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At the Autodesk website a laptop Hewlett Packard 8710w is included as a qualified system to run Flare.
Can you run Flare without being connected to a Flame system or to the stones?
Can you take a laptop with Flare installed and do some rough comp in a shooting location?
If yes, where you store your clips, in the local HD?
Can you play real time from a $900 HP 8710w laptop?
Has anyone used Flare on a laptop?I’m think if you watched the episodes of fxguidetv when they talk about NAB, I believe they mentioned how Autodesk demonstrated Flare on a laptop. However I do not know the answers to the other question as far as saving clips.
while I’m not completely sure, I believe the answer to all your questions is “no.”
Yes it will, as long as the laptop has a QuadroFX card.
As far as I know, flare needs to connect to a host storage system via wire. So no local storage is supported on flare*
It sounds also logical, because it is designed as an assistant station. But I can’t see any reason for flame* to not to work on a laptop. I guess Autodesk made some efforts to make the code work on most of the quadro boards, since they wanted to give support for many flare* platforms.
I guess that, all gfx code is shared between flare and flame, so if flare works on 8710w, I guess flame will work too. But unless Autodesk lists hp8710w as a supported platform for flame, you can not get a system like that. I speak theoretically, they can show you a system in a backroom, which can playback 2K from SSD. Probably output from HDMI as the video display too…
But who needs a flame on a laptop? Seriously, I am not asking this for fun… Will it make its money back?
There was a thread on Flame news about this. Somebody got their copy of Flare working on this configuration after a bit of messing around:
Workstation: HP EliteBook 8730w F.0B
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9100 @ 3.06GHz, 2 active CPU(s)
RAM: 7948 Meg of RAM
Graphics: Quadro FX 3700M Driver: 180.61
OS: CentOS release 5.2 (Final) – 64bit OS
Kernel: 2.6.18-92.el5 DKUversion 4.0.4-1
Config: DKUversion 4.0.4-1
Apparently this was working on set so obviously there was no Flame handy.
Cheers
JJHi Kuban,
Actually, Flare doesn’t support a local StoneFS (neither do the new z series flames either) but you are more than welcome to create your own standardFS on whatever media you want to or alternatively hookup to a Flame via wire.
Best,
ChrisOk, thats good news. So standartfs on set. Does also r3d import work on flare*? If so, on some of the red projects flare* might help a lot for doing test composites.
its realy WTC that supports R3D. WTC can send that into any Wiretap device. Flare/Flame/Smoke.
You should be able to install WTC on a system running flare. Might take some code crunching to get it to work but I don’t see any major issues whilst it shouldn’t work. Add the mio and backburner installs and you “could” have your on set Flare powered R3D pre-comp tool right there. Only it’d debayer to DPX on the standardFS you’re running on the flare as opposed to the trusty old “stone”
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