eyeon Software announces the shipping release of their latest solution to drive production efficiencies and productivity, EPP.
Toronto, Canada --
Leading VFX and Broadcast software developer, eyeon Software, announced the shipping release of EPP, eyeon’s latest solution to drive production efficiencies and productivity.
A forerunner in tools that provide a very fast, responsive, and highly-productive experience, eyeon Software introduces EPP. EPP’s benefits can deliver cost savings as the paths now live on global space that is accessible to all products. In contrast to conventions, EPP’s approach is far less error prone, taking care of specifying the paths. Artists are no longer required to learn the internals of the filesystem and can work directly with the shots and assets managed by the pipeline.
Instead of relying on restrictive databases, EPP works around simple XML files that can be easily copied to other machines or facilities. More than a suite of scripts that provides flexibility, EPP is a way of working that offers a fully-functional starting point to manage folder structures for projects, shots, and data. It is available in source code to extend and modify as required however EPP is customizable without knowledge of programming by editing simple XML setting files.
EPP is available as a binary installer but also in source form as python scripts hosted at GitHub. Since EPP is released with an unrestrictive NewBSD license, everyone is invited to adapt, change, and contribute to this project.
A key component to EPP is the out-of-the-box integration capabilities with Generation. Designed to sit on everyone’s desktop, Generation will not only save time and money, facilities now have a snapshot of production overviews to see precisely where they stand on each project. These reports can be as simple as a text document or include as much data and imagery as required, all automated and provided in whatever format best serves each department.
As part of the new EPP toolset, Generation has been updated to version 3.1 and includes a number of new features.
Typical Workflow Software Supported in EPP
- 3DS Max
- Adobe products
- Arri
- Avid via eyeon Connection
- Blender
- Canon
- Cinema 4D
- Edius
- Fusion
- Houdini
- LightWave
- Maya
- Nuke
- Sony
- XSI
- And more…
Generation Highlights Include
- 120FPS HFR and 4K Stereo playback
- Logical effect stacks combined on a flexible timeline
- Direct connection to Fusion
- Event scripting to support numerous pipelines, (i.e. Adobe, Autodesk, The Foundry, Maxon, Side Effects...)
- Completely scriptable (Python and LUA)
- Artist and shot assignments
- Annotation and communication
- Timeline creation
- Tangent Wave support
- Artist Configurable Metadata Environment (ACME)
- EPP is completely Open Source to the VFX and post-production communities
- Stereo features have been extended
- The EDL workflow has been remodeled
“We are glad to support a community that has been contributing free macros, scripts, and plugins over the years. Open source allows us to initialize a common project for our customers where everyone can benefit from each other’s contribution. This demonstrates why it is important to us to offer customization options that significantly improve the workflow,” says Blazej Floch, EPP and Technical Specialist, eyeon Software.
Source: eyeon Software
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
