{"id":229,"date":"2013-04-25T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2013-04-25T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:10:15","slug":"nuke-command-line-argument-not-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Nuke command line, “argument not used”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working with my python-based nuke render farm, I’ve been shoring up the code to deal with some unusual instances (single frames, fewer frames than clients, et al). When passing arguments to Nuke for rendering, I used this format:<\/p>\n

Nuke7.0v6 -m 8 -x projectFile.nk -F 250-500<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
When I need to send multiple frames, or frame ranges, to the same instance, the documentation says you can use multiple instances of the -F argument, like so:<\/p>\n
Nuke7.0v6 -m 8 -x projectFile.nk -F 250-500 -F 550-700<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
What you’ll get, though, is only the second specified frame range (in this case, 550-700) rendering, and the following output:<\/p>\n
\"-F\": argument not used
\r\n\"250-500\": argument not used
\r\n\"-F\": argument not used<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
After discussing with Foundry support, it seems the -F<\/strong> switch will only work if placed before<\/em> the -x<\/strong> switch, like so:<\/p>\n
Nuke7.0v6 -m 8 -F 250-500 -F 550-700<\/strong> -x projectFile.nk<\/code><\/pre>\n
Otherwise, Nuke assumes the last number is the legacy<\/strong> method of passing frame ranges to the command line renderer, and ignores your -F<\/strong> switch. I’ve requested that this be specifically mentioned in the documentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Working with my python-based nuke render farm, I’ve been shoring up the code to deal with some unusual instances (single frames, fewer frames than clients, et al). When passing arguments to Nuke for rendering, I used this format: Nuke7.0v6 -m 8 -x projectFile.nk -F 250-500 When I need to send multiple frames, or frame ranges, …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"how to appropriately specify frames to Nuke in the command line","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bash","category-nuke","category-technical-direction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}