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# Release Notes for Flix 6.3.6

This document includes Release Notes for Flix 6.3.6, Flix 6.3.6-1, Flix 6.3.6-2 and Flix 6.3.6-3.

# Release Notes for Flix 6.3.6-3

# Release Date

20th May 2021

This server-only update does not require any update to your 6.3.6 Flix Client app.

If you’re upgrading from a pre-6.3.6 version, refer to Upgrading to Flix 6.3.6 for more information.

# Bug Fixes

• ID 434127 - Migrated panels reconformed incorrectly when returning from Avid if they originated from another sequence of the Show within Flix 5.

• ID 472130 - Improved 'panels' API endpoint, which is loaded when opening a sequence revision in the panel browser, to decrease the time taken to respond from over 2 minutes to 1.4 seconds for a sequence revision of 2000 panels.

• ID 472683 - Flix now relinks dialogue to panels when relinking the panels on a publish back to Flix from Avid, even if the panel has been deleted in Flix in the previous sequence revision but not deleted in Avid.

• ID 473780 - Improved LDAP timeouts to prevent the Flix server from hanging during a failing log in.

• ID 475189 - Artists could not log in after extensive interaction with servers in a multi-server setup with TLS enabled.

# Release Notes for Flix 6.3.6-2

# Release Date

5th March 2021

This server-only update does not require any update to your 6.3.6 Flix Client app.

If you’re upgrading from a pre-6.3.6 version, refer to Upgrading to Flix 6.3.6 for more information.

# Bug Fixes

## Under the Hood

• ID 465935 - Active users were not always using the correct number of licensed seats per server. Now each user will only use one seat, regardless of how many servers are running.

• ID 462422 - There is a new command line argument `--remove-dialogue-dupes` which will remove duplicate dialogue revisions created in previous versions erroneously. This command line argument will be removed in Flix 6.4.0

## Editorial

• ID 465739 - The "fullres" media objects will no longer be limited to 1000px, avoiding loss of quality when publishing to editorial.

• ID 461639 - When publishing back from Premiere to Flix, panels will not version up if the only difference from the previous panel revision is the user who imported the panel.

• ID 446390 - Flix will render Premiere keyframes, where different parameters have keyframes exclusively at different times, correctly.

• ID 411085 - When publishing back to Flix from Premiere, Flix will match earlier panel revisions with the same keyframes, relinking to that panel revision instead of versioning the panel up.

# Release Notes for Flix 6.3.6-1

# Release Date

06 January 2021

This server-only update does not require any update to your 6.3.6 Flix Client app.

If you’re upgrading from a pre-6.3.6 version, refer to Upgrading to Flix 6.3.6 for more information.

# Bug Fixes

## Editorial/Production

• ID 447162 - Avid Media Composer: Changing the duration of a keyframed clip that originated from Storyboard Pro now correctly sets the duration when publishing back to Flix.

• ID 459906 - Including an unsupported file multiple times in an AAF no longer causes Flix Server to crash when publishing back to Flix. The error is now captured in the import logs and the publish to Flix completes successfully, skipping the unsupported panels.

• ID 459960 - Avid Media Composer: Animated REFs from Avid were imported with incorrect TrimIn/TrimOut points if they were not set to the start of the clip. Flix now sets the TrimIn/TrimOut to match the Mark In and Mark Out points set in Avid.

• ID 462982 - A failed Publish to Editorial caused all subsequent publishes to fail, regardless of the Sequence or Show. You can now publish from a separate Sequence or Show after a failed publish.

# Release Notes for Flix 6.3.6

# Release Date

7th December 2020

For a detailed guide on upgrading to Flix 6.3.6, refer to the Upgrading to Flix 6.3.6 section at the bottom of this page.

