Vū Studio Release - June 25, 2025

We have been hard at work on exciting changes to Vū Studio and SceneForge and those updates are headed your way!  

The upcoming planned maintenance window is scheduled for the morning of June 25, 2025

• There should be no interruption in the availability of the website or your online account.  

Items addressed in this Release

Improvements and New Features

VU-833 As a user, I need a selection of light cards that are easily accessible in the Library

VU-1079 Canon Camera Control

VU-1136 Support higher quality video processing and playback

VU-1073 Update instructions on VS Cam Track screen to say “hold phone with camera facing the floor” during calibration

VU-1088 As a user I would like to be able to drag and drop assets into a Scene

VU-1090 As a user I would like to be able to tap/click and drag assets around on the preview panel

VU-1091 As a user I would like to pinch/pull, click/drag to resize assets in the preview panel

VU-1177 Autofill lighting channels when entering the first one

VU-1207 Auto select numbers in light channel field for easier editing.

VU-1208 Hide mobile tracking app when not on mobile device

VU-1214 Improved prompt processing in vu.ai 

VU-1223 Hide auto update toggle from operator menu and remove asset timeout option

VU-1248 Have logs write to extra file every 24 hours, not only on every startup

VU-1251 Provide a way to cancel pending invites to Team

VU-1256 Show multiple layers in remote preview for scenes

VU-1264 Add ability to cancel or resend pending Team invite requests

VU-1265 Make parts of Team dashboard visible to non-admin team members

VU-1281 Add tag to videos indicating transcoding method

VU-1282 Check for unsupported codecs before transcoding

VU-1299 Add modal welcoming users to the web player to force a user interaction for video playback requirements

VU-1312 Ensure presentation mode view shows properly even if no asset is playing

VU-1096 As the admin of a media server used for advertising, I need audit reports for my clients

VU-1111 Expand mobile pointer capabilities to allow click/drag on web assets and of asset transform

VU-1199 Add ability for all lighting channels to be optional, and add other channels such as RGB

VU-1280 Add ability to choose to loop sequenced presentations.

VU-1284 Allow pixel mapping on splash screen

VU-1295 Add keyboard shortcut to open asset library in OS - L key

VU-1097 As a VS user, I would like a way to playback all items in a folder on a loop

VU-1217 Refactor RED camera system to work with any number of camera plugins, dictated by the camera's Type property.

VU-1231 Library dropdown improvements for Teams

VU-1232 Show sent invites on team dashboard

VU-1240 Improved performance and synchronization of HTML video player between Remote and Player

VU-1260 Handle ATS on iOS App for ASA

VU-1201 APCH video codec support

Defects Addressed 

VU-1077 All lights Pixel Mapping not saving at times between assets

VU-1093 360 media always start out displayed at the seam, should start 180 degrees from there

VU-1132 Expand sidebar button sometimes not responsive at times on touchscreen tablet

VU-1200 Video thumbnail disappearing sometimes after casting

VU-1203 VS Cam Track events are not being forwarded to OS form server

VU-1205 Large ProRes video showing incorrectly as image after transcoding

VU-1206 Current asset isn't being sent to newly connected users causing state mismatch

VU-1210 Cannot edit dynamic asset source

VU-1224 Inpainting popup needs to scale to not hide input bar

VU-1234 When navigating to Vu.ai, it should start a new thread

VU-1235 Depth map viewer using the previous map at times

VU-1236 Rework Vu AI issue raised to function with new codebase

VU-1239 New uploads pause on current frame before in/out points are set

VU-1249 Investigate update process freezing

VU-1250 Prevent two OS instances from running

VU-1254 Improve seamless loop speed

VU-1257 OS window in windowed mode doesn't seem to scale as well as it used to. 

VU-1263 Windows mouse cursor isn't always visible when OS isn't focused

VU-1266 Independent volume not respected for you tube videos

VU-1267 Fix OS License team sharing issue

VU-1283 Video playback speed not being saved between asset casts

VU-1286 Increase padding on right advance button.

VU-1289 When playing a singular asset after a scene, then the same scene again, the last asset uses the original properties, rather than the scene properties

VU-1290 Fix issue where Session mode at times requires OS restart after new user tries to connect

VU-1296 Reset button doesn't reset transform

VU-1297 PlayerMode command gets sent repeatedly every frame causing OS slowdowns

VU-1298 Save Lighting API Endpoint being called more frequently than expected

VU-1300 Text assets not playing on web player beta

VU-1302 Asset properties are being cleared when cast for the first time to the web player

VU-1303 Video playback resumes from previous position when cast again on web player

VU-1304 Videos don't loop when set to loop upon first play with no in/out points set

VU-1308 Exposure starts with 0.2 by default, always causing magic wand to disappear

VU-1309 In some cases, the Magic wand indicator is always visible, even if reset to defaults

VU-1310 Prevent user from adding duplicate asset to scene on player end

VU-1311 When playing a scene, exiting, then resuming, on unity OS, assets are in original places

VU-1313 Scenes are sometimes added to themselves when they are cast

VU-1314 Add filter so Scenes can't be played as layers on Unity OS

VU-1317 Web player doesn't always wait for asset load to send state back, causing attribute mismatch

VU-1315 Fix intermittent video compression problem

VU-1107 Investigate clearing wall admins, make sure licenses are properly separated from wall