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Image Converter Queue

Postby tymunson » Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:26 am

Any way to add a queue feature to the Image Converter? We are having to convert our image sequences, wait the hour, and then start a new conversion. Unfortunately, we loose a lot of valuable time during these start/stop periods as we are working on other tasks.

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Re: Image Converter Queue

Postby Daniel Kaminski » Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:29 pm

Hi,

are you Aware that you can start multiple ImageConverters at the same time?

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Re: Image Converter Queue

Postby lucken » Tue Jan 21, 2014 5:50 pm

You can also include subfolders, this way it converts each folder seperate.
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Re: Image Converter Queue

Postby malkuth23 » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:49 pm

Starting multiple instances of Image Converter is unstable and causes frequent crashes. We have found that a maximum of about 4-8 instances before crashes start happening at close to 90% of the time.

The include subfolder option only works for 1 layer of recursive directories. In order to use this, their whole file tree would have to be made very messy. Also - this option does not work with the current release. It is fixed in the beta we have, but like I said, only with 1 layer of recursive directories. Although, this would work technically... They could copy all of their subfolders into one big pile of folders inside 1 folder. It certainly makes organization of these folders a pain, but as long as the naming scheme was done correctly they should organize back at the end.
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Re: Image Converter Queue

Postby tymunson » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:20 am

As Matt mentioned, we were using multiple windows of Image Converter, but found that this spread the machine resources too thin as all conversions were in process. Ideally, a queue that could run all night/day without much management would be support the process exponentially.

Lucken, I find it interesting that you say that we are able to convert files into separate sub folders as this is not what we found. Some insight into our content file structure for our most recent project:

Content clip A:
(12) 1080P slices combine/sync to form clip
Each slice (A1 for instance) was a minimum of 1800 DDS images

This structure dramatically increases the difficulty of organization and file management. We were not able to select a group of slices (A1, A2, B1, B2, etc) at once and divvy up what subfolder each sequence went too.
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Re: Image Converter Queue

Postby florian » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:09 pm

The latest version of the Image Converter has improved sub-folder parsing. It might only be in the latest beta though...
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Re: Image Converter Queue

Postby malkuth23 » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:55 am

It is much better (and in beta, right on both points), but seems to only go 1 layer deep in the subfolders.
so in the case of:
content\media1\splitA
content\media1\splitB
content\media2\splitA
content\media2\splitB

You can't encode all of the content folder. You would have to run media1 and media2 as 2 separate instances. Which is fine when it is 2 folders, but sucks when it is 100.
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