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Generation scripts

Last post by Chad « Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:06 pm
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by nsf » Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:07 am
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I found over the Blackmagic forums this guys videos.

and one with the scripts

this is from BMs forums

I talked to several people at the blackmagic booth and only about half of them really understood what generation is. Of those about half again understood how useful it is, and it's possibilities. So it looks like blackmagic has a great tool on their hands and no real idea what to do with it or what it even is. The one mention I can find of it on the website is Includes...

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This past week I was assistant camera operator / DIT for a highspeed shoot using Phantom and IDT cameras. Commercial for a very large fruit company. Had both Resolve Studio and Generation installed, and while Resolve did the job just fine, Generation was so much faster for just dragging in a series of takes, playing them in a loop from disk, and setting in/out points for trimming. I haven't done 24fps work in a long time, but Generation really is awesome at it.
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Last post by Chad
Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:06 pm
anyone found a good Generation alternative

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by wellsichris » Wed May 23, 2018 9:07 am
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So Generation has been dead for a while, and it is still the backbone of our productions. That being said we had that scare a before it died where it was broken by nvidia which BM fixed, but that could easily happen again, which means eventually we are going to have to transition to something else. Has anyone found a good alternative to Generation?

to us Generation was a versioning playback system with assignments, and statuses, but with python that we made shine. I haven't found anything...

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Broke us? I respectfully disagree ;)

Maybe bent a little. But we're still here.

But you're right about BMD not knowing what they have, or what we need. So can you, please, make a use case, a user story, of what you are using Generation for, how it facilitates your workflow, and where its strengths and shortcomings are.

Share your success story!

You can do it here and have people chime in, or pass it on to BMD directly.
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Generation in Linux Under wine?

Last post by SecondMan « Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:50 pm
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by wellsichris » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:13 am

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has anyone tried to get Generation to run in Linux? I got it running but was stopped because it couldn't see the dongle. I know back in the day eyeon did a lot to get fusion to run in Linux. How did they work around the dongle issue?

Does anyone have any idea how to get it to work?

Thanks

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How did they work around the dongle issue?

Network licenses.

Even if you did get it to start up, I believe Generation is heavily dependent on Windows libraries (and DirectX?) for performance. Always worth a shot, but so wouldn't get my hopes up too high...

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Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:50 pm
Generation in DaVinci ReSolve

Last post by rslittle « Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:25 am
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by PeKi7i » Thu Jun 30, 2016 4:08 pm

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I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship :) also check out the take selector in the menu :D

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I suggest we settle this like Finn's, so sharpen you knives and we'll set a time and place. :D

No kidding, someone is missing their happy pills.

This can clearly do a fair amount of what generations was used for by a lot of people. Conform vfx. It would be AMAZING if there was an intermediate product that was a DAV light with more facility kind of tools for review and notes but Generations is still available. If you own Fusion you can just download whatever version of Fusion was the last...

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Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:25 am
Auto Generate Generation Project

Last post by Sbenjamin « Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:19 am
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by Sbenjamin » Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:41 am

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Hey guys!

Having a bit of a scripting issue (or maybe not understanding something properly when it comes to how Generation reads its own project files?) that I could use some help with.

In the past, I've written a script to auto generate projects within Generation. This works fairly well, however, when dealing with 100s to 1000s of items for dailies, it becomes a bit slow. I took a look into what the Generation .genprj file actually looks like and noticed that it was mainly just an xml file....

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Apologies for necroing something (sorry moderators!!) but I wanted to share that I did end up finding the issue. It had to do with - in the strings for ItemName . :)

I also wanted to share the gen script for this thread to Auto Generate a Generation Project from an xml. I left a number of notes within the script itself and have attached a sample xml. All that is needed is preferably a batch file with the following command:

python (path to AutoGenerate.py) %1

This will let you drag the xml...

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Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:19 am
Luts not loading in Generation

Last post by razzy « Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:28 pm

by razzy » Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:28 pm

Hey Just wondering if anyone who is using studio and still has generation installed. Are you able to load luts and not get an error in the console? I installed the latest version 9 and had to install 8 to get generation again (Reset of my workstation). Everything overall seems to be working fine, however when I tried to apply the Lut view in Generation it does not work and get the for mentioned error in the console.

Prior to my reset I had version 9.0 installed and 8 and generation and all was...

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Last post by razzy
Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:28 pm
epp

Last post by tomasko « Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:49 am
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by tomasko » Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:25 am

epp

fusion

generation

pipeline

python

scripting

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Hello,
My name is Tomas I am new to this forum and fusion and generation, but we use it in our pipeline and my friend keeps buzzing me to do some pipeline tools for it.
We came across epp, but we have some difficulties to make it work. I am just learning python so it might be the major case. but we went through steps in installation and ended up on some error with pip.
Would you mind give us some help with it or point us to some python source for both fusion and generation.
Thanks,

tomas

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not that far, I have installed all modules, but after trying to install epp-master.zip I got some pip error. So I would say 1st step :), but it could be my errors around.

Processing c:\users\..\downloads\epp-master.zip
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback :
File line 1. in
IOError: No such file or directory: c:\users....\appdata\\local\\temp\\pip-rzz0dl-build\\setup.py

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Last post by tomasko
Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:49 am
Sharing configs on network - Path map

Last post by eski « Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:34 am

by eski » Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:34 am

I'm customizing the Micon and others things in Generation. To have them working for every computer I have to copy this file to every computer into that directory.
C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\Generation\MIcon.cfg

Looking at the Path map settings, not sure what to change to have this working on a network system.
I managed to have the shared scripts working in Generation by linking to a network drive, X:/KONTRAST/DEVELOPMENT/GENERATION/SCRIPTS .

So what I'm asking, should I add another...

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Last post by eski
Thu Mar 30, 2017 7:34 am
Time management

Last post by theotheo « Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:09 pm
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by eski » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:50 am

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Next up for our pipeline is some way to organize our time per shot.
Before we have been using Excel to sign artists and track their time but when getting over 200 shots it's going to be hell.

Of course I would like to implement this straight into Generation, but we are starting this project in few weeks, don't think I will have time to code the whole thing.
So I have been looking at some Gantt programs and Excel templates along with other systems like to organize the whole mess, but none of...

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Here's how I do it, down to the minute, automatically.

Every action is associated with a shot, or development-shot/task. If you're doing anything in Nuke, Fusion or Houdini, the auto save tool I've build makes sure to save the file with the correct naming convention for the shot or task.

Then I got a small python script running the background as a sys process, grabs the current status of the active window/document. I then check the current mouse position against the last mouse position to...

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Last post by theotheo
Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:09 pm
Scripts location

Last post by SecondMan « Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:34 pm
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by eski » Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:40 am

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When right clicking on a clip in the timeline there is a option for scripts.
Does anybody know the path so I can put scripts there. It's empty now so I can't trace it.

Regards
Sigurgeir

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SecondMan, I'll remove the proprietary stuff out of them and clean up the scripts to share! Once done, I can send a link to you to approve to post. :)

That sounds fantastic! You don't need my approval to post anything here. :)

It would be nice to have several topics in varying degrees of complexity. Something that can serve as an intro to Generation scripting to start with, and then building up to more complex cases? Just illustrating how Generation can be put to good use and maybe more...

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Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:34 pm

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