{"id":386,"date":"2020-05-01T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2021-01-23T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T20:02:11","slug":"elements-ingest-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Elements Ingest Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
handling ingest of bulk data with style!<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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When I was first asked to begin thinking about a tool to handle and sort files coming into a busy VFX house, I was pretty hesitant. How could you possibly correctly sort BG plates from stock footage, editorial QTs from plates, set data from delivery manifests??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t until we came up with the idea to utilize the Shotgun Toolkit’s publisher (tk-multi-publish2<\/a>) that it started to seem doable. While my experience with the publisher hadn’t been all stellar up to that point, this was really a place for it to shine. Specifically – the publisher excels at handling large quantities of different file types all at once, determining info about them and offering a nicely designed GUI to the end user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The gui allows the user to assign delivery-specific info before beginning the ingest process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the end, we ended up with two plugins for our ingest tool. One (“Sort Files”) determines the best location of the file based on some simple path matching; if it can’t determine where to put the files, it prompts the user to fill out manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had to do some special adjustments to the publisher2 code to allow for the proper communication between plugins. By default, they are pretty siloed, however in our case, I wanted the location of he Sort to affect the type of Element that was created in Shotgun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second plugin (“Publish Element”) creates an Entity in Shotgun linked to the files and the Shot\/Asset\/Project that the Element is being ingested for. This even includes notifications to Artists and Production staff that the Element is in – for example, that plates have been delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, it’s been in heavy use for nearly 3 years now and has been working better than I ever expected. It’s something I’m very proud of!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

handling ingest of bulk data with style! When I was first asked to begin thinking about a tool to handle and sort files coming into a busy VFX house, I was pretty hesitant. How could you possibly correctly sort BG plates from stock footage, editorial QTs from plates, set data from delivery manifests?? It wasn’t …<\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,21,20,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python","category-qt","category-sgtk","category-shotgun","category-technical-direction","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}