Autodesk Flare

Monitor Calibration and Film Tools

• 3D color lookup tables work with your calibrated display to accurately display a clip as it will appear on its final medium.
• Maintains consistency and precision with Autodesk® Lustre® color grading software.
• Choose to temporarily view a clip with a 3D LUT or apply the 3D LUT process, enabling real-time clip playback.
• Provides tools to match images displayed digitally on a computer monitor to the look of projected film.
• Supports X-Rite and Barco CaliTalk calibration devices for accurate color measurement.
• Import standard color LUTs or create your own using the intuitive tools provided.
• Grain management tools accurately match the grain of different film stocks and enable homogenous grain across disparate elements used in the composite (CGI, scans from different film types.

Audio Tools

• Audio Gain Rubberbanding allows the artist to quickly and easily set audio levels in the timeline.
• Support for AudioDesk® audio workstation software in player and Batch timeline, including audio tools for mixing and mastering audio.
• Import, record, and play back stereo audio.
• Audio editing functions, including cut, slip, and timestretch with pitch correction control.
• Audio mixing capabilities with control of audio levels, pans, and EQ.
• Vari-speed audio scrubbing allows for precise work.
• Display audio waveform for syncing effects to sound.
• VST Audio plug-in support (reverb, modulation, dynamic compression, full parametric EQ).
• Dolby® E audio coding support.
• Soft effects can be applied to audio segments in the timeline.
• Import and export Broadcast Wave and MP3 files.

Input/Output (I/O)

• Import RED ONE R3D^TM format files directly into storage using high-quality debayering settings as isolated files.
• File-based I/O for most popular graphics formats:, including TIFF, PICT, TARGA®, JPEG, Cineon, DPX, SGI®, and Autodesk® Softimage®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk Maya software formats.
• Import Adobe Photoshop PSD files with options to maintain layer structure or flatten image.
• Import/export QuickTime files: QuickTime animation with alpha and QuickTime motion-JPEG. QuickTime metadata of the time code and reel name information is included when importing or soft-importing.
• Direct ingest of Panasonic® P2 MXF files.
• Support for AVC-Intra media at bit rates of 50 and 100 Mbps.
• Soft import workflow and background proxy generation of soft-imported streaming media files.
• Use existing high-resolution images such as film scans as proxies.
• Support for DV, DV25, DV50, and DVCPRO HD compressed codecs.
• Support for XDCAM and XDCAM HD codecs.
• Import/export Avid DNxHD codec in an Apple QuickTime wrapper.
• Quickly and easily browse and recursively scan clips in P2 and XDCAM media directories.
• Create, save, and load codec encoding profiles to quickly set up and launch encoding jobs.
• Import 16- bit floating-point OpenEXR image files. Framestore storage, export, and editing support for 16-bit floating-point clips.

Interoperability

• Interoperates with Autodesk® Flint®, Autodesk® Inferno®, Autodesk Smoke, Autodesk® Combustion®, Autodesk Toxik, and Autodesk Lustre software and effects systems, and provides support for Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, and other 3D applications.
• Clip compatibility between Autodesk editing and effects applications. Supports multitrack, multilayer clips with containers and gaps.
• Soft-import image and audio files on shared storage without making a local copy, and then publish results back to the open file system.

Workflow and Productivity

• Support for Autodesk® Burn® background rendering solution in Batch and desktop modules, and in the Batch timeline.
• Integrated Autodesk® Backburner^TM monitoring of Burn background renders.
• With the addition of NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 3700, remote render 16-bit floating-point Action setups using the latest GPU-accelerated version of Autodesk® Burn® software.
• Project-based dual-view clip library provides media organization and sharing between separate Autodesk systems.
  Clip history automatically saves setups of rendered clips, providing a nondestructive way to access intermediate results and to make changes at any time.
• Extended search filters (search range of timecode, name, and comment.
• Extensive hotkeys enable instant operation of commands and menu selections. Comprehensive hotkey editor enables flexible user customization.
• Online help and button tooltips provide quick access to documentation and button descriptions.
  Autodesk® WiretapCentral^TM software browses Autodesk systems clip libraries using a network-connected web browser for quicker reviews and approvals

Master Keyer-advanced keying technology.

• Intuitively refine the key by gesturally modifying the matte. Color spill removal and edge blending. Advanced grain removal, specifically tuned to blue and green screens.Create title rolls, crawls, slates, text animations, text along a path, and text effects.
• Colour Warper functionality performs primary and selective color correction, enabling precise fine-tuning with multiple levels of adjustment in a single pass.
• Unlimited audio tracks with 32 tracks of real-time playback. Autodesk® Lustre® Color Management technology includes library of display and conversion lookup tables (LUTs) and monitor calibration software.