What's New in Format Support

Export: Support for XDCAM

You can now export clips at PAL frame rates as XDCAM HD 422 material.

Export: Support for H.264 in QuickTime

You can now export clips as H.264 in a QuickTime file. Together with this features comes H.264 codec profiles, making it easy for you to create an H.264 output.

Import: Support for Avid Media Composer 6 AAF Files

It is now possible to import AAF files generated by Avid Media Composer 6.

See the following for supported transitions and effects:

• AAF: Video and Audio Transitions
• AAF: Video and Audio Effects

Avid Stereoscopic Sequences

Flame can now import Media Composer 6 stereoscopic timelines; an Avid Stereo3D timeline is imported as a stereoscopic timeline with Left and Right tracks, with the following limits.

Avid Stereoscopic Sequence Limitations:

• Segments with multiple nested effects may not be translated as expected.
• The Avid stereoscopic sequence cannot contain S3D master clips with frame compatible contributors (clips with side-by-side or top-bottom stereoscopic media), it can only contain full resolution contributors.

Supported Avid S3D Effects and Transitions:

• S3D Vergence Effect: Translated as a Soft Axis with an equivalent Convergence value.
• S3D Floating Window Effect: Translated as a Soft Axis with a Crop.
• S3D Spatial Alignment Effect: Translated as a Soft Axis with a subset of the original parameters.
• S3D Depth Transition: Not supported.

Import: Support for CMX EDL Long Tape Names

Flame now supports the import of CMX EDL with tape names longer than 8 characters (AVID 16 and AVID 32), through Clip Library > Video I/O > Import EDL.

Support for ARRIRAW Look Files

Version 4 of the ALEXA Software Update Packet enables a Look-creation workflow.

In this workflow, a Look is created in the ARRI Look Creator application. The Look information is then either embedded in the source files during the shoot, or saved as a look file. In both cases, the Look data can be enabled or disabled from the Import Preferences menu.

To use a Look created in the ARRI Look Creator application with ARRIRAW media:

1. Optional: If the Look information is located in a Look file, make sure the file is named look.xml and is located with the ARRIRAW media.
2. In the Clip Library, open File I/O > Import Preferences.
3. Set Format to ARRIRAW.
4. Set Colour > Look Selection box.
5. Optional: Enable the Apply Look LUT button and set the Colour Rendering box.

Look Selection box

Select from where Flame reads the Look information, when available.

Select:	To:
Do not apply Look	Not apply any Look information.
From File Header	Apply Look information contained in the ARRIRAW file header.
From Look File	Apply Look information contained in an XML Look file located in the same folder as the file to import.
Header or Look File	Apply Look information from the header of the file to import. If none is present, use the information from an XML Look file located in the same folder as the file to import.
Look File or Header	Apply Look information from an XML Look file located in the same folder as the file to import. If none is present, use the information from the header of the file to import.

Apply Look LUT button

Enable to use the LUT stored with the Look information read by Flame from the location determined by the Look Selection box.

Colour Rendering box

When working with Look information, set the Colour Rendering to Rec709 or DCI P3 option. If the Colour Rendering is set to LogC, Smoke/Flame displays a checkerboard instead of the clip as ARRI Look Creator supports images only encoded with REC709.

Support for RED Magic Motion for HDRx

Flame now supports the RED-provided Magic Motion algorithm. Magic Motion is a blending algorithm used to composite tracks A and X of an HDRx clip, and is set in Colour > HDRx Settings. That same menu also offers an option to use the option set by RMD file.

New Image Orientation Option for R3D Clips

In version 2011 Extension 1, image orientation set in RED cameras was automatically applied to the imported R3D media files; you could not change the orientation of the image when importing it in Flame.

With this new version of Flame, you can now set image orientation (Flip/Flop) from the application. The image orientation can, as any other import settings, be set either at the time of the import, or later using Import History.

The Flip Settings menu is found in the Clip Library: set File I/O > Import Preferences > Format to R3D, and then open Metadata.