Hi Chris, When a project such as a commercial has been edited, the shots are often exported as seperate image sequences and often with handles e.g. 15 extra frames at the start & finish of each shot.
If we provide the rendered cg back to the compositor icluding those extra handles then it means that minor adjustments can be made to the final edit/composite without having to retrack cameras/re-render extra frames etc. It's a time saving safety-net overhead. With the Camera Sequencer, it would be nice to specify that a Camera has e.g. 10 frame handles (couple of new properties for start and end?), so that when you render the Pass that the Camera is used in, you can toggle a "Render with handles?" Pass property. This means that you see the 'edited' view in the Camera Sequencer, but can render with handles without mucking about afterwards. I guess that's how most would like it to work, glad to hear alternatives. Also, can we assume that if you use the Camera Sequencer as the render Camera, that motion blur etc. will be adjusted for? Cheers, Adam (p.s. Currently available for freelance work in UK) www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk vimeo.com/adamseeley/albums ________________________________ From: Chris Chia <chris.c...@autodesk.com> To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013, 6:35 Subject: RE: SI 2014 sneak peek Hi Greg, Thanks for your input. It will be nice to hear what you meant by handles... Actually I would upgrade for the other features... Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Greg Punchatz Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:33 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Cc: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI 2014 sneak peek I for one am VERY happy to get a sequencer.... That is the very first thing I ever did with the mixer while testing the alpha versions of Sumatra , but always wanted more control. For fast cutting 3d action scenes there is no better way to explore cameras/edits than this methodology. I hope there is a way to include handles, if not I am sure it would not be to hard for Chris and his team to add. I will upgrade just for this feature alone. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Chris Chia <chris.c...@autodesk.com> wrote: > +1 > Camera Sequencer makes life easier for pre-viz or studio who does a lot of > animatic and film adjustments. > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Raffaele > Fragapane > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:38 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: SI 2014 sneak peek > > Practically anybody who's not working with edits where each shot is a > sequence on its own wishes they had one, or had to write one. > Handles have nothing to do with it, multishot workflow is about inter-shot > consistency. > > We had to invest considerable amounts of time here for the multishot > workflow, and it's one of the biggest improvements previz and layout have > seen across the board ever, AND rather important for final animation as well > whenever you have matching. > > If you never had to have geographical consistency in a sequence across camera > cuts, good on you, a lot of people out there struggle with that day in and > day out. > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sylvain lebeau > <s...@shedmtl.com<mailto:s...@shedmtl.com>> wrote: > > Who is going To use this really? > > In My World of Advertising, we Always Provide 12 frames handles Head > And tail for each shot > > I dont dont see any use of this really > > Who Here Can Say they edit in 3d........ > Cmmon, with rendertimes And all > > Maybe okay for animatic works?? Even there we use finalcut for Our > screen captures on a shoot basis > > > Grrrrrrrr > > > On 28 February, 2013 12:03:50 AM Jason S wrote: > I personally would have liked to see the viewport performance > improvements on SI, but the camera sequencer does look neat, anxious to see > the rest! > > > On 28/02/2013 12:06 AM, Sebastien Sterling wrote: > Seriously these better not be what they called "BIG" features in the press > release, its getting embarrassing,3D max "we fixed somthing that should have > been patched 3 versions ago and made it a feature again". Maya "did... did > they just take a free plugin on creative crash and repackage it to look like > a feature ? i'll let you deside : > > http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/ > c/grease-pencil-tool-for-maya > > (but the answers yes ) > > SI ok the sequencer does look usefull i guess ? > On 27 February 2013 23:28, Alok > <alok.gan...@modusfx.com<mailto:alok.gan...@modusfx.com>> wrote: > Ha . 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