So, what is HIERO?
Hiero is a desktop application for collaborative VFX workflow – a scriptable timeline tool that conforms edit decision lists and parcels out VFX shots to artists, allow progress to be viewed in context, and liberates your finishing systems and artists for more creative tasks.
Hiero has been built to work with Nuke, and can also be custom-scripted to work with other applications in your facility.
HIERO Features
 HIERO conforms XML and EDLs into a multi-resolution, multi-track timeline, including audio. Its tools help take the pain out of the conform process, alongside standard editing features.
Make life easy with the sophisticated, session-wide spreadsheet view which can be called upon at anytime, a side-by-side comparison of your timeline against an offline and extensive metadata to inspect at any point in the conform process.
 HIERO shares image reading functionality with NUKE so both applications can read the same formats in the same way. HIERO has no dedicated frame store, it ‘soft-imports’ all your media. Smoothness of playback is hardware dependent, but given fast enough hardware (which you choose), HIERO will playback your footage including synchronised sound.
 Each clip in HIERO is not a single clip of real media, but rather it can be one of many different clips of real media on disk. We call each of these alternatives “takes”. When you place a clip on the timeline, you can quickly and interactively swap between available takes.
HIERO can scan for new iterations of VFX renders and ingest them as different takes on a single clip. This lets you rapidly swap versions in a timeline for review.
 When VFX is complete and your work is ready for the next stage, you can deliver it in multiple ways. If you need to send work to an in-house finishing system, you could bake out EDLs or XMLs which point to the finished shots on your network. The painful conform has already been done in HIERO, leading to a very simple re-conform in your finishing system.
If you need to send the shots to be finished elsewhere, HIERO can bake out EDLs or XMLs plus media selects (with handles) from the timeline. Alternatively, you could simply bake out the entire timeline as a single clip in your required delivery format.
 By providing a comprehensive set of Phyton APIs that link deep into HIERO, you can make it work in the way that best suits you. We provide a rich set of hooks for each stage so you can execute your own Phyton code at any point in the conform, ingest or export processes.
If that isn’t enough, you can even create your own user interface via the PySide library. The included Phyton APIs also give you direct access to the projects, timelines and clips in HIERO so you can manipulate shots and timelines however you need.
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