Tool to help artists import videos as image sequence in Maya without going through a video editing package. Supports multiple file formats, length trimming and specifying a target frame rate.
- Video to image sequence conversion, for improved Reference Plane performance.
- Automatic frame rate conversion (Forget about using Premiere Pro to change the frame rate of your reference!).
- Automatic creation of a Reference Plane in Maya.
- Multiplatform support (Windows, Mac and Linux).
- Ffmpeg as the backend engine for video conversion.
- Qt.py abstraction for multiple Maya versions support (2022+).
- Find the latest version under the Releases section.
- Download the right distribution for your platform.
- Distributions use the following naming pattern:
reference_importer_<version>_<platform>.zip
- Distributions use the following naming pattern:
- Extract the zip file as a folder named
reference_importerin your$MAYA_APP_DIR/<MAYA_VERSION>/scriptsfolder.- ie:
/home/jaime/Maya/2024/scripts/reference_importer - What is my MAYA_APP_DIR?
- ie:
To launch Reference Importer, run the following Python script:
import reference_importer
reference_importer.run()
- Select a video file in the UI.
- Set the desired start and end timecode.
- End timecode will be populated by default to the end of the video.
Use HH:MM:SS.ms as the timecode format.
- Set output image sequence name.
- Set the output format.
- Select the output directory for the sequence.
- Set the desired target frame rate.
- (Optional) Enable creation of an Image Plane in Maya for the sequence.
- Import the video!
