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This is an excellent tool.
Well thought-out, and very easy to implement into a GUI.
For example, I was able to quickly implement ep_playTime.mel inside of zbw_playblast.mel's GUI.
Our studio uses an OSX workflow, but we needed to dual-boot into Windows 7 for some of Maya's newest plugins, and just for greater stability and productivity in general. I got used to being able to Playblast into Quicktime in OSX and then moving smoothly into Final Cut Pro to audition the pre-vis. In Windows Playblast is almost useless for a QT workflow... until I found your script.
Thank you so much for saving my sanity.
One improvement that could be made:
Ideally the TCL script would clean up and delete the temporary PNG files created in the process.
