smartOffset
Added: May 13, 2009
A good comp is a clean comp.
Something that gets harder to keep up with if you start off unorganized. That’s where this custom written python script I wrote in my freetime comes in. Install it into your Nuke / plugins folder, and whenever you bring in a new Read node with a crazy frame range (ex. 499 – 2029), select the node and press shift+o. A timeoffset node will be created that’ll change your frame range to something more manageable starting at frame 1 and display that new range for your rendering convenience.
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Alexander Tsvetkov
Nice idea bit isn’t this tool doing the same as adding an AppendClip node?
Doug Hogan
Yes it is similar to the AppendClip node, in that it will resequence your frame stack to start at frame 1. But the advantage to the smartOffset script is that you can assign it to multiple nodes at once, and it gives you a read out of what your new sequence is in the newly created node.
All of which just makes using the smartOffset script easier, faster, and simpler to use than the AppendClip node. Making it a very nice tool for fast house keeping of read nodes.