Flame Family 2019.1 Update Release Notes

Welcome to the 2019.1 Update release of the following Flame Family products (July 25, 2018):

Contents

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 2019.1 Update What's New in 2019.1 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

Support for New Hardware Platforms

DELL Precision 7920 Rack Workstation

BOXX APEXX W5 Workstation

New DKU Required for 2019.1 Update

Version 2019.1 Update requires the installation of DKU version 13.1.0 on all Linux workstations. This DKU contains:

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

The DKU can be downloaded from the System Requirements page at http://www.autodesk.com/flame-sysreqs.

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

To summarize:

As of the Flame Family 2019 release:

Not supported:

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

Flame Family 2019.1 Update Fixed Bugs List

Component Key Summary
Action Camera SMOK-48621 The Camera Fog settings are not getting initialized correctly.
Action General SMOK-43494 When there are existing keyframes, Reset Shape does not work in an extended bicubic Surface node.
Action General SMOK-45083 An incorrect user interface is displayed after using ALT + double-click on an Image object in the Schematic.
Action General SMOK-46561 The GMask Active button has no effect if linked to an Action Selective.
Action General SMOK-46653 Using the Axis path spline to animate an object will not contribute to the motion vector data of that axis.
Action General SMOK-46844 If you track the axis of a GMask that has a GMask link connection, using Edit Offset will incorrectly reposition the GMask.
Action General SMOK-46961 In the Selective Diamond Keyer, moving and zooming the Hue Cube is not interactive.
Action General SMOK-47599 Useless "Exceeding texture pool limits" messages are displayed in the terminal.
Action General SMOK-47871 The application crashes when a Perspective Grid is parented to a Camera node.
Action General SMOK-47879 The Axis' widget manipulator can still be moved after it is snapped to an Analyzer point.
Action General SMOK-48110 The Colour Sampler isn't providing the right colour values when the Action viewport is set to 3D view.
Action General SMOK-48424 Loading an Action setup containing an undone subdivided surface can result in a crash.
Action General SMOK-48811 The application may crash copying an Action schematic tree that has Look At links.
Action Geometries SMOK-48291 The application crashes when a FBX file is imported and all the buttons under the Objects section are disabled.
Action Post-processing (Relighting) SMOK-47895 On the Mac platform, Action Shadow Cast intermittently stops working.
Action Rendering SMOK-42260 3D Shadows flicker when orbiting the camera.
Action Rendering SMOK-46361 Batch FX stays rendered after modifying a node upstream from Action and using a Back Clip.
Action Rendering SMOK-47240 Action's Back Input does not propagate invalidation in Batch FX after using Undo.
Action Selective SMOK-48254 GMasks linked to a Surface Selective are not getting their transform positions updated when the Surface Axis is modified.
Action Textures SMOK-48645 Shadow does not update with animated masks if there is a Diffuse Map, which is part of a Surface Selective FX.
Archive SMOK-48703 An error message is displayed when restoring an archive containing RGBA PNG media files.
AVIO SMOK-45518 Audio cannot be heard during playback when the broadcast monitor is set to DV-I / HDMI and the audio is set to AJA.
AVIO SMOK-47596 The 29.976p timing is not available when creating a project.
AVIO SMOK-47769 Quad SDI Preview with Blackmagic Design UltraStudio card does not work.
AVIO SMOK-47906 HDMI output is set to UHDTV when the 4K DCI resolution is selected.
AVIO SMOK-48572 VTR Input does not work in the 2017.1 version after installing the 2019 release on the same workstation.
Batch General SMOK-48229 Framing a Compass or a selected node doesn't work properly on a HiDPI / Retina monitor.
Batch General SMOK-48489 The application crashes when you select an Action node set on the Analyzer menu and a Blur node set on Defocus mode was previously selected.
Batch General SMOK-48680 Keyframes are shifted in time when you have a GMask Tracer node inside a Modular Keyer located on an Action layer.
Batch General SMOK-48725 The wrong source clip is loaded with a Batch setup when a source originating from the same clip is present in your Desktop.
Batch Groups SMOK-48000 The application crashes when you use the "Replace" option while loading a faulty / corrupted Batch setup.
Batch Import / Export and Gateway SMOK-48322 The Change Path file browser does not show the currently defined Media Path location by default in the Write File node.
BFX SMOK-47762 A Batch FX name is not correct if the Timeline segment it is applied on has a dynamic token in its name.
BFX SMOK-47875 The Broadcast viewport monitor selection defaults to left viewport on BFX creation even when the Schematic view is selected in that viewport.
BFX SMOK-47996 The application crashes when you create another Batch FX on a BFX timeline segment while the current timeline selection is an audio segment.
Colour Management SMOK-48392 The Colour Management viewing rule is not properly bypassed in the Broadcast Monitor when you go back to a Player with its colour management set to Bypass.
Colour Management SMOK-48420 Enabling Resize on a Batch Render node changes the display of a View Transform in a project set to use Simple Linear Workflow as its Colour Policy.
Colour Management SMOK-48674 When working in Legacy Colour Policy, only the Viewing transform matching the content's Colour Space tagging is available.
Colour Management SMOK-48693 An error message is displayed when using Technicolor Cinestyle Rec. 709 transform in a Viewing Rule.
Conform SMOK-41481 The X and Y position are wrong when conforming a FCP XML with content of a different resolution than the resolution of the sequence.
Conform SMOK-47628 Similar vertically stacked content with Timewarp FX in multiple sequences might be seen as duplicated in Shots Sequence even if they share the same media.
Conform SMOK-48452 The application crashes when you use a Matte Container to relink a timeline segment preceded by multiple gaps.
Conform SMOK-48763 The Filter Locked Tracks option is not honored the first time you enter the Conform tab.
Conform SMOK-48839 Syncing Connected Segments on virtual media changes the duration of the segments if different.
Connected Colour Workflow SMOK-47959 When using Connected Colour Workflow between Lustre and Flame, anamorphic content is not correctly displayed.
Connected Colour Workflow SMOK-48913 Modifying a Stereoscopic Batch effect from Lustre crashes Flame if the original grade was created on monoscopic content.
Control Panels SMOK-48822 Switching the Lustre Bypass function using the Tangent Element panel doesn't update the SDI Preview output.
Data Management SMOK-42635 The wrong Workspace is selected by default when converting a project.
Data Management SMOK-48257 The Source Timecode of grouped clips might be seen as 00:00:00:00 when conforming AAF sequences from Avid Media Composer.
Documentation SMOK-48784 Accessing the online help from Flare or Flame Assist leads to an URL 404 - Page not found.
Effects Tab SMOK-48279 It is not possible to click on the first Timeline FX within the TL FX Pipeline when Text and Sparks are currently selected.
