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1. Deleting Versions To delete a single Version click on it with the left mouse button and press Del on your keyboard To delete all versions in a Clip but keep the empty Clip as a placeholder hold B on your keyboard to enter Box Select mode drag a box around all the Versions and press Del Adding New Versions There are two ways of adding new Versions to a Clip A new version of an Version is created by dragging the media to be used for the new version over the thumbnail of the version it should replace The thumbnail can come from media already imported into Generation s Storyboard or by dragging and dropping media from the filesystem as explained in the Adding Versions chapter If the Version is a Fusion composition you can also use the context menu and select Save Increment to create a new Version Please see the chapter Fusion Comps in Generation for further information 1473613 Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust 7 Stereo Adjust T comp WEN Edit Comp Submit Save Increment Selection Locate Media Scripts ShowSources Insert version Cloning Versions To clone the media instead of moving it hold the Ctrl key down during the drag and drop operation Choosing Versions During Playback To choose which version of a Clip is displayed while in the Playback view use the Ctrl Up or Down cursor keys This works during Playback as well as when paused
2. gt F Lh oe CONFIGURING GENERATION Understanding Config Files defaults cfg AllData Generation cfg Profile Generation cfg Profile userbar cfg Generation s configuration files are separated into two categories Global Application Settings and User Specific settings User Specific settings are again divided into per computer and per user profiles This approach makes Generation highly configurable for different pipelines On startup Generation reads those files in a specific order Values in files loaded at a later stage will overwrite values that reside in the default files This order is The Global Application configuration options are stored in a text file called defaults cfg It sits in the main Generation install folder and is not intended to be edited since it will be overwritten with any new install The format is the same as in generation cfg discussed further down which means that settings can be copied over This config file is for all users It has the same options as and will override the settings of defaults cfg AllData translates to CAProgramDataleyeon Generation in a default Windows7 installation This config file can be used on a per profile basis It has the same options as and will override the settings of both defaults cfg and AllData Generation cfg Profile translates to C ProgramData eyeon Generation profiles default in a default Windows7 installation In addition to scripts th
3. EV f Sundown HDI compil Status PEREA Changed This shows what attribute of this Clip has been changed typically Status or Assign Old The previous value of this attribute prior to the change New The value that has now been selected for this attribute Selecting the Send All Notifications menu Version will result in all pending notifications listed being batch delivered to their addressees via the email settings defined in Preferences While batch delivering the notifications you will see the number in the counter decrease until all mails have been successfully sent O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Notification Menu 22 E 7 y m STORYBOA um a MEN IMETADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES E EAN e P a eo B ge am af O E RD PLAYBACK fl Click on the part of the interface you want information about Il v Proxy Base Filter All Status All Assign All n d Project GenDemo2012 E Demo Sub MainCut UserBar NewSub Paint ApplyCoolEffect RestoreWeekend MET 041 08 0015 dpx MET 165 02 0220 jpg Train_Left0001 jpg Man Hang In Tree L0144 jpg BOH 010 S0010 plate v00001 00038 jpg Chain0075 jpg A 4 Load media Project Selection Player Scripts Subs Tools IMIFAIESIESIE 0 MIFAIESIE wi 83 202 E gt l 00 00 06 22 202 6 560 580 600 620 640 680 7
4. LOADERTHREADS 4 CORES 12 SHORTCUT F1 Path to Script lua SHORTCUT F2 print Hello World Em Tu en EX Tgm Stereo pair names Generation will automatically look for files named to this convention when entering stereo Playback mode Default values for log lin conversion log bypass 1 0 gt black level white level stock gamma conversion gamma Default exr channel groups to apadt to your inhouse naming convention lt Group Name lt EXRchannel to Red 5 lt EXRchannel to Green gt lt EXRchannel to Blue gt EXRchannel to Alpha Use Black as Name to clear the respective channel Overrides the computer name obtained from the system The name set here will be used in the Medianotes when new comments are added Stops scanning for changed Savers in Fusion Comps completely If this is set to DISABLED the following settings for FUSIONNEXTDELAY and FUSIONSTARTDELAY will not have any influence Defines the amount of time between finishing scanning one comp and starting scanning the next Default is 100ms with a minimum of 1ms Defines the amount of time after scanning the last comp in the Storyboard before it starts scanning them all again starting from the first comp Default is 3000ms 3s with a minimum of 1000ms 1s These can be used to carefully increase the number of images loaded and number of decoding threads thus optimizing playback speed The given val
5. VersionName genmeta Opposed to that the ClipFile metadata is stored in the same folder as the media itself under the name of Filename genmeta So if you have an image sequence named SundownHD dpx the ClipFile metadata will be stored as SundownHD genmeta within the same folder as the sequence itself This makes it easy to access the data from any given location As pointed out above the files are standard XML files and can even be modified by third party applications This is an example of such a file lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 lt GenerationMetadata gt Deadline 2012 12 24 Deadline Createdwi th Autodesk Maya Createdwi th lt Artist3D gt Bob Charleston lt Artist3D gt lt RenderedBy gt Inception lt RenderedBy gt GenerationMetadata IMPORTANT When working with XML metadata always make sure to follow the rules of XML naming conventions Failure to do so might result in metadata not being displayed correctly or even truncated from your XML file The rules are Names can contain letters numbers and other characters e Names must not start with a number or punctuation character e g Artist3D is valid 3DArtist is NOT e Names must not start with the letters xml or XML or Xml etc e Names must not contain spaces Use underscore instead 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com UserFile vs UserClip metadata 65 um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PRE
6. 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Versions 14 Scrubbing Versions es Ja 1473613 scrubs Version overlay mm mil um i B d E 5 E E a P e a s m INTRODUCTION MB m um STORYBOARD M PLAYBACK METADATA lj PREFERENCES APPENDICES E A slider across the top of the Version can be used to scrub through the media in which case the Thumb will update as the artist The Thumb for the Clip active at the current time always shows the current frame as the image Scrubbing using the Version slider scrubs through the entire length of the media ignoring any trimming applied to the Clip in which it is found Adjusting the scrub slider for an Version which is not currently active will update the frame used to display the Thumb for that Version The scrub bar s position is saved with the Project and will be remembered in future sessions Overlaid on the Version is text indicating the current frame displayed in the Version the total media length and the media file name If comments have been entered for the Version the comments may also be overlaid on the Version whenever the size of the Versions are large enough to make the text of the comments legible Display of the comments overlay can be toggled on and off using the F5 key Versions produced by non image type media like Fusion compositions will also have the type of media displayed in the top right corner of the Version Displaying Meta
7. Color FFFFFFFF gt Frame MF rame 225 65 HLine Draws a horizontal line and requires a Y Value which is measured from the top of the screen The Y Value can be given either in percent 96 or in absolute pixels px Vline Draws a vertical line and requires an X Value which is measured from the left of the screen The X Value can be given either in percent 96 or in absolute pixels px Pattern The Pattern value is made up out of four hex values and determines the visual appearance of the line Examples for such patterns are FFFF draws a solid line EEEE adashedline ECEC dash dotline ECCC dash dot dot SM AAAA dotted line Color The Color value is comprised of four groups of two hex values each The first three groups define the RGB colors the last group defines the transparency Rectangle Draws a rectangle which can be empty or filled and supports the same Pattern and color settings described above It requires two X and two Y Values to define the extent Rectangle Pattern FOFO X1 10 Y1 10 X2 90 Y2 90 gt FillMode Applies to rectangles only and defines if the Inside or the Outside of the rectangle should be filled with a color Leave this value out to have just a bounding rectangle without any fill FillMode None Inside Outside FillColor Applies to rectangles only and defines if the color of the filled area specified by FillMode Fill
8. G B and A It is recommended that stereo viewing software uses the multiView attribute to identify views rather than relying on file names user interaction or other external information Library Support The OpenEXR file I O library IImImf provides utility functions to support reading and writing multi view files Header file ImfStandardAttributes h defines functions to add a multiView attribute to a file header to test if a file header contains a multiView attribute and to access the value of the multiView attribute Header file ImfMultiView h defines functions related to accessing channels and views such as finding all channels in a given view or finding the same channel in all views File Name Extension Support Users may wish to save multi view OpenEXR files with a file name extension other than the commonly used exr for example sxr for Stereo eXR or mxr for Multi view eXR The 3 letter extension space is crowded but SXR and MXR are not heavily used Either or both of these may become a standard for multi view OpenEXR files Meanwhile it is recommended that software vendors provide a mechanism allowing users to identify which file name extensions they will employ for multi view OpenEXR files For example software may understand the environment variable MULTIVIEW_EXR_EXT SXR or provide a similar facility in a configuration file or registry entry Software can then default to saving multi view OpenEXR files with this extension and
9. MEME ml 1920 x 1080 Close Proxy group global local network Path Free Space 1158 24 GB E mirror Render source Quality Original Quality Full Proxy Options Resolution Format Generate Mirror Render Proxy 1 Render Proxy 2 Render Proxy 3 Render Proxy 4 Disable proxy o 5 Lun EPIO r Color Adjust Brightness 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 Play Gain Gamma 1 00000 1 00000 1 00000 1 00000 0 00000 Red Green Blue 1 00000 1 00000 1 00000 Saturation Temperature Load CDL Save CDL Frame 68 The Playback Interface is used to play the current sub Project showing all or part of the current Storyboard Displaying the Playback interface Use the Tab key to toggle between the Storyboard and the Playback interface at any time Pressing the Play button in the Playback controls while the Storyboard is active will also switch to the Playback view Scaling and Panning the Image 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com For details on panning and scaling the image see the Navigating the interface chapter of this manual Playback View FPS 24 000 0 000 Compare Overlay Opacity 1 000 Y Use Alpha Close eT zn ai ary ar pe ms All 1571 670 39 ERIT ER e E i um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Sans 2299978 Start Advances to the start of the Storyboard If th
10. swap stereo eyes Keyboard Shortcuts z 84 NN d a m x INTRODUCTION oum STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES E La Storyboard Track Shortcuts Ctrl Left Cursor Move playhead to Loop In Ctrl Right Cursor Move playhead to Loop Out Set the Loop In Point to the current frame O Set the Loop Out point to the current frame Shift I Remove the current Loop In Shift O Remove the current Loop Out P Remove both the Loop In and the Loop Out S Split the Clip at the current playhead position 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Keyboard Shortcuts 85 A PREFERENCES APPENDICES a Pm PLAYBACK METADATA Generation supports media from sequences stills and movie Clips stored in the Cineon DPX TARGA TIFF JPEG PNG SGI RGB and QuickTime Movie file formats Cineon cin amp Digital Picture Exchange dpx channels RGB RGBA colorspace 10 bit linear 10 bit logarithmic The Cineon and DPX file formats are ideal for Playback and are the recommended format for working with Generation if Playback performance is of prime concern When the media is loaded into Generation the Clips colorspace will default to Linear You can change the Clips colorspace to Log in the Metadata dialog This dialog can be accessed by right clicking on the Clip or with the J hotkey Clicking on the Lin label under the colorspac
11. true RGBA values or other channels from an EXR file Metadata m mapped with EXR Channels menu Color Adjust This can be toggled by pressing C R G B and A on your keyboard Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Flip Paint Mirrors the image vertically along its Y axis Proxy Tool Version Compare Flop Scripts Player Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Motes Metadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Paint Proxy Tool Version Compare Scripts Crop None super 35 Academy O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Mirrors the image horizontally along its X axis Offers a list of cropping overlays defined in the Generation cfg See the chapter on configuring Generation for further information Player Context Menu 51 Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes Metadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Paint Proxy Tool Version Compare Scripts Flush Cache Player Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes Metadata Color Adjust ereo Adjust Stereo Crop Paint Proxy Tool Version Compare Scripts Flush Cache Stereo None Stereo Left Right Anaglyph Interlaced Checkerboard Horizontal Horizontal Scaled Vertical Vertical Scaled Difference Swap Eyes EXR Channels Color ea Medi
12. Clip PrevAssign UserFile The available fields in this section can be defined by means of the Custom Preferences The fields and values are stored in XML files which sit in the same folder as the media Those files can also be edited by other applications to add metadata to the Clips You can set the value by clicking on it When no value is defined it will display not set Access UserFile FieldName UserClip The available fields in this section can be defined by means of the Custom Preferences You can set the value by clicking on it When no value is defined it will display not set The fields and values are stored in individual XML files in the metadata folder Those files can also be edited by other applications to add metadata to the Clips Access UserClip FieldName O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Metadata 62 Em m E mets mae NC i um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES F Media Thumbnail The Media Thumbnail shows the currently selected frame of the media as well as the frame s filename It also shows if the media is a Fusion composition by displaying the word comp in the upper right You can use the frameslider at the top to jog through the media and select the frame you want to use as a thumbnail Resolution This field displays the media s Resolution in pixels The Resolution is read only and can not be edited out OO00jpq Aspect Resolutio
13. Directory When Generation creates Mirrors and proxies of the media it uses a custom file copy routine that ensures the files are defragmented as they are created Fragmentation is a common cause of poor Playback performance occurring when parts of the file are located on physically separate parts of the disk By ensuring that the files in the Mirror and Proxy folders are contiguous Generation vastly improves the Playback performance of the media The Mirrors and proxies created by Generation are stored in one or more Mirror folders which are paths defined in the Generation cfg file In a default installation this folder will be set to C Mirror Changing the path used for the Mirror folder Proxy Mirror Status All Base e Mirror Proxy 1 720576 JPEG 5 Proxy 2 1024x576 JPEG 75 Proxy 3 1280x720 JPEG 75 Proxy 4 1920x1080 JPEG 65 Global Local Metwork Proxy Tool Check All Proxies O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Creating a Mirror To change the path used for the default Mirror folder open Generation cfg and edit the PROXYPATH configuration option to point to the desired path For example PROXYPATH z CMMirrorV See the Configuring Generation chapter for details on changing configuration settings Each Generation Project creates a folder within the Mirror folder to store its Mirror and Proxy files The folder name for the Project is identical to the Project name For example a Project named C
14. Expressions 87 PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA Quantifiers Quantifiers follow a character or a special pattern character They can modify the amount of times that character is repeated in the match ETT CIN etes E ermore re precoding ems mete 1ormoretimes B eei messem seteratimaeister iners 8 e NTE a E By default all these quantifiers are greedy i e they take as many characters that meet the condition as possible This behavior can be overridden to ungreedy i e take as few characters that meet the condition as possible by adding a question mark after the quantifier For example Matching a against aardvark succeeds and yields aa as the first submatch While matching a against aardvark also succeeds but yields a as the first submatch Groups Groups allow you to apply quantifiers to a sequence of characters instead of a single character There are two kinds of groups characters deci on efe subpattern Creates a backreference subpattern Does not create a backreference When a group creates a backreference the characters that represent the subpattern in the target sequence are stored as a submatch Each submatch is numbered after the order of appearance of their opening parenthesis the first submatch is number
15. Format MultiView OpenEXR MultiView OpenEXR The End UserFile vs UserClip metadata k md WAR a Please consider the environment before printing this document A printer friendly version without the grey background is available upon request 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Generation AM 3 2 User manual 1 INTRODUCTION IR a gt um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Tracking Versioning and Review for Postproduction Generation is an application which provides a visual canvas and collaborative platform for managing postproduction pipelines The result is an integrated post workflow for supervisors and artist teams The entire application is scriptable with both Lua and Python so facilities can integrate their existing in house tools including asset management rather than having to modify their existing pipeline to fit with Generation The most complete and feature rich review and collaboration application to date An indispensable tool for our workflow Marc Weigert Uncharted Territory Collaboration From the beginning Generation was developed within studio environments to ensure that it meshed with real world conditions The Generation interface combines a comprehensive shot tracking system with an editing panel for working with sub projects and playlists The system includes Annotation and grease pencil drawing tools for live discussions of shots
16. MET 330340350 360 370 3 460 470 480 490 500 510 520 530 540 55 isa co ela Ys ad ra eel a e nius AR IR DR DAN RR RR II RD PSS ee eee ce n mm The TimeBar shows the current position of the playhead and the length of the current Clip with potential handles or overlaps While the TimeBar itself has a grey segment for each Clip in Alternating shades the currently active Clip is highlighted in blue The TimeBar can be zoomed in and out by holding Left and Middle mouse button and moving the mouse to the right and left respectively By holding the Middle mouse button and moving the mouse sideways the Storyboard can be panned The keyboard shortcut F will center the Storyboard at the current playhead s position and reset the zoom to the default value The controls on the TimeBar allow for fine tuning of your edit 1380 1400 1420 i cub ula Clip In Drag the Clip In to change the starting position of a Clip in time All subsequent Clips will Shift ripple to accommodate for the new in point of the currently edited Clip The change will also be reflected in the numeric Clip In field This operation will also change the Clip Out of the previous Clip A ME Clip Out Drag the Clip Out to change the end position and length of a Clip in time EN All subsequent Clips will Shift ripple to accommodate for the new out point of the currently edited Clip The change will also be reflected in both the numeric Clip Out and Length field Lana Lana 1
17. O _ _ m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Color Adjust Tool Player Color Adjust The Player Color Adjust serves as a global correction for your screen and is applied on top of any active ViewLUT As opposed to the Color Adjust this tool is meant for tuning your display device Gain Brightness Gamma and does not apply any changes to your actual footage Red 1 00000 0 00000 1 00000 Green 1 00000 0 00000 1 00000 It can be invoked by Right clicking on the Brightness Contrast icon next to the LUT slots Blue 1 00000 LALA DLL Left clicking on the icon turns the PCA on or off which is depicted by the color of that icon Saturation 1 00000 Temperature 0 00000 By default the sliders for Red Green and Blue are ganged To make per channel adjustments hold down Ctrl while dragging any of the values Load CDL Please see the Clip Color Adjust for further information Save CDL Cancel 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Player Color Adjust 54 HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA zl PREFERENCES APPENDICES COE E ENZNM yee mw mem V C o WORKING WITH EXRS EXR Playback Generation is perfectly capable of displaying and playing back EXR sequences Keep in mind though that because of the filesize and the compression algorithms applied in EXRs it is very unlikely to get reAltime Playback sp
18. Stereo Adjust Edit Comp Submit Save Increment Selection Locate Media Scripts ShowSources EN wipe A comp s Metadata view Metadata File Path E Fux DemoStuff saver out_0000 jpg Clip Name SundownHD0000 comp37 Status None PrevStatus None out 0000 jpg Assign None PrevAssign None Resolution 1920 x 1080 UserFile F_Main Outside Aspect 10000 x 1 0000 Demo Hovercraft ExtApp lt not set gt Speed 0 0000 Sources Lin E Fux DemoStuff saver out_0000 jpg Comp rendering order Colorspace Render Range Output Path PROJECT DemoStuff SundownHD0000 cor Saverl 1 1 w E Fux DemoStuff saver out_0000 jpg Stereo Mode None LUT None The metadata view of a comp is a bit different from the one you see with image sequences The field Comp Rendering Order allows you to drop other comps on top of the currently selected one to take care of dependencies between compositions For example there could be a roto comp done by another artist and your current comp relies on the rendered output of that roto comp So while the roto artist still refines his composition you can work on the one that relies on his Once he saves a new version Generation will make sure that the roto comp gets rendered first before rendering the current comp Toggle Range To save render time on comps that are only used up to a certain frame you can set this to cut Cut means that upon rendering only the range of th
