Anyone has experience with RVIO or MetaRender?

Deadline
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Hi,

I’m planning to add an automated process to our pipeline for ingesting plates, preparing dailies and previews etc… and I’m currently considering adding either RVIO or MetaRender to our pipeline.

Anyone has any experience with these (or any other, similar, tools) for making quicktimes, mpegs, jpg sequences etc… from a bunch of plates or EXR renders or comps etc…?

Thanks in advance, cheers…

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hi loocas,

we tried to deploy metafuze a year ago but had to find out that it can only ever render one chunk as one job, (regardless of the output format) so we skipped it for our intend. that is because iridas hasn´t supplied the command line functionality yet (v2009, maybe 2010 can do it now), we have speedgrade DI so it would be quite nice to render grades via deadline.

we are currently looking into FFMPEG for dailes/checking but havn´t had the time to delve deeper into it (we first have to test if it can read exr´s).

i just recently found out that the latest nuke build can read quicktimes even in the 64bit version, so we might even use that (even though i would prefer a proper encoding software or something with hardware accelleration like our matrox compress hd).

so nuke would probably the safest bet, we will try to create this with ffmpeg nontheless (it´s free after all…)

cheers,
Timor

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Hey, Timor,

thanks for the tips, that sounds actually very good, the Nuke usage, we have a few render licenses. I might take a look at that instead!

As for ffmpeg, again, thanks for pointing that out, I’ll give it a look.

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No problem…

I would definately appreciate if the new version of deadline would have a bit more of this functionality built in.
It seems most of the people create their own post render scripts from scratch to create sth. that most peple want/need (like proxies from the rendering, be it jpg, mov, etc…)

We even considered to modify the submission dialog with a drop down menue to give the users control over the post-render jobs but it is quite a lot of work.

So far we only have a render script which sents the rendered sequences to avid metafuze for MXF creation but you have to click on the job to create it, no automation yet :frowning:

let´s hope DL 5 improves in that area.

cheers,

Timor

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Deadline 5 is not likely to have support for automatic dailies production. That sort of thing is likely best handled by a secondary application so that Deadline stays and clean as possible.

Thinkbox is however building a python framework that wraps imagemagick and ffmpeg for post-render operations like templates and the like called Arsenal. I can’t say too much about it, other than it will have integration with Deadline and that you should start looking for it late this spring. It will certainly help in the effort to roll your own dailies system nuke free. :slight_smile:

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There’s some nice stuff in v5 which will kind of answer your questions…:slight_smile:
Mike

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Sweet, can´t wait…

Just to clarify: i don´t want deadline to actually convert the files (hence my ffmpeg approach), but would love if thinkbox would supply more pre-made post-render-scripts to handle tasks as described. but sounds like v5 is a major step in that direction…

Thanks,

Timor

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We have had a very good experience with RVIO. It’s very powerful and quite fast.
It’s pretty simple to build a python frontend to it or whatever for tasks like dailies and ingesting.

R

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Thank you! Sounds very promising. I’ll give RVIO and RV another look.