Designer r34 Release Notes

r34.0.3 - Hotfixes

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Full (Pro) build: 258249
Starter build: 258250
Released: August 5th 2026

Items marked with a ● are also included in r32.4.15.

Fixes

• DSOF-33324 - Projector warps exported from Designer as Christie Twist (.twistx) files now include a default full-frame mask, so they load and apply correctly in Christie Twist. Previously a stacked projector showed no output, and adding a point in Twist’s mask editor caused Twist to crash. Soft-edge blending continues to be handled inside Designer, so no mask configuration is needed.
• DSOF-33322 - Editing a projector’s warp stack now works correctly. Toggling a warp layer’s enabled state, or adding, removing or renaming a technique, no longer reports an error.
• DSOF-32704 & DSOF-30934 - When a video’s frame rate matches the project refresh rate, Designer now advances to the next video frame when hitting a section break instead of rendering the final frame before the section break twice.
• DSOF-33195 - Pressing Ctrl+D with nothing selected no longer reports a spurious error after a previous duplicate has been undone and the selection cleared.

r34.0.2 - Hotfixes

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Full (Pro) build: 257237
Starter build: 257238
Released: July 29th 2026

Items marked with a ● are also included in r32.4.14.

Fixes

• DSOF-33353 - QSDI VFC cards in quad mode now correctly restore screen configuration after applying feed settings.
• DSOF-33254 & DSOF-30914 - Sources of superfluous logging relating to Notch blocks and the Proof of Play feature have been removed.
• DSOF-33140 - DMX indirection patches can now be removed.
• DSOF-32463 - Keyframes may now be placed close to the start of a layer.
• DSOF-31896 - Designer will no longer intermittently crash to desktop on some machines.
• DSOF-33250 - Diagnostic graphs relating to display management now display correctly in half speed mode.

r34.0.1 - Hotfixes

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Full (Pro) build: 256615
Starter build: 256616
Released: July 22nd 2026

Items marked with a ● are also included in r32.4.13.

Improvements

• DSOF-33316 - CSV projector study exports now include throw ratio, to match PDF exports.

Fixes

• DSOF-33331 - Designer UI translations omitted from version r32.4.10 onwards have been restored.
• DSOF-33257 - RenderStream will no longer occasionally fail claiming a plugin is version ‘r0.0’.
• DSOF-33115 - Texture parameter latency graph will now appear when a new TransportManager is used.
• DSOF-33016 - Mask creation in mrset color calibration will now work with multiple cameras.

r34.0 - Colour, lighting and workflow improvements

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Full (Pro) build: 256372
Starter build: 256373
Released: July 15th 2026

Designer r34.0 is a major release because it changes the default blend mode behaviour. For details on the blend mode behaviour pre and post r34 see Mask Blending. To understand our release naming scheme and what can prompt a major version change, see Designer Release Versioning Conventions. This change will be highlighted in Designer when upgrading a project from a pre-r34 version of Designer.

Designer r34.0 brings a set of colour, lighting and workflow improvements including HDR / non-sRGB GUI support in OCIO colour-managed mode, custom DMX fixture types with new 16-bit monochrome channels, Anchor Layers, and faster remote diagnostics collection along with sequencing and RenderStream stability fixes.

Improvements

• DSOF-27510 - Added support for viewing the GUI on non-sRGB / HDR monitors when working in OCIO colour-managed mode.
• DSOF-7641 - DMX Screens now support custom fixture types built from any combination of supported channels, so you can match arbitrary fixture personalities.
• DSOF-32343 - Added 16-bit monochrome (maximum and weighted-sum) channel types for DMX Screens, so all channel types now support both 8- and 16-bit output.
• DSOF-32714 - Added Anchor Layers: lock a layer’s position on the timeline so it can’t be dragged, while still allowing its parameters to be edited.
• DSOF-28790 - When you insert time before the playhead, the playhead now moves with it so the output stays on the same content.
• DSOF-33087 - Expressions now support string comparison equality and inequality (==, !=) as well as lexicographic ordering (<, >, <=, >=).
• DSOF-32846 - Create System Diagnostics on remote machines can now download each machine’s diagnostic zip straight to a folder you choose, instead of collecting them by hand.
• DSOF-32738 - Added MSAA anti-aliasing options to the 2.5D and Stage Render modules.
• DSOF-30790 - Reduced RenderStream Layer (RSL) latency when texture parameters are in use.
• DSOF-33168 - Genlock gain/loss on NVIDIA GPUs (GX 3 and GX 3+) is now detected automatically and reflected in Designer without a manual refresh.
• DSOF-20229 - Timeline Transport Speed Control (Prerelease) change a track’s playback speed via the Transport Manager, MIDI/OSC/DMX event transports, and the /transport/speed API. Enable it by turning on the enableTransportSpeedControl option in the d3Manager Preview tab (requires a restart).

Fixes

• DSOF-33095 - Designer will no longer report a cascade of errors when rendering the Layer Stack GUI (for example, the 2.5D plate editor).
• DSOF-31154 - Luma matte blend modes will no longer affect the entire layer stack above them.
• DSOF-31741 - Designer will no longer report an error during resource transport.
• DSOF-32969 - Designer will no longer report an error during sequence evaluation.
• DSOF-32705 - RenderStream Layer (RSL) streams will no longer jitter when multiple streams are running.
• DSOF-32532 - The HDMI RGB Full/Limited override is now available as a Video Input Patch Editor setting rather than a hidden option switch.
• DSOF-32674 - Saving a layer to the library will no longer flood the console with “Failed to get bandwidth estimation” warnings.
• DSOF-32868 - Bandwidth estimation for arrow texture parameters will now work when the playhead is outside the layer’s range.