19. against a single character unless a quantifier specifies otherwise special characters any character except line terminators LF CR LS PS a horizontal tab a newline line feed a vertical tab cletter control code a control code character whose code unit value is the same as the remainder of dividing the code unit value of letter by 32 For example ca is the same as u0001 cb the same as u0002 and so on xhh ASCII character a character whose code unit value has an hex value equivalent to the two hex digits hh For example x4c is the same as L or x23 the same as equivalent to the four hex digits hhhh int the result of the submatch whose opening parenthesis is the int th int shall begin by a digit other than 0 See groups below for more info w an alphanumeric character same as alnum W any character that is not an alphanumeric character same as alnum character character the character character as it is without interpreting its special meaning within a regex expression Any character can be escaped except those which form any of the special character sequences above This is needed for S the target character is part of the class see character classes below negated character class the target character is not part of the class see character classes below ma lo lt ct A mom 1 1 mo N o UJoQ O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Regular
20. be created and edited Project Comments from both the Storyboard and Playback views Render Qut Create Mew EDL Import Load To create or add to the Project Comments Right click in the Storyboard or Playback views and select Project Comments from the Context Menu that appears The Comments Panel will appear on the right of the interface and the current contents of the Project Comments will be displayed Show Sources Save As election Preferences Scripts Open for Edit Flush Cache Lock Read Only Relea Lock Removing Comments Project and media comments are designed to keep a comprehensive log of all notes made throughout the Project To encourage this Generation does not provide an interface for editing or deleting comments once they have been added For the occasions where a comment must be edited the artist should edit the text file containing the comments directly Toggling display of media comments in the Storyboard Whenever the scale of the Storyboard s Media Thumbnail is large enough to accommodate text Generation will overlay the most recent comments for that media over the thumbnail image rendered against a grey background Display of the comment overlay can be toggled on and off using the F5 key on the keyboard Add more bright reddish glow Much better out 0078 jpg O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Media Notes Editor 38 Proxy Base UserBar NewSub Paint ApplyCoolEffe
21. convention associates the channels with the views The Multi View Format The multi view format is designed to 1 Allow more than one view to be stored in a single OpenEXR file in a standard way with which all applications can comply In this respect the format is not limited to mono or stereo views but allows any arbitrary number of views 2 Formalize the names of left and right views so stereo viewing software and hardware always displays the correct view 3 Provide a default view to software that does not support multi view images Software expecting regular single view OpenEXR files will see all the channels it expects 4 Support multiple channels and layers for each view 5 Allow each view to be stored in separate files and provide a standard by which the viewpoint of the file can be identified from internal information without relying on the filename or user interaction View Naming A multi view OpenEXR file may contain any number of views If there is a view which is ultimately intended for viewing in a stereo environment by the left or right eye it must be called left or right respectively in lower case English Stereo viewing software may default to assuming that it should send the left and right views to the left and right eyes respectively and may ignore all other views Other view names should be kept as short as possible to keep the channel names within OpenEXR s 31 character limit Channel Naming Multi vie
22. drag and drop them from explorer or use the Load Media button Choosing Savers 147613 As you might know Fusion comps can have multiple Savers When you hover your mouse over a Fusion comp on the Storyboard Generation will display which Saver and which associated filesequence is displayed on Playback You can select the Saver of choice by pressing 1 9 on the keyboard To make sure that the desired Saver is used automatically for Playback in Generation Loup d n os a Sindowiponm rename that Saver to default in the Fusion comp Saverl Pick item out 0078 jpg A out 0078 jpg Submit to Render When Right clicking on a comp in Generation a context menu will pop up which allows A to submit a comp to the render queue Metadata Media Notes In order to make the implementation of various pipelines as easy as possible Audio Notes the submit function actually triggers a script which then takes over to add the comp Color Adjust to the render queue or render manager of your choice Stereo Adjust Edit Comp Co You can set which script is used for this by editing your Generation cfg file Submit which can be found in ProgramData eyeon Generation profiles default Save Increment Selection x Look for the line Locate Media SCRIPT FARMSUBMIT scriptsNgenerationNFusionFarmSubmi t lua Scripts E and adjust it to suit your needs ShowSources T See the chapter Configuration Files to learn more about the structure
23. files O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Configuration files are plain text files that can be edited in any standard text editor Avoid use of word processing applications such as Microsoft Word Applications like Notepad which comes with the operating system or third party text editors like SciTE or Notepad are better choices as they will not attempt to add additional formatting to the file Each configuration option is presented on a single line in the format OPTION VALUE To change the option simply edit the VALUE For configuration options pre setup by Generation a comment block will appear above the configuration describing the available options The section below describes any additional options that may appear Comments are any line that starts with a double dash These lines will not be read as configuration options For multiline comments use to open the comment block and to close the comment block Appendices 79 NOTICE It is highly recommended to use the Project gt Preferences to modify these settings Depending on your pipeline you might run into situations where you want to manually or remotely edit these files Keep in mind that manual modifi cation of the config files should be reserved for advanced users only If doing so always make sure to keep a working safety copy of the files before modifying them O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com The following en
24. may require a few minutes to complete As with Mirrors how long this process takes is dependent on the number of Clips in the Project the original resolution and file size of the media and the drive or network transfer speed Additionally the speed of the GPU on the graphics card also comes into play as the GPU is used to process the scaling of the proxies Generation will skip any media which has already had Proxy files created at that resolution This makes it easier to keep a Project s Proxies up to date as the Project evolves and grows Once the examination and creation of the Proxy files are complete Generation will switch to playing the files from the appropriate Mirror directory for the selected Proxy slot instead of from the original media source Mirror and Proxy information There are multiple places in Generation that inform or warn you that a Mirror or Proxy is used While Mirrors or Proxies are active an appropriate label will appear next to the timecode indicator at the bottom right of the screen Also in the top left corner of the footage there will be an overlay spelling out the currently active Proxy mode In addition to that a white dot appears in front of the selected Proxy mode within the Proxy dropdown menu Finally there is also Mirror Proxy information available in the Storyboard itself The bottom most mlcon on any Version depicts the Proxy status of that Version by a 5 dot display A green color means that the
25. normal characters so they do not need to be escaped Instead within a class definition the hyphen and the brackets and do have a special meaning under some circumstances in which case they should be escaped with a backslash 1 to be interpreted as normal characters O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Regular Expressions Lem SRE EH Au nm Bu ed M LET 7 3 m D a E 89 lt 8 SS eee n HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES x LE c Rm Emm m A S Bine 3 THE CDL FORMAT ASC CDL From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia The American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List ASC CDL is a format for the exchange of basic primary color grading information between equipment and software from different manufacturers The format defines the math for three functions Slope Offset and Power Each function uses a number for the red green and blue color channels for a total of nine numbers comprising a single color decision A tenth number Saturation specified in the Version 1 2 release applies to the R G and B color channels in combination The ASC CDL was developed by the ASC Technology Committee a combined group of cinematographers post production engineers and other mo tion picture industry professionals Although the basic controls of most color correc
26. of the cfg files out uuus pg By default FusionFarmSubmit lua is used which connects to a running version of Fusion s rendermanager To test this function make sure that either Fusion or Fusion s standalone RenderManager is running on your machine Using remote RenderManagers on the network is also supported O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Fusion Comps in Generation 18 7 a do P _ gt um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ENEN EL n Making Comps l3 _ Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Make a Comp Selection Locate Media Scripts Save Increment Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Edit Comp Submit Save Increment Selection Locate Media Scripts ShowSources out O00 jpg Edit Comp Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Edit Comp Submit Save Increment Selection Locate Media Scripts ShowSources cut_0005 jpg O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com When you Right click on any image sequence you can select make comp from the Context Menu Navigate to the folder in which you want to create the comp give it a matching name and save it The comp will consist of a Loader pointing to the image sequence and a Saver Since comps are parsed dynamically by Gene
27. to store elements such as Annotations comments and history The Project will be saved as projectname genprj A new sub folder will also be created called projectname data This folder will contain any comments Annotations and history for the Project Changing the default Projects path To change the default location where Generation saves Project files open the Generation cfg file and add or change the PROJECTSPATH line to the desired result PROJECTSPATH Projects See the Configuring Generation chapter for details 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Projects 9 l i E i E m 7 E ej i a a EE o E INTRODUCTION EM o ME STORYBOARD PLAYBAC METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES d 7 ee K EL mmm a O 3 Gage da i J z x MainCut Playlist Understanding Subs TUE C Sub is a short form for sub Project Think of it as having multiple Storyboards within one Project erani Each Project can hold an unlimited number of Subs and each Sub can be accessed modified or deleted at will ename AUTO Assign Eric a In addition Subs can be created by using the metadata in the micons or via custom filters Jelete AUTO Deadline 10days A 5 Each Sub consists of its own unique and independent Storyboard Versions and Playlists Versionig Changes made to Clip edits and Versions in a Sub do not affect the Clips in any other sub Project Green The artists can swi
28. underneath the sliders allow you to Import or Export CDL files for each media save CDL Opens a file browser to export the current settings as a CDL file Saturation 1 00000 Reverts any changes back to the values that were stored before the tool was invoked Temperature 0 00000 Resets all values to their default Load CDL Save CDL The CDL format CDL s short for Color Decision List follow a unified standard developed by the American Society of Cinematographers ASC and are basically XML files The structure of such a CDL looks like this ColorDecisionList xmlns urn ASC CDL v1 01 ColorDecision Colorcorrection lt SOPNode gt lt Description gt CAR_020_0090_plate_01_v0001 lt Description gt lt Slope gt 1 49419 1 51294 1 50941 lt Slope gt lt Offset gt 0 04173 0 06048 0 05694 lt 0ffset gt lt Power gt 1 45232 1 41098 1 43751 lt Power gt lt SOPNode gt lt SatNode gt Saturation 1 0 Saturation lt SatNode gt lt Colorcorrection gt ColorDecision ColorDecisionList Slope Offset and Power translate to Gain Brightness and Gamma respectively Temperature is a Generation specific value which is not reflected in the CDL specification and therefore is not exported to or read from a CDL file To learn more about the CDL specification please see the appendix about the CDL format 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Clip Color Adjust and CDL 53 X M ol N
29. view This will set the loop to the selected Clip and switch to Playview immediatly Other techniques to set a loop for Playback are While the Playback view is active the key will set the In Point of the Loop region to the current frame while the O key will set the Out point When the Storyboard view is active the key will set the In Point to the first frame of the current Clip and O sets the Out point to the last frame of the Clip When the Playback view is active the P key will clear any Loop Region currently applied The Loop Region can also be set using the mouse Place the mouse pointer over the axis labels on the Storyboard and hold the Shift key down Left clicking on a frame in the Storyboard while the Shift key is held down will set the In Point Right clicking will set the Out point Clicking the middle mouse button will clear the current In and Out points Right clicking on the axis while Shift is not held down will display a Context Menu with options to set the In Point and Out point or to clear both Please see the chapter on Look Up Tables for further explanation Adjusting the Playback Speed Changing Versions Proxies The Up and Down cursor keys can adjust the number of frames per second used by Generation during Playback The current frame rate is displayed in the top right corner of the Playback view Holding down Ctrl while pressing the Up and Down cursor keys will change the current version of the Pr
30. with a number or punctuation character Ta Number e g Artist3D is valid 3DArtist is NOT e Names must not start with the letters xml or XML or Xml etc e Names must not contain spaces use underscore instead The name of the metadata field Type A dropdown to specify the expected type of field You can choose between String and Number Prophet There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray and Cancel there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment At this time a friend shall lose his friend s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before about eight o clock O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Custom 69 eS l aene P MN E gt m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES A ere p In the email preferences you can set your email provider and smtp server to send emails when assigning Art ists to shots or changing a shot s status Also see the chapter about the Generation cfg Preferences Assign SMTP server Tn i SMTP server Enter your preferred server and port here en smtp googlemail com Email l F Filt SMTP server requires authentication SMTP server requires authentication ter Micon Username Check with your e
31. workstation For instructions on installing and configuring the network license server please see the online instructions at http www eyeonline com NetworkLicensing html Node Locked Licenses Installing a node locked version of Generation is relatively straightforward After installing Generation locate the hardware lock that was provided with your package and connect it to an available USB port on the workstation Copy the license file that was emailed to you into the Generation install folder This is typically the folder C Program Files eyeon Generation Note that the license file MUST be called either Fusion dat or DFusion dat Tutorial Videos There are a multitude of tutorial videos available on our youtube channel and more are being produced so stay posted www youtube com eyeonsoftware 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Installing and Licensing 6 E AAA naa omes La gt a E _ i C EE A E INTRODUCTION EM o ME STORYBOARD PLAYBACK IMETADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES gt l i UU E mEEN Y OE O t ieihh C ano E mENNHE 8 A a Panning To pan the interface hold the middle mouse button down and drag the mouse pointer in the desired direction This can be used to pan the Storyboard and Playback windows as well as the Storyboard view If no middle mouse button is available use the Alt left mouse button instead Scaling To change the scale of the Storyb
32. 00 720 740 760 O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Storyboard View 23 Smau P e S E _ WC A zm a T E P A a B i n H INTRODUCTION EM o ME STORYBOARD PLAYBACK IMETADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES v guum WI um j J i ERCL UTE c rn uy 2 MED S di j E Ex M NH C annuum Load media Project Selection Eric Player Scripts Subs Tools 1 2 3 4 5 Clip Out In Time Frame MFrame 102 a gt E roe PP 00 00 09 06 231 pal EE m 712 120 14 160 LBD 200 220 231 2 260 280 300 0 320 0 34 360 38 T T 54 560 580 690 6 660 680 700 Ein U DERE ELLE 7 Ds E ae E TY ei ard Y as d Pia edo ed Pon Let ca a Ue eau A TEN ES j zu I i The TimeRuler offers various information about the CurrentTime and Clip Length It also allows for simple editing of tasks such as split In Out adjustments and roll edits The TimeRuler consists of three main areas which are PLAYCONTROLS AND NUMERICAL CONTROLS Clip Out Length Frame MFrame 102 161 102 00 00 09 06 231 71 SS Clip In Clip In Shows the In Point of the currently active Clip This value relates to the actual Clip rather than the Storyboard itself This value changes when the Clip itself is dragged on the TimeRuler below Right clicking on this field brings up a calculator to manually enter the Clip In value or perform basic mathematical functio
33. 1 the second is number 2 and so on Assertions Assertions are conditions that do not consume characters in the target sequence They do not describe a character but a condition that must be fulfilled before or after a character ro Beginning of line Either it is the beginning of the target sequence or follows a line terminator i End of line Either it is the end of the target sequence or precedes a line terminator Word boundary The previous character is a word character and the next is a non word character or vice versa Note The beginning and the end of the target sequence are considered here as non word characters Not a word boundary The previous and next characters are both word characters or both are non word characters Note The beginning and the end of the target sequence are considered here as non word characters subpattern Positive lookahead The characters following the assertion must match subpattern but no characters are consumed subpattern Negative lookahead The characters following the assertion must not match subpattern but no charac ters are consumed Alternatives A pattern can include different Alternatives If Separator JSeparates two Alternative patterns or subpatterns A regular expression can contain multiple Alternative patterns simply by separating them with the separator operator The regular expression will match if any of the Alternatives match and as soon a
34. 52 Clip Position Click and drag anywhere in the middle of the currently active Clip to perform a roll edit to change the frames that are played back without changing the length of the Clip This operation is reflected in both the Clip In and Clip Out field Handles If the currently active Clip is longer than the specified length you will see half height overlays before the Clip In or after the Clip Out which indicate for how many frames the current Clip overlaps with the previous or next Clip These values can not be changed directly but are a visual representation of the Clip s actual length TimeBar Context Menus Right clicking on certain areas of the TimeBar brings up context menus Loop Menu Right clicking in the upper area of the TimeBar brings up the Loop Menu Remove loop Loop In sets the start of the loop to the current mouse pointer position Loop Out sets the end of the loop to the current mouse pointer position Remove Loop clears the loop A similar functionality for looping can be achieved by keyboard shortcuts I sets the start of the loop to the current playhead position 0 sets the end of the loop to the current playhead position L toggles looping of the entire Clip on and off Shift L clears any loop Ed E Split Cut Menu Right clicking in the lower area of the TimeBar brings up the Cut Menu Delete Fit If the defined length of the Clip is longer than the available frames gt this funct
35. A PREFERENCES EM APPENDICES n zi Understanding Media Notes 2012 06 18 13 33 36 INCEPTION Add some more Generation provides powerful tools for keeping track of the status and requested changes for every part of the reddish glow x A 5 3 m8 2012 06 20 1 11 17 33 INCEPTION Like the sun was Project Comments are text based notes and basically work like an integrated chat client Notes are visible from a side panel or rendered directly over the Media Thumbnail Annotations are image overlays painted directly onto the image Every artist connected to the Project can add Annotations or participate in the chat This is especially useful when information needs to be passed for example from a review session to the artist working on the shot or for taking quick notes to scribble down ideas If comments are applied to a Fusion comp they will also show up in Fusion s chat tab once the comp is opened Comments are stored in the Generation Project folder as XML files and Annotations are stored as TIFF images with transparency This open approach eliminates the need for complex databases and simplifies the process of integrating comments and Annotations with shot tracking and Project management tools Generation automatically detects changes made to the comments and Annotations This ensures that even when multiple artists are reviewing and commenting on a Generation Project simultaneously the most up to date
36. Colorz FF000020 O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Guides 59 m IT EE ul E E _ um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES A ere P Guide examples A simple line overlay splitting the display into thirds lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt Guide Name Thirds gt lt Over lays gt lt HLine Y1 33 Pattern COCO Color FFFFFFFF gt lt HLine Y1 67 Pattern COCO Color FFFFFFFF gt VLine X1 33 Pattern COCO Colorz FFFFFFFF VLine X1 67 Pattern COCO Color FFFFFFFF gt lt Over lays gt lt Guide gt Displaying safe frame lines lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt Guide Name SafeFrame gt lt Overlays gt lt HLine Y1 10 Pattern FOFO gt lt HLine Y1 90 Pattern FOFO gt HLine Y1 95 gt lt HLine Y1 5 gt lt VLine X1 10 Pattern FOFO gt lt VLine X1 90 Pattern FOFO gt lt VLine X1 95 gt lt VLine X1 5 gt lt HLine Pattern FOFO Y1 50 Color FFC20F gt VLine Pattern FOFO x1 50 Color FFC20F gt lt Over lays gt lt Guide gt Color coded dimmed overlay lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt Guide Name Over lay gt lt Overlays gt lt HLine Y1 10 BlendMode XOR gt HLine Y1 90 gt lt VLine X1 5 gt lt VLine X1 95 gt lt HLine Pattern FOFO Y1 50 Color FFOOFF80 gt lt V
