Shot Manager is designed to speed up render management and shot design by saving frame ranges, render cameras, view layers and output paths. Also perfect for splitting up a single time line animation for game animation and multi-cam rendering set-ups. Great for pre-production and independent creators.

"I have been a long-time user of Shot Manager. I even used it for a commercial project. I handled 52 cuts of full CG animation on my own, and it wouldn't have been possible without Shot Manager." - Tomoyuki Miyake

Suitable work flows:

• 'Primary' View layers. Automatically switch active view layers to shot specified layer. -Visualisation, Animatics, Iterative Concept Design
  
• Preview Layer, for working with a shared preview view layer. -Film, Animatics
• Overlapping shots for use and complex render layers or multi-cam. -Film, Other
• Non-overlapping animations. -Games
• Shots as passes. Create complex render passes using overlapping shots, each with different render layers, passes and overrides.-Film,Visualisation
  

Shot Manager doesn't rely on camera markers. This means shots can be overlapping.

Please Note: Shots do not work like scenes, Therefore adjusting shot timing will not affect animation timing.

SM 2.0 Pro Out Now

*for Blender 4.0-4.1

Interactive Overlay - Re-time, trim , slice and join Shots with the Overlay Tool in the 3D window.

Rule Book - Assign custom Rules to your Shots or construct Macros using RNA Rules

MORE THAN JUST SHOTS...

Advanced Batch Rendering- SM Batch Render, Playblast, B-Renderon, Flamenco and Deadline. Plus batch export : OpenGL(playblast), USD, FBX, OBJ, ABC, DAE, BLEND, BAT.

Auto Output Generation - Construct file paths, group and filter Passes into ouputs or EXR layers.

Burn-In Editor - Stay on top of a multi-software pipeline with custom burn-ins. Link text to any scene data.

Shot Manager is continuously being maintained.

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Going Pro

Projects using the Lite version can be upgraded to Pro, simply by removing the Lite addon and installing the Pro version.

Integrations:

• Deadline integration v10+
• B-Renderon integration v3+
  
• Flamenco 3.5+
  
  

Shot Manager Nodes:

• Shot Output, For file output generation and file paths. Sync Outputs, auto-update the file paths on output nodes.
• Path Constructor, create your own node-based directories and file names.
• Multi-Switch, node group, re-directs the compositor node-flow depending on the active shot.
• Primary-Switch, a render layer input that uses the shot's Primary layer.

Generator Nodes:

Automatically generate file outputs, defining groups by render layer and pass. Combine into multi-layer EXRs or into separate files.

• Output Generator, for defining view layers and/or individual passes.
• Group Insert, Add node groups in-between generated nodes to apply compositor adjustments.
  
• Image Format, Define the desired file format for any output chain.
• Cryptomatte Insert, Extract Cryptomatte data from passes.

Overview Nodes:

• Collections Inspector (an alternative interface for collections making it easier to keep track of holdout, indirect and render states)
• Output Viewer(displays output files and provides the option to reveal output paths in your explorer or view in the image editor)

Plus:

• Shot Sequence Editor 3D overlay
  
• Sequence playback and scrubbing modes
• Custom Presets
• Burn-Ins Editor, Requires Pillow python installation, currently only supports batch render output options.
  
• Timeline Marker Sets
  
• Batch Export files, Embed shot timings into FBX, USD, OBJ, ABC, DAE, BLEND, BAT.
• Backup with JSON
  

Back story

Originally developed for a specific project and now a passion project in itself, Shot Manager has been further developed to cover a range of render tasks for ease of mind and improve render management on complex projects. I have been heavily influenced by the suggestions of customers and develop it weekly.

- Pablo TA

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Discount Policy

You may negotiate a price only if you are facing financial hardship.

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