The software is rendering a meaningful thumbnail when using the transcoding task thumbnail in a local render task. To render the local thumbnail task on a meaningful thumbnail outside of the software e.g. on the render farm, you can use the CLI version of the software.
The flag render-element-proxies allows to render a transcoding mapping for an element.
You need to provide:
element uuidtemplate mapping name
Command line to trigger the proxy rendering via the CLI tool:
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The example Python script (create_thumbnail.py) from the GitHub page does not include this feature to detect a meaningful thumbnail frame. A lot of “magic“ is happending behind the scenes which would make the example script too to complex and to harder to maintain. |
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The main farm transcoding taskwill be send the main transcoding job to the farm. The proxy tasks (proxy, thumbnail, filmstrip) have noop (no operation) as the transcoding tasks. This is needed in order to save the correct file paths to the database for the proxies.
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