37. FERENCES APPENDICES Edit Filter Filter Expression Clip Name matches y UserClip Hovercraft contains 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com T Sundown Eels The Edit Filter dialog provides a plethora of settings to create filter rules for your Project based on metadata Se e E Eme gt _ NO The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move entries in the list as described above The entries are evaluated from top to bottom Boolean not and or and not or not Field Operator matches contains exists Type String Number Field Value Dropdown to specify how each entry is evaluated It is important to leave this field empty for the first entry in the list The options are The specified entry does not match the metadata The specified entry together with other entries matches the metadata The specified entry or other entries matches the metadata The specified entry together with other entries does not match the metadata The specified entry or other entries do not match the metadata Type in any of the available metadata fields here that you want to examine with the filter rule When you can bring up a Clip s metadata view you can see which fields are available In this example we are using the Name from the Clip section of the metadata The values are concatenated by means of a period in the way of section Field which in this case is Clip N
38. Fusion cache if Fusion running Default ENABLED Proxy settings NOTES PROXYPATH adds a new path each time its defined It does not remove or overwrite previous paths Keep an eye on any other paths defined and avoid making duplicate paths Generated Proxy filename depth default is 14 NOTES Use reasonable values here Windows has a limitation of 255 characters in path filename Proxypath consists of user defined path projects name Proxy type material path This must not exceed 255 characters Extra frames handles when creating proxies Default 0 Proxy settings lt width gt lt height gt lt format gt lt compression gt Only TIF and JPG formats are supported for proxies Path to Fusion exe Crop Mask regions in player CROPMASK lt mask name visible in the menu gt lt x aspect gt y aspect x position lt y position gt lt x scale gt lt y scale mask opacity gt Position values are 0 0 for left bottom and 1 0 is right upper corner and 0 5 is in the center The mask will be fit to the picture and the the edges are calculated with aspect values and moved with position values Scaling is done for the crop region last so you can crop out the audio NOTES aspect of 1 1 will give you a rectangle also aspect of 2 2 will give you the same rectangle Aspect of 2 5 1 0 will give you 2 5 1 screen the mask will be 2 5 times wider than tall Mask opacity is from how much the cropped
39. Introduction About Generation Changes since version 3 0 Changes since version 3 1 Generation Features Installing and Licensing Navigating The interface Projects Project Structure Projects Subs Clips Versions Versions Adding Versions Fusion Comps in Generation Playlists Notification Menu Storyboard View The Storyboard View Time Ruler Audio Track Navigator Management Controls mlcons Version Context Menu Clip Context Menu Project Button e Generation AM 3 2 User Manual JENERATIO L LAM Last modified 16 07 2014 Table of Contents Script Buttons Project Locked Menu Render Out Dialog Media Notes Editor Playback View The Playback View Playcontrols Playback Paint Annotations Version Compare Multiview Playback Stereo Playback Stereo Adjust and SAL Stereo Crop Player Context Menu Clip Color Adjust and CDL Player Color Adjust Working With EXRs Proxies and Mirrors User bar Guides Guide Examples LUTs Metadata Metadata View Edit Custom Dialog Edit Filter dialog Working With Filters Preferences Preferences Assign Preferences Custom Preferences Email Preferences Filter Preferences Micon Preferences Path Map Preferences Program Out Preferences Settings Preferences Status Preferences UI Appendices Configuring Generation generation cfg Config File micon cfg Config File Keyboard Shortcuts Supported File Formats Regular Expressions The CDL
40. LAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Ne os oT Ea IT ml i EU m MN S n E E mM NN T LE rm P mom m ro Understanding Proxies Close Proxy group global Free Space CO JA ch LL A l3D Render source Quality Proxy Options Resolution Format Generate Mirror Disable proxy While Generation makes efficient use of system memory to ensure the smoothest possible Playback large uncompressed images often require faster disk or network bandwidth than is available on a workstation without dedicated RAID hardware To ensure that all artists can enjoy full framerate Playback of the Project Generation employs a powerful Proxy and Mirroring feature to create local or lower resolution versions of the media used in the Project The Render Source and Quality switches give additional control over creating proxies For example you could create a local Mirror first then switch the Render Source to Mirror and continue building lower resolution proxies from the local files rather than choking the network The Quality switch applies when rendering proxies from RED files When quality is set to full the full size RED footage will be used and debayered when creating the Proxy Lower quality settings can dramatically increase the Proxying speed because the RED Proxy resolutions are used Keep in mind though that this is a quality tradeoff Defragmentation of the Mirror Folder Mirror
41. Line Pattern FOFO X1 50 Colorz FFFF0080 Line Pattern 60FO X1 20 Y1 20 X2 80 Y2 80 Color 00FFFF80 gt Rectangle Pattern FOFO X1 10 Y1 10 X2 90 Y2 90 Color FFFFO080 Fil lMode Outside Fi1l1Color FFO00020 gt Rectangle Pattern FFFF X1 5 Y1 5 xX2 95 Y2 95 Color FFFFFFFF BlendMode XOR Fi11Mode Inside gt Overlays lt Guide gt 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Guide Examples 60 7 om umm mul _ _ mn um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Understanding LUTs Generation can apply 3D Look Up Tables LUT to the view which will be applied to all images displayed The supported formats are Cinespace Iridas itx Iridas look Truelight 3dl and eyeon Software s own ascii alut3 The LUT is applied in real time by the graphics card and will not affect Playback performance in any way LUTs are typically used to color calibrate the monitor to ensure that the images shown by Generation match the final output display device and to ensure that all artists see the same colors Generation can hold up to five LUTs in the Quick LUT panel for fast and easy access LUT buttons with a green outline already have a LUT loaded If the outline is grey no LUT has been loaded for that button yet Activating a LUT Click on any of the five LUT buttons which have a LUT loaded to activate or deactivate that specific LUT If a L
42. OARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES In the Program Out preferences the general behaviour of the second monitor output is defined Preferences Display current frame when in Storyboard Assign Display current frame when in storyboard Activate this to always see the the current frame on the Program Out monitor If de activated black will be output to the Program Out monitor as soon as exiting Playview BIS Show Overlays Email Filter Micon Show Overlays Path Map Option to show or hide the overlays for FrameSize current FPS etc Program Qut on the Program Out monitor Settings Status MI O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Program Out 74 Assign Custom Email Filter Micon Path Map Program Out Settings Status MI Preferences Project settings Project width Project height Project FPS Default still duration 1280 FRU nunum 25 000 Le RU Cur ad 50 Hold previous for missing frarnes Proxy extra frames Interface settings Tablet compatible sliders 10 y Start playback when entering player e Project lock timeout seconds Pars uu Use red title bar as lock indicator System settings Edit project on open Use Windows file I O cache F Use Windows file VO cache for JPGs i e Show console Flush Fusion memory cache Thumbnail cache limit e 1000 Output settings needs restart VsSync OpenGL quad buffered stereo Use progr
43. Proxy is available for that Clip A red dot means that no Proxy footage was found The center dot stands for the Mirrored version the dots in the upper left upper right lower left and lower right stand for Proxy resolutions one to four respectively If during Playback the desired Proxy or Mirror frames are not found the text overlay will turn red and an automatic fallback to the original footage takes place Observe that depending on where the original footage is stored this might lead to a decrease in Playback speed Bring up the Proxy tool again in this case and re render the missing files Toggling Proxy Slots with the keyboard It is possible to toggle the current Proxy slot using the keyboard While the Playback Interface is active use the Shift H key combination to enable a Proxy slot For example to enable Proxy 1 hold down Shift and press the 1 key To enable the Mirror slot hold down Shift O These keyboard shortcut are toggles so pressing Shift 1 again would disable the use of the Proxy 1 slot and return to displaying the original media Unlike the Proxy Tool dialog enabling a Proxy slot using the keyboard will not create new proxies or Mirrors for any media which does not already have proxies available Configuring the Proxy Settings The width height and image type of the Proxy files are set by editing the Generation cfg file The format of the Proxy slot configuration is as follows PROXY lt gt lt wi
44. UT is active the buttons outline will change to a bright yellow As opposed to Guides LUTs are not concatenated This means that activating a LUT will deactivate any other LUT that might have been applied before Keep in mind though that any LUT which is applied to an individual Version via the Metadata Dialog will still be applied to that Version prior to applying the view LUT Remove t day ec Loading a LUT int day 02 3dl int_day 03 3dl int night 02 3dl Alexa LOGC2VID alut3 To add a LUT to the Project Right click on any of the five LUT buttons A Context Menu will pop up which shows the recently used LUTs as well as the option to load a LUT from any location on the filesystem gs magic 1 alut3 LOGCrecKodak alut3 WHIL v0001 Nuke alut3 GammaD8 alut3 REDOTalut3 2 LOGCrecKod O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com LUTs 61 Es 7 _ n N hart am m me NC i a b i 3 LEONES HS METADATA VIEW Metadata Metadata EX Fux iDemoStuf i saver out_0000 jpg SundownHD0000_comp37 None PrevStatus None out 0000 jpg Assign Mone PrevAssign Mone Resolution Outside Aspect i Hovercraft not set Speed Colorspace k Level E Fux DemoStuffisaver out_0000 jpq Comp rendering order Render Range Output Path PROJECT DemoStuff SundownHDOO00 cor Saverl 1 1 cut El FuxiiDemoStuffisaverout_0000 pg Stereo Mode LUT Understanding Metadata View The Metadata dialog i
45. a Notes Normals Velocity RevVelocity WorldPos Disparity Project Notes Metadata Paint Proxy Tool Scripts Flush cache 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com te tn vu me gt gt ME ES 2 a Offers the controls for displaying stereo content Please see the chapter about Stereo Playback for further information Allows you to swap between the assigned EXR channel groups Please see the chapter about EXRs and configuring Generation for further information Brings up the Media Notes Editor for the currently viewed Version Brings up the Project Notes Editor for the currently viewed Version Brings up the Version s Metadata Dialog Brings up the Grease Paint Annotation Brings up the Proxy Tool Runs scripts defined in the Generation cfg Empties the cache freeing memory Player Context Menu um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES 52 eS m messo D E WO A ere PO Colors can be adjusted on a per media level with the Clip Color Adjust tool By default the sliders for Red Green and Blue are ganged To make per channel adjustments hold down Ctrl while dragging any of the values Clip Color Adjust sundownHDO000 comp Gain Brightness Gamma Load CDL Opens a file browser to select a CDL file and apply the settings to the media Red 1 00000 0 00000 1 00000 Green 1 00000 0 00000 1 00000 Blue 1 00000 0 00000 1 00000 The buttons
46. ack siredric de eric siredric de Down arrow Move the selected entry down in the list Plus Create a new entry Program Out Cross Delete the selected entry Settings Status E The buttons next to each entry allow you to modify the entry itself Brings up the color picker to specify the color the entry shows up in the menu to visually distinguish between different artists Enter the artist s email address here or leave the field blank Please refer to the email preferences as well Standard Assign Message Hello Marne You have been assigned to shot ShotName by User You can find the Fusion comp here LinkToComp Standard Assign Message You can pre compose a message here that will be sent as an email to the artist when he is assigned to or unassigned from a shot Standard Un assign Message The field popup on the right allows you to insert dynamic fields in each email Hello Name You have been Un assigned from shot ShotName by User Options are Name The name of the recipient as defined in the Assign Preferences Sender The name of the currently logged in artist Send Notification immediately on assignment ShotName The name of the shot in the Generation Project LinkToComp If the Version is a Fusion composition a direct link to the file will be included in the x Edit Notification before sending il emalli Cancel Send Notification directly on Assignment If the Assignment on a shot changes
47. ages which are rendered from CG applications using high dynamic range colorspaces Generation can load uncompressed and LZW compressed TIFF files though the issues with Playback performance and frame rate mentioned in the Targa file format notes also apply to compressed TIFF files JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group jpg channels RGB colorspace 8 bit integer The JPEG file format is commonly used for images captured by digital cameras and by images compressed for display or distribution via the internet Despite the fact that JPEG files are usually heavily compressed Generation can decompress and play this format at high frame rates This makes JPEG files a common choice for low resolution Proxy versions of a Project thanks to the excellent space savings Portable Network Graphics png channels RGB colorspace 8 bit integer The PNG file format is commonly used for images designed for display and distribution over the internet While Generation can load and display files using the PNG format Playback performance will typically be slow because of the computational overhead involved in decompressing the files Silicon Graphics SGI sgi and RGB rgb channels RGB RGBA colorspace 8 bit integer 16 bit integer The SGI and RGB formats are commonly used formats when the results of the animation or visual effects must be imported on Quantel or Autodesk systems QuickTime Movie mov channels RGB colorspace 8 bit
48. also try loading files with this extension as OpenEXR files before resorting to brute force attempts to interpret the file format from the header data If not specified the default extension for multi view OpenEXR files should be exr O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com MultiView OpenEXR 92 B mE Z mm Mil cm I SEE 0 Ns Le m mera B d STORYBOARD MM PLAYBACK METADATA ll PREFERENCES f APPENDICES Sal ma ms 3 S This joke is not available in your country We re sorry 0 0 A O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com The End GEN_LOCK_READONLY false 93
49. am out Program out stereo mode O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com i Le E 0 l _ gt i PREFERENCES SETTINGS In the Settings you can modify the core functionality of framerate resolution Playback and so on You will see three columns namely Master User and Project The Master settings are applied to each newly created Project The User settings can be used to override the Master settings for example to adapt Generation to differently equipped workstations The Project settings only allow you to modify Width Height and Framerate and again override the settings from Master or User You can click on the R button in the User and Project column to reset the values to the Master prefs Also see the chapter about the Generation cfg Project Width Project Height Project FPS Project Settings The X resolution of the Project Other resolutions will play back just fine The Y resolution of the Project Other resolutions will play back just fine The default payback rate This can be temporarily modified in the Playview by pressing the up and down arrows Default still duration Number of frames a still image is held for when dragged onto the Storyboard Hold previous for missing frames Instead of outputting black or showing a higher version the last valid frame is displayed when encountering missing frames during playback Proxy extra frames If additional frames or handl
50. ame Keep in mind that these fields are case sensitive Defines how the value of the field is evaluated The options are The metadata exactly matches the value specified in the value field This is best used with numerical values Example 1 1 The metadata does not match the value specified in the value field This is best used with numerical values Example 1 2 The metadata is larger than the value specified in the value field This is best used with numerical values Example 2 1 The metadata is smaller than the value specified in the value field This is best used with numerical values Example 1 2 The metadata is larger than or equal to the value specified in the value field This is best used with numerical values Example 2 gt 1 The metadata is smaller than or equal to the value specified in the value field This is best used with numerical values Example 1 2 The metadata matches the value specified in the value field and also works with regular expressions Example eel matches eel The metadata contains parts of the value specified in the value field and also works with regular expressions Example Hovercraft full of eels contains eel The metadata field exists Open bracket to define the order of operations in more complex filters Close bracket to define the order of operations in more complex filters Dropdown to specify the data type to be evaluated The options are A string value l
51. ame anno framenumber tif l chat L history 7 metadata When creating paint Annotations externally it is recommended to use saturated primary colors like 254 100 100 100 245 100 or 100 100 245 for best results O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Paint Annotations 42 J se m P T a E 1 B i ET P gt P ball STORYBOARD PLAYBACK p METADATA y PREFERENCES Understanding Version Compare Press Ctrl Alt V or click on the A B button to open the Version Compare Dialog In the Dialog select any two Versions from the Stack to be displayed on top of each other Hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to scrub through the Clip Press Ctrl hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to adjust the temporal offset of the clip selected in the right column of the Dialog Opacity 1 000 Y Use Alpha Close Slice Use the mouse to move or rotate the slice bar Load media Project Player Scripts Subs Tools Overlay Adjust the overlay percentage or activate Alpha to use the Clip s embedded Alpha channel instead Slice Overlay Opacity 0 560 Use Alpha Reset Close Load media Project Player Scripts Subs Tools 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Version Compare 43 Player Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes M
52. ame from the list of recent projects displayed in the Project menu or by selecting Load Project from the menu To open a Project for editing click on the arrow to right of the menu and select Open For Edit Read Only Mode By default a Project file is opened in read only mode When a read only Project is opened the Project Lock Indicator will display the word lock While in read only mode it is not possible to make any changes apart from adding Annotations Project and media comments This makes read only mode ideal when undertaking Project review while preventing any accidental changes To make changes to the Project select Edit from the menu New Projects Saving a new Project automatically activates editing mode Read Only Timeout A Project which is open for editing will automatically revert to read only mode when it has been idle for a set period of time The default timeout is 300 seconds 5 minutes To change the amount of time after which a Project reverts to read only mode open Generation cfg and change or add the line PROJECT TIMEOUT SECONDS 300 0 See the Configuring Generation chapter for details Saving a Project An empty Project will always display a Save As option beside its name Clicking on this option will open a file browser dialog which defaults to the ProgramFiles eyeon Generation Projects folder Always create a new folder to contain the Project as saving the Project also produces several sub folders
53. ar Commercial would create Proxy files in the CMMirrorNCar Commercial folder Creating a Mirror of a Project causes Generation to copy all of the media used in the current Storyboard of the Project to the Mirror folder No scaling or processing of the media is performed when a Mirror is created Although the media will be defragmented as part of the file transfer Mirrors of a Project are most frequently used when the media to be played is stored on a remote network drive and the Generation workstation can take advantage of fast local drives or raids for improved Playback speed To create a Mirror open the Project and Sub to be Mirrored and enter the Playback interface Right click directly on the image and select Proxy Tool from the Context Menu or use the Proxy dropdown menu in the upper left corner of the interface and select Proxy Tool A dialog that shows the current Mirror folders and the Proxy configurations will appear Left clicking on the Generate Mirror Proxy option will cause Generation to create a Mirror copy of any media used in the Project which does not already have an up to date Mirror Observe that you can specify three different Proxy Mirror locations namely Global Local and Network Creating the Mirror may require a few minutes to complete How long this takes is dependent on the number of Clips in the Project the original resolution and file size of the media and the drive or network transfer speed Generation will s
54. ard Shortcuts C ES Pan the interface Scale the interface Toggle display of the Window borders Toggle display of the Edit Panel Open script console and editor Run script assigned to FH key in generation cfg Close window quit application Flush File Cache Undo Redo Email a bug report to eyeon Software Email a feature request to eyeon Software Jump to middle frame of current Clip Display a help dialog showing keyboard shortcuts and common commands Jump to start of sub Project Jump to end of sub Project Open the comments panel and display comments for the current Project Toggle display of comments rendered over the thumbnails Thumbnail and Clip Shortcuts Delete Composition Shortcuts 129 Playback Shortcuts J Shift Left Right Cursor Ctrl Left Right Cursor Up Down Cursor Alt Up Down Cursor Ctrl Home Ctrl End Page Up Page Down Shift I Shift O P Shift Left Click Shift Right Click Shift Middle Click M Alt P Alt C Alt S Ctrl Alt C Alt F and Ctrl Alt F Shift Space Ctrl Space Stereo Mode Shortcuts Ctrl KeyPad O Ctrl KeyPad 1 Ctrl KeyPad 2 Ctrl KeyPad 3 Alt X O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Delete selected media and or Clips Recenter and rescale Storyboard to focus on Clip beneath the mouse pointer Open a file browser to the Media folder the path defined by MEDIAPATH in generation cfg Open a file brow
