Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 126)

126 Chapter 3 Adding Media, Retiming, and Remastering
Time Notation Setting the Script Range
The script range can be set in the timeRange field of the Globals tab, or on the batch
command line with the -t option, which overrides the script.
The range description is extremely flexible. The following are some examples:
To set time range in the command line when rendering a script, use the -t option:
shake -exec my_script.shk -t 50-60 -v
For command line examples of time manipulation, see “ Frequently Used Functions ” on
page 1023 of Appendix B, “ The Shake Command-Line Manual .”
For more information on using the Time View, see Chapter 8, “ Using the Time View .”
Remastering Media
The Convert option of the reTiming parameter provides a method for converting media
from one format to another using advanced image processing to rescale and retime
the incoming media. For example, if you have a high definition image sequence that
you want to convert into a standard definition image sequence, or a PAL clip that you
need to change to NTSC, the Convert option provides the tools to do so.
Choosing Convert reveals a series of parameters within the FileIn node that allow you
to change the frame rate, resize the output resolution, anti-alias and sharpen the
resulting image, and deinterlace the media being referenced by that FileIn. These
options provide the highest-quality means of resizing and deinterlacing available in
Shake, with results that are superior to the transform nodes that are available from the
Tool tabs. These options are only available within the FileIn node.
image.%d.iff image.1.iff, image.2.iff
image.@@@.iff image.001.iff, image.002.iff
image.%03d.iff image.001.iff, image.002.iff
Shake Format Reads/Writes
Time Range Number of Frames Frames Rendered
1-100 100 1, 2, 3... 100
1-100x2 50 1, 3, 5... 99
1-100x20 5 1, 21, 41... 81
1-20, 30-40 31 1, 2, 3... 20, and 30, 31, 32... 40
1-10x2, 15, 18, 20-25 13 1, 3, 5... 9, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22 ... 25
100-1 100 100, 99, 98... 2