Welcome to smartMedia’s documentation!

smartMedia is a fully customizable multi threaded media converter, ingestion and delivery tool that runs standalone and inside Nuke. It lets you convert image and video based media from one format into another. SmartMedia uses Nuke under the hood to convert your media. Due to Nuke’s node based workflow this mean absolute control for your media conversions and due to that smartMedia goes way beyond a traditional media encoder. Think of it as a tool that solves the following:

• I want to convert my video sources into image sequences and vice versa.
• I want to convert my video sources into different video formats.
• I want to convert my image sequences into different image sequence formats.
• I want to apply slate and burnin information to my renderings.
• I want to create full deliveries containing many outputs to my client in an easy way.
• I want to trigger custom code before or after rendering in order to update. my database, get a spread sheet automatically written, and much more.

smartMedia provides a rich preset system that you can fully customize to your needs. You can quickly create new presets with minimal effort using our preset creation wizard and further define it to your needs afterwards if needed. Presets can then be applied to multiple sources in one go to batch create the needed outputs for your projects including custom slates and burnins.

smartMedia is customizable in many details and provides a variety of settings that you can adjust to your needs. And if you have some Python knowledge you can take over full control and trigger any additional logic on various events and run custom functions on any selected task.

smartMedia can be run standalone and inside Nuke and is python-3 and python-2 compatible.

Features:

• Media converter, ingestion and delivery tool
• Multi threaded
• Fully customizable
• Create presets easily using a presets wizard
• Trigger custom functionality on various events
• Works standalone and inside Nuke

Tool homepage: https://www.cragl.com/smartMedia

Where to buy: https://aescripts.com/smartmedia

Contents:

• What’s new?

• Installation
  • Installing smartMedia directly inside Nuke via connect
• Accessing
  • Launching smartMedia inside Nuke
  • Launching smartMedia standalone
• Quickstart
  • Setting Nuke executable
  • Ingesting elements
  • Saving our media list
  • Creating a halfres proxy
  • Bulk creating fullres proxy jpgs
  • Creating a DNxHD rendering for our comp output inside Nuke
  • Dealing with render errors
• Main window
  • Anatomy
  • Menu bar
  • Top bar
  • Main section - Jobs
  • Main section - Presets
  • Main section - Settings
• Settings
  • The General section
  • The Paths section
  • The naming section
• Creating new presets
  • Further adjusting the generated template
  • Using Presets root directories to share presets in your team
  • Discovering and using custom slates and burnins
• Advanced workflows
  • Task folder
  • Task data
  • Task data inside Nuke
  • Naming
  • Using a source naming widget
  • Adding details widgets
  • Setup only
  • data.py - Update data.json file with logic and do other stuff
  • Executing custom callbacks before and/or after render
  • Adjusting a preset’s template.nk
  • colorspaces_autocomplete
  • custom media commands
  • Translator
• Appendix
  • How to install Python and PySide to use smartMedia standalone
  • Installing PySide / PySide2

• Changelog

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page