Flame Family 2019.2 Update Release Notes

Essential Links

Flame Family Link Hub	https://area.autodesk.com/flame-central/
Flame Learning Channel Videos	https://www.youtube.com/user/FlameHowTos
What's New in Flame Family 2019.2 Update	What's New in 2019.2 Update
System Requirements for Flame Family (includes DKU download link)	http://www.autodesk.com/flame-sysreqs
Licenses and Release Download links	https://manage.autodesk.com/ Note: Open the Updates and Add-ons tab for Update release versions. Managing Users & Permissions: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/account-management/subscription-management/users-permissions
Download Backburner & Open Clip Creator Utility	https://apps.autodesk.com (Search for Backburner or Open Clip Creator)
Contact Flame Family Support	https://www.autodesk.com/flame-support

Additional Information for macOS

Version 2019.2 Update supports macOS Mojave (10.14).

It also supports AJA driver 14.2.1 and its associated firmware. Both are available form AJA's website.

Benefits of the new driver:

Enables support for the AJA io4K plus on the Mac.
Enables support for the new transfer 2SI (2 sample interleave) mode for UHD and 4K timings.

Note: Prior versions of Flame Family can run with the new AJA driver and firmware, but do not support the 2 sample interleave enabled by driver 14.2.1, therefore cannot obtain HDMI 4K/UHD output. To downgrade to the previous version of the AJA drivers:

Go to AJA website (Support/Download section)
Select Software Archive
Download and install AJA Software Installer V13.0

Additional Information for Linux

New DKU Required for 2019.2 Update

Note: The DKU is now installed in /opt/Autodesk/DKU.

Version 2019.2 Update requires the installation of DKU version 13.2.0 on all Linux workstations. You can download it from the System Requirements page at http://www.autodesk.com/flame-sysreqs.

This DKU contains:

New NVidia driver 390.87 for currently supported graphics cards (Q6000, K6000, M6000, P6000)
CentOS 7.4 support on the HP Z820
A new BIOS for all HP workstations:
- Z8 G4 v1.67
- Z840/440 v2.46
- Z820 v3.94
- Dell T9720 v1.5.7 and R7920 v1.4.9
New AJA driver 14.2.1 and firmware
- The firmware must be installed manually using the AJA Firmware Update tool.
- Enables support for the new transfer 2SI (2 sample interleave) mode for UHD and 4K timings.

Note: Prior versions of Flame Family can run with the new AJA driver and firmware, but do not support the 2 sample interleave enabled by driver 14.2.1, therefore cannot obtain HDMI 4K/UHD output. You can revert to the previous AJA driver and firmware by following the instructions listed here .

Updates to Hardware Support

New Supported Hardware

We have certified the new Eizo CG319-4K graphics monitor for use with certified Linux workstations.

Early Notification of End of Support for Nvidia Quadro Q6000 Graphics Cards

Version 2019 and its update releases will be the last version of Flame, Flame Assist, Flare and Lustre to support the Quadro Q6000 model of Nvidia graphics cards. As new features are developed and software drivers are updated, eventually older hardware cannot be supported.

Some early Z820 workstations running Flame family products used the Q6000: those workstations will require upgraded hardware (K6000) for future versions of Flame family products.

Autodesk Network License Manager Update

Flame Family 2019 version and later requires the Autodesk Network License Manager to be updated to the latest version. This Network License Manager version is fully compatible with the Flame Family applications version 2018 and up.

See the following links for more information:

For more details about the license model in Flame Family products, see Products & licenses.

Note: This update affects applications licensed using Multi-User (license server), and no action is required for applications licensed using Single User on macOS.

Legacy Hardware End of Support Notifications

HP Z800 workstations are not qualified as of the Flame Family 2019 release. Customers who own this hardware and wish to maintain the Flame experience (fast, productive) should upgrade to new hardware.
NVIDIA SDI Out (via daughter card) is no longer supported on any hardware configuration as of the Flame Family 2019 release. NVIDIA does not support this hardware anymore, and the equivalent functionality is possible through AJA Kona 4 hardware.

