🚨 Flame Family 2026 Now Available! 🚨

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Hello Logik friends!

Flame Family 2026 has been released and is being rolled out to your Autodesk accounts.

Highlights include:

  • OpenColorIO replaces SynColor as Flame’s colour management engine.
  • The Project Management panel has been redesigned to implement many user-requested features.
  • Media, renders, caches, and media references are now stored in a project-based structure, replacing the previous volume-based system.
  • A new, long-awaited tool named Type replaces the Text tool.
  • The resolution and quality of video sequences can be augmented using machine learning. (Rocky Linux only)
  • Different DRX files can be quickly applied to multiple timeline segments by setting tokens in the definition of the “Effect File Path” in the DaVinci Resolve Renderer OpenFX plugin.
  • The ARRI, Sony RAW, and Blackmagic Design Raw SDKs have been updated.

For more information, see:

Enjoy!

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Had to check the date when I saw the “Type” tool

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the office agree GIF by EditingAndLayout

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Love that it text controls have been added back into the TLFX ribbon!!. Will 2026 still allow for revisions to text done in the ante-deluvian age?

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Tim,

The Text node is still available in Batch, as a Legacy Node. That also means the Text node will be present when in old setup that is loaded.

However, there is no conversion path from a Text setup to a Type setup.

In the Timeline, segments from an older version with a Text Timeline FX on them will be unchanged, but it is not longer possible to create a new Text Timeline FX.

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Is it possible to edit an existing text in the timeline?

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Yes.

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OCIO!!!
Excited Great Job GIF by Sesame Street

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@kily - yep

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But would it be possible to copy/paste(insert) a existing text segment into a text layer and to edit this text in the Timeline?

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You can:
1- Import a Text Timeline FX from a previous version to the Explorer and load it to a Timeline Segment.
2- Import a Clip from a previous version with a Text TL FX on it and insert it to a Sequence.
3- Copy the Text TL FX from a restored/wired clip and paste onto another clip.
4- Modify a Text TL FX.

You cannot:
1- Create a new Text Timeline FX using the Add Effects menus (or shortcuts).
2- Convert a Text Timeline FX setup into a Type Timeline FX setup.

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Getting ready to install 2026. As usual, I will be installing a new drive with the latest version. Is backing up my user as simple as making on offline copy of /home/flame/flame and copying it back to the new drive?

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@ytf -your user prefs are in your home directory.
e.g. here on Rocky 9.5 my flame prefs are ~/flame/
on macos i think it’s something like:
~/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/flame/
so you can backup either of these directories if you’re doing a full fresh install on a new drive.
My home directory is a NFS network share so despite my normal efforts it survives new os installs.

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  1. Open the Setup application
  2. Select the User tab
  3. Click Export.

See Exporting and Importing User Settings in Help

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Out of curiosity, is there a reason why it should be exported as a zip? What would happen if I just copied it?

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Anecdotally I don’t make a zip, I just connect my newly minted os to my network user.
YMMV

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So you only have one file to move around.

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So to be clear, cp -R flame /home/flame/ would work just as well?

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Probably, if you take all the required files.

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I have spent an hour or so playing with the new Type tool and I am blown away by how improved it is. It’s almost everything I could want. It might be everything I want, but I need to work with it more.

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