Hi all,
In Deadline 4, I believe drag and dropping from the Tasks window to Nuke worked (i.e. dropped down a Read node for the sequence). In Deadline 5, this no longer works. Nuke is looking for the MIME type ‘text/plain’. From Deadline, this now seems to be a dump of all the columns in the Deadline window instead of a filepath.
Can anyone suggest any tips/tricks/workarounds?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
That’s the problem. Deadline copies the selected rows to the Text data format, and the output paths to the FileDrop data format.
It actually works for Fusion…
Could you have a global repository throw switch, between either fusion or nuke, as most studios will use either one application or the other but not both? Unless your name is PrimeFocus I guess 
Also, being able to copy data out of Deadline and throw it into Excel is super useful
Or at least a Keyboard Shortcut for “Copy Task Render Path”.
That’s why I’m not sure we want to change how it currently works. If Nuke expects plain text, that means that this feature would no longer work if a global switch was changed to support Nuke.
This might be a more general solution we could look at. I’ve put it on the wish list.
Cheers,
OK.
How about a “right-click” menu in the task list, with a type of Microsoft “Send To…” sub-menu, with sub-entries of “Nuke”, “Fusion”, “Excel”, etc.
Then a “on-the-fly” translation is done to make the data friendly for the incoming application.
You could also have a default which is as it is now?
M
That’s an interesting idea! I think if we did this, it would have to be a task Scripts menu, and then have scripts that did these sorts of things. We try to keep application specific features out of the core code as much as possible.
In fact, this could already be achieved through the existing Job scripting feature, since you have access to the task output paths.
“task scripts menu”…ohh… I like the idea of that
Hmmmm…lots of new possibilities for custom scripts…