To summarize:

As of the Flame Family 2019 release:

HP Z840 and Z440 workstations remain certified and supported.
HP Z820 remains supported as a legacy workstation.
HP Z800 second generation will be removed from Legacy support as of the Flame Family 2019 release.

Not supported:

HP Z800 second generation (all remaining Z800 workstations) end of support as of Flame Family 2019 release.
NVIDIA SDI Out via Daughter card is no longer supported

For an up-to-date list off all certified and vendor self-qualified hardware, see http://www.autodesk.com/flame-sysreqs.

Flame Family 2019.2 Update Fixed Bugs List

Components	Issue key	Summary
Action Analyzer	SMOK-49379	Grid points do not update in realtime during their manipulation.
Action Camera	SMOK-48765	Gestural camera moves cannot be made after the Analyzer's analysis has been made in a multiple viewport configuration or with a broadcast monitor enabled.
Action General	SMOK-41018	The application crashes when separating a 3D Text with a trailing whitespace.
Action General	SMOK-48398	It is not possible to select and modify the tangents of an Axis Path on a Mac Retina display.
Action General	SMOK-49081	A 3D model can disappear using a combination of 3D Path, LookAt Link and Software Anti-Alisasing.
Action General	SMOK-49247	When modifying the Matchbox Curves or Profile Curves in 3D Text or 3D Shape, the tangents get reset after de-selecting the curve.
Action General	SMOK-49572	Adding an Action render layer after using a GMask inside the indirect Modular Keyer crashes the application.
Action General	SMOK-49626	Deleting an output from a GMask Tracer node in a Modular Keyer MBlend or CBlend group causes the application to crash.
Action GMask Tracer	SMOK-46084	The GMask priority is not correctly saved when it is animated.
Action Rendering	SMOK-35038	Action widgets are offset in Batch FX if the clip resolution differs from the project resolution.
Action Selective	SMOK-48936	The application crashes when a Axis node is inserted between a Camera/Surface and a Selective.
Action Trackers	SMOK-49673	It is not possible to enter a value above 100,000.00 in the Shift X and Shift Y settings for the Stabilizer / Tracker.
Archive	SMOK-49507	Restoring a Flame/Lustre project archive does not show Lustre grading decisions.
AVIO	SMOK-23405	The Scrub Audio keyboard shortcuts conflict with the Invert Snap Mode During Manipulation keyboard shortcut.
AVIO	SMOK-48901	When selecting the Side-by-Side view, the Broadcast monitor shows a slight difference compared to other views.
AVIO	SMOK-48946	Lot of retries are seen when outputting clips to HDCAM-SR VTR using AJA ioXT / io4K cards.
AVIO	SMOK-49436	The application crashes after re-entering VTR Capture a second time from the Conform tab.
Batch General	SMOK-48546	The application crashes when the Undo keyboard shortcut is used in the Matchbox's Change Shader browser.
Batch General	SMOK-48719	A Denoise's Analysis box size is affected by other Denoise nodes present on another Timeline segment's Batch FX.
Batch General	SMOK-48877	The name of the alpha channel of a clip rendered in Batch no longer shows _alpha.
Batch General	SMOK-49079	The Player button is missing after a Batch setup is rendered if you visited an Action indirect module before rendering.
Batch General	SMOK-49080	The application crashes when you click on the Delete button of an Action indirect module after a Batch setup was rendered.
Batch General	SMOK-49609	Keyboard shortcuts no longer works in the Notepad.
Batch General	SMOK-49669	Source and Record Timecode informations can be wrong on a clip rendered in Batch when both Range Offset and Include History are enabled.
Batch General	SMOK-49689	A clip rendered in Batch is offset by 1 frame when it is rendered with the format set to Multi-Channel, a Render Range and Inclue History enabled.
BFX	SMOK-49271	The application crashes when you copy a Batch FX that contains a Render or Write File node to another timeline segment.
BFX	SMOK-49330	The application crashes when you try to add a Batch FX Adjustment Layer while the incoming or outgoing side of a transition is selected.
Burn / Background Reactor	SMOK-49286	Batch setups are not created for a Write File node with Include Setup enabled when the rendering is sent to Burn or Background Reactor.
Colour Management	SMOK-48694	The Colour Management Shared Path points to an invalid location.
Colour Management	SMOK-48993	Exporting/Publishing with Link Media and View Transform enabled will show an error about a missing colour transform.
Conform	SMOK-49014	An AAF with empty locators exported from Avid Interplay cannot be imported in a Flame Family product.
