RV Cookbook - How to get things done with RV in Python

[patrickwolf]

Very useful snippets

@alexaz

Most of the Python commands are actually bindings on top of Mu commands. Mu is a native RV scripting language.

You can find most of the API documentation by launching RV then going Help → Mu Command API Browser.

The most useful modules are rv.commands and rv.extra_commands. These are the bulk of operations that you can perform in RV.

Quick initial example

@alexaz

initial import

from rv import commands
from rv import extra_commands

Get all of the sources that are available at a specific frame

sources = commands.sourcesAtFrame(frame)

Get metadata info

print commands.sourceMediaInfo(sources[0])
print commands.sourceAttributes(“RVFileSource”)

Get file names

fileNames = commands.getStringProperty(“%s.media.movie” % sources[0], 0, 1000)
fileName = fileNames[0]

Get annotated frames

frames = extra_commands.findAnnotatedFrames()

Set Stack view to be default

commands.setViewNode(‘defaultStack’)