Vordio 6.0 Release

Vordio 6 is finally here. There are lots of new & improved features. It has been largely redesigned & rewritten from scratch with completely new UI.

It has taken a lot longer than I thought but pre-releases have been thoroughly tested over the last 6 months, so is now considered stable enough to release officially.

The licensing has had to change a bit. There is now a standard license (£80) & advanced license (£160). A small number of the new features took a disproportionate amount of development time, so I decided to create two pricing levels in order not to penalise the many users who don’t need the advanced features. The standard license is the same price as Vordio 5.x. There is also a grace period (from 1st April 2020) & anyone who bought V5 after this period qualifies for a free upgrade to V6 standard license. Before this upgrades are 50% discount.

New features in Vordio 6

New UI

User interface redesign with separated settings for format specific options
Batch conversions now supported. Input area is a list.
Sequence filtering table when the input format contains multiple sequences

Media Collection

RED footage is now supported for transcoding if you have REDCINE-X PRO installed.
Improved directory scanning for collected media when relinking
Media not collected for empty video items to reduce file size during remote workflow
Support for collecting additional media for reconform with remote workflow

AAF (advanced license required for timelines longer than 3 mins)

AAF is now available as an input format. Output format will come in a later update.
AAF exports from Avid Media Composer & Protools are supported.
AAF with embedded audio is supported.
AAF media can be rewrapped into WAV files with meaningful names.
AAF media can be rewrapped into WAV files with multichannel audio.
AAF external media as WAVs is currently supported. Not as MXF yet but may do in a later update.
AAF external media will be found if it is as same level as the AAF file or a subdirectory.

FCPX XML (.fcpxml)

New improved input converter which now also supports XML v1.9 to accomodate changes apple made in a recent Final Cut Pro update.
FCPX XML is now available as an output format for round tripping audio back to Final Cut Pro.
For 360 video clips – tilt, roll, pan rotation metadata is converted in such as way that this rotation information can be applied to ambisonic plugins in Reaper DAW.
Compound clip sequences in the XML can also be listed as well as the usual project sequences.

FCP XML (.xml)

New converter that maintains track layout as it was in Adobe Premiere.
FCP XML (.xml) is now available as an output format for round tripping back to Premiere.
Better handling of nested sequences and multicam which are now exploded to child tracks.
Better handling of multichannel tracks and clips

REAPER (.RPP)

Clip marker support
REAPER sessions can be reconformed

Adobe Audition (.sesx)

Adobe Audition sessions are now supported as output format as well as input format
Adobe Audition sessions can be reconformed

AES31 (.adl)

Better support for remote workflow when using ADLs with Nuendo

Presonus capture (.capture)

Capture format now supported as an input format

Protools session info (.txt)

Protools session info now supported as an input format. No audio is synced but can still be very useful for converting spotting sessions.

Compare/reconform

Completely new redesigned compare/reconform tools that are more versatile and easier to use
Reel matching presets to handle VFX updates in workflows
Difference stats that include damage estimates which are useful for billing
Better EDGE detection & strategies
Ability to convert EDGEs to MOVEs

Command Line

Vordio can be executed from the command line to convert formats without showing a UI. This can be useful for scripting.
Vordio will remember conversion settings that were created using the UI.