Ability to assign/edit job ID #

Hello,
We have recently redesigned our production pipeline from the bottom up, and have been able to achieve a serious amount of automation of tasks. The ability to automate job submission (with dependencies and appropriate folders) to muster (maya, fusion, vue, and AE jobs) would be very easy if we had the ability to make the job ID #’s meaningful (allowing leading zero’s would also be helpful).

For example: when submitting project A’s (06) scene 01 shot 15 which is a Fusion 2D (02) job and is a main compositing pass (01), it’s job ID # would be 0601150201, and could automatically be set as a child of the folder named “2D” who’s job ID is 06011502 which is a child of the “Shot 15” folder who’s ID is 060115 which is a child of the “Scene 01” folder who’s ID is 0601 which is a child of the “Project A” folder who’s ID is 06. Since it’s a main compositing pass it could also be automatically set to dependant on the Project A Scene 01 Shot 15 “3D” folder who’s ID is 06011501.

An average project of ours has 50 camera shots, and each shot has an average of 6 maya passes, 3 Vue passes, 2 Fusion passes/flows and 2 AE comps, which results in approx 650 muster jobs (not including folders to organize them). Given a generous 5 minutes to set up each job, we estimate having this ability will save approx 50 hours of work per project.

Regards,
~Yuris Mangolds
Director
C2i Studios
http://www.c-2iinc.com