Overview

Open RV is an image and sequence viewer for VFX and animation artists. Open RV is high-performant, hardware accelerated, and pipeline-friendly.

OpenRV as video player

you can load and play any reviewable item directly from Tray Loader or any DCC.

OpenRV as a standalone app

AYON Tools

Once everything is set up, when launching OpenRV via AYON launcher, you’ll be able to find and use AYON tools.​

• AYON Global Tools

  • Workfiles

  • Creator / Publisher

  • Loader

  • Scene Inventory

Launching OpenRV

When you launch OpenRV you will be met with the Workfiles app. If you don't have any previous workfiles, you should create initial one or just close this window. Created workfile with proper naming is necessary for publishing though.

You should find Ayon menu next to Window. All Ayon target publish operations are triggered from there.

Load​

You can load any image, image sequences or movies (.mov, .mp4) via Load option in Ayon menu which opens Loader dialog.

(You could confirm or re-arrange order of loaded elements in Tools > Session Manager).

Manage​

Manage option opens Scene Inventory tool which shows a list of loaded elements and allows to update them to latest version if necessary.

Publish​

Whenever you are ready to publish final product of a review, press Publish button. This will open Creator / Publisher dialog.

An instance of workfile product type will be created automatically for you. This a primary product type that gets versioned and tracked in Ayon. It produces versioned .rv workfile.

Hit Publish button in bottom right corner whenever ready. If there are no validation issues, workfile instance should be published and current working workfile versioned up.