55. areas are dimmed 1 0 means the edges will be cropped off NOTE In addition to CropMasks you can also use Guides Please see the chapter on Guides to learn more about this topic generation cfg Config File PREFERENCES APPENDICES 81 um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES NOTICE It is highly recommended to use the Project gt Preferences to modify these settings Depending on your pipeline you might run into situations where you want to manually or remotely edit these files Keep in mind that manual modifi cation of the config files should be reserved for advanced users only If doing so always make sure to keep a working safety copy of the files before modifying them If you just read this sentence it means that you care am very proud of you O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com STEREOPAIR Left Right STEREOPAIR L R LOGLIN_CONVERSION 1 95 685 0 6 1 0 EXR GROUP 1 Color R G B A EXR GROUP 2 Mapping U V Z A EXR GROUP 3 Normals NX NY NZ Z EXR_GROUP_4 Velocity velX velY Black Black EXR GROUP 5 RevVel rvelX rvelY Black Black EXR GROUP 6 z WorldPos posX posY posz A EXR GROUP 7 7 Disparity dispX dispY Black Black COMPUTERNAME lt some text gt FUSIONSCAN DISABLED FUSIONNEXTDELAY lt milliseconds gt FUSIONSTARTDELAY lt milliseconds gt
56. at sit in the Scripts userbar folder and will be listed automatically in the UserBar commands can be put directly in this file In addition to these Global configuration files Generation can also be configured to use a custom profile directory containing a unique configuration for each user or Project The location of the file Generation cfg is determined by the GENERATION PROFILE DIR and GENERATION PROFILE environment variables When Generation is launched it will check for the existence of these variables and use the values to determine where to find the Generation cfg file GENERATION PROFILE DIR locationNofNprofileMfolder GENERATION PROFILE profile name For example setting GENERATION PROFILE DIR 2 NMserverNsharelNGeneration configs and GENERATION PROFILE Bruce would cause Generation cfg to be read from the server share1 Generation_Configs Bruce folder If the folder does not exist it will be created and a new Generation cfg file will be created This arrangement makes it easy to Assign GENERATION PROFILE DIR as a system variable accessible to all users and GENERATION PROFILE as a user variable that changes according to who the logged in user is To summarize when Generation starts up it will first read the options in defaults cfg then it reads the options in AllData generation cfg then in Profiles generation cfg The configuration options in each file supersedes the options from the last Editing the configuration
57. called Thumb or a black frame labeled Missing if the expected media can not be found The bottom most Version in any Clip is played back unless specified otherwise by means of a playlist or by changing the currently played Version in the PlayView with Alt Up and Down Arrows Right clicking anywhere in an empty area of the VersionStack will bring up Generation s Clip ContextMenu Load Media Project Render Out EDL Import Show Sources Selection Scripts Flush Cache Re Arranging and Copying Versions To change the vertical order of the Versions position your mouse pointer on any Version The tooltip changes to pick Version Click and hold the left mouse button and drag the Version to its new position in the VersionStack The other Versions will change their position to visually indicate where the Version will sit once the mouse is released Release the mouse and the Version will be inserted into the new position in the Storyboard To cancel the operation press the right mouse button while the left one is still held down The Version will then jump back to its original position When holding down Ctrl while performing the above operation a copy of the Version will be created Using the same method Versions can also be moved or copied to a different Clip MET 080 13 0045 dpx Versions 13 EZ gt zg EB Ew INTRODUCTION i i STORYBOARD M PLAYBACK METADATA EN REFERENCES Y APPENDICES
58. cked vertically and scaled back in Y to match the height of the original footage This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support this stereo method The left and right eye are sent separately to the outputs of a quadbuffer capable graphics card This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support this stereo method The difference between the left and right eye Not so much a viewing mode but rather for visually checking the amount of disparity and convergence point Stereo Playback 48 an dai m a MEME NES Interocular X Y Offset and Zoom can be adjusted on a per media level with the Stereo Adjust tool This can happen in both Pixel Values or percentage simultaneously depending on which control you click on Cli p Stereo Adj ust The buttons underneath the controls allow you to Import or Export the Stereo Adust data to use the values in other applications like eyeon Fusion and Dimension MET 080 13 75 Pixels Percent Shift X 0 000 0 00000 Load SAL Opens a file browser to select a CDL file and apply the settings to the media Shift Y 0 000 0 00000 EN cede ideis Opens a file browser to export the current settings as a CDL file Load SAL Reverts any changes back to the values that were stored before the tool was invoked Save SAL p Resets all values to their default L ml
59. comments e Saved record of all decisions and client requests e Extensive metadata support for both file metadata and user definable metadata Playback e Disk based Playback up to 4K exceeding 120 FPS e GPU accelerated performance e Switch views and resize windows during Playback e Scrubbing and loop regions e Multi view and Split view for comparison of two Clips versions or sequences e Metadata overlay during Playback e View RGBA or isolate individual channels switch channel groups when viewing EXR files Editing e Cutting Trimming and Slipping e Clip splitting e Create multiple sub projects e Create and conform custom playlists Compatibility e Playback support for standard image file formats CIN DPX JPG MOV etc e Industry standard 3D Look Up Table format support e CDL support Compositing e Full integration with eyeon Fusion e Auto flagging of updated composition shots e Composition dependencies tracked and maintained e View source elements of compositions Audio e Scratch track audio with waveform display e Trimming and slipping Proxy Mode e Automatically generate local Mirrors and proxies for entire Project e Mirrors and Proxies defragmented on the fly for optimal Playback performance e Local editing without server access Rendering e Render out to a multitude of formats in any resolution e Render out multiple format versions e Disk defragmentation during Proxy rendering e Full bit depth including floating point
60. controls 40 HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES PP B NES um o t e a ma a a a mL ma FL fo O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Fullscreen Playback Filtered Playback Hiding the Title Bar PLAYBACK During Playback it is often desirable to eliminate all parts of the interface except for the image itself The techniques described below apply to both the Storyboard and Playback views but are most commonly used from the Playback view True fullscreen Playback can be achieved by hiding the dialog s title bar and the Edit Panel and setting the image to fit the view using the F key Using the Status and Assign menus you can filter if all Clips or only those with certain attributes should be played back Use the F3 key to toggle display of the Generation dialog s Title Bar Hiding the Track View Use the F4 key to toggle display of the Edit Panel on and off Setting a Loop Region Applying a LUT A Loop Region is used to restrict Playback to just a portion of the Storyboard A Loop Region is shown using a blue line across the top axis of the Storyboard Track as described in the Timeruler chapter There are a variety of ways to set a Loop Region while in the Playback interface The most convenient way is probably to double click on any Version in the Storyboard
61. ct RestoreWeekend LoopSelected MV Play MV Reset MV_Straight PLAYBACK VIEW X te E md id E m um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Filter All Player Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes Metadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Paint Proxy Tool Scripts Flush Cache Clip Stereo Adjust MET_080_13 75 Pixels Percent 0 000 0 000 0 000 0 00000 0 00000 100 00000 Clip Out Ty Status All EE NES Click on the part of the interface you want information about Assign All Close ae ad Project GenDemo2012 E Demo Sub MainCut Paint tool Frame annotation Clip annotation TL BL TL BL X Left 0 000 px 0 000 px Y Left 0 000 px 0 000 px Load SCL Save SCL 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 0 00000 TS gerne mm TU BR TNT UIN NONO Clip Stereo Crop 0 000 px 0 000 px 0 000 px 0 000 px MET 041 08 bg 0 00000 0 00000 TL BL 0 00000 0 00000 mE BL 144 Load media 4I Project X Right 0 000 px 0 000px 0 00000 0 00000 Y Right 0 000px 0 000px 0 00000 0 00000 Player gt 0 000px 76 JE 0 000px 0 0000055 0 0000075 0 0000055 0 00000 0 000px 0 000px Revert Reset Scripts Playlist Time 00 00 02 20 a eer sit Se i i 470 j te siu i l 540 i i 570 ie E
62. d drag them to a position that suits your needs Player layout Active layout default Reset setup Creating a new Multiview In Storyboard view press V to bring up the Player layout control Click the Add Row or Add Column buttons to generate as many views as you need Player layout Active layout default A o remm Now you can drag Versions from the Storyboard into the respective views of the Player Layout window Reset setup Player layout Active layout default Reset setup Reset the Multiview Press V to bring up the Player layout control Click on Reset Setup to return to the standard Playback mode Using the User Bar UserBar You can also use the User Bar to run the MV Play script that comes with Generation NewSub Select as many Versions as you need and press MV Play to load them into the Multiview Click on MV Reset to return to standard Playback mode CopySelected LoopSelected See the chapter about the User Bar for closer information MV Play MV Reset Paint ApplyCoolEffect RestoreWeekend O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Multiview Playback 45 um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Player Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes Metadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Paint Proxy Tool Version Compare Scripts Flush Cache E Fux DemoStuff saver ou
63. data Version cache es Je 137 5613 J i Like the sun was really overred Much better out_0078 pg To display a dialog containing additional information and options for any media in the Storyboard right click on the Version and choose Metadata from the Context Menu You can also hover your mouse on top of any Version and press J to bring up the Metadata dialog The Thumbs created by Generation are locally cached as tiff format files to improve performance during scaling panning and display of the Storyboard The location of the Thumb cache defaults to Generation cache Project name To change the folder Generation uses for the Version cache open Generation cfg in a text editor and change the value of the CACHEPATH configuration option to point to the desired destination CACHEPATH cacheN It s a good idea to set this to a fast local drive Deleting the Version cache folder will cause Generation to re cache the Versions when they are next displayed This technique can be used to rebuild the cache in circumstances where a corrupt or invalid cache is causing problems Once Generation displays a Thumb it will attempt to keep the Thumb s texture in memory on the graphics cards The default number of Version textures stored on the graphics card is limited to 1000 Although Generation can be configured to increase this amount to increase performance on larger projects To increase the number of Version textures stored on th
64. des and email addresses are stored in the micon cfg file The settings can also be accessed by means of the Assign Preferences You can click on the S next to each entry to select all Versions assigned to a specific artist and copy them into a new sub Project Right click on the icon for a larger dialog Cancel 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Management Controls mlcons 28 um 7 e Sa gt _ gt um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ENEN EU Custom The Custom icon can display any metadata assigned to it via the Custom Edit dialog Please see the section about working with metadata for further information Custom Marne sundownHD0000_comp Deadline 2012 12 24 Right click on the icon to open the Custom Edit dialog Artist Bob Charlston RenderedBy Inception EE Notes Much better With this icon you get a direct overlay on the Version containing the Medianotes Double Click on the overlay to open the Notes editor and add notes or join a chat The icon turns blue to indicate that notes are present for that Version Proxy Indicator This status indicator depicts the availability of proxies or a Mirrored version of the footage A green dot means the associated Proxy or Mirror is available for that Version A red dot means that the associated Proxy or Mirror files are missing O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Management Con
65. dth gt height format compression For example the following line sets the Proxy 1 slot to produce 960x540 half 1080p resolution images in the jpg format using 8096 compression PROXY1 2960 540 jpg 80 At the current time the only valid options for format are JPEG and TIFF When using the JPEG format the compression can be set to a value between 0 and 100 where 100 represents lossless compression When using the TIFF format the compression can be set to either O for no compression or 1 for lossless LZW style compression Up to four Proxy slots can be configured for use as depicted in the following example PROXY1 640 360 3pg 75 PROXY2 1280 720 jpg 75 PROXY3 1280 720 tif 1 PROXY4 1920 1080 jpg 80 See the Configuring Generation chapter for additional information on editing the configuration files Proxies and Mirrors 57 The Userbar UserBar NewSub CopySelected LoopSelected MV Play MV Reset Paint ApplyCoolEffect RestoreWeekend mw ro uel s a M MEME NES The Userbar offers another way to put custom functionality right within your reach The content and behavior of the Userbar is controlled by two aspects the userbar cfg file and the scripts in the userbar folder You can add commands to the userbar cfg file which sits in AllData profiles default You can define scripting commands directly in the cfg with the Command function Alternatively you can
66. e reddish glow n Dn pde To close the Comments Panel place the pointer over the border between the comments 2012 06 20 11 17 33 INCEPTION Like the sun was pM really overred panel and the rest of the interface Left click when the separation bar dividing the interface is highlighted to collapse the dialog out 0032 jpg O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Media Notes Editor 37 gt E p _ 2 E L n ej EE i um INTRODUCTION Y STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES f APPENDICES pm SAL Adding Media Comments Media Comments should be used to store information relevant to specific media Media Comments can be created and edited from both the Storyboard and Playback views To create or add to the media comments from the Storyboard Right click directly on the thumbnail for the media and select Media Comments from the Context Menu that appears To open the Media Comments from the Playback view Right click on the image and select Media Comments from the Context Menu The Comments Panel will appear on the right of the interface and the current media s comments will be displayed While the Playback view is active the text in the Comments Panel will always show the comments for the currently displayed media Adding Project Comments Project comments should be used to store information relevant to the entire Project Load Media They are available from all sub projects Project Comments can
67. e Timecode and metadata burn in O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Generation Features 5 Cae O 5 z EU AA i um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Installing Generation To install Generation simply run the installer from the files you downloaded and follow the instructions Installing the license file There are two different licensing systems for Generation Floating licenses and node locked licenses Regardless of which license type you ordered you will have received a license file by email and a USB hardware lock If this is the first time you have installed Generation you may need to follow the instructions below Network licenses are employed when Generation is to be used on multiple workstations in the studio A node locked license is used when the Generation install will be tied to a single workstation or for moving the Dongle and thus the license around to different machines Network Licenses A network license is used to allow one or more licenses to float within the local network A central license server is configured to handle requests for licenses from workstations that launch Generation Each time Generation is started it contacts the license server and requests a license If a license is available it is given to the workstation and marked as unavailable for others If all licenses are currently in use Generation will not start and a licensing error will appear on that
68. e column will toggle the value to Log Processing the image in the Log color space will provide additional options to set the images Black and White points as well as Gamma for conversion and film stock Generation does not currently support Cineon or DPX files saved in the YUV colorspace while Cineon and DPX files with Alpha channels are supported Truevision TARGA tga channels RGB RGBA colorspace 8 bit integer The Targa file format can be either compressed or uncompressed Generation can load and display uncompressed Targa files for Playback very quickly Compressed Targa files are somewhat faster in terms of network or disk bandwidth but the processing cost involved in decompressing the files is quite high As a result the framerate sustainable for uncompressed Targa files is generally much higher than what is possible with the compressed variety As Klingon developers say What is this talk of release Klingons do not release software Our software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake Our users will know fear and cower before our software Ship it Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are Generation can not load the relatively uncommon palleted format Tagged Image tiff channels RGB RGBA colorspace 8 and 16 integer 32 float SGI LogLuv The TIFF file format is capable of storing images in a variety of color depths This format is frequently used to store im
69. e comp is rendered which is actually used in the Generation Project If you set this to Render range 000 xxx the render range specified in the comp itself will be used O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Fusion Comps in Generation 20 ilz a 7 z77m e um INTRODUCTION Mi STORYBOARD MM PLAYBACK METADATA lj PREFERENCES APPENDICES E La EE E a ju y Playlist Int_Version_w_soun Understanding Playlists A Playlist in GenerationAM allows you to define versions that are different from the bottom most version for Playback Normally when entering Playback mode the bottom most Version of any Clip is played back automatically Sometimes however one might want to create a Playback that contains Version 1 of Clip 1 but Version 3 of Clip 2 to 4 followed by Version 2 of Clip 5 and so on l Int Version w sound Playlists can be used to prepare variations of the Project for ready access during a review session and you can create as many different playlists as you like Creating Playlists To create a new Playlist click on Create Playlist in the playlist menu The Versions of all Clips will now be greyed out by an overlay while the Clips designated for Playback will appear with a light border Left click on any Version to include it in the playlist You can only select one Version per Clip NA 5 1 E d Lu i MET_165_02 0043 dpx Deactivating Playlists Once a Playlist
70. e current Clip is in Loop mode this button advances to the start of the current Clip Clip Back Jumps to the start of the previous Clip in the Storyboard Frame Back Steps back one Frame Left Arrow can be used as a shortcut in PlayView mode Play Stop This button toggles between Playback and Stop When you are in the StoryboardView Generation will switch to PlayView for Playback Press the spacebar to toggle between play and stop Frame Advance Advances one Frame Right Arrow can be used as a shortcut in PlayView mode Clip Advance Jumps to the start of the next Clip in the Storyboard End Advances to the end of the Storyboard If the current Clip is in Loop mode this button advances to the end of the current Clip The Playback interface is used to play the current sub Project showing all or part of the current Storyboard Displaying the Playback interface Use the Tab key to toggle between the Storyboard and the Playback interface at any time Pressing the Play button in the Playback controls while the Storyboard is active will also switch to the Playback view Scaling and Panning the Image For details on panning and scaling the image see the Navigating the interface chapter of this manual IP P 00001117 29 ES 0 67 292 67 pu D ey monu oen dece a ip DER TS ro b ta data ora jio frac res Pe an UP MEC TS L 2 he A Se E Pe RRE oem A ARO Rid O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Play
71. e currently playing Version O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Navigator 27 m E mew a me gt i um INTRODUCTION Y STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES A e gene mins Understanding mlcons Next to each Version you see four icons These icons can be used to change the status of the Version to Assign the work to a specific artist to directly access the Notes or to perform custom tasks or run scripts The content and behavior of those icons can be tailored to your inhouse needs by modifying the file micons cfg which sits in your Generation folder Once a specific assignment or Status is set the icon will show that selection s color which makes it easy to get an overview of assigned or unassigned Clips at a glance MET 041 08 0014 dpx Status Status Mone gt The Status icon can be used to set the Version s current status Which those statuses are and how the colour coding is meant to be can be set in the Status Preferences You can click on the S next to each entry to automatically select all Versions with that status and copy them into a new sub Project Right click on the icon for a larger dialog Assign Assign 5SIE None x With this icon you can Assign tasks to different artists in your company Depending on your preferences emails can be automatically generated and sent to the assigned artist in order to notify him about the new assignment The names color co
72. e graphics card load Generation cfg in a text editor then locate and change the value of the MAXCACHEDTHUMBS configuration option See the Configuring Generation chapter for additional details Disabling the Version cache To disable the Version cache edit the Generation cfg file in a text editor changing the value of the THUMBCACHE configuration option to DISABLED THUMBCACHE DISABLED Keep in mind that in this case Generation will continuously re build any thumbnails while you scrub through the Storyboard On larger projects or when the files live on a remote drive this might lead to performance degradation See the Configuring Generation chapter for additional details Choosing the frame used to create the Thumb O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Generation will typically display the frame in the middle of the Version as the default Thumb For example on a 100 frame Clip the Thumb would be shown for frame 50 The IMPORTEDTHUMBFRAME configuration option in Generation cfg determines which frame is used to create the Thumb If a value of O is used for IMPORTEDTHUMBFRAMEE the default behavior is used the middle frame is shown Values greater than O will offset the frame used for the Thumb from the beginning of the media while values less than O will offset the frame from the end of the media IMPORTEDTHUMBFRAME 1 See the Configuring Generation chapter for additional details Versions 15 III l N
