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Furnace 3.1v1

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk IFFFS products with licensing removed from the Burn sparks.

Release Date

5 January 2009

Requirements

Flare, Flame, Flint, Inferno, Smoke and Burn
Tested and supported on Flare running on Centos 5.3 (64bit) and Flame 2010 SP3 running on Centos 4.3 (64bit) (equavalent to RHEL 4.3) .

Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 5.0v1 or later for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Other Changes

Licensing has been removed from the Burn version of the software. The Burn version of the software is now provided free to the end user.

Fixed Bugs

  1. There was a bug on 64 bit Linux systems that could cause all of the Furnace plug-ins to crash. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. BUG ID 8287 - sparks that use frames other than the current one, will render black when applied on the Timeline.
  2. F_MatchGrade - BUG ID 8616 - intermittently crashes with some combinations of 2K footage.
  3. F_ReGrain - BUG ID 8644 - crashes on load on HP Z800 systems : WORKAROUND TO THIS BUG: Set the following environment variables in the shell prior to running FFIS host:
    FOUNDRY_SET_NUMPROCS 8
    FOUNDRY_DEBUG_NUMPROCS 1
  4. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied with timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a workaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  5. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 3.0v6

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk.

Release Date

19 November 2008

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Inferno, Smoke and Burn have been tested.

Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 5.0v1 or later for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. 12bit processing caused frequent crashes. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied with timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a workaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  2. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 3.0v5

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk.

Release Date

20 January 2008

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5 on Irix 32, Flame 9.5 on Irix64, Flint 9.0/9.5/2007 on Linux32, Flame 9.5/2007 on Linux64 and Burn 2.0/2007 have been tested.

Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 4.0v8 or later for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Batch - BUG ID 2251 - more stability problems fixed for Irix and Linux.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied with timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a workaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  2. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 3.0v4

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk.

Release Date

10 August 2007

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5 on Irix 32, Flame 9.5 on Irix64, Flint 9.0/9.5/2007 on Linux32, Flame 9.5/2007 on Linux64 and Burn 2.0/2007 have been tested.

Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 4.0v8 or later for floating license support.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Batch - BUG ID 691 - more stability problems, particularly with multiple Furnace nodes in batch, have been fixed that would cause crashes on Irix.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. In batch on Flame 2007 on Linux building a node tree with a Furnace plug-in going into Kronos will crash. This does not happen in Flame 9.5.10 on Linux. As a workaround use separate trees or the desktop until we find a solution.
  2. Although this version is better than 3.0v3, some intermittent stability issues remain in Batch. As a workaround, use the plug-ins in Desktop mode.
  3. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied with timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a workaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  4. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 3.0v3

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk.

Release Date

22 December 2006

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5 on Irix32, Flame 9.5 on Irix64, Flint 9.0/9.5/2007 on Linux32, Flame 9.5/2007 on Linux64 and Burn 2.0/2007 have been tested.

Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) 4.0v8 or later for floating license support.

New Features

Versions now built for FFFIS 2007 (RHEL4).

Improvements

Licensing. Th ability to return a floating license to the server after a period of inactivity has been added. Previously, a license would be returned only if the spark was unloaded or the application quit. To enable this feature you must install FFT4.0v8 or later and use the environment variable FOUNDRY_HEARTBEAT_DISABLE true.

Fixed Bugs

  1. F_SmartFill - BUG ID 757 - fixed a bug that would cause occasional crashes in batch.
  2. Batch - BUG ID 691 - numerous bugs fixed that would cause crashes in batch on Irix.
  3. F_Kronos - BUG ID 758 - bug giving stuttering retiming in Kronos. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. Although this version is better than 3.0v2, some intermittent stability issues remain in Batch. As a workaround, use the plug-ins in Desktop mode.
  2. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied ith timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a aworkaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  3. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 3.0v2

This is a major new release of Furnace on Autodesk including new plug-ins and improvements.

Release Date

12 October 2006

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5 on Irix32, Flame 9.5 on Irix64, Flint 9.0/9.5 on Linux32, Flame 9.5 on Linux64 and Burn 2.0 have been tested.

