   From: Craig Allison <craig@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: Auto Rendering of QT's on jobcomplete
   Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:54:49 -0400

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Ok, so I've finally got around to looking into this and have decided to change my original way of thinking and give the artists the opportunity to render a quicktime on the farm once they are happy with the results previewed in Framecycler.

I have taken the submit-shake-quicktime script and amended it to allow users to select which film they are working on, select the first frame in the sequence to render and dialogue for slate notes etc - the combination of all this information chooses the correct shake setup script on the network, replaces the variables, saves a copy and submits it to the farm.

The script renders a 2K slate & greyscale (named and numbered correctly) and also a QT with the appropriate settings for the production. I have it working fine but now want to speed it up by splitting the job into two, i.e. one script to render the two 2k frames and one script to render the QT.

I've got rush creating the 2 distinct shake scripts to render, but don't know how to get 2 scripts to render with a single rush submit, is there an easy way?

Cheers

Craig

Craig Allison

Digital Systems & Data Manager

The Senate Visual Effects

Twickenham Film Studios

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www.senatevfx.com

On 19 Dec 2008, at 09:20, Abraham Schneider wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Greg Ercolano schrieb:

Sounds interesting, but unless they have a non-gui interface,
it's not something I think Rush can control properly.

yes, that's right. I'm doing it in two steps at the moment: rush=20
executes a jobdonecommand script which creates an entry with the path to =

the image sequence in a queue folder. A small python script on my QT=20
creation Mac is watching this folder and does the actual 'feeding' of=20
the Silverstack rendering app (called Cinemator).

That's not a perfect solution but it works quite well for us at the=20
moment. And with the template files it is easy to do different burnins,=20
codecs, framerates, etc. depending on project or user choose.

Abraham

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