Optimizing Finishing and VFX workflows in Flame
Flame 2024 optimizes desktop, hybrid, and cloud finishing solutions and puts new, creative tools in Artists’ hands for a familiar and uncompromising experience. A new metadata overlay feature lets artists view shot metadata in context, directly in the Flame viewer UI, providing easier monitoring and tracking of shots when collaborating across teams. Flame now runs natively on Apple Silicon, giving you access to the newest technology. VFX and Paint workflows have also been strengthened, improving collaboration, increasing productivity, and enhancing the stability of your work.
What's New
- New hub capabilities support artists’ definable VFX shot Start Frame metadata, streamlining workflows, and better facilitating collaboration, regardless of the toolset used.
- Artists can leverage a new content-aware overlay menu to display clip metadata in context in the Flame viewer UI, save presets, and share them, allowing for rapid, in-context viewing of current segment metadata. Additionally, multiple options have been added to the Burn-In Metadata tool, including Start Frame, Handles, Timeline FX, and Batch Iteration, to boost productivity and support more complex workflows.
- Batch Paint, one of the most widely used tools, is updated with the ability to apply changes to multiple strokes at once and track strokes directly within the Paint node. Other improvements include definable brush presets, a preference to set the default status of the Consolidate option, a cleaner user interface showing all controls, and increased stability, all aimed at improving the artist experience.
- The Flame Family of products now runs natively on the latest Mac computers and operating systems, enabling artists to harness the power of the latest generation hardware and software.
Start Frame Improvements
The Clips and Timeline segments source media start and end values now show a dedicated value instead of showing the output of a converted timecode value; they now have their own Start Frame metadata. This Start Frame is decoupled from the timecode value that can be set inside the application.
Player
You can now overlay clip information (metadata for short) over the image in the Player, in a fashion similar to Burn-in Metadata FX, but without having to manage a Timeline FX on a gap.
Embracing post-production in the cloud
Extending cloud-enabled finishing capabilities introduced last year, the latest Flame updates reduce complexity for customers collaborating in the cloud, and help studios meet increased demand during production spikes. With recently announced support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Digital Interface (CDI), which allows users to move uncompressed video between AWS instances, Flame enables high-quality, low-latency reference monitoring when working in the cloud. Flame AWS users can transmit 8-bit, 10-bit, and 12-bit video signals with audio, accommodating better reference display and viewing needs for the most demanding projects virtually anywhere in the world. Paired with a supported streaming solution, signals can be sent to multiple devices, enabling remote work and collaboration with fellow artists and review stakeholders.
More capabilities
Additionally, Flame is qualified for use with LucidLink and Hammerspace cloud-based storage solutions, further empowering customers to move their productions to the cloud.
To learn more about Flame 2024, see the full release notes.