ffmpeg template with After Effects

Hi,

Really nice app! I tested it for a few days now and it seems that Muster have a lot of extraordinary abilities! Congratulations to the developers!

However, I tried to render some After FX compositions and it worked great but I have a lot of picture sequence that I would like to encode in a QuickTime file. The goal is to do it after the render job (of course, otherwise there is no picture to encode…)

No problem with the ffmpeg CLI but now I would like to automate it with Muster, so I tried to write a template for ffmpeg.
I have some problem to submit the job to my farm. The job goes in the queue but stay “On Queue” (green dot). I’ve 2 instances waiting for some work

So, 2 questions :
– Am I doing something wrong with the template?
– Is it possible to add this template (when it will work) to a postjob action?

I made a screenshot of the console : http://www.amp-interactive.com/supports/muster/MusterConsole_capture.png

By the way, I didn’t understand the meaning of the [SUBST/NOSUBST] option, could someone explain it to me?

Thanks,

AMPi.

Here is the ffmpeg command line :

ffmpeg -i “C:INrendered-image_%%05d.tga” -f “mov” -r “25” -vcodec “qtrle” “c:OUTrendered-video.mov”

Here is the template I wrote :

DECLARE TEMPLATE
{
SET TEMPLATE_NAME “Single ffmpeg”
SET TEMPLATE_DESC “Encode a video from picture sequence with ffmpeg”
SET TEMPLATE_UID 44
SET TEMPLATE_LOGIC SINGLE
SET DEFAULT_PRIORITY 1
SET DEFAULT_POOL “Controller”
SET MAXIMUM_LICENSES 0
SET DELAY_GROUP “Global”
SET DELAY_TIME 0
}

DECLARE SINGLE
{

}

DECLARE SUBMISSION
{
SET ENABLE_ADDITIONAL_FLAGS 0

ADD PictureSequence FILE_SELECTOR “” “Picture Sequence” “Specify the FIRST picture of the picture sequence” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY SUBST *.tga;*.png;*.bmp;*.tiff;*.tif;*.jpg;*.jpeg
ADD VideoContainer STRING_INPUT “mov” “Video Container” “Specify the video container of the output file (mov, mp4, ogg, mpeg2video, mpegts, …)” SUBST NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY NOSUBST
ADD VideoCodec STRING_INPUT “qtrle” “Video Codec” “Specify the video codec of the output file (qtrle, libx264, libtheora, flv, mpeg2video, …)” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY NOSUBST

#TODO: Configurer l’encodage audio et sous-titre
#
#ADD AudioCodec STRING_INPUT “” “Audio Codec” “Specify the audio codec of the output file (…)” ACTIVABLE NOTMANDATORY
#ADD AudioBitrate INTEGER_INPUT “192” “Audio Bitrate” “Specify the audio bitrate in bit” ACTIVABLE MANDATORY
#ADD SubtitleCodec STRING_INPUT “” “Subtitle Codec” “Specify the subtitle codec of the output file (…)” ACTIVABLE NOTMANDATORY

ADD VideoFrameRate INTEGER_INPUT “25” “Video Frame Rate” “Specify the number of frame per second” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY NOSUBST
ADD VideoBitrate INTEGER_INPUT “4096000” “Video Bitrate” “Specify the video bitrate in bit” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY NOSUBST

#TODO: Configurer la possibilité d’écraser le fichier de destination
#
#ADD OverwriteOutput YESNO “0” “Overwrite output if present” “Overwrite output file if present” ACTIVATE

ADD DestinationFolder FOLDER_SELECTOR “” “Destination Folder” “Specify the path of the destination folder” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY SUBST
ADD DestinationFile STRING_INPUT “render” “Destination File” “Specify the name of the destination file” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY NOSUBST
}

DECLARE SUBMISSION_ADDFLAGS_GUI
{
DECLARE SUBMS_ADDFLAGS
{
SET GROUP_NAME “Custom flags”
ADD CUSTOM_FLAGS STRING_INPUT “” “Custom flags:” “Specify additional flags to concatenate to the command line” ACTIVABLE
}

SET ADDFLAGS_COMMAND_LINE “%ISACTIVE(CUSTOM_FLAGS (%ATTR(CUSTOM_FLAGS) ))”
}

DECLARE ENGINE_WIN
{
SET PLATFORM_ENABLED 1
SET ENABLE_ERROR_CHECK 1
SET ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT 1

# Construction de la ligne de commande FFMPEG
SET COMMAND_LINE ” -i “%ATTR(PictureSequence)” -f “%ATTR(VideoContainer)” -r “%ATTR(VideoFrameRate)” -vcodec “%ATTR(VideoCodec)” -vb “%ATTR(VideoBitrate)” “%ATTR(DestinationFolder)\%ATTR(DestinationFile)_%ATTR(VideoBitrate)b_%ATTR(VideoFrameRate)fps.%ATTR(VideoContainer)””

#
SET EXECUTABLE “%ATTR(FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE)”
SET STARTING_FOLDER “%ATTR(FFMPEG_PRESETS_FOLDER)”

#
SET ENVIRONMENT_BLOCK DERIVED
SET DETECTION_LOGIC REALPROC

#
DECLARE CONFIGURABLE_TAGS
{
ADD FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE FILE_SELECTOR “C:\Program Files (x86)\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe” “ffmpeg executable” “Specify the ffmpeg executable” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY *.exe
ADD FFMPEG_PRESETS_FOLDER FOLDER_SELECTOR “C:\Program Files (x86)\ffmpeg\” “ffmpeg Starting folder” “Specify the ffmpeg starting folder” NOTACTIVABLE MANDATORY

#TODO: ajouter la configuration par défaut de ffmpeg (format, codec, …)
#ADD
#ADD
}

DECLARE CUSTOM_ENVIRONMENT
{

}

SET APPFINDER “ffmpeg” EXECUTABLE “ffmpeg.exe”
MAP FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE “%ATTR(APPPATH)\ffmpeg.exe”
MAP FFMPEG_PRESETS_FOLDER “%ATTR(APPPATH)”

}

DECLARE ENGINE_MAC
{
#Desactivation pour les plateformes MAC
SET PLATFORM_ENABLED 0
}

DECLARE ENGINE_LINUX
{
#Desactivation pour les plateformes Linux
SET PLATFORM_ENABLED 0
}

DECLARE ERROR
{
ADD WARNING “Warning” “Warn”
ADD ERROR “Error” “Err”
ADD ERROR_RETCODE_STR -1 “Error” -2 “Error”
ADD WARNING_RETCODE 1 2 3
ADD DEFAULT_RETCODE 0
}