we’re using Deadline 6.1 and need to transcode .DPX to .MXF - and preferably with minimal human input.
The provided Deadline Meta Fuze Plugin works - but it expects a .xml file generated in MetaFuze with the information of all the needed input files, output path & conversion settings to transcode.
So the problem is that you still have to use the MetaFuze GUI to create those XML Batch files - and this is time consuming & error-prone.
Did maybe someone already did a script in the style of the Quicktime Job Submission (scripts/Jobs/QuicktimeSubmission.py) - so that you just click on a finished nuke job for example and it creates a metafuze job with iput/output already filled?
Or more broadly asked: Is there another way to do automize the .DPX to .MXF process?
Well, you could always harvest the submission files from the job (see job properties), grab the XML file and do your own custom submitter. I’m assuming it’s just a few bits.
I’m not against lending a hand here, but if you can, give it a try and I’ll field questions. If you’re not able to do scripting, we’ll see if we can work something out. XML isn’t that hard to fiddle with.
Hi,
I’m no coder so am a bit overwhelmed with building a script from scratch
But I attached a XML File which is generated by MetaFuze
And the fields to change are probably only a few:
under
Here are the Inputfiles - so in the script you should be able to select a folder and all the containing .dpx files (or all files) should be listed here
and under
is the outputpath
this should also be selectable - but the output filename should be auto generated from the input filename
(not sure what does - the default is that it’s the same as the outputfilename)
