Flame as a dailies encoder

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with flame now supporting ocio, i am looking to utilizing flame to do dailies for my renders.

currently I am rendering exrs with colorspace name in the filename , a script then picks it up and uses openimageIO (oiiotool) with ocio to generate rec709 dpx files which then get turned into h264s by ffmpeg , which also generates burnins from the metadata.

this all works fine , however its rather slow as oiiotool just isnt that fast, throwing lots of cpu and ram at it has made it fine but it just feels wasteful. its still faster and more economical than using nuke .

Is there a way via backburner commands to have burn do this for me instead? is that viable to look into? i can turn up a little burn node that should crank thru them in no time

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yes

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any task that can be spawned via a command line, can be sent to Backburner, either to be executed by a single machine, a group, or all machines.

We use Backburner for a variety of different tasks, even installing software studio wide. It is actually quite a capable task manager, and just the perfect amount of capability and simplicity for us.

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cool where am I looking into to see how I can do these kinds of operations ? whats the wiretap api?

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i get the backburner part

lets say i have a exr sequence on a server , what part of “flame” would I tell to convert it to a h264 with certain color transformations? i guess something through wiretap sdk?

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Yes have a look at the Wiretap SDK :Help

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