PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™ – the leading render farm management software for digital media creation, announced today the integration of Tweak Software’s RVIO Sequence Converter. Qube! now exposes the rich set of options RVIO provides for manipulating images and movies.
This integration allows for the following within the Qube render queue framework:
– Automated post-rendering conversion from images to movie clips with audio on the renderfarm
– Distributed image manipulation including color correction, compositing, tiling, and letterboxing
– Scriptable slating, frame burn-ins, overlays, and much more
– Distributed conversion, transcoding, and resizing of images
“This scriptable cross platform image manipulation solution meshes well with the Qube render farm management platform," said Scot Brew, PipelineFX Director of Technology. “Now there is a single solution that is viable across Windows, Linux, and OSX for managing a queue of sequence conversions and distributing image manipulation across many machines.”
“The new integration of RVIO with Qube! offers the ability to speed up image processing and also add it as an automated post process after rendering," said Seth Rosenthal, President of Tweak Software. "It’s a great example of the flexibility of both Qube! and RV and is just the first step in integrating our products.”
Qube! 5.5.2 is now available to all PipelineFX customers under support, and can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.pipelinefx.com.
About Tweak Software
San Francisco, CA-based Tweak Software Is the maker of RV, the next generation image and sequence viewer for VFX and animation and RVIO the scriptable image converter and movie maker. Prior to founding Tweak, the Tweak partners, Jim Hourihan, Seth Rosenthal and Alan Trombla spent many years at Industrial Light and Magic where they developed many tools and techniques still in use at the facility today. Jim Hourihan is the recipient of two Sci-Tech Academy Awards and is best known for developing Dynamation, the first commercial particle system that was subsequently incorporated into Autodesk’s Maya software. For more information, visit www.tweaksoftware.com.
About Qube!
Qube! is a robust and highly scalable render management solution that can be quickly integrated into any production workflow, and is backed by world-class technical support. Qube! can be easily tailored to any pipeline requirements and works with all leading content creation applications including Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk Maya®, NUKE™, SOFTIMAGE®|XSI®, Shake®, Adobe® After Effects®, Pixar’s RenderMan®, DNA Research’s 3Delight, and Eyeon® Digital Fusion™. Qube! is the only production proven solution that is certified IBM ServerProven®, and runs on Windows®, Linux®, and Mac OS®X operating systems.
About PipelineFX
PipelineFX (www.pipelinefx.com) is the leading provider of renderfarm management solutions for digital content creation. PipelineFX has more than 400 customers worldwide including BBC, Digital Domain, Electronic Arts, Fisher Price, General Motors, Herman Miller, Imagemovers Digital, Laika Studios, Lockheed Martin, MTV, NBC, NHK, Rainmaker Entertainment Inc., Reel FX, Smoke & Mirrors, Sony Computer, Sony Pictures Imageworks, South Park Studios, Starz Entertainment, Technicolor and Telemundo. PipelineFX is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has offices in San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas.
