Hasta La Motion!

Got a python question for ya. I’m trying to figure out how to determine the last frame of a quicktime that’s being created through a script (for example something like this)…

r2=nuke.nodes.Read(format="mov",file=’/path/thisFile.mov’)

It obviously defaults the frames to 1 – 1. But dragging and dropping in the file figures out the last frame, so I figure it must be a missing knob that I don’t know about.

Can anyone offer some insight how to accomplish this pretty simple task

Thanks,
Doug

I would like to put a setting within the project settings to control where some read nodes are looking for the file paths, eg. look in job01 sc001 sh001 as route path. Is this possible? Im new to python so any commands that would be needed to refer to the project settings box would be great to know.

Thanks for any help

Joe.

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im trying to calculate specular while do relight in NUKE with P and N,
thus i need the vector of viewer position
im not a programmer and new to this ,i’ve just done diffuse calculating so far.
sorry if stupid questions

here are my questions:
How to generate camera position from P
How to transform P world space to camera space?
How to generate p camera space from Z depth?

somebody help me~
thanks very much!

I just quickly followed a Frank tutorial on STmap
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/trai…NUKE_7574.html

And here is my result. The input is a basic cube from maya with UV’s properly laid out and I render out the RGBA and the UV pass. When I combine them inside of Nuke the texture (checkerboard) appears stretched. In fact I tried with some other UV passes and still get the same result.

I know I am missing something basic here. Would really appreciate your guidance here.

Tx,
Haf