@PatrickC - it was great fun meeting you and Jay last night.
Thanks for the positive feedback, brother, i appreciate you.
I’m looking forward to us doing good things together.
@philm was nice enough to demo the Logik-projekt last night and my mind is freakin blown. What it does is take flame from the one man band setup to a global collaborative workflow.
It scales up from one artist and can span to as many as you need. It’s fully open so can be integrated into an existing pipeline. Essentially brings flame up to speed as a global collaborative tool like most notably nuke.
I think it’s a huge breakthrough and makes the future of flame much brighter. Can’t wait to see the Logik Live and to use it myself.
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@luke - thanks for going down the rabbit hole Luke - I appreciate you brother
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Thanks to @andymilkis and @randy you can now register your interest:
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Done!
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Well done @philm
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Just finishing up my third job using Projekt and loving it. There’s so many great things in there. A couple of my favorites: the color toolkit in there is REALLY useful. I also love the way pre-comping is handled with OpenClips. And I know it’s gonna sound weird, but I really love the way postings are pattern-browsed for quick referencing. Also, the After Effects scripts have been SO useful.
I would say this is definitely not for everyone, because it does require some letting go of old habits, but so far it’s definitely improved my efficiency - by a lot in some areas. It’s flexible enough that I can see a way to adjust things that are personally idiosyncratic.
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@Josh_Laurence - thanks for the kind words brother.
I appreciate you, and the generous dollops of time and effort and chinwagging.
I hope everything continues this way for a long time.
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Thanks @philm for the demo of logik projekt, I know it’s all been said before but it really is an amazing tool that can help anybody to work faster and keep projects organised with hardly having to think about it.
So many levels of customisable integration with flames toolset that makes this a no brainer.
Can’t wait to give it a run.
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@Jason_Chambers - thank you brother, it was a hoot to run through the toolset with you - it’s very gratifying that you see promise in it, and how it could be integrated into your existing workflow.
Let’s make that happen.
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I’m going to add my two cents in here and sing the praises of this awesome tool Phil generously and passionately labored over. Thank you for taking the time demo, break, then trouble-shoot on all the machines with me today. It was really eye-opening to see all the best practices of effective time management put into play; I feel like we are on the cusp of a new era of working. You are a gem and I can’t wait to do this. Thank you!
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@digitalbanshee - you’re so welcome Renee - thanks for the kind words sister - it was lovely to finally meet you, and I appreciate you,
And your patience for when backburner kind of falls over and dies a very special death - it’s a good thing that you can just move PROJEKTS from machine to machine, country to country and just carry on…
If it’s not a thing now, it will most likely be a thing at some point.
Have a great weekend and let’s catch up again soon
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The first release of LOGIK-PROJEKT is available at the GitHub repository.
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Just had an awesome time with @philm showing me and @wiltonmts Logik-Projekt. I’m looking foward to put it to work, as our workflow is already open clip based.
It blew my mind with all the possibilities and organization that it brings, we can’t stop talking about what we can do with it here.
@philm Thanks again, your passion about the projekt and everything related is really inspiring! Cheers!
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@thiagocora and @wiltonmts - that was a super fun friday - we covered a lot and i can’t wait for us to work together on the next steps - so much fun to meet you both - lot of laughing is always a great friday.
I appreciate you brothers - you made it a great day.
Let’s get cracking on making the new future together.
Tenha um ótimo fim de semana
vamos nos reunir novamente em breve
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I am very excited to give this a try. I am always a little daunted and nervous when I get involved with GitHub. System admin is not my most comfortable of roles but I am nothing if not reckless.
I am going to review this using my home iMac so as not to piss off my IT department but I am already struggling.
This is embarrassing. I am just trying to follow the workstation prep and it keeps erroring when I:
Create /etc/synthetic.conf to link /PROJEKTS to test PROJEKTS directory
Seems like this is such a basic step but I don’t want to skip over anything less I regret it and get errors later on.
It just says No such file or directory even though I have created that directory. The resulting synthetic.conf file is just empty 
@PlaceYourBetts - sorry that you’re struggling - I’m happy to dial in - I’ll send you a DM Zoom link - let’s get you up and running.
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From the README:
# Create /etc/synthetic.conf to link /PROJEKTS to test PROJEKTS directory:
sudo cat "PROJEKTS Users/Shared/PROJEKTS" > /etc/synthetic.conf
The command that you want to run is the sudo part, the part that begins with a # is just a comment to explain what the command will do.
sudo cat "PROJEKTS Users/Shared/PROJEKTS" > /etc/synthetic.conf
I have to say, this is one of the most thoroughly written and documented tools I have seen from a Flame artist! I was familiar with the publishing workflow, but it was difficult for me to work publishing into my systems with our workflows and keep data to a reasonable level. This tool makes it a breeze and has almost all the things you could think of built into the process. Templates and all! Best of all, it provides a process to dynamically change where your project and frame store are located. Why is this great? If you have a team working through Lucid Link, you have the schedule sync set-up to a local nas or drive and the Lucid site goes down…you can just change the symlink to the local storage and boom, back in action. Then, when the sight goes back up, sync your local work to Lucid, change your symlink back, sync, and boom, it is back up and running. Redundant at many levels. Something I can’t do with my current workflow.
With Phil’s Logik Projekt tool, this workflow is now a LOT easier to institute! The instructions are clear and detailed. The source bring with a hooked GitHub makes things easy to update and customize for our workflows and workstations. It runs on Rocky 8.5 up. We have 2025.2 and all but have not upgraded to 9.4, as I am the IT guy, it will take me a while to do each machine and maintain my customized wire and storage facility setup. Planning on starting it soon but want to get this tool built into my workflow before the upgrade.
For just the Logik Projekt integration to my first machine, it took about 1.5 hours. Note, this is due to the fact I had Phil online with me and he went into detail at my request. Otherwise, probably would take an hour or less for the first machine, to learn the process for a newbie, then maybe 15-30 minutes a machine thereafter to make sure all users and such are all shared and sync’d.
Because he has it all detailed out in the readme for both Linux and Mac, it is very hassle free. I was unfamiliar with GitHub and that has added time, but with Phil’s guidance, it is smooth sailing. I find this easier to set-up on Linux, but that is due to things being more logical on Linux, in my opinion.
I am working through how to merge this new way of doing things to include my preferences of BFX for graphics, slating, versioning for socials, and grading with image nodes.
More once I work through getting this in place.
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Some good caveats for synthetic.conf here under the Note. When in doubt, man synthetic.conf.
Also, don’t add an entry to both synthetic.conf and add it to Path Translation.
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