can you set up a render queue in mediapipe like after effect

[pants]

can you set up a render queue in mediapipe like you have in adobe after effects? so i can have renders go one after another? or whats the best way to set up multiple renders in mediapipe?? or is it okay to have multiple things rendering at the same time in different terminal windows????

i have like 10 movies i want to encode to svcd and wanted to set them up over night but didn't how to go about that.

thanks

pants

[bilestyle]

there is no queue in mediapipe yet, i THINK they have one planned for 1.0 (not gonna be out for a while from my understanding) only way to do a queue for it is setup your own shell script. its not THAT difficult, so if you really want to know the only way to queue with it (as of yet) ill let ya know

[pants]

please let me know how to set up the shell script that'd be great.

thanks

pants

[bilestyle]

alright... but your going to have to farmliarize yourself with the CLI workins of mediapipe and mpeg2enc, if you do a list of pipes you want and see the output produced you can start to become farmiliar with how medipipe in the terminal works. here is an example where the input file is "chunk-0.m2v" and where the output folder is "/Volumes/100GB/simpsonss"

/usr/local/bin/mediapipe -pipeline -d "/Volumes/100GB/simpsonss" "File Browser" "Path"="/Volumes/120GB/ 311/chunk-0.m2v" ! "File Streamer" "PacketSize"="16384" ! "MPEG Decoder" ! "Color Conversion" ! "Deinterlacer" ! "Scaler" "Height"="480" "LowQuality"="true" "Width"="480" ! "MPEG Encoder" "mpeg2enc"="-v 0 -f 4 -F 4 -n n -a 2 -b 2500 -I 0 -r 16 -q 3 -Q 2 -h -M 2 -2 1 -4 1" "ppmtoy4m"="-v 0 -S 420_mpeg2 -I p -F 120000:4004 -A 4:3"

now say i wanted to add another process to this script i would append a ";" to the end of this one and paste another one

/usr/local/bin/mediapipe -pipeline -d "/Volumes/100GB/simpsonss" "File Browser" "Path"="/Volumes/120GB/ 311/chunk-0.m2v" ! "File Streamer" "PacketSize"="16384" ! "MPEG Decoder" ! "Color Conversion" ! "Deinterlacer" ! "Scaler" "Height"="480" "LowQuality"="true" "Width"="480" ! "MPEG Encoder" "mpeg2enc"="-v 0 -f 4 -F 4 -n n -a 2 -b 2500 -I 0 -r 16 -q 3 -Q 2 -h -M 2 -2 1 -4 1" "ppmtoy4m"="-v 0 -S 420_mpeg2 -I p -F 120000:4004 -A 4:3" ; /usr/local/bin/mediapipe -pipeline -d "/Volumes/100GB/simpsonss" "File Browser" "Path"="/Volumes/120GB/ 311/chunk-2.m2v" ! "File Streamer" "PacketSize"="16384" ! "MPEG Decoder" ! "Color Conversion" ! "Deinterlacer" ! "Scaler" "Height"="480" "LowQuality"="true" "Width"="480" ! "MPEG Encoder" "mpeg2enc"="-v 0 -f 4 -F 4 -n n -a 2 -b 2500 -I 0 -r 16 -q 3 -Q 2 -h -M 2 -2 1 -4 1" "ppmtoy4m"="-v 0 -S 420_mpeg2 -I p -F 120000:4004 -A 4:3"

for the second one u will notice the only difference is chunk-2.m2v is the input file... so if i had a file that was called chunk-0.m2v and another one called chunk-2.m2v they would be processed one after another.

u can continue on with that as long as you like... once you are finished you can either copy the entire script into the clipboard and paste it in the terminal OR save it as a script and type this in thet terminal

"sh <drag your shell script here>"

and it will treat the text file you made like a shell script.

i dont have time to give a lesson on mpeg2enc and ppmtoy4m, so you will have to learn about those commands on your own... this is just a brief shell script tutorial.

[Ross]

The other way is to just start as all 10 CLI Terminal sessions at once.
It will parallel process and split the cpu cycles, end results, same amount of time as encoding one at a time in succession.