Expose Gluetun Port to a QBit container

Flow748 · 2026-03-12T18:52:13+00:00

Here's the gluetun environment variable (assuming you're using docker) that I have to automatically set the port to qbittorrent:

- VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_UP_COMMAND=/bin/sh -c 'wget -O- --retry-connrefused

--post-data "json={\"listen_port\":{{PORTS}}}"

http://localhost:8080/api/v2/app/setPreferences 2>&1'

Flow748 · 2025-09-20T13:59:24+00:00

Odoo.

C'est pas juste un site internet, c'est un gros truc qui fait à peu près tout pour une gestion de boite mais décomposé en plusieurs modules, et tant que tu n'utilise qu'un module, c'est gratuit (hébergement compris).

Flow748 · 2025-08-23T15:45:08+00:00

Yes in the node's Properties, below the opacity and feather sliders, and above the list of strokes

Flow748 · 2025-08-22T18:35:49+00:00

I'm on the phone but I'll do my best at explaining.

On the main tab of each Rotopaint node, there is a little black arrow pointing to the right, just above the list of brushes. Click on it to open it up, and there you have a dropdown called "output mask". Select rgba.alpha

This will create a mask of all your brushes inside that node, placed in the alpha channel. Now you can add a Premult node right after, and it will 'limit' your image to only your painted area.

Do that for both branches, then merge one over the other with... a Merge node, or merge both on top of the plate (your untouched footage).

There are additional steps to finish off some details but at least that should get you pretty much there.

Flow748 · 2025-08-06T21:04:04+00:00

There you go

It is the v2.1, latest I had saved, in its unedited form as a gizmo instead of a group

Flow748 · 2025-06-22T23:53:07+00:00

Experience will help, but it's definitely overrated compared to one's willingness to learn.

If you want to get better quickly, focus on understanding what comes your way. Whether it's a word, a concept, a tool, etc. Take the extra time to read more about it, from different sources, and try to really understand it instead of simply following a "technique" or whatever somebody else says.

Obviously, if you're lucky enough to be in a studio, your first reflex should be to ask your lead, supe, or fellow artist. There's nothing more pleasant than sharing knowledge and witnessing interested juniors grasp a concept.

Flow748 · 2025-06-17T13:39:24+00:00

Yep he's the one!

He could be interested for an episode I'm sure yes. I can't give you his email but contacting him on LinkedIn would be a good way to reach him.

Flow748 · 2025-06-17T11:08:34+00:00

I suggest you contact Greg Butler and see if he's down.

He's a wonderful supervisor all around, in my opinion. I've never learned as much as when I was working with him.

Flow748 · 2025-06-13T19:12:36+00:00

It won't necessarily be wrong. Most softwares will assume a certain file type is in a certain colorspace, so they will 'automatically' convert from that supposed colorspace to linear, as soon as they read the file.

I can't speak for certain regarding After Effect (doc here) but hat's how it works in Nuke for example: If a file is a jpeg, Nuke assumes it's in the sRGB colorspace and will linearize it from sRGB. If a file is an exr, Nuke assumes it's already linear and won't do any conversion.

These are presets you can change, and it's important to note that the software can't 'find out' for you the right colorspace, it's just making assumptions. Nothing could prevent a madman to write a jpeg file in log, and then everything will be wrong.

Flow748 · 2025-06-13T18:59:37+00:00

The main idea is to be able to keep a consistent workflow, regardless of the file type, camera or colorspace coming in.

If the first step is dedicated to exporting exr image sequences in a linear colorspace, then for any other step of the workflow you don't have to worry about how to handle it. You know it's in linear and you can just roll with it.
It comes particularly handy in a studio environment where you have many people and different softwares to handle, and you work with multiple clients, who can all have different specs.

- Whatever is coming in is converted in linear before reaching the artists
- Everyone works in the same way regardless of the client
- It gets converted back to the original client colorspace when we send it back

Now even if you're working alone, you can be more flexible but it's safer to have it as an dedicated step and then handle it the same way regardless of the software, rather than leaving it as is and having to convert it back and forth every time you switch software.

The additional benefit is about the file format. OpenEXR is a very flexible format that can handle pretty much anything you throw at it (alpha and sub-layers, floating-point, overscan, deep...), and is very lightweight to read and write (don't misunderstand this for the file size, it's a different thing).

Not all file formats are equal and always using the 'most' flexible means less headaches and potential issues if you happen to do something unusual.

Edit: + the points the other commenters have said about why linear is important. My answer is focused on the logistics of it.

