A small VFX studio loses more time to pipeline admin than to the work itself. The cut changes and nobody is certain which shots moved. A delivery bounces because one EXR in three hundred had the wrong compression. A comp opens on another machine with half its Reads offline.
None of that needs a six-figure pipeline department. Most of it needs a check that runs before the problem reaches a client, which is what these tools are: they read the files you already have — the EDL, the .nk script, the renders folder — and tell you what is wrong while it is still cheap to fix.
Subscription products you can start using today, each with a 14-day trial and no credit card.
Parses .nk scripts in the browser: Write-node paths and version tokens, broken or absolute Reads, a node-graph viewer, a version diff and an OCIO colour audit.
Audits a Houdini project: cache and sim disk usage, missing frames, stale versions, USD dependency resolution and the standard $JOB structure.
The imported cut is the shot list. Conform check finds missing shots, handle mismatches, gaps and stale versions; cut-diff shows what changed between two turnovers.
From A$9/moBatch-checks a delivery folder against a spec before you upload: EXR, DPX, TIFF, PNG and QuickTime headers, naming, padding, start frames and gaps.
No login, no billing, nothing uploaded — they run entirely in your browser.
Checks a config.ocio resolves — roles, views, displays and looks.
Reads a .usda prim hierarchy, composition arcs and dependencies.
Converts between CMX3600 EDL, OpenTimelineIO and FCPXML, and crunches timecode.
FreeTracks every marketplace asset licence in a project, with risk flags for client work.
When nothing off the shelf fits the way you actually work, we build it.
When the tool you need does not exist — a bespoke tracker, a review portal, a farm dashboard.
The repetitive part of your pipeline, scripted: ingest, naming, transcodes, notifications.
Automating the judgement calls around your pipeline, not just the file moves.
No. They run in the browser and read file headers and text locally — a Nuke script, an EDL, an EXR header. The media itself is never uploaded to a server.
No, it sits alongside it. Cutlist Tracker has a ShotGrid connector that builds a dry-run write plan you preview before anything is written, and it writes conform flags to their own field rather than overwriting an artist's status.
A Studio Suite bundle covering the pipeline tools is in early access — get in touch and we will set you up while it is being finalised.
Tell us the process that is costing you time. If one of our products already covers it we will say so — that is cheaper for you than a build.
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