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The differnt task styles are:

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NoOp

no operation, do nothing
This can be useful if you already created all your proxy files, but you still want to register the file paths in the database.

Copy File

Copies from the source path to the output path

Filmstrip

Creates a filmstrip with a certain amount of frames for a sequence. This task will only run for movie files and a sequence of images

frames: define how many frames the filmstrip contains (default: 24)
height: height in pixels (default: 270)

The width of the filmstrip is calculated based on the given parameters. Every frame has a fixed pixel aspect ratio of 16:9

Thumbnail

Create a thumbnail

width: width in pixels (default: 480)
height: height in pixels (default: 270)

To define which frames is takes as the thumbnail frame: Settings → Global → Thumbnail Frame of Sequence

FFmpeg

use FFmpeg to transcode the source file(s)
There are several predefined FFmpeg presets

More comprehensive documentation will follow.

Custom Command

Run your custom command

For example:

exec C:/python.exe
params C:/my_script.py <source.path>

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