Conform	SMOK-49423	Mixed frame rate sources coming from Adobe Premiere do not conform correctly when they are timewarped.
Conform	SMOK-49708	When using Link To Media Files option in Conform View, a file scanning abort error message is displayed.
Connected Colour Workflow / Lustre Interopability	SMOK-49045	Wrong result when loading a mono Grade Bin preset with Batch FX to a Stereo 3D grade.
Creative Tools	SMOK-48836	The application crashes when a setup with the Roll rendering option set is loaded in an indirect Stabilizer.
Creative Tools	SMOK-49372	Two vertices are created with a single click when you create a new GMask in the GMask node.
Data Management	SMOK-41496	When exporting a Stereo 3D sequence using Foreground Export, the Left right media is exported when Right media is the archive track.
Data Management	SMOK-48708	Media caching cannot be completed when Preferred Format is set to an Avid DNxHR format.
Data Management	SMOK-48975	Text effects are not correctly created when conforming an AAF from the Windows version of Avid Media Composer.
Data Management	SMOK-49162	When exporting a sequence as FCP X XML (XML Only), segments with filename ending with a number show an incomplete path.
Data Management	SMOK-49242	Duplicated file path when exporting a sequence as FCP X XML.
Data Management	SMOK-49274	The application shell shows VREF related error messages when a project is deleted.
Data Management	SMOK-49578	The Timecode of audio clips coming from Adobe Premiere do not conform correctly when their source fps differs from their sequence fps.
Desktop & Reels	SMOK-49326	Half of the markers disappear when you gesturally cut a clip in the Desktop Reels.
Effects Tab	SMOK-48872	The Image Object view is not showing the proper result when the Storyboard view is also displayed on its left.
Effects Tab	SMOK-48907	Auto Select On Stop doesn't work properly when the Timeline FX pipeline is set to Source mode.
HDR Colour Tools	SMOK-49332	The application crashes when deleting all points of a curve in MasterGrade.
Installation and Packaging	SMOK-49234	A Flame Family application cannot be started if a flame_archive process is running.
LUSTRE: Animation Editor	SMOK-48759	The Animation Editor selection is lost when navigating to the first frame of a timeline segment starting at a different location than content located on top track.
LUSTRE: AVIO	SMOK-47908	The AJA SDI output is disabled during rendering.
LUSTRE: AVIO	SMOK-49033	When using LTC timecode output, the timecode will be outputted from the last selected channel and not the current one.
LUSTRE: Background Render	SMOK-49368	Rendering is not accurate when using Shot Reactor with content part of a dissolve transition with Input LUT or CTF.
LUSTRE: Colour Grading	SMOK-48659	In the Animation Editor, the Geom is selected instead of the Axis if the previous selection was a vertex.
LUSTRE: Colour Grading	SMOK-49346	RGBCMY Curves rotation knobs are inverted on the Tangent Arc, Wave and Element panels.
LUSTRE: Colour Grading	SMOK-49627	Lustre produces incorrect results for CDLs when Pre Input is selected
LUSTRE: Colour Secondaries	SMOK-49023	Adding a point to a shape changes the Tracker assigned points.
LUSTRE: Colour Tools	SMOK-47811	A wrong image conversion is visible on the SDI output when loading a Grade Bin still from the Editing/Browse menu.
LUSTRE: Colour Tools	SMOK-47839	The Lustre Split View mode is displaying only one playhead while in Large Storyboard view.
LUSTRE: Colour Tools	SMOK-47897	Wrong image conversion when saving a Grade Bin preset while the viewer is set to Still Store view (S).
LUSTRE: Colour Tools	SMOK-48812	Applying SDL/CDL data from an EDL does not work with Multi-Channel clips.
LUSTRE: Export	SMOK-44385	The Export tokens are not saved in File Naming when added with the Token menu.
LUSTRE: Hardware, OS, and DKU	SMOK-48646	On CentOS 7.4, the Previous/Next Frame keys (right ALT and CTRL keys) do not work.
LUSTRE: Metadata	SMOK-48545	The record frame number counter does not show the right information when looking at a Multi-channel clip with handles.
LUSTRE: Render	SMOK-48754	The One Sequence render mode stops if the sequence contains multiple video tracks and the content located on the bottom track does not start at the same location as the segment on the top track.
LUSTRE: Render	SMOK-49320	When using Shot Reactor, rendering result is not as expected if the grade contains Multi-Channel clips with mattes that have 'matte' for pixel layout.
LUSTRE: Render	SMOK-49691	Generating proxy media for Containers, Matte Containers and Multi-Channel clips does generate media for the whole duration of the source media instead of the duration of the segments.
