My friend @vvzen wrote up a much more clever and sophisticated version of a #hack I did many years ago to alter the opening splash screen art of $7000 professional #VFX software, #houdinifx

It's a great read and explanation across #cpp , #docker #qt and our old friend #LD_PRELOAD. Nice to have some fun in the #vfxpipeline mines.

When I've got a second I'm going to recreate this setup for my original target, #FoundryNuke

https://valerioviperino.me/hacking-the-splash-screen-of-houdini/

I took another look at the progress of xSTUDIO, the media player and review application for #VFX. Seems like development is taking place not on their github but at internally at #DNEG. There is a development branch that got a few massive commits this year to sync it with their internal codebase.

Has anybody tried it yet or managed to compile it? It would be great to replace the Foundry's Hiero/Nuke Studio or the dog slow RV player...

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/xstudio

Buying another company‘s #VFXpipeline like you‘d buy a house:
„Why are there two faucets in the bedroom?“
„Legacy support for the 2019 version of our animation software“
„Ok, and why is the TV upside down?“
„Initially our whole CG team preferred to work upside down but they‘ve all left by now and the TV is the only part of the living room we haven’t refactored yet“

You'll never make a producer unhappy by adding yet another status to the database.

"kokmsb" (this version is "Kinda OK but Maybe we'll get Something Better before 5pm")

"crvfm" (Client will ReView this during the next Full Moon)

Awesome overview of #OpenSource and Linux in the motion picture industry. Mostly #VFX of course.

It doesn’t mention #ffmpeg although I guess every studio is using it to encode into proprietary codecs.

I didn’t know the raw to ACES tool. We‘ve been using that „debayer“ script that builds the magic dcraw commandline.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/aswf_foss_oscars/

Blech, AI colorization. But the joke is great for anybody who‘s working on software in a #VFXPipeline. And Buster Keaton’s work is amazing.

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112232503511986074

Last year I finally implemented #redis into our #VFXpipeline as well as #VMware to replace some aging bare-metal servers.

Let me know about your favourite free IT product that you want me to implement this year so the death ray of capitalism will hit it in 2025

Every once in a while, clients send us the full rough cut of their movie and I need to look up ffmpeg commands to extract the relevant sequences and shots. Lots of trial and error...

Turns out there's a GUI for that (but I haven't used it yet).

https://mifi.no/losslesscut/