ProSequencer
ProSequencer is now available for free, enjoy!
If you’re working with multi-shot animations this will make your life a lot easier! You can now create, view and tweak an edit directly in 3dsMax. All this in an artist friendly way comparable to working in After Effects or Premiere. Quickly export previews or render clips directly from the timeline.
Main features:
- Sequence camera shots and/or Statesets.
- Deadline / VFB+ / Prism (former LPM2.0) integration
- Adds a ‘Timeline Navigation Bar’ comparable to the one found in After Effects.
- Easy preview and render functions, quickly create previews and setup renders from a clip’s context menu.
- Token based render/preview system.
- Does not get in your way when you are not using it, collapses to only show the time navigation bar.
- Automatically set the camera’s wireframe color to indicate if a camera’s track is selected or if camera is active.
- MaxScript access to the sequence data for integrating into existing pipelines and render managers.
- Sequence data is saved in the max file itself in a non disruptive way. This means the scene will just open fine even when the sequencer is not present on the system.
For detailed instructions of all features please see the online help page
See change log here
latest additions:
V1.991 - 12-12-2016
- added: Option for 'handles', render extra frames at beginning/end of a track to have some wiggle room during final editing of renders or previews.
- fixed: Deadline support, some old code got included somehow, now works properly with error checking and without debug popups etc. sorry about that :)
- fixed: frame numbering, now works correctly for both single frames and multiple frames. Single frame tracks don't get a frame number in the filename. This mainly for when you're using proSequencer to manage rendering multiple stills from a scene. For proper operation don't add any framenumber placeholders in the filename, just let ProSequencer handle that.
- added: Autopass, this is a powerful feature to automatically include your Render Elements into an EXR using a ini file. In this file you can define how you want to store each type of pass. for example you can set a depth passes to MONO/32bit and reflection to RGB/16bit etc. In the ini file some default settings are defined and you can then have overrides per RE class like so: "classname_<format|type|filter> = value", it's explained in the ini file's comments. (get a trained TD if you're not sure how to work this :)
- Added: Version/Meta data per track, you can use these as a token in the output filename/path. You can set it in a track's "context menu"->"shot version" and add this data your output path/file in the settings dialog. There is an option to set these for all tracks at once or for the current track only. This makes housekeeping of multiple render versions very simple.
- added: Separate definitions of output file and path for better customization.
- added: print summary options, this will print a list of all track's output in the listener so you can check your tokenized output and debug more easily.
- fixed: disabled tracks are no longer included in 'submit all' operations.
- added: duplicate track function. Simply copy a track including all it's parameters.
v1.99 - 07-12-2016
- Added: Enhanched Prism (former LPM2.0) integration. Shots setup in Prism will auto-update while adjusting the edit in ProSequencer.
- Added: Deadline integration, submit a track, or multiple, directly to Deadline.
- Added: HDPI display support, now looks and works correctly with window's UI scaling.
- Misc: The usual small tweaks, bug fixes etc.
Note: Max 2017 has a bug where hiding/showing objects during playback/scrubbing messes up the viewport. This, for example, can happen when you link a StateSet to a track, to hide a layer or object for a certain shot. This is not a bug in State Sets but a viewport issue. The work around is to scrub using the red playhead of ProSequencer and not Max's default one. For now I've made it bit wider for easier grabbing. Autodesk is aware of this issue and since it affects the native sequencer as well I expect this to be fix soon. Enjoy!
Comments
Right-click context menu not working?
Hi Jonathan,
Finally got around to trying out ProSequencer, have downloaded the latest 1.97 and it seems to have installed correctly.
However when I open up the ProSequencer timeline there are 3 blank tracks there. If I try to right-click any of them I get the error message "--Unknown property: "enabled" in "" and the Maxscript editor opens ProSequencer.ms at line 3905.
Is this an issue or am I missing a step?
3ds Max 2016 EXT1/SP1
Thanks!
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Thank you very much Jonathan
Thank you very much Jonathan for sharing it for free!
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Ahhh... thanks Jonathan.
Ahhh... thanks Jonathan.
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Developer of Wall Worm
Automate rendering
It's not in right now, it's on the list :) But you can quickly make it yourself I think. There is an small API in it where you can get camera ranges out, see the help page for more details (search for 'API' on the page)
data=ProSequencer.getSequenceData()
track_count=data.count -- get nr of tracks
showproperties data[1] -- get data for track 1
output:
id:; Public
cam:; Public
statesetId:; Public
clipStart:; Public
clipEnd:; Public
clipLength:; Public
selected:; Public
enabled:; Public
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Excellent Tool
This is really nice. +1 again.
I was hoping that you could allow a render all cameras or (preferably) a sub-selection of the cameras and allow the render to go to Backburner for all cameras. I'm assuming that the bake sequences into camera is the current workaround? Basically, I'd like it to automate sending each camera sequence as an individual job to Backburner (without having to bake or having to manually send each camera as a new job).
Maybe this is already possible and I'm just missing it.
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Developer of Wall Worm
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What feature are you exactly looking for, there are no retime functions in prosequencer?
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speed control camera (Slow Motion)
hi i can not find the camera function control Slow Motion
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Titane: Can you try to start max with only the PS startup script in the startup directory and see if it still happens? If the problem disappears try putting back the other scripts one by one until it breaks again. Another thing you can try it not to use the startup script but use the macro found in the 'JDBgraphics' category to launch PS. Let me now what you find! (And you can just send me a mail for faster times)
Piotrek Marczak: Camera-bake is in the works, I'll let you know when I have a beta to test.
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Hello I just bought this
Hello
I just bought this script, and it is awesome !!!
Just a problem, when using it I have the joined warning...
When I remove the startup script and relaunch Max, this problem disappear.
Hope it can be solved.
3dsmax2014 / french win7
camera export
just bought it, is there a way to export sequence to a single camera? This would be useful for e.g multiscatter's per camera culling (no need to switch camera object in every multiscatter object/for every camera shot)