Release Notes for Flix 6.3.2

Release Date

April 1st, 2020

For a detailed guide on upgrading to Flix 6.3, refer to the Upgrading to Flix 6.3.2 section at the bottom of this page.

New Features

N/A

Feature Enhancements

Editorial/Production

• ID 427193 - Flix will now warn the user prior to starting a publish if they have insufficient permissions to write to the Publish Directory.

Bug Fixes

Editorial/Production

• ID 429514 - Some clips would randomly appear as offline in Avid or Premiere, despite being published for the first time.

• ID 427537 - Panel names in the Editorial email notifications now follow the naming convention set for the Editorial Clip Name preference.

• ID 422793 - Email notifications would sometimes be sent before the AAFs were fully copied to the publish directory.

• ID 416213 - Using Hold First Frame from Premiere wouldn't version up panels with updated camera moves.

• ID 416087 - "Effects & New Clips" dropdown option would say "Hold Middle Frame", wrongly reflecting the actual behavior of holding the first frame.

• ID 427092 - HTML codes would sometimes appear in Flix's exported dialogue text file, for example when dialogue was copy/pasted from an HTML or PDF document.

Story/Production

• ID 424141 - Ctrl/Cmd+A now only selects the visible panels, when used with Panel Filters toggled on.

• ID 426480 - Revisioning a Master image in Photoshop would create a new one instead of versioning up the existing one.

Under the Hood

• ID 426133 - Some tasks weren't distributed equally across all servers, resulting in some processes such as imports not happening as quickly as they could, on multi-server deployments.

• ID 427916 - Changing the name attribute of an LDAP group in the Flix Server config would not sync the group name in Flix after a user login.

• ID 429561 - LDAP username would use the 'uid', instead of the 'user_attr' property set in Flix Server's configuration.

• ID 428031 - User feedback during the asset migration required for the Flix 6.3 upgrade has been improved.

• ID 427205 - Logs around retrieving LDAP groups and assigning users to them have been improved.

• ID 429430 - Superfluous failed chunk transfers would flood the server logs with error messages. These have been bumped down to trace level.

• ID 423570 - Logs around SMTP-related errors have been improved.

System Requirements

Flix Server

Mac	Sierra (10.12), High Sierra (10.13), Mojave (10.14) 4GB of RAM
Linux	CentOS/RHEL 7 (recommended) or 6.10 and higher, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS A 64 bit processor @ 2GHz or higher 4GB of RAM

Note:  Flix Server is currently not available on Windows. Other operating system versions may work with Flix, but have not been fully tested. If you have any problems with a particular operating system, please contact the Foundry Support Team here.

Flix Client

Mac	Sierra (10.12), High Sierra (10.13), Mojave (10.14) 1GB of RAM
Windows	Windows 10 An SSE2 capable Intel Pentium 4 processor, or later 1GB of RAM

Note:  Flix Client is currently not available on Linux. Other operating system versions may work with Flix, but have not been fully tested. If you have any problems with a particular operating system, please contact the Foundry Support Team here.

Officially-Supported Third-Party Applications

Applications	Supported Versions
Adobe Photoshop	CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019
Adobe Premiere	CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019
Avid Media Composer	8.9, 8.10, 2018.12.3
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro	6 (14.20.3)

Note:  Older versions may work, but they haven’t been fully tested with Flix 6.6, so they cannot be listed as officially supported.
If you have any problems with a particular application's version, please contact the Foundry Support Team here.

Upgrading to Flix 6.3.2

Upgrading to Flix 6.3.2 from a previous 6.3 version requires the following:

• Downloading and launching Flix Server 6.3.2 in your usual environment

• Downloading and launching Flix Client 6.3.2 for your end users

Information on upgrading to Flix 6.3.2 from a pre-6.3 version can be found here.