Kyno 1.5 Brings a Ton of Improvements and a New Family Member

Clean-up the timestamp mess, better FCPX and Premiere integration, settings sharing and more.

Everyone knows these situations. Your file timestamps are all messed up, because you forgot to set the clock on your camera or sound recorder and file organization is a nightmare. Kyno 1.5 lets you intelligently batch-correct an entire shoot’s files with a few clicks retaining relative time differences between the takes.

Great news for Final Cut Pro X users! The much-requested drag & drop support for sending clips with metadata to an FCPX event makes the workflow even smoother. Kyno now also supports the playback of MXF ProRes files created with FCPX. Also FCPX XML export has been changed to use version 1.6 of FCPX XML.

Premiere Pro users also get a big ramp-up with support for auto-creation of bins, even based on the existing folder structure, when sending clips with metadata to Premiere Pro.

The new thumbnail column in Kyno’s configurable list view lets users get the best of both worlds when organising media files: all technical metadata at a glance and still a good visual overview.

Transcoding presets can now be imported and exported to be able to share them in a team or with the community.

Apart from a number of bug fixes and stability improvements, Kyno 1.5 brings WebP image support as well as GH5s raw stills, filtering of more metadata, advanced batch naming controls for space and case handling, IMX/D10 support, improvements in audio channel selection as well as better render quality in the player.

Delivery workflows, more flexibility, efficiency & power and more broadcast formats.

Kyno Premium differentiates itself with functionality targeted at environments where more complex workflows are commonplace such as TV & news networks, big production companies and organisations functioning in a similar way. Their workflows usually involve more roles and team members and often take place over different locations. They also typically require more possibilities for workflow customisation and optimisation as well as support for technology specific to those areas and sometimes just more powerful options for certain functionality.

On the workflow side, the biggest news is the new delivery function that allows Kyno users to put together packages of material and then hand them off with metadata to either local or remote destinations. For remote transfer, FTP/FTPS support is built in (extensible to Aspera and FileCatalyst transfer acceleration for enterprise customers, see below). A wide range of options lets users configure the workflow to match their specific delivery requirement ranging from delivering a shot list and proxies for the selected best shots or a full material delivery with metadata to either use in downstream Kyno instances or to import into Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X or a MAM system.

Furthermore the option to predefine metadata sets to be applied to batches or even be applied automatically to material from a pre-configured SD card will result in even higher speed and efficiency in team workflows.

More aspects of Kyno’s metadata management side can be configured, such as a shared cache location or the policy for storing metadata entered by local Kyno users.

On the more technical side of things, Kyno Premium supports P2 camera structures, allows creation of MXF files as well as transcoding to Avid’s DNxHD/DNxHQ/DNxHR codecs. Audio track and channel handling can be freely configured in the transcoder with either automatic or fully individual channel mapping even for batch operations. The video denoise filter allows configuration from its default behaviour to be able to deal more flexibly with more challenges of noisy video material.

For the roll-out in large corporate environments additional options exist such as custom package deployment (CPD), i.e. the possibility to deploy/provision Kyno preconfigured with custom settings as well as customized organization- or department-wide transcoding or naming presets. Also, Aspera and FileCatalyst transfer acceleration packages are available for the new delivery workflow.

The new Premium Edition of Kyno is sold for 349 USD and there is a discount for the four weeks after the launch of Kyno Premium, allowing to upgrade to or start using Kyno Premium at reductions of more than 25% of the regular price.

We are committed to delivering a world-class all-round product for content producers with Kyno Standard Edition. Kyno Premium Edition and the enterprise extensions address the realities of the Premium segment with more and often very specific requirements, which usually means higher development effort on our side and lower seat counts. Splitting our product line in those two editions allows us to cater to the needs of our entire community ranging from enthusiasts and small businesses up to big corporations while running a sustainable business of providing high-quality, working solutions to all members of our very diverse community.

The trial status has been reset for all users, so if you'd like to test Kyno (incl. Premium features), just download version 1.5, sign up again and dive right in.

To celebrate our new family member, you can buy the upgrade to Kyno Premium at a 47% discount and the standalone version at a 25% discount.

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Be sure to consult the full release notes for further details