Exporting hundreds of animations at once?

Sure, but you'll need to use Python. You can export a single .fbx first to see the actual command Studio is using (look in the Console tab, or look up the command syntax in the documentation if you want to customize it). Then you just need to loop through all animations and issue the command you want.

We don't have a -reducekeys argument, but you can pass a negative number for -keypreceision which will turn off key reduction. (You can type %fbx? at the Python shell to get extended help on the fbx command)

For example: I exported Default/welcome to my desktop from the Slade sample that ships with FaceFX 2013 and Studio issued the following command:

fbx -keyprecision "0.001000" -format "0" -starttime "-0.382667" -endtime "6.486031" -fullskeleton "true" -outfile "C:\Users\Jamie Redmond\Desktop\Slade@Default_welcome.fbx" -infile "C:\Program Files (x86)\FaceFX\FaceFX Studio Professional 2013\Samples\Src\Slade.fbx" -group "Default" -anim "welcome";

Let's say I wanted to do that for all of the animations in all groups in Slade. I'm also going to ignore the keyprecision and start/end time arguments to use the defaults for simplicity here. I would execute the following Python code (you can type it into the Python shell or put it into a .py file via notepad and just drag it onto the Studio render window to execute it -- but be very careful with indentation with Python, though! In the following code, indentation is with TABS, and the FxStudio.issueCommand is one single line):

import FxStudio
import FxAnimation

anim_names = FxStudio.getAnimationNames()

for group in anim_names:
    for anim in group[1]:
        FxStudio.issueCommand('fbx -format "0" -fullskeleton "true" -outfile "C:\Users\Jamie Redmond\Desktop\{0}@{1}_{2}.fbx" -infile "C:\Program Files (x86)\FaceFX\FaceFX Studio Professional 2013\Samples\Src\Slade.fbx" -group "{1}" -anim "{2}"'.format(FxStudio.getActorName(), group[0], anim))

Just to add to what Jamie said, the reducekeys option was available in FaceFX 2012 and prior versions. There were significant changes in the FBX command for FaceFX 2013, and going from a boolean "reducekeys" to a float "keyprecision" variable was one of the improvements.

The %fbx is when running the "fbx" command directly from the Python shell prompt. When inside of issueCommand(), you need to run it as if it were in an .fxl file or if you typed it into the command panel at the bottom of the application. Change your issueCommand('%fbx to issueCommand('fbx exactly like in my example.

Version 2012 doesn't let you drag scripts on to execute them. That was added in version 2013. In 2012, you will have to execute the script with the exec command. You can do that from the command panel at the lower left of the app (see command-pannel.png, and note the lack of % before exec). You could also do it from the Python shell, but you'd have to prepend the % (see python-shell.png). Note that you must make sure the output directory (C:\Test\ in this case) exists before running the script because the fbx command won't create the directory and the files won't be there.

command-panel.png

python-shell.png

bulk-export-fbx.py.png

Like I mentioned, Python is *very* sensitive to indentation. That's how it delimits code blocks.

Make sure it's like this (<tab> means press tab, and you can see how it should look in the screenshot of the script above):

for group in anim_names:
<tab>for anim in group[1]:
<tab><tab>FxStudio.isssueCommand

Alternatively, you can type the script into the Python shell one line at a time and it will automatically indent.