At the top you can add the files you want to publish. (drag and drop enabled).

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• Add will allow you to browse for a file

• Remove will remove the selected file from the list

• Clear will remove all files from the list

To the right you can select a task name, on which these files need to be published. There are a lot of different tasks available.

The possible actions will change according to the task you select.

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There are quite a lot of different actions that have several input settings. These are explained here.

Depending on the selected task, the option Thumbnail on task might become available. This will make your uploaded file the thumbnail of the task on ftrack.

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Below the action display, there is the conversion display. Here you can choose how the publisher should handle the given files / filenames, so it can translate in what hierarchy/ftrack structure the files belong.

There are several different types, which are explained here.

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At the top right there is a Task Status and Version Status display, which will alter the status of the published asset tasks and versions.

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At the very bottom you can find how to publish it, and a Publish button to start the execution. Local means everything is done with your computer, Deadline will send it to the farm.

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Depending on which task is selected, the available actions will variate.

Uploads an image sequence as Image Sequence asset type.

Uploads a mov or mp4 as Movie asset type.

Uploads a single image as Image asset type.

Uploads an audio file as Audio asset type.

Copies the original file to a location in the pipeline folder structure and uploads that file as Audio asset type.

Send a MayaScene to the farm to render a certain render layer with a given camera.

Send a MayaScene to the farm to render and try publish it afterwards.

Send a MayaScene to the farm to render a turntable (of an asset).

Send a MayaScene to the farm to render a turntable and try publish it afterwards.

Send a MayaScene to the farm to publish it.
(This requires reviews (review images) to be present in the correct review folder structure.)

Send a MayaScene to the farm to run a script.

Send a NukeScript to the farm to render given write nodes.

Send a NukeScript to the farm to render given write nodes and try to publish afterwards.

Send a NukeScript to the farm to publish it.
(This requires reviews (review images) and renders (exr, dpx, ..) to be present in the correct review folder structure.)

Send a MayaScene to the farm to run a script.

There are various ways of analyzing a file / filename, resulting in the correct publish.

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This conversion will use a pipeline defined template named elements_asset_filename to analyze a filename and construct a hierarchy accordingly.

This represents the filename structure: {FileContext}_{Task}_{Version}[.{FileSequence}].{FileType}.
([..] means optional)

• FileContext represents the hierarchy structure (joined by _), starting from 601_library and 602_shots.

• Task will contain an abbreviation (3 letters) to define the department. (mdl, rig, tex, ..)

• Version needs to be vXXX.

• FileSequence is optional (and usually contains 4 digits).

• FileType is the extension of the file.

This conversion will use File Separator to split up the filename and construct a hierarchy by index (-1 meaning second last item of the split).

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This example uses hoatXX_XXXX_XXXXX_v005.mov

So this will work on the following structure on ftrack:

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If you want to publish a file with additional suffixes behind the version (for example, multiple views of the same Design, Video, …), setup you conversion like this:

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