Batchrendering using photoshop actions.
Author: electric_eric. This is my first post on here so hi everyone!
I'm working on a project that requires every frame of an animation to be put through filterforge a couple of times each with different layer blending etc to get the effect I want.
I've set up an action with my required settings and blending and playing the action seems to work through everything just fine for one frame.
What I need to do is load the image sequence into pshop run the action and then move to the next frame...
Filter Forge update 1.013
Author: Sphinx.. "Crapadilla wrote:
Is there any coder around that could write a GUI frontend for creating batch.xml files? Or a tool for generating ffxml files with keyframe-interpolated sequences of filter presets, perhaps? "
... ... development kinda stopped when I tried to get a decent keyframe editor up running (its a lot of work!). Also it only supports 8 bpp rendering..
As it is now its simply too difficult to use, and I don't know when I'll have time to develop this further. But....
Diff Tint Looks by lipebianc
... make variations and see the differences of the results with you own image instead of the built in image in the FF preset.
http://filterforge.com/upload/forum/upload/087/FF-DiffTintLooks2.jpg
I wish and would love that there could be any kind of batchrendering that could be able to make this and have a preview of 10 or more presets that you choose and apply them all to the source image and join them in a grid.
I think that all this you have done it by hand and rendering each one separately and ...
New Component Proposal
... that goal altogether :)
As a component, this would also be helpful in situations where you wanted to limit possible colors while allowing for randomization. I tend to make filters that I can generate lots of presets for so they can be used with aba's batchrendering tool. The problem with a lot of filters I download and even many that I make is when randomizing the settings they usually break. By that I mean they start to spit out terrible, ugly color sets that do not work for that filter. A component like ...
Any way to animate a batch process of FF?
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So I would ask you once again to consider adding this very useful feature to the newest version -- there's no way I'm going to pay $130 for the ability to control variations manually within FF, but if you add some sort of ability to do this during batch processing (even if it's only within your command line renderer) then I'll pay the upgrade fee for sure.
Again, if this line you mention above is all that has to be altered, then simply allowing the command line renderer to pass a parm that alters that variation number is so dead solid easy I'd fire any ...
Would be good to have in forum a ADD-ONS specific category
... add-ons available to buy and use from filter force team
In the way that there is an Ultraforge category, there could an Add-ons category that could include all the topics about the 3 available ones
Filter forge Backup and Librarian
Animator
Visual BatchRenderer
So this way these add-ons could have more visibility and get more promoted and people may want to buy them better when there is specific place to post about questions about these add-ons
I think it would be good for get more views for these ...
Replace Module.
... is. :evil:
Look on the forums and see that here are requests that are still pending since 2006, that's SIX whole years now. :!:
In some cases users have programmed their own tools themselves and shared them here in the forum.
One example is a batchrender animator, another is a tool that lets you organize the 8700+ filters using your own folders and keywords.
Consider that those (and other) tools have been created by individual users in a short time. Imagine what a whole dev team could do if they ...
Open A Specific Filter From Filter Forge Plugin
Author: Baron. I would like to setup a shortcut in my graphics editor, PaintShop Pro, that lets me run a specific filter operation on the current image I'm editing.
The command-line renderer (https://www.filterforge.com/more/help/Miscellaneous/CommandLineRenderer.html) is a very handy feature. It works best for batch operations, rather than in-place editing. It can do some of what I want. It's not a plugin, so I can't pass it anything my graphics editor is editing directly. The renderer operates on saved image files.
I can have PaintShop Pro run the command-line ...
Particle emitters
Author: ssamm. This idea is maybe more for some future, theoretical versions of where FF maybe explores animation more (and/or batchrenderings), but I think “particle emitters†could be cool…
http://www.wondertouch.com/
(By the way, that woundertouch particle illusion site seems very “unwieldy†(for me) to navigate.)
http://www.trapcode.com/products_particular....
Animation and Batching Node category
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At the same time however if you consider the time it would require to manually do what these nodes would offer it seems like a fair trade-off to use them in exchange for a little extra time per render and if they were to automatically make use of the batchrenderer that would save a good deal of time over the preview renderer for each iteration.
Overall it just offers more creative freedom to those who would like to make use of it and further extends FF's usefulness and feature set. Much like the new ...
