Script for handling image sequences

[leuey]

Hello all, I have an upcoming project that is going to contain a large number of image sequences. I'm curious if any of you can recommend a script than will enable me to set some options such as in/out points, looping, hold, repeat, etc. on a large number of image seqs rather easily - something similar to Lightwave (I'm more keen on LW's way of handling image seq's than Maya's)

thanks,

Greg

[gmask]

you are using these as animated texture maps?

You can add expressions in the frame extention parameter of the texture maps.

=frame // simple loads whatever image equals the value of current frame

=if (frame>50){image.extention=50; }else{image.extention=frame; } // plays sequence and then holds on frame 50

=frame%50 //loops the first 50 frames of a sequence (0-49)

=50+(frame%50) //loops frames 50-999= of a sequence

[leuey]

Thanks Gmask - yes I know about the expressions. I was hoping (wishing, actually) that somebody had already scripted a more user friendly interface to batch process image seq's. I may write my own, I need to brush up on MEL anyway.

thanks,

Greg

[gmask]

I guess that would be cool if there was a GUI that either placed code or curves for these kind of things but I have never seen one.

[leuey]

I'm kind of surprised nobody has made either an attribute editor replacement with fields for image range, start frame (which Maya frame to start on), end behavior (loop, stop, hold, and ping pong), and stepping.

I don't think I'll have time for this project but you should be able to run a mel script that places these attributes under the 'Extra Attributes' tab in the image file's att editor - and have these write the expression for you (or something like that)

=Greg

[joojaa]

Well im not so supprised. After all theres no way you can get more precise controll than either keying it or doing an expression. I mean lets face it if the ui saves you 10 seconds every time okay. But thenagain keying this takes what 2 seconds. Doing an expression 10 secs tops for simple ones like that. And if you needed it batched then you would need a loop to import many different footages as well...

Yeah, on those lines making a script that it loads footage in batch mode to one or several file nodes at once then it might actualy be usefull.

As for editting the AE template... you se theres a big problem there, you could edit it but humm its AWs code thats owned by AW i mean its fine if you use it at work, but i wouldnt go around distributing it. And theres no way that someone would waste theirtime reverse eibgeneering it.