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https://github.com/Colorbleed/maya-capture-gui

GUI front-end for maya-capture
https://github.com/Colorbleed/maya-capture-gui

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GUI front-end for maya-capture

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### Playblasting in Maya done with GUI



A visual interface for

[maya-capture](https://github.com/abstractfactory/maya-capture).






> WARNING: Preview release







### Features



- Set up your playblasts visually (with direct feedback). 

- Produce consistent predictable playblasts.

- Callbacks to allow custom encoding prior to opening viewer.

- Avoid unwanted overscan; playblast what you render.







### Installation



To install, download this package and [capture](https://github.com/abstractfactory/maya-capture)

and place both in a directory where Maya can find them.







### Usage



To show the interface in Maya run:



```python

import capture_gui

capture_gui.main()

```







### Advanced



#### Callbacks

Register a pre-view callback to allow a custom conversion or overlays on the 

resulting footage in your pipeline (e.g. through FFMPEG)



```python

import capture_gui



# Use Qt.py to be both compatible with PySide and PySide2 (Maya 2017+)

from capture_gui.vendor.Qt import QtCore



def callback(options):

    """Implement your callback here"""



    print("Callback before launching viewer..")



    # Debug print all options for example purposes

    import pprint

    pprint.pprint(options)



    filename = options['filename']

    print("Finished callback for video {0}".format(filename))



app = capture_gui.main(show=False)



# Use QtCore.Qt.DirectConnection to ensure the viewer waits to launch until

# your callback has finished. This is especially important when using your

# callback to perform an extra encoding pass over the resulting file.

app.viewer_start.connect(callback, QtCore.Qt.DirectConnection)



# Show the app manually

app.show()

```



#### Register preset paths



Register a preset path that will be used by the capture gui to load default presets from.



```python

import capture_gui.presets

import capture_gui



path = "path/to/directory"

capture_gui.presets.register_path(path)



# After registering capture gui will automatically load

# the presets found in all registered preset paths

capture_gui.main()

```



#### Register tokens and translators



Register a token and translator that will be used to translate any tokens

in the given filename.



```python

import capture.tokens

import capture_gui



# this is an example function which retrieves the name of the current user

def get_user_name():

    import getpass

    return getpass.getuser()



# register the token  and pass the function which should be called

# when this token is present.

# The label is for the right mouse button menu's readability.

capture.tokens.register_token("",

                              lambda options : get_user_name(),

                              label="Insert current user's name")

```



### Known issues



##### Viewport Plugin _show_ menu close button sometimes appears off screen when torn off



Tearing off the _show_ menu in the Viewport Plugin results in a menu

with an off screen title bar when torn off near the top edge of the

screen. This makes it hard to close the menu. To fix this either close

the capture GUI (to close the menu) or make a new torn off version of

the _show_ menu at a lower position on screen (this will close the

previous torn off menu).