Release notes

What each version of airZ Editor brings, with links into the manual. To see which version you have, open File › Settings….

1.0

The first release of airZ Editor: design, animate, bind to data and send to air, in one application.

Design

Shapes, drawn paths, text, pictures, groups and layouts, with fills, strokes, gradients and effects. See Shape and Layouts.
Artboards of any size, several to a document, and components: an artboard placed inside another. See Scenes and artboards.
Bones and weights, meshes, and nine-slicing for artwork that bends and stretches. See Bone and weights.
Import from SVG, PSD and Lottie. See File formats.

Animate

Timelines with keys on almost every property, and a graph editor for the ease between them. See Timelines.
Animation States for in, hold and out, wired on a graph, with conditions on the graphic's data. See Animation States.
Listeners for graphics that react to a click or a touch. See Clickable control panel.

Data

View models: the properties an operator fills in — text, numbers, colours, switches, triggers, pictures, lists. See Data and view models.
Converters that format numbers, count up, and calculate. See Converters.
Artboard lists for tables and tickers. See Results board and Ticker from a list.
Scripts, for artwork drawn by code. See Scripts.

Playout

Export the playout file with a list of everything it accepts. See What export produces.
Sync graphics straight into a controller's library, updating what is already there. See Sync to controllers.
Live video slots for cameras, clips and channels. See Live video slots.
Monitor out through a DeckLink card. See Monitor out.
Preflight: a list of what would go wrong on air, before it does. See Preflight findings.

Working

Versions, autosave and recovery. See Recovering a document.
Keyboard shortcuts you can change. See Keyboard shortcuts.
A template library, online and on this computer. See Cloud templates.

3D and the assistant

3D scenes inside a graphic: shapes, 3D text, models from other programs, materials, lights, cameras with real lenses, skies and softboxes, and traced shadows and reflections. See 3D viewport.
Camera tracking for virtual sets. See Camera tracking.
An assistant that builds a graphic from a description. See The assistant.

Coming next

An installer, licence activation and updates. See Install.

See also