73. e system If Fusion is running on the same machine flushing Generation s cache will also flush Fusion s cache freeing up memory Sets how many thumbnails are kept in the graphic card s memory Increase this setting for larger projects Decrease it if you are experiencing memory issues Preferences Settings 75 uu E to sd i Y m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES A i RF Output Settings VSync Enables or disables vertical sync to reduce tearing Defaults to on OpenGL Quad Enables or disbles quad buffering for stereo Playback buffered stereo Keep in mind that you need a quad buffering capable graphics card to use this feature Use Program Out The Program Out Stereo Mode defines the Second Monitor stereo mode differently to the main interface so that 2 different stereo viewing modes can be simultaneously used For example the main interface can be in anaglyph while the second monitor can be in Quad buffer mode Program Out The Number represents which stereo mode the second monitor display will be set at stereo mode 1 Anaglyph 2 Interlace 3 Checkerboard 4 Horizontal 5 Horizontal Scale 6 Vertical 7 Vertical Scale 8 Quadbuffer 9 Difference 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Settings 76 7 mm um mul _ A Li um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES b ces Assi
74. e variables are basically defining a pathmap So your footage might sit in Drive NmyNProjectNshotMleftNshot0000 jpg and Drive my Project shot right shot0000 jpg Alternatively both sequences could sit in the same folder Drive my Project shot shot_left0000 jpg Drive my Project shot shot_right0000 jpg The result in these examples would be the same since the intelligent path mapping algorithm substitutes any occurrence of Left to Right and vice versa Some Stereo Options are hardcoded and cannot be changed Horizontal and Horizontal Scaled are for horizontally stacked stereo images Vertical and Vertical Scaled are for vertically stacked stereo images Stereo EXR Multiview 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Multiview is for Stereo EXR files that have both left and right eye encoded into the same image To take full andvantage of the OpenEXR speed optimizations for this process it s vital to follow the case sensitive naming conventions for the image channels If the left eye is considered to be the default view the left eye channels must be named R G B A while the right eye channels must be named right R right G right B right A If the right eye is considered to be the default view the right eye channels must be named R G B A while the left eye channels must be named left R left G left B left A For the full specs of Multiview Images in OpenEXR see www openexr com MultiViewO
75. ect list Default is 30 days Mediapath to be used when Media Explorer is opened If MEDIAPATH starts with a backslash or with a drive letter it will be used as absolute path Otherwise its relative to PROJECTSPATH Specifies the script that should be run when selecting submit from the Context Menu of a comp Caching of thumbnails Default ENABLED Local disk cache location for thumbnails Default location is user profile location cache Allow external scripting of Generation Default DISABLED ip address of net scripting port ip mask of accepted connections Use for no limits Memory cache size in percents of amount of physical memory Uses windows file cache for reading storing frames For disk based Playback its faster to disable this Default DISABLED Usable memory limit in megabytes Some OpenGL driver versions limit the use of available memory Only if you are experiencing lockups during Playback then try limiting the available memory with these options Usable graphics memory in megabytes generation cfg Config File 80 NOTICE It is highly recommended to use the Project gt Preferences to modify these settings Depending on your pipeline you might run into situations where you want to manually or remotely edit these files Keep in mind that manual modifi cation of the config files should be reserved for advanced users only If doing so always make sure to keep a working sa
76. ection is Out eo out isthe color graded pixel code value i is the input pixel code value O black 1 white S is slope any number O or greater nominal value is 1 0 e is offset any number nominal value is 0 p is power any number greater than 0 nominal value is 1 0 where The formula is applied to the three color values for each pixel using the corresponding slope offset and power numbers for each color channel This text was copied from wikipedia http en wikipedia org wiki ASC CDL O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com The CDL Format 90 Reb EE EI HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES a a 3 wi eg Y o n t m a maa a MULTIVIEW OPENEXR From www openexr com MultiViewOpenEXR pdf Storing Multi View Images in OpenEXR Files Last Update 11 29 07 Peter Hillman and Matt Welford Weta Digital This document recommends a standard way to represent multi view images in OpenEXR files A multiview image shows the same scene from multiple different points of view A common application is 3D stereo imagery where a left eye and a right eye view of a scene are stored in a single file A standard multi view OpenEXR file is identified by the presence of a multiView attribute in the header which lists the views stored in the file Each view has its own set of image channels A naming
77. eed with those files To achieve reAltime Playback with EXRs it is recommended to render local Proxy files using the Proxy Tool Using the EXR Channel selector in the playview s Context Menu you can switch between the different channel groups you want to display These displays are meant for reference purposes only and do not offer view normalization If a selected channel group is empty the display will output black for those channels ze 37 WIND PTH 00002812 71 5 di a a do d a au mu Please refer to the chapter about Generation cfg to learn how to setup EXR Channel Groups Stereo EXR Multiview Multiview is for Stereo EXR files that have both left and right eye encoded into the same image To take full andvantage of the OpenEXR speed optimizations for this process it s vital to follow the case sensitive naming conventions for the image channels If the left eye is considered to be the default view the left eye channels must be named R G B A while the right eye channels must be named right R right G right B right A If the right eye is considered to be the default view the right eye channels must be named R G B A while the left eye channels must be named left R left G left B left A For the full specs of Multiview Images in OpenEXR see www openexr com MultiViewOpenEXR pdf Ey Lu cu uu us A EE ERES O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Working With EXRs 55 um INTRODUCTION EH STORYBOARD P
78. elect Delete Create Cloning a Sub To create a copy of the current Sub open the Sub menu click on the arrow to the right of the menu and select clone Important Keep in mind that the Project must be in Edit mode to perform any of the above three actions O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Subs 10 A OM HAS gt Understanding Clips A Clip in GenerationAM defines one segment or vertical stack of the Storyboard As you can see on the left a Clip can hold multiple different Versions Each of those Versions define some sort of media and is referred to as an Version The bottom most Version is the one that will be played back unless specified otherwise by means of a playlist The length of a Clip is specified by the Clip In Out values but does not necessarily match the length of each individual sion In other words Versions of different length can live in the same Clip If during Playback the end of the currently played Version is reached but the Clip itself is longer a stillframe of the last frame of the Version is created and held for the remaining duration of the Clip 1 27 E e TIPP Versions Clip e e e o oe e LJ LJ e o o o LJ o e e o o o e e e e e e e o o e e 13 28 2 MET_041_08 0013 dpx Moving Clips Position the mouse pointer above the top most Version of the Cli
79. emails will be sent out directly to both the assigned and the unassigned artist if applicable If the option is inactive you can use Notification menu to send out the emails Edit Notification before sending If this option is active you will be presented with a simple interface which allows you to edit the mail before sending it out 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences 68 AA A e mae mn E INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ra P In the Custom Preferences you can create and modify the UserFile and UserClip metadata fileds that should Prefe rences be available in your Project A Please see the chapter on UserFile vs UserClip for deeper information on this topic Assign Custom Footage Metadata UserFile t Custom n Email The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move Versions in the lists um F_ Main String Filter ExtApp String Micon ExtScene string Path Map Program Out Up arrow Move the selected entry up in the list Down arrow Move the selected entry down in the list Settings St Plus Create a new entry status MI O60 8 Cross Delete the selected entry Double click on an entry to set or modify its name Name Custom Clip Metadata UserClip Make sure to follow the XML naming rules which are C Info String Names can contain letters numbers and other characters Handles Number e Names must not start
80. ena PN Wa T _ Ru d ui nu y ADDING VERSIONS Adding Versions to the Storyboard _GenerationFiles Clips Clip1 Clip2 Clip3 4 GenerationFiles 4 Clips Clipl Clip2 Clip3 rie There are multiple ways to add Versions to the Storyboard You can drag any imageformat that is understood by Generation directly from windows explorer onto the Storyboard If you select an image that is part of a sequence Generation will automatic E T ally detect that sequence Clip1 0000 jpg c If you want to load a single frame instead hold down Ctrl while dragging the frame onto the Storyboard Slip ty alte Tp Alternatively you can drag a folder containing image sequences onto the Storyboard The result is the same in this case Generation will parse the sequence and you will see a thumbnail of that sequence attached to your mouse pointer Left click to insert the Version anywhere on your Storyboard or Right click to cancel the operation You can also drag folders containing subfolders or multiple sequences onto the Storyboard Sy 4 _GenerationFiles 4 i Clips Clip1 Clip2 Clip3 rmierctc 00 00 00 Insert clip Clip1_0000 jpg Train_Left0001 jpg 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Generation will create one Version per sequence or file Any Version can be made directly into a Fusion comp by selecting make comp from the Version Context Menu Clipi 0000 jpg Cli
81. es are available Generation will take the number of frames specified here into account when creating a Proxy or Mirror Interface Settings Tablet Compatible Sliders Start Playback when switching to Player Project Lock timeout seconds Use red titlebar as locked indicator Edit Project on open Use Windows file 1 O cache Use Windows file I O cache for JPGs Show Console Flush Fusion memory cache Thumbnail cache limit Activate this option when using a tablet input device such as a Wacom tablet If this option is active Playback will start immediatly when pressing the playbutton in the Storyboard If this option is inactive pressing the playbutton wil open the playview in pause mode After being idle for the amount of seconds specified here the Project Lock will be activated and the Project will become available to others again In addition to displaying the viewing in the Project Lock menu the titlebar will turn blue to offer a stronger visual feedback that the Project is actually locked Also see Project Locked Indicator System Settings If this option is active opening a Project will automatically set it to edit mode as long as the Project is not locked by any other person Activates Window s own caching system Defaults to off Activates Window s own caching system for playing back JPG sequences Defaults to on Displays the Generation console which delivers valuable feedback about th
82. etadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Paint Proxy Tool Scripts Flush Cache Overlay Clip Info Full Screen Hide Controls Zoom All Zoom Viewer Fit Zoom Viewer 1 1 Slice Quality 1 Quality 2 Quality 3 Quality 4 Quality 5 PROJECTS STORYBOARD E anm IE MULTIVIEW PLAYBACK Understanding Multiview Slicemode O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Generation can display more than one Clip at a time in Multiview mode and play them back in real time This mode is particularly useful in review sessions to compare shots The easiest way to access Multiview is to use the Play Selected script which comes with Generation and is assigned to the MV Play button in the Userbar Just Ctrl select two or more Versions and click on MV Play When two Versions are selected the script will put them on top of each other ready for Slicemode More than two Versions will be arranged in a grid pattern ready for Playback Two Versions can be put on top of each other Select Slice from the Player Context Menu to activate Slicemode and compare both Clips Multiview Playback 44 E ERR San EU m E m um INTRODUCTION o STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Manually arranging Multiview Press V to bring up the Player layout control Now you can simply click on any of the Versions in Multiview an
83. fety copy of the files before modifying them O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com uU WRVersionODE 0 MAXCACHEDTHUMBS 200 PREBUFFERING ENABLED BUFFEREDFRAMES 25 PLAYIMMEDIATELY DISABLED FLUSHFUSION ENABLED PROXIES ENABLED PROXYPATH C proxies PROXYPATHDEPTH 14 PROXYEXTRAFRAMES 10 PROXY1 720 576 jpg 75 PROXY2 1024 576 jpg 75 PROXY3 1280 720 jpg 75 PROXY4 1920 1080 jpg 65 EYEONFUSIONPATH Fusion 6 0 Fusion exe CROPMASK test1 1 25 1 0 0 5 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 0 CROPMASK test2 1 0 1 6 0 5 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 0 CROPMASK Super 35 2 35 1 0 0 5 0 5 1 0 1 0 0 8 CROPMASK Academy 1 85 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 892578 1 0 0 8 s m a ama F ua Tpm I eram wen Pm maen weTamee Mirroring and Proxy write mode NOTES if you are experiencing slow writes to your raid drives try mode 1 Default 0 Max number of thumbnails kept on GPU 100 is recommended on laptops and GPU memory less than 256MB For maximum performance use a number of at least the count of thumbnails that will fit on your screen File buffering in player NOTES when changing amount of buffered frames you need to be sure they fit in your available memory If they dont fit you will experience slow down during Playback Default is ENABLED Play button behavior when pressing play in Storyboard view If enabled Playback starts right away Default DISABLED Cache flush command also purges
84. gn Status List Custom Status Not Sta farted Filter n Pro Email Micon Path Map Program Out Settings Status MI Preferences Do Nothing Send an e mail end an e mail nd an e mail m end an e mail a Wa Of E m end an e mail Send an e mail Send an e mail Send an e mail In the Status preferences you can create entries and associated actions for the Status micon The entries you create here will show up in the Status menu in exactly the same order as in the list itself The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move Versions in the list Up arrow Move the selected entry up in the list Down arrow Move the selected entry down in the list Plus Create a new entry Cross Delete the selected entry The buttons next to each entry allow you to modify the entry itself On Change Brings up the color picker to specify the color the entry shows up with in the menu to visually distinguish between different tasks Dropdown to specify the action that should be taken Narne when the status of an Version changes Sender Options are ShotMame LinkToComp Send an email Eels An email with a pre composed message will be sent to the assigned artist based on the notification settings further down in this dialog Do nothing No action will be taken Message You can pre compose a message here that will be sent as an email Send Notification immediately on status change to the ass
85. he default Linear and Logarithmic color spaces Left click on the color space dropdown If the Logarithmic color space is chosen additional options will appear to set the White Point Black Point Conversion and Film Gamma values used in the conversion Stereo Mode Based on the settings in Generation cfg the appropriate settings for stereo Playback of the media can be selected here Please refer to the chapter Stereo Playback for further information LUT Especially when working with logarithmic files look up tables might need to be applied to the media for correct color representation In the metadata dialog LUTs can be chosen on a per Version basis to ensure correct colors even when working with footage from various sources Please see the LUT chapter for more information about how to utilize LUTs in Generation Compositions When the media is a Fusion composition the media used for Playback is determined by examining the composition for Saver nodes and using the path specified Fusion compositions often contain more than one Saver node so when the media is a composition the sources area of the dialog will display the path to the composition and the Saver used in addition to the path for the Media used for Playback To change which Saver s output is used during Playback click in the sources area of the dialog and then use the 1 9 keys on the keyboard to switch between available options For more information see the Fusion Comps in Generati
86. he default folder is set by the MEDIAPATH option in Generation cfg To change this option open or create the file Generation cfg and add or edit the value of the MEDIAPATH option See the Configuring Generation chapter for details Note If the path begins with a slash Y or a drive letter the path will be interpreted as an absolute path Otherwise the path is interpreted as relative to PROJECTSPATH configuration option O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Adding Versions 17 aem 1 a gm g um INTRODUCTION Y pee STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES eS Sat ST lt era p Understanding Fusion Comps Generation can host both filesequences and Fusion compositions on the Storyboard You can tell the difference by looking at the top right area of an Version If its a Fusion comp Comp will be displayed in the upper right of the Version Generation also compares the timestamps of a composition and the rendered files If the composition s save date is newer than the save date of the rendered files Generation assumes that the comp has been changed In this case an orange update icon is displayed to inform the user that the comp might need to be re rendered in order to view the latest version Please see submitting comps to render later in this chapter to learn how you can trigger comps to render from within Generation out 0078 jpg Comps can be added the same way like file sequences Just
87. iew the sources Loaders of a Fusion composition Selection Opens a sub menu which allows you to delete cut copy and paste selected Versions or Clips Scripts Allows to run scripts which are located in the Scripts subfolder Flush Cache Clears the cache to free memory O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Clip Context Menu 31 Comments Preferences Open for edit Lock read only Release lock Flush cache Project 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Comments Create New Load Save Save as Preferences Open for edit Lock read only Release lock Flush cache a dae n a 4 9 The Project button contains the Project menu Options are Opens the Project s comments area to add Annotations or join a chat See the chapter on media notes for more information Creates a new blank Project Loads an existing Project Saves the current Project Although Generation does a continious auto save this function might come in handy for those situations where one feels the need to actually perform a save Saves the current Project under a new name Opens the Preference Dialog Removes any locks on the Project and allows for permanent changes to the Project structure Also see Project Locked Indicator Locks the Project to prevent permanent changes Also see Project Locked Indicator Removes any locks on the Project Also see Project Locked Indicator Emp
88. igned artist i erem eget The field popup on the right allows you to insert dynamic fields in each email Options are Name The name of the recipient as defined in the Assign Preferences Sender The name of the currently logged in artist ShotName The name of the shot in the Generation Project LinkToComp If the Version is a Fusion composition a direct link to the file will be included in the O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com email Send Notification directly on Assignment If the assignment on a shot changes email will be sent out directly to both the assigned and the unassigned artist if applicable If the option is inactive you can use Notification menu to send out the email s Edit Notification before sending If this option is active you will be presented with a simple interface which allows you to edit the mail before sending it out Preferences Status 77 eS maa i ee D E gt Li m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES In the UI prefs you can modify how Generation will look on startup y AE eM Skin Preferences This dropdown allows you to select which of the installed skins is to be used Assign Skane def ult n The default is the skin that ships with Generation Custom You can build your own skin or modify the existing one Te sah NIOUE however you should definitely know what you are doing since an invalid skin Filter Y Show User Bar on startup might prohib
89. ike Sundown A numerical value like 3 141 A metadata field Type in the value here the filter rule is meant to be looking for Edit Filter dialog 66 eS aene i E WO Li m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES pogo uE MEM ET Lx s General Filters can be as easy as a single line argument like File Path contains string myShot dpx and as complex as one could wish for due to the fact that you can add unlimited lines In addition regular expressions can be used for advanced filtering Please see the appendix on regular expressions for an overview Precedence Once you start adding multiple lines with different operators you should be aware that similar to mathematics all operators are evaluated in a precisely defined order The order for those operations is from top to bottom Eo o o combination assignment Bracketing In order to combine multiple queries brackets can be used to separate groups of arguments As an example let s say you want to find media that was Filter Expression either a DPX file with pending Assign notify Li or a TGA file with pending status notification File Path matches String AMDPX imis imde li SH E You might start with something like File Path matches String TGA Clip Status String Chip PrevStatus File Path matches String 4N DPX land Clip Assign Field Clip PrevAssign lor Fi
90. information will always be displayed This dynamic updating of comments and Annotations also makes it possible to use Generation as a near real time collaborative tool with remote artists Comments and Annotations cannot be created for an unsaved Project Notes are tagged with a timestamp and with the Artist s computername in the format of YYYYMMDD HHMMSS Computer Name User USER gt Comment lt If Notes are added to a Fusion composition they will also show up in Fusion s chat tab This means that even from within Fusion an artist can participate in the chat or look up the comments for the specific comp Notes can also be accessed from the outside world by means of a simple XML parser since they are stored as an XML file per Version within the Project folder When these files are modified by other programs the modifications will show up directly in Generation Typically a chat file looks like this lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt GenChat gt Add more bright reddish glow Lines Like the sun was really overbright Line Date YYYYMMDD HHMMSS Computer Name User USER Comment Line Lines Genchat Chat files can be found in the subfolders Generation creates automatically for each Project The folder structure looks like this L ProjectFolder myProject genprj L myProject data L Annotations l 7 chat VersionName txt Closing the Comments Panel Add some mor
