FFBatchMaster for Mac OS X

Hello folks,

Now you can configure and run batch renders with FilterForge on Mac OS X 10.5 or better.

You can download it here: http://4eyes.code66.se/wp-content/upl...Master.zip it is < 700kB.
It is still in beta, but I think I've polished away most of the bugs.

Cheers,

// Totte

P.S. Kraellin - you can get that Mac now

argh! one web app and now one mac app... where are the pc programmers for a stand-alone batcher?

nice one, totte! and i came close, once, but finally came to my senses when i found out a harddrive replacement might cost me $800 on a mac (i love their new led screens, though. just outstanding!).

i was told that the harddrive in an imac ran that much because of integration with the motherboard and the vid card. but yes, sounded weird to me, too.

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Now, the quest is complete.

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Great utility Totte!

I'm having trouble here with the rendering process not getting beyond 54 frames. Using OS 10.6 and FF 3 and 4 this seems to be an issue. A notice to look into the 'tmp/FFX...' for the crash log comes up when rendering stops/fails, but where is that? Is there a rewrite needed for the newer versions of FF? I only see a version of FFBatchMaster from 2010, is there an update?

Hello! So I figure it's time to bump this thread since there's a very very important issue: The program no longer works on MacOS Sierra.

Would there be updates in the future?

Alright I'll email as well but just as a heads up for everyone (for now) this is what the icon looks like.

OS X message says: You can't use this version of the application "FFBatchMaster" with this version of macOS.

Hi again! And I'm sorry this took a while to respond. Thank you, it appears the program is working once again. I haven't tested it fully yet, but the program runs, settings display properly so far.

I figure I want to send donation to you for all that time I've spent using it, but Paypal Japan's preventing me from doing that. Are there other ways to send you donations?

Heh, the error says:
"PayPal does not currently support Donation Payments from buyers in JP. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."

It appears that Japanese policy makers don't like digital currency. heh.

Hi Totte. This is a great program, thanks for taking the time to make it. Had a question if it was possible to run a batch of images instead of just one. Right now I believe it is only capable of rendering for one image at a time. Is this possible with your program? Thanks!

I'd love to see it added (and I'm sure others would too). Would be more than willing to donate for your time!

Thanks for a quick fix for OS X Sierra, Totte! I'm using BatchMaster quite a lot to render image sequences for animation, and it is a very helpful tool

I've been thinking about what features would be nice to add to FFBatchMaster. I have a bunch of ideas, but I would like to toss them here first to avoid spending time on a feature no one wants.

The idea I have is like a matrix way to doing things.

(a1) Run one Filter nn times
(a2) Run a chain of filters each with individual params

(b1) Target is one image
(b2) Target(s) are a directory with images

The you could select (a1) or (a2) to run on (b1) or (b2), where (a1) on (b1) is what we have now. (a1) or (b2) is what have been wished for, and (a2) is a completely new beast.

So, is there any interest in the (a2) solution, create a chain of filters to run on the destination?

My plan was that you can have multiple filter configs and they will be applied to each image in the order you have them.
I will rewrite it i n Swift from scratch and will try to "mimic without copying" as much of the FF config panel (and also handle the new type of controls we have). I'll keep you posted here with screen shots etc, will make this a "summer project"

OK, a little sneak peak of the GUI (the Output panel)

Sneak peak 2 - how you select which filters to add to the Filter Chain

Filter chaining now works.
Chained Old Photo and Picture Frame
Now need to fix file naming while chaining.

Aslo, been thinking about how to control what kind of output you want (new feature), to render for example, diffuse + bump + normal map for the same random settings, gonna take a look at how to implement that as well.

Thanks for your nice words Skybase!
I'm fiddling with some tricky things with frames vs. filter chaining and figured out frames will only be related to the first filter in the chain, the others will see every output from the first as a single image to process, but I'm getting there. Next thing I still haven't implemented yet is running without input image / directory but I guess that's simple as I've prepared the filter chain to handle that.

If everything goes as planned (which is seldom does) I think I could have at least a beta version in a week or so, with at least filter chaining and multiple input files. Filter chaining wont work with multiple outputs (defuse, bump, normal etc), but I will look up now to control that for nor al runs, specially texture filters, would be nice to be able to generate a bunch of files with all maps nicely named.

And a three filter chain, added Picture Frame to the chain

Hmm, maybe I should send a support request on that ^^^

Thanks GMM!

I also got a similar reply fr om support. This made it somewhat tricky, but I think I know a way to do it, but I let it hang until I got the first version done.

It will require presets for the different maps, wh ere all settings are the same, and then when running it in batch mode, I need to generate a batch control file and filter ffxml, one for each preset using the same random settings and I need to know which preset is which to set the correct name on the output.

I wish there was a simpler way of doing this..... *whistling along innocently*

Ah, that was a difference, hmm, sounds suddenly very doable
I build the filter ffxmls all by my self (editing the existing ones in RAM to save them out.
That was the info I was looking for, map_type. Thanks again GMM!

I think you will like the program to play with then it's done.