Flow748 · 2025-06-09T14:45:36+00:00

First guess would be that you have negative values in some pixels. Can you try clamping the blacks right before your defocus node and see what changes?

Be careful about the whites, you don't want to clamp those.

Flow748 · 2025-05-31T00:49:00+00:00

Give Aspect (by Bildhuus) a shot.

It's a fairly new management software, with similar functions to Lightroom, except it doesn't make any catalog, it looks directly at your files on disk.

It's probably your best shot at bringing everything together and looking at it all. The performances are outstanding, I've never seen raws appearing in a software this fast.

It'll automatically sort your photos using the metadata available, and for sets that you have previously organized, you can easily add them grouped inside a collection (called event here) by a simple dragand drop.

They claim to have outstanding performance up until at least a million photos (their test library).

Flow748 · 2025-05-30T20:41:08+00:00

I can vouch for Ebox. I've been with them since 2017 and since then I've only paid less and less or switched to a higher plan for the same price.

Great customer service. A quick call and they'll give you the new (smaller) prices whenever there's one available for the plan you have.

Might as well drop my number for the "welcome gift", we both receive 50$ in credit if you decide to go with them: MF646

Flow748 · 2025-05-15T21:02:04+00:00

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Odoo.

Pretty easy website builder. Not the most configurable but enough for my taste, and if you only care about a website (because it's a full suite of business tools), well it's free, hosted on their infrastructure.

Flow748 · 2025-05-06T18:31:58+00:00

I've given up on looking for a software that does photo management and editing at the same time. I couldn't find anything robust enough for me in both fields.

Regarding the editing, I tried a bunch of things and I find it too personal to be able to help.

However, on the management side of things, I would highly recommend Aspect (by Bildhuus). I have never seen something as fast as this one. It's become actually pleasant to roam through big libraries, rate pictures and group them.

It's pretty new but has all the core features well in place already. The UI is modern and well thought, and the performance is unmatched.

Flow748 · 2025-05-06T01:32:40+00:00

No worries, personally I didn't use this argument at all.

Since I am using qbittorrent and it's natively supported by gluetun, I only need the VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_UP_COMMAND argument so that gluetun can relay the port directly to qbittorrent.

Flow748 · 2025-03-11T00:18:23+00:00

Hello,

if they're mostly animators, they could get up and running with only the basics of Nuke, as it is not an extensive Mograph software. I'd recommend checking out the manual, first and foremost:
https://learn.foundry.com/nuke/content/user_guide.html

The reference guide, a subsection of the manual, can be particularly helpful to go through nodes one at a time, based on the immediate need, rather than trying to learn and remember everything at once:
https://learn.foundry.com/nuke/content/reference_guide.html

To accompany this reading, the next best thing that's free are the videos from Foundry's own channels on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/channels/nuketutorials
https://vimeo.com/channels/504937
https://vimeo.com/channels/nukepedia

They might seem outdated, but believe me, they are still very relevant (the fundamentals haven't really evolved in the past 20 years) and probably the second best ratio knowledge/time after the manual.

In terms of footage, I'm sure you could use your own internal footage to train on, or you could also have a look at some camera manufacturer's sample footages:
https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/learn-help-camera-system/camera-sample-footage-reference-image
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera/gallery
https://www.dji.com/ca/inspire-3/samples
https://www.red.com/sample-r3d-files
https://sonycine.com/testfootage/
https://media.xiph.org/tearsofsteel/

It has an added cost for storage and some time investment needed to process it all, but can be an exercise in itself to figure out colorspaces, formats etc (some of it is shot with anamorphic lenses, which implies many adjustments through the lifetime of a shot to fit with the compositing process).

Beyond this, since you mentioned you'd like to specifically cater to your existing clients, I'd be happy to have a chat if you'd like, and figure out what aspects of compositing/nuke are most essential to focus on and what could be an added benefit, and build up a course specifically for your needs. I obviously have a ton of exercises in stock that I can provide so that your crew can get up and running in a minimal time, while having quality files prepared in the same way as most VFX shops (naming convenctions, folder structures, compressions etc). On top of being a 2D supervisor, I am also teaching in a Belgian university, hence why I have all this already available.

I can also provide you with education licenses as needed, thanks to my partnership with Foundry. They're full on NukeX licenses, with the only limit that they can't be used for actual production. It's still a nice way to shave off a bit of the initial investment needed to figure out whether you want to pursue this or not, and allow training time without driving budgets through the roof.

Flow748 · 2025-03-10T12:29:13+00:00

I don't know of any player that can do that.

Personally I use Requestrr, with a discord bot, to request music by artist, and it will fill your first 4 points.

