Integrates customer feedback into product development to optimize high-end visual effects and editing workflow.
Autodesk has announced the latest extension release for Flame 20th Anniversary Edition Software — a major redesign of its premier VFX software that is a part of Autodesk Flame Premium 2013. Extension 2 includes new features and performance enhancements based on customer feedback. Available to current users with active subscription contracts, these enhancements refine the high-end visual effects and finishing workflow, accelerating production and enabling greater creativity.
Key feature and performance enhancements in the extension include:
Support for Apple ProRes —
Natively decode ProRes files on a local workstation in Flame and Flame Premium
Support for 16-bit DPX workflows —
Bring 16-bit integer files like the Academy Density Exchange Encoding (ADX) 16-bit log DPX files and promote them to 16-bit floating point linear on the fly
Clip Reveal and Clip Protect —
Quickly and easily identify clips in the timeline and lock Media Library clips from editing
User-driven project saving —
Manually save projects at any time
Preserve handles when matching a timeline source —
Match a timeline source and preserve trimming operations
Explicit YUV Headroom —
Include YUV headroom when importing and exporting YUV media files
Accelerated browsing in MediaHub —
Move seamlessly between media and finishing tools
Improved library memory management —
Optimize and manage memory performance; Close unused libraries to release memory for other purposes
Faster DNxHD in MXF File Export
The extension also features a number of other desktop, snapshot and player enhancements.