MetaFuze Command Line

[Joe Ogburn]

There has been talk on this board about the ability to run Metafuze from command line. I have found the data from running with an XML batch but I have not found any reference to command line arguments other than an XML batch. Does anybody have this information, it is not in the User Manual.


Thanks,

Joe Ogburn

[James Rayburn]

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[Joe Ogburn]

James:

You have no idea how much I miss Tango and all of the great people there.

Send me an email at:

jogburn@gogroundzero.com

[Igor Ridanovic]

The only argument is -debug which gives you a verbose report as the process is running. Not too useful to humans but if you are writing a batch file to automate things you could take the output and parse it to get the estimated finish time, current file and frame, etc.

[Joe Ogburn]

Thanks Igor.

That is all that I had found and as you say, it is not too useful. But I appreciate your answer.

Joe Ogburn

[Timor Kardum]

Hi Joe,

we use Metafuze with Prime-Focus "Deadline" rendermanagement software. One of our scripting heroes even wrote a script before the current version (4) came out to automate MXF conversion.

Deadline is for free if you only want use 2 nodes, check it out...

Hope this helps,

Timor

www.omstudios.de

[Joe Ogburn]

Hi Timor

This solves my problem. I am a strong believer in not re-inventing the wheel.

Joe Ogburn

[Igor Ridanovic]

I forgot about this yesterday. Here is a batch file I wrote several months ago to automate some functions but it's not really a full network render manager for metafuze.

http://www.hdhead.com/?p=201

[Dylan Reeve]

I can't really help you with the command-line arguments, but I've written a basic network render manager for MetaFuze, it's called "BatchFuze" and there is more information here:
http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/n...-metafuze.html

It's current in a Beta stage while I wait for feedback on it's effectiveness. If you're in a position it test it, let me know and I'll provide a copy for you.