Draft: Create quicktime from Nuke render

Deadline
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Hey,

I want a job to run straight after my Nuke renders that creates a preview quicktime.

Question time:

  • Can I use the Shotgun/Draft tab in the Nuke Submitter todo this?
  • If so, how do I pass the arguments to the Draft template? In all the example python templates, you have to specify the input file, for example:
currFile = ReplaceFilenameHashesWithNumber( 'Patches_ball_###.jpg', currFrame )

I need to get all this information from the parent nuke job, and pass it straight to draft. Possible?

  • Is there an easier way todo this that i’m missing?

Cheers,

Nick

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Hi,
As of Deadline v7.2.0.18 (shipped last week), we have “Quick Draft” in many of our UI submitters, which is a simple drop-down list in the “Integration” tab allowing you to select the creation of a Quicktime movie via a dependent Draft job after the Nuke job has completed. For me, this is now the easiest way to create a mov, mxf, jpg, tif, tga, exr, etc output based on a completed job in Deadline. If you are evaluating or recently purchased Deadline, then you will have 12 months support, so please do get in touch with your reseller / our sales team to request the latest version.

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Nice, thanks Mike

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Mike, is there anyway to assign an audio file to be encoded with the output in Quick Draft?

Thanks.

Vaughn

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Yep, Draft fully supports adding an audio file to the VideoEncoder:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … deoencoder

You could add this yourself by enhancing the Quick Draft Python scripts we ship with.