Features & Fixes

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The full Cinegy Air package components are:

  • Cinegy Air provides a software-based system for SD/HD/UHD/8K playout automation using standard PC server hardware. Cinegy Air performs video playout by acting as a TCP/IP-connected video "printer" that offers its services on the network. The Cinegy Air broadcast automation software connects to the Cinegy Air Playout service and instructs it what to "print" on air and when.

  • Cinegy Studio is a modern, highly configurable, and customizable control panel for live and studio operations. It offers greater flexibility and additional advanced functionality like integration with Cinegy News workflows and third-party MOS-based workflows.

  • Cinegy Playout is a universal tool that performs the final direct playout without rendering or export. This is a software-based system for SD/HD/UHD/8K playout using standard PC server hardware. It is controlled either by Cinegy Air or Cinegy Studio, connected via TCP/IP without any need to restart or reconfigure.

  • Cinegy Encode allows the user to convert SD, HD, or UHD SDI streams into broadcast-quality, SMPTE-compliant RTP/UDP and NDI streams or vice versa.

  • Cinegy Prompter is an optional component that runs on any commodity or tablet Windows-based PC and is compatible with any teleprompter hardware available on the market.

  • Cinegy EAS Gateway is used for receiving US emergency alert messages from the TFT 911 device and playing them automatically.

  • Cinegy Title, the CG and branding option available for extending Cinegy software, such as Cinegy Air and Cinegy Desktop, allowing the addition of multiple layers of automation controlled, template based titles, logos, animated graphics, and more. Cinegy Air PRO Bundle includes Cinegy Title Editor, the template designer for building and previewing templates offline, as well as a dedicated Cinegy CG tool to control up to 10 layers of graphics and animation – perfect for live operations, such as news and sports. Cinegy Title now also supports audio elements, e.g., a "swoosh" sound when a logo appears or disappears.

  • Cinegy CG is a simple yet powerful live CG and channel branding tool, giving you the power to control graphics in real-time on one or multiple Cinegy Playout engines at once. If a loaded graphics template has variables, Cinegy CG will let an operator change the values and even update them on the fly on one of the ten available layers.

  • Cinegy Event Manager is an event handler to manage secondary events that can be used to control external devices, such as external SDI switches or GPI signal generation.

Note
 Some components and features described in this release are only available exclusively in advanced license bundles. Please ensure that your license includes the necessary bundle to access these features.

Cinegy Air 26.2 Release Candidate

Cinegy Air Release: 26.2 RC

Cinegy Air Build: 26.2.0.5906.26420

Cinegy Cinecoder Version: 4.16.8.23667

Cinegy ML Version: 9.1.5883.27450

Compatible with: Cinegy Title 24.11

Compatible with: Cinegy Desktop 22.11+

Release Date: March 5, 2026

Caution
 Please note that working with the AVID DNxHD/HR video codec now requires the additional purchase of a codec license and installation of a separate plug-in. For details, please contact the Cinegy Sales Team.

Major Improvements

– General

  • added support for Blackwell GPUs, allowing reintroduced accelerated NVIDIA interlaced features for H264 GPU encoding

  • enhanced the Cinegy Playout engine remote communication implementation to support cross-platform development (US 7735)

– Cinegy Air

  • introduced an optional "Live Source URL" column enabling users to view and edit live item URLs directly in the playlist grid (US 7623)

  • added display of the "Avail Id" value for blocks in the playlist grid and on the timeline (USs 7739, 7703, 7508)

  • added support for channel grouping with customizable background colors for channel tabs in the playlist grid and the "Channel name" column in the Timeline panel (USs 7624, 7705)

  • increased the maximum search query length (defect 17671, ticket WIX-446-73251)

  • included a legacy Air PRO Web API functionality into the Cinegy Air project (US 7712)

  • updated outdated icons in the "Edit Favorite Events" window (defect 17539)

  • fixed an issue where changing the trigger from clocked to follow for a cued item did not update the start time (defect 17538, ticket JVG-996-26693)

