IFF (software)

Autodesk Inferno, Flame and Flint
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Developer(s)	Autodesk Media and Entertainment
Stable release	2009 / 2009
Operating system	Silicon Graphics IRIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Type	Compositing software
License	Proprietary
Website	[1]

Inferno, Flame and Flint is a series of compositing and visual effects applications made by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. They share the same software base, but differ mainly in hardware configuration. Traditionally Inferno ran on the SGI Onyx series, while Flame and Flint ran on the SGI Octane, or SGI Indigo2. In 1998 Gary Tregaskis (design), Dominiquie Boisvert, Phillippe Panzini and Andre Le Blanc (development and implementation) won an Academy Award at the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards for Flame and Inferno.

Release history

Version	Hardware	O/S	Release date	Price	Significant changes (selected)
Inferno 2, Flame 5	?	IRIX	?	?	RGBCMYK keyer
Inferno 3, Flame/Flint/Effect 6	Onyx IR and Onyx 2 (Inferno) Octane SE and Indigo2 (Flint) O2 (Effect)	IRIX	December 1998	?	Modular keyer (Inferno)
Inferno 4, Flame/Flint/Effect 7	Onyx2 (Inferno) Octane (Flint)	IRIX 6.5.7	July 2000	?	?
Inferno 5, Flame/Flint 8	?	IRIX	January 2003	?	?
Inferno 5.5, Flame/Flint 8.5	?	IRIX, Linux	December 2003 (IRIX), September 2004 (Linux)	$119,990 (Flint Linux turnkey)	?
Inferno 6, Flame/Flint 9	Onyx3200 (Inferno) Onyx350 (Inferno) Tezro (Flame) IBM Z-Pro 6221 (Flint)	IRIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	October 2004	?	?