Below is a diagram showing the hierarchy of components in the Flame Premium project structure. The example below is shown without any changes to the User Interface preferences and with a Lustre project automatically created. For the purposes of illustration, a second Workspace, additional shared libraries, and sample contents of the Default Library have been added.
Each project could contain an unlimited number of Workspaces, which each comprise a protected hierarchy of components accessible to a single user.
Project Structure
Each Flame Premium project is organized as follows:
- Project
- The entire creative finishing project containing all Workspaces and shared libraries.
- Workspace
- A new Workspace is automatically generated upon creating a new project. If the project is already created and in use and another artist connects to that project from another system, another Workspace will be generated to avoid conflicting saves and operations. Workspaces can never be explicitly created by a user, but existing Workspaces can be selected between at the start-up screen.
- The Workspace itself is divided into two components: the Desktop and the Libraries folder. The Desktop and Libraries folder is specific to the Workspace. To make material available to another Workspace, use the Shared Libraries folder described below.
- Shared Libraries
- The Shared Libraries folder is common to all Workspaces in the project. All files in a shared library can be viewed and accessed by all other users in the same project. Though a shared library can be written to and read from, clips cannot be edited there: all clips must be first moved to the Desktop or a local library in order to perform any editing operations.
- A shared library can contain clips, sequences, folders, reels, Batch groups and iterations, and even complete saved Desktops.
- The Lustre library is special shared library for colour-grading operations and is only available if Create Lustre Project was enabled in the Lustre settings during the creation of the project.
- Desktop
- The Desktop is the creative work bench of the program, containing:
- A separate Batch group for all compositions, each of which contain a Batch Shelf and an Iterations folder (if shown). The Batch Shelf contains the Batch Renders reel and all Shelf reels. The Iterations folder contains all saved iterations and their associated reels.
- All Reel groups (if created), which contain reels for storing media on the Desktop outside of Batch.
- Libraries
- The storage area of the Workspace containing the Default library and any other individual user-created libraries. Each library can contain any combination of the following:
- Clips
- Folders
- Reels
- Batch groups
- Batch iterations
- Saved Desktops