# Feature Enhancements

## General

• ID 441075 - Official Support for macOS Catalina (10.15.6)

• ID 419386 - Official Support for Avid Media Composer 2020 (20.10)

• ID 419385 - Official Support for Avid Media Composer 2019 (2019.12.2)

• ID 419319 - Official Support for Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 (14.5)

• ID 419321 - Official Support for Adobe Photoshop 2020 (21.2.4)

• ID 418867 - Official Support for Toonboom Storyboard Pro 7 (17.10.2)

Note: Due to changes made for macOS Catalina support, macOS users will need to enter their password twice when installing the Photoshop plug-in.

## Story/Production

• ID 410914 - Flix now automatically populates the path to the Storyboard Pro executable, if installed in the default location.

## Under the Hood

• ID 435561 - Email addresses for LDAP users can now be retrieved from a custom attribute, other than the default ‘mail’ attribute. This will update the user's email address in Flix the next time they log in. Under ldap>user_search, the new email_attr config option defines the attribute of the LDAP user model as the user’s email. It will still default to 'mail'.

Note: It is not currently possible to specify which users/groups should be notified upon Editorial publishes. However, the email_attr option does make it possible to retrieve a different mail attribute for users, which can remain blank in LDAP for those who don’t wish to receive notifications for Editorial publishes.

# Bug Fixes

## General

• ID 449946 - Users on slower connections and/or processing large sequence revisions would find themselves randomly logged out due to timestamp difference between client and server.

• ID 422415 - Deleted users would not be able to log in, or be visible in the User Management console, after being re-added. Creating a user with a username matching an existing deleted user will reinstate that user.

• ID 457589 - Users logging back into Flix for the first time after their previous session had expired would sometimes encounter an unresponsive user interface after loading a sequence revision.

• ID 449799 - Text selected in the dialogue box remains selected when mouse navigating out of the dialogue box. Delete, edit, copy and paste commands will apply to the selected text in the dialogue box.

• ID 458494 - Versioning up multiple panels and attempting to save will no longer cause the database to become unstable and/or crash the client.

## Story/Production

• ID 458641 - Storyboard Pro reconforms from Flix would fail for edits with blank panels resulting from gaps/fillers from Avid.

• ID 458020 - When importing a Storyboard Pro project with scene transitions, Flix will now correctly set the panel duration, accommodating for the clip overlap.

## Under the Hood

• ID 444488 - Flix server will now print out full ffmpeg errors, with all details logged by the server.

# System Requirements

## Flix Server

Mac | Mojave (10.14) or Catalina (10.15) 4GB of RAM
Linux | CentOS/RHEL 6.10 or CentOS/RHEL 7 (recommended) 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 | Mojave (10.14) or Catalina (10.15) 1 GB of RAM
Windows | Windows 10 An SSE2 capable Intel Pentium 4 processor, or later 1 GB 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.

## Third-Party Application Support

Applications | Supported Versions
--- | ---
Adobe Photoshop | CC 2019, CC 2020
Adobe Premiere | CC 2019, CC 2020
Avid Media Composer | 2018, 2019, 2020
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro | 7

Note: Older versions may work, but they haven’t been fully tested with Flix 8.1, 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 6.3.6

This update requires end users to upgrade Flix Client to version 6.3.6.

## From Flix 6.3.5

Photoshop Plugin update - see Managing Your Flix Deployment for more information.

## From Flix 6.3.3 or 6.3.4

• DB upgrade (v26 -> v28) - see Upgrading Flix for more information.

• PS Plugin update - see Managing Your Flix Deployment for more information.

## From Flix 6.3.0, 6.3.1, or 6.3.2

• DB upgrade (v25 -> v27) - see Upgrading Flix for more information.

• PS Plugin update - see Managing Your Flix Deployment for more information.

## From a pre-6.3 version (e.g. 6.2.2)

• DB upgrade ( -> v27) - see Upgrading Flix for more information.

• Asset migration is recommended, but not required.

Note: Although not required for 6.3, we recommend performing the asset migration eventually, as future minor (e.g. 6.5) and major (e.g. 7.0) releases may not support assets stored outside of show subdirectories.

• PS Plugin update - see Managing Your Flix Deployment for more information.

• Server configuration changes - see Server Configuration for more information.