What Production Tracker do you use?

[Marc-Andre Carbonneau]

Hi,

We’re starting to evaluate production trackers and are wondering what is being used in 3D studios.

Why did your studio pick that one over the others?

 

We heard of Shotgun, it looks quite amazing but what else is out there that rivals it? Don’t tell me Excel. ;)

Thanks

MAC

 

 

[Adam Sale]

we're starting up with Shotgun in the new year. Our VFX department heads have been using it at their old studios and they swear by it for tracking the minutiae of every aspect of production. I don't know much about it myself, but am excited to get going and lock our processes down.

[Matt Lind]

What exactly are you looking for?  Just tracking status of shots (asset tracking) or are you needing to synchronize with the file system (asset management)?

 

Matt

[Patrick Boucher]

We're heavily invested in Shotgun and I can't recommend it enough. You
do need some sane smart administrators to keep things in check
otherwise its extreme flexibility can quickly become a problem if too
many people are let loose customizing it.

We use it for production tracking, dailies (integrated to RV),
deliveries automation (custom), artists time tracking (down to the
paycheck and accounting department) and are starting to build in some
asset tracking.

Shotgun Software has a GitHub where they store open source projects
that gravitate around Shotgun which includes what they call an event
handler which is a god send for automation.

Shure as heck beats Excel and FileMaker hands down! ;)

Patrick

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com> wrote:
> What exactly are you looking for?� Just tracking status of shots (asset

> tracking) or are you needing to synchronize with the file system (asset
> management)?
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> Matt
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> From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com
> [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Marc-Andre
> Carbonneau
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:00 PM
> To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
> Subject: What Production Tracker do you use?
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>
>
> Hi,
>

> We�re starting to evaluate production trackers and are wondering what is

> being used in 3D studios.
>
> Why did your studio pick that one over the others?
>
>
>
> We heard of Shotgun, it looks quite amazing but what else is out there that

> rivals it? Don�t tell me Excel. ;)
>
> Thanks
>
> MAC
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>

[Patrick Boucher]

For transparency's sake maybe I should mention that I wrote the
initial implementation of the shotgunEventHandler while at Rodeo and
Oblique (subsequently give to Shotgun Software to open source). If
that makes my opinion of Shotgun matter a bit less, so be it, your
loss. ;)

Patrick

[Helge Mathee]

We used Shotgun at Sixbirds, and automated alot of the automatic processes
around it with the provided Python API. We connected our asset management
system to it, implemented the first version of RVGun (a shotgun
integration for
RV)...

Shotgun is great. I second Patrick's opinion though, you will need well
organized
adminitrators for it.

-H

On 12/23/2011 05:57, Patrick Boucher wrote:
> For transparency's sake maybe I should mention that I wrote the
> initial implementation of the shotgunEventHandler while at Rodeo and
> Oblique (subsequently give to Shotgun Software to open source). If
> that makes my opinion of Shotgun matter a bit less, so be it, your
> loss. ;)
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Patrick Boucher
> <pbou...@patrickboucher.com> wrote:
>> We're heavily invested in Shotgun and I can't recommend it enough. You
>> do need some sane smart administrators to keep things in check
>> otherwise its extreme flexibility can quickly become a problem if too
>> many people are let loose customizing it.
>>
>> We use it for production tracking, dailies (integrated to RV),
>> deliveries automation (custom), artists time tracking (down to the
>> paycheck and accounting department) and are starting to build in some
>> asset tracking.
>>
>> Shotgun Software has a GitHub where they store open source projects
>> that gravitate around Shotgun which includes what they call an event
>> handler which is a god send for automation.
>>
>> Shure as heck beats Excel and FileMaker hands down! ;)
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Matt Lind<ml...@carbinestudios.com> wrote:

>>> What exactly are you looking for? Just tracking status of shots (asset

[Serguei Kalentchouk]

We've been using Shotgun here a while too, tightly integrated with out
asset management.
It does the job well!

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Helge Mathee <helge....@gmx.net> wrote:
> We used Shotgun at Sixbirds, and automated alot of the automatic processes
> around it with the provided Python API. We connected our asset management
> system to it, implemented the first version of RVGun (a shotgun integration
> for
> RV)...
>
> Shotgun is great. I second Patrick's opinion though, you will need well
> organized
> adminitrators for it.
>
> -H
>
>
> On 12/23/2011 05:57, Patrick Boucher wrote:
>>
>> For transparency's sake maybe I should mention that I wrote the
>> initial implementation of the shotgunEventHandler while at Rodeo and
>> Oblique (subsequently give to Shotgun Software to open source). If
>> that makes my opinion of Shotgun matter a bit less, so be it, your
>> loss. ;)
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Patrick Boucher

>> <pbou...@patrickboucher.com> �wrote:

>>>
>>> We're heavily invested in Shotgun and I can't recommend it enough. You
>>> do need some sane smart administrators to keep things in check
>>> otherwise its extreme flexibility can quickly become a problem if too
>>> many people are let loose customizing it.
>>>
>>> We use it for production tracking, dailies (integrated to RV),
>>> deliveries automation (custom), artists time tracking (down to the
>>> paycheck and accounting department) and are starting to build in some
>>> asset tracking.
>>>
>>> Shotgun Software has a GitHub where they store open source projects
>>> that gravitate around Shotgun which includes what they call an event
>>> handler which is a god send for automation.
>>>
>>> Shure as heck beats Excel and FileMaker hands down! ;)
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Matt Lind<ml...@carbinestudios.com>

>>> �wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What exactly are you looking for? �Just tracking status of shots (asset

>>>> tracking) or are you needing to synchronize with the file system (asset
>>>> management)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matt
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>>>> From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com
>>>> [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Marc-Andre
>>>> Carbonneau
>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:00 PM
>>>> To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com
>>>> Subject: What Production Tracker do you use?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We�re starting to evaluate production trackers and are wondering what is
>>>> being used in 3D studios.
>>>>
>>>> Why did your studio pick that one over the others?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We heard of Shotgun, it looks quite amazing but what else is out there
>>>> that
>>>> rivals it? Don�t tell me Excel. ;)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> MAC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>

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