image info as a part of the rendered image

[davpe]

hi,

I'm wondering if its possible to make an image info a part of the rendered frame. For assets preview purposes, I'd love to be able to render out bunch of passes, make a sequence out of them in mplay and export it as a quicktime with the image info visible (info like the render time and the image plane name for instance). Right now I'm using Nuke to label the images which is slow and annoying. I thought maybe some kind of a post-render script might help. Any thoughts anyone?

thanks, D.

[Adam Ferestad]

I would imagine you could do image plane using a font node bound to the camera so it moved with it.  Rendertime might be a bit trickier, since it isn't calculated until the end of the render.  I would imagine that there would be a way to store it in the metadata and write a nuke script that would put it on the image.  

[pezetko]

There is hwatermark utility for embedding text into rendered images. For converting into movie you can use mcp utility. You can pipe them and use e.g. shell rop.

But I ended up using nuke script for similar task. Nuke script is simple text file, so you can create template file that does what you need then edit it with python script (post-render script) with simple search and replace without consuming any license and submit that modified nuke script to the farm for generating final quicktime output at the end. You can pull out a lot of information from mantra rop directly or from its output log (or log file on the disk) and rest from exr files (if you have turned on exr post-process on mantra rop).

[davpe]

thanks for the reply guys. But the point was to avoid Nuke or any other manual postprocess. I was trying to get the labeling for free as any manipulation with files after rendering feels like an unnecessary hassle that takes time. hwatermark is something i didn't know about. will take a look at it. thanks.