I want to do a composite but only when images are ready...

[winniethetwo]

Hello there,

the problem is:

1) I render some images with another software and I don't know when this render ends
2) after that I would like to composite those images with imagemagik

is there any way to "tell" imagemagik to wait for the images to be done and then make the composite?

thanks!

Nicola

[anthony]

No.

However you could write a shell script to watch an image and when it it nolonger updating for a some period of time, start IM on the image.

The Linux system also have software an tools which coule posibly be used to watch a programs IO connection to some file and notify you when the program closes the write stream.

In other words non-IM and specifically other system tools will be needed to determine when the renderer is finished, if there is no way the renderer itself can report this (like creating a 'finished' file).