From: "Mark Smith" <Mark.Smith@capital-fx.co.uk>
Subject: Using Rush in a slightly different way
   Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:30:24 -0700
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Hi there,

 

I'd like to use Rush in a way that it might not have been designed to and thought I'd ask if it was possible first.

 

We use Framecycler for playing back sequences. To allow real time playback of really long sequences Framecyler has its own proprietary file format called .ihss. Now you can make these ihss files in the Framecycler GUI or use Framecycler’s command line utility (no GUI at all) called Sequence Publisher that takes a sequence of frames and creates one .ihss file.

 

So I want to make these .ihss files on the farm and do it through Rush. So instead of doing an operation on lots of frames spread over a farm, I need to do one huge operation on a whole sequence just on one render node, and output one file.

 

Is this possible?

 

Sequence publisher has the following syntax:

 

publisher /path/to/frames.#.cin /path/to/outputfile.ihss –r 50% 50%

 

The –r is a resize in x and y. There are other options but we only use these currently.

 

If this is possible some pointers on how to create a submission GUI for this would be great!

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

 

 

Mark Smith

IT Engineer

Captial FX

20 Dering Street

London W1S 1AJ

 

T: +44 (0)20 7493 9998

F: + 44 (0)20 7493 9997

 


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