Hasta La Motion!

With offices in London, LA and Vancouver, MPC is one of the world’s leading visual effects studios creating high-end VFX for the television and feature film industries. Managing large numbers of digital assets and developing cutting edge productivity tools is vital to our continued success. This is the responsibility of our Pipeline Engineering team where our Vancouver studio now seeks to appoint a Pipeline Software Engineer develop our workflow and asset management tools to meet the needs of upcoming film productions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software to address evolving production demands
• Help maintain existing workflow and asset management tools
• Provide support to artists needing assistance to solve challenging problems
• Develop in-house software as part of a team
• Technical and user documentation
• Build relationships with key artists and production staff
• Ensure that developments are consistent with overall software strategy

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proven experience developing in a Linux environment, ideally with C++
• Knowledge of scripting language required, Python a strong advantage
• Experience of technologies relating to GUI design and content or asset management an advantage, as is knowledge of RDBMS such as MySQL
• Experience in the design of process management and collaborative workflow software across a distributed environment
• Experience of working in a complex software environment.
• Knowledge of developing with 3D packages such as Autodesk Maya is an advantage
• Previous experience of post-production, VFX and CG is highly desirable

Details:

• Location: Vancouver
• Start Date: Immediate

If this position sounds of interest then please apply via our website.

We look forward to hearing from you!

MPC is one of the world’s leading visual effects facilities creating high-end effects for the feature film industry. The creation of these visual effects depends on our Data Operations team who work closely with our team of talented artists to coordinate the movement of our digital assets inside our facilities. We now seek to appoint a Data Technical Assistant in Vancouver to play a crucial role in delivering a number of exciting projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating the transfer of data between MPC sites around the world
• Managing data to ensure storage resources are used efficiently
• Archiving and restoring data when needed
• Data format conversion to ensure MPC standards are adhered to
• Coordinating with artists, Production and Editorial to make sure they have the data they need
• Assisting with other tasks, such as render wrangling, as and when required

Requirements:

• Graduate with excellent organizational skills
• Strong technical skills with at least one year experience of using Linux with some basic scripting
• Ability to rapidly pick up and learn new tools and techniques
• Able to work independently or as part of a team
• Able to handle a fast-paced, occasionally high pressure environment

Details:

• Location: Vancouver
• Start Date: Immediate

If this position sounds of interest then please apply by visiting our website.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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I’ve run into a frustrating problem while trying to improve my solution in PFtrack 4.1.

So i’ve solved and want to delete the features that spike into the red in the proj-E graph. But i only want to delete the red parts. but when i select the auto feature and right click the;
Remove From Frame
Remove From Frame+Forwards
Remove From Frame+Backwards
are all grayed out.

I’m sure when i did this in college I was able to delete the auto features from specific frames. I should point out that i can still delete the auto features entirely, but i don’t really want to do that.

i’ve gone over the manual but haven’t found anything.
Am i doing something stupid?

Appreciate any help

Thanks

The software company cebas Visual Technology Inc. and the well known visual effects house Pixel Magic have agreed to develop advanced software and workflows that are already being used for converting “Harry Potter” to 3D Stereo. The technology was successfully pioneered for the major studio epic “The Chronicles of Narnia – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”.

Based on an intense cooperation with Pixel Magic, cebas created new algorithms and software to significantly simplify and accelerate 2D to 3D Stereo image conversion. The Pixel Magic proprietary, streamlined workflow, along with the development from cebas, enabled a timely delivery of high quality stereoscopic sequences for the most recent “Narnia” picture.

"When Head of R&D at Pixel Magic, Rifaat Dagher, approached us to come up with a more efficient and productive solution for 2D to 3D Stereo conversion, our team of German engineers was thrown into the cold water at first,” cebas CEO Edwin Braun said.

“But after a considerable amount of development and real world scenario testing with Pixel Magic, we came up with a highly optimized, unique solution. We think this will give Pixel Magic a competitive edge in stereo conversion for years to come,” he added.

Pixel Magic VFX Supervisor and lead stereographer Ray McIntyre noted: "This latest picture marks a milestone for us. Our partnership with cebas allows us to develop software that further streamlines our pipeline, decreasing the number of man days needed to complete stereo conversion work.”

Pixel Magic General Manager Scalice added: “Our client, Twentieth Century Fox, was very happy with the results in ‘Narnia’. The cebas tools were instrumental in delivering our stereoscopic 3D conversion in a timely and cost effective manner."