1.x MoDeck.io

– Can set app to automatically install new updates, as opposed to only installing on next app restart.

– Can define custom output locations for each deck in the deck settings; Define where the aep files are output to when a render is requested for a deck. This feature replaces the now removed setting “Give each deck own watch folder”

– Background AE on MacOS now executes AE differently; MoDeck was previously launching a background version of AE to use, but in the latest version of AE that background version gets automatically closed, so MoDeck now runs a different executable of AE which now appears in the dock, it should behave the same as previous.

– When rendering many videos with spreadsheet data, the app now outputs many aeps, one for each row, it previously output one aep with many comps at it’s root. Using multiple aeps corrects for some clashing that can occur with reused comps in a single project, and prevents creating one overly bloated aep is there is a lot of data, in a future release these aeps will be delogated between watch folder to allow for sharing render load between machines.

– Can set app to automatically install new updates.

– Bug fixes.

– Can now add request body and headers to JSON data URLs; if an API requires a request body or headers, click the curly brace icon next to the URL input to set the request body/add headers for the request.

– Can disable/enable whether invite notification emails are sent to newly invited users.

– Can disable/enable showing markers from AE on the online timeline.

– Can now add passwords to magic links.

– Magic links can now have multiple emails added to each, if a link has more than one email added, then a password is required to access each, this password is assigned automatically and can be retrieved by clicking “Copy pass” next to the email under Magic links in Deck settings.

– Can now link color options to spreadsheet, colors must be added to spreadsheet as hex values.

– Media replacements inputs now accept links from many sources including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook etc. The app will download videos it finds from these links to place in the template.

– When setting a mogrt to be kept/removed from sequence with data, can set the logic for what value from data will have it removed/kept. (To keep/remove mogrt using data, connect your data through editor settings, then click the data button on bottom right of mogrt on timeline)

– In the media selection dialog on the online editor, if you have JSON data added, you can now right click on the “Filename or URL” input and insert text from JSON, allowing you to dynamically insert text data into a files name or URL.

– Removed modk-fixedSequence, now that mogrts on timeline can be scrubbed to see multiple frames, fixed sequences are not necessary, preferable to just make a single mogrt with multiple preview frames added. (using modk-previewFrame)

– Can add API keys to a deck, this allows you to securely provide online editors with API keys to use in JSON requests, without them being able to see the actual key, they only see what you’ve named the key, editors add a API key to a JSON URL by right clicking in the URL input and selecting an API key by its name.

– Markers on a mogrts main comp will now appear on online editor timeline after a first preview has been fetched.

– modk-media command is being removed in favour of standard Essential Graphics media replacement, make footage replaceable by dragging the footage layer into the Essential Graphics panel.

– Can now schedule renders that are connected to JSON data, so that they render on an interval at set times, dates etc. Do this by clicking the “Schedule renders” switch below the URL inputs when adding JSON data.

– Added modk-startEditable command, can allow editors to add a time gap before the start of a mogrt.

– Enhanced previewing: Can switch between mogrt browser and preview on editor, previews no longer contained in dialog so can edit while seeing changes.

– Enhanced previewing: If a mogrt has multiple preview frames defined, after fetching a preview on the online editor, the editor is now able to hover their mouse over the mogrt in the timeline and scrub through the preview frames.

– Enhanced previewing: Previews get updated everytime an option is edited, can disable this in the deck settings on the app.

– Larger desktop app window and some updated styling.

– Can now render any format to the Render folder and it will be uploaded and made accessible to your editor, must ensure that an mp4 is also rendered so that the video can be previewed online

– Can right click on text inputs to add text from JSON, meaning you can place a sentence pulled from data in-between other typed text

– Can add multiple JSON data URLs, and can use the add text from data in URL inputs, ie can chain JSON fetch requests

– Can add a JSX script file into a deck folder and that script will be executed at the end of the MoDeck assembly script, use this if you would like to perform more advanced scripting tasks before any edit in that deck is rendered

– Can have mogrts in your sequence added or removed based on data, when data is added you will see the link to data button on the bottom right of each mogrt in the sequence, click this to define which piece of data determine whether this mogrt will be removed from the sequence or kept

– Fixed bugs with modk-dimensions

– Can now render multiple videos from JSON data, click “Select array for multiple video rendering” under the JSON URL input in the editor settings dialog to select which array in the JSON to use for generating many videos

– Added render log to the app, click the 3 dots at the top right of the app window then select “Render log” to view and sort through all render events, such as render requests, errors etc.