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What's New in Flame Family 2025

Learn about new features in this release of the Flame Family products. For technical details, see the 2025 release notes.

Updates

2025.2 Update

Highlights


2025.2 Update More features


2025.2 Update Additional enhancements

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Backburner:

  • Backburner 2025.2.0.2 fixes the issue where Burn jobs might be leaking setup files on the Backburner Server if a task was canceled or failed.

Blend & Comp:

  • The Flame Linear Light blending mode is available in the Blend & Comp node.

Burn-In Metadata:

  • The frame index shown in the File Location layer's Include Filename option indicates the index of the current frame rather than always showing the index of the clips' first frame.

Data Management

  • The performance of Workspaces and Shared Libraries backups has been improved by using a multi-threaded Zstandard (Zstd) compression instead of Gzip compression, which is approximately 7 times faster.

OpenFX

  • DRX files can be selected using a file browser within the DaVinci Resolve Renderer OFX Plugin.
Note: To use this feature, ensure that you have a licensed version of DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.1 or later, and the OFX Plugin installed on the same workstation as your Flame Family product. If you want to use Background Reactor on macOS to render the OpenFX, you need to use DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3 and up.

Timeline

  • The Use Media Panel Order / Use Custom Order setting available in the Timeline Preferences allows you to select whether the open sequences are displayed in the same order as in the Media Panel or using the custom order set in the Collapsed Reel view of the Timeline area.
  • Changes have been made on how the Shot Tracks resulting from the Create Batch Group function is created.
    • The bottom segment in the selection is used rather than the segments on the bottom track. In previous versions, the segments on the bottom track would be used even if they were not selected.
    • When copying a Shots Track to a different sequence, the segments matching the connected segment id are used.
  • The Render button is available from the Transition editors.


2025.1 Update

Highlights


2025.1 Update More features


2025.1 Update Additional enhancements

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Batch Schematic:

  • BFX Clips that are created from a node's context menu are automatically rendered. You can modify this behavior by disabling the Render on Creation button in the BFX Clips Preferences.
  • Colour coding can be applied to nodes in the Batch, Batch FX, and Modular Keyer Schematic views.
    • A colour can be set using the Colour options from a node's context menu.
    • The colour coding is applied in the form of a colour patch behind a node's name.
    • The list of colour is different for clips and nodes. The former uses the colour set for the Media Panel and Timeline segments; the latter uses a list of colours set in the Colour Coding Preferences.
    • Colour has been added to the Search and Select in Schematic criteria.

Batch Rendering: Messages are displayed to warn users that the Lustre node can no longer be rendered.

  • A message appears when a loaded Batch setup contains a Lustre node.
  • A message appears when a Batch setup contains a Lustre node and the user attempts to render it.

Conform: Use the Export Table Contents... function from the Conform View's Gear menu to export the content of the Conform list into an XML or CSV file. Users can choose to export either all the columns or only the visible ones into a CSV file. This file can be opened in any application capable of loading a CSV file, such as Microsoft Excel.

Lens Distortion:

  • Improvements have been made to the distortion calculation.
    • The distortion Centre X and Y values are now calculated for all models.
    • The Focal Length value is calculated for the 3D4 Radial - Fisheye - Radial 8 model.
    • Values for the settings in the Controls section are no longer clipped after a calculation or an import file.
  • Use one of three modes to dictate how the distortion calculation is performed.
    • Static: This mode calculates the distortion using the splines at the current frame only.
    • Dynamic: This mode calculates the distortion using every frame where a spline has a keyframe. The result is animated controls with linear interpolation.
    • Average: This mode calculates the distortion using every frame where a spline has a keyframe. The result is non-animated controls with an average value.

Lightbox: GLSL version 460 can be used in Lightbox shaders.

Contrary to Matchbox, Lightbox supports only version 460 of GLSL. This is a limitation caused by the fact that multiple shaders are combined in an Action scene and it is not possible to combine shaders from different recent versions. However, old Lightbox shaders (up to version 130) can be merged with Lightbox shaders using GLSL version 460.

Note: The list of newly available functions is the same as for Matchbox.

For more details and a complete list of available functions, see the GLSLangSpec.4.60.pdf document.

Lustre - Flame Interoperability Migration of a 2025 Lustre + Flame project to the 2025.1 Update is not possible.

