We Speak Pipeline.
Common Ground
Modern projects will go through a series of applications, with each application supplying a portion of the final shot. However, it’s easy to lose valuable days and weeks in trying to get data from one application to another.
Lightcraft’s Take Converter application converts Previzion’s Collada-formatted take files into formats read by a variety of applications, including ColladaMaya, Maya ASCII, Boujou and Nuke. Each exporter uses the correct Euler angle conversion or matrix conversions for that particular application, so that data lines up the same way in each app.
Scripting Supported
Take Converter works in both command line and GUI forms, for better compatibility with production scripting pipelines, and uses standard I/O formatting protocols.
Only What You Need
A given take may be 5,000 frames long, but you only want a certain set. Take converter lets you set in and out points using frame counts or timecode to determine exactly which parts of the take are converted. Coupled with the command-line support, it’s possible to automatically generate an entire show worth of tracking data from an edit decision list and a directory of take files.