91. integer The QuickTime Movie format is actually a container format The contents and quality of the Quicktimes are compressed using plugins called codecs Example quicktime codecs include Animation H264 and Sorenson The quality of the images and the speed of decompression and Playback will vary tremendously based on which codec is used QuickTime movies are frequently used to output a Project for remote review by a client O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Supported File Formats 86 mEmEE p O E E HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES a pe SREP JEUNSI E aai Wm oM EEU a uM LM a A a a RR REGULAR EXPRESSIONS So called Regular Expressions or regexp can be used in Generation s Filters These expressions are quite powerful but might need a bit of technical explanation The following list describes the full set of the expression syntax For deeper information please visit pages like http www cplusplus com reference std regex ECMAScript Special pattern characters Special pattern characters are characters or sequences of characters that have a special meaning when they appear in a regular expression pattern either to represent a character that is difficult to express in a string or to represent a category of characters Each of these special pattern characters is matched in the target sequence
92. ion will adjust the Clip s Clip Out position to match See below for an example Split Creates a new Clip by splitting the current Clip at the mouse pointer position This also creates a new Clip Shifting the positions of the following Clips to the right The actual time and length of the Project is not changed Delete Deletes the current Clip and all Versions Loop out Fit E T E Shift S Will perform a split a the playhead position as described above Delete Cut Dissolve on off l mm Dissolves Right clicking directly on the vertical line of a cut allows you to add or remove a Dissolve The length of the Dissolve can be adjusted by dragging the left and right handles of the Dissolve icon which appears on the timeruler The Fit Function e ier e Donee nor PESE e mi iden idum ie sims sire x ae e n A If the defined length of the Clip is longer than the available frames of the Version the area of the TimeBar is colored dark grey Fit will adjust the Clip s Clip Out position to match rippling all subsequent Clips back in time ER rm vem Day EE es ing ESI ES mE R e Sr p A E Ee te O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Time Ruler 25 AX M m _ m WS m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES The AudioTrack gives a visual representation of the currently loaded audio file Generation AM supports standard WAVE files for Playbac
93. is active there will be an additional entry in the Playlist menu which allows you to de activate the current playlist Modifying Playlists Create Right click in the playlist menu to bring up the options Deactivate Clone Rename Rename the playlist to your liking Clone Duplicate the playlist Rename Delete Remove the playlist Conform Conform Once you are satisfied with the Playback order in the playlist Delete this option creates copies of the Versions selected in the playlist and places them as the bottom most version onto the Storyboard 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Playlists 21 7 e Ea C S A _ NO um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ENEE ES s Proy Eee Filter All The Notification menu provides a visual snapshot of changes made to the current Project which have not yet been sent to their designated artist or supervisor A visual count of pending notifications will be visible on the Menu Bar at all times out 57 Status Mone f E mus ps a and a comprehensive list can be dropped down in order to inspect modifications before batch approving them to be dispatched MET 041 08 _fg_ Assign Eric Mone MET_080 13 Assign Peter There are four columns within the dropdown MET 165 01 01 ew comp Assign Mone MET 165 02 Status None Clip Indicates the name of the Clip that has been modified MET 165 02 Assign None Train Left Assign None
94. it Generation from starting up or functioning correctly Micon If you want to dive into the adventure of building your own skin Path Map Hover highlight it is highly recommended to work on a copy of the default skin Pogam Out A wm rather than on the default skin itself for the above reasons Settings 7 hig eee Start in FullScreen mode Ul Micons With this option active Generation will start without the Windows titlebar Slots and will also cover the Windows taskbar Dope Track Show UserBar on startup Toggles if the UserBar should be displayed automatically Regardless of this setting you can still activate or de activate the UserBar by pressing Ctrl U Hover Highlight For visual cosmetics this allows you to deactivate the highlighting of various parts of the interface 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences UI 78 APPENDICES RS n j NOTICE It is highly recommended to use the Project gt Preferences to modify these settings Depending on your pipeline you might run into situations where you want to manually or remotely edit these files Keep in mind that manual modifi cation of the config files should be reserved for advanced users only If doing so always make sure to keep a working safety copy of the files before modifying them INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK PREFERENCES APPENDICES METADATA zl
95. k With the left mouse button you can slip the audio to the left or to the right Clicking with the right mouse button brings up a context menu for the AudioTrack To add any WAVE file or replace the current one simply drag the file from the explorer to the AudioTrack area in Generation AM Context Menu Right clicking on the AudioTrack brings up a Context Menu which allows you to mute or remove the audio Rl es Note that the mute function can also be achieved with the Audio Mute button underneath the Storyboard O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Audio Track 26 e X M TM as dai Tn dise NX a m x INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES IE ES SN Understanding the Navigator The Navigator which shows up at the top of the screen gives an overview of your current Project and shows at which part of the Project you are currently looking It also indicates how many Versions there are for each Clip and allows you to quickly jump to different positions in the Storyboard Each vertical column stands for a Clip and the small boxes in each Clip represent the Version The dark overlay represents the area of the Project you are zoomed into currently on the Storyboard Left click and drag in the Navigator to access different areas of your Storyboard During Playback when changing Versions by means of pressing Ctrl ArrowUp or Ctrl ArrowDown a horizontal bar in the navigator also shows th
96. k In Progress Project F temp MET_041_08_bg comp gt A A Needs Redo InputDevice Fusion MET_041_08_bg 00001 dpx InputSerial 00000000 Assign River Greenlit Clip Resolution 960 x Name MET_041_08_bg_ Status None Aspect 10000 x J PrevStatus None Assign None Speed 0 0000 PrevAssign None CreationTime 2008 09 23 16 42 27PDT O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Projects 8 EZ gt zg ey mam m INTRODUCTION PY mm STORYBOARD PLAYBACK MIETADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES o A a oe Project GenDemo2011 E X Sub MainCut A Generation Project usually contains related media Storyboards versions comments and Annotations 1 GenDemo2DH E XML EMFuxhGe A Project can contain multiple sub projects each of which contains edits called Clips emptyProject en iuc sub projects consist of a Storyboard containing one or more playlists Load E Fux Blt Each Clip contains one or multiple media elements stacked vertically which are referred to as Versions Load E Wideo Ec Versions can be either an image sequence movie or Fusion composition Ll Eid Multiple artists and workstations can open the same Generation Project Although typically Load E Generat only one artist will have the right to edit and change the Project Gene p a So CS Regardless of who has the rights to modify the Project all artists retain the ability to play the Project 9 Load E Generat and read or add new comments and An
97. kip any media which has already had Mirror files created This makes it easier to keep a Project s Mirror up to date as the Project evolves and grows At this time Generation will only create Mirrors of the most current version of the media stored in a Clip the bottom element in the Storyboard s version stack Once the examination and creation of the Mirrored files are complete Generation will switch to playing the media from the Mirror directory instead of from the original media source Proxies and Mirrors 56 MF rame 1 MIRRORED out 0078 jpg MIRRORED 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Creating a Proxy PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES oa lt a az ME Cua x pa aa _ id m dO M gt S aulam Proxied projects function identically to Mirrored projects except that the copies of the media are scaled to a new resolution before they are copied to the Mirror folder Generation resizes the media and places it in the Mirror ProjectName folders Up to four different Proxy slots can be configured in Generation cfg and the files for each Proxy are stored in the Mirror ProjectName Proxy1 Mirror ProjectName Proxy2 Mirror ProjectName Proxy3 and Mirror ProjectName Proxy4 folders respectively The process for creating a Proxy is identical to the process for creating a Mirror as described above Creating the Proxy
98. le Path matches String TGA land Clip Status Field Clip PrevStatus Unfortunately due to the precedence explained above this will give you media with properties of DPX files that are pending Assign or TGA files and also pending status To achieve the result you are looking for you need to introduce bracketing to your filter File Path matches String DPX ae land Clip Assign Field Clip PrevAssign rx c i NE m e E lor File Path matches String TGA File Path E String HLDPX land Clip Status Field Clip PrevStatus Clip Assign 0 String Clip PrevAssign File Path matches Clip Status string EX TGA String Clip PrevStatus F F Y Y F F a44444444 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Working With Filters 67 PREFERENCES i mm LL c OA E E INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ee A e In the Assign preferences you can create artist names and associated email adresses for the Assign micon The entries you create here will show up in the Assign menu in exactly the same order as in the list itself Preferences The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move Versions in the list e Assign E Cd IET Up arrow Move the selected entry up in the list Email TA amylBsiredric de Filter Rory rory siredric de Micon Rive mera siredric de Path Map Jack j
99. lled multiView in the file header The value of the attribute is of type array of strings C type Imf StringVector or std vector lt std string gt The attribute contains a list of view names one per array element View names are arbitrary except that periods and spaces are not permitted within a name The first listed view array element 0 is always the default view Other view names may appear in any order For example the following table shows several different combinations of multiView attribute values and channel names views listed in multiView attribute channel names left right R G B A right R right G right B right A right left R G B A left R left G left B left A mono right left R G B A right R right G right B right A left R left G left B left A mono right left mono X mono Y right X right Y left X left Y default channel naming is optional for non RGBA data Files with Only One View Multiple views of the same scene may sometimes be stored in separate files rather than in a single multiview file An OpenEXR file that contains one of multiple views of a scene should identify the stored view using the multiView header attribute For example if RGBA data for the left and right views of a scene are stored in two separate files both files should contain a multiView attribute In one file the attribute lists only the left view in the other file only the right view is listed Each file has four channels called R
100. ly with frame numbers this value depends on the Project s FPS settings Frame 231 Frame The current frame number position of the playhead This value changes when you move the playhead Right clicking on this field brings up a calculator to manually enter the In value or perform basic mathematical functions like adding or removing 10 frames from the current value MFrame This displays the current frame of the current Version and can be switched between CFrame Media Frame Clip Frame and Sequence Frame by means of a Context Menu SFrame Media Frame shows the actual frame of the current media in use regardless of the Trim In and Trim Out values and is especially useful during review sessions to find out the exact frame number of the sequence Clip Frame shows the actual frame of the current Clip PROJECT CLIPBAR The Project ClipBar is a visual representation of all Clips in the current Project and their relative length Subsequent Clips are colored Alternately in lighter and darker shades of grey to distinguish between them This ClipBar can not be zoomed in The more Clips are in a Project the narrower the individual segments will become You can drag the playhead in this bar to quickly jump to any location within your Project O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Time Ruler 24 menm EX A um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES TT E 0 130 150 160 120 TNETTWETT METT
101. m zu c fu a tm i rn Dii Lr rt I E Cancel The SAL format SAL s short for Stereo Adjust are basically XML files The structure of such an SAL looks like this StereoAdjustList xmlns urn Gen SAL v1 0 gt lt StereoAdjust gt StereoCorrection lt SZNode gt Description MET 080 13 75 Description Shi ftx gt 0 0041666664 lt Shi ftx Shi ftY 0 0020833332 Shiftv lt Zoom gt 1 0307292 lt Zoom gt lt SZNode gt lt Stereocorrection gt lt StereoAdjust gt lt StereoAdjustList gt As you can see the values are stored in Fusion s percentage style for convenient re use 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Stereo Adjust and SAL 49 5 l aene P MN E WO Clip Stereo Crop MET 041 08 bg A Left X Right 0 000 px 0 00000 TR x 0 00000 TL 0 000px 0 00000 s x 0 00000 0 000 px 0 00000 BR DT 0 000006 Bl 0 000px 0 000006 x 0 00000 Y Left Y Right 0 000 px 0 00000 TR X 0 000006 TL 0 000px 0 000007 x 0 00000 0 000px 0 00000 BR x 0 00000 7 Bl 0 000px 0 00000 gt x 0 00000 7 Load SCL Revert Save SCL Reset Cancel Interocular cropping to mask off frame violations can be applied to any Version with the Stereo Crop tool X and Y position of each corner TopLeft TopRight BottomLeft BottomRight can be adjusted individually for each eye allowing subtle adjustments This can happen in both full pixel values or percentage simul
102. mail provider if authentication is necessary Path Map Tardisigooglemail com tS ERT Username The required username for your email account Settin gs dux Status Password The required password for the above user Ti x Use secure connection sender Name Use secure connection The Doctor gt gt Check with your email provider if secure connections are supported or required Sender Address Sender Name Tardisi googlemail com The name that will appear as the Sender in the email Reply To Address Sender Address A valid email address to send the messages from Reply To Address An Alternative address to which any replies to the original mail will be channeled Cancel O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Email 70 eS l n Y E gt m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Fa eee Pe In the Filter preferences you can create custom filters for Playback or Clip selections based on the metadata of the Clips The filters you create here will show up in the Filters menu in exactly the same order as in the list itself Preferences A The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move Versions in the list Assign Filters Custom i m E Up arrow Move the selected entry up in the list Filter Show JPG from Amy Micon po Plate Assets Down arrow Move the selected entry down in the list Path Map Show MET Program Out Plus Create a new entry Setti
103. matically You can also double click into this field to enter any valid metadata manually Brings up the color picker to specify the color the entry shows up with in the menu to visually distinguish between different artists O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Edit Custom Dialog 64 IR l Nena PN WA E m A Le ummm umm umm Umm pm USERFILE VS USERCLIP METADATA Edit Custom Metadata EX FuxDemosStuffisaverxout 0000 jpg sundownHD O00 comp Greenlit PrevStatus None Assign Eric PrevAssign None UserFile Eels lt not set gt UserClip Deadline 2012 12 24 CreatedWith Autodesk Maya Artist3D Bob Charlston RenderedBy Inception Marne Clip Name Deadline UserClip Deadline UserClip CreatedWith Artist3D UserClip Artist3D RenderedBy UserClip RenderedBy In addition to any metadata that might be embedded in the media itself you can add arbitrary metadata on both Project and Media level The metadata sections for this are the UserFile and UserClip data both of which are simple XML files with a genmeta extension While the data structure in both files is identical the location where they are stored is different Similar to chat and paint Annotations the UserFile metadata can be found in the metadata directory relative to the Project under the name of Clip Name genmeta L ProjectFolder myProject genprj L myProject data 7 Annotations 7 chat 7 history l metadata
104. n 1920 ZEN This field shows the pixel aspect used to display the media Video formats like NTSC and PAL typically use a non square pixel aspect as do a few less commonly used film formats Most media will be loaded using the 1 1 square pixel aspect Speed 0 0000 Left click and drag on the values for the X and Y aspect to set a different pixel aspect or right click on the number to display the calculator Aspect 1 0000 x 1 0000 Colorspace Lin Speed Typically the speed of the media during Playback is set in the Playback view Occasionally it will be necessary to adjust the speed used for Playback of an individual Clip This usually happens when combining Clips from multiple different formats The default speed will be displayed as 0 0000 This indicates that the media is set to Playback at the Project s frame rate Left click and drag on the speed value to set a different speed for the media or right click on the number to display the calculator Stereo Mode None Color Space LUT None Generation supports the linear and logarithmic color spaces for media Linear formats like JPEG Targa TIFF and most DPX files require no additional processing to play Logarithmic images Cineon and some DPX files must be linearized before they can be displayed correctly on the monitor Generation uses the graphics card s GPU to perform the conversion ensuring full speed Playback regardless of the media s color space To toggle the media between t
105. n your system For example the Sequence module can write out jpg tif png and dpx files Quality Depending on whether quality settings are supported by the selected output module you can select a percentage here Keys Depending on whether keyframes are supported by the selected output module you can set the key interval in frames here Framerate Depending on whether framerates are supported by the selected output module you can set an individual framerate here The setting defaults to the Project s framerate Scaling Defines if and how footage is treated that has resolutions different from the Project s resolution Options are NoScale The image is put onto the canvas in its original size Images smaller than the Project s framesize will be displayed with black borders images larger than the Project s framesize will shoot out of the frame being cut off at the edges Aspect The image will be scaled until it fits into the frame without changing the image s aspect ratio Fit The image will be scaled in both X and Y until it fits into the frame This might lead to distortions of the image s aspect ratio also known as stretching aA G YELL NoScale Width Height Determines the resolution of the rendered output It defaults to input which means the resolution defined in the Project settings Left click and drag to change the values or Right click to bring up the calculator in order to enter numeric values Bits Bit depth
106. nd the Clip will be inserted into the new position in the Storyboard The subsequent Clips will be rippled to the right to accommodate To cancel the operation press the right mouse button while the left one is still held down The Clip will then jump back to its original position MET 041 08 fg 00007 dpx MET 041 08 bg 00007 dpx Deleting Clips Position the mouse pointer above the top most Version of the Clip A tool tip will change to pick Clip Click the left mouse button to highlight the Clip Press Del on your keyboard The Clip will be deleted and the subsequent Clips will be rippled to the left to accommodate O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Clips 12 000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000000 T u 1 27 13 28 em MET_041_08_bg 00007 dpx 7 dpx 08 bg 0000 gt py Pick it 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Understanding Versions A Clip in GenerationAM can hold an infinite number of individual Versions These Versions can be anything from a Storyboard drawing over compositing layers to actual versions or steps of compositing or rendering stages and are usually made out of sequences of files or video files like QuickTime movies Media may also be Fusion composition files or other custom formats The Versions normally display an image from the media
107. ngs Status Cross Delete the selected entry Ul The buttons next to each entry allow you to modify the filter itself Brings up the color picker to specify the color the entry shows up with in the menu to visually distinguish between different tasks Brings up the Edit Filter dialog Cancel O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Filter 71 eS maa C uu DI E gt Li m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Fase p In the micon preferences the general behavour of the Management Icons is defined Also see the chapter about the Generation cfg Preferences Assign Show Micons Always Show Micons Custom To reduce visual clutter in larger Projects the micons can be temporarily hidden Email x Show or hide Micons while is pressed Options are Filter o x Show Proxy Indicators Always Path Map The micons are always visible On Hover The micons only show up on the Version over which the mouse pointer is currently hovering Program Out Settings Status Never MI The micons are not displayed Show or hide Micons while is pressed This option temporarily overrides the above section When the micons are hidden they will show up when pressing on your keyboard When the micons are visible they will disappear when pressing on your keyboard Note On German keyboards this is the 6 key Show Proxy Indicators Option to show or hide the Pro
