[posted to rush.general]

Our pipeline at the moment is: we render downsized, LUT-converted JPEGs 

in the same setup as the main DPX files as a second output. After the 

job is done I submit a job to the renderqueue of Silverstack (called 

Cinemator) on a small Mac mini to generate quicktimes from these JPEGs.

Silverstack can create templates for burnin, LUT conversion, codec, etc. 

which you can use while submitting the job to Cinemator on the commandline.

At the moment, Cinemator is a GUI app which can be fed by a commandline 

command, but what I heard is that they are working on a more 

sophisticated solution.

Maybe you want to have a look on it.

Sounds interesting, but unless they have a non-gui interface,

it's not something I think Rush can control properly.

What I'd like to do is have a way to make it easy to add any

kind of command line tool to handle QT conversions to the

submit scripts, and have a pulldown that lets one select which

converter to use, eg. ffmpeg, MetaRender, SequencePublisher,

qt-tools, etc.

Probably what I'd do is add a "QT" tab to all the submit scripts

that has prompts for the input images and output movie, as well

as being able to select which codecs to use. All the rush submit

scripts would then be able to call a single, central script

to handle the actual QT conversion as a 'jobdonecommand'.