LUSTRE: Stereo	SMOK-49345	The Reposition module cannot be accessed when Stereo Sync is disabled.
LUSTRE: Timeline	SMOK-48052	When working with multiple video tracks cut with overlapping segments of different durations, Point/Shape Tracker analysis stops at the location of the starting segment on lower track.
LUSTRE: Timeline	SMOK-49552	Grading decisions are not correctly applied when performing a Change Cut with a pre-assembled sequence using Source matching option.
LUSTRE: Tools	SMOK-48114	The pixel analyzer's average function does not provide the right result.
LUSTRE: Views and Multiviews	SMOK-42714	When in Multiview, selecting shots and pressing F6 crashes Lustre.
LUSTRE: Views and Multiviews	SMOK-45981	Refresh issue when using Multi-View .
LUSTRE: Wiretap	SMOK-38138	Single frame clip imported from Wiretap might be seen as corrupted when seen in Lustre.
Matchbox/Lightbox	SMOK-47849	The Effect channel is not visible in the Animation channel editor.
Matchbox/Lightbox	SMOK-47870	Numeric fields do not update during scrubbing in the Effects tab when another view than Result is displayed.
Matchbox/Lightbox	SMOK-49374	The application crashes when a Matchbox shader that is missing a pass is loaded.
Media Import/Export	SMOK-48506	A Sequence Publish made for a clip with Timewarp FX that do not have handles does not show the expected result in the re-imported published sequence.
Media Panel	SMOK-49367	The application crashes when you delete a Shared Library while a Player view is displayed.
MediaHub Import/Export	SMOK-49349	Exporting an EDL with the Use Long Tape Name option enabled creates an invalid EDL.
MediaHub Import/Export	SMOK-49369	Multi-Channel files with single channel layer (like Depth) from Cinema 4D (R19) show alpha channel as black media.
MediaHub Import/Export	SMOK-49412	Slow MediaHub update when browsing Multi-Versions Photoshop files (PSD) with the Pattern Browsing mode enabled.
MediaHub Import/Export	SMOK-49782	Incorrect color related metadata in QuickTime ProRes files exportes from Flame Family products.
MediaHub Import/Export	SMOK-49832	The application crashes when exporting Sony XAVC VBR in a MXF container.
Paint Tools	SMOK-48520	Batch Paint's canvas rotation is too fast when performed using the keyboard shortcut.
Player	SMOK-17781	Playback of a clip in another application than Flame will momentarily freeze every few seconds if Flame runs in the background.
Player	SMOK-49236	Timeline Markers are not selected within the Markers view when the Go to Previous / Next Markers keyboard shortcuts are used.
Project / Preferences & Hotkey Management	SMOK-45334	The "Use OS Settings" preference is not working properly on macOS.
Project / Preferences & Hotkey Management	SMOK-48608	Action's Auto Insert preference is not persistent from one Action node to the next.
Python API	SMOK-49396	The find_by_wiretap_node_id function does not return PyBatch and PyFolder objects.
Python API	SMOK-49632	It is not possible to create a Light link from a shader to a surface with the Python API.
Scopes	SMOK-48729	The Scopes View's is not updated when the viewing transform of the broadcast monitor is changed and Sync with Broadcast is selected.
Shotgun	SMOK-49144	Shots are created for only one sequence in Shotgun when multiple clips are exported.
Stone and Wire	SMOK-38616	Playback is impacted when Background Reactor jobs are being rendered.
Timeline	SMOK-48914	Colours in a Text Timeline FX are clamped when working with Scene-Linear/ACEScg material.
Timeline	SMOK-49618	Values of an Action Timeline FX can be tripled when the segment, clip and project resolution all differs.
Timeline	SMOK-49664	The source channel information is missing in the information box of an audio segment that has a Timeline FX applied.
UI	SMOK-49226	Selecting a node in the Modular Keyer's Schematic view can result in another node being deleted if your Broadcast Monitor is displaying the Schematic view.
UI	SMOK-49401	The application crashes when an input / destination cursor is called.
Views and Multiviews	SMOK-48607	The status of the View menu's Filtering option is not persisted between sessions.
Views and Multiviews	SMOK-48698	Zooming in a viewport using the mouse scroll wheel doesn't work when the Colour Sampler is active.
Warper / Distort	SMOK-49687	The first keyframe of the Distort's Offset channel is always set on frame one even though the Batch Group starts at another value.
Wiretap Central	SMOK-25940	Modifications done to audio content in Flame Family projects are not seen when exporting content using Wiretap Central.

