Hello hello!
I’m once again in the market for general advice.
Seems there are many config options / approaches / ways to skin a cat.
Currently in Nuke I have a Reformat in preceding nodes for Render in order to apply the standard crop and have the output forced to the delivery pixel dimensions.
Then in Core Extract Review one of the output definitions which is used to play the version in the web interface I use ffmpeg options to letterbox to demonstrate the final aspect ratio (actual EXRs are taller in case of little framing tweaks in edit/DI).
Those two things together form what someone might describe as “the crop” when they view a publish on the web interface.
One of my artists is asking for “the crop” to be optional, and their example is when they’re spitting out a contact sheet.
I guess they don’t want any crop; they want to see all the pixels they spat out when reviewing it. What’s a normal/neat approach to this?
Different … creator/product type or something like that?
As far as I’m concerned, the letter box option in extract review is not exposed to artist to enable/disable. I believe relying on the filters should be the way to do it.
Extract Review provides two levels of filters:
- Profile Filter: to select which profile.
- Output Filter: once profile is selected, you can specify additional filters to pick which output. as each output has its own configuration e.g. png and h264.
For your case, I believe you can have more output profiles, and modify the product names. It should work with regex.
On artist side, you can control the product name via asking artists to have a specific variant name.
Alternatively to specific variant names, you can use product aliases, and the product type will bb propagated in the product name. if you didn’t change it in product name profiles.
You could also use the customTags to only include the crop if it’s tagged on the representation with such a custom tag. Then you could add an optional checkbox from a custom plug-in that either adds or does not add that custom tag before Extract Review to enable/disable the cropping behavior?
