How to use a framecurve file in your application

Framecurve is supported in many applications through scripts and workflows that we provide. We took care to implement sane tools for as many packages as we could. We hope that throughout the development of the standard vendors will also adopt Framecurve as a standard and will provide out-of-the-box solutions for theur products.

Current feature matrix

Application Export from the application Import into the application
Final Cut Pro 7.+ (not FCPX) Yes, via XML and the framecurve ruby gem -
Autodesk Flame, Smoke, Backdraft and Flare Yes, via the flame_channel_parser ruby gem Yes, via the flame_channel_parser ruby gem
The Foundry Nuke Yes, via the built-in "export value + ASCII" function Yes, via the framecurve python script
Sidefx Houdini - Yes, via the provided Houdini OTL
Autodesk Maya - Yes, via the provided MEL script
Adobe AfterEffects Yes, via the provided .jsx scripts Yes, via the provided .jsx scripts

We hope to be able to expand the number of supporting applications in the future. If you implement framecurve support for a specific application, please contact us so that we can include it into the offered packages here.

API and libraries

For the benefit of R&D professionals who would like to implement Framecurve in their workflows, we provide the following libraries:

LanguageFunctionsWhere to get it
Ruby Parsing, validation, serialization, XML file extraction framecurve gem on Github, or gem install framecurve
Python Parsing, validation, serialization framecurve_python on Github

Licensing of the Framecurve format and software

All of the scripts, specifications, images and text related to the framecurve implementation (all further named Software are subject to the MIT license.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Julik Tarkhanov, Sebastian van Hesteren, Koen Hofmeester, Ben Dickson et al.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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