openSourceVFX.org » metadata http://opensourcevfx.org A directory of Open-Source projects for the VFX community Thu, 03 May 2012 06:25:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 depix http://opensourcevfx.org/2010/01/depix/ http://opensourcevfx.org/2010/01/depix/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:28:22 +0000 Philippe Leprince http://opensourcevfx.org/?p=219 Home Page: http://guerilla-di.org/depix/
Language: ruby
Platform: Windows, OS X, Linux
License: MIT

]]> Film scans and images are usualy shoved about in DPX files. These files embed a massive amount of metadata which can be used to automatically catalog and search in big file collections (and searching is essential since a complete feature film will run well into tens of thousands of files). Reading this metadata can easily help with cumbersome tasks like sorting DPX files per reel/timecode, resolution, selective copying/processing and such daily tasks.

Additionally, depix supports editing of DPX metadata without the need to copy the file over (since files can be big). The metadata gets modified in-place without any copy operations, which is especially helpful when operating across a network.

Home Page: http://guerilla-di.org/depix/
Language: ruby
Platform: Windows, OS X, Linux
License: MIT

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