108. notations The Project Menu Clicking on the Project Menu will display a list that contains the most recently opened projects in Generation Save As At the bottom of the list there are options for loading an unlisted Project from disk and for creating a new Project Load Project The Project listed at the top of the menu represents either the currently loaded Project Create Project or the most recently loaded Project if no Project is currently loaded Playlist Flyout Menu To display a list of options for manipulating each Project click on the triangle next to each Project Name This Flyout menu can be used to open a Project for editing to lock the Project or to save it to a new location Open for edit E XML2 genprj bork realon Creating a New Project le PENE MEE When Generation is launched it will typically start with a new empty Project named EmptyProject i l A new Project can also be created by selecting the Create Project option from the bottom of the Project menu a To Assign a more meaningful name to the Project and choose a different folder for the Project file 2 genpr select the Save As option displayed next to the Project in the menu ProjectGenWan v01 genpr RAP short genprj A blank Project especially without saving it is the ideal playground for quickly playing back footage Taller v04 genprj Opening a Project railer v04 Localized genpr An existing Project can be opened in read only mode by either selecting its n
109. ns like adding or removing 10 frames from the current value A value of zero means the first frame of the Clip 102 Clip Out Shows the Out Point of the currently active Clip This value relates to the actual Clip rather than the Storyboard itself and is calculated automatically from the difference of the Clip In value and the length of the current edit This value changes when the Clip itself is dragged on the TimeRuler below 161 In Shows the In Point of the currently active Clip in absolute frames of the Project This value changes if the length of the actual edit is changed To achieve that you can for example move the Cut In of the Clip or move the Clip to a different position on the Storyboard Right clicking on this field brings up a calculator to manually enter the In value or perform basic mathematical functions like adding or removing 10 frames from the current value Since the In Point changes the actual position on the Storyboard the Out Point of the previous Clip will change as well Also all later Clips will ripple back in time Length 102 Length Shows the Length of the current Clip in frames This value changes if you move the right Cut Indicator of the Clip Right clicking on this field brings up a calculator to manually enter the In value or perform basic mathematical functions like adding or removing 10 frames from the current value 00 00 09 06 Time The current TimeCode position of the playhead Since GenerationAM works internal
110. nu While Projects load in locked mode by default until specified differently in the preferences you can also actively lock the Project on your computer for example to prevent any changes during a review session To do so choose Edit from the Lock menu Select View to allow others to gain control over the Project 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Project Locked Menu 34 i llam ma CS MZ e E e RENDER OUT DIALOG Render out Interface ity Keys Framerate Scaling Width Height Bits Stereo Options Audio Render AVI Render 100 25 ASPECT input input 8 HorizScaled Render Sequence T Save As 7 NOSCALE input input 8 None L Render Quicktime Ni Open Media 5 25 ASPECT input input None SCT L Wav audio Add Remove Right click for commands Filename The RenderOut dialog is used to render the current Storyboard into a variety of output formats Multiple formats or resolutions can be rendered out simultaneously Left click on any option to change its values or Right click on numerical values to bring up the Calculator interface The engine that is used to create the ouput file Options are Sequence A sequence of images further defined in the format options AVI A Microsoft AVI further defined in the format options MOV A QuickTime movie further defined in the format options Format Specifies the format used with the interface Options differ based on the interface and codecs installed o
111. o recommended to activate tablet support in the Preferences EVER Switching Displays Use the TAB key to switch between Playview and Storyboard Drag value shift to finetune Clicking on the play button automatically switches from Storyboard to Playview Right click for commands Modifying Values Values can be modified in Generation by two ways You can Left click on a value and move the mouse to the right and to the left to increase or decrease the value respectively Hold down Shift while dragging for more accurate control Alternatively you can Right click on a value which brings up a calculator panel You can click with your mouse into the calculator or use the numerical pad on your keyboard to enter values O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Navigating The interface 7 En dam EM AME nM G U a wOwONM MM S a cz t i X S Project Locked Load media Project E Scripts Subs Tools Ho gt Da C 00000021 21 A APA EA es 00 00 00 21 21 tata at tata l 7 B RR 21 e a psustadtsdadfosts East aso acl Ca o a oa a a Ent a Eats ppal MET_080_ x MET 165 02 0220 jpg MET 041 08 0015 dpx Metadata Custom Status Metadata 4 m ExtApp Fusion Path E Fux DemoStuff meteor 041_08 2D MET_041_08_bg MET_041_08_bg 00001 dpx o OriginalFilename F meteor MET 5_Pulls MET_041_08_bg MET_041_08_bg 00001 dpx Project F temp MET_041_08_bg comp Not Started Wor
112. oard and Playback windows hold the middle mouse button and left mouse button simultaneously and drag to the left zoom out or right zoom in If no middle mouse button is available use the Ctrl Alt left mouse button instead Scaling the Storyboard In the Storyboard interface the F keyboard shortcut will automatically zoom the interface to the Clip beneath the mouse pointer making that Clip active and setting the playhead to the first frame of that Clip CTRL ALT Scaling the Image In the Playback window the F keyboard shortcut can be used to toggle the image scale between fit to view and actual size display While in fit to view mode the image displayed will be resized to fill the available display space and further attempts to scale the image will be ignored until fit to view is disabled When not in fit mode the image can be scaled by holding the middle and left mouse buttons down while dragging to the left and right The mouse wheel can also be used to scale the image Playback scrubbing In the playview Left click onto the image and move the mouse to the left or the right to scrub through the footage RT Da Working with tablets Not all tablet pens map the middle mouse button to one of the pen s buttons If a tablet is meant to be the primary interface used to control Generation it will be necessary to map the middle mouse button to one of the buttons on the pen before efficient navigation is possible It is als
113. of the output as long as it supported by the format Stereo The stereo encoding method used Options are None Anaglyph Horizontal Vertical FlickerX2 Dualstream 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Render Out Dialog 35 uu e g TM as dai Tn dise NX a m x INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ma mea um IE ET ere FP G C T L switches Determines which overlays are rendered out along with the files G Grease Paint Annotations will be overlayed on the rendered output C Written Annotations will be overlayed on the rendered output T A timecode display will be overlayed on the rendered output L Only the loop region will be rendered out as opposed to the entire Storyboard Audio If supported by the output format the audio from the audio track will be embedded into the file Render The Context Menu Save LN Open media Right click in the Render out dialog to bring up the Context Menu Options are Add Render Execute the current render queue Remove Save as Set a filename different from the default settings for a specific output Open Media Open Windows explorer to display the default render out folder Add Add a new entry to the render queue Remove Delete the current entry from the render queue O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Render Out Dialog 36 T Umm Ime DT camo inrrooucrion B m srorvsonro ll Praveack METADAT
114. oject causing Generation to play a different Version of the Clip This can be useful for comparing the current version of Clip with a previous one A small thumbnail overview of the Storyboard known as Navigator will appear in the top center of the Playback view when these keys are used The artist can change versions while paused or during Playback When trying to play back files from a Network storage data throughput might not be fast enough for real time Playback In this case you can create proxies or Mirrors of the footage on your local harddrive Please see the Proxy Tool chapter for further information Playback z 41 X M ol N O _ _ m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES pali 4 ES AS LI nDemo2011 E XML2 Sub MainCut Playlists Adding Annotations Annotations should be used whenever drawing directly on a shot or frame will more Close Paint tool accurately illustrate a point or requested change Annotations can be applied to the entire duration of the media as Clip Annotation oa A E or to a single frame when you choose Frame Annotation E xxx Clip annotation An Annotation can consist of up to three different color layers red green and blue The red layer green layer and blue layer are all stored in the color channels of a TIFF file with the same name as the media Annotations can only be added from the Playback view Right click on the image and select Pain
115. on chapter of this manual O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Metadata 63 B E n o ZE o AA oE em es e ee ve EDIT CUSTOM DIALOG Edit Custom Metadata E Fux DemoStutf saver out_0000 jpq sundownHD O00 comp Greenlit PrevStatus None Assign Eric PrevAssign None UserFile Eels not set UserClip Deadline 2012 12 24 CreatedWith Autodesk Maya Artist3D Bob Charlston RenderedBy Inception Marne Clip Name Deadline UserClip Deadline UserClip CreatedWith Artist3D UserClip Artist3D RenderedBy UserClip RenderedBy Edit Custom allows you to specify which metadata fields are displayed in the Custom micon flyout The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move Versions in the list Copy Select the field in question from the metadata table above and click on the Copy button to add that field to the list below and therefore to the micon flyout Up arrow Move the selected entry up in the list Down arrow Move the selected entry down in the list Plus Create a new entry not already listed in the metadata section above Although this is a valid workflow it might be better to define any additional metadata fields in the Custom Preferences first Cross Delete the selected entry e The buttons next to each entry allow you to modify the entry itself Metadata In this column you see the associated metadata field When selecting metadata from the above table this is filled in auto
116. or sequences Comments entered by one artist appear immediately on any connected machines whether on the same LAN or at remote locations connected via VPN This way a complete record of decisions and client requests can be saved with each Project Version Management Revision histories for every shot are displayed as thumbnail stacks with the most recent version at the bottom of the Storyboard view This current version plays back automatically but during Playback one can easily switch to any other version available Custom playlists can easily be be built and conformed as well If changes to a composite shot have been made since the last rendering of a Clip Generation visually flags that shot for re rendering Playback Generation provides disk based Playback of content at resolutions of up to 4K even for stereoscopic footage and supports a vast number of standard file formats Content can be processed and rendered out at any bit depth including floating point Generation is GPU accelerated so the user can switch between views or resize images during real time Playback 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Introduction ml X M TEESE S O I SS ae m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Support for the Tangent Wave Panel New StereoModes for Checkerboard and Difference Multi line annotations Audio mute button Stereo pair filenames are now shown in MetaData Sources Missing footage in S
117. ources is now displayed in red New Hotkeys to open close Alt P for PaintTool Alt C for ColorAdjust Alt S for StereoAdjust Ctrl Alt C for PlayerColorAdjust New Hotkeys in PlayView Alt F and Ctrl Alt F for flip flop Mono Left Stereo Right hotkeys and menus Ctrl KPO Mono Ctrl KP1 Left Ctrl KP2 Stereo Ctrl KP3 Right Dramatic speed improvements when loading or switching larger projects Literally hundreds of smaller fixes and improvements 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Changes since version 3 0 3 Em 7 thal A Iw m um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES New Features Version Compare Mode Press Ctrl Alt V in the Player for a menu to select the transfer mode and the Version to compare to Stereo Side by Side support for Sequences and Videos Stereo EXR support Stereo Crop Dialog For individual masking of left and right eye Adjustable Frame Hold Duration OpenEXR 2 0 Library Preserve Gaps in Sequences When adding Sequences with missing frames those gaps are kept Version Fallback for missing frames When missing frames are encountered during playback any higher Version will be displayed Black Option for missing frames When missing frames are encountered during playback a black image will be displayed Sequence Frame option in the Clip Media Frame display To display the framenumber based on the actual name of the Sequence Impr
118. oved Status Dialog Right Click on the Status micon for a larger dialog New Hotkeys in PlayView Alt X to swap stereo eyes Alt NPO to jump to the middle of the current clip Shift Space for Ping Pong Play Ctrl Space for Reverse Play Improvements New Icons in Playview for various functions Enabled Slicing between two stacked clips in StereoMode Program Out supports Split and Overlay Preference to enable or disable overlay on Program Out Fixes Save Increment now creates a new Comp Corrected 1 frame off length calculation for Make Comp DPX render out Locking the Audio Track Removed occasional Black Flashes when switching versions or L R eye Literally hundreds of smaller fixes and improvements 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Changes since version 3 1 a gt z EU S _ A um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES i ays wc Integration e Open XML architecture of projects and chat files e Automate and Control remotely via the Network e Easily scriptable with both Lua and Python for custom integration within any pipeline Versioning e Project stages visible and navigatable at all times e Complete version history for each shot e Timestamps and artist IDs for all materials e Automated incremental saves of Project e Unlimited undo and redo functionality Collaboration e Live on line chat e Grease pencil drawing tools e Per shot comments and full Project
119. p A tool tip will change to pick Clip Press and hold the left mouse button and drag the Clip to a new position in the Storyboard A tool tip will change to insert Clip and the other Clips will change their position to visually indicate where the Clip will sit once the mouse is released Release the mouse and the Clip will be inserted into the new position in the Storyboard The subsequent Clips will be rippled to the right to accommodate To cancel the operation press the right mouse button while the left one is still held down The Clip will then jump back to its original position MET 041 08 fg 00007 dpx s MET 041 08 0007 dpx MET 041 08 0007 dpx MET 080 13 0045 dpx O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Clips 11 i a k HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLaveack m um METADATA i g PREFERENCES APPENDICES E T ee AS Copying Clips Position the mouse pointer above the top most Version of the Clip A tool tip will change to pick Clip Press and hold the left mouse button and drag the Clip to a new position in the Storyboard Once the Clip is attached to the mouse pointer press and hold Ctrl to copy it A tool tip will change to insert Clip and the other Clips will change their positions to visually indicate where the Clip will sit once the mouse is released Release the mouse a
120. penEXR pdf or the associated appendix in this document Stereo Playback Ct 46 m e H 1 M i i i in Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes Metadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Paint Proxy Tool Version Compare Scripts Flush Cache VAN that n Du n n i AAA AN LITT AW Ir me Wi Kos e e A mn SMT Wim ALO M XL HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Stereo Playback Modes None Stereo Left Right click in the Player and choose Stereo gt from the Context Menu to choose your preferred stereo encoding method Right Anaglyph Interlaced Checkerboard Horizontal Horizontal Scaled Vertical Vertical Scaled Quad Buffer Difference Swap Eyes Anaglyph Probably the most common encoding method for regular monitors this mode employs red cyan filtering with the resulting image being the exact same size as the original footage Good for easy review on any wokplace using out of the box stereo glasses Interlaced The left and right eye are encoded into Alternating lines with the resulting image being the exact same size as the original footage This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support interlaced stereo Checkerboard The lef
121. ps Projects 00 00 00 09 Clip2_0000 jpg Clip3 0000 jpg Adding Versions 16 m Ea 7 ERR San EU m NE mS um INTRODUCTION EH STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ZNNAR maar HERES NS wx Adding Versions to the Storyboard In addition to images you can also put Fusion compositions onto the Storyboard Clip 1 ho o adi oD Insert cp Clipi 0000 jpg 5253_Out_v04_0030 tga Train_Left0001 jpg You can tell from the word comp in the upper right corner of the Version that this actually is a Fusion comp Fusion comps can be edited directly from Generation by Right clicking on the Version and selecting edit Comp from the Version Context Menu You can also create new versions of the comp by selecting save increment from the Version Context Menu Fusion comps can have multiple Savers You can tell Generation which Saver to use by either pressing 1 9 or by opening the Version s meta data Comp rendering order PROJECT DemoStuffiSundownHD0000 cor Saverl 1 1 y EXMFuxhDemosStuffisavervout 0000 pq Cancel See the Comps in Generation chapter for further explanations Cancelling adding Versions Right click to cancel any operation involving drag and drop Changing the Default Media Folder The folder to which Generation defaults when loading media will be the folder selected the last time the Load Media dialog was used For new projects t
122. ration you can always change the path and filename in your Saver to tailor it to your needs Note that when creating a new comp you will see a black missing thumbnail until the frames are actually rendered You can create new Versions of any comp by selecting Save Increment from the Context Menu Generation will create a copy of the selected comp and modify the Saver to point to a new versioned directory for file output Again the path of that Saver might be changed according to your needs Note that when creating an increment of a comp you will see a black missing thumbnail until the frames are actually rendered Also located in the Context Menu this function will open Fusion if its not already running on your machine and load the selected comp to allow modifications The correct path to your Fusion exe must be set in the Generation cfg file which can be found in ProgramData eyeon Generation profiles default Look for the line EYEONFUSIONPATH NFusion64NFusion exe and adjust it to suit your environment See the chapter Configuration Files to learn more about the structure of the cfg files Fusion Comps in Generation 19 X M l dema V E gt m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Show Sources This function will parse the Fusion comp for Loaders and display the results in a temporary sub Project Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust
123. rresponding channels in the default view should be labeled R G B and A For example if a file has a right and a left view and the right view is the default view then the channels must be named RGBA left R left G left B left A rather than right R right G right B right A left R left G left B left A O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com MultiView OpenEXR 91 mu e NT HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES a A z o m ES a EE sj mz _ l e aS 2 2 T mu am NEU B mm mmm 227 MULTIVIEW OPENEXR Channels labeled R G B and A will be understood by any OpenEXR viewing software even if the software does not explicitly recognize multi view OpenEXR images If view1 is the default view and xxx is a channel in the default view then the same channel in view2 is called view2 xxx Channels Not in a View If a channel contains image data that is not associated with any view then the channel must have at least one period in its name otherwise it will be considered to belong to the default view The channel s name must also not contain any view name For example background data is not associated with any view but background belongs to the default view and got it right now may be part of the right view The multiView Attribute A multi view OpenEXR file is identified by the presence of an attribute ca
124. run entire scripts or trigger other programs using the dofile command within the Command function In addition all scripts that live in the Scripts userbar folder will be listed here as well The Userbar will stay visible even when the Playview is switched to fullscreen mode Press Ctrl U to hide or show the Userbar This is an example of the userbar cfg NewSub Command sub App Project Subcreate test sub TrackcCreate test AppO Loadsub sub y Toolbar i Paint Command App Openview PaintTool ApplyCoolEffect i Restoreweekend Observe that when using the dofile command you need to specify the full path with double backslashes to the script or executable you want to run 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com User bar 58 7 gt ae A um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES nn PET Understanding Guides Guides can be loaded and activated in the Playview by means of the guide switches vig Up to five guides can be active for any given Project 74 Guides can also be concatenated meaning you can have up to five guides layered on top of each other Each guide is defined by a simple XML file as explained below This makes it easy to create and share guides Load Guide TUBES Guide Styles E E The style of a guide is defined by a set of properties in the style of Think HLine Y1 33 Pattern COCO
125. s one does Subpatterns in groups or assertions can also use the separator operator to separate different Alternatives O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Regular Expressions oe ee A a a Em mum 97 2278 487 HIE RUN PREFERENCES APPENDICES 88 PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Character classes A character class defines a category of characters It is introduced by enclosing its descriptors in square brackets and The regex object attempts to match the entire character class against a single character in the target sequence unless a quantifier specifies otherwise The character class can contain any combination of e Individual characters Any character specified is considered part of the class except A and which have a special meaning under some circumstances and may need to be escaped to be part of the class For example abc matches a b or c xyz matches any character except x y and z Ranges They can be specified by using the hyphen character between two valid characters For example a z matches any lowercase letter a b c until z abc1 5 matches either a b or c or a digit between 1 and 5 e POSIX like classes A whole set of predefined classes can be added to a custom character class There are three kinds e CS CN classname character class Uses the regex trai
