We’re excited to announce the release of Software Version 1.8.0 for the Chronos 4K12 high-speed camera — bringing powerful new features, important improvements, and multiple bug fixes.
New Features
Download: For download, please visit here.
Update Instructions: Follow our step-by-step Online Software Update Guide to install v1.8.0 on your Chronos 4K12.
If you have feedback or run into issues, please share them here and (or) reach out to the support team at [email protected].
New Features
- New resolutions have been added. A complete list of supported frame rates is available here.
- A CSV sidecar that contains the camera configuration at the time of the last recording can be saved alongside the footage.
- Inter-frame compression is now used when saving using H264/H265 resulting in smaller files.
- Device mode now works on all platforms.
- Device mode refreshes the file list on hosts when files are changed by cameras
- Linux hosts users need to reopen the window manually to load the file changes
- Windows hosts can reopen the window automatically when files are changed
- TIFF and DNG files now contain ISO in their metadata.
- Fixed an issue where TIFF files generated by 4K12 mono could not be opened in certain programs (MatLab).
- Fixed an issue where the camera takes a long time to boot in Windows after NFS was used.
- Stability improvements.
- Fixed an issue where applying unchanged values again may round the value down in Record Settings and Record Modes.
- Fixed an issue where the Stop button doesn’t switch back to the Record button immediately when recording is stopped with Auto Save enabled.
- Fixed an issue where the HDMI display may flicker.
- Fixed an issue where the HDMI unsupported error isn’t shown when cameras boot up with an unsupported resolution monitor connected.
- Fixed an issue where the minimum value of Record Length in seconds couldn’t be applied.
- Fixed an issue where the H.264 format Maximum Quality preset Target Bits/Pixel is marked as out-of-range.
- Fixed an issue where some record settings may display as 0.00 when 0 is out-of-range.
- Fixed an issue where switching to DHCP takes about 1min30sec to get an IP address.
- Fixed an issue where the Trigger Delay graph needs to tap the Reset To Defaults button twice to reset.
- Fixed an issue where the Apply button for SMB connection remains disabled after Test returns No SMB is connected.
- Fixed an issue where the GUI disappeared when tapping the Test button for the NFS connection after disconnecting the Ethernet cable while the NFS share was connected.
- Fixed incorrect frame-rate and exposure period metadata in TIFF and DNG files.
- Fixed an issue where the information dialog is still shown when GUI is closed by API calls from other clients.
- Fixed an issue where the recorded footage is displayed on an HDMI monitor during saving.
- Fixed an issue where the wrong frame number appears in the 8px Text Overlay.
Download: For download, please visit here.
Update Instructions: Follow our step-by-step Online Software Update Guide to install v1.8.0 on your Chronos 4K12.
If you have feedback or run into issues, please share them here and (or) reach out to the support team at [email protected].