The Next Big Thing
... "accuracy" of FFF is less, if the nodes and filterfiles are (from the outside) compatible with FF we can always use the current FF for 100 % accurate rendering;
3. adds standard support for stacking filters (without editing the filters) and batchrendering of filters.
Which of these 3 things 'll likely happen?
Is there any tutorial about how to use FF with actions in Photoshop ?
... Forum, Tutorials, Wiki and help guide but have not found any reference on how to use in the best and correct way Filter Forge with actions in Photoshop so that some things could be done automatically and repeated.
For example to make a action to batchrender in FF and apply the same filter and same settings to 40 photos
Another example is to apply 10 different filters to the same photo, and get 10 different photo results each one with only ONE of the filters applied.
I have also been searching ...
Batch GUI Tool for Windows
... been meaning to mention for a while now. This one is for the original tool but could maybe apply to the new one as well.
The option to select presets by way of a comma-separated list pasted into the app somewhere on the Select Presets page. I like to batchrender hundreds of presets at a time as small images, then go back through and render the best ones as much larger images. Being able to paste a list of those instead of scrolling through all the presets trying to find them would save me a lot of time ...
Questions about using Sjeiti´s FF Batch online application
... there are lots of them, specially after FF 3.0), so this is limited to the simpler filters.
Well if this is hard to do and would take much work and time, do not worry as I thought this could be simpler, and we can wait for the Jade Skaggs possible batchrender tool (http://filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=10343)or FF 5.0 (or FF 6.0 perhaps) and will we be able to do it.
batches for all
... filter you upload can be from the 'My Filters' folder but doesn't have to be.
The three returned files have to be in the folder you specify.
When you run the bat file it will not startup FF, so you can safely go on with your FF business while the batch process is running in the background.
If all goes well the batch-run will look like the attached image.
For now it only renders jpeg files into the folder you specify.
Should it fail, the command window will probably close immediately. But it only does so if you doubleclick the bat file directly. If you first open a command prompt (WindowsKey-R, then type 'cmd') and ...
FF DEV Question about exe instance detection
... the instance count to a single instance so I can more easily work around it. My plan is to run 1 instance of it on each of my 32 processor cores by setting the processor affinity for each instance to a different core. The filter in question for each batch will be set to only use single core rendering as it seems to run at double speed on that setting anyway. This will allow me to process 32 images simultaneously instead of 1 at a time as I currently am. Each image being processed is 2560x2560 and takes around 9.5 hrs. to finish. I have hundreds ...
Please, how to batchrender with command líne all presets of filter ?
... surprised that it worked smile:) The recommended workflow is to create an editable copy (a custom filter) and specify it in the batch task."
That's what i meant, in the custom folder it works. What i still wanted to test, to leave the original presets ... ... lighting enviroments required for this filter are missing. The default enviroment will be used instead." in the command line renderer. This could be solved by copying the custom HDRI environment to the folder C:Program Files\Filter Forge 11\Enviroments....
Few request
... Export/Import via drag'n'drop (Mac OS style) with "everything is an object in mind" :
> drag the content of the preview on the desktop and you have a file ready to use (set before in the prefs)
> drag presets on the desktop and they are rendered in batch on the fly
> drag a component/stacks and FF "freeze" the current setting of that component/stack
> etc...
- Extract Lab component
- Color Corrected preview with ICM on Windows and ColorSync on the Mac
- ICC profiles management ...
Batch GUI Tool for Windows
Author: aba. "For example I have a filter that generates map tiles. It has several sliders which control what kind of tile piece will be created, for example corners and crossings and their directions. It would be great if you could batchrender out all the combinations, without having to create a preset for each."
No, I'm sorry, that would be too difficult too implement and to use. You can animate over intSliders if you use the right number of steps, but making combinations of all ...
Beta 5.005 – new beta keys for Windows
... version will be to justify an upgrade?
2. Will there be a "last call" (newsletter) before release, that will make it possible to decide to buy or not to buy an upgrade for the preorder price?
P.S. Killer features for me would be :
1 A batchrenderer that can output automatically multiple frames (pictures), where each frame is rendered with a different value of an user defined parameter, between user defined max and min values, with uses defined number of steps and with user defined characteristic,...
