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Overhauling ShotGrid Statuses With Webhooks

· 4 min read

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

Statuses 2.0

"Versions affecting Tasks affecting Shots."

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.

Top 10 Tools New to Me in 2024

· One min read

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)