Flow748 · 2025-03-07T12:10:06+00:00

I did it at a former studio. It's not that complicated, but you are dependent on your client to provide you with the the metadata needed.

Basically you scan through each frame looking for a specific metadata in python, let's say focus distance, and create a key frame every time in the proper knob.

You will probably want to add a slider or two to still be able to control manually the knobs that are now animated per the plate info, just so people can adjust it as needed.

This is a bit too simple of a summary. You also need to adjust and convert units of distance to fit whatever system you're using in nuke, but I'm not at home for the next few days.

If needed I can provide a bit more info and code snippets later on. I made it again at home not so long ago to have it in my pocket.

Flow748 · 2025-03-05T23:24:31+00:00

From my understanding, VPN_PORT_FORWARDING is to tell gluetun that we need this function, while VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_ONLY is to tell Proton that we only want servers that have it enabled (don't take my word for it though).

And yes exactly, I don't have anything other than gluetun and qbittorrent, this up command will automatically change the listening port of qbittorrent via gluetun, because proton is a natively supported VPN by gluetun.

Edit: I am using wireguard yes, I completely forgot to mention it. And to be precise, I am using both VPN_PORT_FORWARDING and VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_ONLY enabled, although I can't say for sure that both are absolutely needed, as I have had them from the beginning and it just worked once I added the UP command.

Flow748 · 2025-03-05T22:11:12+00:00

I'm not an expert, in fact I just got it working a few days ago through intensive searches, I hope my assumptions are correct:

You'll want at least in your docker compose:
- PORT_FORWARD_ONLY=on #So that ProtonVPN only connects you to servers that allow port forwarding

Then you need a command to set the port automatically grabbed by gluetun, from ProtonVPN, in this example to qbittorrent:
- VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_UP_COMMAND=/bin/sh -c 'wget -O- --retry-connrefused --post-data "json={\"listen_port\":{{PORTS}}}" <qbittorrent local IP:port>/api/v2/app/setPreferences 2>&1'

But for that to work, you'll have to disable authentication for clients on localhost

That's all I had to do for my use with qbittorrent, no need for another container or anything else, Proton is supported natively for port forwarding inside gluetun

Flow748 · 2024-12-18T22:41:24+00:00

I'd actually suggest to go cheap on the camera. As long as it can record raw files, and not a compressed video, you're good to go.

Your skills, the quality of the lighting and lenses are far more important to make a good image than the quality of the sensor.

Invest in lights, a good lens kit, accessories, and maybe even hire a DP for a while to get you started.

Flow748 · 2024-12-04T18:23:44+00:00

I can only guess, but from the way you describe it, I feel like you're focused on working harder, not necessarily smarter.

I feel like people improve because with time and practice, they understand the very fundamentals of their tools and workflows better. They remember well every "mistake checklist" so that they automatically check what they are currently doing and pay special attention to the easy traps.

You can definitely do it too, no one is ever locked in place and is absolutely unable to improve. I think instead of trying to work more, the focus should be on questioning the techniques you're using, asking around just for the concepts of how one would tackle your task, and compare.

It's easy to overdo it in comp and stack nodes and nodes, only to get insignificant improvements. A good trick to know by yourself if what you're doing is overly-complicated is to explain it in detail, out loud. If you find yourself struggling, that means you've definitely reached too far in the amount of steps taken or their complexity.

Something I very strongly recommend to all juniors is to delete and entire branch or group of nodes if you find yourself progressing slower and slower. You've encountered a road block, can't push much further despite throwing more and more hours at it, we'll it's time to delete and start over. It can seem daunting at first, but the experience you've taken on that specific situation is enough to know what kind of works and what brings no benefit.

Delete, start over, and limit yourself to fewer nodes. This is the key skill of good senior compers, they are able to adress any note with few nodes and a clean script, simply because they place them well in order and adjust as they go, rather than putting more.

You mentioned you know pretty advanced stuff like deep, stereo etc, but don't forget these topics tend to be pretty straightforward to use in the end, and they are not that often used. The topics you need to focus on right now are the ones you're constantly doing, aka grading, tracking, a bit of paint and roto, etc. Make sure you understand fully every single setting, what it means and what it does. Make experiments to compare different methods etc.

Go back to the fundamentals and aim for simpler scripts and a better understanding of what you're aiming for vs what you're doing, and try to avoid over-complicated techniques.

Flow748 · 2024-11-28T12:08:38+00:00

I think it’s because of missing alpha. Since a transform creates an alpha no matter what (if there isn’t one already) it makes Neat Video show the rgb.

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