The Flare workflow is based on shared libraries. Any media placed in the shared libraries becomes accessible to remote workstations that connect to the project. Shared libraries enable Flame and Flare to quickly and conveniently share media, allowing you to spend more time on creative tasks and less time managing your media.
Placing media in a shared library automatically grants read access to any remote workstations connected to the project. The Flare operator can access the media and start working immediately after connecting to the Flame project. Once finished, the Flare operator needs to save the resulting media back to the shared library. To do this he must acquire exclusive access.
Exclusive access locks the library so that only the user having acquired exclusive access can modify the library contents (i.e. write to the library). Read access is still available to other remote workstations connected to the project. Once the media is saved, the user can release exclusive access, enabling other remote workstations to obtain exclusive access and modify the content.
To acquire exclusive access:
To release exclusive access:
You can open and close shared libraries. Closing shared libraries turns off access to the media within the shared libraries as well as freeing up your system memory.
To open / close shared libraries:
The content of shared libraries is automatically refreshed every 60 seconds. You can customize this interval in the user preferences (in the General tab). You can also manually refresh the content of shared libraries, to make sure you have access to all the shared media.
To manually refresh the content of shared libraries:
The content of the selected shared library is updated.