  • fixed focus loss in the Secondary Events panel after executing "Undo" and "Redo" (defect 17634)

  • fixed an issue where the full machine name was incorrectly substituted for localhost marked as . in the Cinegy Playout engine configuration (defect 17525)

  • fixed an issue where the channel tab scroll buttons became hidden after selecting a specific channel (defect 17555)

  • fixed inability to open properties of played on-air blocks and programs in read-only mode (defect 17462)

  • fixed an issue where an item could be inserted into an empty block within the already played portion of the playlist (defect 17512)

  • fixed an issue where the generated SCTE-35/104 out event duration did not include a reset item when this item inside the opt-out block was skipped and then reset (defect 17516, ticket CEC-687-10370)

  • fixed an issue with thumbnail display in the file browser on Windows 11, update 24H2 (defect 17532, ticket VGP-440-34482)

  • fixed the alignment of custom fields (defect 17604, ticket XWE-236-69481)

  • fixed the "Planned Start Diff" counter to correctly display positive and negative values (defect 17629, ticket XVZ-708-68517)

  • fixed an issue where using the Delete key could remove the wrong secondary event instead of the selected one when item contained multiple events (defect 17630, ticket JHK-173-77417)

  • fixed an issue where the variance and start time of the next item were not updated while an overrun item was on air (defect 17639, ticket FTR-958-52323)

  • fixed an issue where the menu bar of the application disappeared after editing keyboard shortcuts (defect 17646, ticket IOI-528-67999)

  • fixed incorrect TCP/IP port number displaying in the Cinegy Playout connection error (defect 17767)

  • added minor improvements in the GUI (defect 17557)

– Cinegy Studio

  • added minor improvements in the GUI (defect 17557)

  • fixed an issue where a newly created Rundown was not synchronized between multiple open Studio Control instances (defect 17470)

  • fixed incorrect TCP/IP port number displaying in the Cinegy Playout connection error (defect 17767)

– Cinegy Playout

  • supported SCTE-104 pass-through mode for SDI-to-SDI workflows and MXF files (US 7688)

  • introduced an "Auto" mode for automatic selection of the GPU device for RTP output encoding (US 7737)

  • improved the error messages shown when connecting to the Cinegy Playout engine without an available license (US 7716)

  • achieved Nielsen watermark certification using the new SDK and added the "Time Offset", "Destination DST State", and "Broadcast Delay" configuration settings (USs 7665, 7645)

  • fixed an issue where updated item metadata (such as name and description) was not applied after editing (defect 17215)

  • fixed an application crash when using NDI input (Shared RAM, etc.) as the audio source for the audio ducking secondary event (defect 17514)

  • added stability improvements for the embedded Cinegy Route Source Browser (defects 17558, 17559)

  • improved OS version reporting in proxy logs (defect 17269)

– Cinegy CG

  • improved the "Save Profile" dialog (US 7581)

  • enhanced voiceover audio input settings by adding a "Default" device option (US 7635)

  • improved validation and handling of repository paths in "Settings" (USs 7582, 7643)

  • enhanced settings with an option to ensure that shortcuts remain operational even when the Cinegy CG window is minimized (US 7597)

  • enhanced profile switching to preserve on-air graphics on layers when different layers are selected in each profile (defect 17597, ticket DKG-243-30132)

  • fixed an issue where a duplicate profile was created instead of replacing the existing one (defect 17670)

  • fixed text corruption when resizing text images (defect 17632)

  • fixed application window position resetting (defect 17773)

  • fixed overwriting of muted/unmuted state after enabling/disabling the "Enable Variable Update" option (defect 17770)

– Cinegy Event Service

  • renamed the "Cinegy Route" plugin (US 7602)

  • corrected the application version formatting in the log file (defect 11928)

  • fixed an issue accessing the Cinegy Route/Stream Switcher plugin settings (defect 17636)

  • fixed validation of Op2 values on Channel 1 for Stream Switcher secondary events to ensure that invalid events are not sent to air (defect 17164)

  • enhanced processing of Stream Switcher secondary events (defect 17165)