FrameHandling Tool for Nuke

Overview

The FrameHandling tool for Nuke provides convenient functions to manipulate frame-related operations in your Nuke's Viewer, to navigate and set in-out marks in Nuke's timeline.

• set the reference frame for selected nodes, either from the current needle point, or for a given frame
• navigate to the reference frame from a Node, or from a StickyNote
• mark in-out in your current Viewer if a frame-range pattern is found

Usage

Menu Commands

1. Set to current frame

   • Shortcut: alt+shift+f
   • Sets the reference frame for selected nodes to the current frame.

2. Set to specific frame

   • Shortcut: alt+shift+g
   • Prompts the user to input a frame and sets the reference frame for selected nodes.

3. Go to Reference Frame

   • Shortcut: shift+g
   • Navigates to the reference frame of a selected node.
   • Searches for a frame pattern (the first appearance of two or more numbers together) in a StickyNote and use it to go to that frame.

Feel free to edit shortcuts in the menu.py.

Installation

Download the FrameHandling repository, rename the downloaded folder to FrameHandling and move it into your .nuke folder.

Add the following line to your init.py file, which is typically located in your .nuke folder:

nuke.pluginAddPath('./FrameHandling')

Locating the default .nuke directory

Note

• Support any node with these knobs: 'reference_frame', 'referenceFrame', 'first_frame', 'ref_frame'.
• Support a StickyNote with a group of 2 or more numbers.

Feel free to add more knobs in the SUPPORTED_KNOBS list

Author

• Author: Luciano Cequinel
• Contact: lucianocequinel@gmail.com
• Version: 2.2.3
• Release Date: November 18, 2023
• License: MIT

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.