Anyone know a way to either send timecode out of or into Maya?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Long time listener first time caller here.

I produce a small 3D series that requires a lot of voice over work. Maya's audio tool set is rather anemic for what we do. Is it possible to somehow send timecode out of Maya to a another application like Nuendo or ProTools locally? It would just make our lives a lot easier to fully manage our audio in another application and have that linked to the playhead in Maya or vice versa.

Thanks in advance.

[negow]

Send? Do you mean for the two applications - Maya and e.g. ProTools - to communicate in real-time, like e.g. Ableton Link? My experience is limited, but with Maya you've got the Python and C++ APIs to do what you need, the only uncertainty is whether ProTools/Nuendo have somewhere Maya can send information, like a standard port. And vice versa, if they send something via a port you can control. If so, it should be rather trivial to setup. Trivial to a programmer, which I assume is what you're looking for given that post is under the programming group. 🙂