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Can you create a Compressor Droplet to render image sequences?
To my knowledge it’s impossible to use droplets for image sequences? Is that correct?
I’m using Compressor 3.5.3 on OS 10.6.5.
I often render to TGA or IFF sequences in case the AE Renderer or Mental Ray in Maya fails. I know I can add things manually in Compressor and batch it like that, but I’d love to be able to quickly drop sequences onto a droplet if it’s possible.
I guess I could create an Automater app for this.
Eric Bowman
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[Eric Bowman] “To my knowledge it’s impossible to use droplets for image sequences? Is that correct?”
Have you tried?
rafael -
I definitely tried with no success. Just kind of curious if there was something special I needed to do to make it recognize the image sequence. I’m thinking my only option is to add a job in Compressor or think about using an Automater workflow.
Eric Bowman
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What if you open the Still Sequence on QT and “SAVE as..”.
You get a QT movie (Reference or Self-Contained) without recompression, same setting that your stills.
That should work with theDroplets.
rafael -
Yeah that’s my latest solution as well. 🙂
Doing a reference movie should work fine, it’s just that extra step ya know.
I think I’m just wishing for something that isn’t there. For example if you dragged the first image of a sequence onto a Droplet from compressor, I wish it popped up a dialog that said something like, “Do you want to use this image sequence?”
For now I’m doing what you have suggested. I might still think about an automater workflow in which I just add a folder that contains the image sequence and have it do all of this stuff at once.
I’ve also wondered if Terminal with some command line magic would do the trick.
Thanks for the suggestions man.
Eric Bowman
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Hello,
use of Terminal is possible : for example :
/Compressor ‑clusterid tcp://127.0.0.1:51737 ‑batchname myBatch ‑jobpath /Volumes/Source/ShortClips/ ‑settingpath /Users/stomper10/Library/Application Support/Compressor/PhotoJPEG.setting ‑destinationpath /Users/machinename/Movies/myDestinationFilename.mov.
will send the image sequence in the ShortClips folder to Compressor with the setting PhotoJPEG.
You have to type ./Compressor -help in the terminal to have all the parameters.
The big problem is that there’s a bug with image sequences in Compressor : the framerate is always set to 29.97 (even if it’s indicated 25 or other). You need to force it in the good framerate. It work in the GUI, but the additionnal parameter in command line doesn’t seems to work.
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