Command Line Macro Opens Flipbook

[user_deleted]

I have a macro for slate generation and quicktime packaging that I have made, and everything works as it should. Except that it opens up a flipbook and doesn't release the shell until I manually close the flipbook.

Does anyone know how I can force it to not open a flipbook and bugger the rest of my (shell) script? Or at least why it's doing this in the first place? I imagine it has something to do with there being two fileouts, but I don't know.

Cheers,
Martin

The following copy of the macro has been modified to use a colour wheel as source instead of my slate image; otherwise it is identical.

CODE
image fxcPackageTest(

image Input=0,
const char * shot = "",
int version = 1,
int shotLength = 0,
const char * artist = "",
const char * notes = "",
int slateFrame = 0,
const char * showName = "Show Name",
int resHDx = 1280,
int resHDy = 720,
int resSDx = 720,
int resSDy = 486,
float aspectHD = 1.85,
float aspectSD = 1.66,
float aspectD1 = 1.333,
// const char * renderDate = "%Y-%m-%d", // iso standard
const char * renderDate = "%m/%d/%y",    // confusing american format
const char * vendor = "Company Name",
int handles = 12,

)

{

// file in for testing purposes only

ColorWheel1 = ColorWheel(2048, 1556, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1);

// File In

SlateIn = SFileIn("/Volumes/fxc/atu/references/slates/fxc_slate.cin", "Auto", 1, 0, "v1.1", "0", "", "Standard");
// Input = SFileIn("/Volumes/fxc/atu/comp/" + shot + "/renders/" + shot + ".v" + stringf ("%02d", version) + "/" + shot + ".v" + stringf ("%02d", version) + ".1-" + stringf ("%01d", shotLength) + "#.cin", "Auto", 1, 0, "v1.1", "0", "", "Standard");

// Slate Generation

SlateTextHD = AddText(ColorWheel1, "{showName}\n{shot}\nv" + stringf ("%02d", version) + "\n{resHDx} x {resHDy}\n" + renderDate + "\n{vendor}\n{artist}\n{shotLength} frames (including {handles} fr. handles)\n{notes}", "Helvetica Neue", 67, xFontScale/GetDefaultAspect(), 1.79, 725, 1406.74, 0, 1, 3, 0.525, 0.47, 0.4, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
SetBGColorHD = SetBGColor(SlateTextHD, "rgbaz", 0.988281131, 0.894437969, 0.7614861, 1, 0);
FitSlateHD = Fit(SetBGColorHD, resHDx, resHDy, "default", xFilter, 0);

SlateTextSD = AddText(ColorWheel1, "{showName}\n{shot}\nv" + stringf ("%02d", version) + "\n{resSDx} x {resSDy}\n" + renderDate + "\n{vendor}\n{artist}\n{shotLength} frames (including {handles} fr. handles)\n{notes}", "Helvetica Neue", 67, xFontScale/GetDefaultAspect(), 1.79, 725, 1406.74, 0, 1, 3, 0.525, 0.47, 0.4, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
FitSlateSD = Fit(SlateTextSD, resSDx, height, "default", xFilter, 1);
CCropSlateSD = CCrop(FitSlateSD, 0, ((height - (width / (aspectD1 + .001))) / 2) + 1, width, ((height - (width / aspectD1)) / 2) + (width / aspectD1));
ResizeSlateSD = Resize(CCropSlateSD, width, height * 0.9, "default", 0);

// Image Massage

LogLin1 = LogLin(ColorWheel1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 95, rBlack, rBlack, 685, rWhite, rWhite, 1, rNGamma, rNGamma, 1.7, rDGamma, rDGamma, 0, rSoftClip, rSoftClip);

CCropHD = CCrop(LogLin1, 0, ((height - (width / aspectHD)) / 2), width, ((height - (width / aspectHD)) / 2) + (width / aspectHD));
FitHD = Fit(CCropHD, resHDx, resHDy, "default", xFilter, 1);
AddFrameHD = AddText(FitHD, "%F / " + stringf ("%04d", shotLength), "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.01, xFontScale, 1, width - (width *.05), height *.021, 0, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
AddShotHD = AddText(AddFrameHD, "{shot}.v" + stringf ("%02d", version), "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.01, xFontScale, 1, (width *.05), height *.021, 0, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
AddDateHD = AddText(AddShotHD, renderDate, "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.01, xFontScale, 1, (width * .5), height *.021, 0, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
AddNameHD = AddText(AddDateHD, artist, "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.01, xFontScale, 1, width - (width *.05), height - (height *.016), 0, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);

CCropSD = CCrop(LogLin1, 0, ((height - (width / aspectSD)) / 2), width, ((height - (width / aspectSD)) / 2) + (width / aspectSD));
FitSD = Fit(CCropSD, 720, 540, "default", xFilter, 1);
ResizeSD = Resize(FitSD, width, height*.9, "default", 0);
AddFrameSD = AddText(ResizeSD, "%F / " + stringf ("%04d", shotLength), "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.025, xFontScale*.9, 1, width - (width *.05), height *.075, 0, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
AddShotSD = AddText(AddFrameSD, "{shot}.v" + stringf ("%02d", version), "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.025, xFontScale*.9, 1, (width *.05), height *.075, 0, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
AddDateSD = AddText(AddShotSD, renderDate, "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.025, xFontScale*.9, 1, (width * .5), height *.075, 0, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);
AddNameSD = AddText(AddDateSD, artist, "Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular", width*.02, xFontScale*.9, 1, width - (width *.05), height - (height *.075), 0, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 45, 0, 1);

