DPX Analytics - A DPX header investigation tool for the professional video creation workflow

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New features
- Supported high frame rate time code.
  Special thanks to Koichi Matsui.
  He provided the detailed report for the implementation with a previous version of DPX Analytics and also told the current situations with some other applications in the market.
Improvements
- NDI monitoring feature was improved. The previous version transmit every frames for the thumbnail however, this version transmit a frame when you select an image window.

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New features
- NewTek NDI transmission feature was added to DPX Analytics GUI.
- Menu feature was added.
Improvements
- Added some additional supported image format to the thumbnail engine.
  - Cb, Y, Cr, Y (4:2:2) 16-bits, Little Endian : Packed into 32-bit words (The test image file was created on BaseLight.)
  - Cb, Y, Cr (4:4:4) 16-bits, Little Endian : Filled to 32-bit words, method A (The test image file was created on BaseLight.)
  - R, G, B, Alpha 8-bits, Big Endian : Packed into 32-bit words (The test image file was created on DaVinci Resolve 12.5.)

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New features
- Data dump feature for the ASCII fields was added to the GUI.
- Human readable summary feature was added to the GUI.
- The implementation of the user defined data dump was added to the GUI.
Improvements
- Added an application icon. The icon was designed by Koichi Matsui. Thank you so much!
Bug fixes
- In the previous version, GUI was crashed on a low memory capability environment.
- Bug fixed the utility BAT file.
Changes
- Currently, The target environment for macOS is only for Sierra. Now, The installer is checking the version of your operating system.

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New features
- Human redable summary feature was added to the GUI.
Improvements
- Changed the default internal window size.
- Human redable text outputs were added to the GUI.
- Supported some additional image data formats for the thumbnail.
Changes
- Changed the location of the thumbnail.

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New features
- Changed the package structure with an installer.
- The first version of the GUI was added to the package.
Improvements
- The utility script file 'Drop-DPX-Files-To-Me.bat' was updated. The previous version did not support outside directory of the script.
- Header Quality Checker
  - Added new feature for 'offset to data' in data structure no.1.

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New features
- Added a utility BAT file for Windows environment.
- Supported SMPTE ST 2065-3 Academy Density Exchange Encoding (ADX). The definitions were added in the latest version of DPX specification SMPTE ST 268:2014.
Improvements
- Human redable text outputs were added for video signal standard and image orientation code.
- The progress report feature was added for multiple file inputs.
- Added many tests to DPX-HQC.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug of the detection of undefined values for floating point.
- Fixed a bug of the user defined header length in bytes. The value includes the user identification field now.
- Fixed a bug of the user defined header. The user identification field is located in the user defined header now.
Changes
- The field name for the outputs were changed. In the previous versions, the application was using 'snake_case' to match the internal variable name. However, that was not inconvenient to read them.

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New features
- The scoring feature of DPX header quality was added.
Improvements
- ASCII text display feature was added to the text field dump.
- Added some tests to DPX Header Quality Checker.
- The output formats of DPX Header Quality Checker were changed.
- Improved the data structure outputs with "in use" and "not in use" for checking the number of image elements and the values.
- Added separators for each headers.
Bug fixes
- An illegal operation for floating point was fixed. All of the floating point values were incorrect in all of the previous versions.
- In the previous versions for Windows platforms, it doesn't work correctly with wildcards on the console. This version is the fixed version for the wildcards feature.
- The output buffer doesn't flush when a user quit the application with CTRL+C.
Changes
- Removed the key input feature for exiting the application because it makes hard situation for running with a script file for multiple DPX file set.

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Bug fixes
- Pablo Rio 4K is using 0xFFFFFFFF value for 'User defined header length in bytes' for indicating empty user data.
  In our previous version, we were using the value of the user defined header length in bytes as just a numeric value.
  This was the problem, because SMPTE 268M defined 'undefined value' for any unsigned int 32-bit fields.

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New features
- A very unique header quality checker 'DPX Header Quality Checker (DPX-HQC)' was added.
  Currently, we have only a few checks in the feature but will expand it for other metadata fields.
  - Magic number
  - File byte size
  - Version number
- Added data dump feature for user defined data.
  - description_of_image_element
- Added data dump feature for file information header.
  - version_number_of_header_format
  - image_filename
  - creation_date_time
  - creator
  - project_name
  - right_to_use_or_copyright_statement
- Added data dump feature for image information header.
  - source_image_filename
  - source_image_date_time
  - input_device_name
  - input_device_serial_number
- Added data dump feature for motion picture film information header.
  - file_mfg_id_code
  - film_type
  - offset_in_perfs
  - prefix
  - count
  - format
  - frame_identification
  - slate_information
- Added data dump feature for user defined data.
  - user_identification
Improvements
- Improved the file information header display feature with human readable text messages for descriptor, transfer characteristic, colorimetric specification and packing fields.
- Improved the television information header display feature with human readable text messages for SMPTE time code and SMPTE user bits fields.
Changes
- The output format of hexadecimal values were changed to upper case for magic_number, ditto_key and encryption_key.

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