New Features

Eleven new plug-ins have been added to this release.
  1. F_ColourAlign
  2. F_Correlate
  3. F_DeBlur
  4. F_DeNoise
  5. F_Depth
  6. F_MatchGrade
  7. F_MatteToRoto
  8. F_MotionBlur
  9. F_MotionMatte
  10. F_PlanarPatcher
  11. F_Splicer

Improvements

  1. FLEXlm - the plug-ins are licensed with FLEXlm from Macrovision. Better tools for managing floating licenses across a network are now available.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Various floating license bugs affecting sites running very large numbers of licenses have been fixed with the introduction of FLEXlm licensing.
  2. F_WireRemoval - Bug ID 555 - fixed for working at proxy resolution.
  3. F_Tile - Bug ID 133 - "Fill Output Y" parameter now works correctly. "Fill Output X" used to control both dimensions.
  4. F_RigRemoval - Bug ID 119 - intermittent corruption in difference key is now filled in correctly.
  5. F_SmartFill - Bug ID 104 - "Use Guess" parameter now functions correctly - it was ignorned in previous versions.
  6. F_ReGrain - BUG ID 105 - "Green Response"" parameter now controls the green channel rather than "Blue Response" controlled both blue and green.
  7. F_ReGrain - Bug ID 118 - "Reset All" resets the analysis results as well as the parameters.
  8. F_PixelTexture - Bug ID 201 - Using "Smaller Segments" could give non-deterministic results. This is now fixed.
  9. F_ColourMatte - Bug ID 69 - "Use Known Background" now functions correctly - it was ignorned in the previous versions.
  10. Processing - Bug ID 198 - Setting "Process" to Preview will only process on pushing the Preview button, even if the current frame is changed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. Some intermittent stability issues have been noted in Batch. As a workaround, use the plug-ins in Desktop mode.
  2. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied ith timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a aworkaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  3. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 2.0v3

This is a maintenence release of Furnace on Autodesk to fix a couple of bugs.

Release Date

December 2006

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5, 9.0, 9.5.1 on Autodesk Irix, Flint 9.0 on Autodesk Linux 32 and Burn 1.5 and 2.0 have been tested.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. Ethernet - a new environment variable has been added to allow customers to license their plug-ins to non-standard ethernet devices. # setenv FOUNDRY_ETHERNET_ID eth4
  2. Statically Linked Plug-ins - Occasional corrupt frames on some FFFIS configurations has been fixed by staically linking the plug-ins.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied ith timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a aworkaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  2. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.
  3. On Linux 64 machines plug-ins may take up to 9 seconds to enter the editing menu. Not all machines are affected in this way.

Furnace 2.0v2

This is a maintenence release of Furnace on Autodesk to fix a multi-threading problem for Irix 64.

Release Date

23 November 2005

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5, 9.0, 9.5.1 on Autodesk Irix, Flint 9.0 on Autodesk Linux 32 and Burn 1.5 and 2.0 have been tested.

New Features

There are no new features.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

  1. IRIX 64 - F_DirtRemoval, F_DeFlicker and other plug-ins reported running extremely slowly on multiprocessing machines running 64 bit versions of Flame 9.5 beta 4 or Inferno 6.5.1. problems appears less severe on Flame 9.5.1. A number of changes to fix this have been implemented.
  2. F_EdgeMatte - Snap to Edge button causes a crash if no roto is drawn. This has been fixed.
  3. F_DirtRemoval - BUG ID 594 - a frame offset problem in batch has been fixed.
  4. F_MotionSmooth - BUG ID 593 - slips by one frame in batch. This has been fixed.
  5. F_BlockTexture - BUG ID 559 - not working in Irix 32. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

  1. F_Kronos - BUG ID 609 - when applied ith timing method set to speed and speed set to 100% results in an offset of 1 frame between input and output. As a aworkaround apply with method set to frame and keyframe 1 on the first frame and the final frame on the final frame.
  2. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.
  3. On Linux 64 machines plug-ins may take up to 9 seconds to enter the editing menu. Not all machines are affected in this way.