126. s used to display information and adjust settings for the currently selected media The dialog displays the path to the media on disk resolution pixel aspect speed in frames per second and color space Also any metadata associated with the media is displayed and the UserFile and UserClip metadata can be edited It can be opened by Right clicking on the Version in the Storyboard by pressing J while the Version is selected or by right clicking on the image in the Playback View and selecting Metadata Metadata This table shows the associated metadata of the media and is divided into four main sections The in front of each section can be used to collapse that section To access metadata e g in the Filter Dialog you have to use the format Section Field File Displays information about the file itself The fields in File are read only Access File Path The Path and Name of the media Access File Path Clip Displays information about the Clip itself The fields in Clip are read only Access Clip Name The Name of the media Access Clip Name Status The Status of the media as set with the Status mlcon Access Clip Status PrevStatus The Status that has been previously assigned with the Status mlcon Access Clip PrevStatus Assign The Name of the Artist assigned to this shot with the Assign mlcon Access Clip Assign PrevAssign The Name of the Artist formerly known as being assigned to this shot with the Assign mlcon Access
127. ser to the selected Thumbnails media folder Open the comments panel and display comments for the selected Media Set the Loop In to the first frame of the selected Clip Set the Loop Out to the last frame of the selected Clip Remove the current Loop In Remove the current Loop Out Remove both the Loop In and the Loop Out Open the Media Info dialog for the selected Thumbnail Set the Saver used for the selected Composition Open the Media Info dialog for the currently displayed Media Go to previous next Annotation Go to previous next Clip Increase Decrease Playback framerate Show previous next Version of current Clip Skip frames to maintain framerate Play all frames without skipping Zoom In Out of image Toggle view between scaling Image to Fit and manual scaling Split Clip at current frame Toggle between display of individual color channels and full color Display full color image Set the Loop In to the first frame of the current Clip Set the Loop Out to the last frame of the current Clip Remove the current Loop In Remove the current Loop Out Remove both the Loop In and the Loop Out Set the Loop In to the current frame Set the Loop Out to the current frame Remove the current Loop region Audio Mute Open Close the PaintTool Open Close the ColorAdjust Open Close the StereoAdjust Open Close the PlayerColorAdjust toggles Flip Flop respectively Ping Pong Play Reverse Play Mono Left Stereo Right
128. sions or Clips Opens Windows Explorer to show the location of either the original Mirrored or proxied files of the Version Allows to run scripts which are located in the Scripts subfolder If the Version is a Fusion composition there are additional functions in the Context Menu Please see the chapter about Fusion comps for more information Edit Comp Submit Save Increment Show Sources 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Opens the composition in Fusion Sends the composition to the renderfarm Creates a new Version of the composition Parses the composition and displays a temporary Sub which contains the Clips used by the Loaders in that composition Version Context Menu 30 au e X M TT as ee Tn dise NX a Jed und m x INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES A SY PF ccs Right clicking anywhere in an empty space on the Storyboard brings up the Clip Context Menu ESSE Load Media Opens Windows Explorer and allows you to pick images imagesequences entire folders am n EE or Fusion comps to be inserted into the Storyboard roje Render Qut E i X R i EDL import Project Opens the Project menu which is the same as under the Project button in the Storyboard Show Sources Selection Render Out Opens the Render Out Dialog Scripts Flush Cache EDL import Opens the EDL tool Show Sources Opens a special type of sub Project which allows you to v
129. sions or stereoscopic displays This can also be toggled by pressing F4 Hide Show controls Similar to the Full Screen toggle this option hides the Storyboard allowing for more screen real estate but keeps the Windows titlebar This can also be toggled by pressing F3 Zoom All Zooms into the image so that it fills the available area to the maximum Zoom Viewer Fit Zooms into the image so that it fills the available area to the maximum Zoom Viewer 1 1 Zooms the image so that one pixel of the original image equals one pixel on the monitor Slice Activates the slice mode when viewing more than one image in Multiview mode See the chapter about Multiview for more information Quality 1 5 Applies when playing back files captured with a RED camera 1 plays back the full image with full debayering 2 5 use the Proxy resolutions encoded in the RED file Lower quality settings ensure faster Playback while full quality displays the image at maximum resolution The resolution indicator at the top right of the interface informs you about the currently used quality This can also be toggled by pressing the numbers 1 to 5 on your keyboard Viewer Player Viewer Show Color Color Adjust Eu Show Red Brings up the Color Adjust tool for fast and convenient view grading Stereo 5how Green EXR Channels Show Blue Schow Color Red Green Blue Alpha Media Notes Show Alpha Displays individual color channels Project Notes E This can be either
130. t X gt 0 0085937502 lt X gt lt Y gt 0 019444443 lt Y gt lt TopRight gt lt BottomLeft gt lt X gt 0 0085937502 lt x gt lt Y gt 0 019444443 lt Y gt lt BottomLeft gt lt BottomRight gt lt X gt 0 0085937502 lt x gt lt Y gt 0 019444443 lt Y gt lt BottomRight gt lt Right gt StereoCrop StereoCropList O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Stereo Crop 50 E Ea d gu m EE X al m um INTRODUCTION EH STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES eS 7 zage E Cmm a Player Viewer Crop Stereo EXR Channels Media Notes Project Notes Metadata Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Paint Proxy Tool Version Compare Scripts Flush Cache Player Overlay Clip Info Full Screen Hide Controls Zoom All Zoom Viewer Fit Zoom Viewer 1 1 Slice Quality 1 Quality 2 Quality 3 Quality 4 Quality 5 Overlay Clip Info Toggles an Overlay in the bottom left corner of the image displaying the Resolution Framenumber Clip Information Media Frame and Filename of the currently played Version as well as any metadata that might be present in the file Resolution 1920 x 1080 Frame 162 Clip 2 Clip frame 1 Media frame 1 E Fux DemoStuff saver out_0001 jpg Full Screen Hides or shows the interface apart from the Userbar allowing for maximum screen real estate Often used for review ses
131. t and right eye are encoded into two images with Alternating pixels for each eye This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support this stereo method Horizontal The left and right eye are encoded into two images stacked horizontally with the resulting image being double the width of the original footage This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support this stereo method 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Stereo Playback 47 PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Horizontal Scaled Vertical Vertical Scaled Quad Buffer Difference O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com TRA UE Lm a a s umm mE ZEN NT gm Pe The left and right eye are encoded into two images stacked horizontally and scaled back in X to match the width of the original footage This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support this stereo method The left and right eye are encoded into two images stacked vertically with the resulting image being double the height of the original footage This is best viewed in fullscreen mode without any menus or titlebars on dedicated monitors which support this stereo method The left and right eye are encoded into two images sta
132. t from the Context Menu The Edit Panel will disappear and a small toolbar will appear at the top center of the Playback view Click on the color to use when painting the Annotation then click on the label to select either Frame Annotation or Clip Annotation To paint the Annotation on the image simply hold the left mouse button and draw on top of the image Markers el eH The Storyboard track in the Edit Panel will show any Clip Annotations applied to the active Clip ENENENE y Pitti Y Pitti 0000 0000 Y ENENENE NT as a light blue bar at the bottom of the track Frame Annotation markers will appear as thin light blue peaks in the Storyboard bar Using Shift RightArrow and Shift LeftArrow allows to jump to the next or previous annotation respectively Removing Annotations It is possible to remove one or more layers of Annotation by opening the Paint toolbar while the annotated media is active Clicking on the X button beneath each color swatch deletes the layer associated with that color Delete all three layers to delete the Annotation frame entirely Adding Annotations from other Applications It is also possible to delete the Annotation TIFF images directly from disk or add new ones according to the naming convention from any paint application Generation stores the files in the Annotation folder relative to the actual Project 7 ProjectFolder myProject genprj L myProject data l 7 Annotations 7 VersionN
133. t_0000 jpg tuff Sundown HD0000 Stereo Mode LUT 7 a SS gt ld ENEN A n Understanding Stereo None Stereo Left Right Anaglyph Interlaced Checkerboard Horizontal Horizontal Scaled Vertical Vertical Scaled Difference Swap Eyes Given the necessary drive throughput Generation is capable of playing back two 4K stereo sequences even at 120 frames per second To add stereo footage to your Project just drag any left or right eye sequence onto your Storyboard The path mapping described below will take care of the other eye To display Stereo footage in one of the supported formats press Z on your keyboard while in playmode To change the display method right click in the player to bring up the Context Menu and choose your desired encoding method from the Stereo menu Determining Stereo Files EXM Fux WDemoStuffisaveriout_0000 jpg SundownHD0000_comp37 lone E Render Range Output Path cu E Fux DemoStuff saver 0 aver r Saverl 1 1 Generation is built to automatically find pairs in stereo sequences however it needs to be told what kind of naming convention is in place at your company Edit the Generation cfg and modify or insert the line STEREOPAIR Left Right STEREOPAIR pn R As you can see you can define as many stereopairs as you need but normally one or two should be enough when a strict naming convention is applied throughout your Project Thes
134. taneously depending on which control you click on To enter the values numerically right click on any control to bring up a calculator The buttons underneath the controls allow you to Import or Export the Stereo Crop data to re use the values in other applications like eyeon Fusion and Dimension Load SCL Save SCL Opens a file browser to select a SCL file and apply the settings to the media ri i 1 Ci Opens a file browser to export the current settings as a SCL file Revert Reverts any changes back to the values that were stored before the tool was invoked Reset Resets all values to their default The SCL format SCL s short for Stereo Crop List are basically XML files storing the values as percentage of the image dimensions The structure of such an SCL looks like this StereoCropList xmlns urn Gen SCL v1 0 StereoCrop pescription TestStereo1080vsrull 65 Description Left lt TopLeft gt lt X gt 0 0078125 lt X gt lt Y gt 0 016666666 lt Y gt lt TopLeft gt lt TopRight gt lt X gt 0 0078125 lt x gt lt Y gt 0 016666666 lt Y gt lt TopRight gt lt BottomLeft gt X 0 0078125 X lt Y gt 0 016666666 lt Y gt lt BottomLeft gt lt BottomRight gt lt X gt 0 0078125 lt x gt lt Y gt 0 015277778 lt Y gt lt BottomRight gt lt Left gt lt Right gt lt TopLeft gt lt X gt 0 0085937502 lt X gt lt Y gt 0 019444443 lt Y gt lt TopLeft gt lt TopRight gt l
135. tch between different Subs from both the Storyboard and Playback views Subs are a very efficient way to split your Project into smaller chunks For example you might want to see only the Clips that have been worked on by Bob or Clips with a specific status Other purposes include e separate the Project into acts or reels ACT ACT II ACT Ill etc e focus on specific scenes in the Project e generate Storyboards containing only Clips created by a specific artist e generate Storyboards that focus on a specific class of effects greenscreen screen replacement cosmetic enhancements etc Creating a Sub To create a Sub open the Sub menu at the top of the interface and select the Create Sub option from the menu An empty Sub will be created and made active A new Generation Project always starts with a single Sub containing a Storyboard Also clicking on the S in the Management Controls Generation will select those Clips associated with a specific artist or status create a new Sub and copy the Clips in there ready for review Create from Filter will generate a new Sub based on the currently active custom filter Choosing a Sub To make a Sub active Left click on the Sub from the list contained in the Sub menu Renaming a Sub To rename a Sub open the Sub menu click on the arrow to the right of the menu and and select Rename Deleting a Sub To delete a Sub open the Sub menu click on the arrow to the right of the menu and s
136. ties the cache freeing memory Project Button 32 au E tm 7 A rm m x INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES ES uua A complete set of user definable buttons can be created by adding subfolders containing scripts to Generation scripts generation toolbar Project Enc Player Scripts Subs Took In the example on the left these are Eric Player Scripts Subs Tools All of these folders contain individual scripts As you can imagine this allows you to tailor the interface and functionality of Generation on a per department or even per artist level Please see the scripting manual for further information about scripts in Generation 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Script Buttons 33 a eh RR _ nn um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Proxy Base Filter All Status All Assign All Project GenDemo2012_E Demo Sub MainCut Playlist Naturally only one person at a time should be able to permanently modify the structure of the Project Still many people can look at it simultaneously and take part in adding comments or Annotations Any comment chat or Paint Annotation you perform will be saved regardless of the locked status So even when the Project is locked on your computer you can still participate in and make changes to any comments To gain control over the Project choose Edit from the Lock me
137. tion systems are similar they differ somewhat in specific implementation and detail The ASC CDL is a common standard that color correctors can translate their proprietary settings to and from The ASC CDL functions are mathematically orthogonal primitives that can be used to represent vendor specific corrections ASC CDL correction functions also in some cases can appear in the user inter face and be used directly The ASC CDL allows color corrections made with one device at one location to be applied or modified by other devices elsewhere For example a cinematographer filming on location can create a color correction with a small portable device sending the ASC CDL color correction to a colorist in post production to use as a starting point for final color correction To communicate looks usefully in this fashion calibrations viewing environ ments devices and any output transforms e g film look must be managed very carefully in general they should be identical at origination and subsequent viewing The ASC has defined an XML schema for exchanging ASC CDL data along with other metadata about what image s the color corrections were ap plied to the type of input signal used and the viewing device and environment They have also standardized methods for using ASC CDL data within the following file formats Avid Log Exchange ALE Film Log EDL Exhange FLEx CMX Edit Decision List Combined Function The formula for ASC CDL color corr
138. tries can live in the generation cfg Value IMPORTEDTHUMBFRAME 1 SHOWCONSOLE ENABLED AUTOLOCK DISABLED VSYNC DISABLED QUADSTEREO DISABLED PROJECTSPATH Projects PROJECT TIMEOUT SECONDS 300 0 PROJECTFPS 24 RECENTTIMEOUT 30 MEDIAPATH SCRIPT_FARMSUBMIT scripts generation FarmSubmit lua THUMBCACHE ENABLED CACHEPATH NETSCRIPTING ENABLED IPADDRESS 127 0 0 1 22333 IPMASK 127 0 0 1 MEMORYLIMIT 50 USEWINDOWSCACHE DISABLED USEWINDOWSCACHE_JPG ENABLED FORCEMEMORYLIMIT 2048 FORCEGPUMEMORYLIMIT 256 SAA s m a F m wa c wa ELLEN INTRODUCTION cum STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Description specifies which frame to show in the thumbnail for newly imported Clips O middle frame 1 frame from beginning of the Clip lt 1 frame from end of the Clip Default 1 Toggle if the console should be displayed or not ENABLED DISABLED Default ENABLED Prevent or allow automatic locking when loading a Project Default DISABLED Toggles vsync in player to reduce horizontal tearing Default ENABLED Utilize opengl quad buffered stereo Default DISABLED Default projects path for file requester Default Project timeout in seconds After the given amount of time with no user interaction the Project will be locked automatically 0 0 is infinite no timeout Default frames per second for new projects How many days recent projects are kept in recent Proj
139. trols mlcons 29 um INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Make a Comp Selection Locate Media Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Edit Comp Submit Save Increment Selection Locate Media Scripts ShowSources Depending on whether the current Version is regular footage or a Fusion Composition the content of the Context Menu will be slightly different Metadata Media Notes Audio Notes Color Adjust Stereo Adjust Stereo Crop Make a Comp Selections Locate Media Scripts te oo E cmm m _ gt ENEN fF ae ere n Clicking here brings up the Version s Metadata View Opens the Media note editor This can also be achieved by clicking on the Note Icon in the Connection Controls Allows pre recorded WAVE files to be linked to the Version in order to add spoken comments to it Brings up the menu for modifying the colors of the Version or to load or save a CDL Brings up the menu for modifying the interocular X Y Offset and Zoom Brings up the menu for individually masking off the left and right eye Creates a Fusion composition out of the selected Clip The comp will contain a Loader and a Saver preset to respective paths Opens a sub menu which allows you to delete cut copy and paste selected Ver
140. ts isctype member with the appropriate type gotten from ap plying lookup classname member on classname for the match classname collating sequence Uses the regex traits lookup collatename to interpret classname classname character equivalents Uses the regex traits transform primary of the result of regex_traits lookup_col latename for classname to check for matches The choice of available classes depend on the regex traits type and on its selected locale But at least the following character classes shall be recognized by any regex traits type and locale De pea a ra O tion a dit pop E Please note that the brackets in the class names are additional to those opening and closing the class definition For example alpha is a character class that matches any alphanumeric character abc digit is a character class that matches a b c or a digit space is a character class that matches any character except a whitespace Escape characters All escape characters described above can also be used within a character class specification The only change is with Vb that here is interpreted as a backspace character 140008 instead of a word boundary Notice that within a class definition those characters that have a special meaning in the regular expression such as S don t have such a meaning and are interpreted as
141. ues seem to be optimal on modern machines for all formats including Stereo EXR Maps the associated script or command to CTRL F1 F12 generation cfg Config File 82 E y n mun ein ti P EE nl TEN a NE pu al m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES 2 aE 2H Eee ES ef 7a NOTICE In the micon cfg the menu entries and associated actions for the micons are stored Be careful when manually editing this file It is recommended to use the Preferences dialog instead It is highly recommended to use the Project gt Preferences to modify these settings Depending on your pipeline you might run into situations where you want to manually or remotely edit these files Keep in mind that manual modifi cation of the config files should be reserved for advanced users only If doing so always make sure to keep a working safety copy of the files before modifying them O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com micon cfg Config File 83 HOME INTRODUCTION PROJECTS STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES r a Epai e MS aW X KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS General Keyboard Shortcuts Alt Left Drag Ctrl Alt Left Drag F3 FA Shift Ctrl L Ctrl F1 F12 Ctrl Q Shift F Ctrl Z Ctrl Y Ctrl Shift B Ctrl Shift F Ctrl KeyPad O H Home End Storybo
142. w OpenEXR files use the convention that channel names are composed of layer names separated by periods with the final channel name at the end The view name must be the ultimate layer name that is the penultimate period delimited component in each channel name In other words the view name is followed by a period and a final channel name in the format layer view channel or view channel For example each of the following names corresponds to a channel in either the left or the right view lighting left R lighting left G lighting left B lighting right R lighting right G lighting right B noshadows nearscene right R noshadows nearscene right G noshadows nearscene left R noshadows nearscene left G left R left G left B left A left X left Y left shadows Note that although view channel is a valid name under this scheme layer view for example depth left is not valid Either use left depth or depth left data Where a channel is present in more than one view the names of the channel s instances must differ only in the view part if a channel in view1 is called xxx yyy view1 zzz then the same channel in view2 must be called xxx yyy view2 zzz Default Channel Naming For compatibility with single view OpenEXR files each multi view file identifies one of its views as the default view All channel instances whose names contain no periods for example R G B A or Z belong to the default view If a file contains RGBA data then the co
143. xy Indicators on the Versions Please see the chapter about Proxies and Mirrors as well as the chapter about Management Icons for further explanation O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Micon 72 eS l P MS E gt m INTRODUCTION STORYBOARD PLAYBACK METADATA PREFERENCES APPENDICES In the PathMap user definable Paths can be assigned to variables Preferences A The buttons on the top right allow you to add delete or move Versions in the lists Assign Path Map List meen Ernail T 5 EE T Up arrow Move the selected entry up in the list Scripts Profiles Scripts Generation All Data Scripts Generation G Filter Projects AllData Projects Micon Media ProjectData Path Map A Cinema4D C Program Files MAXON CINEMA 4D RIA CINEMA 4D 6 O Photoshop lt to gt Plus Create a new entry A Max lt to gt 2 A Nuke C Program FileskWuke7 0v4 Nuke O exe AE AJHoudini C Program Files Side Effects Softwarel Houdini 12 5 376 MI Down arrow Move the selected entry down in the list Program Out Settings Cross Delete the selected entry Double click on an entry to set or modify its name From User defined variable for a path To A Path on the filesystem which then can be accessed by the above variable Cancel O 2008 2013 eyeon software www eyeonline com Preferences Path Map 73 eS l n Y E gt m INTRODUCTION STORYB

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