// Slate Gate

SelectHD = Select(time==slateFrame?1:2, FitSlateHD, AddNameHD, 0);
SelectSD = Select(time==slateFrame?1:2, ResizeSlateSD, AddNameSD, 0);

// File Out

foHD = FileOut(SelectHD, "/Volumes/fxc/atu/comp/" + shot + "/renders/" + shot + ".v" + stringf ("%02d", version) + ".hd.mov", "Auto", "Shake 3 QT 1", "Apple Photo - JPEG", 0, "100W@v5000WDcsuHvoe10vbOg53IX1WDCBBoeVY2LKf2bg7A7G2euX4eXXTK38hgW16KCYEWcWGfe2BN448WKI9PfSX88MKfC21mF1HKkaM4XMnNfbaerYZUY5fMGkYKre865Ije4oE486mZIDlK4biOTmZIQvdZS2ek8gl8dL288nigIMqLGz6jIpQPvKa6puYQ42W853UK1x0A0000N00000000002;", 0, 44100, 16);

foSD = FileOut(SelectSD, "/Volumes/fxc/atu/comp/" + shot + "/renders/" + shot + ".v" + stringf ("%02d", version) + ".sd.mov", "Auto", "Shake 3 QT 1", "Apple Photo - JPEG", 0, "100W@v5000WDcsuHvoe10vbOg53IX1WDCBBoeVY2LKf2bg7A7G2euX4eXXTK38hgW16KCYEWcWGfe2BN448WKI9PfSX88MKfC21mF1HKkaM4XMnNfbaerYZUY5fMGkYKre865Ije4oE486mZIDlK4biOTmZIQvdZS2ek8gl8dL288nigIMqLGz6jIpQPvKa6puYQ42W853UK1x0A0000N00000000002;", 0, 44100, 16);

}

// Usage
// shake -fxcpackagetest "154.shot.02" v1 length203 "Artist" "notes" -v -t 0-99

[mediasaurus]

Not sure why it's opening a flipbook (maybe you need the -exec flag), but if you add a "&" (no quotes) after your command on the command line, the task will run in the background, leaving your terminal free for other tasks. You can run the "jobs" command to view all jobs you've backgrounded. The "fg" command brings the selected job number back to the foreground.

[user_deleted]

Well, I think I figured out why it was opening a flipbook, because my macro was returning one of the (internal) fileouts as an image (the result of the macro). However, it was not told to do anything with this info on the command line (-fo imagename.#.iff) so it just put it in a flipbook.

So I bypassed the output by adding a line "Return Input;" to the macro, and it will now render correctly, but still open a flipbook. Then, I added a -fo to my command and directed it to /dev/null/, and now it doesn't open a flipbook (but still tries to write files to a great big void).

This is working, but it seems very inelegant, and I don't know if the writing to /dev/null is taking away valuable processor time (I suspect it is). Adding "exit();", "break();" or setting "return 0;" instead break the script, and nothing happens.

So the problem becomes, is there any way to tell a macro to not return anything, and simply exit gracefully?

Cheers,
Martin

[user_deleted]

shake -exec myScript.shk

this will execute any FileOut nodes in your Shake Script

This is my ProjectSlate (available on highend3d.com)

shake $filename@@@@.tga -projectslate idk vfx "SHOTNAME" "TAKE" "PROJECT" -t 1 -fo vfx$filename.mov

type: shake -help fo
for more info on fo, for compression types, I just open up shake, and look in there for what I want

shake -fxcpackagetest "154.shot.02" v1 length203 "Artist" "notes" -v -t 0-99 -fo filename.mov

The "-fo" also takes differnet compression parameters.

This also may help, a bit criptic if you dont know scripting for bash:

workingfolder=pwd

echo "star working on : $workingfolder"

for folder in *
do
echo "checking = $folder"
#ls -l $folder
#wc -l $folder
if [ -d $folder ]; then
echo "working on folder : $folder"
cd $folder

  ((file\_cnt = 0))

  for files in *.tga
  do
	ls -l $files >> log.txt
	#echo "len = ${#files}"


	#if [ $file\_cnt < 1 ]; then 
	#    filename=${files##*000*}
	#    echo "filename = $filename"
	#fi
	
	if [ -f $files ]; then
	
		if [[ $file\_cnt < 1 ]]; then
			filename=${files%*0001*}
		fi
		((file\_cnt+=1))
	fi
	
  done
  
  if [[ $file\_cnt > 0 ]]; then
	#((file\_cnt-=1))
	echo "total files = $file\_cnt"
	echo "filename = $filename"
	shake $filename@@@@.tga -projectslate idk vfx $filename 0 PROJECT -t 1-$file\_cnt -fo vfx$filename.mov
	#####                      ver  scene  shot take proj imgout slateframe stamp shade
  	cd ../
  	if [ -d shake\_complete ]; then
  		echo "Working on moving files"
  		mv -R $workingfolder/$folder shake\_complete/$folder
  	fi
  fi
  rm -f log.txt
  cd $workingfolder

fi
done