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🎬 Pixel Attic

VFX Asset Manager

Organize, browse, and manage your visual effects assets — fast, visual, offline.

Features · Install · Requirements · Formats · Build · support

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🧐 What is Pixel Attic?

Pixel Attic is a desktop application for organizing, browsing, and managing VFX assets. Built for artists, studios, and post-production teams, it provides a fast, visual way to catalog videos, image sequences, EXR files, textures, and other media commonly used in VFX pipelines.

like dasElement but free and just starting

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✨ Features

📁 Asset Management Import files & folders with auto-metadata extraction Categories — built-in VFX + custom user-defined Colored tag pills with batch tagging ★ Star / Favorite system with dedicated filter 5-star rating system with sort support Collections — manual grouping, import/export .pixcol Asset linking — connect related versions Duplicate detection via content hashing Per-asset text notes with auto-save	🔍 Search & Filtering Pill-based search bar with colored tokens Advanced operators: tag: fmt: cat: size:> dur:< res: codec: depth: date: Exclude operators: -tag: -fmt: Saved searches — recall complex filters Sort by name, date, size, type, or rating
🖼️ Visual Browsing Grid view — cards with thumbnails & hover scrub List view — spreadsheet-style sortable table Virtual scrolling — smooth with large libraries Card sizes: S / M / L / XL with adaptive pills Auto thumbnail generation (PIL + ffmpeg) Custom poster frame for videos	🎬 Video Playback Embedded VLC player — plays any format Transport: play, pause, frame step, seek, loop, mute In-app fullscreen (reparent, no re-embed) Frame info HUD overlay Timecode / frame counter display Material Icons on all controls
🎨 Customization 8+ dark themes (Industrial, Midnight, Nordic, Monokai…) 16 accent colors applied across all UI elements Material Icons throughout Custom fonts and sizes Configurable external viewers (DJV, RV, etc.)

💾 Storage

Feature	SQLite (default)	JSON
Crash-safe (WAL mode)	✅	—
Human-readable	—	✅
Indexed queries	✅	—
Auto-backup	✅	✅
One-click migration	↔️	↔️

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🚀 Install

# Required
pip install PySide2 Pillow python-vlc

# Run
python main.py

Note: VLC and ffmpeg must be installed on your system for video playback and proxy generation.

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📋 Requirements

Minimum

	Requirement
OS	Windows 10/later
Python	3.8+
RAM	4 GB

Dependencies

Package	Version	Required	Purpose
PySide2	5.15+	✅	Qt GUI framework
Pillow	8.0+	✅	Image thumbnails
python-vlc	3.0+	📌	Video playback
VLC	3.0+	📌	Player backend
ffmpeg	4.0+	📌	Proxy / thumbnail / strip generation
PyInstaller	—	—	Compile to .exe

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🎞️ Supported Formats

Video .mp4 .mov .avi .mkv .wmv .flv .webm .m4v .mxf .r3d

Image .png .jpg .jpeg .tga .bmp .tiff .tif .exr .dpx .hdr .pic .cin .sxr

Sequence Numbered frames auto-detected shot.0001.exr → shot.0240.exr

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📦 Build

pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller pixelattic.spec

Output: dist/PixelAttic/PixelAttic.exe

Place pixelattic.ico in the project root before building.

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support

if you emjoy the project consider buying me a coffee :)

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_{Made with ❤️ by GHST}