The following is the list of the new and improved interoperability features between Lustre and the Visual Effects and Finishing applications:

• You now have the ability to import a multi-layer timeline from a Visual Effects and Finishing application and export it to the Wiretap server.
• When gaps are imported from a multi-layer timeline, they are seen as black media for Layer 1 and appear transparent for the layers above Layer 1.
• Marry grade files can be created with content coming from the Wiretap server (soft import/publish only). Content that is located on the Stone FS or Standard FS is still not supported. The workaround for this is to publish the content to a shared location.
• Lustre now supports a timeline with a mix of media that has drop frame and non-drop frame. Instead of using only the timeline frame code mode, it now also uses the source clips’ frame code mode.
• Previously, when you imported media with dissolves from a Visual Effects and Finishing application, the dissolves were all shown as centre dissolves within Lustre. Now when footage from a Visual Effects and Finishing application is imported into Lustre, the dissolves are shown accordingly (i.e., from cut, centre, up to cut, or custom). This feature is supported by Wiretap Server 2010 and higher.
• A cut is now created with the Wiretap frame rate data and frame code mode (drop frame and non-drop frame).
• Within the Network Rendering settings of the project configuration, you can now enable the Proxy Rendering option, so that proxies are automatically generated when you render the timeline. This allows you to load clips in a Visual Effects and Finishing application without having to render the proxies first.
• The library reel, source clip, and timeline clip names are new metadata that are created when you render to Wiretap.