Setup guide

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You must license Inferno, Flame Premium, Flame, Flint, Smoke Advanced, Smoke and Backdraft Conform,
and where applicable, Lustre, before you can start.
If you use the pen and tablet while the application is starting, the tablet will fail to initialise. Press
Shift+T+Insert to initialise the tablet if it does not function during a work session. To start the software
for the first time:
1 Log into your workstation and do one of the following:
■ WARNING The -v option deletes all material on the framestore. Use this option only if you have no
material that you want to preserve on the framestore.
If this is the first time you are starting the software on a new system, in a terminal run
/usr/discreet/<product_home>/bin/startApplication -v to initialize the framestore and start
the application. For information on all the command-line options available, see Command line
start-up options (page 91).
■ To start the application without initializing the framestore, double-click the application icon on
the Desktop.
2 The Autodesk Master Systems Software License Agreement appears. To view the License Agreement in
another language, click a language tab at the bottom of the License Agreement window.
3 Read the text carefully, and click I Accept if you agree to all the terms in the License Agreement.
4 Use the Project Management menu to create a project and a user. For information on creating projects
and users, see the application Help.
5 Click Start or press Enter.
6 When prompted to confirm the framestore initialisation, answer “yes”. After a few moments, the
following message appears: Startup complete. You are ready to start working in the application. If
you see a splash screen rather than the application interface, click anywhere on the screen.
Starting Lustre for the First Time
■ To start Lustre, log into the application’s Linux user account and double-click the Lustre icon on the
KDE desktop. Lustre starts. The license you installed determines the type of station you are using (Lustre
Master Station or Lustre Station).
■ When the Lustre UI appears, you can begin working. For a new project, this includes:
■ Creating the project and setting its parameters (such as logarithmic or linear colour space). For
information on creating projects and users, see the “Project Management” topic in the Lustre Help.
To open the Help, press Shift+F1.
■ Specifying the location of footage.
Command line start-up options
There are a number of options you can use with the application start-up command under special
circumstances. More than one start-up option can be specified on the command line. Start-up options are
case-sensitive. To start the application using a command line option, open a terminal and type:
<application_name> - <option>
b <file> Execute batch.
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