When Deadline fills Shotgun’s Version’s “Path to Frames” and “Path to Movie” fields it uses a following syntax:
imageFileName.#.jpg
RV player refuses to playback if the framepadding is represented with a symbol #.
In order for RV player to be able to load and playback the rendered image sequence the frame padding
needs to be represented via symbol @ such as:
imageFileName.@.jpg
What would be a way to configure Deadline to use a symbol @ instead of symbol # ?
Personally, I would complain to the RV developers that they need to improve their player as “#” is industry standard. It’s what Nuke uses and this is meant to play nice with RV!
It seems like RV should support the ‘#’ padding character:
tweaksoftware.com/static/doc … rames.html
The “@” symbol forces RV to expect a certain padding size, but I don’t see it saying that “#” will not work with 0 padded frames…
After playing enough I have came to conclusion that RV player accepts
both symbols: @ and #.
For a single frame padding such as image.1.jpg, image.2.jpg … image.9.jpg symbol @ works
while a symbol # doesn’t.
For a multi-digits frame padded image sequences such as image.0001.jpg, image.0002.jpg and so on
symbol # should be used for RV to be able to load and playback. A symbol @ won’t work
in a such scenario.
But since Deadline fills Path to Frames and Path to Movie Shotgun’s fields
using # symbol I would suggest avoiding a single digits frame padding.