Matchbox: The GLSL versions 430, 440, 450, and 460 can be used in Matchbox shaders, making additional functions such as these available:

  • Double precision for many mathematics, vector and matrix functions
  • Packing, unpacking and bit functions
  • Atomic functions
  • Matrix determinant
  • Fused Multiply-Add

For more details and a complete list of available functions, see the GLSLangSpec document for the version of your choice.

Note: The shader version must be specified using a "#version" directive in each glsl file header.
Warning: The uniforms must be declared inside a uniform block to respect the Vulkan and SPIR-V rules.

Match Grain: A Setup Range / Custom Range option has been added to the Analysis section. Setup Range is the default value.

  • The Custom Range option offers the same From, To, and Step values as the 2025 version.
  • The Setup Range option sets the From and To fields to the Batch Group's Start and End Frame values. The Step numeric field is initially set to a value that equals the setup duration divided by 20, but is editable.

Metadata Overlay: Presets within the drop-down button are now sorted alphabetically.

OpenFX: Modifications have been made to better support OpenFX plugin developers in the integration of their plugins in Flame Family products.

  • The Boolean and Choice parameters with the OfxParamPropAnimates property set on them can be animated.
    • The interpolation and extrapolation for those channels are set to Constant by default.
    • For Boolean values, the range lies between 0 and 1. The led part on the right of the toggle button turns yellow when it is animated.
    • For Choice values, the range lies between 0 and the number of titles minus one. The header above the drop-down button has a yellow/blue line identical to the numeric fields when it is animated.
  • The OfxParamTypeStrChoice parameter is now supported.
    • StrChoice is a special type of the Choice parameters that facilitates interoperability between the plugin and the host using string values rather than numbers. Its specific properties are:
      • kOfxParamPropChoiceOption
      • kOfxParamPropChoiceEnum
      • kOfxParamPropChoiceOrder
      • When a setup is loaded, if a value does not exist for the current plugin then the value is replaced by the plugin's default value.
  • The OfxImagePropUniqueIdentifier property of an input Image is now filled with an md5 key, making it possible to know if a source clip has changed. It has the following l imitations:
    • The keys are transient per session.
    • The keys are instance-based and ofx clip-based. An upstream node connected to more than one input of the same OpenFX node or to two different OpenFX nodes will have a different md5 key in each OFXImage.

Preferences: The Space Calculation section of the Storage Preferences has been simplified.

  • The Media Cache Space Estimate button updates the information under the Available and Used sections and performs a purge to ensure the amount of space is up to date. This button replaces the Available, Available & Purgeable, and Force Purge buttons available in previous versions.
  • The Available section shows the available space on the current volume in GB or TB, in frames (based on the current project settings), and in time. This information is automatically populated when entering the tab.
  • The Used section shows the amount of content of the project on the current volume in GB or TB, in frames, and in time. Press the Media Cache Space Estimate button to update this section.
  • The Required section shows the amount of space required to render Timeline FXs for clips in the current Workspace.

Subtitle: Quotations marks can be displayed as single or double marks using the Display Smart Quotes setting in the Subtitle Preferences.

  • When the setting is enabled and the font supports the format, quotes are rendered in their "curly" version. The curly version is also shown in the Text Preview of the Load Font window.
  • Regardless of the status of the setting, the quotes remain displayed as single quotes in the Subtitles editor's text field and in an exported SRT file.

Timeline:

  • The colour coding applied to a timeline segment is still visible behind the name of a selected segment.
  • Cuts can be copied from a Video track to an HDR Track using the Copy Transitions to Track function. Other transitions such as Dissolves cannot be copied.
  • The Marker Name and Marker Comment tokens are available for the Name, Shot Name, and Comment text fields of a Timeline segment.
    • The tokens return the strings from a segment marker's Name and Comment fields.
    • The syntax of the tokens is <marker name> and <marker comment>.
    • The optional @ and + characters can be used to modify the segment marker from which the Name and Comment are fetched.
      • Set a number after the @ character to specify the segment markers where the information fetching starts.
      • Set a number after the + character to fetch the information from multiple segment markers. The number is the equivalent of a "every #" segment marker.