Matchbox/Lightbox SMOK-38883 Matchbox shaders using multiple passes are crashing if starting at pass number 0.
Matchbox/Lightbox SMOK-47974 Storyboard thumbnails in the Effects tab do not update when using PhysicalGlare.
Media Import / Export SMOK-48204 Playback of single parts Open EXR media files with lot of channels is very slow.
Media Import / Export SMOK-48365 The application may crash when playing back a Targa file sequence in which only the first frame has an alpha channel.
Media Import / Export SMOK-48867 QuickTime files encoded with Avid DnxHD/HR codecs cannot be consolidated when imported in Avid Media Composer.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-45429 When working with R3D or ARRIRAW media files, enabling / disabling From Files settings does not show the expected result.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-48126 Background export of clips with a 1:1 width:height ratio and a crop edges resize applied can create artifacts on the edge of the exported clip.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-48275 The application may crash when browsing Pixspan encoded media files.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-48739 When exporting a sequence using the Link Media option, the handles of the segments are exported.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-48764 The Colour Space information of a clip is missing from the export hook asset info dictionary.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-48783 Exporting 16-bit floating point content to Apple ProRes format may cause a gamut error when Include YUV Headroom option is disabled.
Open Clips SMOK-48075 The Open Clip Creator --comment option does not work.
Paint Tools SMOK-45024 Snap To Grid is no longer working in Desktop Paint.
Paint Tools SMOK-48063 Batch Paint's Offset numeric fields aren't updated properly when set with the calculator and reset using Ctrl-click.
Paint Tools SMOK-48396 It is not possible to paint only on the Batch Paint Matte Output.
Player SMOK-47952 Overlays are not pixel accurate when the image in the Player is zoomed.
Project and User Management SMOK-48145 Starting a Flame Family application from a shell / terminal using an effective group ID different than the primary group does not create the project with the right group ID.
Project and User Management SMOK-48230 When using Wiretap SD, the wiretap_create_node command is limited to the first 64 OS groups.
Project and User Management SMOK-48906 Wrong colour levels when rendering content when Avid DNxHD/HR is selected as Preferred Format for Autodesk Storage.
Pybox SMOK-48169 Applying a Pybox Timeline FX to a Gap on a sequence with multiple segments may take a long time.
Pybox SMOK-48177 The wrong effect is shown when applying a Pybox on segments separated by a transition other than a cut.
Scopes SMOK-48562 The Player's Scopes are flickering when you move the cursor over the Timeline canvas.
Shotgun SMOK-48311 Thumbnails do not appear in the different Shotgun windows accessed from a Flame Family application (macOS only).
Stone and Wire SMOK-48673 Media Export can't be completed on system with multiple un-mounted media partitions.
Timeline SMOK-47923 Using the calculator workflow to change a transition duration reverts the transition alignment to the default value set in the Preferences.
Timeline SMOK-48227 When using Stereo Toolbox, animated Convergence does not produce a smooth result.
Timeline SMOK-48296 An Action Timeline FX can be unrendered the first time it is being displayed in the Player if it using a different colour space than in the Timeline, or a colour space that is not supported in Action.
Timeline SMOK-48352 The application crashes when slipping or sliding an audio segment with 2 Timeline FX that do not have the same amount of channels.
Timeline SMOK-48543 Consolidated timeline segments with Timeline FX rendered using the Render Handles setting show wrong last frame.
Timeline SMOK-48706 When matching a Matte Container using the Include Nested Content option, the matte channel clip is not matched.
Timeline SMOK-48878 Changing the open clip version of a Timeline segment may result in other segments renders being wrongfully invalidated.
Timeline SMOK-48982 The application may crash entering a BFX fed by a Timewarp Timeline FX set in Motion interpolation mode.
UI SMOK-43071 The Regrain and Degrain sliders are not properly displayed on Retina and HiDPI monitors.
Views and Multiviews SMOK-47845 The Viewing's Widget Display setting is not persisted correctly between sessions.
Views and Multiviews SMOK-47977 The cursor does remains the hand icon after you are finished panning the image in a Matchbox node viewport.
LUSTRE: Animation Editor SMOK-48053 Moving keyframes in the Animation Editor may crash the application.
LUSTRE: Background Render SMOK-47165 The Shot Reactor status is not correctly refreshed when all rendering jobs are completed.
LUSTRE: Background Render SMOK-48276 Shot Reactor does not render Stereoscopic content in the right order.
LUSTRE: Background Render SMOK-48397 The Lustre Shot Reactor service may become offline randomly.
LUSTRE: Colour Grading SMOK-47939 Resetting a grade turns the Secondary Show button off.
LUSTRE: Colour Grading SMOK-48034 Performing a Change Cut using Record timecode with Multi-Channel content does not show the right result.
LUSTRE: Colour Grading SMOK-48691 LUT/Colour Transform applied in Image/Transcode menu is not correctly applied when using Batch.
LUSTRE: Colour Secondaries SMOK-48018 Wrong image conversion when enabling Still Store view from the Large Grade Bin.
LUSTRE: Colour Secondaries SMOK-48502 The Secondary Link option is incorrectly processed when linking a secondary layer with a matte and secondary layer with an inverted geom.
LUSTRE: Colour Secondaries SMOK-48705 Effects not applied correctly when using inverted external matte.
LUSTRE: Colour Secondaries SMOK-49044 Channels from a Multi-Channel clip used for Secondary grading are not correctly connected after using Batch.
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-48116 Wring animation is applied when loading a Grade Bin preset on a Multi-Channel segment.
LUSTRE: Colour Tools SMOK-48137 Animation is not correctly reset when coping non animated plugin with the Selector.
LUSTRE: Playback SMOK-48503 Lustre might crash when toggling the A/B playheads between two shots with different resolutions.
LUSTRE: Processing Tools SMOK-48501 Dissolve transitions are not correctly processed when using external matte in Stereo 3D grade.
LUSTRE: Render SMOK-44437 Content rendered through multiple Shot Reactor nodes might not show the media with the selected output colour transform.
LUSTRE: Render SMOK-48267 Matte Container imported from Wiretap server are not correctly displayed in Batch when opened from Lustre.
LUSTRE: Render SMOK-48689 Error message when rendering grade to Flame Family Library.
LUSTRE: Stereo SMOK-48317 Loading a Stereo 3D grade while Sync mode enabled shows a Changed flag on the right eye content.
LUSTRE: Tools SMOK-48756 Wrong keyframes location when using Shape Tracker.
LUSTRE: Views and Multiviews SMOK-36241 Wrong Matte view when linking a secondary using an external matte with another using a shape.
LUSTRE: Views and Multiviews SMOK-48762 Wrong image conversion when recalling a Grade Bin still store from the Autodesk Control Surface.

