v1.0 – v1.49

v1.0.0 (2026-08-26)

Added: Smoking and tobacco detection, reported as per-shot regulatory advisories (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.278.0 or later)
Added: Semantic search results name the segment that matched (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.278.0 or later)
Added: Analysis Library in the Dashboard — browse, page through and date-filter previous analyses, search them semantically, and deep link into an individual scene
Added: Semantic search across the analysis library: scenes can be found by describing them in natural language (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.277.0 or later)
Added: Characters and the actors playing them are identified per scene, derived from face clustering and the extracted credits
Added: Generated titles for analysed assets (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.275.0 or later)
Added: Analyses can be listed, filtered and paged through over the API (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.275.0 or later)
Added: Speech transcription, available as a transcript and used as context for scene boundaries and scene summaries
Added: Visual transition cues — graphic wipes and fades to and from black — now inform scene boundaries
Added: Credits are read from end-credit sequences and attached to the analysis (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.275.0 or later)
Added: Ad opportunity scoring now accounts for episode position, embedded black frames and score build-up
Added: Scene-by-scene analysis of an encoded asset: every scene with its boundaries and a description, alongside a summary of the asset as a whole
Added: Analysis output in the languages you ask for, not only English (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.238.0 or later)
Added: Scene types — opening credits, recaps, main content, previews, end credits and packaging — classified per scene (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.245.0 or later)
Added: Per-shot detail within each scene: the objects, setting and framing of every shot (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.248.0 or later)
Added: IAB content taxonomy categories for the asset and for each scene (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.253.0 or later)
Added: Scene dynamics: the pace and intensity of each scene (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.256.0 or later)
Added: Automatic ad placement: ad opportunities scored across the asset and placed at scene boundaries, signalled as cue tags in the manifest
Added: A keyframe at every scene boundary, so an ad break can be cut exactly where the scene changes (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.260.0 or later)
Added: Asset title, metadata and a verbose summary in the asset description (available from Bitmovin API SDK v1.262.0 or later)
Fixed: Recap sequences split across neighbouring shots are merged into a single scene
Fixed: Repetitive transcription artefacts are filtered out of transcripts
Fixed: Analyses no longer stall indefinitely during shot detection
Fixed: Usage is reported once per analysis instead of producing duplicate rows
Fixed: Scene boundaries cued by a change in music are preserved instead of being merged away
Fixed: Packaging and bumper sequences are no longer fragmented at black-frame midpoints
Fixed: End-credit detection no longer extends past the credits themselves
Fixed: Dark scenes are no longer mistaken for fades to black, and boundaries lost to that are recovered
Fixed: End credits are kept separate from previews
Fixed: Shot detection no longer hangs on a full frame queue
Fixed: Credit tags in shot summaries are stable across runs
Fixed: Overlays at the head of an asset are no longer mistaken for an opening sequence
Fixed: Scene boundaries at fades to black are placed at the midpoint of the fade
Fixed: Ad breaks signalled by a fade to black are detected through an accompanying audio check
Fixed: Opening sequences and intro bumpers are no longer absorbed into the scene that follows
Fixed: Scene types stay stable where opening credits run over narrative content