Synchronized workflows

Seamless roundtripping, smoother collaboration, and synchronized workflows

Flix 8

Flix 8 streamlines collaboration between storyboard and editorial teams, empowering and enabling them to use their preferred tools of choice. Smarter shot management, improved round-tripping, and clearer imports preserve creative intent while the new SBP panel workflow extension adds true revisioning, making Flix a stronger hub for efficient story development.

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Storyboard Pro extension

Storyboard Pro extension

Flix-to-Storyboard Pro roundtripping is now smoother than ever — for seamless flow of data from Storyboard Pro and back. You can now bring shots from Flix directly into Storyboard Pro while preserving all metadata. Enhancing the panel-by-panel workflow by removing the need to send entire sequences back and forth between the programs when only a small subset of panels need revisions.

Multi-panel shot sync

Flix <-> Storyboard Pro workflows are now more efficient. Move updated panels back to Storyboard Pro while preserving metadata, and bring multiple panels into Flix in one request for fast batch transfer.

Advanced camera controls

It's now easier to communicate your vision, with stepped camera moves for cleaner storyboard timing and the new Reframe tool, for baking camera framing directly into your panels.

Live progress

The new real-time progress bar gives direct insight to intensive tasks during the cleanup process. Live status updates and percentage tracking help you make sure your project is moving forward.

Individual panels

Send individual panels directly between Storyboard Pro and Flix

Version-up

Replace panels in Flix seamlessly within the Storyboard Pro extension.

Fast and efficient

No more need for full sequence uploads

What's new in Flix 8.1

Contact sheet customization

See all Panel dialogue from the Contact Sheet. Use the new customization options, such as font size and dynamic text scaling, to specify how the text is displayed, ensuring all dialogue is visible.

Highlight improvements

When filtering panels in your sequence revision by highlight color, you now have the option to select multiple highlights, for more control when using highlights to organize your panels. 

Mixed aspect ratio shows

Flix now provides the option to select different aspect ratios for sequences within the same show — for planning more dynamic shows with aspect ratio changes between cuts.

Sequence Revision performance

Speed up your Sequence Revision List loading times, even for large shows with thousands of revisions, with new options that reduce unnecessary data retrieval and vastly improve loading efficiency.

Sentry support

Flix 8.1 enables pipeline teams and Foundry support to respond to issues more quickly and efficiently. Sentry integration securely logs and sends anonymized user interactions, errors, and telemetry data to the server.

API management

Easily create, add, and delete API keys

Electron 39.2.3

Upgrade for improved macOS Tahoe performance

IVS Global Controls

Disable panel version detection when needed

What's new in Flix 8.0

A new, intuitive Shots UI

New Shots UI and roundtripping

Shots are now elevated to first-class citizens with a new UI for creating, editing, and managing them in the browser. Improved roundtripping with Storyboard Pro and Editorial keeps name, structure, and metadata intact, plus the new Shot Properties Panel centralizes key details, and full API access supports customization.

Customizable shot names

Set default naming conventions and incremental shot numbering, rename shots at any stage of production, and apply sequential renaming when finalizing timelines.

Shot export preferences

When publishing to editorial, export shot data based on user preference. Shots now return to Flix from Editorial exactly as they were exported, preserving name and structure.

Storyboard Pro roundtripping

Shots now appear as native scenes in Storyboard Pro with no extra conversion steps needed. Plus scenes from Storyboard Pro are ingested as shots in Flix and seamlessly passed through to Editorial.

Drag, drop, done: streamlined panel workflows

Core node improvements

Drop panels in the browser

For streamlined panel creation workflows

Core node improvements

Drag to version up panels

Version up artwork with full panel history

Core node improvements

Visual drop indicators

For faster Shot/Sequence structuring

Core node improvements

Maintain full panel history

automatically when updating artwork

Core node improvements

Streamlined panel creation

with intuitive drag-and-drop workflow

Core node improvements

Faster shot and sequence structuring

with snap-to-target precision

Tailor the Flix experience to your studio

Flix Client Plugins

Flix is now more customizable than ever. Building on Flix 7.0’s APIs and automation tools, Flix 8.0 includes Client Plugins, for direct control over UI customization and behavior via the Chrome plugin framework. Now you can tailor both the UI and UX to meet your studio’s specific needs. To help you get started, we’ve included some examples in the Public Examples Repository.

Add custom buttons

Create new buttons that trigger scripts, enabling studio-specific workflows and automations directly from the Flix Client.

Customize UI behavior

Modify UI fields and behaviors, for example pre-populating the hostname on the login page for easier access.

Remove UI buttons

Restrict access to specific workflows or disable error-prone actions to streamline operations and reduce User mistakes or sanctioned workflows.

Greater clarity when ingesting sequences

New Sequence Ingest UI

From either Storyboard Pro or Editorial, the import model gives you real-time visibility at every stage. View the overall progress in the top bar, and a breakdown of live updates for each subtask. Keep working while imports run in the background, then jump straight into the imported sequence or troubleshoot using logs accessible directly from the model.

What you might have missed

Missed Flix 7? Upgrade today to access the new features and updates from all past versions. Including improved plugins and integrations, Single Sign On support, and more.

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Tech specs

Check out the tech specs to find out more about Flix's supported operating systems and hardware requirements.

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Release notes

Read the release notes to see a full list of the new features, improvements, and bug fixes in Flix 8

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