Flame Family 2019.2 Update Known Bug List

Components	Issue key	Summary	Workaround
Action Selective	SMOK-49135	In a Surface Selective Matchbox FX in Batch, the Animation Expressions stop after clip duration ends.	Two options for workaround. # Bake the expression into a curve and than the results on screen start behaving as expected. # Supply enough footage on the clip for the duration of the composite and you can keep the live expression and it updates in the result view.
Action Textures	SMOK-49229	The Multi Material texture on 3D objects does not work with PBS Map.
Effects Tab	SMOK-49821	Thumbnails in the Effects tab's Storyboard View and Storyboard Reel are black when Render Effects is disabled in the User Interface Preferences.
Effects Tab	SMOK-49843	Edges can appear if the layers in which the Light Wrap is applied have Axis value in X or Y that are sub-pixels.	Set Axis value to rounded pixel value.
Installation and Packaging	SMOK-49786	PHP is not enabled by default on macOS 10.14.x, making the localhost access forbidden on Safari.	manually enable php in the file /etc/apache2/httpd and restart httpd
MediaHub Import/Export	SMOK-49797	If you have a file structure made of content with the same name but with different parent folder names, pattern browsing will not create multiple clips.
Paint Tools	SMOK-49880	In Batch Paint, Drag mode does not work in a Sequence Range when Consolidate is on.
Timeline	SMOK-49668	The information box doesn't update when you move the cursor with the Wacom stylus while it doesn't touch the tablet.
UI	SMOK-49534	The swipe bars no longer work when you switch back form another application to Flame by clicking in the Flame user interface.	Switch back to Flame using the Command-Tab shortcut.