-quality SD and HD subtitles

13. Final Cut Pro XML Interchange Format bitmap output

14. Open second file in Quick View to copy and paste subtitles from external file

15. Print as displayed from Quick View

16. Style settings replaced by more powerful client profiles

17. Instant synonym/spelling suggestions for Spot and Notebook

18. Look up words/translations at Babylon, One Look, Wikipedia, Google and Dictionary

19. Translate words, phrases or a complete subtitle file

20. Instant error and statistical information when in Report View

21. One-click "Add Word to AutoReplace"

22. Visual line length warning in preview window

23. Merge subtitles as comments

24. "Insert subtitle after" option

25. Shift subtitles left/right/up/down by percentage

26. Undo

27. Unlimited undo/redo in Notebook

28. Auto-save option for Notebook

29. New "continue timecode" offset option

30. Convert between timecode formats, including NTSC drop frame, using the Timecode Calculator

31. "Frame slippage" calculator added to Cue Offset

32. More cue editing functions: lock last out cue to in cue, lock in cue to last out cue, lock next in cue to out cue, lock out cue to next in cue

33. Esc key takes you to the main edit area from any position in main window

34. Ctrl+Delete does not delete punctuation

35. Karaoke subtitling

36. 2D and 3D digital cinema subtitling

37. Bold text for DLP export

38. UTF-8 Titra import/export

39. Export theatrical spotting list with maximum character count

40. Softni text file import

41. Zero-title check for EBU and PAC files

42. New project screen at start-up

43. Hold down Ctrl during start-up to prevent last file from loading

44. Remember main window size and position option

45. Will run at 1024 x 600 resolution

46. Measurement converter predicts which unit to convert to

47. Option to keep measurement converter always on top

48. Option to hide Spot during a spell check session (in Vista, Word is hidden behind Spot)

49. Option to save EBU em-dashes as hyphens

50. Option to add/subtract frames to jump to last/next shot cut

51. Option to include spaces in reading speed calculations

52. Added colour support for Sonic DVD export

53. Added Asian language PAC support

54. Added UTF-8 option for Adobe Encore export

Fixes:

1. Bug in Windows Vista returns wrong subtitle width when kerning > 0

2. Outlining in bitmap export may be too narrow

3. Asian language files may have truncated lines when running Spot under Windows XP with SP3

4. Row data lost when copying subtitles in Quick View

5. Blank subtitle is added to end of file when leaving rehearse mode after last subtitle

6. Texas Instruments DLP XML file may contain invalid XML data if a subtitle's cues are blank

7. Dragon Naturally Speaking cannot create accented letters whose Alt+numpad code contains a zero

8. Three-byte UTF-8 sequence in SAMI file header may render file unreadable

9. Fixed broken ANSI option for SAMI files

10. Outlining added to subtitles when opening STL teletext files with boxing on

11. Character set for non-Western languages not applied to previous and next comment fields

12. Empty last subtitle is not saved to PAC file

13. Reading speed indicator includes spaces but duration indicator does not

14. 890 file header contains incorrect first in cue

15. AltGr + 1,2 or 3 affects subtitle vertical alignment instead of assigning AltGr keyboard character

16. Empty subtitles exported as Blu-ray bitmaps cause timecode corruption in export file

17. Cancelling a File, Split operation from the Split File Root Name dialog box causes Spot to crash

18. Preview is temporarily disabled when closing a video file

19. Video window is not refreshed when switching from an audio-only media file to a video file

20. PNG files with blurring lose border and gain purple haze

21. Y offset value in Spruce Maestro bitmap export is set to -5 and cannot be changed.

22. Spot fails to load if running with Arabic regional settings

23. Final Cut Pro 32-bit memory issue

24. Final Cut Pro bitmap export does not work with standard font effects

25. Final Cut Pro bitmap export does not work with 8-bit PNGs

26. Final Cut Pro XML header file has wrong <timebase> value if frame rate is 24 or 23.976

27. 8-bit PNG bitmap subtitles with a boxed or ghost boxed background may contain purple artifacts

28. No support for 29.97 drop timecode in Sonic Scenarist BD XML header

29. Spot may crash when opening a video that does not contain duration information

30. OVR files do not import correctly

31. STL conversion error for capital T with hook

32. PAC Conversion error for Nordic O with slash

33. Greek PAC files may not save properly Greek

34. Subrip SRT Asian language files do not import correctly