Read Autodesk’s FAQs about the deprecation of Sparks plugins for Flame Read Autodesk’s FAQs about running the Flame family of products in the cloud Read a full list of new features in Flame 2023.0 to 2023.3 in the online documentation A single-user subscription costs $4,635/year. Lustre 2023 is only available on CentOS 7.6 or Rocky Linux 8.5. Single-user subscriptions now cost $2,470/year. Since Flame 2022, the cost of subscriptions has risen to $580/month, up $30/month, or $4,635/year, up $220/year.įlare 2023 and Flame Assist 2023 are also available for CentOS 7.6 or Rocky Linux 8.5 and macOS 10.15+. However, it should only be an issue for artists with ‘old favourite’ plugins that are no longer in active development: as far as we’re aware, most major Flame plugin developers have already switched to OFX.įlame 2023.3 is available for CentOS 7.6 or Rocky Linux 8.5 and macOS 10.15+ on a rental-only basis. Projects that include Sparks plugins will still load in future versions of Flame, but it won’t be possible to edit any of the plugin parameters. In addition, the old Sparks API for Flame plugins will be deprecated in favour of OFX, which Autodesk began supporting in the Flame 2020 releases. Perhaps more significantly, Autodesk has announced the platforms that will be deprecated in the next major release of the software, presumably Flame 2024.0.įor Mac users, the oldest version of macOS supported will become macOS 11.0 for Linux users, CentOS 7.6 will be deprecated in favour of Rocky Linux 8.5. The update adds one new feature when deploying Flame in the cloud: support for AWS Cloud Digital Interface ( AWS CDI), AWS’s network technology for streaming uncompressed video with low latency. Updated 8 December 2022: Autodesk has released Flame 2023.3. Workflow with multi-channel clips, like EXRs, has also been streamlined, as shown in the video above. It’s largely a usability update, with workflow improvements including a new Edit Box for scaling keyframes in the Animation Editor and the option to search for nodes in the Schematic. Updated 30 October 2022: Autodesk has released Flame 2023.2. You can find a full list of updated and discontinued features – archiving to tape is now deprecated – via the links at the foot of the story. Other changes include a move from Python 3.7 to 3.9, and updated support for BMD, RED and Sony RAW. The Flame products are now supported on new Apple Silicon Macs, albeit via the Rosetta 2 emulator rather than native Apple Silicon support.Īutodesk also now supports Rocky Linux as a replacement for the now-discontinued CentOS. Support for Apple Silicon Macs via Rosetta, and for Rocky Linux In particular, when working with animation curves, all of the canvas framing options are grouped under a single button, and the filtering system has been “completely overhauled”.Īll channel operators can now be applied from a contextual menu, making them available from viewports. The Animation Channel Editor has been overhauled, introducing more standard naming for individual views – ‘Channels’ becomes ‘Curves’ and ‘Tracks’ becomes ‘Dope Sheet’ – and a list of workflow improvements. The design style of the UI has been refreshed, with the “venerable Discreet font” getting a more modern replacement and the UI can now be switched to HDR mode, to make it easier to use on HDR monitors. The update doesn’t add new toolsets to the software itself, with the biggest changes being UI updates. New HDR mode for the UI, and a redesigned Animation Channel Editor The software has been tested on Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, but the online FAQs suggest that it may also be possible to deploy Flame products on other cloud platforms. The headline change in the Flame 2023 releases is that the entire family of products, with the exception of Lustre, can now be deployed in the cloud as an alternative to on-premises hardware. The other products in the Flame family – the two cut-down editions of Flame, Flame Assist and Flare, and colour grading tool Lustre – have also been updated.įlame family products now officially supported in the cloud Scroll down for news of the Flame 2023.3 update.Īutodesk has released Flame 2023, the latest version of its compositing, finishing and effects software, updating the UI to improve workflow on HDR monitors, and redesigning the Animation Channel Editor.įlame can now also be deployed in the cloud via Amazon’s AWS platform.
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