RV browse media in file system

[alexaz]

Hey Viktor,

Sadly we don’t have an option out of the box to open files in finder, though it’s a great idea. I’ll put in a feature request to make this easier in the future.

Screening Room in RV is a rendered web page, so even though you wouldn’t be able to modify the Screening Room itself, you can add a custom plugin to RV. You can either modify the PlugIns/Mu/shotgun_review_app.mu to add a menu item to Shotgun menu in RV or you can add a separate menu. Both of these can be accomplished via an RV package

How do I write my first package in RV?

RV can be nearly infinitely customizable but it can be difficult finding documentation for where to begin developing your own plugins. There are a couple of things that you should know. RV offers a couple of ways to write plugins: Mu, Python, PySide and GLSL. The best way to start with RV scripting is to use Python. Unfortunately, Python is not native to RV and most of “Python” commands that you will find in RV are bindings on top of Mu. However, this means that you can use nearly all command…

The easiest way to get media’s path that RV sees is to grab it from the Source node itself:

from rv import commands
frame = commands.frameStart()
sources = commands.sourcesAtFrame(frame)
print rvc.sourceMediaInfo(sources[0])
print rvc.sourceAttributes("RVFileSource")
fileNames    = commands.getStringProperty("%s.media.movie" % sources[0], 0, 1000)

Thanks,
Alexa