Including updates that improve workflow efficiency, removing distractions and keeping you focused on the story.

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What’s new in Flix 7.1

Keep your focus on the story, and away from workflow inefficiencies and distractions, with Flix 7.1. Staying organized is now much easier, with new tagging and hiding options, show archiving, deletion and restoration, autosave management, and subdirectories for storage. Plus, with beta browser support, you can check in on your shows from anywhere.   

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Creative focus for artists
Flexible and secure pipelines
  • Creative focus for artists
  • Flexible and secure pipelines

    • (Beta) Flix in the browser
     

    Version 7.1 brings Flix back into the browser, for greater collaboration and more flexible workflows. Whether you need to give a director quick access to a show or you’re a production assistant needing to check in on a project via an iPad. You’ll have access to all of the same functions as the client application, excluding extensions and plugins. 

    Sequence and Sequence Revision color tags 

    With Flix 7.1, production and artists can focus on the storytelling, thanks to improved Sequence and Sequence Revision organization and management. New color tagging enables you to assign colors to Sequences and Sequence Revisions, supporting a wider variety of workflow customizations, with tags to indicate ownership, state, purpose, or use.

    Hide Episodes, Sequence Revisions, and Panels

    A clean, simple interface is vital to help you focus on what’s relevant. In Flix 7.1, you can hide Episodes, Sequence Revisions, and Panels. This feature gives you the option to remove corrupt, unwanted, or scrapped assets from your workspace for enhanced efficiency. Hidden panels provide additional workflow options, such as adding reference artwork without affecting publishes or naming conventions.

    Sequence Revision autosave management

    Autosaves are a huge help when you need to revert back to a previous Sequence Revision, but they can lead to a list of hundreds of iterations. In Flix 7.1, you can automatically hide autosaves — plus it’s now clearer which saves are automatic, and which are revisions, making it faster to find what you need, when you need it.

    New aspect ratio supported: Univisium (2.0)

    The Univisium 2:1 aspect ratio ensures high-quality films and episodes can be shared on streaming platforms and adapted for TV without negatively impacting the image composition. In Flix 7.1, you can now select 2.0 as the aspect ratio when creating a new show.

    Photoshop & Maya 1.1.0 update 

    Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk Maya version 1.1.0 extensions packages, compatible with Flix 7.0.x & 7.1.x are now available. With Flix 7.1 and the Photoshop 1.1.0 plugin, you can now skip Panel reuse from the extension itself, enabling ad-hoc overrides of Flix Client settings. While Maya 1.1.0 and Flix 7.1 provide the ability to use the Arnold renderer to send ‘final’ renders from Maya to Flix. You can install and manage these with the extensions management system, introduced in Flix 7.0.

    Archive, remove, or restore shows

    This much-requested feature aids internal infrastructure management. Providing the option to archive shows, and bundle all assets in self-contained packages for easy removal, storage, or transfer to other Flix machines — either internally or externally — for improved cross-studio collaboration. Archiving old or inactive projects can improve performance and reduce data storage costs, especially for cloud-hosted instances.

    Store show assets on the server in subdirectories

    For large productions with lengthy timescales, we’ve updated Flix’s storage structure from a single directory, to multiple subdirectories. This update will provide performance improvements when working on projects with hundreds of thousands of assets.

    Flix multi-banner notification system

    We’ve improved how Flix feedback is displayed and viewed to ensure that you’re notified in a timely manner, and that you can read and manage multiple notifications intuitively. With this in mind, we’ve improved the notification banners that appear at the top of Flix’s UI to notify of errors, warnings, or process completion in a number of ways.

    Improved Client Logs

    Flix 7.1 includes major improvements to the troubleshooting process. Client Logs have been overhauled for a clearer interface that provides more information. This update will make it easier to find the source of an issue, and reduce troubleshooting times.

    New Download All Logs menu

    Adding to the improvements of Logs, we’ve also introduced a new menu for unified Log collection and reporting. The Download Logs menu makes Log management easier and quicker with options to download all Logs in one go. Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk Maya extension logs can now be accessed within Flix. 

    Third-party library updates

    Following its discontinuation, CentOS support has been deprecated in Flix 7.1. To ensure you have time to migrate your pipeline, support won't be removed until the next release. We've also included some critical CVE patches to ensure continued security.

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    Tech specs

    Flix has been rigorously tested to ensure it runs smoothly on your machine. Check out Flix 7.1 tech specs to find out more.

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    Release notes

    Read the release notes for Flix 7.1 to see a full list of the new features and improvements.

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