Kyno 1.8 will be most useful for Blackmagic Design fans but all users will appreciate Incremental Transcoding and some of the other updates.
Here's a video I made about the features I consider to be most relevant to most people including myself.
Playback and transcoding for Blackmagic RAW files are now available for both Standard and Pro editions.
You can change a preview resolution if you’re working on an older machine, apply a LUT, change playback speed, preview audio channels and use all other features for Kyno’s player.
We finally have the ability to send logged footage to Resolve.
Just like with Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro we just select files we’re interested in > right-click > and go to ‘Send to’ option. Alternatively, we could use Ctrl + Shift + D shortcut.
For macOS it works for Resolve 16.1 and above and for Windows the integration works from version 16.2.1.
Let’s say I want to create proxies for these files but I already created them form some of them. In the past, we’d have to compare the two folders to select the ones that are missing.
But with new incremental transcoding, we don’t have to. We select all source clips, choose a proxy preset and we check ‘Skip items that already exist on target’ option.
Now we can show a preview to make sure that it’s working and start transcoding. Jobs are added to the queue and we don’t have to worry about any duplicated in the destination folder.
If you want to find out more about this wonderful software for Media Management, you should check out this article and the following playlist where I walk you through all significant features.
If we have a lot of clips in a location we can tell Kyno to pre-analyze them for a smoother work later down the road.
We just hit Ctrl + A to select all files and we choose Pre-analyze from the context menu. A job has been created and all clips are being analyzed.
Thumbnail extraction now uses multiple CPU cores so it is significantly faster.
The new automatic audio mapping in Kyno’s transcoder will take care of almost all combinations of input and output format. For example, it will automatically split discrete multichannel audio to mono tracks or create broadcast wave multichannel output.
You can send clip metadata to Media Composer using ALE and copy & paste markers from Kyno like you would for other NLEs. Check out how it works in the following walkthrough tutorial.
You can reconnect metadata that has been lost (for example due to accidental file name changes). Just go to File > Recover Lost Metadata.
Kyno now detects sidecar LUT files. If you place a 3D LUT next to a clip with the same name (like "example.cube" next to "example.mov") then Kyno will automatically apply that LUT during playback.
Most popular in the context menu has been brought to the foreground. Also, the "Export" menu was split up into the new top-level items, namely "Export Subclips", "Export Markers as Stills" and "Export Metadata".
You can use "Copy" and "Paste metadata" commands to transfer metadata between copies of clips for entire folder structures.
There’s a new browser column for “File Path” and for "Date Recorded". The date is extracted from the clip’s metadata instead of file creation or modification. They also added corresponding renaming variables.
The Excel export was updated and now it includes: Date Created, Date Modified, Date Recorded, File Path, File Size, Reel, Scene, Shot, Take, Total Number of Clips, and Total Duration.
Playback and decoding support for Grass Valley HQ and HQX (formerly Canopus HQ) is now available.
Now we can drop files on the Browser area in Kyno to copy them into the currently selected folder
Dragging and dropping a single clip from Final Cut Pro to Kyno triggers the import of metadata for that clip.
XML support has been improved and now you can import and export the camera name metadata from and to Final Cut Pro.
Kyno allows importing legacy Final Cut Pro XML files (version 1.3) that are generated by 3rd party on-set systems such as LockitNetwork.
You can disable file system event monitoring for network, local or removable drives.
As a reminder, you can get 20% off any Kyno license by using this link and a coupon code CTTP20.
Now I want to hear from you.
Will you use .BRAW support and integration with DaVinci Resolve? What other features do you think would make this software even better?
