This list shows the changes between Smart Edit 5.0 and 5.1c. Among these points many further small bugfixes and corrections have been made. Some improvements have already been made in version 5.0k.

HDV
Smart Edit reacts much better to dropouts caused by the tape. We divide these dropouts into three classes:
a) Heavy dropouts are detected while recording onto the hard disk drive. The errors will be cut out automatically and the record process starts with a new clip.
b) Mild dropouts will be detected during the HDV->DV conversion. So the corrupt frames (12 frames in most of the cases) will be cut out and the clip will be split.
c) Smaller dropouts will be ignored and are almost not visible at all.
The 2 pass record mode has been temporarily removed (DV+HDV).
Automatic split of scenes has be redesigned and improved for HDV. (application)
These improvements and some further internal modifications prevent still images, jittering, sync problems, and more strange problems caused by dropouts.
You can load more than one HDV clip in a row onto the hard disk drive and then start converting from HDV to DV. This conversion starts as soon as you exit the record window.
Record date and time of HDV footage will be displayed correctly when pressing the clip-info button.
Swapped Audio channels have been fixed.
If a title effect has been modified, you now can re-render the storyboard correctly.
The play and record counter always runs smoothly now.
Smart Rendering can be used for clips in the scene bin as well.
Rendering of the HDV-Audio-clips for the storyboard can be cancelled now (cut to the beat).

Audio
Audio frequency during playback sounded too slow on some Casablanca systems. This has been fixed.
Creating audio CDs has been improved (in particular a problem with Claro).
Videoclips created via “Sample->Scene” and by using the audio split feature now get a different thumbnail.
You can use the insert editing method on clips created by the cutting to the beat feature (note symbol). Removing those inserts lets the note-clips remain.
Handling of the audio when replacing video in the storyboard has been improved.
Audio clipboard (“Sample from project->Clipboard”) has been improved.

VGA
Display quality (playback, trimming,…) in 1-monitor VGA mode has been improved.
Smart Edit can now be installed in VGA mode, too.

Rendering + effects
Playback can not be affected by an active SmartRendering process.
Problems concerning changes of the effect length of transition effects have been fixed.
Transitions between background clip and insert clip now can be longer than 1 second.
Effect preview now works on all Casablanca systems in all screen modes.
Circle wipe effect has been fixed.
Under certain circumstances clips created by CBPaint have not been saved permanently - this has been fixed.
The creation date and time of rendered effects and clips created with the “new” effect are written into the timecode of the clip.

Miscellaneous
Firewire transfer / DV connection between Casablanca and PC has been fixed.
Problems concerning some USB card readers have been fixed (6in1, card drive).
During DV footage loading, some systems failed to show the video signal - this is fixed (exception: analogue recordings in 1-monitor VGA mode, HDV).
Some rare problems with licensing of software were solved.
Sometimes the last editing steps have been “forgotten” by the system when it has been switched off. This has been fixed.
Problems with very large images in the image-pool have been fixed.
Some adaptions and internal modifications for the new Casablanca models have been made.
Analogue video inputs can now be used on Solitaire PLUS systems.
Timer recordings fixed on Renommee systems.
Sometimes wrong thumbnail pictures have been displayed (for example when clips have been replaced). This has been fixed.

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