2 posts tagged with "shotgrid"

This blog post outlines a way to revamp ShotGrid statuses for production with a webhooks server and careful planning.

Statuses 2.0​

In order to redesign your status workflow in ShotGrid, the first thing to understand is that any entity in ShotGrid can have a status. Shots, Versions, Tasks, in ShotGrid these are considered "entities" meaning they can hold a number of attributes or "fields", one of which is a status.

When working in live action VFX, statuses are typically used for your Shots. You can get more granular if you've incorporated a task workflow, i.e for what specifically needs to be done on a shot, and more granular further, for versions, which can be iterations of work done for a task on that shot.

In order of usage frequency:

1. Arc 🎨 - A creative new take on the web browser
2. Thunderbird 🐦 - Lightweight, configurable email client - free and open-source from Mozilla
3. BitWarden 🔐 - Modern, cross-platform and open-source password/secrets manager
4. Bear 🐻 - Note taking and documentation writing markdown App
5. Zed 🔳 - Open source high performance GPU accelerated collaborative code editor
6. Suite 🚀 - Mounted cloud storage at lightning speeds
7. Parallels ‼️ - Local VMs and cross platform integrations on your mac
8. Signal 🛜 - WhatsApp substitute - letting me get away from meta in 2025
9. MASV 🛸 - Lightweight, well designed file share platform for sending massive files (slack integration ++)
10. Spacedrive 🪐 - A promising cross-platform file manager that packs a huge punch

Honorable mentions:

• Compressor 🗜️ - Apple’s Media Encoder - allowed me to leave adobe in 2024
• Pixelmator Pro 🖌️ - Photoshop/Illustrator replacement - also let me leave adobe in 2024
• ChatGPT 🤖 - LLM AI who’s lovely to talk to - but the app needs much more love
• DaVinci Resolve 🖲️ - Not new to most people - but this also allowed me to leave adobe in 2024 - deserves a mention just for that
• DaisyDisk 🌼 - Awesome graphical disk space utility for Mac (late to the game on sunburst diagrams)