When off-the-shelf tools reach their limits, we just make our own. And some of those home grown MuseTools are so useful, that we're excited to share them with the world.
Automation is key.
We hate tedious tasks. So we have automated large parts of our pipeline. Although we can't share everything, we think you will find some of our snippets useful.
DeSharpen reduces the ringing created by in-camera sharpening. Although sharpening cannot be completely eliminated without blurring the image, it can be mitigated to some degree.
Takes a composite image and an alpha channel as input. Blurs the image within the edge of the alpha. Controls for blur amount, edge size, and edge blending.
The Redshift Camera Extractor reads the metadata of a Redshift render and converts the camera transform matrix into Euler angles that can be used in a Camera3D. The package also includes a Camera3D default file that is pre-configured with the correct expressions stored in the S6 preset. Place RsCameraExtactor.fuse in your Fuses folder and Camera3D_Camera 3D.setting in your defaults folder. To use it, plug the output of RsCameraExtractor into the ImageInput of a Camera3D.
The Timecode Converter contains several useful Python functions to deal with timecode math. It can convert frames to timecode, and vice versa, calculate offsets, locate frames in a quicktime movie, etc.