What's new?

We're excited to present Pixotope 26.1, featuring significant improvements across XR production, compositing, video monitoring, and everyday operator experience.

New Features

Simplified LED mapping

Setting up an LED volume for XR production involves navigating the complexity of LED geometry, pixel mapping, and output routing.

The new LED mapping panel in Pixotope Director brings the core LED setup tasks into a single, consolidated interface, significantly reducing the time and expertise required to get from physical LED volume to pixel-perfect output.

For XR workflows using Tracking Twin or Manual Twin, the Digital Twin is created and initialized in the Editor as usual - but once that foundation is in place, the LED mapping panel is where the pixel mapping work happens. The visual canvas gives you an immediate, clear picture of your LED bodies and how they relate to each other. From there, mapping each video output to the corresponding section of the wall is a straightforward, visual process - making it obvious at a glance how your physical LED setup connects to Pixotope's rendering system.

For videowall workflows where accurate 3D alignment is not required, the panel covers the full setup flow: arrange and define your LED bodies on the canvas, configure pixel and output mappings, and set up 2D media layers - all without leaving the interface.

Enhanced server failover

The Server failover functionality in Pixotope Graphics is now more capable than ever. Our enhanced Server failover architecture doesn't just maintain redundancy; it delivers complete operational continuity.

When your backup server becomes active, it's not a limited safety net anymore. It has full parity with your primary server, giving you complete control over configuration changes, show file switching, and asset synchronization without missing a beat. Whether your main server experiences unexpected hardware failure or any other outage, the switchover is transparent to your entire team - and completely transparent to your broadcast output.

Powered by redundant Data Hub infrastructure, our improved Server failover ensures that every render machine, service, and operator stays perfectly synchronized.

Simplified video monitoring, anywhere

Monitor every input and output in your Pixotope Graphics system without additional hardware or infrastructure. Enable WebRTC streams at any point in your VideoIO pipeline and view live feeds directly in a web browser - no SDI cards, no proprietary tools required.

Lightweight, instant diagnostics for your video production environment. Perfect for remote monitoring, multi-operator visibility, and troubleshooting across your broadcast workflow.

Improved masking and feathering

Pixotope's compositing toolset for AR, VS, and XR productions has been consolidated and refined. Legacy actors and compositing modes have been removed in favour of a cleaner, purpose-built set of tools.

• AR Holdouts and AR Translucent Holdouts now composite correctly with each other, eliminating blending artifacts when multiple holdout regions sit side by side.

• VS productions benefit from a fully functional Feathering Garbage Matte actor with genuine soft-edge masking, and per-plane feathering controls on the VS Internal Compositing Plane - accessible from both Director and Editor.

• Across all production types, a new screen space holdout blur lets you soften the boundary of any opaque holdout. This makes it straightforward to achieve polished, production-ready edges without complex material setups.

Color matching improvements

Achieving a convincing blend between camera and virtual content depends on accurate color matching across the full brightness range. This release delivers significant improvements - with XR profiles now generating cleaner, more consistent results with fewer artifacts, particularly in dark color ranges.

The Color matching process can now also run fully disconnected from the engine, meaning low engine frame rates no longer affect calibration quality or stability.

Notification center

Stay up-to-date with all system notifications. The Notification center gives you one unified dashboard for all Pixotope Graphics alerts - from diagnostics to critical errors, on your own machine or all systems on the network - so nothing slips through the cracks.

Use intelligent filtering to surface only what matters right now, and take immediate action with built-in response options. When you need to dig deeper, the Recent and History tabs let you track events in real time during your broadcast, then review the full timeline afterwards for quick troubleshooting.

Improved tracking rotation offsets

Enhanced rotation offset handling in camera tracking now enables accurate composition in a wider range of studio environments and virtual production setups.

Video IO

Matrox SDI improvements

The integration of Matrox SDI in videoIO has been improved, updating to the latest driver and removing a known limitation in LTC timecode.

VideoIO maintenance

General maintenance of the videoIO service to ensure optimal performance and video pipeline stability. For supported 3rd party video cards, their corresponding SDKs have been updated to the latest versions (BMD 15.3 and AJA 17.6).

Engine

Broader Unreal Engine plugin support

To better serve our customers and integration partners, we have made changes to our platform to offer broader support for plugins compiled against Epic Games' Unreal Engine - without requiring the sharing of source code or compiling against a specific version of Pixotope. This supports a wider array of plugins available on the Epic Games Marketplace.

Upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.7.4

Integrating the latest minor release from Epic Games into Pixotope Engine.

Pixotope Graphics - Quality of life improvements

Pixotope values its customers and invests time and effort in addressing their feedback, ideas, and requests. Every release, Pixotope dedicates engineering capacity to a curated set of quality-of-life improvements - smaller, targeted changes that reduce friction and make everyday workflows feel more polished and intuitive.

This release includes a range of such improvements across Pixotope Director. A few highlights:

• Clearer engine mode visibility: The Status bar and Status panel now show clear Edit/Preview Live mode indicators, reducing the risk of mode confusion in multi-machine sessions

• Simpler setting of lens encoder limits: For those workflows that only get lens encoder values from the tracking system, a new Listen mode captures encoder min/max values automatically as the operator moves through the lens range - no need for manual entry anymore

• Lens stepper controls refined: Increment button values and ordering in Tracking Offsets > Lens have been corrected for more intuitive and precise adjustments

• Centralized multi-machine management: Pixotope startup and software updates can now be managed across all connected machines simultaneously from a single control panel

• Clearer panel naming: "Camera tracking" and "Tracking" have been renamed to "Camera systems" and "Tracking offsets" to reduce navigation errors during sessions

• Easier force closing/reloading levels: When having unsaved changes on a remote machine, the new force close/reload levels option in the Status panel allow you to discard those remotely

• Check phase offset between LED volume and camera: The Color matching panel now includes a separate step to check if your LED volume and camera are in sync

• Control panel’s new get file list action: This action allows you to populate Dropdowns or Tabs with file names and then using their paths in other actions like play video

Other changes

• The default engine latency has been increased from 3 to 4 frames to improve stability in demanding production environments, while introducing a low-latency mode, allowing you to keep it at 3 frames

• Pixotope Reveal is no longer supported and will be replaced in a future release by a solution offering similar capabilities with greater creative flexibility

• Windows 10 is no longer a tested/supported operating system as of this release

Upgrading to Pixotope 26.1

Changelog

1. Log in to the user section of the → Pixotope Cloud 

2. Go to Downloads

Known bugs and limitations