As it was always a bit of a “unknown” to me how exactly these 2 are seperated from Flame and how they implement restrictions vs full-flame i just want to write down my experience , as we bascially swapped a single flame license for a flare and a FA license (same price)
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The purchasing process is weird, have to go through reseller, but then the seats just appear in our regular autodesk account and we can assing them to users the same way we can with flame, also yes a single user can have a FA , Flare and Flame license assigned to it
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Installiation, you need to install each tier of flame seperately
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Usersettings, shared python tools all come across, so all your flame settings are in FA and Flare - cool.
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Projectserver - just works it takes the same framestore maps e.t.c that flame uses so when you have setup flame FA and Flare JUST WORK without any fuss.
Limitations:
There is no batch tab in FA as expected and stuff like IMAGE is missing, not yet sure what happens when I open a older project made in flame with Image , will find out later.
Flare:
Timelines from flame projects are read only, you cant “open” them, so you also cant version openclips in a timeline or do anything like that, the workflow to open a batchgroup from a imported openclip is a bit convoluted as you can only access the format tab via batch, so you have to drag the openclip into batch then doubleclick it , and then “load batch” .
So far i am VERY happy with the decision of seperating them out, we still do have full-flames , but this just extended us and we will probably get more Flare licenses soon , which is great money wise
I just REALLY wish flare and FA would be monthly , especially flare makes SO much sense as a monthly license or via Tokens.
thank you, if you have questions about FA and Flare, i now have both and can tell you all about it 