Today, we are thrilled to announce that Ultimate Playout 1.1.0 is officially live! This major update bundles all the planned improvements from the past few weeks into one massive release. We have significantly overhauled the engine to boost performance and added some of your most requested features.
Here is a look at what is new and improved.
⚡ Lightning-Fast Navigation
If you work with large playlists, you will feel the difference immediately. Loading and navigating the cue list is now virtually instant. Lists that used to take a couple of seconds to load now snap onto your screen in milliseconds. Switching between playout tabs is also completely seamless, with zero loading delays.
⏪ The “Oops” Button (Ctrl+Z)
We have all been there: accidentally deleting the wrong cue, an entire song, or a whole section of a service. Now, you can bring it right back! Hitting Ctrl+Z instantly undoes your deletions, remembering up to 20 steps back so you can edit with confidence.
🔊 Completely Overhauled Audio Engine
We rebuilt the entire audio path inside the software from the ground up for maximum reliability.
- No More Silent Drops: We fixed the critical bugs where audio meters showed green activity, but no sound actually reached the stream or sound card.
- Halved Latency: Audio delay has been cut down from ~175 ms to just ~83 ms, staying perfectly in sync without drifting during long broadcasts.
- Auto-Recovery: If a sound card is accidentally unplugged or a driver restarts, the audio connection now recovers completely on its own.
🧩 Smarter Tools & Automation
This release brings powerful new ways to run your services smoothly.
- New Automation Module: You can now easily set up rules to make one playout automatically follow another (e.g., “When playout 1 starts a presentation, get playout 3 ready on the same cue”).
- Perfect PowerPoint Imports: Presentations now import flawlessly, even if they have extra-long titles or complex click-by-click build animations.
- Deeper Organization: The cue list now supports a third level of depth (Part → Group → Subgroup → Cue) to help you keep complex services perfectly organized.
- Standby Pictures: Dedicated outputs like your projector or NDI stream can now display a custom standby image with a smooth fade whenever nothing is live.