After a long journey as an in-house review tool at Superprod Studio, Stax takes off and flies into the world of Open Source!
Wonderful! But what's Stax?
It's a review toolset based on Blender's VSE.
After testing a lot of review tools, without finding one that perfectly fits our needs, we decided to create our own review toolset: Stax.
Main features
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Review session
- Blender's VSE (editing module) allows the users to review a whole timeline. No more reviewing one media at a time.
- Every media is viewed in its own editing context, with its previous versions, and the previous and next steps.
- And you can, as simple as clicking on a play button, watch your whole editing with all your notes and your colleagues' ones.
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Inter-media comparison, to compare two versions for example.
- Transparency
- Blending mode (Multiply, Difference...)
- Wipe
- Side-by-Side
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Notes creation/edition
- Thanks to Blender's Grease Pencil, you can easily add visual notes, modify them, duplicate them...
- Stax also bundles a textual notes module to write complex descriptions.
- And of course the notes may have a frame range.
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Notes publishing
- If you work with a Production Tracker (like Kitsu, Shotgun...), you can link Stax to it, to publish your reviews and make them available to all your teams.
And many more features!
Open sourcing Stax
First of all because we have a taste for sharing. Also because Stax has raised great interest from several studios, and if it can satisfy all review's needs, a pooling is mandatory for its growth.
We are not alone
Stax is mainly supported by Superprod Studio. Ubisoft, The Yard and Malil'Art already contribute to its development.
What about Stax's future?
- New features regarding new needs
- Improved flexibility to ease its integration in different workflows
- Some features may be split into independent modules so they may be used out of the common review scope
Would you get on board?
- Join our Discord Channel
- Explore the Documentation
- Read the Contributing Doc
- Rummage our GitLab
Currently Stax is provided as an Application Template.
A video for thousand words
To picture Stax's current state and the needs it fits, you can watch our presentation at RADI 2021, in french.
Why does Stax is called like that?
Because of the media stacking feature, which is one of the main ones, and as an hommage to the music label Stax Records.
Tell me more!
- Stax uses OpenTimelineIO to load the timelines
- We created OpenReviewIO, to ease review information exchange between softwares
- All of it is in Python 3