Introduction

The ftrack pipeline Framework allows you to publish, load and manage assets from a consistent set of api and interface to streamline the production process.

This section describes the new Framework, how it is structured and its different components.

Important

We recommend you read through this part before attempting to do any further customisations.

Contents:

• Overview
  • Prerequisites
  • Key design elements and tradeoffs
  • Architecture
• Connect
  • Application launcher
  • Connect Package
• Framework
  • Core Pipeline layer
  • Definition layer
  • UI layer
  • DCC integration layer
• How it works
  • DCC launch
  • Asset loading
  • Asset management
  • Asset publish

History

With the first version of Connect, the need to load and publish assets within DCC applications were addressed but it was not easy to further customise within an existing studio environment.

We realised our customers were not using the Connect integrations, more having them as a base for inspiration when writing their own integration plugins.

Initial development commenced at ftrack 2018, with the first public release by the summer of 2022.