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Part 1: Meet Digital Dimension
Part 2:
SequencePublisher in the Pipeline
Part 3: Integrating and Evolving
Part 4:
Making their Mark with SequencePublisher |
IRIDAS: How did you go about bringing
SequencePublisher into your pipeline?
I did a lot of testing when we first got SequencePublisher. When I
recognized its potential, our Pipeline and Tools Technical Director,
Sean Looper, wrote a front-end for the SequencePublisher engine. This
put all of SequencePublisher's setting into a GUI which any of our
artists and production staff could use. This application, which Sean
named "Transmogrifier," has quickly become an invaluable tool for our
studio.
IRIDAS: Was it easy to connect
SequencePublisher to your pipeline?
Yes, that's what's so great about this application: because its
completely command line driven, it wasn't difficult for us to create a
"wrapper" that takes all the pipeline and encoder settings we give it
and build a command line for SequencePublisher to run. Once we had the
wrapper, we could connect it to any module or application in our
pipeline by writing a plug-in.
IRIDAS: Do all your artists use
SequencePublisher now?
Yes, but many may not even realize they are using it! Because
SequencePublisher is now fully integrated into our facility and on our
render farm, it is used all day long. Every time an artist render a
comp, we have SequencePublisher create a QuickTime at the same time. In
production, we use it with our Transmogrifier application all the time
to create demo reel materials, or do any other transcoding we may need.
IRIDAS: You did a lot of work with IRIDAS while
the new version (SequencePublisher 2006) was being developed, what was
that like?
It was great working with the development team in Munich. They were very
responsive to our input: it was nice to be on the front end of
SequencePublisher development. Steve (Crouch) here in LA was also a big
help. He was always made sure we had what we needed, for example
providing trial licenses for other machines so that we could test
different setups without interrupting the SequencePublisher systems we
already had in production.
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This past year, Digital Dimension completed VFX work on
Magnificent Desolation (top), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (center),
and Monster-in-Law (bottom), among others.
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