Flame Family 2019.1 Update Known Bug List

Component Key Summary Workaround
Action General SMOK-49062 BFX renders can be invalidated in a new session if the timeline was rendered after exiting from the Action Schematic.
Action Selective SMOK-47748 In the Effects tab, there is a user interface refresh issue with the Camera Selective FX values if Auto Key is enabled.
Action Selective SMOK-48977 Using drag & drop to copy animated RGB Curves may result in an empty Curves canvas.
Action Selective SMOK-49135 In a Surface Selective Matchbox FX in Batch, the Animation Expressions stop after clip duration ends. Bake the expression into a curve and then the results on screen start behaving as expected; or 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.
Colour Management SMOK-48993 Exporting/Publishing with Link Media and View Transform enabled will show an error about a missing colour transform. Use Generate Media in the Video Options instead of Link Media.
Image Node SMOK-49061 Timeline Image and GMask Tracer FX renders can be invalidated in a new session if the media bit depth is different than the project.
Matchbox/Lightbox SMOK-49071 Crash using undo after changing Shaders (Camera FX, Camera Selective FX, Matchbox).
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-48532 It is not possible to create Multi-Version clips using Open Clips or Pattern Browsing on movie files with audio tracks.
MediaHub Import/Export SMOK-49117 Cannot save Format Specific Options Settings in MediaHub.
Project / Preferences & Hotkey Management SMOK-48608 Action's Auto Insert preference is not persistent from one Action node to the next. Manually turn on Auto Insert node in Action each time.