Afternoon all (or morning/evening etc if you’re a few hours off GMT). Anyone know if and how flame can embed user specified metadata into our exports? Ta muchly if so.
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From what I’ve seen in 2022 version it seems limited. There’s another post going on. That might be a crossover with this question that might help!
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Yeah saw that, but couldn’t quite find my answer in there other than that others are using other software/transcoders to do it. Appreciate you JT x
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Maybe @finnjaeger can answer this question? Please oh Oracle?
I fact it would be nice if Flame preserved all the metadata rather than stripping it out. It’s a particular issue here and in fact reared its ugly head again yesterday when exporting an ACES shot for photoshop.
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That is top of my Christmas list too.
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We have to run our Flame exports thru Nuke to get original metadata in our deliveries.
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Same here.
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flame metadata handeling is non existant. I also run stuff through nuke to retain metadata.
I have pipeline tools that automatically make dailies from EXR publishes that grab original plates metadata … using nuke.
for random quicktime metadata AMCDX videopatcher is the answere
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This one?
It seems open source. Right?
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dont think its open source but its free and its great.
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make sure you get the latest version, google seems to send people to not the latest
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I’ve been having the same issue as well. The people from the DI are compaling that the EXR’s I export to them don’t contain the reel name that’s on the origianl EXR. I did a test to see if there was a differnce within linux vs mac and the linix version shows more metadata on the clip in the directory than the max version. I’m on 2023.1
I need another way to resolve this to deliver these shots without buy Nuke just to do a render.
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You can try OIIO
https://openimageio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oiiotool.html#oiiotool-commands-that-change-the-current-image-metadata
If you have a developer on site, is pretty straight forward to write a script that copies metadata from a source image to the other.
Thank you, but I work from home…
I’ll look at and see.
You can try Gaffer then. The metadata tools a re very similar to Nuke.
https://www.gafferhq.org/download/
You can query, create, modify and copy metadata.
In this case I have modified the reel number and copied a couple more key from one stream to another.
Attached the script if you are up for it.
gaffer_metadata.zip (2.0 KB)
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BTW… a bit OT but if you ever need to work with deeps and dont have Nuke… this is it.
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I’ll look into this too. Thank you.
I just autodesk would fix this issue. Many people use flame for feature films and episodics. To have the ability to keep metadata when importing and exporting is a big deal.
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As a short term help…
Assuming you’ve t-tapped everything and rendered out with correct metadata: what to i like to do is render out exrs with time code as frame number and also /.exr which makes a folder for each shot with the tape name. This works very well for baselight.
Sound good. Just let me know if you need help with Gaffer.
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