Hello,
I was curious if the Draft event script was capable of posting a filmstrip thumbnail to shotgun when uploading a video? It doesn’t seem to be doing this currently. I spoke with Shotgun and they said that when a video is uploaded to their servers, the transcoding process would generate a filmstrip thumbnail. How is the Draft plugin submitting to shotgun? Is it uploading to their servers, or just linking from the local network? If it’s not possible, would I be able to incorporate the shotgun upload process in my draft template?
Thanks
Yeah, we’re not currently generating a filmstrip for the uploaded videos. It is something that we can do, and it’s currently on our wishlist, but isn’t slated for development 'til Deadline 6.2 unfortunately. We are actually uploading the videos to the Shotgun server through their Python API, though I’m not aware of it magically creating a filmstrip for you… Maybe there’s just a magic flag we need to set, I’ll look into that.
If you guys have someone good with Python, you could theoretically look into adding this functionality yourselves, since all of our Shotgun integration is done with Python scripts
Based on this, I’ll go ahead and begin developing a method for generating these on our own and I’ll likely piggy back off of your shotgun event wrappers to upload the filmstrip once it’s been rendered.
Thanks!