In nuce: Software developer The Foundry (Nuke, Katana, among others) has released Flix 6.5. This is according to an announcement published yesterday, 18 January, on postperspective.com . Flix is a software for story development.
In toto: The Foundry claims to offer its customers more flexibility and customised workflows with the release of version 6.5.
Flexible Group and User Management | What’s New in Flix 6.5
Flix 6.5 | Features Overview
- Support for the VFX Reference Platform 2022 (as also reported in the course of the release of Katana 6.0 by The Foundry. Digital Production reported on 23.12.2022)
- Apple Silicon processors: Are now also natively supported by the Flix client.
- New authorisation system: This is based on groups and roles and is intended to provide more overall control over storytelling. It should also make it more secure for admin users to access information – and share it with other team members.
- Extended range of functions for contact sheets: This is intended to streamline reviewing and feedback; users will also have access to different templates that can be customised – in line with the circumstances of the pipeline.
- New versioning system: The same should allow users to integrate Flix at any point in the course of a film production, as stated in the message on postperspective.com.
- New linking system for media: Panels can be linked automatically within Storyboard Pro, for example.
- Support for managed source files in Storyboard Pro: The benefit of this is that .sbpz projects can be backed up to the server and saved as source files. The announcement from postperspective.com goes on to say that this eliminates the need to remember names or storage locations.
- Enhanced extensibility: This should be achieved through simplified access to programming interfaces – and the provision of comprehensive documentation. In addition, the Webhooks system has been introduced; this enables users to automate repetitive tasks with the help of user-definable, event-based triggers.
Click further: To the official announcement on foundry.com.