Furnace 2.0v1

This is a major new release of Furnace on Autodesk with 10 new plug-ins, improvements and support for Irix 64 and Linux 64.

Release Date

1 July 2005

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5, 9.0, 9.5 on Autodesk Irix, Flint 9.0 on Autodesk Linux and Burn 1.5 and 2.0 have been tested.

New Features

  1. F_ScratchRepair - repairs scratches.
  2. F_ChannelRepair - repairs defects in one colour channel using information from undamaged colour channels.
  3. F_DirtRemoval - scans frames for dirt using motion estimation, highlights the dirt and repairs it
  4. F_ColourMatte - creates mattes of arbitrary foregrounds over backgrounds without using blue screens.
  5. F_EdgeMatte - roto assist tool that snaps splines to edges,
  6. F_MotionRepair - recreates missing or damaged frames using motion estimation technology.
  7. F_MotionSmooth - uses motion estimation and a three way median filter to rebuild all frames in a clip. This process is good at cleaning up temporally changing artefacts.
  8. F_SmartFill - rebuilds missing or damaged areas of a frame by looking at pixels around the area and intelligently growing inwards.
  9. F_SmartPlate - creates large clean plates from a sequence of frames.
  10. F_Smartzoom - high quality scaling of images using temporal information

Improvements

  1. F_DeGrain - Tune Huge parameter added.
  2. F_DeGrain and F_ReGrain - mattes added to allow for selective degraining/regraining.
  3. F_Kronos - calculator function added to help set animation curves.
  4. F_WireRemoval - the ability to import tracking data from Autodesk's tracker has been added.

Fixed Bugs

BUG ID 493 - various memory leaks and "not a valid system pointer" messages have been fixed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 451 - shearing on the repair is visible on shallow wires that go off-screen bottom or left but only if the sinc filtering is switched on.

Furnace 1.1v3

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk to support Autodesk Linux. Note: Furnace 1.1v1 and 1.1v2 were not generally released.

Release Date

May 2005

Requirements

Flame, Flint, Fire, Inferno or Smoke. Flame 8.5, 9.0 on Autodesk Irix, Flint 9.0 on Autodesk Linux and Burn 1.5 have been qualified.

Irix and Linux are supported at 32 bit only.

New Features

Autodesk Linux is now supported.

Improvements

Licensing diagnostic information is now rendered to the screen if the plug-in is unlicensed.

Fixed Bugs

  1. F_WireRemoval - BUG ID 210 - a memory bug has been fixed that would print a warning to the shell in Furnace 1.0v2
  2. Burn - BUG ID 461 - batch jobs submitted on a network of Burn stations that use Kronos would produce an output clip where the first N frames were frozen where N is the number of Burn renderers. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Furnace 1.0v2

This is a maintenance release of Furnace on Autodesk.

Release Date

March 2004

Requirements

Furnace is compiled MIPS4 and requires Irix 6.2 or later on R8000, R10000 or R5000 microprocessors. Fire 5.3, Smoke 5.3, Inferno 5.3, Flame 8.3, and flint 8.3 are supported. FFFIS 7/5 versions and later are likely to work.

Acrobat 5 or later is required to view the PDF user guide.

New Features

There are no new features over the previous beta release.

Improvements

There are no improvements to existing features.

Fixed Bugs

Licensing - an obscure bug in the floating license code has been found and fixed that may occasionally have caused Furnace to become unlicensed.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

Furnace 1.0v1

This is the first release of Furnace on Autodesk.

Release Date

September 2003.

Requirements

Furnace is compiled MIPS4 and requires Irix 6.2 or later on R8000, R10000 or R5000 microprocessors. Fire 5.3, Smoke 5.3, Inferno 5.3, Flame 8.3, and flint 8.3 are supported. FFFIS 7/5 versions and later are likely to work.

Acrobat 5 or later is required to view the PDF user guide.

New Features

Not applicable.

Improvements

Not applicable.

Fixed Bugs

Not applicable.

Known Bugs & Workarounds

There are no known bugs.

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