{"id":805,"date":"2021-03-23T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2021-04-28T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:44:50","slug":"write-take-info-to-text-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vicdebaie.com\/blog\/write-take-info-to-text-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Take info To Text File"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In one of my previous posts a user left a comment asking “How can I print Take information out to a .txt file”. I figured that was as good as any topic to cover so here it is. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The script below will look at the open Motionbuilder scene’s name and file path – using that information it will create a new ‘.txt’ file and write some information.<\/p>\n\n\n

\nfrom pyfbsdk import *\n\ndef WriteTakeInfo():\n    ##Find The Scene's File Name And Use It To Create A .txt File\n    mytextFile=FBApplication().FBXFileName[:-4]+"-TakeInfo.txt"\n    \n    ##Create And Open The New .txt File So That It May Be Wrote To\n    textFile=open(mytextFile,"w")\n   \n    ##Create A List \n    sceneTakes=[]\n    ##Go Through All Takes Within The Open Scene\n    for myTake in FBSystem().Scene.Takes:\n        ##For Each Take Create A Dictionary\n        ##Store Take Name, Frame Count, Length, Start Time and Stop Time\n        takeInfo={\n        "Name":myTake.Name,\n        "Frames":myTake.LocalTimeSpan.GetDuration().GetFrame(),\n        "Seconds":myTake.LocalTimeSpan.GetDuration().GetSecondDouble(),\n        "StartFrame":myTake.LocalTimeSpan.GetStart().GetFrame(),\n        "EndFrame":myTake.LocalTimeSpan.GetStop().GetFrame()\n        }\n        ##Store The Dictionary Into Our List\n        sceneTakes.extend([takeInfo])\n        \n    ##Go Through Each Dictionary In Our List And Write The Info To Our .txt File    \n    for dict in sceneTakes:\n        textFile.write("Take Name:" % dict["Name"])\n        textFile.write('\\n')\n        textFile.write("Number of Frames:" % dict["Frames"])\n        textFile.write('\\n')\n        textFile.write("Length of Time in Seconds:" % dict["Seconds"])\n        textFile.write('\\n')\n        textFile.write("Start Frame:" % dict["StartFrame"])\n        textFile.write('\\n')\n        textFile.write("End Frame:" % dict["EndFrame"])\n        textFile.write('\\n')\n        textFile.write("-----------------------------------------------------------------")\n        textFile.write('\\n')\n    \n    ##Close The .txt File\n    textFile.close()\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
I am sure my string formating could be alot better, but this gets the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope this helps.<\/p>\n
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