Tools:

  • The Flame Linear Light blending mode is available everywhere the Photoshop Linear Light blending mode is available. It achieves the same blending operation, but without clamping any pixel values. In Matchbox/Lightbox, the LinearLight option available in previous versions has been renamed PsLinearLight and the LinearLight option is now used for the Flame Linear Light blend mode.
  • The led part on the right of a Toggle button that has an Animation channel, such has MBlur in the Action Node Prefs, turns yellow when it is animated and you are parked on a frame where a keyframe is set. Animation controls are available in the context menu of these buttons.

Viewing: The Zoom and Pan values of multiple viewports can be linked using the Link button available in Batch, Effects, the Source-Sequence view, the Triptych Player, and in most Tools tab modules.

  • When enabled, changes to zoom and pan made in one viewport are applied relatively to all other viewports.
  • The status of the Link option is included in the Viewport Layout option a Batch or Effects Layout.


2025.0.1 Enhancements




2025 Release

Highlights

More features

Additional enhancements

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Batch Schematic: Nodes that are bypassed using the keyboard shortcut Toggle Node Bypass Status are no longer selected.

Batch Node Bins: The GMask, Lens Distort, and Optics nodes are no longer available by default in the All Nodes bin from Batch or Batch FX. You can still access these nodes by enabling the Show Legacy Nodes in the Nodes Bin Gear menu.

Connected Conform:

  • Selected Sequences has been added to the Scope options of the Duplicate Connected Segments function.
  • The Keep Shot Name option can be enabled to preserve the Shot Name from clips in the Desktop used as sources to conform a new sequence.
  • Functions available in the Connected Conform workflow can be applied to clips inside a Sequences Reel located inside the Libraries section.
    • The scope of the functions is limited to sequences located inside a same Sequence Reel.
    • The Create Shots Sequence and Create Sources Sequence functions are not supported for Sequences Reels located outside a Reel Group.
  • A Sequence Reel placed outside of a Reel Group but inside the Libraries section appears as a Sequences Reel rather than a normal reel.

Keyboard Shortcuts Editor:

  • Keystrokes for selected shortcuts can be reverted to their factory assignation from the Keyboard Shortcuts Editor. As of 2024.1 Update, it was only possible to revert all shortcuts to their factory assignation. There are now two new options:
    • Revert Cur to Factory: Only the shortcuts with the yellow outline in the list are reverted.
    • Revert Selected to Factory: All selected shortcuts are reverted.
  • To restrict a keyboard shortcut to the current OS only, you can use the Set on Current OS option. This is particularly useful in scenarios where you want to assign the same keyboard shortcut to different key combinations on different operating systems. For instance, you might want to use Win+Tab on Linux and Alt+Tab on macOS for the same function.

Licensing: The Licensing widget has been replaced by a Licensing drop-down menu on macOS.

Media Export:

  • It is now possible to use the ColorSync Compatible option when exporting 1920x1080 (rec.709) content in the MP4 format. When enabled, the resulting MP4 files contain the Gamma 2.4 data in the file header.
  • Media Export Format presets can be saved at the user level.
  • The current sequence (source or sequence tab) can be exported using the Export Current Sequence... keyboard shortcut.

Overlays: The Overlays presets have been updated. They are available in three different categories under the Autodesk level: Broadcast, Film, and Social.

Project Manangement:

  • The Start Frame setting has been moved from the General tab of the Preferences to the Project Settings dialog window.
  • The Recovered Media projects are no longer created when the application detects unreferenced frames. You need to run the Volume Integrity Check (VIC) tool to remove unreferenced frames.

Resolution: The list of Sony Cameras resolutions has been updated to include the resolutions supported by the Sony BURANO camera (spherical and anamorphic 1.25x, 1.3x, and 2.0x).

Service Monitor: New diagnostics have been added:

  • Services.cfg: Validates the Services.cfg file to avoid issues in case the file has not been defined as expected.
  • All logs last Application Execution: This new diagnostic provides all logs, errors, and warnings for the last day.

Setup Application: The Shader Paths tab is no longer available. The /opt/Autodesk/cfg/./sysconfig.cfg file is now used to define where the Matchbox, Lightbox, and Pybox plugins are read from to populate the Action and Batch node bins.

User Interface: Windows can be partially dragged off-screen to visualize the content underneath them. The window can be dragged by grabbing its header. A window can be dragged to the left, right, or bottom but cannot be dragged at the top.

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