Hi,
We have a tool that generates a quicktime from frames, creates a Version using the python API, and uploads the movie to the sg_uploaded_movie field. Our tool adds a slate to the first frame of the generated quicktime.
In some cases (eg. HDRIs) this means that the quicktime has only two frames, the slate as the first frame, and then the HDRI image as the second frame. When I upload the movie to a Version though, the automatically generated thumbnail is showing the slate, which isn’t so useful to me. When I play the Version in RV (in Shotgun, RMB->Play in RV), it plays as if it’s a single frame, without showing the slate.
Does the transcoder specifically ignore slate frames? When I use this tool on image sequences tht are longer than one frame I don’t see the slate. Or is it just bad luck that it’s randomly choosing 1 of the 2 frames which has the slate?
I’ve pasted below an example of the dictionary that I’m using to create a version which is 2 frames long, one of them slate. Does this look correct? I can’t find any clear specification on how to set those fields when it comes to slates…
Version created in Shotgun {
‘sg_path_to_movie’: ‘/path/to/movie.0000.mov’,
‘sg_last_frame’: 1,
‘code’: ‘XXXXX’,
‘description’: None,
‘sg_movie_aspect_ratio’: 1.0,
‘type’: ‘Version’, ‘user’: {‘type’: ‘HumanUser’, ‘id’: 123, ‘name’: ‘XXXXX’},
‘sg_first_frame’: 1,
‘created_by’: {‘type’: ‘HumanUser’, ‘id’: 123, ‘name’: ‘XXXXX’},
‘entity’: {‘type’: ‘Asset’, ‘id’: 123, ‘name’: ‘XXXXX’},
‘project’: {‘type’: ‘Project’, ‘id’: 123, ‘name’: ‘XXXXX’},
‘published_files’: [{‘type’: ‘PublishedFile’, ‘id’: 123, ‘name’: ‘XXXX.%04d.exr’}], ‘sg_movie_has_slate’: True,
‘sg_path_to_frames’: ‘/path/to/theframes.%04d.exr’,
‘frame_range’: ‘1-1’,
‘frame_count’: 1,
‘id’: 123,
‘sg_frames_have_slate’: False,
‘sg_task’: {‘type’: ‘Task’, ‘id’: 123, ‘name’: ‘XXXXX’}
}
) but I was hoping this could be done automatically.