Hiero network scripts notes
—Setting up shared network path for Hiero—
set the following environment variable:
HIERO_PLUGIN_PATH=/Volumes/VFX/MISC/hieroscripts
######FOLDER STRUCTURE######
hieroscripts
Python
TaskPresets
Processors
hiero.exporters.FnShotProcessor.ShotProcessor
__Preset__Exporter.xml
Templates
baseProject.hrox
######FOLDER STRUCTURE######
* the baseProject.hrox will load when you create a base project.
* if you create a new exporter inside Hiero, it will need to be manually copied to the network location. Currently Hiero won’t work out of that network folder, so you’ll need to copy over the ___Preset_Exporter.xml file from $HOME/.hiero/TaskPresets/Processors/hiero.exporters.FnShotProcessor.ShotProcessor/ to the network location for it to be picked up.
lens flares & sapphire chroma warp
(from flame-news)
…I normally end up doing some softening to the flares (&
rays). Adding a downstream Sapphire chroma warp through the matte of the
flares sometimes helps marry them with the BG plate & give a little nice
optical distortion through them.
To be honest, I for one always rendered lensflares at lower res and comps them on top of the full res comp. I felt they look way to sharp.
Maybe that just me
Rsync notes
using rsync on OS X 10.6.8 to backup directories:
n = dry run
v = verbose
h = human readable
t= sync directory
/usr/local/bin/rsync –stats –progress -aNHAXxhvt –fileflags –protect-decmpfs –force-change /Volumes/SOURCE/ /Volumes/DESTINATION/
FFMPEG endoding tips for VFX
Nice writeup on using ffmpeg in a VFX pipeline
https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/vfxEncodingGuide
Analyze Brightness in a Region of Pixels to drive Grade Node
‘There may be a tool that already does what I’m about to describe, but I’ve done something like what (I think) you want in the past by cropping to the small area that you want to analyse then put a sufficient blur on that small area to smooth it all out, then reformat the small crop up to a full size image. Then, take a “frameHold” on that image on some reference frame, then divide the one by the other and you now have a full frame image that you can use to multiply against anything else to CC it in a way that will mimic the frame by frame difference of your little sampled area over the course of the shot, so you can (for example) reproduce flickering, or even remove flickering if you flip the order of the inputs on the “divide”. Anyway, this may give you other ideas too.’
-from the nuke-l mailing list
Installing PyQt on MacOS X 10.6.8
- Make sure you have the latest Mac OS X Update installed (10.6.8 or 10.7)
- Make sure you have the latest version of Xcode installed (available from Apple
- Download the Cocoa Mac binary package for Qt from Nokia
- Run the Qt installer and wait for it to finish
- Download the latest stable build of SIP from Riverbank Computing
- Download the latest stable buildof PyQt from Riverbank Computing
- Create a new folder called ‘OpenSource’ inside your user directory
- Move the SIP and PyQt tar.gz packages to this folder
- Double-click on the SIP and PyQt tar.qz to decompress them
- Rename the SIP and PyQt folders something shorter e.g. ‘SIP’ and ‘PyQt’
- In Terminal type the following to install SIP (each line separately followed by enter):
cd ~/OpenSourcecd SIPpython configure.py -d /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages --arch x86_64makesudo make install
- In Terminal type the following to install PyQt4 (each line separately followed by enter):
cd ..cd PyQtpython configure.py -d /Library/Python2.6/site-packages/ --use-arch x86_64makesudo make install
- Log out of the new user account and back into your regular account
- Check PyQt is working
- Delete the recently created user account from system preferences/accounts
You should now be able to run Python programs that use PyQt4 on your Mac.
Krachen_Tools v1.0 for NUKE
Krachen_Tools v1.0 for NUKE by Niccolo’ Barbero
K_Denoise: It works on YCbCr colorspace instead of RGB. It helps to soften digital artifact working with different parameters on: black dots, white dots an over coloured dots
K_LumaKeyer: advanced tool that give you the opportunity to perform a luma key in different color space
K_AlphaEdge: It helps to menage the alpha edges. It makes an edge detects of the alpha and it allows to have some advanced operation such as dilate/erode, blur e gain on both inside and outside the edge in separately
K_BeautyCleaner: It helps to have a classic beauty clean up. Expecially designed to clean models or actors skin and face
K_Reorder: It works as shake’s reorder